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College Art Association Annual Meeting in Chicago; random thoughts
The plane to Chicago for the College Art Association (CAA) Annual Meeting left from a concourse I rarely use so I saw different art than usual as part of the airport’s Exhibition Program, which certainly provides the best distraction I’ve found at Philadelphia International Airport. Nick Kripal’s Swarm was a terra cotta landscape of an alternative, multi-culti character with forms cribbed from the kitchen cabinets; what looked like a Moorish dome turned out to have been cast from a pudding mold! I’d love to see him do animations based on them.
Weekly Update – Talking with Barkley Hendricks
This week’s Weekly has my article on Barkley Hendricks’ Birth of the Cool at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Below is an expanded version with more of the interview I did with the artist. Bashir, Jules, Tuff Tony and Angie wouldn’t stand out in a crowd. But in Barkley Hendricks’ “Birth of the Cool” at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, these seemingly ordinary people, depicted in nearly life-size paintings, become new icons for a secular age. The works have such a sense of stillness that they feel almost like religious images.
Philly portraits at Gallery 339 and PAFA
Portraits are everywhere, right now, major portraits. I had a nice conversation with myself after seeing two terrific shows of Philadelphia portraits in the same week–the show Personal Views: Contemporary Photographic Portraiture in Philadelphia, at Gallery 339; and the paintings in Barkley L. Hendricks’ Birth of the Blues at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Whole lotta shaking going on at PAFA
When an institution announces the receipt of a big grant for contemporary art programming we want to know more. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Curator of Contemporary Arts Julien Robson snagged a whopping $440,000 grant from the William Penn Foundation for contemporary art programing over the next three years, including support for the Philagrafika exhibit opening January 2009, five solo exhibits of young and emerging artists starting in May in the Morris Gallery, and the exhibit We’re All Still Here, scheduled to open October 2011.
Barkley Hendricks talk at Penn
At a moment when black power has new meaning, and bell bottoms and lava lamps have had a resurgence, artist Barkley Hendricks came to Penn, sporting dark glasses layered atop a blue beret. His late afternoon talk yesterday comes in advance of the fall opening of his Birth of Cool exhibit at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (it just closed at the Studio Museum in Harlem and will stop in Santa Monica on its way to Philadelphia).
This week’s cornucopia of wonderful things to do
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 has been working with video and sound since 1973. His intermedia use of text, speech and image explore the physicality of language and our thought processes. Winner of a MacArthur Foundation Genius award in 1998, and winner of the Leone díOro Prize for Sculpture at ... More » »
