The Live at the Writers House episode with Artblog and St. Claire writers reading from their published works is now available for your listening pleasure! Here’s the link to EPISODE 113 – 10/26/2015 – PHILADELPHIA ART CRITICS…
Produced and hosted by Alli Katz and with some great live music by City Love.
Andrea Kirsh reviews a traveling exhibition by Mel Edwards, who has been creating sculptural commentary on black civil rights since the 1960s.
Read MoreArt is not an “autonomous” realm of cultural production that is cut off from, or outside, the unfolding of everyday life. Rather, it is something that takes place within reality at a given socio-historical moment. I would like to build on these initial reflections by developing the very idea of this “taking place within”. I will refer to this, more precisely, as art’s immanence (I take this word to mean here, quite simply, a status of “being within something,” a kind of “indwelling”).
Read MoreAll of us at Artblog wish you a sparkling new year! May your glasses be filled with cheer, and may love, joy and peace surround you. We are looking forward to seeing lots of art in 2016 and reporting back to you on what we find.
Read MoreICA Open Video Call – Philadelphia-area artists and filmmakers, submit your videos to this open call and get the opportunity to screen your work in the ICA Ramp! This year’s jurors are artist Alex Da Corte; artist and filmmaker Tiona McClodden, Executive Director, Harriet’s Gun Media; and Bree Pickering, Executive Director, Vox Populi. Free to apply – Submissions due Jan. 4, 2016. Application is here.
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