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Peter Saul skirts the truth but so does everyone really, and we all have a great time at PAFA panel
Patricia Hills, David Curtis, Daniel Heyman, Peter Saul, Jane Irish at the Symposium at PAFA, Nov. 1. Peter Saul‘s exhibit at PAFA was the excuse for an all-day symnposium there on political art earlier this month. But Saul wasn’t the only headliner participating. We also fell for Art Spiegelman‘s bon mots, Laylah Ali’s sometimes veiled wait-wait-don’t-tell commentary about her own work, and Enrique Chagoya’s conflation of art and cartooning. The day also included insights from Philadelphia artists Daniel Heyman and Jane Irish, scholar David Carrier, New York artist/activist Sue Coe and moderator Patricia Hills. Two political posters by artists. On ... More » »
Who are you? a wary Laylah Ali asks at UArts
Laylah Ali, untitled, 2005, gouache on paper paintings, all images here provided by Ali Layla Ali gave a talk a couple of weeks ago, part of the University of the Arts Food for Thought lecture series organized by the Summer MFA program. I’ve been thinking it over for this long because she’s a bit elusive. Ali placed her work in the context of self-portraiture, part of her undergraduate practice at Williams College (BFA 1991). Of her early self portraits, she said she was trying to do them with Nat Turner’s vision, and that family memories of slavery are part of ... More » »
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Having trouble accessing Look!, our new videos by David Kessler, starring us, as if you don’t know. Here’s what we suggest. Click the image for the FLASH VERSION:Flash version. Click picture. We hope that opens for you. If it does, then you want to always click the flash option, which we will make available from now on. If your computer is loaded with RAM and can handle QUICKTIME MOVIES, you can click on this image below:Quicktime version. Click picture. We will also make this version available not just now but from now on. It’s your pick. Please let us know ... More » »
NEW – Episode 7 of Look! It’s Libby and Roberta
Hello artblog lovers, Episode 7 of Look! It’s Libby and Roberta is now running live on artblog (see column at the left and click the picture or the link below the picture). See all seven great episodes (each is a fun-filled conversation that takes less than 3 minutes of your time!!) at blip tv. Episode 7 takes us inside Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for a look at Thomas Eakins‘ painting The Gross Clinic and to the Morris Gallery to spend time with the Laylah Ali‘s drawings. We are very proud of these groundbreaking videos, directed by the most ... More » »
Weekly Update – Laylah Ali at PAFA’s Morris Gallery
This week’s Weekly has my review of Laylah Ali‘s solo exhibit at PAFA‘s Morris Gallery. Below is the copy with more photos. Here’s Libby’s post. And more photos at flickr. Pretty in InkLaylah Ali’s deformed drawings are full of drama. Laylah Ali (b. 1968)Untitled, 2005 (from the Typology Series)Ink on paper, 14 x 11 inchesCourtesy of the artist and 303 Gallery, New York “Drawings From the Typology Series,” Laylah Ali’s marvelous and mocking salute to typological folly at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts’ Morris Gallery, is a reminder of the danger of judging a book by its cover ... More » »
Laylah Ali’s friends, Romans and foreigners
Untitled, ink on paper The ink drawings of Laylah Ali now showing at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts’ Morris Gallery evoke gladiators, monkeys, Elizabethans and your average high school kid thinking far too much about how he looks. It’s just a short step from Madame Pompadour’s towering power hairdos to the foliage atop Ali’s humanoids, edgy creatures who at once seem to be battle scarred, or mutant, or just plain mean. This is not to say they lack humor and wit, like the skinny-legged superhero wearing his super-hero jockeys atop a skirted tunic. He’s caped and his athletic socks ... More » »
Icons on the street
I love taking pictures of things on the street and the other day when I went to see the Laylah Ali show at PAFA I saw these two posters whose juxtaposition clearly shows the range of what’s being exhibited in the institution. Love it. Old and new at PAFA, posters (left) for Laylah Ali and (right) for Daniel Garber. Skullphone. I hadn’t seen this wheatpaste poster before I saw the show at Art Syndicate but here it is, on North 11th St. just north of the El tracks. That is all. Are we happy with the weather today? Upper 60s ... More » »
