Tag Archive "asian-arts-initiative"
Office Hours – Zoe Strauss at the PMA
“What the hell?” sums up Zoe Strauss’s rationale for choosing one of three paintings from the archives of the Philadelphia Museum of Art to hang in her temporary office at the museum. This could easily also be the reaction of unsuspecting passers by to one of Strauss’s billboard photos. Countless people must by now have stumbled on the citywide series of billboard prints while dozing off on SEPTA, crossing Gray’s Ferry Ave., or looking up from their iPhones. As the familiar city landscape reveals a less familiar face or empty storefront pictured where an advertisement once was, viewers have been ... More » »
News – Joan Mitchell grants, Whitney Biennial list, Helen Frankenthaler and more…
News Joan Mitchell Foundation grants The Joan Mitchell Foundation announced its 2011 Painters and Sculptors Grant Program recipients — 25 artists who will each receive $25,000. Among the winners are Philadelphians Virgil Marti, Jackie Tileston, and former Philly artist Anabeth Rosen. Congratulations! Here’s the full list: Diana Al-Hadid, Brooklyn, NY Nicole Awai, Brooklyn, NY Keith Benjamin, Cleves, OH William Cordova, Miami, FL Cicely Cottingham, West Orange, NJ Florine Demosthene, Brooklyn, NY Daniel Douke, Fallbrook, CA Julie Green, Corvallis, OR Tommy Hartung, Ridgewood, NY Janelle Iglesias, Provincetown, MA Gary Kachadourian, Baltimore, MD Simone Leigh, Brooklyn, NY Andrew Lenaghan, Brooklyn, NY Anne Lindberg, Kansas City, MO Virgil ... More » »
“Inscrutable” at the Asian Arts Initiative
Inscrutable is a two-venue show. This review focuses on the half of the show that is at the Asian Arts Initiative. A review of the half that is at the University of Delaware space at the Crane Arts Center will be reviewed, also today, in Roberta’s Weekly Update. Although the shows mostly have pieces that are different, there is some overlap.–r&l Inscrutable, an exhibition happening concurrently at the Asian Arts Initiative and the University of Delaware at the Crane, explores issues facing Asian artists such as globalization and multiculturalism.
Green installations at SCEE from Taiwan and U.S.
I got lucky Friday and caught the two Taiwanese artists installing out at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education for the show Go Green: New Environmental Art from Taiwan.
Artists at Work: ‘Muralmorphosis’ and ‘Inside the Painter’s Studio’
Last month I attended the first screening of Muralmorphosis, the short animated film documenting the mural project of the same name curated by Sean Stoops (and organized by the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program) at 2nd and Race Streets during the 2009 Fringe Festival last September.
Hironaka video graces Asian Arts and passersby
There’s a fabulous piece of public art–a video projected on a window on Vine Street–good enough to make you slow down your car and forget to drive it.
Migration stories from Siona Benjamin and Asian Arts with InLiquid
Siona Benjamin, See No Evil, in which the artist puts Queen Esther in her own shoes. We all have some dreamy idea of a Cheers kind of life in a single town where everyone knows your name. But that doesn’t take into account the non-stop migrations around the world–people fleeing war or famine or hardship–or boredom. Around 15 years ago, I learned that a bunch of ancient bodies were unearthed in China–all fair-haired people wearing tartans. Siona Benjamin, Joseph, gouache and gold leaf on museum board, 22 x 17 inches, 2006. And last night a tragedy in Philadelphia’s Liberian community ... More » »
