Author Archives: libby

Radio post repaired

By libby | August 30, 2010 | 0 Comments

If you tried to hear the radio podcast of Sande Webster this morning and it wasn’t working, you can now hear it in its entirety. Sorry, all!

Read More »
First Friday dilemmas grow bigger

By libby | August 27, 2010 | 11 Comments

Amid the parking lots and barely passable maze of streets just west of Chinatown, Jolie Laide, the gallery that opened in July, has lots of big plans. The plans are short term and long term.

Read More »
Endangered species–public art at PA Convention Center

By libby | August 21, 2010 | 8 Comments

When people bark about the threat of a public art void at the Convention Center extension (see Stephan Salisbury’s article in today’s Inquirer here), they seem to be all over the place on just what they mean by public. For instance, art inside the building? That is not public. I don’t think too many Philadelphians [...]

Read More »
Sculptor Charles Fahlen died

By libby | August 19, 2010 | 0 Comments

Charles Fahlen, 70, died July 27 at his home in Guerneville, California from pancreatic cancer, according to a notice from Steven Wolf Fine Arts, his gallery in San Francisco.

Read More »
Vanitas and decoration at Philadelphia Art Alliance

By libby | August 12, 2010 | 1 Comment

There’s more than meets the eye in Vanitas:Contemporary Reflections at the Philadelphia Art Alliance, which, true to its name, is about to expire–at the end of today (Aug. 12, 2010).

Read More »
Green installations at SCEE from Taiwan and U.S.

By libby | August 5, 2010 | 2 Comments

I got lucky Friday and caught the two Taiwanese artists installing out at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education for the show Go Green: New Environmental Art from Taiwan.

Read More »
Anita O’Day documentary–jazz at its best

By libby | August 3, 2010 | 0 Comments

If you don’t know the music of jazz singer/musical genius Anita O’Day, you can fill a big gap in your life by seeing the video Anita O’Day, The Life of a Jazz Singer (got it off of Netflix of course).

Read More »
PAFA’s Summer Surprises and more

By libby | August 1, 2010 | 1 Comment

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, in the past two years, has acquired work by five African American artists, four of them from the international and national art strataspheres. Their work looks spectacular in the show Summer Surprises, an exhibit that includes recent acquisitions of work by 11 artists, placing the 11 in the [...]

Read More »
Molly Mullahy at Bohdi Coffee

By libby | July 31, 2010 | 0 Comments

A tiny show of works on paper by Molly Mullahy at Bohdi Coffee on Head House Square has some pieces that strike gold.

Read More »
Let’s Go Enjoy Nature at Seraphin

By libby | July 22, 2010 | 2 Comments

The title of the exhibit Let’s Go Enjoy Nature! is pretty funny. There’s nothing natural about standing in a gallery looking at art–an imitation of life. But art is the sincerest form of flattery. And speaking of the joys of what’s unnatural, air conditioning in this beastly weather is just the ticket.

Read More »