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News: West Collects (with the mayor), 3rd Ward in Philly,Tina Barney lecture and more!
News West Collection launches $300,000 art acquisition project–$100,000 set aside for Philly artists It was all about money outside City Hall the other day as Occupy Phladelphia protested economic issues; and it was all about money inside, too, when Paige West, with Mayor Nutter by her side, announced plans for a $300,000 arts acquisition project on the part of the West Collection, with $100,000 earmarked for Philadelphia artists. “West Collects” has no fee to apply, and the winners will be selected in April 2012. Any artists over the age of eighteen working in painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, installation or video mediums ... More » »
Weekly Update 2 – Fall Guide
This week’s Weekly has my fall guide piece about what’s hot this fall in the art scene. Below’s the copy with some pictures. More at flickr And for pictures of the ICA show, here and for the Perelman building here. PAIRED DOWNExhibits on music, food and lace come in twos.Two is the operative number this fall, with several well-paired shows offering a double-dip of art. Two music-filled exhibits will be hot stuff for the ears; two photography shows on food (and eaters) contemplate hunger and excess; and two shows on lace raise thoughts about the fabric of life. Also gamely ... More » »
Enter here! the Perelman has access
Post by Andrea Kirsh If the PMA’s original building, with its classical pediment and columns, presents itself as a temple of art, the new Perelman Building, designed so it’s flooded with natural light, speaks about access; access not only to art but to study about art. This is particularly clear in the part of the building originally inhabited by Fidelity Life Insurance. It houses four areas devoted to public learning: a teacher’s resource room, a library, and two study rooms: one for prints, drawings and photographs, the other for costumes and textiles. You don’t have to be in a PhD ... More » »
Perelman Chronicles-square footage galore
The Exhibition Gallery (no name? waiting for a sponsor perhaps?) which now houses a show of sculpture. At 4,020 sq. ft, the new Exhibition Gallery in the Perelman Building –the one with the sculpture exhibit — is one of the biggest exhibit spaces in the city. The ICA’s cavern is undoubedtly bigger — but it has such a different feel I don’t want to compare it. What this space does resembe, in its generous rectangular space uninterrupted by support columns, is the Icebox Project Space at the Crane, which, at 5,000 sq. ft. is just a little bit bigger. The ... More » »
Perelman Chronicles, part 2
Aerial view of the PMA and the new Perelman Building–photo courtesy of the PMA. Click image to go to flickr and see my notes which tell what is what and where you are in space. Libby began artblog‘s Perelman Chronicles with her post about the PMA’s new building. I will take you on a little photo tour and drop a few facts into the fray. But first, I want to remind you of the hard-hat tour we took a scant year ago (March, 2006) where the place was so not ready for prime time it’s hard to believe how swank ... More » »
Peek at Perelman
Press listening as they stand in the Skylit Galleria of the Art Museum’s new addition, the Perelman Building The thrill shined through this morning at the press opening for the new Perelman Building addition to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. “I stand here pinching myself quite hard,” normally unflappable PMA Director Anne d’Harnoncourt declared into the microphone to a crowd of cameras, microphones and people, all gathered in the Skylit Galleria. A ribbon cutting ceremony Sept. 15 will mark the opening of the new Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building to the public, she said. more press, Skylit Galleria, and ... More » »
