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Events in Philadelphia and Elsewhere

By andrea kirsh | January 31, 2010

An incomplete, biased and otherwise personal list of some of the events I hope to get to in the next two weeks:
Tuesday, Feb.  2, 6 pm YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES, a Seoul based web-art group, will be speaking at Temple where their work is part of Philagrafika.
126 AUDITORIUM, Temple University Architecture building,  1947 North 12th [...]

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Finley and Muse at Haverford and Hollis Frampton at International House

By andrea kirsh | November 23, 2009

Imaginative Feats Literally Presented; three fables for video projection, an exhibition of Jeanne C.  Finley and John Muse’ work is on view at Haverford College’s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery through Dec. 11. Muse teaches at Haverford and Finley at California College of Art and they have collaborated for many years. Like all fables, theirs deal with [...]

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Philadelphia Notes

By andrea kirsh | February 9, 2009

An artists’ demolition derby in a still from Aaron Rose’s Beautiful Losers (2008)Lives of the Artists (ca. 2000)
I asked Tyler Kline to join me at the January 21 International House screening of two films on art/skateboarding cultures since he comes out of a Portland skateboarding and art scene of a younger generation than Aaron [...]

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The Artist as Subject and Curator

By andrea kirsh | January 19, 2009

Upcoming Art and Art Films at International House
A piece from 2005 by Margaret Kilgallen, one of the artists to be featured in a film at I-House.International House has always been one of Philadelphia’s best venues for film (a hidden one, to judge from the small regular attendance) and they’ve been adding art, courtesy of InLiquid.com [...]

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Around Philadelphia: Paintings and Performance

By andrea kirsh | March 20, 2008

John Zurier Night 23 (2007), distemper on linen, 30″ x 20″
There’s fast painting and there’s slow painting; and some of what looks fast is actually the product of long labor. Two exhibitions in Old City show slow painting which reveals its labor, and both require slow looking.
Just as the eyes must light-adjust to see anything [...]

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