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We go to International Art Fairs and Biennials and cover important gallery and museum shows outside Philadelphia. We provide a platform for opinions in our Reader Advisor and essay features. We report on studio visits and public lectures by visiting artists. Our podcasts humanize art by introducing the voice of the artist. In 2014 we began commissioning original works by amazing Philadelphia comics artists. We are proud to support these artists! And we love providing a platform for their smart humor.
Pete Sparber interviews O’Neil Scott about his journey from birth in Jamaica and immigration to the U.S. at age five, and after that, college at Syracuse, where he played football(!) and to his rise as a portrait painter of exquisite beauty and delicacy.
Read MoreLane Speidel interviews Jim Strong, his friend and bandmate (Saggy) about Strong’s work, his spiritual life in Quakerism and other practices, and his music
Read MoreIt’s past the holiday, but our Paris correspondent, Matthew Rose, offers up a story from his childhood, one in which the hero has an obsession with a Halloween costume that triggers an identity crisis. Happily, the hero solves the crisis.
Read MoreKatie Dillon Low sees an exhibit at the Painted Bride Art Center presenting the collective work of a community collective, ‘Hook&Loop,’ whose members are ‘Disabled, Neurodivergent, Chronically Ill, Mad, and Sick people, based in Philadelphia.’
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