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2010 Liberta awards!
It may be a recession year, but 2010 saw a whole lot of good art stuff happening in Philadelphia. Here’s our annual awards roundup! 6 best shows of 2010 that we saw: Mika Rottenberg @Mary Boone Paul Outlaw and Jennifer Catron’s The Honeymooners @Grizzly Grizzly Value City @Little Berlin Failure to Show @Extra Extra Philagrafika @Temple Gallery (especially for Heavy Industries) Bauhaus @MoMA
Ryan Trecartin wins Wolgin Prize
Ryan Trecartin, maker of weirdly wonderful videos that disturb by channeling today’s culture and parodying it back, won the first $150,000 Wolgin Prize for art tonight at a ceremony at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art.
Our town rediscovers its inner Calder
Hey, did you see yesterday’s Philadelphia Inquirer front-pager on the long lost Calder banners (created for Centre Square)? It’s an instructive lesson on the vagaries of public art and it’s a jolly good sleuthing story, with Susan Davis, ex-director of public art at the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority playing the part of Nancy Drew. And that’s the second part of the story. I didn’t even know Susan Davis had left her long-held position six weeks ago. I wonder what’s up with that!!!! And the third part of the story is that this is part of the groundbreaking Jack Wolgin public art ... More » »
Art lover Jack Wolgin hits one out of the ballpark for Tyler School of Art and Philly!
The largest art prize in the world was announced by Temple University, today. Philadelphia real estate developer, culture lover and philanthropist Jack Wolgin, 92, has promised $3.7 million to Temple’s Tyler School of Art, to endow the annual international award in the visual arts. Jack Wolgin, Sargent Architectural Photography. The $150,000 Wolgin International Prize in the Fine Arts will go to one artist a year, nominated by international nominators and selected by a jury. The artist will also be the subject of an exhibition at Tyler’s slick new Main Campus digs. The very first of those exhibits is scheduled for ... More » »
