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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 » »

Underground videos – a Design Philly hit, now gone

Now you see em, now you don’t.  The Philadelphia Underground video festival in the underground walkway surrounding Dilworth Plaza was great, and is now a thing of memory — and photo documentation.  We were there at the opening last Saturday and have some pictures to share.  It was a lovely cool evening, perfect counterpart for some of the odd underground films by a group of local artists.

Weekly Update 2 – Videos in the subway concourse at Design Philadelphia

DesignPhiladelphia (Oct. 7-17, designphiladelphia.com) arrives with about 150 exhibits, talks, panels and events sprinkled around town in a 10-day celebration of the sleek, the efficient and the sustainable— a festival marking the city’s status as a leader in design.

The return of the art season

Some more goings on of note this weekend: A Philly-made video fest at the Painted Bride Join us for a video trip to visit some great art tonight.

Shelter at the Painted Bride

A mix of some great art and lots of good will make up the exhibit Shelter at the Painted Bride. The exhibit asks the question, What really matters to sustain us as human beings? While not literally answering that question, a number of answers are on display here, and it is those compelling, individual answers that make this show tick.

Look! It’s Cezanne at the PMA

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.

Kessler documentary on Arbus’ Huberts photos

Post by Chris Paquette Documentation that supports that a cache of photos discovered last year of Huberts Side Show people were taken by Diane Arbus. Those who attended the November 13th Salon du Festival event, part of this weekend’s First Person Arts Festival, missed some of David Kessler’s documentary, The Huberts Collector on the Diane Art-Bus, about the lost Diane Arbus photos from her early days of hanging out with the freaks at Huberts Side Show in New York City. Kessler’s film had to be shown on a back up DVD player when the first system failed to operate. The ... More » »

Shoot out over censorship at Art Institute

Steven Earl Weber, Might Makes Right, 2006, ceramic, etched and painted glass, one of Steven Earl Weber’s pieces protesting gun violence We’ve been getting emails for a couple of days now about a censored piece of art at the Art Institute Gallery. The exhibit, Killing Time, curated by 32 Art Institute students under the direction of the teacher Patrick Coue, opens tonight, reception 4:30 to 7:30, featuring work by six artists–Lauren Rossi, Jaime Alvarez, Steven Earl Weber, David Kessler, Tommy Reynolds, Katherine Kesslering and Joan Smith. Our first alert about the censorship came from the artist whose work is in ... More » »

Arbus auction preview — but no auction — in New York

Post by Christopher Paquette I caught a special showing of the lost Diane Arbus photographs last April 5 at Phillips de Pury in New York. The works were being presented in the Phillips gallery as a prelude to the April 8th auction sale. (see previous post for more on the lost and found Arbus photos). I decided to make an entire day of it, visiting some of my favorite galleries on my way down to Phillips which is across the street from the Chelsea Market. Main gallery room at Phillip’s de Pury & Company The highlight of the day was ... More » »

Weekend viewing: Norm Paris on Studioscopic

Norm Paris in his studio talking with David Kessler in a new Studioscopic episode. Our pal, David Kessler, just finished another wonderful video over at Studioscopic (click the link to get over there and see it). This one features Norm Paris in his studio talking about his classic installation, Michael Jordan Save the World (shown in a Fleisher Challenge exhibit in 2005). Norm talks about his fascination with sports icons as impossible heroes, and he’s got something to say about the Philly art scene, too! We’ve written about Norm and if you search his name in the blogger search you’ll ... More » »