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 MoreProvoked by the placement of Emma Amos’s art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, an exhibit at the same time as the Jasper Johns exhibit, which seemed to put the Black woman artist’s works subsidiary to the white male artist’s, our contributor Janyce Denise Glasper muses on the two concurrent museum exhibits of Jennifer Packer (at the Whitney Museum and at LA MoCA), and says “Jennifer Packer shifts the narrative to where they (Black artists) can land if given the opportunity.” We hope you enjoy this thoughtful essay by a passionate young writer thinking about the power imbalance in the art world today.
Read MoreThe News post is filled with names of POC being advanced in the art world; and we also rounded up some gallery news, bookshop news, museum news, and opportunity calls for Black, Brown and Indigenous filmmakers to submit to Blackstar Film Festival and zine makers to listen to a panel talk about making zine festivals more equitable.
Read MoreOur contributor Janyce Denise Glasper writes an opinionated essay about artists’ placement in museums. Where does Jasper Johns go? Where does Emma Amos? Some artists receive accolades mostly after their death, while others receive praise again and again in life. The art world is still a mostly white world and mostly a white man’s club.
Read More“Emma Amos: Color Odyssey” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art is a revelation for those who want to know the art of Emma Amos, who came up during Abstract Expressionism’s heyday and fought against abstraction in works that are complex, inventive and in several cases, stunning.
Read MoreArtblog contributor Andrea Kirsh sings great praise for the new ‘Senga Nengudi: Topologies’ exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (on view through July 25, 2021)! Andrea says the exhibition is outstanding in its approachability and Art Historical significance.
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