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This week’s Weekly has my review of New American Voices at the Fabric Workshop and Museum. Below is the copy with some pictures. The Fabric Workshop and Museum often collaborates with big-name artists ...

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Post by Corey Armpriester With art, cigarettes and sex on my mind, I sit down with Philadelphia’s very own agent provocateur, photographer Tony Ward, for a little talk, revealing a man with drive and ambitions fueled by art and costing him his marriage. ...

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The title of this article ends an inscription in a fraktur love letter (liebesbrief) written to Barbara Muller around 1800 by a now-anonymous doter. It is preceded by, in elaborate handwriting, “The heart of mine shall be devoted to you. ...

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Aren't we really sassy and classy writers? WOW! We like artist Yours Fisher but we have to hold back because he is "hot, male and European" after all. That's why we titled our Theoretically Challenged review "Yourses minor". ...

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In our first two months we’ve received contributions from over 80 local galleries & art spaces to our new Maps & Listings feature. We’re working to make this system more friendly and ...

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After 18 years of handing out the biggest regional prize in the arts, Pew Fellowships in the Arts has changed its m-o. Well, they’re still handing out prizes– the coveted 12 grants of $60,000. ...

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I first came across the work of Adad Hannah at Montreal’s Museum of Contemporary Art’s inaugural triennial exhibition focusing on Quebec artists held over a year ago. Hannah’s photographs taken at the ...

philly artblog Maps are up, check out the openings for tomorrow and the rest of the month....
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Welcome to artblog's maps & listings for the Philadelphia area. The page you are on is the Philadelphia map. You can see listings by neighborhood and you can see "our picks" of shows we're excited about. ...

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This week’s Weekly has my first Friday roundup. Below is the copy with pictures. Big news this First Friday: A new gallery, Marginal Utility , is opening in the Vox building. The six-story former ...

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Perhaps the perfect metaphor for the contemporary art fair is the media-fattened story of the Balloon Boy (in the US), which swept across the airwaves on a gust of excitement only to be lanced by the ...

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Brazilian artist Tiago Carneiro da Cunha is working in a small studio at University of the Arts, near the end of a fall-semester artist’s residency. He is creating a new version of Mudman, one of his stock characters the appear and reappear in his work. ...

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Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty at the New Museum, the bearish artist’s first U.S. solo show at a major museum, surprised us for what wasn’t there. This show about reality and unreality in ...

philly artblog Re-posting this...read the comments...sometimes one of the best places for debate on artblog :)
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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. ...




























