Artblog | Roberta

April 5, 2016 by Roberta

Artblog on Curate This with Beth Heinly and Tyler Kline, “Due North” Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson in New Yorker, Temple Library panel, Automat panel, Miriam Singer+Thom Lessner at Elixr coffee, Carl Marin at Queens International, plus Opportunities!

The imaginative team of Julius Ferraro andAmanda Wagner invited me to collaborate with them on content for their savvy online publication, Curate This. I selected two of my favorite artists to showcase, Beth Heinly and Tyler Kline

March 29, 2016 by Roberta

Sister Chapel at Rowan, Alex Da Corte at Mass MoCA, Kitty Caparella on Cuba, Temple Contemporary and Symphony for Broken Orchestra, Brent Watanabe’s deer cam hack of Grand Theft Auto, and Opportunities!

In other Temple news, business school student Faiza Samreen wrote to say she and some fellow students are organizing an art show/fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity on April 3, 3-7PM at Hubbub Coffee on Spruce Street, near the University of Pennsylvania. They’re charging admission to the show and all funds raised will go the Habitat for Humanity.

March 24, 2016 by Roberta

Darkness gets a place to shine – Chewing the Scenery at Crane Arts

Moody and surreal, Chewing the Scenery is not as grandstanding and over-the-top emotional as its title would imply. That said, the exhibition of ten mostly under-known Philadelphia artists is tautly – and satisfyingly – theatrical.

March 22, 2016 by Roberta

David Schmuckler at Weird Days in Brooklyn, PHL Book Art Fair on the horizon, Free museum admission for B of A cardholders, Dona Nelson+Polly Apfelbaum in LATimes, Tyler Kline in DAD Digital, Plus Opportunities at Automat, 40th St. AIR, Main Line Arts, Jeffrey Stockbridge

After welcoming more than 1,300 visitors and 50 exhibitors in 2015, the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center (PPAC) and The Print Center are pleased to announce the line-up of signings, appearances, and talks for the 2016 Philadelphia Art Book Fair, taking place on Friday, April 1 and Saturday, April 2 at The Annex on Filbert (830 Filbert St). Moving beyond one medium, the inclusive, metropolitan art fair features new releases from art and photo book publishers, small and large, as well as zines and publications from both art institutions and independent artists.

March 15, 2016 by Roberta

RAIR’s Live at the Dump! Nari Ward at Barnes, Anne Minich, Theodore Harris works part of PAFA, Ann Hamilton and FWM community project, New team at Freeman’s auction, David Kessler’s Pine Barrens trailer, Harris Fogel and Opportunity reminder!

Live at the Dump, a new series of programs by our friends at RAIR (RECYCLED ARTIST IN RESIDENCY)! RAIR has two movie nights planned, Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome and Wall-E! I can’t think of better movies to watch at the recycling center.

March 8, 2016 by Roberta

Renegade’s Beowolf at Mt. Moriah, Marta Sanchez’s Cascarones at PHL, Bruce Hoffman curates political at Fuller Craft, FJORD is back, Jayson Musson, 12th Meyer show at MLAC, Turrell’s Skyspace, Plus Mega-Opportunities list

Don’t miss The Review Show LIVE, this Thursday, March 10, 6PM – 7:30 PM at the Galleries at Moore. Join Artblog, The St. Claire and Moore Galleries for LIVE Art Reviews of 3 exhibitions – Rodney McMillian at ICA, Pepon Osorio’s reForm at Temple Contemporary and Ian Etter and Usha Farey at Practice. Panelists are Walter Robinson, Martin Peeves, Kelsey Halliday Johnson with Suzanne Seesman, moderator

March 1, 2016 by Roberta

Schomburg seminar at Taller Puertorriqueno, Lansdowne Arts Board makes waves, New Penn Design Dean, PMA gets big Dietrich collection, Plus Sid Sachs, Judith Schaechter, Pop Up Museum on Black Women’s Lives, Sad news of Joe Tiberino and Vaughn Stubbs, Plus Opportunities!

Congratulations, Taller Puertorriqueno on your 20th Annual Arturo A. Schomburg Symposium! A standing room only crowd turned out for talk about Afrolatinidad identity and issues related to indigeneity, racial identity and immigration/deportation. More forthcoming in a report.

February 26, 2016 by Roberta

The first LIVE Review Panel of 2016 – March 10 at Galleries at Moore!

Come participate in this LIVE event, as our distinguished panel of experts discuss and review three Philadelphia art exhibitions – from the Institute of Contemporary Art, Temple Contemporary and Practice Gallery (see below for more and links to those venues). This event is scheduled in conjunction with Walter Robinson: Paintings and Other Indulgences, featuring the work of the New York based artist and critic and on view at The Galleries at Moore through March 12, 2016.