Libby and Roberta take you for an insider's look at art in galleries and museums in Philadelphia in their mercifully short and entertaining video series created with David Kessler, videographer extraordinaire. Relevant today, the videos deserve five stars!
We make our TV debut tomorrow, 8 p.m., on PhillyCAM, a public access TV station that will begin airing episodes of the ever popular videos series Look! It’s Libby and Roberta.
PhillyCAM, aka Philadelphia Community Access Media, cablecasts on Comcast channels 66 and 966. Channel 66 reaches anyone in Philadelphia with Comcast’s basic cable service. And 966 reaches those with digital subscriptions.
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Yuichi Hibi at Gallery 339; Andrew Pinkham at Silicon Gallery; Caroline Santa at Tiger Strikes Asteroid.
Thanks, as always, to video guru David Kessler who once again worked his magic for us!
In the latest edition of our video series Look! It’s Libby and Roberta, we take a look at Cezanne and Beyond at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Videographer David Kessler is the wizard with the camera and so much more!!!
Look! It’s Libby and Roberta – Cézanne and Beyond from Look! it’s Libby and Roberta on Vimeo.
Thanks to our video guru, artiste extraordinaire David Kessler for this magical trip (if we do say so ourselves) through Joshua Mosley‘s and Anthony Campuzano‘s shows at ICA and through the micro-film sets of the Quay Brothers at Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery. You can see these shows at ICA until March 29; and at Rosenwald-Wolf until April 9. See previous videos in this series on our video page (link above in the nav bar).
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 work.
Our video guru David Kessler captured it all and makes the magic happen. Hey, there’s still time to catch his work up at Bambi Gallery until Jan. 20. We didn’t review it because we love him to death and it’s hard to give the show a credible smooch, which it deserves, given all the connections we have, but do go see it. Here’s a link to David’s popular Shadow World videos. And here’s a link to the archive of all the Look! episodes.
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 Kessler captured it all and makes the magic happen. Here’s a link to David’s popular Shadow World videos. And here’s a link to the archive of all the Look! episodes.
This fine episode from our ongoing series of gallery visits takes us to the Crane Art Center for Metaphoric Vinyl at Nexus and Charmaine Caire’s solo show Then and Now at Kelly/Weber Gallery.
Our video guru David Kessler is a wizard who captures it all and makes the magic happen. Here’s a link to David’s popular Shadow World videos. And here’s a link to all the Look! It’s Libby and Roberta episodes.
Not covered in the video but also good to see are works by William Cromar, Michael Grothusen, Judy Taylor and others.
As always, the building itself is an amazing experience and a reminder of why prison is not such a good place!
The video by our fave video guru David Kessler captures it all. Here’s a link to his popular Shadow World videos. And here’s a link to all the Look! It’s Libby and Roberta episodes.
We love the Indian miniatures we’ve been seeing in Gallery 227 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, so when we saw the gallery now had The Book of War: The Free Library of Philadelphia’s Mughal Razmnama Folios, we had to pay a visit. The 25 book pages on display are elaborately illustrated folios are from a single Mughal manuscript, the Razmnama (literally, “Book of War”), dated to 1598–99.
While we were there, PMA Curator of Indian and Himalayan Art Darielle Mason showed up and explained to us (and to you too if you watch this episode) just what we were looking at.
The exhibit shows a cultural exchange in action between Persians and Indians, Muslims and Hindus. For the first time since 1923, all 25 of the Free Library’s pages are being shown together, up through Dec. 9.
Speaking of mughals, our favorite mughal of video David Kessler captures it all in one fell swoop. Here’s a link to his popular Shadow World videos. And here’s a link to all the Look! It’s Libby and Roberta episodes.
In episode 15 of our video series Look! It’s Libby and Roberta, we brood a little with those post World War II German titans Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke and Anslem Kiefer. The three are showing in Notations part III, the last in a series of exhibitions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art that explore issues of contemporary art making and ideas. Curator of Contemporary Art Carlos Basualdo carries us beyond the U.S. border with his choices at the same time that he displays the significance of the PMA’s collection.
We can never thank our video hero, David Kessler, too many times, so thanks David for making these videos. Here’s a post from earlier this week on his recent fame. We hope fortune will follow, because he deserves it. Meanwhile, we count ourselves lucky.
