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News: Krampus, Stanley Whitney, Masters of the Visual Universe, and more!
News A very Krampus Christmas We heard about Krampuslauf from Amber Dorko Stopper and also on WHYY. Who is Krampus? Why is he having a Christmas parade? Well, Krampus represents the opposite of Jolly Old St. Nick. He’s a Christmas devil that punishes naughty children during the holidays. It’s an alternative to the ‘everything is so sweet and lovely’ Christmas attitude; ‘a little salt to go with the sugar’ says Krampuslauf celebrator Janet Finegar. There will be Krampuslauf parade and festivities in Northern Liberties tomorrow, Sat. December 10, 4pm at Libery Lands Park, 913-961 north 3rd Street.
News: New ICA curator, video art history @ PAFA, opportunities, and more!
News (Inaccurate information has been removed from this post). ICA appoints new curator The Institute of Contemporary Art has appointed Anthony Elms as a new Associate Curator. Elms has worked as an independent curator and writer, and he was Assistant Director of Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago for six years. He replaces Jenelle Porter who has taken a position at ICA Boston.
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.
On Hidden City bus tour, Philly sparkles
I was trying to wrap my arms and mind around Hidden City, the arts events through June organized by Perigrine Arts, in off-the-radar, fabulous buildings around the city. The events are by a mix of international and Philadelphia artists, and the festival (I think it’s fair to call it one), like any such event, has so much going on, it’s a little hard to digest it all.
Anri Sala work in Hidden City Philadelphia
Mari Shaw developed and curated the showing of the Anri Sala video piece for Hidden City. The piece opens June 10 at the Royal Theater on South Street. We were particularly interested since we had seen Sala’s work at Temple Gallery in 2005, and Andrea had seen his work at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 2006. Here’s Mari’s report: The work of internationally-acclaimed video/film artist Anri Sala will be presented in Philadelphia on the evenings of June 10 and June 11, 2009 at the Royal Theater as part of the “Hidden City” citywide exhibition.
Weekly Update — Hidden City Philadelphia, South Street Galleries and more
This week’s Weekly has my summer art roundup. Below is my copy with some pictures. Go spelunking for art this summer in venues hiding in plain sight like Girard College, the Disston Saw Works, 23rd Street Armory and South Street boutiques. Then, get out of town for new art in the woods and a reminder of simpler times and pleasures at Morris Arboretum and the Schuylkill Center.
Volunteers needed-apply at Hidden City!
You may have caught word of the month-long event called Hidden City — Peregrine Arts has been planning it for years (literally), and artblog covered a trial performance at Girard College last May. Finally, in late May and June, we’ll get to see a slew of site-based works and performances commissioned for normally inaccessible spaces, including abandoned theaters and power plants.
Hidden City unveiled-Festival starts May 30
Continuing a recent tradition in Philadelphia arts, Hidden City, the month-long arts festival, will open up nine historically-significant yet underappreciated buildings this June for use as backdrops for performance and visual arts. (Eastern State Penitentiary, a ruin once on the brink of extinction, is the first such endangered and underused building we remember housing art projects–for the very successful Prison Sentences exhibit in 1995)
