June 7, 2016 by Roberta

Center for Creative Works, Allens Lane benefits, Sarah McEneaney in Portland, OR, Blackstar Film Fest and Wall Writers movies at International House, Crane Arts Archive Space closes Philly space+opens elsewhere, Plus Brown Bag it with ICA and Opportunities

Allen’s Lane Art Center’s Second Annual “Night of the Arts” This Saturday, 6PM – Immerse yourself in this vibrant community art center in Mt. Airy – and spend time with their gallery exhibition by photographer Harvey Finkle, whose socially-activist works Artblog has long admired.

May 29, 2016 by Michael Lieberman

The Woodmere Art Museum – Past, Present, and Future

I came away from our meeting April 6 with the impression that Valerio is a thoughtful and imaginative person who is dedicated to engaging the community in the arts. He seems willing to take risks. He has an eye for the overlooked, for the unexpected, and he is committed to promoting local artists who are working outside of the mainstream. When so much of the art world is focused upon celebrities and established artists, and has become international, it is not a small blessing that the Woodmere is focused upon telling the story of the art and artists of Philadelphia.

May 17, 2016 by Roberta

Congratulations 2016 NEA awardees, Artist-at-Sea Rebecca Rutstein, Blum+Poe exhibitors Quentin Morris and Julian Hoeber; Brent Burket on Barnes’ new Digital Initiatives guru Shelley Bernstein, Peek at the SI’s new African American Museum, Pepon Osorio’s reForm ends with Fairhill Fun Day, some Good Reads by John Muse, Stan Mir, the New Yorker, plus Opportunites

NEA awards $807,000 to local arts organizations to foster learning and engagement. Congratulations, all!

May 10, 2016 by Roberta

Woodmere’s Big new Dina Wind sculpture, PAFA’s ICreate lectures with Brandywine Workshop, Delaware Art Museum’s new E.D., Taller P+History Truck+reForm Bobcats honor Fairhill, Donald Trump tombstone mystery unwrapped, Kathryn Pannepacker at Coleman Library, (Pictures of) Cats and Birds at Main Library, Drexel’s Jesse Rosenstein throws benefit for Art Reach at Blokes Barber Shop, Plus Opportunities

Museum News 1 – Public Sculpture by the late Dina Wind debuts at Woodmere Art Museum – It’s big!

From Woodmere’s Gabrielle Turgoose, the piece by Dina Wind is a 30-foot steel sculpture, titled, Spring & Triangle. “…this is a fabrication based on a maquette of 1986 and the realization of the artist’s dream to see her work made on a public scale, interacting with trees, the sky, and the grandeur of nature,” said Turgoose, Director of Communications at the Museum.

May 5, 2016 by Jennifer Zarro

Artblog Radio – Vashti DuBois of The Colored Girls Museum

Most rooms in The Colored Girls Museum are dedicated to women of color; their names are framed in the doorways. This is a museum of Herstory told through art, through shout outs to accomplished and heroic women, and through everyday stories about ordinary and extraordinary lives.

May 3, 2016 by Roberta

ASR student Gabrielle Patterson’s animations, Snohetta’s SFMoMA (and soon Temple Library), Linda Harris in ArtNews, Pilot Projects and Nice Futures debut, Moore’s new Chief Academic Officer, Shelley Spector in Williamsburg, Plus Opportunities

I caught up with ASR student Gabrielle Patterson, who graduated from University of Pennsylvania a year ago with a BFA in Fine Arts, and some wizardly animation skills. After graduation, Gabrielle decided to stay in Philadelphia where she has been working part time for an educational media production company, Fabian-Baber, Inc. in Media, PA. She’s also working at the Lea school’s after-school program. And this summer, she will be teaching an animation workshop for high school students at the Brandywine Workshop.

April 29, 2016 by Andrea Kirsh

International Pop at the PMA

And perhaps this last is one of the most significant points the exhibition makes: despite an international interest in the commercial vernacular and the visual impact of the media, the works in the exhibition can only be truly understood within the cultures that produced them. This leaves serious viewers with the realization that the information in many of the introductory labels is insufficient background for a real understanding of the art and how it functioned in its native territory.

April 21, 2016 by Gina DeCagna

Janine Antoni and Stephen Petronio elicit the contemporary collaborative ethos

Between and among the bodies, repeated patterns emerge and tensions twist. Each human interaction—which depends on the particular people attending—can be analyzed in terms of the submission and dominance of the players.