February 19, 2025 by Ryan deRoche and Roberta

Midweek News, Economic boycott, Chimaera Gallery, Vox, Kindness Art Contest, Satin, Half God of Rainfall, Crescendo and more

September 4, 2024 by Ryan deRoche and Roberta

Midweek News Podcast, Sonia Sanchez @ Barnes, PhotoLounge Gallery, Blah Blah Gallery art call, Walruses on the NYT, theater picks for the week and good Samaritans

Roberta and Ryan talk about a Sonia Sanchez, PhotoLounge, Blah Blah Gallery, cuddling walruses and a whole lot more. Thanks for listening.

May 22, 2024 by Ryan deRoche and Roberta

Midweek News Podcast on Artblog Radio, holiday weekend events, Free Library video games, Blah Blah Gallery moves, Latino Arts and Film Festival and more

This week on the Midweek News Podcast Roberta and Ryan discuss holiday weekend events, Free Library video games, Blah Blah Gallery moves, Latino Arts and Film Festival, signatures and more.

June 22, 2022 by Morgan Nitz and Roberta

Logan Cryer and Tim Belknap on their open-call show, “Now, One with Everyone!” at Icebox Project Space

Roberta 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.

March 5, 2021 by Corey Qureshi

Magical and visceral, 12 Gates Arts embraces ‘A Space for Monsters’

Artblog contributor Corey Qureshi visits 12 Gates Arts’s “A Space for Monsters,” inspired by the hybrid poetry-novel “Incubation: A Space For Monsters” by Bhanu Kapil.

March 11, 2020 by Freeman's

Historic Hedgerow Theatre Collection of Wharton Esherick Works to be Auctioned at Freeman’s

If you’re a fan of the iconic Wharton Esherick, this post is for you! For the first time, historical Hedgerow Theatre’s Esherick collection will come to auction at Freeman’s NEW 2400 Market Street location in Philadelphia. Proceeds from the sale go towards preserving the historic theatre, which was attended and beloved by Esherick’s daughter, Mary.

February 24, 2020 by Levi Bentley

The metal ballet of ‘Ballast & Barricades’ at Philadelphia’s Institute of Contemporary Art

Levi Bentley visits the Institute of Contemporary Art in University City to review Michelle Lopez’s new exhibition, Ballast & Barricades, which closes on May 10, 2020.

February 10, 2020 by Naveena Vijayan

Bridging the Gap, an interview with Wenlu Bao

Artblog contributor, Naveena Vijayan, interviews Wenlu “Lulu” Bao about her exhibition that was at the Delaware Contemporary, “Mind the Gap.”