This summer heat’s hard to endure so we’re going to tell you about a trip we took to nice shady cool Abington Art Center. Abington has this really great sculpture garden and generally we make that trip at least once a year. There’s a new show in the garden and woods that just [...]
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.
John Vick is a curatorial fellow in the Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He has a Master’s degree in Art History from the University of Pennsylvania.
Successful artworks seem to fall under one of two humors – they can call attention to themselves overtly or be so plainly understated [...]
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 [...]
Musings on the offerings from Vox, Screening and Copy as seen last First Friday.
VOX POPULIBag lady pouring Mountain Dew but not for you in Nick Paparone’s installation at Vox.
Winner of the P.T. Barnum Best Show on Earth award this month is Nick Paparone. His two bag-headed Daisy Mae’s pouring Mountain Dew into trash [...]
Meetinghouse Road was closed thanks to fallen trees after this week’s violent storm. I almost turned around and went home. After all, I’ve been lost before around the Abington Art Center.But feeling like I hated to have wasted my time getting there, I went to the next corner and voila! I knew where I was [...]
Nick Paparone and Jamie Dillon on “Born to Be Wild”, which will be part of the Abington Sculpture Park for at least two years.
On Sunday I helped fellow Copy gallerists Nick Paparone and Jamie Dillon christen their new outdoor sculpture, Born to Be Wild at Abington Art Center’s Sculpture Park. Born to Be Wild is [...]
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This week’s Weekly has my review of two emerging artist shows — Street Button and Isskustvo Transmagica Provinces Animamina. Below is the copy with some pictures. More photos at flicker (street button, isskustvo ). And here are Libby’s street button post and Libby’s Isskustvo post. Happy Happy Joy ToyNew sculpture emphasizes friendliness.
Jesse Greenberg’s installation at [...]
By libby | October 7, 2007
Adam Cooper on guitar in the one-night performance/installation Breakfast at Tiffany’s, at Copy Gallery
Hey, First Friday was great–at least all that we saw of it, which wasn’t much given Roberta has the sniffles and I was plain old tired.
Here’s what we saw:Copy Gallery had a pretty funny one-night performance. Adam Cooper, tented in a hilarious [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged adam cooper, alexandra newmark, charles hobbs, copy gallery, drive by press, elsa shadley, joseph velazquez, leah bailis, nick paparone, space 1026, vox populi gallery |
This week’s Weekly has my Spring art roundup. Below is the copy with some pictures. More images at flickr here. And see some “before” shots of the new Vox Populi and new Black Floor/Copy, sill under construction when I visited a couple weeks ago.Be Still My Aching ArtPhilly’s scene retools for spring.
The [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged 222 gallery, annette monnier, art syndicate, black floor, copy gallery, golden brick, ica, karen kilimnik, nick paparone, pafa, pageant gallery, terry adkins, vox populi gallery |
