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PAFA’s Summer Surprises and more
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, in the past two years, has acquired work by five African American artists, four of them from the international and national art strataspheres. Their work looks spectacular in the show Summer Surprises, an exhibit that includes recent acquisitions of work by 11 artists, placing the 11 in the context of some earlier acquisitions also on display! The large contingent of artists of color working within yet challenging and stretching the academy’s reality-based tradition is the big news. The five with work acquired in 2010 and 2009 are Mickalene Thomas, Kehinde Wiley, Mark Bradford, ... More » »
Chelsea bits and pieces
Cate and I spent last Saturday afternoon in Chelsea and a couple things leaped out as really good. More pictures here. Chris Ofili
Perspective on Prospect 1 in New Orleans
Post by Cheryl Harper Prospect 1 New Orleans is the newest world biennial and the largest in the United States. The organizer, Dan Cameron, envisioned a showcase for cutting edge international artists throughout the recovering city while providing significant opportunities for New Orleans artists. The idea is to bring serious art tourists to the city during this and four future biennials, and thus gain a foothold for an American version of the Venice Biennale. Prospect 1 sets itself apart from the commercial Art Basel even though their calendars somewhat overlapped. The longer Prospect 1 closes January 18, 2009. The combination ... More » »
Construction, real and imagined, at the FWM
Storefront, by FWM’s artist-in-residence Mark Bradford in collaboration with Juan Carlos Avendaño and FWM; photographic images on static cling film-laminate stock adhering to the windows. If you are wondering just what’s going on with the Fabric Workshop and Museum, as in where are they and where are they going, you’re not alone. But at last they have dropped the coy stance about their plans. So, as you probably know (or you wouldn’t be asking these questions), no more Gilbert Building. The FWM is now ensconced temporarily in three adjacent store fronts on the 1200 block of Arch Street. It took ... More » »
New paper at the Philadelphia Museum
rembrandtportrait.jpgOriginally uploaded by sokref1.Rembrandt’s Portrait of the Print Dealer Clement de Jonghe, 1651, etching with burin work and drypoint. First off, campers, we’re back online after a hiatus caused by blogger that affected us yesterday and this morning. We’re beathing more easily now and hope we didn’t cause you to hyperventilate at our absence. So I’ll tell you briefly about the PMA’s new acquisitions show which I saw before going through the Perelman building construction site (see Libby’s post. Like Libby, I have a bunch of pictures in a flickr set of the hard hat trek we took with Anne ... More » »
Whitney 2006 Listing Service
Who we saw at the Whitney Biennial who we’ve seen before: Peter Doig goes all Gauguin on us at the Whitney At the Carnegie International we saw:Trisha Donnelly – video and drawingsPaul Chan -videoPeter Doig – paintingMark Grotjahn – painting Liz Larner’s RWBs of aluminum tubing, batting, fabric, ribbons, wire rope padlocks and keys At the ICA nowMark Grotjahn – paintingLiz Larner -sculpture/installation untitled by Troy Brauntuch, conte crayon on cotton At the ICA previouslyRodney Graham – videoTroy Brauntuch – drawingPeter Doig – painting here’s Zoe Strauss, barely visible in her slide-projection chamber, below one of her images At the ... More » »
