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News Roundup: Knight Arts Challenge, LOOK! Lancaster Ave, new Barnes logo

News Philadelphia Knight Arts Challenge Year 2 The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is opening up their second year of applications for the Philadelphia Knight Arts Challenge. They are investing $9 million over three years in ideas that engage and enrich Philadelphia arts and culture. In the first year, 36 ideas were awarded a total of $2.7 million… including artblog’s own Art Safaris! Applications for the Knight Arts Challenge will be accepted from October 3 – 31, 2011. Be sure to visit the Knight Arts website on October 3 to find out how to submit your idea!

On Hidden City bus tour, Philly sparkles

I was trying to wrap my arms and mind around Hidden City, the arts events through June organized by Perigrine Arts, in off-the-radar, fabulous buildings around the city. The events are by a mix of international and Philadelphia artists, and the festival (I think it’s fair to call it one), like any such event, has so much going on, it’s a little hard to digest it all.

Shoot out over censorship at Art Institute

Steven Earl Weber, Might Makes Right, 2006, ceramic, etched and painted glass, one of Steven Earl Weber’s pieces protesting gun violence We’ve been getting emails for a couple of days now about a censored piece of art at the Art Institute Gallery. The exhibit, Killing Time, curated by 32 Art Institute students under the direction of the teacher Patrick Coue, opens tonight, reception 4:30 to 7:30, featuring work by six artists–Lauren Rossi, Jaime Alvarez, Steven Earl Weber, David Kessler, Tommy Reynolds, Katherine Kesslering and Joan Smith. Our first alert about the censorship came from the artist whose work is in ... More » »

Bambi, no Thumper

Steven Earl Weber’s Closets and Confessionals, installation with ceramic, found objects, plaster, iconographic figurines Bambi‘s large gallery space in Fishtown on Frankford Ave. has been in the business of showing art, jewelry and craft items for a while now and I finally made it up there on Friday. Steven Earl Weber‘s Confessionals were the draw, an installation of 6 phone-booth sized rooms with doors, each equipped with sinful or perhaps guilt-producing items (there’s a peephole through which you see a porn movie in one; another is filled with small cast plaster religious figurines). Another view of the installation. There’s a ... More » »