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Art, With A Chance of Attitude

Little Berlin’s group show, Forecast, places work by newly admitted members of the collective alongside pieces by founding members. As the press release notes, with a moderating dash of sarcasm: “Get a glimpse into the future through the artwork we make. Hence the clever title, FORECAST.” Indeed, the show gives a sense of what’s happening—some [...]

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On the Fringe of Fiber at City Hall

On the Fringe of Fiber, the fiber show on now view at City Hall is a break-through show for the Art in City Hall program of bringing Philadelphia art into that dim public space. Two things have made the difference.   Martha Savery-Kahn, untitled, book, glass, paint

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Little Berlin pushes collaboration buttons

When I ran into Martha Savery at the opening of A Closer Look at Arcadia she was very excited about the show at her space, Little Berlin. There’s a collaboration in the Arcadia show (by long-time collaborators Tom Kocot and Marcia Hatton) and Savery had fostered some collaborative pieces at LB–between sound artist Michael McDermott [...]

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nuts and berries: objects and not

Little Berlin 1801 N. Howard St., Philadelphia.Friday, December 14th- ? A wall of found and manipulated objects, priced from low to “priceless” nuts and berries: objects and not bills itself as a “visual agreement between daniel petraitis and martha savery” and each would-be capital letter was printed lower case as it is reproduced here. I [...]

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