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Grand Ballroom of Doom

By October 24, 2022
In a large 3-panel comic from the Grand Ballroom of Doom series, a man from an apocalyptic future America views the era of Austin Powers as the beginning of the end.

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A black and white photo of a well-kept, one-story building with a sign on it announcing “Whitesboro Head Start.” The building is fronted by some ornamental shrubs and a flag pole (no flag). To the left of the photo is a grey box with white letters explaining what the building is.

Wendel White at Swarthmore, RAIR Resident Artists, Main Line Art Center and Roberto Lugo, Tommy Orange and Tailinh Agoyo at the Free Library, plus Philly Photo Day
In a gallery with a concrete floor, two colorful and ephemeral sculptures hang close to each other, by strings and chains attached to the ceiling. The right piece seems figural and the left sculpture seems like a net or bag.

‘Death Card’ rises at Big Ramp (and Information Space) from the ashes of Pilot Projects
A model of a coal stockpile, made from carved anthracite coal shows rail lines surrounding a mound of coal, representing coal mining processes in earlier days.

Andrea Krupp’s ‘Dark Matter’ at the National Museum of Industrial History
A woman sits in a chair, under a bright spotlight. She’s wearing a white shirt and a red patterned tie and is holding her right arm up, like she’s saying “Here!” Her mouth is open and she is talking. In back of her is a projection of a man in a photo from the distant past, who has a bushy mustache, and a suit coat and a vest with buttons missing.

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