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News – Knight Arts Challenge 2012 finalists, Met hires Tate curator, Sharon Butler’s predictions, and more!
News Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia names 55 finalists The Knight Foundation released the names of 55 finalists for its Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia 2012. Finalists include artists, musicians, collectives, and community groups in the region. Winners are to be announced in the Spring.
News: Warren Angle’s passing, John Vick at NWAA, Wooster Collective at Print Center, and more…
News Warren Angle died Friday We are sad to bring you the news that Warren Angle passed away on Friday, September 9 after a long battle with cancer. Angle, an artist, was the exhibitions director of the Fleisher Art Memorial for many years. He will certainly be missed by many. There’s a Facebook page set up as a memorial for Warren.
‘Possible Cities; Africa in Photography and Video’ at Haverford College
Possible Cities; Africa in Photography and Video at Haverford College’s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery through April 29, 2011 was organized by Ruti Talmor, Mellon Postdoctoral fellow, around two considerations: that contemporary Africa is largely urban, and that the work should counter the fact that most images that circulate internationally represent the continent either as a vast nature preserve or as overwhelmed with poverty, health crises and political and social conflicts. No one who has seen international exhibitions during the past decade is likely to have such a narrow view (nor would viewers of The Global Africa Project, currently at the Museum of Arts ... More » »
Save the Dates; Upcoming events around Philly
In connection with the Exhibition, Possible Cities; Africa in photography and video at Haverford College’s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery March 18 – April 29, 2011, a symposium, Imaging Africa will be held on Saturday, March 19, 10:45am-3:15 pm. bringing together leading curators, filmmakers, critics, and scholars to discuss the current status of African visual culture. The exhibition aims to challenge representation of Africa as either traditional utopia or postcolonial distopia, offering a more complicated picture of African cosmopolitanism.
Sex Drive Melts the Snow at Haverford College
By Dennis D’Alesandro Sex Drive is a thoughtfully curated 22-person group show that coincides with the humanities seminar “Sex, State and Society in the Early Modern World.” The show brings together a diverse array of sex-infused artworks that deal with all manner of relevant sexual themes, including fetish, fantasy, infatuation, sin, gender persuasion, public scandal, romance, and the role of political and religious conventions.
Humor at Work: Beauvais Lyons at the American Philosophical Society and The Dufala Brothers at Haverford College
I’d met Beauvais Lyons and been aware of his work before I met my friend, Barbara, in the garden opposite the Museum of the American Philosophical Society (APS) where Lyons had set up his display last week (on through tomorrow). Most of those who stopped by, however, had no reason to know this wasn’t another educational display within Independence National Historical Park.
Finley and Muse at Haverford and Hollis Frampton at International House
Imaginative Feats Literally Presented; three fables for video projection, an exhibition of Jeanne C. Finley and John Muse’ work is on view at Haverford College’s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery through Dec. 11. Muse teaches at Haverford and Finley at California College of Art and they have collaborated for many years. Like all fables, theirs deal with big ideas: vulnerability, fear, family, safety, truth and fiction, control. The three works read as chapters of the same story, all set in the present when America is at war. The exhibition leaves visitors uncomfortable, but these are not bedtime stories and they are not ... More » »
Beautiful inside, outside, anytime, anywhere–Beautiful Human at Haverford
Beautiful Human at Haverford College‘s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery is a small show with big thoughts that burble and pop as the works by five artists hold a conversation with each other about identity and imagination. The show’s points of view zoom from imaginative self-identificaton to masks and costumes as tribal and cultural signifiers to the tyranny of the genetic code. And those are just the starting points.
Among friends: Haverford College’s four art happenings
Some art happenings at Haverford College this past week generated some fun, some love and a little discomfort. Here’s a quick example of what went on: I myself just returned from a field trip through exotic Suburban Square with [artist] Harrell Fletcher! Lots of fun–went to a ColdStone ice cream store when the staff has to sing to you if you tip them; we ended up singing to them for a change (“This Land is Your Land”)–from email from James Weissinger, Associate Director, John B. Hurford ’60 Humanities Center, Haverford College, who by night is sometimes seen hanging around at ... More » »
Local landscapes at Haverford
I followed the links from my Inliquid newsletter to info on an exhibit –The Pennsylvania Landscape: Colonial to Contemporary–at the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College. It turned out to be nothing less than a cyber version of the exhibit itself, all on line, all easy to access, and the perfect way to see art on a snowy day, especially a show that you might otherwise not visit. This is a great site.
