Artblog | Andrea Kirsh

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