October 29, 2020 by Morgan Nitz

Disarm the Philadelphia police, invest in black lives and community

Roberta and Morgan co-write a short post calling on Philadelphia to disarm the police department NOW following the brutal murder of Walter Wallace Jr. in West Philadelphia earlier this week.

October 23, 2020 by Morgan Nitz

How do we value art?

Morgan and Roberta co-write an essay about value– specifically, why art is undervalued in America–and for the first time, you can LISTEN to this post!

August 7, 2020 by Kemuel Benyehudah

Reimagine our schools as a school-to-museum pipeline for Black students

In this post, Kemuel Benyehudah denounces the school-to-prison pipeline and presents an alternative that also addresses the underrepresentation of Black students in the creative economy and museums.

July 10, 2020 by Beth Heinly

About the Columbus statue

June 11, 2020 by Kinaya Hassane

The times are not unprecedented, thoughts on Lorna Simpson, the archive, double consciousness

At this traumatic time art can feel frivolous, but these two exhibitions spark a necessary conversation about Black fragmentation and subverting the archive.

June 6, 2020 by Jessica Rizzo

‘Too much history harms the living,’ Frank Rizzo statue removed at last

Jessica Rizzo writes that art is no match for men wielding baseball bats or militarized police, but the removal of this statue is well worth celebrating.

June 3, 2020 by Ilana Napoli

Artists of ‘Yes In My Front Yard’ (YIMFY) on future of the arts post-COVID-19

In part two of this two-part essay on ‘Yes in My Front Yard” (YIMFY), a public installation in West Philly, Ilana Napoli speaks with curators and artists Daniel Tucker, Emily Bunker, Li Sumpter and Lucia Thomé about the flaws of the current arts infrastructure and reimagining the future post-COVID-19.

April 29, 2020 by Dereck Stafford Mangus

On Dwelling, Anatomy and Architecture during Coronavirus

Dereck Mangus muses on the many different ways through time that the language of bodies and architecture have mirrored each other, and asks us to consider how our COVID-19 confinement has suddenly made us “strangers in a familiar land.”