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YOUR LAST CHANCE IS TOMORROW: Dirt on Delight

By annette monnier | June 20, 2009

The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia If the art world was a High School and the students in it were the mediums in which an artist could work, video, sculpture in general, and installation would currently be vying for the title of coolest kid. Each medium fashionably dressed with a hint of outsider rebellion even [...]

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Jane Irish’s poem pots at Locks gallery

By roberta | March 1, 2009

We’ve told you about Jane Irish’s ceramic vases before (see posts here and here). Now on view at ICA in Dirt on Delight and recently at Locks Gallery, Irish’s pots, with their beautiful designs and colorful paintings embellishing their chunky and earth-bound selves are both beauty and the beast. The beast is the words — [...]

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Dirt on Delight at the ICA

By libby | February 27, 2009

[This is part 2 of a 2 part article that first appeared in the March issue of Ceramics Monthly. Click on the Dirt on Delight tag at the bottom of the post to find part 1.] Not everything in the exhibit is explicitly about body and bodily functions. Numerous pieces revel in clay’s historic use [...]

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Dirt on Delight at the ICA, for Ceramics Monthly, part 1

By libby | February 27, 2009

[My review of the clay exhibit Dirt on Delight at the ICA was written for Ceramics Monthly, and appears in the March 2009 issue. This is part one of two parts. Roberta also wrote a Weekly Update on the show]. The bitter cold didn’t deter the more than 600 people who attended the opening of [...]

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