July 7, 2020 by Alex Smith

A world reimagined, Afro-surrealist films for surrealist times

Alex Smith responds to these surreal times by highlighting Black filmmakers and their Afro-surrealist TV shows, documentaries, and films, available now on various streaming platforms.

July 1, 2020 by Beth Heinly

The 3:00 Book

June 24, 2020 by Morgan Nitz

Philly writer GS Bullen turns painter, says ‘guess we’re doing this now’

Morgan Nitz stopped at a free book bin and found themselves in a back and forth with member of the Artblog and Philadelphia art community, GS Bullen.

June 22, 2020 by Andrea Kirsh

During the Spanish flu, existential paintings by Edward Munch and Egon Schiele

June 17, 2020 by Beth Heinly

The 3:00 Book

June 15, 2020 by Norman Dolph

To touch or not to touch, Duchamp’s ‘Étant donnés’ in the time of Coronavirus

Artblog’s new contributor Norman Dolph offers a new take on Marcel Duchamp’s last piece of art, the once-scandalous “Étant donnés,” casting it as an explicit health threat in this time of coronavirus.

June 11, 2020 by Kinaya Hassane

The times are not unprecedented, thoughts on Lorna Simpson, the archive, double consciousness

At this traumatic time art can feel frivolous, but these two exhibitions spark a necessary conversation about Black fragmentation and subverting the archive.

June 9, 2020 by Alex Smith

Together, art by Dogon Krigga and music by John Morrison in ‘SWP: Southwest Psychedelphia’

Alex Smith debuts their new series, SYNESTHESIA, which will explore fantastic albums and their artwork; first up is Dogon Krigga and John Morrison on “SWP: Southwest Psychedelphia.”