As we await The Museum of Modern Art’s newest expansion, Andrea Kirsh reflects on her experience visiting MoMA over the past fifty years— during which time she has witnessed two other building expansions. MoMA will re-open on October 21, 2019.
Read MoreIn this feature, Andrea Kirsh describes the resources available for artists to inventory, archive, and organize their body of work or “artistic estates.”
Read MoreMoved by the painting, “A Woman and a Girl Driving,” now on view in the PMA’s current exhibition “The Impressionist’s Eye, contributor Lacy Murphy discusses the life and work of vanguard artist and Philadelphia native Mary Cassatt.
Read MoreIn this commissioned essay, Logan Cryer expresses their thoughts about the future of Philadelphia’s art world and about how artists can seize the opportunity to expand and set boundaries in their practice. Thank you to The Common Field for providing the opportunity for Logan and Artblog to contribute to important discussions about the future.
Read MoreCarl(os) asks artists in the field how they deal with artistic disagreements and conflicts and he gets solid advice, which he shares. Talking and creating space for discussion are key. Read on and see more of what the professionals have to say.
Read MoreMichael Lieberman attends Rebirths, Returns and Comebacks, a story slam for deaf and hearing people alike, sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania’s Wolf Humanities Center. The experience opened his eyes to the complex history and expressive capacity of American Sign Language (ASL).
Read MoreCarl(os) Roa is back and thinking about fat bodies in visual art and on stage. Prompted by a recent trip to Colombia, he ponders what is gained when we challenge prevailing notions of what a protagonist looks like.
Read MoreIn her essay, Andrea takes in the Guerrilla Girls exhibition, “Not Ready to Make Nice,” at Moore College and talks about the history of art world protest from 1969 onward. Concluding that statistics prove that women are not yet equals of men in the eyes of art institutions, she offers an opinion of what is needed for women to achieve parity in the future.
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