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January 12, 2023 by Roberta

So many opportunities! Plus notable exhibitions at Chimaera, Main Line Art Center and CFEVA

Is the Philadelphia art world now awakening after the worst of the pandemic?

November 23, 2022 by Roberta

New City money for the Arts! Artblog is N.I.C.E. Plus, Paradigm, Facture, and Chef Kurt Evans’ End Mass Incarceration dinners

In the Philadelphia art world, where money from the city has always been tight, there’s been a surprising turn, with an unprecedented $21 million new dollars for the arts organizations that make this city special!

June 30, 2022 by Tasso Hartzog

A journey by bike to Strawberry Mansion and the homes of Jazz legends Sun Ra and John Coltrane highlights the inequity of historic preservation in Philadelphia

Tasso Hartzog writes a street’s eye view of historic preservation inequities and imagines two possible outcomes to this ongoing tragic imbalance – an Afrofuturist vision where jazz lives on in preserved historic homes, and a realpolitik vision with sad consequences.

May 19, 2022 by Tasso Hartzog

Bob Perkins, WRTI’s ‘BP with the GM,’ on jazz, his voice and tumbling into a radio career

Our new contributor, Tasso Hartzog, interviews his long-time radio favorite, Bob Perkins, whose velvety voice on WRTI has graced Philadelphia’s airwaves since 1997.

February 18, 2022 by Roberta

Talking to Anne Ishii, arts leader and new host of the WHYY-PBS show, ‘Movers and Makers’

Anne Ishii is a writer, editor, translator and the Executive Director of Asian Arts Initiative (AAI). As the leader of an important arts center serving the AAPI community, Anne is a big part of Philadelphia’s arts ecosystem. Roberta talks with Anne about her new role hosting of arts and culture documentary series, “Movers and Makers,” featuring regional artists and arts organizations. Anne and Roberta had a great 35-minute conversation that will introduce you to a fascinating, important and under-known leader in Philadelphia arts.

February 21, 2016 by Peter Crimmins

Charles Frazier’s music to write by

Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain is a book turned into a film and now, into an opera. WHYY’s Peter Crimmins has more.

December 3, 2015 by Roberta

Jennifer Levonian-WHYY animation-collaboration, A.M. Weaver co-curates Prizm Art Fair, Constance E. Clayton Fellowship at PMA, Abigail DeVille, Ted Passon, Shawn Thornton plus Opportunities

Artblog favorite, Abigail DeVille, is featured in a great-sounding survey show of art by women at Hauser Wirth and Schimmel, Los Angeles. http://hauserwirthschimmel.com/exhibition/

Congratulations to Artist/filmmaker Ted Passon, one of 51 2016 Artists in Residence at The Headlands http://www.headlands.org/2016-awardees/ http://www.pcah.us/people/ted_passon

March 2, 2014 by Artblog

Artblog featured on WHYY Friday Arts – see the video here!

February 27, 2013 by Jennifer Zarro

Is There a Future for Cultural Journalism?

August 24, 2012 by Alyssa Greenberg

News post – Little Berlin gets on Groupon, congrats to Florcy Morisset, Swenbeck & Carpenter, WHYY Connections Fest, opportunities and more!

December 9, 2011 by Chip Schwartz

News: Krampus, Stanley Whitney, Masters of the Visual Universe, and more!

November 19, 2010 by Libby and Roberta

NewsWorks adopts Artblog Radio!!!

April 1, 2010 by Roberta

New art show on WHYY TV