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News: Pew Fellows, new Art Alliance director, Lancaster Ave. storefront opportunity and more!
News 2011 Pew Fellows announced-Congratulations! The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage has announced its Pew Fellowships in the Arts recipients for 2011: Charles Cohen (electronic musician and composer) CAConrad (poet) Jorge Cousineau (set designer) Joy Feasley (visual artist) Chris Forsyth (guitarist and composer) Jane Irish (visual artist) Tania Isaac (choreographer) Pattie McCarthy (poet) Brian Philips (architect) Tim Portlock (visual artist) Matthew Suib (visual artist) Jamaaladeen Tacuma (visual artist free-jazz bassist, composer, and band leader)
Jared Diamond – Collapse and political will at the Philomathean Society’s annual talk
Irvine Auditorium was full for UCLA physiology professor Jared Diamond‘s talk last week. The talk was the Philomathean Society‘s Annual Oration on the theme of water, and the Pulitizer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and Steel (1997) talked about the role of water management in the collapse of civilizations. As topical as tsunami or Hurricane Katrina, water management, done well, as it is in Iceland or the Netherlands can help a society flourish for thousands of years. Mis-managed, as it was for years in New Orleans’ inadequate levee system the result is billions of dollars of reparations and a ... More » »
‘Tell All’: Marie Ulmer at U Arts and an exhibition of broadsides by 15 small presses at Kelly Writers House
92-year old Fishtown resident, Marie Ulmer, studied at Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Design, the predecessor of University of the Arts, and was a long-time illustrator at the Free Library. Tell All, which can be seen through Oct. 14 at U Arts’ 817 Gallery (on the 8th floor of the Anderson Building, 222 S. Broad St.) is her first solo exhibition, and long overdue.
100 Years of Futurism: Conference at Penn
Umberto Boccioni, caricature of the Futurist serata held in Treviso on 2 June 1911, reproduced in Uno, due, tre, 17 June 1911. The Center for Italian Studies and the History of Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania and the Slought Foundation are holding a two-day international conference Futurism: Rupture and Tradition, on Friday, November 21, 9:30am-6:00pm and Saturday, November 22, 9:30-12:00pm. It will be held at Slought. In addition to artist Luca Buvoli (see image below), the speakers will include Jeffrey Schnapp, Luca Somigli, Ara H. Merjian, Jonathan Steinberg, Christine Poggi, Stefania Benini, Marion Kant, Maria Elena Versari, Paolo ... More » »
Shifting visionary–Vito Acconci talks at Penn
A view of the Acconci exhibit at Slought, featuring a pink table designed by Acconci Studio and built by the guys out at Art Making Machine Studios. I’m sure the irony wasn’t lost on Vito Acconci, finding himself an honored guest at the University of Pennsylvania, just about nine years after the Penn rejected a radical Acconci Studio proposal for a 1 Percent for Art project on campus. The Penn powers that be weren’t quite comfortable with Acconci’s proposed little, shrub-covered African-looking huts for seating in front of the stores on 36th Street. (Acconci alluded to the African huts briefly ... More » »
J’accuse the University of Pennsylvania and Campus Apartments
The University of Pennsylvania and Campus Apartments are fencing me in. They are making my life miserable by putting dumpsters right next to my backyard and deck and by building the ugliest fence on earth to ameliorate the first act. Let’s face it. Two wrongs do not make a right. I’m madder than a hornet, and upset, besides. p.s. they don’t return my calls. I sent this letter to the University City Review today as a last resort in a desperate situation: For 34 years, I have been able to enjoy my small deck and small garden unassaulted by fetid ... More » »
Documenta 12: Mass intellectuality coming soon!
Documenta 12 artistic director Roger Buergel and curator Ruth Noack. Photo by Marianne Menke Documenta 12 artistic director Roger M. Buergel came to town, Thursday, and it was an Ascot moment. Everyone who should be there was there. The talk on a seemingly abstruse subject–Migration of Form–attracted local curators and art lovers, from Julie Courtney to Anabelle Rodriguez. People desperate for seats first sat in the aisles and then stood in the little space that was left at a lecture room at the University of Pennsylvania. Buergel turned out to be a slight, Euro/intellectual looking guy with short-short hair, sporting ... More » »
