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Weekly Update – George Tooker’s humanist works at PAFA

 This week’s Weekly has my review of the George Tooker retrospective at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.  Below is my copy with some pictures.  The career retrospective of 88-year old American Modernist painter George Tooker at PAFA is a revelation.  Tooker, a student of Reginald Marsh and an astute observer of urban humanity, is far less well known than his teacher.  But the artist’s small dreamy egg tempera paintings are bold and captivating.  And Tooker’s subject matter – human interaction — from intimate moments of tenderness to unsettling tableaux of men and women boxed in and dehumanized by government, ...

This week’s cornucopia of wonderful things to do

Hello artblog readers. This week’s overload of fabulous activities has even us flummoxed. We wish we could do it all! With three talks at Penn in two days, we want to give Penn the Yakkity Yak Award. TUESDAY MARCH 17 Gary Hill–NOTE:  AS OF 2 PM MONDAY, MAR. 16, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Hill has been working with video and sound since 1973. His intermedia use of text, speech and image explore the physicality of language and our thought processes. Winner of a MacArthur Foundation Genius award in 1998, and winner of the Leone díOro Prize for Sculpture at ...

George Tooker–a local amazing story from PAFA

Read it first here on artblog–a scoop about the George Tooker show  from Robert Cozzolino, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts curator of modern art–and curator of this show.  He wrote: Here’s the scoop in a nutshell… A few weeks back, a man e-mailed me at PAFA to say he visited the Tooker show and loved it. “I noticed you had the study for ‘Laundress’ on view. If it is of interest, I have the painting in Philadelphia.” Well, I nearly fell out of my chair.