We are very sad to report that artist, writer and Artblog contributor Dereck Mangus died on July 7, 2024 at age 46.
Read MoreBlaise Tobia sees an exhibit at the Episcopal Cathedral in West Philly and comments that the show is well worth seeing, “for the quality and variety of the works on display.”
Read MoreSharon Garbe sees the sculptural installations in the exhibit, “In Pursuit: Artists’ Perspectives on a Nation,” and welcomes the works that are both political and personal that critique the American presence in the geo-political universe.
Read MoreArmchair traveler alert! Blaise Tobia and Virginia Maksymowicz report on their trip to the Venice Biennale and then on down the boot, with notable stops in Verona, Parma, Roma and Sardinia.
Read MoreRuth Wolf sees an exhibit at Rosemont College’s Patricia M. Nugent Gallery and talks about how the works of Christine Stoughton and Anne Marble are in synchronicity. Wolf says the show (recently closed) was “an intimate, serene, introspective world where ephemera is presented in all it simply-complex splendor.”
Read MoreOur new contributor Cindy Stockton Moore reviews two activism-fueled exhibits in West Philadelphia, one on climate devastation, at the Annenberg School on the Penn campus, and one on gun violence, at the University City Science Center. She notes that both exhibits appeared outside a gallery setting.
Read MoreMiles Orvell visits Blaise Tobia and Virginia Maksymowicz in their studios for this feature that explores the couple’s careers in tandem over the last 50 years and their individual bodies of work, noting also that they’ve been pursuing “the art of marriage (to each other) for the same fifty years,”
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