“Trouble” magazine is a “surreal adventure in page turning,” says Roberta, about the publication started by Matthew Rose. Also rounded up in this News edition, a talk online or in person with one of Artblog’s favorite artists, Gabe Martinez; information about the Pan-Philadelphia festival “Rehearsing Philadelphia, a musical cornucopia inclusive of all styles and players. Finally, there are some good opportunities for funding!
Read MoreBecause our inboxes are groaning with news, we are reaffirming our love of curating a few tidbits for you. Enjoy!
Read MoreMichael Lieberman reviews new book “Tears of Honor” by James A. Ardaiz, a historical fiction about an entirely Japanese American division of the U.S. army during World War II.
Read MoreMorgan Nitz stopped at a free book bin and found themselves in a back and forth with member of the Artblog and Philadelphia art community, GS Bullen.
Read MoreArtblog is proud to announce the winners of the 2019 Art Writing Challenge!
Read MoreJanyce Denise Glasper recently spoke at the Philadelphia Avant-Garde Studies Consortium (PASC), and you can read what she had to say here on Artblog!
Read MoreThe Art Writing Challenge Deadline has been extended to December 31, 2019, to allow more time for emerging writers who are passionate about the arts in Philadelphia to apply to this FREE art writing contest.
Read MoreLevi Bentley reviews “You Are the Battery,” a book of poetry by Thomas Devaney. Read further to learn why Bentley compares Devaney’s written work to the sculptures of Cecilia Vicuña.
Read MorePLEASE NOTE: The Art Writing Challenge Deadline has been extended to December 31, 2019 to allow more time for emerging writers who are passionate about the arts in Philadelphia to apply to this FREE art writing contest.
Read MoreFor International Non-binary People’s Day, Artblog Managing Editor, Wit, shares steps to making the arts more accessible for nonbinary artists.
Read MoreIn Part One of this conversation, Artblog contributor Sarah Kim speaks with Andrienne Palchick, Heidi Ratanavanich, and Connie Yu about their limited series zine: FORTUNE, a publication that centers works by queer Asian artists and writers.
Read MorePoet Levi Bentley interviews the executive editors of the journal bedfellows, Jackee Sadicario and Alina Pleskova, which provides space for written work about sex and intimacy from marginalized writers.
Read MoreLevi Bentley examines the complex melange of past, present and future in Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s book, “M Archive,” a work of speculative fiction that argues that Black feminist thought holds the “connection and knowledge and care of the earth and its people together through all time,” as Bentley says in their immersive review.
Read MoreWill language go on if and when we do not? How does one speak of the future in a doomed world? Here Levi Bentley reviews a new book of poetry by Cynthia Arrieu-King that ponders these questions and many more. Out December 14, 2018 from Radiator Press (Philly’s newest poetry press) “Futureless Languages” is rooted in close observation of our trying times. Read on and pick up the book for yourself this Friday!
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