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News: The Other Art Fair, Gallatin and #Occupytheory, Art Writing at AUX, and more!
News Other Art Fair cuts out middleman The Other Art Fair launches in London on November 25 and bills itself as a direct way for artists to sell to collectors. The fair is unlike others because it allows for the 100 chosen artists to offer their work directly to the public. Artists showcase their work to collectors, curators and gallerists on their own terms, and that is definitely a unique and refreshing approach.
News: West Collects (with the mayor), 3rd Ward in Philly,Tina Barney lecture and more!
News West Collection launches $300,000 art acquisition project–$100,000 set aside for Philly artists It was all about money outside City Hall the other day as Occupy Phladelphia protested economic issues; and it was all about money inside, too, when Paige West, with Mayor Nutter by her side, announced plans for a $300,000 arts acquisition project on the part of the West Collection, with $100,000 earmarked for Philadelphia artists. “West Collects” has no fee to apply, and the winners will be selected in April 2012. Any artists over the age of eighteen working in painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, installation or video mediums ... More » »
West Prize winner rides for cows
When the West Collection decided to change up the West Prize and give the $25,000 purse to a project and not just to an artist, they truly changed the nature of the prize. The winner of the grand prize, Billie Grace Lynn, was announced at the West Collection earlier this evening (Thursday, April 21). She will be using her prize money to fund a project to educate people about cruelty to farm animals. Her piece, ”Mad Cow Motorcycle”, 2008, a motorcycle made of a cow skeleton that the artist rides as part of her educational performances, is already being used for ... More » »
News roundup – West Collection and Tiger Strikes to move, Jennifer Levonian to talk and Ai Wei Wei’s Slought connection
Imagine the Rubell Collection or the Scholl Collection, two of Miami’s premier private museums, right here in Philadelphia. We just learned that The West Collection is actively searching for a big space for displaying some of the larger pieces in their fabulous and expanding collection of contemporary art. We bumped into the Director Lee Stoetzel at the Fairmount Park Art Association’s annual meeting, and he confirmed the organization’s interest in finding a space large enough to display some of the collection’s larger pieces. They’ve been looking in Northern Liberties he said. West is the Barnes of today, integrating its edgy ... More » »
And the winner is – West Prize to Ryan McLennan
We tooled out to the West Collection at SEI with Cate on Friday afternoon to see the 10 finalists for the 2010 West Prize. It was the day on which the big prize would be announced, so we used the opportunity to play a guessing game on who would win. We hadn’t a clue, but that didn’t stop us from handicapping. Cate hadn’t been to the corporate campus so we got the added pleasure of a tour with Director Lee Stoetzel, who took us around to see not only the finalists but the collection as well.
West Prize 2008–apply online now!
Drew Leshko, 2006, Negro Church, South Carolina, 1936 after Walker Evans, Lambda print. 18×13 1/2″ Leshko’s piece is included in the West Collection. This just in (and thanks Drew Leshko for the heads up!) The West Collection — that innovative outfit supporting emerging artists since 1996 — has instituted a prize! The West Prize is a purse of $100,000 to be split among 10 finalists, money earmarked for acquisitions to the West Collection. There’s an open call for submissions right now — apply on the Collection’s website. The ten finalists will be featured in an exhibit TEN — with publication ... More » »
West Collection takes on the future…
Alex Da Corte, 2008, Accessory, acrylic fingernails, nail polish, sequins, pins, earings, seed beads, Swarovski crystals, glitter, foam, metal rod on rotating mirror base, 62 x 20 x 20” What do Alex Da Corte’s fabulous Accessory snake and Norm Paris’ Michael Jordan Save the World have in common besides Philadelphia origins? They were both featured in a curated 18-artist group show “Versions of Reality,” at last weekend’s NEXT art fair in Chicago. The pieces in the exhibit are all from the West Collection. We knew West had bought the Paris piece, but we didn’t know that they also owned the ... More » »
Some news, some olds
Norm Paris, Michael Jordan, Save the World Norm Paris’ fabulous piece Michael Jordan, Save the World is now included in the West Collection, the amazing but little-known collection of contemporary artists in Oaks, Pennsylvania. The sculptural installation, depicting multiple Michael Jordans leaping up to catch bombs before they explode, got its first big exposure in a Fleisher Challenge in 2005. Jenny Jaskey announced in her gallery newsletter that the piece will be shown in future exhibitions organized through the collection’s loan program. and…[this is now a corrected version] Penn MFAAndrew Prayzner, whose work we’ve been watching since the Voxennial (2005, ... More » »
