It’s a time of high anxiety and we now have a new topic of worry — the City’s commissioning of a southern, white, male sculptor, for a permanent Harriet Tubman sculpture to be sited at City Hall. Meanwhile, across town, quietly, a somber monument to rethinking monuments, by Theaster Gates, appears at Drexel. And we hope you go to the book sale and party at the Icebox Project Space, brought to you by Ulises, FORTUNE and other book makers. Also, two top picks for reading and watching — Matthew Rose’s magazine, “Trouble,” debuts its summer issue; and Art 21 presents a charming, 9-minute video of the late Margaret Kilgallen at work, making art featuring her woman heroes.
Read More‘Added Velocity’ (from ‘The Velocity Fund’) supports VF awardees with even more funding so that they can expand their projects and serve more people in the Philadelphia community!
Read MoreIn their thoughtful essay, Artblog contributor Sarah Kim reflects on their experience co-organizing and attending FORTUNE magazine’s recent celebration, “Lunar New Year Celebration: Year of the Rat,” which showcased a variety of queer femme Asian-Americans, representing a spectrum of musical and performance styles. The experience caused some deep thinking about identity and racism in America. It’s a very good essay.
Read MoreIn Part One of this conversation, Artblog contributor Sarah Kim speaks with Andrienne Palchick, Heidi Ratanavanich, and Connie Yu about their limited series zine: FORTUNE, a publication that centers works by queer Asian artists and writers.
Read MoreIt’s fitting that Jaffe worked with the Engineering Department at Rowan to create the animatronic programming of the puppets. Suspended in the air and controlled by a complex system of computer commands, the puppets of the inventor/artist/engineer Nikola Tesla haunt the space, twitching, speaking, raising their arms, moving their heads.
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