This week’s Weekly has my review of 1:5:25 at Slought Foundation. Below is my copy with some pictures.
Video is a huge part of the art world and many galleries now include the medium as part of their regular programming. Shows of all video art are less frequent although they too occur. Slought’s “1:5:25” is an all-video show curated [...]
Gary Hill touched down in Philadelphia last week to install his show at Slought and to participate in a panel at the opening with poets/artists George Quasha and Charles Stein, who are buddies of his. The two have just published a book about Hill, An Art of Limina: Gary Hill’s Works and Writing (2009, Ediciones [...]
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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 [...]
This week’s Weekly has my review of Peter Weibel: Rewriter at Slought. Below is the copy with some pictures.
Austrian artist Peter Weibel’s video and text art from the 1960s and ’70s, now on view at the Slought Foundation, fits perfectly in today’s concept-driven and media-obsessed art world. The work’s refusal to be [...]
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By libby | January 2, 2009
Canan Tolon, Emergency Exit
The array of Turkish contemporary art now on exhibit at Slought Foundation serves as a fine reminder that if we don’t look beyond our own shores, we are missing some important ideas and failing to grapple to with experiences–at least vicariously–that are important to humankind in general.
At the opening of In and [...]
Umberto Boccioni, caricature of the Futurist serata held in Treviso on 2 June 1911, reproduced in Uno, due, tre, 17 June 1911.
The Center for Italian Studies and the History of Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania and the Slought Foundation are holding a two-day international conference Futurism: Rupture and Tradition, on Friday, November [...]
The art schools spring a passel of students on the world every April, May and June. I’ve seen a lot of stuff. But here are a few things and moments that stood out in my mind–
The Penn MFA thesis show at the Crane, curated by Fleisher-Ollman’s William Pym, had its share of work [...]
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 [...]
