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PMA chief Timothy Rub talks of change

Have you risked your life and your ankle crossing the Parkway to get from the Philadelphia Museum of Art to its annex? Do you wonder how the august institution, so slow to change, will embrace the digital era?

College Art Association Annual Meeting in Chicago; random thoughts

The plane to Chicago for the College Art Association (CAA) Annual Meeting left from a concourse I rarely use so I saw different art than usual  as part of the airport’s Exhibition Program,  which certainly provides the best distraction I’ve found at Philadelphia International Airport.  Nick Kripal’s Swarm was a terra cotta landscape of an alternative, multi-culti character with forms cribbed from the kitchen cabinets; what looked like a Moorish dome turned out to have been cast from a pudding mold!  I’d love to see him do animations based on them.

Events in Philadelphia and Elsewhere

An incomplete, biased and otherwise personal list of some of the events I hope to get to in the next two weeks: Tuesday, Feb.  2, 6 pm YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES, a Seoul based web-art group, will be speaking at Temple where their work is part of Philagrafika. 126 AUDITORIUM, Temple University Architecture building,  1947 North 12th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122 Free and open to the public Who wouldn’t want to hear from artists who did a web piece called CUNNILINGUS IN N0RTH K0REA?  You can see it, and more of their work at their site.

Thursday morning reading

Great Q&A with PMA’s new director, Timothy Rub at Lee Rosenbaum’s Culture Grrl blog.  The questions deal with money, and specifically about re-directing funds from one pot (acquisitions) to another (capital) when Rub was at the Cleveland Museum of Art.  It bears mentioning that the PMA will be undergoing a big capital plan soon, the big dig under the East Plaza directed by architect Frank Gehry that will house the redesign of the Modern and Contemporary galleries. Thanks to Donn Zaretsky for the steer.

Monday morning reading assignment

The Philadelphia Museum of Art has a new leader, Timothy Rub, 57, former CEO of the Cleveland Museum of Art.  Here’s the link to the Inquirer story in case you missed it. And to press your paranoia buttons, here’s a link to a chilling column by Monica Yant Kinney about artist Justin Nagtalon at T&P Fine Arts in South Philadelphia and how his show of non-grafitti art got seized by the Philadelphia police without a warrant in what seems to be a case of police stalking using the internet.