Today’s news is filled with local interest: Artist Mikel Elam was asked to reimagine the Liberty Bell and what it symbolizes. He fashioned a sculptural mask called “A muzzle to silence you,” from materials that suggest the history of enslaved Africans.
Read MoreOn this 39 minute episode of Artblog Radio, Roberta interviews Sid Sachs about his multi-venue exhibition “Invisible City” (now closed to the public due to Covid-19).
Read MoreHe died, as he wanted to, in the barn that he—with help of so many former students—had rebuilt into a home, surrounded by several of his new paintings on the walls, sleeping between his wife and his son, breathing peacefully at last.
Read MoreEvery time we see Frank Bramblett, we feel like we have been handed a gift. This time, we bumped into him at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Tuesday. We’ve known Frank since he had something to say to us the first year of Artblog (2003), and then we taught a class with him at Tyler. Sure enough, seeing him Tuesday was also a gift. But here’s something he mailed to us shortly afterward. It is an amazing present from him to us. And we are re-gifting it to you.
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