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News Philadelphia Museum of Art highlights ten local artists Starting September 10, the PMA will host Here and Now: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs by Ten Philadelphia Artists.

Guggenheim for Daniel Heyman–Iraqis to lunch ladies

Philadelphia artist Daniel Heyman, whose work puts the personal face on politics, war and other injustices, has won a Guggenheim! He is one of 180 Fellows named this year from about 3,000 applicants. The awards go to work in the arts, humanities and sciences.

Wimpel! Wrapped Wishes at the PMJA

Traditionally when we talk about fiber, we talk about not just its drape but also about its hand. Fiber is mostly meant to be touched. And if you come from a long line of Jews, from a people who have historically long been in the rag and clothing trades, when you see a piece of fabric, you have an urge to “feel the goods.” So it’s not surprising that these were thoughts I had when I went to Wimpel! Wrapped Wishes, a small fiber-based show of 12 works at the Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art in Rodeph Shalom Synagogue on ...

Interview with Marianne Bernstein: Shelter, Tatted, and so much more

Curator and artist Marianne Bernstein last month created the Welcome House in LOVE Park, and tonight she brings you Shelter at the Painted Bride. (The m.o. is similar–invite some terrific artists to work within the constraints of a show while giving them considerable freedom to interpret those constraints.) A book of her photographs, Tatted, is scheduled for release in December. In the Spring, she did a performance for the First Person festival based Tatted. And for Gallery Joe she is curating an exhibit due to open in 2010.

Weekly Update – November First Friday on the mind

This week’s Weekly has my first Friday roundup.  Below is the copy with pictures. Big news this First Friday: A new gallery, Marginal Utility , is opening in the Vox building. The six-story former factory building already houses Vox Populi , Copy , AHN/VHS , Progressive Sharing , Jeffrey Stockbridge Fine Art and Tiger Strikes Asteroid . With the addition of Marginal Utility on the second floor, the alternative art scene truly has a new center of gravity.

Peter Saul skirts the truth but so does everyone really, and we all have a great time at PAFA panel

Patricia Hills, David Curtis, Daniel Heyman, Peter Saul, Jane Irish at the Symposium at PAFA, Nov. 1. Peter Saul‘s exhibit at PAFA was the excuse for an all-day symnposium there on political art earlier this month. But Saul wasn’t the only headliner participating. We also fell for Art Spiegelman‘s bon mots, Laylah Ali’s sometimes veiled wait-wait-don’t-tell commentary about her own work, and Enrique Chagoya’s conflation of art and cartooning. The day also included insights from Philadelphia artists Daniel Heyman and Jane Irish, scholar David Carrier, New York artist/activist Sue Coe and moderator Patricia Hills. Two political posters by artists. On ...

One hour art alert!! from Daniel Heyman

Portrait of Gregory Taylor, April 24, 2008, by Daniel Heyman [This just in from Daniel Heyman, whose portraits of Iraqi torture victims you may remember. Here's news about a related project from closer to home. We admire how Daniel has successfully found a way to revivify portraiture and do it with a political edge:] Dear Roberta and Libby,I want to invite you to a rather odd art project of mine, perhaps that is not the correct way to put it.  I have been working with the National Comprehensive Center for Fathers, a Philly based organization that helps black men with ...

Telling stories: Daniel Heyman and Ditta Baron Hoeber

Disco Mosul, Amman series, drypoint, 22x 27 Two exhibits at the Print Center are not the sort of thing you can glance at and breeze through. They are work by two artists intent on telling stories, so you need to slow down and listen. Daniel Heyman’s stories are notable for their grip on reality, for their political juice, and for the method of installation. They are part of Daniel Heyman’s Abu Ghraib prisoner interviews. Heyman witnessed the interviews with former detainees of Abu Ghraib when he traveled to Amman, Jordan this year as part of a team pursuing a class ...

Look! episodes 2 and 3 at Philebrity

Well, our friends at Philebrity are catching up with our prodigious video output! Episodes 2 and 3 are now on Philebrity TV’s front page. There’s also a Vince Romaniello video with Daniel Heyman about Daniel’s journey to Jordan to draw the Iraqi prisoners of war who were being interviewed for a human rights lawsuit against the US government and its prisons. artblog covered Heyman’s work last July. Here’s my Weekly Update piece and my Q&A with the artist who at that time was fresh home from his journey. Now he’s got a great show of the works at the Print ...

Artist as witness: Interview with Daniel Heyman

Daniel Heyman, a master printmaker, working at last year’s Big Block printing event at the Philadelphia Museum of Art I met Daniel Heyman June 23 at the Last Drop coffee shop then we walked to the Doubletree Hotel where there was space for him to lay out his large prints on the floor in the lobby and show me. The artist’s level of commitment to the project is very high. Heyman, a boyish 40-something has always had a political streak in his art. Our mutual friend, Ann Northrup, pointed out to me that Daniel had made a piece about the ...