“It’s possible here in Philly” Lindsay Chandler and A. J. Rombach moved to Philadelphia after graduating from art school (Lindsay, from RISD, and A.J. from Boston University).  They didn’t know each other before moving here but became friends through their network of artist friends.  The two artists helped co-found Fjord space on Frankford Ave. last […]

We spoke with Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz in 2011. The show of their collection of outsider art, "Great and Might things: Outsider Art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection" opens today at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The collection is a bequeath to the museum. In our podcast they talk about how they started collecting outsider art and why they are giving it to the museum.  This podcast originally ran on May 7, 2011.

Michelle Post’s sculptural Tronies will debut as a permanent installation at Grounds for Sculpture this fall. In our podcast the artist tells us how she received the commission and how she conceived of the ten large portrait heads that sit on plinths like a chorus of grumpy citizen jurors waiting for something to pass judgment on. Post, a […]

Roberta and Libby interview Celestine Wilson Hughes in this 15-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

Roberta and Libby interview curator Brian Wallace in this 16-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

[Ed note: This podcast originally ran on Artblog July 23, 2012. Rob Matthews is in a two person show with Shanna Waddell opening tonight, Jan 4, 2013, at Tiger Strikes Asteroid.] The art world’s interest in drawings came just at the right moment for Rob Matthews, an artist whose drawings merge humor and faith in […]

Celebrating two independent gallerists On the 20th anniversaries of Gallery Joe and Pentimenti, two wonderful contemporary art venues in Philadelphia that we admire, we talk with the gallery’s owner/directors, Becky Kerlin (of Gallery Joe) and Christine Pfister (of Pentimenti). Both galleries are located in Old City, and both started in the recession of 1992/93. In […]

[Ed. note: This podcast ran in 2007 when Jayson Musson had not yet graduated from University of Pennsylvania and moved over to Brooklyn. But he had already begun the Hennessy Youngman series of videos, and he speaks about them in this interview with us. Jayson’s solo show, A True Fiend’s Weight, opens at Fleisher-Ollman Gallery […]

Roberta and Libby interview Tim Portlock in this 17-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

Shelley Spector studied dance for many years — her mother was a dance teacher and taught dance classes out of the studio in the basement. So the idea of creating art that looks effortless — the way dancers make dancing look effortless — was built into Shelley’s way of working. Spector founded the influential Spector […]