Roberta sees the 3-person exhibit, “New Typologies” at the Philadelphia Art Alliance and recommends it as an exhibit best taken in slowly. Check it out before the exhibit closes on Dec. 15, 2022.
Read MoreClosing tomorrow and a show you don’t want to miss, Samson Kambalu’s Crossing Borders critiques colonial history in Africa using beautiful black-and-white videos, spooky cut-outs of African soldiers in uniform and throughout makes pointed charges at the harms of colonialism.
Read MoreNew Artblog contributor L Autumn Gnadinger interviews Zoe McCarthy, who works in ‘”new media, 3D animation, and mixed reality.’ You can see Zoe’s work in ‘New Now IV,’ a group show of new InLiquid members, through June 19, 2021 at the InLiquid Gallery.
Read MoreArtblog contributor Kinaya Hassane interviews owner of Harriet’s Bookshop and long time activist, Jeannine A. Cook. Jeannine believes art, especially writing, is integral to an equitable and just future.
Read MoreIn the face of COVID-19, Artblog is hosting an open call, non-juried, first come first-served online exhibition entitled “Artists in the time of Coronavirus.”
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 MoreIn this Q&A for First Friday, Wit interviews artist Jessica Zawadowicz, one of the artists whose work is currently installed in “Spring Up” at PII Gallery, on view through March 28, 2020!
Read MoreLogan Cryer interviews Laila Islam and Muhammad Gallashaw, the co-curators of The Future is Us Collective, which focuses on uplifting the artwork of young adult and youth artists throughout the Philadelphia area.
Read MoreRecent UArts graduate Heet Lee had her first solo museum show in Leipzig, Germany earlier this month and Artblog correspondent Olivia Jia, who visited her friend’s exhibition, tells us about it. Lee’s energetic and aggressive compositions draw imagery from a dizzying array of sources, both public and private.
Read MoreNearly any contemporary art excursion around Philadelphia in 2016 is sure to yield a wide range of styles and spectacles, but one persistent–if scruffy–thread is certainly the DIY flavor of many Philly-based artists’ work. At Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery’s exhibit Circa 1995, this commonality is not merely present, it is represented in local art-historical context through objects crafted some twenty years ago. This juncture in Philadelphia’s visual culture would help give rise not only to the ongoing careers of the artists participating in this show, but to a distinctive artist-run flavor that persists in Philly to this day.
Read MoreAlthough the festival was put together almost on a whim last year—Settle and her artistic director Cesar Alvarez were seeking a way to use an empty Merriam Theater for two weeks—it became an instant success.
Read MoreTyler Kline is both metaphysical in his thinking and materials-focused in his making. The two go very well together in works whose subject deals with time going forward and back and realms from the primordial to the digital.
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