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Lorie Mertes on the move

Whoa!! Moore College of Art and Design chief curator and gallery director Lorie Mertes is leaving town. She has been a bright spot at the Galleries at Moore and in Philadelphia. This from an email from Happy Fernandez: With sadness, I have accepted the resignation of Lorie Mertes as Moore’s Director and Chief Curator of The Galleries. She is resigning to move to Raleigh, North Carolina, due to her husband’s exciting new job change during the latter part of February. I have immensely enjoyed working with Lorie over these past 3 years and highly respect her creativity, vision, and effective ... More » »

Karen Finley, soccer mom, maker of ceramic hearts

One of the fiercest of the early women performance artists, Karen Finley, has just made a piece of public art that, well, lets just say it’s channeling her inner kitty cat.

Philagrafika–90 venues, holy smokes!

Philagrafika 2010, the largest international city-wide art festival in Philadelphia, celebrating the vitality of printmaking, opens this Friday, and with 90 different venues and events to consider; what’s an art lover to do?  Well, we’re going to help you here with some tips and picks.