Andrea Kirsh

June 1, 2021 by Andrea Kirsh

Senga Nengudi’s ‘Topologies’ at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Part 2

Andrea Kirsh follows up with Part 2 of her review of ‘Senga Nengudi: Topologies,’ which is currently on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art through July 25, 2021. Andrea believes the show is a rare museum exhibition that appeals to people of all ages and interests. If you missed Part 1, you can find it in the Artblog post!

May 12, 2021 by Andrea Kirsh

Trailblazing Black avant-garde artist Senga Nengudi’s ‘Topologies’ illuminates PMA, Part 1

Artblog contributor Andrea Kirsh sings great praise for the new ‘Senga Nengudi: Topologies’ exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (on view through July 25, 2021)! Andrea says the exhibition is outstanding in its approachability and Art Historical significance.

April 13, 2021 by Andrea Kirsh

South Asian abstraction reverberates with meaning in ‘Fault Lines’ at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Andrea Kirsh says slow down when viewing “Fault Lines” at the PMA, to catch the many real world references in this excellent show of abstract art by six South Asian women.

February 4, 2021 by Andrea Kirsh

New navigation guide at the Philadelphia Museum of Art highlights works by black artists in the collection

Artblog contributor Andrea Kirsh visits the Philadelphia Museum of Art on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and follows their “Works by Black Artists” guide which is now available alongside museum maps. Andrea’s Art History-informed observations are vivid and insightful.

January 2, 2021 by Andrea Kirsh

Two great art books for the New Year focus on under-known artists, Lorraine O’Grady and Gladys Nilsson

Andrea Kirsh, Artblog’s art book aficionado, reviews two great books for reading and looking: Lorraine O’Grady’s “Writing in Space 1973- 2019” and “Gladys Nilsson Honk!; Fifty Years of Painting” published by Matthew Marks Gallery and Garth Greenan Gallery. This is a great place to start your 2021 New Year’s Resolution to read more. Happy New Year!

December 2, 2020 by Andrea Kirsh

Books for holiday giving, Part 1

Andrea Kirsh reviews and recommends three outstanding artbooks to buy for yourself or a loved one this holiday season– they spotlight the legend Angela Davis, Pennsylvania artist Thaddeus Mosley, and Gond artists from India!

August 18, 2020 by Andrea Kirsh

Two art books for our era of racial reckoning

Andrea Kirsh reviews Maya Stovall’s “Liquor Store Theatre” and Rotland Press Original, “The N-Word; Paintings by Peter Williams,” art books that examine racism and systemic inequality in Detroit and beyond.

June 22, 2020 by Andrea Kirsh

During the Spanish flu, existential paintings by Edward Munch and Egon Schiele

June 5, 2020 by Andrea Kirsh

Tuberculosis, rampant in the Romantic era, personified as the feminine ideal

May 14, 2020 by Andrea Kirsh

Black Death and centuries of artists reckoning with mortality

This third edition of “Art Following Epidemics” by Art Historian Andrea Kirsh presents a snapshot of important works on paper following the Black Death and the infiltration of death imagery in European art for more than two centuries following the plague.

May 11, 2020 by Andrea Kirsh

Two women artists carved different paths through New York’s ‘60s-era downtown art scene

May 3, 2020 by Andrea Kirsh

Art exploited as propaganda after outbreak of bubonic plague in Jaffa in 1799

In the second post in a new series, “Art Following Epidemics,” Andrea Kirsh explores a propaganda painting commissioned by Napoleon during the bubonic plague.

April 28, 2020 by Andrea Kirsh

Il Redentore, a post-plague church in Venice

In 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.

February 28, 2020 by Andrea Kirsh

A three-book starter pack to contemporary indigenous art, Part 2

Andrea Kirsh reviews three books about indigenous art. Part two of two reviews Kate Morris’s “Shifting Grounds; Landscape in Contemporary Native American Art” and Katya García-Antón “Sovereign Words; Indigenous Art, Curation and Criticism”