Hi, this week is a doozy… We’re announcing our partnership with Barbara Silzle and Jacque Liu, who are calling attention to the voices and questions of artist for the mayoral candidates through an online questionnaire.
Read MoreWow, 2023. Whatever happens, let this new year be better than 2022, 2021, 2020. We remain optimistic!
Read MoreRoberta and Morgan sit down for a Zoom with Logan Cryer and Tim Belknap about their wonderful open-call snapshot of Philadelphia’s art community in 2022. We talk of how the show idea came about, why it’s only 3 weekends long, (June 24, 25, and 26 is the last weekend to see it) and what surprised them about who showed up with their work and who didn’t.
Read MorePatrick Coue rounds up the hits and misses of recent local museum programming to address issues of racial disparity in society and the arts, and points to a groundbreaking installation by Fred Wilson from 1992 as an important example in this field.
Read MoreNaveena Vijayan takes a digital tour of museums during Covid-19 and interviews Jeff Durham, Curator of Himalayan Art at Asian Museum of Art, about their virtual programming surrounding “Awaken: A Tibetan Buddhist’s Journey Towards Enlightenment.”
Read MoreBlaise Tobia and Virginia Maksymowicz co-author an essay about the aftermath of the Covid-19 closures on the arts community, and speculate on possible alternative models.
Read MoreAsk Artblog scribe Beth Heinly gets an ambiguous question and answers it her way. Read Beth’s take on public charities aka foundations and the problem of foundation funding in the art world. A very good read for artists and art lovers alike. Have a question about the Art Life for Ask Artblog? Email ask@theartblog.org. Or submit a Google form with your question. There’s a link to the Google form at the bottom of the post below. All names kept anonymous.
Read MoreMark Lord sees the installation of monumental waterfall paintings by Pat Steir at the Barnes and points out the works’ eerie connection to our world of melting glaciers and other tragic cascades of water when natural forces are disrupted as they have been by global warming. In his lyrical post, Lord writes of beauty and something cosmic in the drips, splashes and vigorous build ups of Steir’s painted moments. This under-sung artist is the subject of an upcoming documentary film. See Steir’s waterfall paintings at the Barnes Foundation through Nov. 17, 2019. Be sure to scroll down to the bottom of the post for more photos!
Read MoreArtblog goes to Switzerland! Flora writes about the amazing collection of African art at the Musée Barbier-Müller in Geneva, whose future is unclear following the death of the collection’s owner, Jean-Paul Barbier-Müller.
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