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Untitled on Collecting

Jonathan Schipper’s slow motion car crash, powered by hydraulic cylinders. The two cars are on tracks, and the movement/destruction is so slow that to see the progress, people have to revisit the piece over time. The big news at a forum about collecting Tuesday was that that art collector Paige West was working on getting artist Jonathan Schipper’s slo-mo car crash installed in a public space in Philadelphia! The forum, featuring West, of The West Collection in Oaks, Pa. and founder of Mixed Greens; Christian Viveros-Faune, art critic and co-director of New York’s Volta and Chicago’s Next art fairs; artist ... More » »

Tonight–Paige West at Moore College

Paige West heads the hottest corporate contemporary art collection in the region and maybe the country, the West Collection. She and collection Director Lee Stoetzel are on a panel tonight at Moore College, speaking about the art of collecting. The panel also includes art critic Christian Viveros-Faune, who is also co-director of the commercial art fairs Volta in New York and Next in Chicago. The panel will be moderated by Lorie Mertes, director of The Galleries at Moore! We know this is short notice, but the panel sounds stellar–we’re going. By the way, West is also the founder of Mixed ... More » »

Untitled forum at Jaskey a first

A drawing by Matt Fisher in The Drawing Narrative, the exhibit now up at Jenny Jaskey Gallery; photo taken by Robert Fallon In the middle of artist Matt Fisher‘s talk last week, I thought, gee, this is interesting. So I pulled out a pad and started taking notes. Matt was speaking at Untitled, Jenny Jaskey Gallery‘s brand new forum on contemporary art that she hopes will help “people to appreciate (and buy!) contemporary art (and works made locally!),” Jaskey wrote us in an email. This first event, organized around her current exhibit The Drawing Narrative, featured talks by Fisher, Pennsylvania ... More » »