In her review of Marianne Bernstein’s new photo book, ‘Theatre of the Everyday,’ Sharon Garbe comments that the book is a tasteful venue for the photographer’s works. She speculates on the book’s title, declaring that perhaps “Bernstein’s reference to the theater is a declaration of photography’s artifice, its subjectivity.”
Read MoreSometimes the news IS ‘Notable Exhibitions and Opportunities.” That’s what we’re serving up today, great and true Reader of Artblog. Enjoy this quick read and go see the art and apply to the opportunities! More next week.
Read MoreIn this sprawling and wonderful interview, Susan Isaacs talks with Michael C. Thorpe about his varied art practice that includes quilting that uses fabrics as a palette of choices like a painter uses paints.
Read MoreMiles Orvell says the show at Cherry Street Pier with works by Laurence Salzmann reveal a wide-ranging body of works, from ethnographic and documentary photographs from the artist’s anthropological visits in Romania, Peru and elsewhere, to his more abstract photographs that weave together landscape and suggestions of the human presence.
Read MoreTasso Hartzog chronicles the high drama and steely nature of Judith Joy Ross’s photographs and sitters. Witness photos spanning from the Northeast of the United States to Paris, France exploring the nature of her subjects. See the 200 or so photos through August 6th at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Read MoreRami George dove into the John J. Wilcox, Jr. Archives at the William Way Center in hope of uncovering the histories of under-known queer communities in Philadelphia, from trans, non-binary, lesbian, POC and disabled peoples.
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