By libby | November 22, 2009
This is part 2 of a 2 part post. Part 1 is about the talk delivered by show juror Joao Ribas.
Ribas’ choices for the Arcadia Works on Paper exhibit raise issues of sharing, reproducibility and loss of copyright control. They raise disturbing questions about the value of all art at a time when works on [...]
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By libby | November 22, 2009
The prestigious Works on Paper show at Arcadia, which opened Wednesday, raises worthy questions about the value of art objects in the year 2009.
This week’s Weekly has my review of Matthew Osborn at Pageant and Candida Hofer at Arcadia. Below is the copy with some pictures.
Matthew Osborn’s “My Bones – Your Skin” at Pageant and “Candida Hofer – Philadelphia” at Arcadia University are two shows that take you to the limits of 2-D art being shown locally. Osborn’s [...]
This week’s Weekly has my review of A Closer Look at Arcadia. Below’s my original copy restoring more than 200 words that were cut by the paper….and some pictures. And here’s Libby’s post on the show.
Linda Yun’s Incident. Here’s the little video I made and put at flickr as an experiment in [...]
By libby | November 29, 2008
Linda Yun, Incident, 2008, mylar, fan, sound, reflected light and color, dimensions variable, as installed in A Closer Look 7 at Arcadia.
Usually sensory experiences are things I think of as juicy. And I can sense there’s something sensory going on in the work of all the artists in A Closer Look 7 at Arcadia. But [...]
Cover of Imprint with Eatock’s Holley Portrait, made by a verbal self-description laid out to follow the lines of his thumbprint. Each copy of the book is marked with Eatock’s autograph thumbprint on the spine. He invites others to make Holley Portraits and posts them on his website.Daniel Eatock; Extra Medium at Arcadia University Art [...]
This week’s Weekly has my fall guide piece about what’s hot this fall in the art scene. Below’s the copy with some pictures. More at flickr And for pictures of the ICA show, here and for the Perelman building here.
PAIRED DOWNExhibits on music, food and lace come in twos.Two is the operative number [...]
Great article on Olafur Eliasson by Dorothy Spears in today’s NY Times. Eliasson, who created a “melting moments” color environment here at Arcadia University art gallery in 2004 is having a major retrospective at SF Moma that opens next Saturday. The show — with 20 installations including new work — will travel to New York [...]
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This week’s Weekly has my review of Arcadia’s Works on Paper exhibit. Here’s the art page and below is the copy with more pictures. As usual, there’s more pix at flickr and here’s Libby’s post on the show.
Arcadia FireThe tiny out-of-the-way gallery hosts the “it” show of the season.
Installation shot. As usual the [...]
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three untitled faces invented in cyberspace by Nils Orth
This year’s Arcadia Works on Paper biennial is one great show, and you need to commit a date for it on your calendar or it may blow right by you. It’s only up through April 25.
For starters it’s the anti-matter version of Wyeth. To put it another [...]
