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Hot stuff this month at Sweatshop, Templeton, Grizzly and elsewhere

By libby and roberta | February 2, 2010

It’s a blizzard out there — with shows dropping like snowflakes on the Philly art scene.  Here’s some pictures and a few comments from our travels around town this past month.  All these venues have serious monthly (or bi-monthly) programs and with First Friday around the corner it’s time to get out and see some more. [...]

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What’s it Worth? Works on Paper at Arcadia–the show

By libby | November 22, 2009

This is part 2 of a 2 part post. Part 1 is about the talk delivered by show juror Joao Ribas. Ribas’ choices for the Arcadia Works on Paper exhibit raise issues of sharing, reproducibility and loss of copyright control. They raise disturbing questions about the value of all art at a time when works [...]

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What’s it Worth? Works on Paper at Arcadia–the talk

By libby | November 22, 2009

The prestigious Works on Paper show at Arcadia, which opened Wednesday, raises worthy questions about the value of art objects in the year 2009.

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Breaking News at Little Berlin.

By brandon joyce | October 6, 2009

Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a real sucker for hijacking idioms. That is, moving into a certain idiom— like Airport Retail, Las Vegas, Ancient Persia, Higher Education— and adopting its forms and format for parody, analysis, or even as a straightforward medium. It was this weakness that first grabbed me when I found [...]

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