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May 18, 2018 by Imani Roach

Zanele Muholi and the women of the Women’s Mobile Museum talk portraiture, self-love and fighting the patriarchy

The Women’s Mobile Museum is a year-long project by the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center which brings renowned South African Photographer, Zanele Muholi to Philadelphia to engage with a group of ten local women who are interested in media arts and museum studies but have not had significant access to formal training in these areas. Imani sat down with Muholi and two of the program’s apprentices, Shasta Bady and “Muffy” Ashley Torres, to discuss their hopes for the project and their journey thus far.

May 18, 2018 by Roberta

“Boom for Real,” colorful history of Downtown New York starring Jean-Michel Basquiat and friends, Part 1

In Part One of our 2-part coverage of the new documentary, Roberta gives a brief overview of the film and says it’s not a bio-pic but a history flick about an era in which Basquiat was a player who turns out to be major. The film opens today at Ritz at the Bourse. Stay tuned for Imani Roach’s review coming up soon!

May 14, 2018 by Managing Editor

Yixuan Pan on translating sound

Artblog’s own Maddie Hewitt speaks with Yixuan Pan about her new performance piece, “Conductible,” which showed earlier this month at the FringeArts May Scratch Night. “Conductible” combines many of Pan’s long-standing interests, including translation, sculpture, movement-based research and audience participation.

May 11, 2018 by Jessica Rizzo

Lightbox Film Center Hosts Sumptuous Philippe Garrel Retrospective

Jessica Rizzo attended the Lightbox Film Center’s recent retrospective of French filmmaker Philippe Garrel’s evocative body of work. Here she traces the arc of his career and recounts highlights from the month-long survey, which included a number of films rarely screened on this side of the Atlantic.

May 7, 2018 by Andrea Kirsh

“Modern Times: American Art 1910-1950” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Andrea Kirsh visits the PMA’s new exhibition, “Modern Times: American Art 1910-1950,” which celebrates art from our museum’s own early 20th century American collection, independent of its European counterparts. As the museum prepares for the 2020 unveiling of its renovated and expanded exhibition spaces, this show whets our appetite for what’s to come.

April 24, 2018 by Olivia Jia

On Marginal Utility’s #Wehavenopresident and making Trump art in America

Olivia Jia visits Marginal Utility’s current two-person show, “#WEHAVENOPRESIDENT,” featuring work by Sarah McEneaney and LeRoy Johnson. Here she admires the devotional diligence of their projects and explains why all anti-Trump art is not created equal.

April 17, 2018 by Leah Gallant

Shona McAndrew gets body positive at Pilot Projects

Artblog’s Leah Gallant speaks with artist Shona McAndrew about censorship, the male gaze and discovering paper mache. “Moira,” McAndrew’s current show of sculptures and digital collages at Pilot Projects, is on view (by appointment) through Friday April 20th.

April 16, 2018 by Deborah Krieger

The past is present in “Victoriana Reimagined” at Germantown’s Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion

Deb Krieger is back with a review of “Victoriana Reimagined,” on view at the Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion Victorian House Museum and Garden through September 1st, 2018. This multi-room installation features three female contemporary artists who use craft to uncover the history and politics of the domestic sphere.