Judith Stein’s 20-year labor of love, the book “Eye of the Sixties,” came out this summer and it’s great. The biography follows the life of enigmatic gallerist, Richard Bellamy, from his rise from college dropout/lost boy/self-taught poet and art lover in the 1950s to the global tastemaker he had become in the 1960s and 70s to his death in 1998 at age 70.
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 MoreYolanda Wisher attended Lafayette College and later earned her master’s at Temple. She has taught English at Germantown Friends School and served as the Director of Art Education for the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. Wisher is a Hedgebrook Writer-in-Residence, and last year she was a Pew Fellow.
Read MoreAll of us at Artblog wish you a sparkling new year! May your glasses be filled with cheer, and may love, joy and peace surround you. We are looking forward to seeing lots of art in 2016 and reporting back to you on what we find.
Read MoreMerry Christmas from all of us at Artblog! May you have a holiday filled with peace and love.
Read MoreThis beautifully produced and spectacularly illustrated book offers a six-continent tour of twenty-
five sculpture parks; readers are unlikely to know of most of the collections, which can be visited only with considerable planning, if at all. Three are exclusively private, one is open on a single day every year, and another is best viewed from a hotair balloon.
This week on the artblog Reader Advisor: Get a little higher with a newly patented space elevator and a play about Sylvia Plath and Frida Kahlo smoking up; new Android updates; and the jerk who let a tiger loose in the Packard Plant without permission. — the artblog editors
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