In this 31 minute long podcast, Wit speaks with artist and activist Candy Alexandra González about their artistic practice and upcoming exhibition, “Mirror Talk” at 40th street AIR on Saturday, April 13th, at 12 PM!
Read MorePoet Levi Bentley interviews the executive editors of the journal bedfellows, Jackee Sadicario and Alina Pleskova, which provides space for written work about sex and intimacy from marginalized writers.
Read MoreIn this podcast episode, Jessica Rizzo sits down with playwright Kate Tarker to discuss her original play “Dionysus Was Such A Nice Man,” which opens at The Wilma Theatre on April 23rd, 2019.
Read MoreAsk Artblog Advisor, Beth Heinly, answers a question about the ego-fueled art world and whether it will ever be a meritocracy. She answers philosophically and with literary allusions to Dante’s Inferno and Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Have a question about the Art Life for Ask Artblog? Email ask@theartblog.org. Or submit a Google form with your question. There’s a link to the Google form at the bottom of the post below. All names kept anonymous.
Read MoreOur contributor Mark Lord experiences the Jasper Johns exhibit at Matthew Marks, and finds the highly charged subject of the work (a 1965 photo of a U.S. combat soldier weeping at the loss he could not prevent of friends in the war). He talks about the intimacy and emotion of the subject and how Johns removes the emotion for a reading about the mind distilling memory over time. The show is up through April 6 at the New York gallery.
Read MoreJanyce Glasper sees an insightful movie that deals with issues of post-graduate artists trying to make a go of it in the world today. “Olympia” screened at Lightbox Film Center as part of the Fifth Annual Philadelphia Women’s Film Festival.
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