By libby | April 24, 2009
Photographer Alec Soth–the man who personally redefined Minneapolis as an art mecca, came to Penn April 22 to talk about what he does.
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By libby | April 23, 2009
Kehinde Wiley’s first name rhymes with windy.
Alec Soth’s second name rhymes with both.
Last week they were both in town to talk about their art work and to listen to their names mangled over and over.
By libby | March 19, 2009
At a moment when black power has new meaning, and bell bottoms and lava lamps have had a resurgence, artist Barkley Hendricks came to Penn, sporting dark glasses layered atop a blue beret. His late afternoon talk yesterday comes in advance of the fall opening of his Birth of Cool exhibit at the Pennsylvania Academy [...]
Hello artblog readers. This week’s overload of fabulous activities has even us flummoxed. We wish we could do it all! With three talks at Penn in two days, we want to give Penn the Yakkity Yak Award.
TUESDAY MARCH 17
Gary Hill–NOTE: AS OF 2 PM MONDAY, MAR. 16, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
Hill [...]
New residencies for an artist and a writer, with subsidized rent for for living and working space near Penn, were announced by Kelly Writers House and Penn Design.
The ArtsEdge residencies will provide shared living and working space for an “emergent” writer and artist for a year. The goal is to inspire interdisciplinary exploration (and to [...]
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A view of the Acconci exhibit at Slought, featuring a pink table designed by Acconci Studio and built by the guys out at Art Making Machine Studios.
I’m sure the irony wasn’t lost on Vito Acconci, finding himself an honored guest at the University of Pennsylvania, just about nine years after the Penn rejected a radical [...]
This year’s crop of graduating students at PAFA and Penn are starting things earlier than ever. Both schools have soirees this Friday, Feb. 8 to see their work in advance of Spring’s MFA and undergrad student shows.
PAFA:Open Studio NightFriday Feb. 8 (rain date Feb. 15)5:30-8 pmHamilton Building, 128 N. Broad St. (use [...]
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By libby | November 25, 2007
This in from Penn Design: LIVE NUDE ART BENEFIT AUCTION, UPENN
And this in from the Print Center: WARNING: Graphic Content
A contact high (have you walked down the street in Philadelphia, lately?) must have inspired two rather conservative organizations to play with titillating come-ons for their auctions. Not that sex and art is anything new. It’s [...]
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By libby | October 15, 2007
Richard Serra at Gagosian in 2006.
Sculptor Richard Serra, whose Brobdingnagian barricades and looming steles still manage to stun–even now that we know what to expect–is speaking Thursday, Oct. 25 at the University of Pennsylvania for the department of Penn Design, Meyerson Hall, B1, 5:30 p.m.
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