Enjoy today’s news feature, which rounds up an interesting immigrant story from the Ducktown neighborhood in Atlantic City, along with a podcast from Gross McCleaf Gallery artist Mickayel Thurin and a panel in January at UArts about strategies museums can use to engage the pubic with contemporary issues that are traumatic without causing more trauma.
Read MoreOur contributor Dereck Mangus takes a walk around Capitol Hill and stops in three museum gift shops and reports on their holiday and other goods for sale.
Read MorePhiladelphia is jam-packed with news and events and exhibitions this Fall. How wonderful, it’s almost like we’re coming out of a pandemic or something!
Read MoreOur contributor Martina Merlo sees an exhibition about memory at the Phillips Museum at Franklin and Marshall College. The exhibit of works by Patricia Moss-Vreeland represents the artist’s project on the poetry and science of the brain and in particular, human memory.
Read MoreArtblog contributor Dereck Mangus, who is based in Baltimore, visits the Susquehanna Art Museum in Harrisburg and finds excellence in a wide-ranging exhibit of modern and contemporary abstract art.
Read MoreWe are thrilled to showcase two Philadelphia theater reviews by theater afficionados Linnea deRoche and Ryan deRoche (Ryan is Artblog’s Managing Editor). Linnea and Ryan come fully credentialed as producers, play writers, directors, costumers for the small company, School Free Players – https://www.schoolfreeplayers.org/ .
Read MoreOur new contributor, Pete Sparber sees work by three Black artists, whose works resonate with him. The artists, Henry Taylor, whose current show is at the Whitney Museum of Art until Jan. 28, 2024; Branche Coverdale, recently at Paradigm Gallery and Studio; and O’Neil Scott, recently at Corridor Contemporary, have kinship with each other in their creation of Black universes that are present as witnesses and celebrants of their culture.
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