Artblog | Museums

December 30, 2023 by Roberta

Liberta Awards 2023

The Liberta Awards debuted in 2006, created by Artblog’s two founders, Libby and Roberta, who were constantly circulating in the Philadelphia art scene and being called by each other’s name. Nobody could keep it straight.

December 28, 2023 by Ryan deRoche

Craft and Stone, Korea’s Artistic Odyssey from 1989 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

December 18, 2023 by Roberta

Janyce Denise Glasper reads ‘Route’ at Vox Populi, podcast with Mickayel Thurin, ‘Ducktown’ project from Janice Merendino, plus more!

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.

December 13, 2023 by Dereck Stafford Mangus

Three gift shops in Washington D.C. museums with some desirable merch

Our 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.

December 13, 2023 by Roberta

Woodmere Art Museum Breaks Ground, Paul Cret drawings at Saint Joseph’s University, ‘Philly Daydreams’ at the Oculus, Judy Gelles’s works at RISDI Museum

Philadelphia 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!

December 4, 2023 by Martina Merlo

Poetry and memory, Patricia Moss-Vreeland at the Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin and Marshall College

Our 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.

November 30, 2023 by Dereck Stafford Mangus

Five Decades of Abstraction in a revelatory exhibit at Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg

Artblog 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.

November 15, 2023 by Roberta

Two Theater reviews! Also, The Colored Girls Museum, High School Student Art Show at Moore College of Art and Design and Opportunity

We 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/ .