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Talk: Documentary PIX of Philadelphia at the Free Library

Today’s your last chance to do a truly civic feel-good thing–bid in a silent auction on a photo or print to help support the Free Library’s Prints and Pictures Collection.

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

Chelsea – We look high and low and run into friends

It was a day of big sculpture installations and unexpected encounters with friends. Cate ran around with us in Chelsea. We also had a gastro-incident and a gastro-delight: At our usual eatery, Pepe Giallo, the little Italian place at 253 10th Ave, we hadn’t even ordered when our wait person came to us and said they couldn’t take our order because the NY Dept of Health had just walked in to do a surprise kitchen check. We hope they passed. Ever resourceful, we crossed the street and tried Trestle on Tenth at 242 10th (between 24th and 25th). Cate and ... More » »

Zoe Strauss, document the Gulf Coast!

Photographer extraordinaire Zoe Strauss needs help getting to the Gulf Coast a.s.a.p. to document the BP oil spill and its impact on the region. That’s where you come in. All she needs is $4,000 to cover travel. She’s leaving Monday for L.A. and has plans to fly over the oil spill as well as to document the impact on people along the coastline. This fits right in with her Katrina photos and volunteer work down there–a girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do. Here’s where to donate. The site also includes additional info about the project as well as ... More » »

Zoe Strauss’ Under I-95 closes with a bang

It was a hot and sticky afternoon but that didn’t keep the crowds away for Zoe Strauss‘ final Under I-95 exhibition and sale. Here’s some pictures and a few facts:

The loveliness of Polaroid mistakes

My friend Kitty and I had our Polaroid photo shoot with Zoe Strauss last weekend and among the several shots of the two of us is this one which I truly love for its pretty great chiaroscuro and its lovely moody atmosphere.  Thanks Zoe and thanks Polaroid!

Philly portraits at Gallery 339 and PAFA

Portraits are everywhere, right now, major portraits. I had a nice conversation with myself after seeing two terrific shows of Philadelphia portraits in the same week–the show Personal Views: Contemporary Photographic Portraiture in Philadelphia, at Gallery 339;  and the paintings in Barkley L. Hendricks’ Birth of the Blues at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Report from under I-95: Wet but wild

For the first time, I came home empty-handed from Zoe Strauss’ Under I-95 photo exhibit today, her spring bouquet to South Philadelphia in South Philadelphia, now in its ninth year, with one  more year to go. What a crowd!!! They beat me to the punch on all the pictures I was trying to snag. It was a sure sign of success. Maybe Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Karen Heller brought more folks out–nothing like mainstream media. Here’s the link but it will be gone in six months. Or maybe it was the rain. Can’t work in the garden or paint the house; ... More » »

Art of the people, by the people, for the people–Zoe Strauss under I-95

The biggest  art event this weekend is Sunday, May 3:  Zoe Strauss will exhibit a huge number of photographs–231 of them– under I-95, in South Philadelphia.

Weekly Update – Spring for grand openings everywhere

 This week’s Weekly has my Spring Roundup article.  Below is the copy with some pictures. Openings are de rigueur in the art world. But this spring grand openings trump all as Tyler School of Art launches its flagship space, Temple Gallery, in the school’s new building at 12th and Norris streets in North Philadelphia.