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April 4, 2017 by
Arts leaders rally at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Placemaking or place breaking at Moore College of Arts and Design, Wilmer Wilson IV performs on SEPTA’s Market Frankford line, Asian Arts Initiative hosts migrant poets, Feminist film classic at International House, Willie Cole at Arthur Ross Gallery, Yolanda Wisher curates Poetry Festival at 30th Street Station, and RIP James Rosenquist

Lots of happenings for you today in the news post, including a major event at PAFA from the Philadelphia arts and culture community. April is National Poetry Month, so celebrate with Yolanda Wisher at the Outbound Poetry Festival and the Sanctuary Poetry series at the Asian Arts Initiative. Also, performances by Wilmer Wilson IV, a talk by Artblog favorite Willie Cole, a new documentary about the seminal 1972 DNC, and RIP Pop art pioneer James Rosenquist.

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November 21, 2016 by
Channelizer – 2016 New Art Writing Challenge Grand Prize Winner

Each time I visited the space to see “Shotgun Inversion,” fellow onlookers seemed more or less unaware of or unconcerned by its status as a sculptural object. People leaned up against the wall or brushed their fingers against it as they passed, chain-link fence-style. A friend and I hung our arms over the waist-high partition on one side like it was a carnival booth. One visitor wondered aloud what she’d do if she dropped her phone on the other side of the structure.

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In a 9-panel comic from the Socialist Grocery series by Oli Knowles, Sebastian begins the first panel narrating to an image of a front door, "In 2020, I lived in a one bedroom apartment, and one day when I was at work..." Sebastian continues onto the right panel, backgrounded with an image of a computer saying download cashapp, "...Someone broke in and took my computer. They tried to use my cashapp account to-" The below panel shows Sebastian's phone in hand, "-Send themselves $10,000. Luckily I only had $4 at the time." The middle left panel displays Sebastian in bed with their partner Maggie both sleeping soundly, Sebastian continues, "I still have dreams frequently. Years later, about my cashapp getting hacked." In the middle right panel Sebastian and his coworker Mickey are shown, both wearing masks and glasses, "Most recently, I had a dream that my coworker, Micky, stole $4,000 from me." On the lower middle left panel Sebastian, shown at work wearing their glasses and a mask desperately relates their troubles to coworkers, "In the dream I tried telling my coworkers but nobody believed me." "Micky stole $4000 from me!" To which the coworker responds, "No Way." The lower bottom middle right panel shows Sebastian in profile with their thumb pointing backwards as if towards Micky, speaking to a coworker Sebastian says "Micky stole $4000 from me!" The Coworker responds, "No, there's no way he did." In the bottom panel Sebastian speaking to another coworker looking concerned says, "Why does nobody believe that this happened??" The coworker responds "Because there's no way yoou even had $4,000."
 
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