Long before newspapers, stories were told around the campfire or written in pictures on cave walls. Stories of victory and defeat in war were transmitted by runners carrying the news. Letters from soldiers — albeit censored — also told stories of war, and then peace. We have a more sophisticated way of telling [...]
By libby | February 4, 2010
We’ve been making some of the rounds, talking to a variety of Philagrafika artists in The Graphic Unconscious and Out of Print exhibits. Here are some tidbits, mostly recollected, but I noted when the conversation is based on notes.
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By libby | January 29, 2010
I’m dashing toff to Temple Gallery for the artist’s talk inconjunction with the Philagrafika show there. The talk, featuring artists Carl Pope, Frencesc Ruiz, Barthelemy Toguo and YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES, plus Curators Sheryl Conkelton and Jose Roca, sounds pretty interesting.
Tyler School of Art’s gallery director, Sheryl Conkelton, is leaving! Oh, horrors.
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 [...]
Installation view of Volume Attempts; the space of books at Tyler Gallery
The premise of the extraordinary exhibition, Volume Attempts: The Space of Books at Tyler School of Art’s Temple Gallery in Old City (through October 25, 2008) is that books are more than passive containers for ideas. Rather they are malleable objects with which [...]
Photo by Hillel Hoffman. Roberta; Greg Murphy, assistant dean for development; John Coll, project superintendent; and Libby, looking up at the soaring atrium ceiling.
Tyler School of Art has been Temple University’s best kept secret division for years. But now that the scrappy little art school–arguably the best incubator for new artists in a [...]
Nick Paparone, 400 Horsepower #1, airbrushed, laminated Cindy Crawford poster, poster hangers
Andria Bibiloni’s self-portrait as banana-weilding muchacha
My favorite coincidence this month is a pair of images by two very different artists with very different intents, both of them playing off the same kind of pop culture imagery.
On the top we have Nick Paparone’s rejiggering of [...]
By libby | January 10, 2008
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Look at Libby and Roberta struggle to understand work by Canadian artist Damian Moppett at Temple Gallery, the latest episode from our ongoing series of gallery visits on video. Check it out, and check out the show, which is definitely worth the time to grapple with unfamiliar, but excellent [...]
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You are Beautiful project intervention along Second Street
First, it was my roommate’s ironing board, which buckled under the strain of the vigorous pressing I exacted upon my first-day-of-work-suit. Next, one of my underwires mysteriously loosed itself in our washer, arresting the machine at mid-cycle for days. And then there was the [...]
