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First Friday: We kvetch, we look, we clap

By libby and roberta | August 10, 2010

First Friday was hotter than Hell in the galleries, and we complained a lot. Every person who asked us how our summer was going got the same answer–shitty, hot.  But beyond weather, we have to say the art was hotter than we expected for the usually dead month of August.  Performance and installation art was [...]

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Book Reviews: ‘Vox Populi; We’re working on it’ and ‘Communities of Sense; Rethinking aesthetics and politics’

By andrea kirsh | July 25, 2010

Vox Populi; We’re working on it, Andrew Suggs, ed. (Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia) ISBN 978-0-615-31338-2 The art scene in Philadelphia is marked by an expanding community of artists, artists’ collectives and artist-run organizations, galleries, publications and events. Word gets out, but proper documentation is important for an accurate picture and for the future. In a [...]

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Weekly Update – Noisy satisfying Vox VI

By roberta | July 20, 2010

Vox Populi’s sixth annual emerging-artist roundup is a musclebound, unruly show. With 33 artists (almost half from the Philadelphia region) and close to 70 works, jurors William Powhida and Jennifer Dalton chose a noisy exhibit, literally and figuratively. It’s great, don’t miss it.

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Vox VI–objects of desire

By libby | July 15, 2010

Forget the summer doldrums of art. It was nowhere to be seen in the crush of people at Vox Populi Friday for its opening of Vox VI, the sixth of its annual emerging artist exhibitions held after the slew of MFA shows that mark the spring.

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Tripping across the pond – No Soul for Sale at the Tate Modern

By guest writer | May 30, 2010

Post by Marianne Bernstein In his book The Empathic Civilization, economist Jeremy Rifkin, investigates the evolution of empathy. Recent scientific studies suggest that we are wired for collaboration. Our natural impulse is to get along with our native kin; which over time have evolved from our fellow cave men, to our state, country, or religion, [...]

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Knight Foundation grant to artblog boosts Philadelphia art scene

By libby and roberta | March 17, 2010

We sent this press release out this morning. The grant involved was a small grant–$2,500–but it’s our grant and we love it to death. We hope it’s a precedent–for us and for Philadelphia!–l&r artblog, the Philadelphia region’s oldest and most complete source of online reviews, discussion and opinion on the visual arts, has been awarded [...]

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Weekly Update – September First Friday looks good

By roberta | September 1, 2009

This week’s Weekly has my First Friday roundup.  Below is the copy with pictures. Seripop, the Montreal screenprinting duo, blows into Space 1026 with a load of 400 rock band posters, books and zines to show and sell. Seripop, founded in 2002 by Chloe Lun and Yannick Desranleau, is the Space 1026 of Canada—an alternative [...]

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Videos 1: Bivouac at Vox

By libby | March 17, 2009

Bivouac at Vox Populi is dominated by videos. Visiting curator Fionn Meade has brought together an international group of artists for the exhibit, with work that also includes prints and drawings and installation.

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Gone but not forgotten–Jay Rhee video at Vox

By libby | March 11, 2009

Sometimes I see something, and a month later it’s still on my mind. So it is with Jay Rhee’s video series Swan, Polar Bear, Niagara, which showed at Vox Populi Gallery in February. Jay Rhee, clip of her series of videos Swan, Polar Bear, Niagara

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Vox Populi’s January shows

By roberta | January 22, 2009

Vox Populi‘s January show opened Jan. 9 and, carumba, it closes Feb. 1 — get over there quick because there’s good stuff! Vox Members Shows Julianna Foster’s From Morning On Julianna Foster‘s From Morning On continues the artist’s exploration of narrative through serial photography. This group of photographs shows gorgeous misty landscapes, decrepit mystery interiors [...]

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