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Quay Brothers’ Mutter movie misses

by Dennis D’Alesandro Upstairs in a large, fancy chamber of the storied Mutter Museum, the sold out crowd eagerly buzzed in anticipation of the world premier of the Quay Brothers‘ latest film, titled Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos and Afterbreezes in the Mutter Museum). Billed as the greatest coupling of subject matter and filmmaker that has ever been proposed in the history of art, surely the Quay’s dark-macabre style would present the strange and gruesome collections of the museum in a perfect mysterious pitch!

Weekly Update – Spring for grand openings everywhere

 This week’s Weekly has my Spring Roundup article.  Below is the copy with some pictures. Openings are de rigueur in the art world. But this spring grand openings trump all as Tyler School of Art launches its flagship space, Temple Gallery, in the school’s new building at 12th and Norris streets in North Philadelphia.

Woo hoo! A new episode of Look! It’s Libby and Roberta!

Thanks to our video guru, artiste extraordinaire David Kessler for this magical trip (if we do say so ourselves) through Joshua Mosley‘s and Anthony Campuzano‘s shows at ICA and through the micro-film sets of the Quay Brothers at Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery. You can see these shows at ICA until March 29; and at Rosenwald-Wolf until April 9. See previous videos in this series on our video page (link above in the nav bar).