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Las Vegas Studio: Images from Venturi and Brown

By brandon joyce | March 30, 2010

Las Vegas Studio: Images from Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown at the The MOCA Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles. Learning from Las Vegas was a real watershed moment— or maybe I should say a real Waterloo moment— in architectural history. This book was the first, fully-formulated backlash against the dictates of Modernist architecture, however [...]

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Chemistry is Us: Philly’s seductive new science museum for grown-ups

By andrea kirsh | October 18, 2008

Periodic Table designed by Theodore Gray; a large multi-image version is included in the new museum at the Chemical Heritage Foundation. If the word chemistry provokes a reaction somewhere between boredom and fear, think again. The Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) at 3rd and Chesnut has opened a new museum designed, as they put it, for [...]

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Weaving the new reality

By libby | October 13, 2008

Gabriel Kuri, Trinity (voucher), handwoven wool Gobelin (woven in Guadalajara) As soon as I saw Ed Ruscha’s Industrial Strength Sleep tapestry at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, this piece by Mexican artist Gabriel Kuri popped into my mind. I had seen it last year at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, in an exhibit of work [...]

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Words, words, noise and a melon on First Friday

By libby and roberta | October 6, 2008

First Friday was full of goodies. We started at the Fab. Here’s some pictures and a short video and some gossip at the bottom so be sure to scroll down. Ed Ruscha at the Fabric Workshop last Friday night Ed Ruscha was looking like a little leprachaun in front of a packed audience at the [...]

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Weekly Update – Ed Ruscha’s woven words at the Fabric Workshop and Museum

By roberta | September 24, 2008

Ed RuschaIn collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, PhiladelphiaIndustrial Strength Sleep, 2007Merino wool, cotton, and Trevira CS tapestry; edition of 7109 1/2 x 276 inches (278.1 x 701 cm)The Fabric Workshop and Museum, PhiladelphiaPhoto: Aaron Igler and Will Brown Last June the Fabric Workshop and Museum was bounced from its home at 1315 Cherry [...]

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