In Part One of our 2-part coverage of the new documentary, Roberta gives a brief overview of the film and says it’s not a bio-pic but a history flick about an era in which Basquiat was a player who turns out to be major. The film opens today at Ritz at the Bourse. Stay tuned for Imani Roach’s review coming up soon!
Read MoreWe round up the news! There’s a new space opening in Manayunk and Amy Lipton organizes a show from the Schuylkill Center, “Learn a River’s Name” to debut the space. Also, historian Nell Painter speaks at the Free Library on her two-career life and her move from history professor at Princeton to artist.
Read MoreIt’s graduation season, and one thing we’re mighty proud of here at Artblog is being the first publication to cover many of our region’s newly-minted BFAs and MFAs. Here Naveena Vijayan visits the University of Delaware’s MFA thesis show, “Cadence,” on view through June 3rd at The Delaware Contemporary.
Read MoreArtblog’s own Maddie Hewitt speaks with Yixuan Pan about her new performance piece, “Conductible,” which showed earlier this month at the FringeArts May Scratch Night. “Conductible” combines many of Pan’s long-standing interests, including translation, sculpture, movement-based research and audience participation.
Read MoreIn this sponsored post from the Center for Emerging Visual Artists (CFEVA), Susan Peiffer, an Associate Publisher for Metro Philadelphia, writes about the upcoming biennial festival, Art in the Open. The outdoor festival takes place May 18 to 20, 2018, and includes 40 jury-selected artists and collaborative teams working in all media along the Schuylkill River Trail, from the historic Fairmount Water Works to South Street.
Read MoreJessica Rizzo attended the Lightbox Film Center’s recent retrospective of French filmmaker Philippe Garrel’s evocative body of work. Here she traces the arc of his career and recounts highlights from the month-long survey, which included a number of films rarely screened on this side of the Atlantic.
Read MoreIt’s a day for evening events. Two we recommend are at Amalgam Comics and Coffeehouse and at Indigo Arts. Read more and get out there and enjoy.
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