At what age is it appropriate to expose students to “difficult” works of art? Marcel Duchamp’s “Étant donnés” offers a case-in-point.

In lieu of brush strokes by the thousands, organisms by the thousands form the contours of the natural world in Mia Rosenthal’s American Landscapes, her first solo outing with Gallery Joe.  In the show, which consists primarily of reinterpreted 19th-century paintings from the Hudson River School, Rosenthal converts the pastoral landscapes into images built on [...]

How pretty is Philadelphia’s City Council Districts map? Pretty ugly at the moment. Look at districts 5 and 7, with their long snaking tails, a product of some ugly political horse-trading that not only made the districts cockeyed on the map, but created ridiculous neighborhood splits where one side of the street is one district [...]

We’ve all seen the message embedded in the roadways of Center City, usually in crosswalks. I actually saw one embedded in the left lane of the westbound 676 ramp to the Schuylkill expressway!  I was stuck in bumper to bumper traffic and there it was just a half a car length ahead of me. How [...]

News Norway in NYC Following our last news post about Milwaukee in New York, now you can catch a piece of Norway too!  NORWAY NOW in NYC opens at .NO Gallery at 253 E. Houston on Sept. 7.  The multimedia exhibit mirrors Oslo’s annual juried art exhibition Høstutstillingen. The New York show had almost 600 submissions, [...]

A Love Supreme at the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center provides a cross-section of photographers and techniques, as well as content that ranges from near-documentary to almost complete abstraction. It is a great sampling of images that whets the palate but leaves the viewer seeking more. Some of the most curious and formally-potent images in PPAC’s [...]

MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Arts
4 March–15 August 2011

Michelangelo Pistoletto: Da Uno a Molti, 1956–1974 and Cittadellarte are the two exhibitions that MAXXI, in collaboration with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, is devoting to the great Italian artist and will open to the public from March 4th to August 15th 2011.

Writing interns wanted–We are looking for a few good writers. The job is to visit galleries on First Friday or other times, take pictures, talk with people, especially the artist if the artist is there, and write a short post or two about what you saw. Post deadlines are one week after First Friday. Must [...]

Philadelphia Museum of Art
November 2, 2010 – January 16, 2011


The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present a major special exhibition devoted to the work of Michelangelo Pistoletto (b. 1933), who was at the center of sweeping artistic and social change in Italy from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, and his influence persists today.

The nice people at Philadelphia Photo Art Center organized this project.  Take a picture of something in the city limits, submit it electronically (upload it at PPAC’s website, one picture per person) and they will print your picture out and include it in the exhibition opening at Crane Arts on Nov. 11.  More information here [...]

The nice people at Philadelphia Photo Art Center organized this project.  Take a picture of something in the city limits, submit it electronically (upload it at PPAC’s website, one picture per person) and they will print your picture out and include it in the exhibition opening at Crane Arts on Nov. 11.  More information here [...]

Hello artblog campers!  We are thrilled to announce we just received a grant from J-Lab for our podcast series, artblog radio!  We will be partnering with WHYY NewsWorks — the soon-to-launch community website of WHYY — to continue our series of talks with artists, curators, administrators and others in the art world.  Here’s the link [...]

Next week on artblog radio, Episode 6 features artist Diedra Krieger. This week, you will be able to see some of her work. She and seven other artists will be projecting video onto the walls of the subway concourse the evenings of Oct. 8 to 11 for The Philadelphia Underground (see Roberta’s post on Design [...]