May 12, 2023
Ken Lum: You Can’t See Me!
— Purchase this print today on artspace.com! “The image for this work was taken in Paris sometime between 1995 to 1997 when I taught as a Professor at the l’Ecole des Beaux Arts, France’s most important art school located directly across from the Louvre Museum on the Left Bank of the river Seine and converted…
May 12, 2023
Artblog: SWARM, the kaleidoscopic visions of artist and filmmaker Terrence Nance at the Institute for Contemporary Art
SWARM, the kaleidoscopic visions of artist and filmmaker Terrence Nance at the Institute for Contemporary Art By Alex Smith for theartblog May 12, 2023 That SWARM lands comfortably in the heart of Philadelphia–an incubator for Black futurism and Afro-didactic, exploratory Black artists, is no miracle, but instead an expected drop-in, a city welcoming a kindred spirit. With SWARM though,…
May 10, 2023
Black Hippie Art: Sketch Club
Meet fellow artists and creatives in the city and sketch with us, no experience needed! Sketch Club is a programming series developed through Black Hippie Art to promote creativity and self care through drawing and sketching. Art supplies provided.  Registration Register to attend this event here.  If you require any accessibility accommodations such as audio description…
May 8, 2023
Terence Nance: Swarm
— Order your copy today from artbook.com! This is the first publication on the genre-defying practice of Terence Nance (born 1982), the filmmaker famed for An Oversimplification of Her Beauty and Random Acts of Flyness. Tracing his work in film, video, television, sound and performance from 2012 to 2022, the volume pays tribute to the…
May 4, 2023
Q & A with Denise Ryner, Andrea B. Laporte Curator
We’re excited to welcome our newest staff member, Denise Ryner! We asked Denise to tell us about an exhibition or work of art that inspired her to be a curator, her experience working in the Vancouver and Berlin art communities and what she’s looking forward to in Philadelphia’s art scene and beyond.  Q: What are some things you loved about working in the Vancouver and…