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.
Philly artists continue to keep the airlines and buses in business showing work on both coasts and places in between. Here’s the news this week: Kathryn Pannepacker in New York Kathryn Pannepacker will speak in New York at the Museum of Art and Design Thursday, April 16 at 6:30 pm in an artist’s talk co-sponsored by the MAD and their magazine American Craft. The talk is free with Thursday night pay as you wish admission. The magazine features Philly’s intrepid multi-culti guerrilla weaver on its cover this month!!!
Olympia (Betty Lou Williams), by James Mundie, is up for auction on eBay until Dec. 7. James Mundie recently posted a work of his Prodigies series on eBay. I know this because I got an email from him Monday that he cast far and wide, which said: Okay, I’m giving y’all just one more chance to acquire one of the most popular drawings from “Prodigies”, The Marriage of Emmitt the Alligator-skinned Man and Percilla the Monkey-girl. …This is the first time I’ve ever offered one of these drawings on eBay, so don’t miss your chance to snatch up a bargain. ...