In this sponsored post, Roberta interviews Velocity Fund grantee Karina Puente about her collaborative project #sisterlyhistory, with Yolanda Wisher and Women of Color (WoC) entrepreneurs of Germantown.
Read MoreThe Velocity Fund gives money directly to Philadelphia Artists to Make Art, but the deadline is fast approaching so don’t miss this opportunity.
Read MoreJanyce Denise Glasper visits The Florence Academy in Jersey City, NJ, for a powerful exhibit of watercolor portraits by Mario Andres Robinson.
Read MoreSarah Kim reviews Korean artist Do Ho Suh’s ghostly “The Perfect Home II,” (2003) a gauzy translucent stitched fabric recreation of his one-time apartment in Chelsea.
Read MoreRoberta interviews Sifu Chik Mason and Rhashea Lynn Harmon-El about their practice of Pa Kua Chang (Bagua), a spiritual practice of movement and choreography that is more than 300 years old, with roots in Taoism.
Read MoreSusan Isaacs says the anxiety present in the works in “Monsters and Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s” at the Baltimore Museum of Art speaks to our times.
Read MoreWit López reviews “4 Queer Voices” at the William Way LGBT Community Center, on display until April 26th, 2019.
Read MoreMatt Singer shares a recent experience with the art of “Tell Me Something Good” at The Clay Studio in Old City, Philadelphia. Catch this exhibit before it comes down next week on April 28, 2019!
Read MoreDeborah Krieger reviews “After Cities” at FJORD Gallery in North Philadelphia, on display from March 14 – April 27, 2019.
Read MoreWit López met Victoria Coker recently in New York and followed up to interview her about her Black Web Fest, happening this weekend in Harlem.
Read MoreOur contributor Mark Lord experiences the Jasper Johns exhibit at Matthew Marks, and finds the highly charged subject of the work (a 1965 photo of a U.S. combat soldier weeping at the loss he could not prevent of friends in the war). He talks about the intimacy and emotion of the subject and how Johns removes the emotion for a reading about the mind distilling memory over time. The show is up through April 6 at the New York gallery.
Read MoreJacob Chris Hammes is an artist, curator, teacher, and founder of the gallery Pilot Projects. In this podcast Morgan Nitz and Roberta talk with Chris about funding, the importance of discourse, seasonal- (and capitalism fueled-) depression, pond theory, and hear a few jokes. Catch Jacob Chris Hammes’s upcoming solo show, at the new gallery, Information, 2024 E Westmoreland St, on April 13th, 2019. The interview was recorded at Pilot Projects and is 31:40 minutes.
Read MoreGuest writer Susan Isaacs, a noted art historian, curator and educator, writes of a show of abstract sculpture curated by Alexis Granwell at PAFA. Isaacs speaks with Granwell about the exhibit, her curating and her art practice and says the exhibition of abstract works engages through its sensual materiality.
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