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News: MOMA admission hike, Prelude Gallery, Art in the Air and other opportunities

News MOMA increases admission rates Thanks, Art Fag City for the depressing news that MOMA – following the Met’s lead back in June – has raised its admission rates from $20 to $25, much to the chagrin of many of its patrons. Is the extra five bucks worth the lost attendance? We shall see. Newly opened Prelude Gallery highlights student artists Prelude, the new Rittenhouse gallery, is on the scene with plans to focus on student artists and recent graduates.

Weekly Update – Slought’s emerging artist shows

This week’s Weekly has my review of 1:5:25 at Slought Foundation.  Below is my copy with some pictures. Video is a huge part of the art world and many galleries now include the medium as part of their regular programming.    Shows of all video art are less frequent although they too occur. Slought’s “1:5:25” is an all-video show curated by a team of 5 and presenting works by 25 artists or artist groups.   A veritable dim sum video banquet of stuttering, fast-paced, culture-questioning videos, the show is good but it raises the question:  How much video is too much?

Little Berlin pushes collaboration buttons

When I ran into Martha Savery at the opening of A Closer Look at Arcadia she was very excited about the show at her space, Little Berlin. There’s a collaboration in the Arcadia show (by long-time collaborators Tom Kocot and Marcia Hatton) and Savery had fostered some collaborative pieces at LB–between sound artist Michael McDermott and sculptor Michael Murray and with the members of the video Shift Collective. Shift’s piece involved tossing an expensive video camera off a 6-story roof while the camera was on (it was attached to a rope and didn’t hit the ground). Well, that alone was ... More » »