Deborah Krieger indulges her “Gardner Fever” and reviews ‘This is a Robbery,’ Netflix’s documentary series on the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist of 1990 that stole a Vermeer, Rembrandt and other works. Deborah says Netflix’s decision to ride the “true crime format” wave was a disservice to the Gardner museum story, and as a result it was overly long and overly dramatic.
Read MoreArtblog contributor Deborah Krieger reviews “Critical Cartography: Larissa Fassler in Manchester,” an exhibition of two-dimensional maps of Manchester, New Hampshire, describing socioeconomic conditions combined with anecdotal comments. The exhibition is on view at the Currier Museum, Manchester, New Hampshire, through Fall 2021.
Read MoreDeborah Krieger visited the (now closed) “Loitering is Delightful” at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, and weighs in about the many ways participating artists interpreted the definition of the word “loitering.”
Read MoreDeborah Krieger speaks with Darren Hill, owner of the Emporium of Popular Culture in Providence, Rhode Island.
Read MoreDeborah Krieger visits “Narrative Painting in LA” at Craig Krull Gallery in her hometown of Los Angeles, California. The exhibition closes on August 31, 2019.
Read MoreDeborah Krieger visits Asian Arts Initiative’s exhibition “ABOLITION NOW!”, a group exhibition that features artworks about racism and mass incarceration in America and highlights the arts-related work of local prison abolition and anti-incarceration groups.
Read MoreDeborah Krieger reviews Mia Rosenthal’s current exhibition “Earth, sky, present, past” at GALLERY Land Collective to July 5, 2019.
Read MoreDeborah Krieger reviews Joan Wadleigh Curran’s exhibition “Recombinants,” on view at C. R. Ettinger Studio until May 17th, 2019.
Read MoreDeborah Krieger reviews “After Cities” at FJORD Gallery in North Philadelphia, on display from March 14 – April 27, 2019.
Read MoreDeborah Krieger reviews a 2-person show at Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens. Didn’t know they showed art there (in addition to Isaiah Zagar’s amazing building)? Yes, they do. Check out Deborah’s piece on Claes Gabriel and Andrew Chalfen’s works.
Read MoreWhat is the role of an artist when their old neighborhood is gentrified by art galleries and the neighborhood doesn’t want them there? This highly topical question, and others, are examined by Guadalupe Rosales in her splendid “Legends Never Die: A Collective Memory,” at Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College. Deborah Krieger writes a great personal take on the show.
Read MoreThe swirling and vigorous ink drawing on the gallery walls by Atlanta artist William Downs is embellished by long strands of Christmas tinsel that swish and sway when humans move near (or away from) it. The remarkable drawing’s life in the gallery lasts only through Jan. 27. Deborah Krieger spoke to the artist at the opening. Read her pithy and elegant review and get to the gallery quick before the mural disappears.
Read MoreSaba Taj’s current solo show at Twelve Gates Arts deftly combines humor, beauty and violence in speculative collage work that explores earth’s social and biological future from a queer, brown perspective. Deborah Krieger takes in the Durham-based multidisciplinary artist’s subversive “of beast/ of virgin” and reports.
Read MoreDeb Krieger takes an early tour of The Complicit Eye, lauded ceramicist Kukuli Velarde’s first major solo show of paintings in Philadelphia. This provocative body of work, on view at Taller Puertorriqueño through April 30, 2019, reveals Velarde’s long-standing use of self-portraiture as a mode of intersectional feminist critique.
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