Ilana’s trip to Galerie St. Etienne brings her face to face with political art by Käthe Kollwitz and Sue Coe, including several works made by Coe 30 years ago that cause her to ruminate on today’s identity politics and the question of who owns the right to depict another’s pain. It’s a good read.
Read MorePlaywright, performing artist and former Artblog New Art Writing panelist, Carl(os) Roa, is our newest man on the street. Here he embeds himself with rising local hip-hop ensemble, ILL DOOTS, on the eve of their two-night engagement at the Painted Bride’s Bride Next residency culminating showcase. Check them out November 17th and 18th and BYO pretzels.
Read MoreThis summer Matthew Rose while visiting friends in Brooklyn came upon the artist Susan Gardner who was walking around the front of her 1860 townhouse. Seeing the façade curiously encrusted with a jewel-like mosaic made of bits crockery, jewelry, toys and other materials, Matthew struck up a conversation with the artist about her “Mosaic House, a work of art now more than 15 years in the making.
Read MoreArtblog contributor, Flora Ward reviews the first monographic exhibition of works by Wifredo Lam currently showing at the Lehigh University Art Galleries. A descendant of Cuban, Chinese and West African heritage, Lam’s artwork is often overlooked by other avant-garde painters. The exhibition marks the outcome of a steadfast commitment to bring his work to the United States, which ultimately took the Galleries over three decades.
Read MoreSome solo shows are like conversations, Roberta says. Some are like monologs and some are like mission statements. Astrid Bowlby’s “When the shadow is not your shadow” is a conversation that leans towards a mission statement, and the mission is communication, about important things like love, loss, death, redemption, and engagement in the world.
Read MoreChip tells us about the fever dream that is the scene that artist Nick Lenker sets for his semi-physical, virtual experience “Recreation: First Person,” which is currently on display at Moore College of Art and Design.
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