Although the festival was put together almost on a whim last year—Settle and her artistic director Cesar Alvarez were seeking a way to use an empty Merriam Theater for two weeks—it became an instant success.
Read MoreThe Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania has given over its second-floor galleries to the New York art team Valerie Tevere and Angel Nevarez. One of the galleries is simply a radio on a table. It plays an original radio play the duo wrote: a science fiction story about voice recognition technology.
Read MoreHarris is not afraid to investigate and offer in his collages and other artworks a new version of our national and cultural history, one which often illustrates a confounding unfairness we have all inherited.
Read MoreCharles Frazier’s Cold Mountain is a book turned into a film and now, into an opera. WHYY’s Peter Crimmins has more.
Read MoreThe First Live Review Panel co-produced by Artblog and The St. Claire took place at Vox Populi Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015. Below is the podcast of the discussion, which includes musical interludes by musicians, Akiro Rodriguez and Chloe Coover. Give a listen!
Read MoreCanadian sculpture artist Jess Perlitz recently opened “Chorus,” a moving audio work comprised of recordings of incarcerated men and women throughout the U.S. She asked them, “If you could sing one song, and have that song heard, what would it be?” She layers the results into a “choir” triggered by a visitor’s arrival into a cell at Eastern State Penitentiary. We interviewed Jess a couple of years ago about the emotions and processes that inform her work, and why it is that you can so often interact with her pieces.
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