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First Friday – Pentimenti’s group show, Little Berlin’s funny performances and Uarts grads at the Icebox

Our itinerary covered many miles — from Old City to the deepest reaches of Kensington, so we needed the car.  We suppose you could bike it but we can’t.  What we saw generally tickled us.  The conversations were great and enlightening and below is a bunch of pictures with some running commentary. Pentimenti For the last couple summers, Pentimenti has mounted a group show based on an open call.  Reaching outside her comfort zone and current stable of artists, gallerist Christine Pfister has again this year rounded up a lively show.

Are you missing artblog radio?

We realize some of you don’t read the blog on Mondays. If that’s the case here’s what you’ve been missing–really great podcast interviews of 10 to 15 minutes with some of Philadelphia’s exciting art people. They have talked to us about public art and they’ve talked to us about race in art. They’ve discussed print publications and they’ve discussed whether landscape is dead.

ICA’s new shows–Tyng, videos, Boyle & Duke

The search for a single unifying principle–a mathematical formula, or the atom, or God–is the sort of romantic obsession that underlies the Institute of Contemporary Art exhibit Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry.

2010 Liberta awards!

It may be a recession year, but 2010 saw a whole lot of good art stuff happening in Philadelphia. Here’s our annual awards roundup! 6 best shows of 2010 that we saw: Mika Rottenberg @Mary Boone Paul Outlaw and Jennifer Catron’s The Honeymooners @Grizzly Grizzly Value City @Little Berlin Failure to Show @Extra Extra Philagrafika @Temple Gallery (especially for Heavy Industries) Bauhaus @MoMA

Leslie Rogers on performance art – now on artblog radio

This episode sponsored by Fleisher Art Memorial Leslie Rogers sews like a dream and makes costumes she wears in performances that are about gender roles and sometimes are gender bending.  She talks about her role in PuppeTyranny, doing puppet shows in her mouth, in which a male collaborator inserts a variety of tiny objects into her mouth and she interacts with them (chewing, spitting out, etc).  Exhibitionism, voyeurism and creepy are all on the table for Leslie, who, by the way,  has a great laugh and wonderful sense of humor. Below is the 25-second sample clip. Click “read more” for ... More » »

Next week on artblog radio–puppet and performance artist Leslie Rogers

When performance artist Leslie Rogers came to town she began stirring up a cyclone of events with a variety of collaborators. As part of the group PuppeTyranny she performed with her mouth wide open at Vox Populi. And she donned the naked fat suit of a lumpy middle-aged man to perform on a trapeze at Extra Extra. Below is a sample from our interview with her. 25-second sample–Leslie Rogers Tune in for the the full podcast–the 8th episode of artblog radio–Monday, Oct. 25.

First Friday: We kvetch, we look, we clap

First Friday was hotter than Hell in the galleries, and we complained a lot. Every person who asked us how our summer was going got the same answer–shitty, hot.  But beyond weather, we have to say the art was hotter than we expected for the usually dead month of August.  Performance and installation art was what we saw at Vox Populi, Bodega, Grizzly Grizzly, Tigers Strikes Asteroid and Marginal Utility.

Art, With A Chance of Attitude

Little Berlin’s group show, Forecast, places work by newly admitted members of the collective alongside pieces by founding members. As the press release notes, with a moderating dash of sarcasm: “Get a glimpse into the future through the artwork we make. Hence the clever title, FORECAST.” Indeed, the show gives a sense of what’s happening—some good, some still coming along—here in Philly. New collective member Leslie Rogers’ video account of a mugging, “The Meeting,” is undoubtedly the highlight of the show.

Extra Extra performances and critical mass on Frankford Ave.

While New York is watching Marina Abramovic performance retreads at MoMA, exciting new performances stole the First Friday shows along Frankford Ave. and environs. Suddenly I felt that I was not only on the hippest street in town, but on the hippest street anywhere! And if you want to know where art is going at this moment in time, this is the answer.

Weekly Update — Vox V visions

Here’s my review of the show at the Weekly. Below is my copy with some pictures. “Vox V,” the national juried emerging art show, demonstrates that childhood memories, loss and sadness – themes at play in the art world for at least fifteen years — are still major obsessions.