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News – Jason Lazarus, Knapp Gallery closing, Richard Torchia at CENTERpieces, and curators, curators, curators

News Jason Lazarus will take your unwanted photos Do you have photos that are too painful to keep around? If so, Chicago-based artist Jason Lazarus will take them.  He’s collecting unwanted photos for an art installation. There’s no need to provide the background for the photos, and if you feel they are too private to be shown, the artist will display them face down. Lazarus can pick them up on Sunday February 5 from 10 AM – 7 PM. E-mail him at jasonlazarus.photo@gmail.com or call 312-953-2885. Knapp Gallery closing Old City’s Knapp Gallery is closing up shop at the end of ... More » »

New News: Comedy at PhilaMOCA, POST studio tours, Campuzano run-in with a snake

News Comedy Night @ PhilaMOCA This Saturday, October 1, at 7:00 PM, PhilaMOCA will be the site of I LOVE MITCH HEDBERG: Art for the Late Great Comedian. A number of comedy acts (including comedy by Andrew Jeffrey Wright), refreshments, and artwork are on tap. Special guest Lynn Shawcroft will screen a video of unreleased Mitch Hedberg comedy footage.

News- 2012 Wind Challenge winners, Happy Fernandez to resign next year and more

Wind Challenge artists for 2012 The Wind Challenge announced the nine artists for its series of 2012 juried shows. Through a blind jury selection process, the artists were chosen out of a pool of nearly 200 applicants. This year will mark the exhibition series’ 34th year.

Exhibitions Currently in in D.C.

I was in D.C. once again for Arts Advocacy Day and, unfortunately for those of us in the arts business, it was the least pressing issue on the hill. I saw some very good exhibitions during my time there, however. In the tower of the National Gallery of Art‘s East Building, is a small exhibition of Nam June Paik’s work – and it should be smaller still, because One Candle, Candle Projection (1988–2000) is worth the ascent all by itself, even if the climb has to be done entirely by foot (although there is an elevator; a very slow one).

Judith Schaechter on art and craft at the Philadelphia Art Alliance

There’s nothing like ducking out of a stormy evening straight into a former mansion – known to most city dwellers as the Philadelphia Art Alliance. On the evening of March 10, the black of an overcast sky merged into the quiet gray of a brick façade, the sleek wetness of concrete pavements became the brilliant glimmer of dark wood floors and the steady fall of raindrops transformed into bright, crystalline chandeliers cascading from the ceiling. Judith Schaechter, a local artist was giving a lecture that evening.  Schaechter works with stained glass and teaches as an adjunct professor in the Crafts ... More » »

Fundraising alert – Judith Schaechter needs you

We got a note recently from that wonderful artist Judith Schaechter who is fundraising to make and install ten new stained glass windows in ten cells at Eastern State Penitentiary. Judith makes beautiful stained glass on subjects with contemporary social meaning — loneliness, our culture of excess, the conflicted role of a woman in our society (sex object, goddess, whipping girl).  She’s long wanted to do a project at the old prison, and it seems to us her project is a perfect match for the site.  Judith needs funds to make the work and to install it in the prison. ... More » »

New art show on WHYY TV

Finally, WHYY does some local visual arts coverage in a program called “Friday Arts” which will air on first Fridays of the month.  And Judith Schaechter, who is smart and funny and makes fabulous art, is a great choice for the lead-off interview.  Thanks, UArts newsletter for the heads-up (Judith teaches at UArts).  Judith’s program airs tomorrow night, April 2, at 8:30 pm.  Got an idea for something that should be covered, send them an email!  fridayarts@whyy.org

Artistic Essentialism? InkNotInk; Chinese Contemporary Art at Drexel

I joined a group of InLiquid.com members and friends of Drexel University this morning for a tour of InkNotInk, a large and fascinating exhibition filling four spaces in Drexel’s Bossone Center and Nesbitt Buildings (on view through May 9, 2009).

Congratulations!!! Three new Philly USA Fellows!

Barkley L. Hendricks, Gone…Goodnight, 1973, oil, acrylic, and magna on linen canvas, 72” x 72”;
photo courtesy A. Vincent Scarano Thanks to Zoe Strauss for the heads up on this year’s new USA Fellows, bringing to 5 the number of Philadelphia artists who have received the $50,000 award now in its second year. The 2008 winners who we claim for Philadelphia are Terry Adkins, Judith Schaechter and we’re going to claim Philly native and PAFA alum Barkley L. Hendricks as ours too even though he doesn’t live here now. Adkins, sculptor and UPenn professor shows locally at Pageant Gallery and has ... More » »

More Phillyites in New York and elsewhere

We now know that we missed at least five Philly artists in our previous post about our town’s world class art invading the world (or at least places on the Eastern seaboard). We are hereby bringing these artists and venues to your attention so you can feel even better about Philadelphia’s solid and growing art scene and so you can go see this stuff in the real world. JUDITH SCHAECHTER Judith Schaechter,Seeing is BelievingStained Glass installation120 x 120 inchesMuseum of Arts and Design Judith Schaechter — stained glass artist extraordinaire and all around art whizz kid (see our previous post ... More » »