Art IS essential and so are Artists! Here is a welcome response to the times by institutions seeking new visions to engage communities with public art.
Read MoreJessica 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.
Read MoreIlana Napoli speaks with Daniel Tucker and Emily Bunker and pens a thoughtful feature about their public art installation “Yes in My Front Yard,” which features digital works by nine local artists printed and displayed on lawn signs in West Philadelphia.
Read MoreIn a new series “Art following epidemics” triggered by thoughts during the COVID-19 pandemic, Andrea Kirsh refers back to her field of Art History to examine art made during or after other epidemics.
Read MoreAfter what seemed like a lifetime of waiting in the wings, literally in a corner behind the building hoisted up on what looked like a hydraulic lift from Jiffylube, Milord LaChamarre (My Lord of the Fancy Vest), one of Philadelphia’s best public art works, is in a better place.
Read MoreCongratulations to the 39 grantees who have been awarded by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
Read MoreArtblog contributor Lacy Murphy interviews Coco Fusco about the significance of her sculpture Tin Man at Art Basel, the use of satire and power in art, and U.S. policy with Cuba.
Read MoreLacy Murphy talks Anthony Gormley’s “STAND” (on display at the Pennsylvania Museum of Art until June 24, 2019) and the role of public art.
Read MoreOur contributor Mandy Palasik visits The Shed, the new performance and art space in New York’s Hudson Yards area and speaks with Elizabeth Diller, one of the lead architects in The Shed’s design group.
Read More“Charting a Path to Resistance,” a new Percent for Art mural at the Philadelphia City Archives is an abstract representation of the struggles of African Americans in Philadelphia and their resistance to injustices perpetrated upon them. The new commission by Talia Greene uses a gridded timeline supplemented by written material available via tablet in the Archives space. Michael Lieberman notes that the new mural’s graphic display, while not self-evident in meaning, becomes clearer upon reading the copious research material provided by the artist in the tablets. The educational value of the mural is clear, even if the graphical interface is not.
Read MoreNew Artblog contributor John Morrison fills us in on “Dreams, Diaspora and Destiny,” an Augmented Reality mural in Malcolm X Park created by Oakland-based painter and illustrator Joshua Mays and hometown hero, DJ King Britt.
Read MoreMuch like Philadelphia, Prague is a city known for its rich tradition of public artworks. Here Artblog’s Paris correspondent, Matthew Rose, takes a trip to the Czech Republic’s bustling capital to tour its monuments, murals and statuary. While some works seem tailor made for the social media age, for Rose the city’s history of social and political turmoil looms large.
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