Tag Archive "the-galleries-at-moore"
Yumi Kori and Devon Dikeou at Moore–the sea and the fashionista
Yumi Kori, ututane, 2009, detail, site-specific mixed media video and sound installation Japanese architect and artist Yumi Kori’s installation, utatane, at Moore College of Art and Design‘s Goldie Paley Gallery, delivers the experience of the ocean and limitlessness in a pair of enormous video projections and surround sound. Just when Kori was expected to install, however, the ocean experience was a bit too real in the gallery. A pipe on the third floor froze and cracked, pouring water into the gallery space and pushing back the installation by several days. Yumi Kori, ututane, 2009, detail, site-specific mixed media video and ... More » »
A conversation with Lorie Mertes at Moore
Lorie Mertes, Rochelle F. Levy Director and Chief Curator, the Galleries at Moore; picture taken by Anthony Campuzano was in Art Forum and dates to a couple of years ago, when Mertes was director of the Fabric Workshop and Museum It’s tough to exhibit gowns without mannequins. But Lorie Mertes, the curator at The Galleries at Moore, didn’t have them, and the exhibit Mary McFadden: Goddesses, was approaching fast. Mertes said she called the Philadelphia Museum of Art; no luck–they were using theirs. She called the Allentown Museum; they could lend her only three. “I called everyone.” One of the ... More » »
Women’s Work
Lee Miller Self-Portrait in Headband, New York (1932), Lee Miller Archives © Lee Miller Archives, England 2008. All rights reserved. The last time Miller posed as a fashion model for Vogue she was the photographer as well. The credit ran photographer: Lee Miller, model: MISS LEE MILLER (COIFFURE BY DIMITRI) There’s a confluence of exhibitions in or coming to Philadelphia that raise overlapping questions about women’s agency, their representation and self-presentation. They’ve also got me thinking about the extent to which one should consider biography in assessing artwork, something I’m not inclined to do. The Art of Lee Miller opened ... More » »
