Artblog | Roberta

January 10, 2017 by Roberta

Congratulations Paul Cava, Dave and Ilyssa Kyu, Collective Action organizers (go to their silent auction!), PAFA gets gift for printmaking and digital media + hosts alumni foundry show, Plus Art Condo + an Opportunity!

Collective Action – From the Streets Department’s Conrad Benner and friends, a silent auction of donated art to try to raise $20,000 for ten local and national social justice groups. Read more about it

January 7, 2017 by Roberta

Elizabeth Murray and Carmen Herrera films at NY Film Forum

The double bill at the Film Forum will take you 90 minutes. It’s a must-see 90-minutes. The documentaries on Elizabeth Murray, (“Everybody Knows…Elizabeth Murray” by Kristi Zea) and Carmen Herrera (“The 100 Year Show” by Alison Klayman) immerse you in the biographies and studio practices of two great artists who had spark and ideas, worked hard, never gave up, and are examples to us all.

January 3, 2017 by Roberta

Congratulations-Phillip Adams and Rabble Rousers; John Berger passes, Roman Blazic writes, West Collection, The Rail Park, and many great opportunities!

Greg Labold and the Rabble Rousers Mummer’s brigade were featured in a positive and laudatory Philly.com story on Philly.com that ran before the parade on Jan. 1. Then, after the parade, the Rabble Rousers got roundly scolded on Philly.com for their poop emoji skit. I’d call that a true success story. Congratulations, Rabble Rousers!

January 1, 2017 by Roberta

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year from Artblog!

December 25, 2016 by Roberta

Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah +stay tuned for the Libertas!

From our family to yours, Happy Holidays, Everyone!!! We are taking some time to spend with our families but will return with renewed vigor to present the 2016 Liberta awards next week, our signature round up of the weirdness and wonders of the year.

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December 20, 2016 by Roberta

Congratulations Barbara Bullock + Andrea Kirsh on two NJ shows! Two great short videos – Eli Laban and Temple Contemporary, Plus, new photos by Sam Moskovitz of Warhol in Philadelphia, Plus, good opportunities at Bartrams and free tuition for Rutgers-Camden creative writing MFA’s

Sharp-Tongued Figuration brings together a group of artists who employ recognizable imagery as a means of commenting on contemporary culture, rather than a means of recording what they see. We are very proud of the show curated by our senior writer and resident feminist, Andrea Kirsh – Sharp-Tongued Figuration (January 17 – April 21, 2017) at the Stedman Gallery, Rutgers, Camden…Artists are Sue Coe, Nell Painter, Mickalene Thomas, Kukuli Velarde and Sandy Winters.

December 13, 2016 by Roberta

Congratulations Sarah McEneaney, Fabian Lopez, Mi Kyoung Lee, Lebo Tladi, Opportunities from Create! Mag, CultureWorks, Blue Cadet, Plus a word from the Artblog team!

Over the last 13 years, Artblog has poured its heart out covering the arts in Philadelphia and elsewhere. Our mission has always been to cover those whose voices for the most part have been omitted from the discussion – women and all minorities. Our mission is more important now than ever before, when marginalized people are threatened or dismissed as irrelevant. Our pledge to you, our readers, is to bring you important voices in the community and elevate discussion about why art matters to all of us.

December 7, 2016 by Roberta

Lois Dodd’s spirit of quietude at List Gallery, Swarthmore

In this broad survey of the 89-year old artist and educator’s oil paintings, the figurative works capture ordinary domestic things. In many but not all cases the images depict snapshot-like captures — a ladder leaning against a house; a window and the ice boulders seen through its glass; a red drape partly obscuring a pink window as it billows in the wind. All of these images are partial views, details of a larger whole — Instead of entire windows you see parts, instead of whole houses you see less than a whole. But the works don’t feel incomplete.