Our TOPPODCAST Picks 
Stay ConnectedAn Ongoing Conversation about Art and Community in Philadelphia and the World
- Home
- Top Charts
- Top Networks
- Top Apps
- Top Independents
- Top Podfluencers
- Top Picks
- Top Business Podcasts
- Top True Crime Podcasts
- Top Finance Podcasts
- Top Comedy Podcasts
- Top Music Podcasts
- Top Womens Podcasts
- Top Kids Podcasts
- Top Sports Podcasts
- Top News Podcasts
- Top Tech Podcasts
- Top Crypto Podcasts
- Top Entrepreneurial Podcasts
- Top Fantasy Sports Podcasts
- Top Political Podcasts
- Top Science Podcasts
- Top Self Help Podcasts
- Top Sports Betting Podcasts
- Top Stocks Podcasts
- Podcast News
- About Us
- Podcast Advertising
- Contact
Playwright, performer, theater and dance critic, and co-founder of Curate This, Julius Ferraro is a multi-tasker par excellence. Julius has a new play, "Parrot Talk" that will be performed at DaVinci Art Alliance at the end of March. The show will take place over two weekends, a month apart, where the second staging may (or may not) look and feel very different than the first. The interview with Julius took place Feb. 17 and it's 31-minutes long. 
Quietly building steam over the last four years, the community project, Philadelphia Assembled, will burst into the world this April, with actions, workshops, performances and art, in places all across the city, and will manifest itself in a big installation at the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Perelman Building this fall. Starting with a series of conversations with regular Philadelphians, the Dutch artist, Jeanne van Heeswijk, made connections and reached out to more and more people, in what sounds like a revolutionary movement to empower people and make their lives better. 
In Jonathan Lyndon Chase's paintings, faces go from cartoony (masks, he says) to realistic. The subject is the body, the black male body, the black queer body. Jonathan, who got his MFA from PAFA in 2016, is soft-spoken but intense. Easy to talk with and direct in his answers, no BS. Four of his works are in the current Fleisher-Ollman exhibit, up to Jan. 28. Among other things in this conversation, Jonathan talks about his materials. His works are filled with materials-brio. 
Sherman Fleming is a performance artist, who began performing in the 1970s after being introduced to "Happenings." In graduate school he created a character, "RODFORCE," that he performed as. He tells A.M. Weaver about the difficulty of finding performance role models since there were few black male performers. His art is public, and about issues of race and masculinity and is intentionally provocative. 
Lanré, who is Yoruba, works with recycled materials and his art communicates a message about our fragile globe being overwhelmed by waste. His sculptures are labor intensive, and here in Philadelphia he worked with North Philadelphia community members in "sewing circles" to fabricate the individual components (he refers to them as "bricks" to build a skyscraper) that will go into his big new sculpture, which debuts on Friday. The piece is a memorial to loss, which is experienced in a personal way by all. 
After a nine-month residency at the 
Michelle Marcuse flirted with sculpture-making for a long while, but only when she started channeling her memories of childhood in suburban Capetown, South Africa, did she find her 3D voice. Marcuse, who along with her partner, Henry Bermudez, runs House Gallery also found her materials -- recycled cardboard, glue -- and aesthetic that is primal and playful, combining both pieces of her childhood experience. 
The art activist group We Are Watching was organized by Amanda Silberling and her friends at the University of Pennsylvania, where they are undergraduates. Propelled to action by an email sent by a fraternity to incoming Penn freshmen girls to come to a party and be ready to, basically, put out, Silberling and her colleagues blanketed the campus with flyers outing the fraternity for its crass invitation, with its implied embrace of rape culture. 
Will Owen is an artist working primarily with design, interactive media, sound...and FOOD! He's a Little Berlin member who I met in 2014 for a show he curated at that space. He's a bit of a nomad, living between Philadelphia and New York, where he is an artist in residence at Flux Factory in Queens. So it's kind of no surprise that some of his curating involves transit, especially subways (he did an audio piece for the Copenhagen subway system) and buses (he's curated exhibitions on the Chinatown buses between New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Baltimore). 
Irish artist Elaine Byrne makes work that uses Dante, James Joyce and other heady source material for her works with political and social commentary on contemporary issues. In one case she is calling out an Irish bank scandal, using Dante's Purgatorio and a pilgrimage location in Ireland called St. Patrick's Purgatory; in another she's raising issues about anti-Semitism in the context of Joyce's Cyclops section of Ulysses. The videos are captivating, and give so very much to chew over. Elaine's Irish accent is part of the treat of this 38-minutes long podcast. 
