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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. ... More » »

Taken With Time: Big visions at The Print Center

Vera Lutter, 30th Street Station, Philadelphia IV: April 20, 2006, 50 3/8 x 146 inches, commissioned by the Print Center, ©Vera Lutter, 2006 Thinking big, The Print Center invited internationally known artists Vera Lutter, Abelardo Morrell and Ann Hamilton to photograph Philadelphia with cameras obscura. Two of the artists, Lutter and Morrell, made enormous, thoroughly contemporary images of great visual, psychic and physical impact. Hamilton made a number of more modest images that reflected a sense of Philadelphia’s own aesthetic traditions. The two big ones blew me away. Lutter, who was born in Germany and trained there as a sculptor ... More » »