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Las Vegas Studio: Images from Venturi and Brown
Las Vegas Studio: Images from Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown at the The MOCA Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles. Learning from Las Vegas was a real watershed moment— or maybe I should say a real Waterloo moment— in architectural history. This book was the first, fully-formulated backlash against the dictates of Modernist architecture, however polite in its tone. Running contrary to every last tenet of the International Style, the polemic warmly extolled the symbol and ornament, fun and dysfunction, the ugly and ordinary, the redundant and duck-shaped— and nearly everything else that had been shaved from the severe, honest, ...
Chemistry is Us: Philly’s seductive new science museum for grown-ups
Periodic Table designed by Theodore Gray; a large multi-image version is included in the new museum at the Chemical Heritage Foundation. If the word chemistry provokes a reaction somewhere between boredom and fear, think again. The Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) at 3rd and Chesnut has opened a new museum designed, as they put it, for adults who don’t remember or understand chemistry. They’ve done a smashing job! The museum will also appeal to serious younger visitors, but unlike the playground atmosphere that’s the Franklin Institute, this is filled with loads of information and lots of artifacts. The permanent exhibition Making ...
Weaving the new reality
Gabriel Kuri, Trinity (voucher), handwoven wool Gobelin (woven in Guadalajara) As soon as I saw Ed Ruscha’s Industrial Strength Sleep tapestry at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, this piece by Mexican artist Gabriel Kuri popped into my mind. I had seen it last year at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, in an exhibit of work from Mexico (post here). Kuri’s Trinity is a faithful reproduction of a computer-register receipt with the color copies. And it’s handwoven in Mexico, which of course raises issues of the values of hand work vs. computer-generated stuff. At this moment of financial meltdown, it’s a ...
Words, words, noise and a melon on First Friday
First Friday was full of goodies. We started at the Fab. Here’s some pictures and a short video and some gossip at the bottom so be sure to scroll down. Ed Ruscha at the Fabric Workshop last Friday night Ed Ruscha was looking like a little leprachaun in front of a packed audience at the Fabric Workshop’s new space last Friday. The 2nd floor gallery space — which makes a great lecture hall — was certified for only 200 people with a live feed downstairs for the big spillover crowd. Ruscha and his slide of the Barnyard Rembrandt According ...
Weekly Update – Ed Ruscha’s woven words at the Fabric Workshop and Museum
Ed RuschaIn collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, PhiladelphiaIndustrial Strength Sleep, 2007Merino wool, cotton, and Trevira CS tapestry; edition of 7109 1/2 x 276 inches (278.1 x 701 cm)The Fabric Workshop and Museum, PhiladelphiaPhoto: Aaron Igler and Will Brown Last June the Fabric Workshop and Museum was bounced from its home at 1315 Cherry Street when its building was demolished to make way for the Convention Center expansion. In order to keep showing art, the Museum took up residence at an interim space at 1222 Arch Street while waiting for a new permanent home to be retrofitted. The new ...
