Tag Archive "sid-sachs"
Women of Pop – you saw the show, now read the book and watch the dvd
Sid Sachs has been writing artists into the art history record for as long as we’ve known him. Tom Nozkowski (at least a decade before he got regular and deserved coverage), Chris Martin, Ree Morton, Rosalyn Drexler– those are a few of the names we knew first through Sachs, who championed them as curator of the UArts gallery, Rosenwald-Wolf.
2010 Liberta awards!
It may be a recession year, but 2010 saw a whole lot of good art stuff happening in Philadelphia. Here’s our annual awards roundup! 6 best shows of 2010 that we saw: Mika Rottenberg @Mary Boone Paul Outlaw and Jennifer Catron’s The Honeymooners @Grizzly Grizzly Value City @Little Berlin Failure to Show @Extra Extra Philagrafika @Temple Gallery (especially for Heavy Industries) Bauhaus @MoMA
Book review – Q&A’s done well, Mineral Spirits, Thomas Nozkowski, Paul Cava
Exhibition catalogs often include an interview with the artist along with an in-depth essay or two. Of course there’s also those glossy color plates like eye candy — all of which makes these documentary books fabulous to look at and read and useful in extending the life of the show. Two recent catalogs (and one show brochure ) that do the Q&A well are the ICA’s slim, notebook-like volume, “Mineral Spirits,” for the Anne Chu and Matthew Monahan exhibit (closing Sunday, Dec. 5); “Thomas Nozkowski,” the catalog for the artist’s exhibit at Pace (closing Saturday, Dec. 4); and “Paul Cava ... More » »
Sunday this and that
Amazing, thoughtful review of Sid Sachs’ Seductive Subversion show (originating at Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery and now at the Brooklyn Museum) by Ken Johnson in Friday’s NY Times. The show is Sachs’ original scholarship on the Women of Pop era, long unsung and overlooked.
Bob Cozzolino and Sid Sachs discuss public art on artblog radio
This episode sponsored by Museum Without Walls™: AUDIO, a program of the Fairmount Park Art Association Curators Bob Cozzolino of PAFA and Sid Sachs of Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery talk about the good, the bad and the importance of public art. Below is the 30-second sample clip. And below that is the full 15-minute interview. 30 second sample of sid and bob
Next week on artblog radio – a discourse on public art
Episode 4 next Monday features Curators Bob Cozzolino of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Sid Sachs of Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery in a heady discussion about public art. In the short sample below, hear Sid opine that money should not be spent just to spend money because it spawns a lot of bad art. Hear Bob asking Sid to name some bad public art in Philadelphia… Listen to the entire episode on Sept. 13. Curators Bob Cozzolino and Sid Sachs talk about public art — 28 second sample
What we need — a little rant about some big things
Post by Sid Sachs Sid Sachs, Director of Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Uarts faculty (and friend of artblog whose mind is always ruminating in interesting places) was provoked by my post on Ann Northrup’s mural. Specifically by this: “the head of the Mural Arts Program, Jane Golden, was in Vietnam helping that government launch a mural program and how great it was that she was bringing her successful experience here to other parts of the world.” In response Sid wrote a free verse rant that raises a lot of issues about murals, and the city’s arts and culture institutions and the future ... More » »
2007 Liberta awards!
Belknap Brothers perform at FLUXspace. PREAMBLEIt was a year of utopian thinking with ambitious new venues run by young artists just out of school. In addition, several community-spirited galleries found their voice. Welcome to all of you builders of a better world: Bobos, Basho, Rebecca Templeton, FluxSpace, Yo!, Little Berlin, !, Midwives Collective, The Other Woman, The Seed Collective, etc. etc. etc. These real collectives put Second Life to shame and show it to be a chimera of the internet. We at artblog are realists and activists. We know the Philadelphia art world has blossomed into an international art destination ... More » »
