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News: Title Magazine, Free Library online, Lindsay Wraga and lots of opportunities!

News Local artists launch Title Magazine online Welcome, to Title Magazine! This new local online publication aims to contribute to the critical analysis of the dynamic Philly art scene. The first issue includes articles by Daniel Gerwin, Edward Carey, Avi Alpert, Jeffrey Bussmann, Andrew Gbur, and Elyse Derosia. Free Library opens digital resource database The Free Library of Philadelphia has just opened its “Free Library of the 21st Century” online.

Shepard Fairey’s iconoclasm at ICA Boston

The author of this post, Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin, is a 2008 graduate of Harvard College in History of Art and Architecture and Italian Studies who works at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal and continues to fuel his interest in contemporary art by attending exhibits wherever his travels take him. Before I knew it, I was implicated. Walking up to Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art, I noticed a man’s face, simple and graphic, stuck on a lamppost, looming from atop the ICA and plastered on newspaper dispensers in the lobby. LA-based artist Shepard Fairey had infiltrated my visual world without ...

Summer in Boston

Anish Kapoor, S-Curve, 2006, Polished steel, 85 1/4 x 384 x 48 in. Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles. Photo: John Kennard. I was in Boston last month for a college reunion (my first; it took me decades to attend one) and managed to fit in two important institutions devoted to contemporary art on my way in from the airport. First was the Institute of Contemporary Art in its prize-winning new building by Diller Scofidio + Renfro; what they’ve given up in terms of walk-in traffic at their previous Back Bay location is made up for in harbor views, although the ...