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News – Bambi pop-up show, RAW 2011 winners, FiberPhiladelphia, and more!

News Bambi Gallery pop-up show The Bambi Gallery is back with a pop-up show at Projects Gallery in Northern Liberties to kick off the New Year. They have had some tough luck this year with floods, foreclosure, theft, and bad landlords, but 2012 is sure to be better. Featured artists at the exhibition will include: Jim Garvey, Bonnie Brenda Scott, Stacey lee Webber,  and Matthew Osborne.  

‘What in the World?’ at the Penn Museum, Print Invitational at Little Berlin, ‘Dead Flowers’ at Vox Populi

For the past couple decades ever more museums have invited artists into their store rooms to curate exhibitions: in an early example, the RISD Museum invited Andy Warhol; MoMA asked Chuck Close and Scott Burden; and Fred Wilson has made a career of the practice.  The results have almost always been interesting.  Artists, of course, have their own questions of and approaches to objects and collections and it’s always enlightening to see familiar things in unexpected ways.

Singing President’s Day Greeting from Tim Pannell

Screen grab from Tim Pannell’s animation, Mr. President. Here’s the best Presidents’ Day greeting ever — Tim Pannell’s singing George and Abe, joined at the end by Ben and other American allstars, with a message to our current George — wake up and smarten up already. Here’s the link to the animated video. (It loads a little slowly so be patient. And the rousing chorus at the end is worth the wait). Pannell does the animation as well as his own music — composition, singing, instrumentation and all. I did a studio visit with the recent RISD grad and Philadelphia ... More » »