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Explorer Ron Klein creates magic
By roberta | March 13, 2010 | 1 Comment
When we were in town for the art fairs, Cate and I made a stop at Howard Scott Gallery for the opening of my friend Ron Klein’s show of new work. Ron is a trained artist and long-time respected teacher, but he’s also a self-taught explorer and anthropologist whose trips to the Amazon, Madagascar, [...]
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Whitney Biennial – noisy, quiet, beautiful, ugly
By roberta | March 7, 2010 | 1 Comment
Now in its 75th go-round, The Whitney Biennial is still the big kahuna, the show every American artist wants to be in and every art lover wants to see. This year the career-boosting show includes no Philadelphia artist. We had representation in 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008 — so much for that trend. Instead, [...]
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College Art Association Annual Meeting in Chicago; random thoughts
By andrea kirsh | February 22, 2010 | 5 Comments
The plane to Chicago for the College Art Association (CAA) Annual Meeting left from a concourse I rarely use so I saw different art than usual as part of the airport’s Exhibition Program, which certainly provides the best distraction I’ve found at Philadelphia International Airport. Nick Kripal’s Swarm was a terra cotta landscape of an [...]
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Where can you find a good motel? Report from Baja
By guest writer | February 18, 2010 | 0 Comments
Another great travelog from my brother, Barry–Libby
It took your intrepid travelers four nights in three countries to find a decent motel room. It was hard, we covered a lot of ground, but we persevered and in the end did it.
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Slow slide show for a slippery snowy day
By roberta | February 10, 2010 | 3 Comments
From Culture Monster
The hypnotic video, “Things that Float” (see it after the jump or full screen at YouTube), is the creation of Stephen Nowlin, director for Art Center College of Design’s Williamson Gallery in Pasadena. It represents the first installment in a curated series organized by NASA Images, a division of the Internet Archive, which [...]
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LA art funding idea — How about in Philly?
By roberta | February 9, 2010 | 2 Comments
Did you know that since 1989 Los Angeles has funded their art agency via a 1% tax on hotel charges? According the the LA Times blog Culture Monster ” The total (amount of the municipal spending on the arts from that hotel tax) typically has come to about $10 million a year. Out of [...]
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Ida Applebroog ‘Monalisa’ at Hauser and Wirth
By andrea kirsh | February 4, 2010 | 1 Comment
For more than thirty years Ida Applebroog’s work has given us an unblinking view through the windows of America at home. Rejecting the bawdlerized domesticity of television, she has taken us behind the stage sets to reveal the disturbing unease, mis-communication, power struggles and violence of our private lives and their inevitable connections to events [...]
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Trend in arts fundraising – Kickstarter to the rescue
By roberta | February 3, 2010 | 4 Comments
I received two missives from two artists today, both of whom are now fundraising on Kickstarter for art projects that will be in Philadelphia. I love that there’s a trend in fundraising. For artists! Looking back in my emails I found several more Kickstarter projects as well. While it’s never easy to raise money this [...]
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Reclaiming Women’s Anatomy: The Visible Vagina at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art and David Nolan Gallery
By andrea kirsh | January 31, 2010 | 5 Comments
Explicit views of women’s pudenda have never been in short supply in New York City but one found them on 42nd St. (before Disney arrived), not in established art galleries. Inspired by Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues, Francis Naumann began collecting work for an exhibition and when it grew too large, enlisted David Nolan to join [...]
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Events in Philadelphia and Elsewhere
By andrea kirsh | | 0 Comments
An incomplete, biased and otherwise personal list of some of the events I hope to get to in the next two weeks:
Tuesday, Feb. 2, 6 pm YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES, a Seoul based web-art group, will be speaking at Temple where their work is part of Philagrafika.
126 AUDITORIUM, Temple University Architecture building, 1947 North 12th [...]
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