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Museum of Meow @FLUXspace

By roberta | July 1, 2010

It’s hard to say what’s more outrageous, the kitty porn videotape, the miniature fire escape stolen from Sarah Sze, or Xerxes the cat doing an unscheduled performance in the litter boxes at the opening.

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Weekly Update – art list of summer, just do it

By roberta | June 16, 2010

Art Gallery at City Hall The new 700 square ft. Art Gallery at City Hall — with high ceilings, fixed walls, and lots of natural light – brings art into the seat of power like never before.  The brainchild of Gary Steuer, head of the Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy, Art Gallery at [...]

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Tripping across the pond – No Soul for Sale at the Tate Modern

By guest writer | May 30, 2010

Post by Marianne Bernstein In his book The Empathic Civilization, economist Jeremy Rifkin, investigates the evolution of empathy. Recent scientific studies suggest that we are wired for collaboration. Our natural impulse is to get along with our native kin; which over time have evolved from our fellow cave men, to our state, country, or religion, [...]

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Weekly Update – Tim Eads’ Churn baby Churn

By roberta | May 13, 2010

Some art begs to be touched. Other pieces want to be sat on, like Vito Acconci’s public-art benches at the airport and Scott Burton’s stone seating in Battery Park City. Now, along comes Tim Eads’ viewer-powered butter churn and toast maker—public art with an incentive. You, the viewer, sit on the piece and pedal, and [...]

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Tate Modern invites FLUX and Vox

By libby | April 27, 2010

FLUXspace is taking a kitty moon bounce to the Tate Modern for a wild weekend in May. It us one of Two Philadelphia collaborative galleries–the other is Vox Populi–that will be in the May 14 to 16 festival, a redux of sorts of the No Soul for Sale festival of independent art organizations, part of [...]

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Fired up about clay–we take a tour

By libby and roberta | April 2, 2010

We talk too much. So when we go out looking at art, we end up talking to everyone we see, which means we see less than we ought to. Imagine therefore how we jumped at the chance to take a bus ride and see lots of the NCECA clay shows on an enforced schedule. Otherwise [...]

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Isolated Fictions at FLUXspace–our collective memory

By libby | March 2, 2010

You have a few days left to get to Isolated Fictions, an evocative exhibit at FLUXspace of work related to the publication of The North Georgia Gazette, a beautiful reprint of an 1821 shipboard journal, by Chicago’s Green Lantern Press.

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FLUX Re-task picture post

By roberta | September 27, 2009

Here’s a few pictures from last night’s Re-task up at FLUXspace.  The event was packed and there were a lot of really creative things being made and a lot of very good energy.  I have more photos at flickr.

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Art Trade Show time for alt spaces

By libby and roberta | June 16, 2009

Hello art conventioneers, if you’re in New York or up for a trip there, check out the X-Initiative’s No Soul for Sale Festival of Independents, a week-long confab (June 24-28), with performances, exhibitions, and whatever the 30 galleries from around the world want to present. Sounds wild.

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Salad Days and TNPPSSF at FLUX

By kelani nichole | June 12, 2009

Lastnight I had the pleasure of participating in the ‘Inaugural and Terminal Meeting of the North Philadelphia Puberty Survivors Support Forum’ (TNPPSSF) held at FLUXspace in North Kensington. This ‘Support Group’ doubled as a disguised gallery talk, led by John O’Donnell the Connecticut-based artist who’s work titled ‘Salad Days, An Installage Celebrating Juvenescence‘ is on [...]

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