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Weekly Update 1 – Holiday the global way

This week’s Weekly is the Holiday Guide issue including my holiday art round-up. Below is the copy with extra pictures. Holiday DiversityArt with a global sauce. As we celebrate Thanksgiving with ritual turkey and pumpkin pie feasting, there are a few exhibitions like the salsas, chutneys and rice dishes that also grace some American tables this time of year. Henry Bermudez. Catalog cover. This is Projects Gallery’s second show this year with a catalog. It’s a great idea for the show, for the gallery and for the artist. Henry Bermudez’s “Fragmented Dream” at Projects Gallery and Xiang Yang’s “Beyond the ... More » »

Victor Grippo’s pile o’ potatoes

Victor Grippo’s pile o’ potatoesOriginally uploaded by libbyrosof. Posted by Roberta and Libby A banquet table of 700 pounds of potatoes dominates the center of the room in the new contemporary art installation, Energy Yes!, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. We ate ‘em up. The piece is interactive, with a button that lets you measure the amount of energy the potatoes are generating through the maze of wires that droop above the table. The piece, Analogia I (second version), 1977, is on loan from the estate of the late Argentinian artist, Victor Grippo. Carlos Basualdo told us he’d be ... More » »