Tanner’s works on paper are initially gorgeous, a respite for the senses. But fragile, awkward moments point to uncomfortable relationships between forms.
Read MoreInspired by Mexican muralist Jose Clemente Orozco’s “The Epic of American Civilization,” Shaw decided to create his own interpretation of the American story. He’s been working on the project for seven years.
Read MoreThe 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”).
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