Tag Archive "woodmere-art-museum"
News – FiberPhiladelphia, new Woodmere curator, art replaces nightclubs, and more!
News FiberPhiladelphia gets underway March is fast approaching, and so are a number of events as part of FiberPhiladelphia, the annual Philadelphia textile and fiber arts festival. In fact, Mayor Nutter will kick off the March 2 ceremony at Moore College of Art and Design by proclaiming March 2012 as Fiber Arts Month. The first event is the opening of In Material: Fiber 2012 on Friday, January 27 at Arthur Ross Gallery. New curator at Woodmere Matthew U. Palczynski is the new curator at the Woodmere Art Museum. Palczynski was most recently the Staff Lecturer for Western Art at the Philadelphia Museum of ... More » »
Philadelphia Painting Story at Woodmere
Since that wonderful 1940 George Cukor movie, The Philadelphia Story, the phrase Philadelphia Story has become a punning way for media outside our fair city to report on our doings. artnet.com had a column called Philadelphia Story that I wrote for several years. And here’s a recent Philadelphia story on a Cleveland website — it’s about the Phillies.
Weekly Update – Missing Masters at Woodmere
This week’s Weekly has my review of the Lewis Tanner Moore collection exhibit In Search of Missing Masters at Woodmere. Below is the copy with some photos. More pictures at flickr. Claude Clark, We Are Sisters, 1949 Lewis Tanner Moore’s collection of African-American art, on view at Woodmere Art Museum, is chock full of great work by artists whose names you’ve probably never heard and whose art you’ve probably never seen. Raymond Steth, Institution Series #1, 1980. lithograph African-American artists are often excluded from the mainstream art world. A local collector and the grandnephew of Postimpressionist painter Henrey Ossawa Tanner, ... More » »
A whole lot of artists at Woodmere
Alexis Granwell’s Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart There’s enough critical mass at the Woodmere Art Museum to pull a devoted sidewalk stomper to the almost-burbs of Chestnut Hill. What got me out there first of all was the Emerging Artists Series show, in conjunction with the Center for Emerging Visual Artists, with works from Christopher Hartshorne and Hiro Sakaguchi. But the surprise for me was the excellence of the 67th Annual Juried Exhibition, with 68 pieces in the show (67 plus one for good luck?). Juried by installation artist Polly Apfelbaum, the show skews contemporary, and the quality is ... More » »
Numbers at Woodmere
This just in from Heike Rass-Paulmier at Woodmere Art Museum. More than 600 people attended the opening for the Annual Juried Exhibition and Emerging Artists Series: Christopher Hartshorne and Hiro Sakaguchi at the Woodmere last week. Both shows run through March 4. Admission to the Museum is free. For more information visit or call 215-247-0476. Additional numbers Hiro Sakaguchi, for his part of the exhibit, recruited 35 artists to participate in his Picture Journal Project a project in which friends and acquaintances of Sakaguchi’s were invited by him to create journals with drawings and words about their everyday happenings last ... More » »
Photographing identity
Clarissa Sligh’s photograph of Jake, back when she was Deb, from the series Jake in Transition Although Roberta and I went to the Woodmere Museum’s second Triennial of Contemporary Photography a week ago, I am still pondering some of what I saw, namely the photographs and text by Clarissa Sligh. Sligh, who teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, documented the transformation of someone born a woman who was so sure she was really a man that she underwent sex-change surgery and hormone treatments. The photos of Jake are sometimes breathtakingly beautiful, sometimes hard to look at even from the corner ... More » »
