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Named one of the top art blogs by Art in America magazine, this blog gets you deep into the art world with art reviews, deep thoughts, and gossip from Philadelphia and beyond.
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Interview with Sarah Amos the printer's territories

Nov 4, 2009
Sarah Amos is an artist with a consummate mastery of printmaking. In this new body of work, her third show at Cynthia Reeves Gallery in Chelsea, she pits macro against micro, playing bold, dramatic shapes against delicate forms and textures. In her...

Studio visit with Tiago Carneiro da Cunha

Nov 2, 2009
Brazilian artist Tiago Carneiro da Cunha is working in a small studio at University of the Arts, near the end of a fall-semester artist’s residency. He is creating a new version of Mudman, one of...

Magicians of the Earth

Oct 26, 2009
John Baldessari that bastard, the late Jimmie Byers, the late Nancy Spero, august Louise Bourgeois, Claes the great Oldenburg, and Alighero e (and) Boetti are International School artists sharing...

Weekly Update Malcolm McLaren talks about video, art and his past

Oct 21, 2009
This week’s Weekly has my interview with Malcolm Mclaren, whose video Shallow 1-21 opens this week at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts’ Morris Gallery.  Below is my copy with some...

Barnes — Art in a curatorial stranglehold

Oct 15, 2009
By Sue Spaid For the past three years, I have followed the debate surrounding the Barnes Foundation’s move from Merion to Benjamin Franklin Parkway with great interest. October...

Sweet horror trip

Nov 20, 2009
Dead of the Living Night at Space 1026 is a mash note for horror movies with a surprise psychedelic candy-coated center. Neon sign on the black box created for Dead of the Living Night Jonathan Cammisa and Jonah Birns, two former Philly artists now...

Jeanne-Claude of Christo and Jeanne-Claude dies, age 74

Nov 19, 2009
Sad news.  She of the flame red hair and peppery personality.  NY Daily News story. Thanks to Andy Carvin via Megan Wendell.

Techno wonders from Delaware

Nov 19, 2009
In a show that should attract all the techno-art hackers out there, the University of Delaware faculty show themselves able to out-techno the technologists. Feats of tech derring-do abound in video and mechanical and electronic wizardry. Things growl...

Beyond the Canvas: Francine Savard at the Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal

Nov 19, 2009
My brain was buzzing when I left the Francine Savard mid-career retrospective at the Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal (MACM) curated by Lesley Johnstone. The 60 works on display express intellectual and philosophical ideas with such refined and...

In D.C.: "Portraiture Now: Communities" at the National Portrait Gallery and "Falnama; The Book of Omens" at the Sackler

Nov 18, 2009
Last week I visited Portraiture Now: Communities, at the National Portrait Gallery through July 5, 2010, with paintings by Rose Frantzen, Jim Torok and Rebecca Westcott.  It was organized around the idea of portraits of groups.  Not group portraits,...


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Joshua Cook
7.3
very good
  Sure it's a decent blog but if felt like it was a little bland maybe... it could just be me. It probably is me. I've been told this a lot, so maybe you should ignore my review...
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Anthony P.
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excellent
  It's good stuff full of inspirations and exhibits and ideas. Check it out and bookmark it, it's worth it.
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