We’re taking a vacation!!!! No artblog–sort of–for a week, except for days when we can’t help ourselves. We’ll be back with gusto Jan. 3 with a sample clip for the next episode of artblog radio. Meanwhile, back in the virtual manger, we are bringing you the Digital Story of the Nativity, a YouTube video that [...]

Kristin Neville-Taylor co-founded Little Berlin with Martha Savery in 2007.  Recently, she curated the show “Landscape Techne” at the alternative space.  In this clip she talks about the large, sumptuous — and completely cyber-generated — landscape photographs by Alex McLeod that appeared in the show, which closed Nov. 27.  Is beauty in art suspect these [...]

We met with two art zine couples recently to find out why they started their paper publications in Philadelphia.  David Dempewolf and Yuka Yokayama of the art critical publication Machete also run the popular project space, Marginal Utility and Rachel and Trevor Reese of the literary art zine Possible Press moved to Philadelphia from Brooklyn this summer [...]

Hello all you Knight Foundation Challenge applicants, and all others interested int the Miami-based foundation’s reach-out to the Philadelphia arts scene.  Here’s a quick, 27-second sample of our interview with Dennis Scholl, Vice President for Arts, Knight Foundation. More about the Knight Challenge. Applications open til Oct. 31.  We will run the full interview with [...]

Gallerist Sande Webster talks about starting her gallery in the 1960s with a racially-mixed group of artists.  Today, 44 years later, Sande Webster Gallery continues to be a vibrant, successful and community-spirited enterprise on Walnut St.   Sande is a great story-teller.  Here’s a sample. Sande Webster 30 second clip Listen Monday, Aug. 30, to [...]