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Clay shows begin–Ai Weiwei at Arcadia; bodies at the Mutter
By libby | March 14, 2010 | 0 Comments
Just when you thought that you were finally making headway through the riches of the Philagrafika shows, 90 clay shows and events are starting to open all around town. The multiple shows are in conjunction with the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference in Philadelphia from March 21 to April 3. [...]
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Fare at the NY art fairs – the Armory
By libby and roberta | | 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
By libby and roberta | | 2 Comments
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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Explorer Ron Klein creates magic
By roberta | March 13, 2010 | 3 Comments
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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Art in Chinatown north – the Good, the Bad and the Slippery
By david muenzer | March 12, 2010 | 0 Comments
Vox Populi’s Dead Flowers—guest curated by Lia Gangitano of PARTICIPANT INC, New York—invites us to consider the spirit of the underground through little known director Timothy Carey. A vintage poster for The World’s Greatest Sinner! at the entrance of the exhibition proudly announces Carey’s film as—and suggests that any other work in the show should [...]
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A Celebration of the Visual Arts: Art Month Sydney
By stefan zebrowski-rubin | | 0 Comments
On a cool overcast March morning, I navigated the streets of the heavily residential Elizabeth Bay neighborhood to find Michael Reid’s gallery and talk to the owner about his role as co-creator (with Vasili Kaliman of Kaliman Gallery) of Art Month Sydney. The initiative, now in its first year, celebrates the visual arts in Sydney [...]
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Art and technology in Kensington
By tiernan alexander | | 4 Comments
Much of the work around the Kensington area this month questions the divide between technology and artist. First up is the Brad Troemel Pre-career Retrospective at Extra Extra Gallery. The gallery directors curated the show entirely from Troemel’s website selecting images of work, installations, and videos and installing the show without consulting the artist in [...]
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Old City First Friday rises from the snow
By emily friedman | | 0 Comments
With temperatures rising, it almost felt like spring last Friday while I roamed around Old City, taking in several First Friday shows. My first stop was Sound and Silence at Artist’s House, which runs through March 27. The show is a beautiful, varied collection of works – mostly oil paintings, but also sculptures and lithographs [...]
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Lots of Libbys and Robertas
By libby and roberta | | 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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Enrique Chagoya’s The Headache – Gone from Rosenbach, now at The Print Center
By roberta | March 11, 2010 | 1 Comment
Enrique Chagoya spent months working with Cindy Etinger’s studio and Silicon Fine Art Prints to make “The Headache,” a complicated multi-process digital print which is part of the Philagrafika festival. Chagoya’s print — a social commentary about President Obama and his health care headaches — is based on a work owned by the Rosenbach [...]
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