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Wangechi Mutu’s Afro-feminist works inaugurate Leonard Pearlstein Gallery’s great new space at Drexel
Post by Jaclyn Seufert The works by Wangechi Mutu at Drexel’s Leonard Pearlstein Gallery inaugurate the gallery’s new space in the Urbn Center Annex with a bang. It’s a big show by an important international artist whose provocative works speak forcefully to issues of women’s empowerment and self-image. The show should propel discussions all over town. Gallery Director Dr. Joseph Gregory told me it has long been his wish to give the Kenya-born, Brooklyn-based multi-disciplinary artist a show at Drexel, and this foundational show at the new gallery, with its high ceilings and almost 5,000 square feet of space, was ... More » »
News post – Social change at Drexel, Philly at PULSE, Second State scholarship, opportunities and more!
News Renowned graphic designer and UArts alum Craig Holden Feinberg is partnering with the Pearlstein Gallery for an exhibition on the social impact of design and imagery. The programming begins with Holden Feinberg’s two-day residency at Drexel University as a Rankin Scholar of the Graphic Design program. On May 14, the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery begins an exhibition of Holden Feinberg’s work, displayed until Friday, June 8. The opening reception on Friday, May 18 at 5 p.m. features a panel discussion on raising awareness of local and global social issues, as well as displays of Holden Feinberg’s shocking, funny and forceful design work. ... More » »
News: Vollis Simpson ArtPlace grant, Dilworth + Occupy, Cannonball Press and opportunities
News Vollis Simpson Park receives ArtPlace grant We told you back in September that Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe received grants from ArtPlace, well here is another great use of the money from that organization.
Drexel’s Chinese art connection: Joseph Gregory tells all
How, I wondered, did Drexel University snag the wonderful exhibit, Half the Sky: Women in the New Art of China. The exhibit is a museum-class survey of contemporary Chinese art by women, the first U.S. survey of its kind, with more than half the exhibit filled with work by artists with whom you could well be familiar–artists who have been showing internationally in solo shows in prestigious venues.
Half the Sky–Chinese women at Drexel
Don’t let the modesty of Drexel’s current exhibition space (in a low building with a basic large space plus a couple of side rooms) fool you. Right now a museum-quality exhibit shines there.
Barnes movie screening tonight with popcorn — It’s a steal!
Drexel prof Blaise Tobia sent us this notice saying the school was screening The Art of the Steal tonight, 7 PM — FREE with free popcorn. Drexel prof Robert Zaller, who appears in the movie and is against the Barnes move, will be there for the public discussion after the movie. Wed. May 19 7 PM FREE Drexel University, Bossone Center, 3128 Market St. (the big glass wedge building near 32nd and Market) Mitchell Auditorium more info
Whose is it? Art property symposium “borrows” logo?
The logo on a symposium about intellectual property rights may arguably infringe on those IP rights. The symposium, Inspiration, Derivation or Appropriation? Defining Ownership in the Arts at Drexel next week sounded interesting to us, so we forwarded the info to artblog contributor David Muenzer. Muenzer hails from Pittsburgh, and knows a Carnegie Museum of Art logo look-alike when he sees one. Here’s the Carnegie logo:
Artistic Essentialism? InkNotInk; Chinese Contemporary Art at Drexel
I joined a group of InLiquid.com members and friends of Drexel University this morning for a tour of InkNotInk, a large and fascinating exhibition filling four spaces in Drexel’s Bossone Center and Nesbitt Buildings (on view through May 9, 2009).
