Author Archives: libby and roberta

Fare at the NY art fairs – the Armory

By libby and roberta | March 14, 2010 | 0 Comments

We know we missed some of the Armory — for starters, we never made it to Pier 92, the Modern section. And while it seems like we saw tons of art we fear we missed some at Pier 94 where the Armory Contemporary was. Carrumba.

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Fare at the NY art fairs – Pulse and Volta

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We ran into a lot of folks at the art fairs last week. Some we knew, others were artists and gallerists we were meeting for the first time. Either way, the art fairs are chat fests with conversations about art, sales and the exhilaration of being at the fair. Talk is the [...]

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Lots of Libbys and Robertas

By libby and roberta | March 12, 2010 | 0 Comments

The artblog team is growing. So look for some terrific new writers in the coming weeks. No, they may not really be Libby and Roberta clones. But they are terrific, each in his and her own way. For starters, we have some First Friday posts coming up and we’re as proud of them as if [...]

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Art fair daze tomorrow and Friday

By libby and roberta | March 3, 2010 | 0 Comments

Hello again, just another little note to say we are going to the NY art fairs tomorrow and Friday.  So the blog may be quiet.  We do have delegated body doubles who will cover First Friday openings for us.  Stay tuned–we’re very excited about this new development.

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Listen and decide for yourself

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Little Berlin’s website now had the podcast of Saturday night’s community meeting on juried shows.  The podcast is 81 minutes long and it’s downloadable.   Arcadia University Gallery Director Richard Torchia was at the meeting to talk about the jurying of the recent Works on Paper show about which rumors were swirling on the internet [...]

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Our picks for March are up!

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Hello artblog campers, we’ve got our picks entered on artblog’s maps & listings. Our picks, in case you’re wondering, are our curated selections based on what was submitted to our maps and listings. We generally make these choices Monday before First Friday so if you want your show in the running be sure [...]

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Brief chat with Dona Nelson

By libby and roberta | February 22, 2010 | 0 Comments

We were up at Tyler the other day and bumped into Tyler painting prof Dona Nelson. The artist told us she’d been mentioned in Roberta Smith’s recent rant in the New York Times about the lackluster curating in NY museums. Just to be clear, Smith shouted out Nelson as an example (along with [...]

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Time for March and April listings on maps

By libby and roberta | February 16, 2010 | 0 Comments

Hi, all, Don’t forget to add your March and April listings to our maps&listings page. I know it’s only mid February, but it’s a short month. So get your March shows and events in there, and let us and all of Philly know what you’re showing off. (And don’t forget the events, talks and symposia [...]

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The Duke of Riley meets the King of Petty’s Island

By libby and roberta | February 4, 2010 | 0 Comments

We wandered over to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania last week while Duke Riley was installing his show about Ralston Laird and Petty’s Island, his chosen subject for his Philagrafika project. The artist, 38, had the society’s large glass cases full of artifacts and photos from his excursions to Petty’s Island, and he’d made [...]

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Judith Taylor died

By libby and roberta | February 3, 2010 | 4 Comments

The quick death of artist Judith Taylor from a sudden illness struck her friends in the art community for its untimeliness. Taylor had missed her yoga class, and they hadn’t known why. The day of the Philagrafika press and VIP opening, they were reeling and could talk of little else.  Taylor, a photographer, was professor [...]

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