Tag Archive "maps"

Philadelphia’s new council district map? Deadline is Sept. 9 and nobody’s seen it

How pretty is Philadelphia’s City Council Districts map? Pretty ugly at the moment. Look at districts 5 and 7, with their long snaking tails, a product of some ugly political horse-trading that not only made the districts cockeyed on the map, but created ridiculous neighborhood splits where one side of the street is one district and the other side of the street is another (and in some cases splitting the wards too).

Weekly Update – Fall roundup of maps, photos, artists’ self portraits and more

Hundreds of shows open in Philadelphia this fall, far too many to include in this short roundup. Six shows caught my fancy, but they’re just the tip of the iceberg. Nowhere at Arcadia (Sept. 23-Nov. 7. arcadia.edu)

November Maps & Listings Update

In our first two months we’ve received contributions from over 80 local galleries & art spaces to our new Maps & Listings feature.  We’re working to make this system more friendly and useful to you!  Here is an update on where we’ve been with our maps, and where we’re going. *NEW FEATURE* we’ve added a monthly sorting option that allows you to browse future shows and also lets you look back to shows that closed in previous months.  In addition, you can see what’s closing this week to make sure you catch not-to-miss shows before they’re gone.

New maps & listings up! New permanent url.

The October maps & listings are up! Yippee. Here’s some of what we’re doing different and better!

October listings include events!

New, improved listings are coming for October–we will have mapped events–artist talks, gallery talks, lectures, symposia and other art events–as well as mapped gallery listings. The new improved forms for your October art shows and art events are now available at artblog labs, where we’re still working on ways to make our listings for art shows the best in the city (or in any city). The deadline for your October listings is Sept. 28. We had 60 submissions in September, a shockingly successful rate. And we ourselves are finding the maps helpful for figuring out what we want to see ... More » »

Maps are up!!!

Get Philly’s best new art listings here! And thanks again to our white coats in the lab who toiled mightily and are still toiling to make it better. Thanks to all of you who weighed in on this first round. You can still submit listings for September at the link.  The form is in there and you can upload an image.  Deadline for Sept. listings is Friday, Sept. 11.  Hold those October submission until after Sept. 11 when a new improved form goes up.  This is only going to get better and better. We’re still in beta mode with the ... More » »

Get on the artblog gallery map!

Hey artblog readers, artblog’s gallery map goes live tomorrow!    This new free monthly listing service is a first for Philadelphia–with maps — including by neighborhood — plus Septa directions to galleries and everything you need for your First Friday rounds and for the rest of the month.

Artblog labs a-poppin’

Hello campers, we are here to announce exciting news. We are experimenting with a new lab section for projects such as a gallery map with listing information that we hope will be useful to you. We will have 6 maps of the city, five of them by neighborhoods and one will be our current picks.