Tag Archive "penn-design"
Alec Soth at Penn: road trips, stories and cell phone snapshots
Photographer Alec Soth–the man who personally redefined Minneapolis as an art mecca, came to Penn April 22 to talk about what he does.
Rhymes with both and windy
Kehinde Wiley‘s first name rhymes with windy. Alec Soth‘s second name rhymes with both. Last week they were both in town to talk about their art work and to listen to their names mangled over and over.
Barkley Hendricks talk at Penn
At a moment when black power has new meaning, and bell bottoms and lava lamps have had a resurgence, artist Barkley Hendricks came to Penn, sporting dark glasses layered atop a blue beret. His late afternoon talk yesterday comes in advance of the fall opening of his Birth of Cool exhibit at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (it just closed at the Studio Museum in Harlem and will stop in Santa Monica on its way to Philadelphia).
This week’s cornucopia of wonderful things to do
Hello artblog readers. This week’s overload of fabulous activities has even us flummoxed. We wish we could do it all! With three talks at Penn in two days, we want to give Penn the Yakkity Yak Award. TUESDAY MARCH 17 Gary Hill–NOTE: AS OF 2 PM MONDAY, MAR. 16, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Hill has been working with video and sound since 1973. His intermedia use of text, speech and image explore the physicality of language and our thought processes. Winner of a MacArthur Foundation Genius award in 1998, and winner of the Leone díOro Prize for Sculpture at ...
New collaborative residency for artist and writer–ArtsEdge
New residencies for an artist and a writer, with subsidized rent for for living and working space near Penn, were announced by Kelly Writers House and Penn Design. The ArtsEdge residencies will provide shared living and working space for an “emergent” writer and artist for a year. The goal is to inspire interdisciplinary exploration (and to bring the action close to Penn’s campus in West Philadelphia). The application is due by Aug. 8, 2008. Here’s more info from the press release: Residencies last for one year and include a dedicated studio for each writer/artist, shared living space, and close affiliation ...
Shifting visionary–Vito Acconci talks at Penn
A view of the Acconci exhibit at Slought, featuring a pink table designed by Acconci Studio and built by the guys out at Art Making Machine Studios. I’m sure the irony wasn’t lost on Vito Acconci, finding himself an honored guest at the University of Pennsylvania, just about nine years after the Penn rejected a radical Acconci Studio proposal for a 1 Percent for Art project on campus. The Penn powers that be weren’t quite comfortable with Acconci’s proposed little, shrub-covered African-looking huts for seating in front of the stores on 36th Street. (Acconci alluded to the African huts briefly ...
PAFA, Penn students strut their stuff this weekend
This year’s crop of graduating students at PAFA and Penn are starting things earlier than ever. Both schools have soirees this Friday, Feb. 8 to see their work in advance of Spring’s MFA and undergrad student shows. PAFA:Open Studio NightFriday Feb. 8 (rain date Feb. 15)5:30-8 pmHamilton Building, 128 N. Broad St. (use Cherry St. student entrance)More info: Rebecca Blough, 215 972 2199 or rblough@pafa.edu Sarah Squire, 215 972 2027 or ssquire@pafa.edu Penn:MFA Thesis Preview ShowFeb 4-22Opening reception: Friday Feb 8Meyerson Hall Gallery210 S. 34th St.215 898 8374student blog
Auction come-ons–sex and money
This in from Penn Design: LIVE NUDE ART BENEFIT AUCTION, UPENN And this in from the Print Center: WARNING: Graphic Content A contact high (have you walked down the street in Philadelphia, lately?) must have inspired two rather conservative organizations to play with titillating come-ons for their auctions. Not that sex and art is anything new. It’s just the surprise of who’s doing IT that made me take notice. Here’s the info on each: UPENN LIVE NUDE ART AUCTION Friday, November 30th 6-9 p.m.Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, University of PennsylvaniaAuction preview: Nov. 28 and 29, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. ...
Calendar alert: Richard Serra at Penn
Richard Serra at Gagosian in 2006. Sculptor Richard Serra, whose Brobdingnagian barricades and looming steles still manage to stun–even now that we know what to expect–is speaking Thursday, Oct. 25 at the University of Pennsylvania for the department of Penn Design, Meyerson Hall, B1, 5:30 p.m.
