By libby | October 1, 2009
Beautiful Human at Haverford College’s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery is a small show with big thoughts that burble and pop as the works by five artists hold a conversation with each other about identity and imagination. The show’s points of view zoom from imaginative self-identificaton to masks and costumes as tribal and cultural signifiers to the [...]
At around 8 pm last night I got an email from Rob Matthews alerting me to a new project of his–a street giveaway of two drawings from 2003. The artist had stapled the works (inside plastic envelopes for safe keeping) to telephone poles in his Northern Liberties neighborhood. Wow– a treasure hunt for [...]
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We dithered and waffled on what to see in our day trip to New York last week finally settling on shows in Chelsea and Soho that talked to our concerns about beauty in contemporary art. Beauty is back of course. That’s nothing any observer of the scene has missed by now, with gorgeous public [...]
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Lots of Philadelphians heading to New York to install their works in galleries all over town. Here’s what we’re excited about. There’s probably more and let us know if we missed you.
ROB MATTHEWS
Rob MatthewsThe artist’s cousin (Dan), graphite on paper
Rob Matthews has his solo debut in New York at Daniel Cooney. Show, [...]
A drawing by Matt Fisher in The Drawing Narrative, the exhibit now up at Jenny Jaskey Gallery; photo taken by Robert Fallon
In the middle of artist Matt Fisher’s talk last week, I thought, gee, this is interesting. So I pulled out a pad and started taking notes.
Matt was speaking at Untitled, Jenny Jaskey Gallery’s [...]
This week’s Weekly has my summer art roundup. Below is the copy with some pictures. More photos at flickr.
Philadelphia’s art scene doesn’t take summer vacation anymore.
Miguel Luciano, interactive piece based on Puerto Rican saying that (loosely translated) means that children can be heard when hens pee (which they never do).
Miguel Luciano’s [...]
By libby | February 22, 2008
Charles Burns’ Black Hole is going to be made into a movie, and the director is…
Check out this item in the Hollywood Reporter, passed along to us by none other than Rob Matthews, the king of Philly art gossip.
Tracy Matthews, quoted by Rob after she read the item: “Charlie Burns?”
A total Hollywood [...]
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Great gossipy Philly sale
Drawing by Randall Sellers, Richard Heller Gallery’s booth at Pulse Art Fair Miami.
artblog got an email blast from artist Randall Sellers with his latest news: “Takashi Murakami bought two of my drawings at the Pulse Art Fair in Miami last weekend!!!
“(Richard Heller, my longtime dealer in Santa Monica, had a few drawings [...]
This week’s Weekly has my review of Rob Matthews’s Knoxville Girl and Marilyn Holsing’s Young Marie at Gallery Joe. Below is the copy with some pictures. More photos at flickr. And here’s Libby’s post on the show and our Look! episode.Gray’s AnatomyTwo shows explore moral ambiguity.
Rob Matthews, Knoxville Girl, the Deposition, at [...]
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This episode from our ongoing series of gallery visits takes us to the Gallery Joe for the narrative works of Rob Matthews and Marilyn Holsing.
Our video guru David [...]
