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Moore College of Art & Design has released a call for submissions for the upcoming “Film al Fresco” juried competition and outdoor film series. The Galleries at Moore received a $20,000 Knight Arts Grant to establish the series in response to Knight’s question: “What’s your best idea for the arts in Philadelphia?” Out of over [...]
By Linda Harris, Center City Philadelphia Accessible fountains in city parks draw people of all ages, as the Center City District experienced once again when it transformed Sister Cities Park and reopened it in 2012. This 1.3-acre park at 18th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway was an abandoned and forgotten park in a strategic [...]
The University of Delaware Art Department’s space in the Crane Arts Building (UD@Crane) has a new nine-artist exhibition underway that seeks to examine the role of surfaces in visual creations. The show “Surface as Signifier,” curated by Peg Curtin and Bruce Garrity, manages to delve into conceptual territory by judging these books (or rather artworks) by their [...]
By Michele Bregande, The Fabric Workshop and Museum The Fabric Workshop and Museum’s (FWM) current exhibitions, Daniel Arsham: Reach Ruin and Daniel Arsham X Jonah Bokaer: Study for Occupant (on view until March 17, 2013) was critically debated as part of The Review Panel Philadelphia, a yearly series of four panel discussions hosted by Pennsylvania Academy [...]
A special exhibit at the North Chinatown Asian Arts Initiative takes a close look at what it means to be an Iranian woman, challenging both Eastern and Western notions of femininity. This Knight Arts grantee is currently displaying the show “That Person Who Is Your Creation: Iranian Women Exploring the Feminine Self” curated by Philadelphia [...]
Some of the most vibrant geology in Philadelphia can right now be found at the Crane Arts Building. In the Archive Space, Walter Dunnington takes a closer look at the stuff the earth is made of with his many views of stones and sediment. Dunnington’s canvases take on many forms, just like the earth beneath [...]
Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe proves that its promise to provide quality, year-round programming to the region is in full swing. This Knight Arts grantee just brought the first ever “Robot-Human Theater” to Old City’s Christ Church Neighborhood House. Produced by Seinendan Theater Company and Osaka University Robot Theater Project, this innovative and [...]
By John Jarobe, Bearded Ladies Cabaret “Fueled by a Knight Arts grant, The Bearded Ladies are delivering on their promised cabaret revolution.”- Mark Cofta, City Paper “[The Bearded Ladies Cabaret] are at the forefront of what is becoming a thriving cabaret scene in Philly.” Lewis Whittington, Edge Philadelphia The Bearded Ladies closed out 2012 with [...]
Philadelphia-based curator, video director, and new media artist Sean Stoops was awarded a $20,000 Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia grant to “support an innovative form of 3D storytelling by creating a series of outdoor video art events screened on local buildings.” This week Philadelphia online magazine Flying Kite reported on Stoops’ project, noting that the 3D [...]
Two artists in the Painted Bride Art Center line the café gallery’s walls with paintings that examine self, family, art history and contemporary society. Artists Kim Alsbrooks and Helen Mirkil join together with InLiquid to demonstrate their portraiture skills in “Portraying Kinship.” While thematically the two artists reside in a similar vein, their styles and [...]
