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Weekly Update – Frida Kahlo and Lee Miller at the PMA

This week’s Weekly has my review of the Frida Kahlo show with mention of Lee Miller, also at the PMA, and a note about additional programming in the corridor on the way to the Miller show. For more on the shows see Libby’s post and Andrea’s post.Frida Kahlo’s works reflect her revolutionary spirit. Frida Kahlo, The Broken Column/La columna rota, 1944, (Museo Dolores Olmedo, Xochimilco, Mexico City) © 2007 Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust. Av. Cinco de Mayo No. 2, Col. Centro, Del. Cuauhtémoc, 06059, México D.F. Since feminists rediscovered her in the ’60s, Frida ... More » »

Weekly Update – Facts and Fantasies at Moore

This week’s Weekly has my review of Facts Fantasies and Fictions at the Galleries at Moore. Below is the copy with some pictures. More photos at flickr.Paint MisbehavingMoore’s narrative art show is slippery and subversive. Sarah McEneaney, looking regal, in a new work at Moore College’s Facts, Fantasies and Fictions. Narrative art takes a well deserved bow in “Facts, Fantasies and Fictions” at the Galleries at Moore. The paintings by Sarah McEneaney and Christian Curiel, and video art by Matthew Suib, are three stops on a visual merry-go-round where human life is presented against lush landscapes or forlorn atmospheric wastelands. ... More » »

The week that was

A lot of openings in the last two weekends. I didn’t make them all but I’m going to run some pictures here with some links and say get out there and look around. So much to see so little time. PAFA, Oct. 19, 2006 Libby and I made it to the opening of Steven Power‘s show in PAFA‘s Morris Gallery but didn’t make Space is the Place (Outgoing PAFA Contemporary Art Curator Alex Baker‘s co-curated show also at PAFA). It’s up for a while and sounds good so we’ll be back for sure. Steve Powers, right, and Brian Campbell, doing ... More » »

Friday quick hit on Monday

Vox Populi’s new neon sign in the window of their new home at 319 N. 11th St. The place was jammed with happy folk when we stopped in at 8:30. Libby and I and Andrea Kirsh did the walk-around in Old City and Chinatown Friday evening and had a grand time. This is a small photo post of things that stood out. Kelly Ann Gartland sculptural couple at the UArts Senior Thesis Exhibit. Havana Lofts, 301, 303, 307 N. 3rd St. Artist and Vox Populi board member, Sarah McEneaney, selling raffle tickets at Vox’s grand re-opening. Jim Houser goes bigger, ... More » »

Sarah McEneaney at Tibor De Nagy: Everything means something, every inch.

[Ed note: I asked poet and Penn Writing Fellow Thomas Devaney if we could reprint his catalog essay for Sarah McEneaney’s current solo show at Tibor De Nagy Gallery in New York. (The show's up now through June 2.) Devaney and McEneaney graciously agreed to let us post the essay. See the gallery’s website and McEneaney’s page on missioncreep for more images. See our index for more artblog posts on McEneaney.] SARAH MCENEANEY: RECENT HISTORYBy Thomas Devaney Watsonville (2005) You don’t so much control as work with your materials, which inevitably include yourself, whatever may be your most intimate facts.—Bill ... More » »