Ilana Napoli speaks with Daniel Tucker and Emily Bunker and pens a thoughtful feature about their public art installation “Yes in My Front Yard,” which features digital works by nine local artists printed and displayed on lawn signs in West Philadelphia.
Read MoreIlana Napoli visits New Orleans and sees an inspiring exhibition by Brandan “B-Mike” Odums (artist, filmmaker, educator, founder of 2-Cent, a youth arts education initiative for black children in the south). The solo show, called “Studio BE” is an ongoing project that is a tribute to black history/culture and resilience in post-Katrina New Orleans communities, opportunity.
Read MoreIlana’s trip to Galerie St. Etienne brings her face to face with political art by Käthe Kollwitz and Sue Coe, including several works made by Coe 30 years ago that cause her to ruminate on today’s identity politics and the question of who owns the right to depict another’s pain. It’s a good read.
Read MoreIlana visited Argentina recently, where she was fortunate to run into a cosmically-focused exhibit in Buenos Aires by Tomás Saraceno, whose unique architecture and science-researched installations were a surprise and a delight.
Read MoreIlana reviews the larger than life oil paintings of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye currently on view at the New Museum. Considering how Yiadom-Boakye’s work is in close dialogue with historical European portraiture, Ilana tells us more about her inspiration, and how she came to choose her subjects.
Read MoreA collaborative project between local artist Sinéad Cahill and the Albert M. Greenfield School, Narrative as Soft Sculpture focuses on students, schools, and activism in and beyond the classroom. Ilana reports.
Read MorePeople got connected with art at our recent Look/Draw/Write workshops. We are very happy to share their responses written about the art of Michelle Angela Ortiz.
Read MorePlayful and serious at the same time, Lenka Clayton’s Object Temporarily Removed at the Fabric Workshop and Museum raises important questions about art’s audiences and its value. Inspired by Constantin Brancusi’s “Sculpture for the Blind,” Clayton asks, what if this sculpture were really made by the blind? And what makes Brancusi so special if other artists at the same time were making similar work?
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