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We are so happy to hear the news of our friend and former Managing Editor, Imani Roach's appointment as Inaugural Curatorial Director of the new African and African Diasporic Art Center at the Ph...

https://www.theartblog.org/2024/05/imani-roach-at-center-for-african-and-african-diasporic-art-philadelphia-museum-of-art-plus-whyy-summit-future-fair-henry-bermudez/

Join Roberta and Ryan as they explore the Philadelphia art scene this week, from the WHYY Civic News Summit to a glitter-filled costume making workshop.

https://www.theartblog.org/2024/05/midweek-news-on-artblog-radio-whyy-mummers-future-fair-henry-bermudez-first-friday-openings-may-the-fourth-be-with-you/

Susan Isaacs sees a 50-year retrospective of works by Joyce J. Scott at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Scott is a Macarthur Award-winning artist, whose works deal with political themes of social ju...

https://www.theartblog.org/2024/04/joyce-scott-self-confessed-visual-artist-and-a-trickster-with-beauty-and-dark-themes-at-the-baltimore-museum-of-art/

Ryan and Roberta discuss the Midweek News on Artblog Radio, with short, quippy commentary and highlights of upcoming events and exhibitions we're excited about. Give a listen and come back for mo...

https://www.theartblog.org/2024/04/artblog-radio-midweek-news-opportunities-and-ear-cleaning-tales/

Ruth Wolf reads the book 'Temporary Monuments,' which deals with a subject, monuments, that seems to be on everyone's mind these days. In the end, Wolf sums up that statues and monuments come fro...

https://www.theartblog.org/2024/04/temporary-monuments-art-land-and-americas-racial-enterprise-raises-issues-about-permanence/

This week's news has lots from The Arts League including their second artist convening and the announcement that their Executive Director, Zoë Rayn Evans is moving on and they are looking for a ...

https://www.theartblog.org/2024/04/the-arts-league-says-farewell-to-zoe-rayn-evans-hosts-second-artist-convening-ulises-and-ray-philly-shows-closing-soon-and-opportunities/

In the bold and beautiful paintings of Dona Nelson, Lane Timothy Speidel finds optimism and spring-time hope after a long hard winter. Speidel's poetic review explains Nelson sees themself as an ...

https://www.theartblog.org/2024/04/spring-is-coming-in-dona-nelsons-selected-paintings-2019-2023-at-locks-gallery/

43 panel comic entitled “Nosebleed” by Derick Jones. Letters by Kyle Arrends, Edited by NM.Scuri. — Panel 1: Flashback of Tilda killing two in a grocery store. NOSEBLEED is tagged on grocer...

https://www.theartblog.org/2024/04/nosebleed-season-2-chapter-3/

Stephen Lauf shares from his experience of creating LGBTQ+ supporting art in Russia with a long a complicated personal history with the country.

https://www.theartblog.org/2024/04/art-that-can-be-construed-as-supporting-lgbtq-rights-at-museumpeace-com/

Miles Orvell spends time unpacking the current Wind Challenge 2 at Fleisher Art Memorial. He says the artists are dealing with today's existential dilemmas, and sums up the show this way: "In our...

https://www.theartblog.org/2024/04/joseph-lazaro-rodriguez-erik-ruin-sean-starowitz-art-about-existential-dilemmas-wind-challenge-2/