Attention emerging writers and culture lovers: The New Art Writers Contest is back and better than ever with bigger prizes and a first-ever physical publication in the works!! This December 11, 2017 “From the Vault” post by last year’s contest winner, Leah Gallant, creatively combines the writer’s fascination with a renaissance painting from the PMA’s permanent collection with her desire to make sense of an infamously iconic image from our own time. Do you have things to say about the images and objects in your environment? Read on and submit your unpublished art writing to this year’s contest, open NOW!
Read MoreArtblog’s Leah Gallant speaks with artist Shona McAndrew about censorship, the male gaze and discovering paper mache. “Moira,” McAndrew’s current show of sculptures and digital collages at Pilot Projects, is on view (by appointment) through Friday April 20th.
Read MoreIn this second installment of correspondent Leah Gallant’s Wing Bowl 2018 narrative, she takes on the main event — the eating contest itself. Read on for conspicuous consumption and a glimpse of what it takes to succeed at a sport which strains the capacity of the human vessel.
Read MoreEagles mania is still in full swing here in the city of Brotherly Love. Luckily, Leah Gallant is back with a two-part feature chronicling her experience as a spectator at the 2018 Wing Bowl. There’s poetry and madness to spare at this annual eating contest held the Friday before Super Bowl Sunday — but is it Art? Read below and keep an eye out for exciting conclusion coming soon.
Read MoreLeah Gallant, Artblog’s 2017 New Art Writing Challenge winner, is back, and this time she’s visiting the Penn Museum’s Asia collections. Here she ponders the Dowager Empress, a Qing Dynasty Chinese quartz crystal sphere of largely unknown origins and history. Gallant slows down to uncover the source of its continued allure, even in our digital age.
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