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The transformative power of art.

big bubble — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:03:47 +0000

Mallika Sarabhai dances for social change. This TED talk provides us with a look at an artist/dancer/politician using all her tools for social change.

call for entries : Girl Please!

big bubble — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:50:07 +0000

Exhibition Dates: November 5 – December 23, 2010 We are all born naked, the rest is just drag — Rupaul Gender is a performance, an act that is perpetuated and maintained by societal norms and expectations, but how, and to what extent does it define us? Girl, Please! seeks to push and transcend the definition [...]

call for entries : Art Connections, Monclair State University

big bubble — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:27:18 +0000

Art Connections is the annual fund-raising event for the George Segal Gallery–the crown jewel of the Montclair State Art Galleries. Now in its seventh year, Art Connections has grown from a regional exhibit to one of national scope, encouraging artists in all media. Open to all fine artists. All mediums accepted. No Giclee reproduction prints [...]

experimenting in 110 CHURCH | gallery

big bubble — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:28:45 +0000

It’s a bit of a lazy summer at the gallery. Trying to get ready for the fall. Working on a schedule and promotion for upcoming exhibitions. Talking with artists about proposals and locking in dates. Get on our e-mailing list to be sure of notifications. Looking for lots of news this fall. Enjoy your summer.

Participating in the Adventures of #FlatAnvatar

big bubble — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:45:32 +0000

Artist and @Platea’s founder An Xiao is headed to Art Center College of Design in Pasadena from NYC. As a response the collective concocted a fun performance showing #FlatAnvatar on her very roundabout travels. We were thrilled to participate. These are photos from the flickr group. You can relive the performance by searching twitter for [...]

artist quote : about art, oscar wilde

big bubble — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:14:54 +0000

When the critics do not agree among themselves, the artist is in accord with himself. oscar wilde [Irish writer 1854–1900]

artist quote : susan sontag

big bubble — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 03:01:41 +0000

One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious. — Susan Sontag

Call for entries : Fluxface in Space

big bubble — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:19:07 +0000

Fluxface in Space Fluxhibition STS-133 & STS-134: The Fluxmuseum Goes on the Last Shuttle Missions to Space. We stumbled on this project while doing some NASA, space shuttle googling. If you are as crazy about space as we are you’ll want to participate in this fun project. Fluxface in Space exhibition will be launched into [...]

Support “Over The River” by artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude

big bubble — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 19:52:47 +0000

Site specific art that comes under more scrutiny and bureaucracy than most of us could stand. Christo revels in it as part of the process and work itself. This will be the first project since the death of Jeanne-Claude that Christo will attempt to execute. Over The River is a temporary work of art by [...]

Exhibition Opportunity — The One Fifty/One Fifty Show

big bubble — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:38:43 +0000

In celebration of the Philadelphia Sketch Club’s 150th anniversary, an open exhibition of 150 works will be held between July 23rd through August 14th, 2010 Delivery: Hand delivery only– Friday, July 16th, 2010, and Saturday, July 17th, 2010, 1–5 p.m. at PSC if needed. If 150 entries are taken in on Friday, a notice will [...]

CYANOTYPE WORKSHOP — August 7, 2010

big bubble — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:28:07 +0000

CYANOTYPE WORKSHOP — August 7, 2010 Photography and Printmaking Studio Center Sandwich, New Hampshire, USA Course fee $120 Materials $30 Class limited to 5. Saturday 10:00am – 4:00pm Learn the art of cyanotype photography, a 19th-century alternative printing medium with luscious blue tones on hand-coated paper. We will begin with making full-size digital negatives from [...]

Call for artists : Green Line Cafe

big bubble — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:23:32 +0000

Green Line Cafe has a call for art out. They are a West Philly community spot and cafes — currently looking for work to show as early as August! A few select openings in each of their three shops. Please send images or a link to your website and a show proposal to events@greenlinecafe.com right [...]

Summer studio with Anthony Campuzano at ICA Philadelphia

big bubble — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:26:47 +0000

This July, Philadelphia artist Anthony Campuzano will transform ICA’s second floor galleries into a free-form art school and working artists’ studio, both free and open to the public. Campuzano has invited peers, mentors, professors, and other special guests to provide art instruction in various media, discuss past and current projects, screen favorite videos and films, [...]

Video tuesday: Jacqueline Cotter

big bubble — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:59:48 +0000

“Jacqueline Cotter is an 89 year old artist with a long career as one of Philadelphia’s leading abstractionists. Her paintings at Rosenfeld Gallery are some of her most luminous to date, which is all the more amazing because of her problems with macular degeneration. Many of Philadelphia’s leading artists, including Bill Scott, Stuart Shils, Mary [...]

video tuesday : new film Jean-Michel Basquiat, The Radiant Child

big bubble — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:10:38 +0000

We’ve always been facinated with Jean-Michel Basquiat for his artwork and his life, as short as it was. This new film by Basquiat’s friend Tamra Davis pays homage to him friend in this definitive documentary. We’re looking forward to seeing it. Waiting to see how it will be distributed.

Quotation: James Rosenquist, American painter.

big bubble — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:58:43 +0000

Living in the Plains, you’d see surreal things; you’d see mirages. I’m sitting on the front porch, as a little kid at sunset, and the sun is in back of me, and walking across the horizon is a Trojan horse four stories tall. I go “Uh oh—what’s that?” So I run into the house and [...]

Video Tuesday: James Rosenquist interview

big bubble — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:00:44 +0000

An American Icon. Pop Art. http://www.jimrosenquist-artist.com/

Who has the most to lose? “Fighting Over Frida Kahlo”

big bubble — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:16:59 +0000

The New York Times: “The Noyolas have collaborated with Barbara Levine, a photography curator in San Miguel de Allende, on a book about the collection of more than 1,200 items, “Finding Frida Khalo: Diaries, Letters, Recipes, Notes, Sketches, Stuffed Birds, and Other Newly Discovered Keepsakes” (written with Stephen Jaycox and due this fal from Princeton [...]