Contributor Ron Kanter talks with Painted Bride supporters, staff and board and finds he still has questions about the community center’s putting its building on the market in an attempt to continue — building free — as a nomadic programmer in pop-up locations. A timely look at an organization that’s lifting anchor and sailing out on an adventure that has some supporters worried.
Read MoreWe are excited for today’s lecture at PAFA by portrait painter, Amy Sherald, whose recently completed portrait of former First Lady Michelle Obama was unveiled with much fanfare and acclaim at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. We are planning our trip, but until then we’ll see you at PAFA to hear the artist speak about her work. Also, news about Philadelphia’s Dindga McCannon’s and her fabulous “Revolutionary Sister.” Plus a good opportunity with Mural Arts.
Read MoreMatthew Rose visits Florence, Italy, once home to Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and, for the last 20 years, home to Clet, the French sticker artist whose “canvas” is the city street signs. Clet alters street signs with charming interventions that the city pretty much leaves up. Matthew rounds up pictures and writes about the artist’s many interventions.
Read MoreSeventeen years after the feature documentary, “Rivers and Tides” debuted, Director Thomas Riedelsheimer brings back to the screen British artist, Andy Goldsworthy and his magical, shamanistic works with nature. Roberta says the new film, “Leaning into the Wind,” is a film poem, and a loving embrace of this unique artist who paints with leaves and with rain and whose humble affect masks a life of hard work, repeated failure (and triumph) collaborating with a tough and changeable Mother, Nature.
Read MoreKara Springer works at the intersection of sculpture, photography and language to activate bodies in space. Born in Barbados and raised in Ontario, Canada, this former industrial designer grounds her minimalist aesthetic with careful attention to history and geography. Springer speaks with Artblog’s Imani Roach about diaspora, legibility and her current installation at The Galleries at Moore — Ten Days Before Freedom, a Hymnal. What can perilous landscapes teach us about the nature of built space? Listen to find out. Imani interviewed Kara at Moore College of Art and Design’s TGMR radio station on February 26th, 2018; the podcast is 34 minutes long.
Read MoreAndrea reviews an exhibit by Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen that critiques the Stockholm Ethnography Museum and its “collecting” of non-Western, cultural artifacts and stories. Many museum goers are already aware of moral and ethical problems underlying ethnographic collections. For those not aware, this exhibit will be valuable, Andrea says.
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