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Enrique Chagoya’s The Headache – Gone from Rosenbach, now at The Print Center

Enrique Chagoya spent months working with Cindy Etinger’s studio and Silicon Fine Art Prints to make “The Headache,” a complicated multi-process digital print which is part of the Philagrafika festival. Chagoya’s print — a social commentary about President Obama and his health care headaches — is based on a work owned by the Rosenbach Museum and Library, a print called The Headache by 19th Century caricaturist, illustrator and social satirist George Cruickshank.

Maira Kalman meets Abe Lincoln at the Rosenbach

Maira Kalman went to the Rosenbach Museum and Library, and there began her love affair with Abraham Lincoln. Check out her wonderful response to Lincoln, drawings and all, in the New York Times. Maira Kalman records how she fell in love with Abe Lincoln

Picture Books: Sendak on Sendak and Beyond This Time and Place: Children’s Books in England

Maurice Sendak preliminary design for cover of Where the Wild Things Are (1963), courtesy Rosenbach Museum and Library, © Maurice Sendak I love illustrated books; they’re one of the ancillary pleasures of being around small children. Art historians have lots of books with pictures but they’re not the same. By luck or intention, two exhibitions currently in Philadelphia present a wonderful range of illustrated books for children. Maurice Sendak, illustration from Where the Wild Things Are (1963) © Maurice Sendak The Rosenbach Museum and Library has drawn on it’s archive of the artist’s work to present the major retrospective exhibition, ... More » »

Weekly Update – Martha Colburn at the Rosenbach Museum

This week’s Weekly has my review of Martha Colburn’s video animation Don’t Shoot the Weatherman at Rosenbach Museum and Library. Below is the copy with some pictures. See Libby’s post for more.Apocalypse Now and ThenA music video finds modern echoes in a 15th-century manuscript. Colburn’s aesthetic is a choppy melange of old source material and today’s catalogs for house beautiful. It works although you wouldn’t think so. Martha Colburn’s animation Don’t Kill the Weatherman! at the Rosenbach Museum and Library is a music video with medieval chops. Using scans of an apocalyptic 15th-century French manuscript mixed with gas-guzzling, eco-destroying 21st-century ... More » »

Persistence of cultures–The Chosen at the Rosenbach

Joseph ben David, of Leipnick, scribe. Birkhat Hamazon and other blessings: manuscript. Darmstadt, 1732. While I was at the Rosenbach, I also took a look at The Chosen, an exhibit of Philadelphia Hebraica that was pretty amazing, with books and pages and scrolls from as far back as the 11th century. Among the items that stunned me were intricate micrographic marginalia, some of it used to create patterns. Micrographic writing is part of the Hebrew text tradition, and if you’re a fan of Jacob el Hanani, who has some work up right now at Gallery Joe, this is the place ... More » »

Don’t Kill the Weatherman!–Martha Colburn at the Rosenbach

Martha Colburn, Don’t Kill the Weatherman!Take a look at the sweet, witty video installation linking global warming to Medieval fears of Apocalypse now, installed in the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia. A reception and talk by the artist, the multi-talented Martha Colburn, takes place this afternoon (Wednesday, July 18), 5:30-7:30 p.m. The video, Don’t Kill the Weatherman!, was inspired by the medieval manuscript, Three Pilgrimages, by Guillaume de Deguileville, one of the works in the Rosenbach’s collection. The three stories in the richly illustrated manuscript are (my translation), the Pilgrimage of Life, the Pilgrimage of the Soul, and the ... More » »