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On Hidden City bus tour, Philly sparkles

By libby | June 11, 2009

I was trying to wrap my arms and mind around Hidden City, the arts events through June organized by Perigrine Arts, in off-the-radar, fabulous buildings around the city. The events are by a mix of international and Philadelphia artists, and the festival (I think it’s fair to call it one), like any such event, has [...]

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Anri Sala work in Hidden City Philadelphia

By guest writer | June 4, 2009

Mari Shaw developed and curated the showing of the Anri Sala video piece for Hidden City. The piece opens June 10 at the Royal Theater on South Street. We were particularly interested since we had seen Sala’s work at Temple Gallery in 2005, and Andrea had seen his work at the Irish Museum of Modern [...]

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Weekly Update — Hidden City Philadelphia, South Street Galleries and more

By roberta | May 13, 2009

This week’s Weekly has my summer art roundup.  Below is my copy with some pictures.  
Go spelunking for art this summer in venues hiding in plain sight like Girard College, the Disston Saw Works, 23rd Street Armory and South Street boutiques.  Then, get out of town for new art in the woods and a reminder [...]

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Volunteers needed-apply at Hidden City!

By jacob hellman | April 8, 2009

 
You may have caught word of the month-long event called Hidden City — Peregrine Arts has been planning it for years (literally), and artblog covered a trial performance at Girard College last May.  Finally, in late May and June, we’ll get to see a slew of site-based works and performances commissioned for normally inaccessible spaces, [...]

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Hidden City unveiled-Festival starts May 30

By libby and roberta | March 30, 2009

Continuing a recent tradition in Philadelphia arts, Hidden City, the month-long arts festival, will open up nine historically-significant yet underappreciated buildings this June for use as backdrops for performance and visual arts.  (Eastern State Penitentiary, a ruin once on the brink of extinction,  is the first such endangered and underused building we remember housing art [...]

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