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Photos from ICA Fall Opening

pages@funnelstudio.com (Funnel Pages) — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:55:25 -0500

VICKY CHRISTINA BARCELONA....8.5/10

pages@funnelstudio.com (Funnel Pages) — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:47:40 -0500

by Aaron Mannino of Blue Key Reviews "Everything I do affirms life" -Juan Antonio (Bardem) When I think on Vicky Christina Barcelona I do not wallow in the mire of a pointless existence, even though there are underpinnings of this attitude in the finale of the film, which brings each character, principle and peripheral, in spite of their actions, right back to where they started, stifling their

Bad at Sports:Chicago :: Funnel Pages:Philadelphia

pages@funnelstudio.com (Funnel Pages) — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:26:02 -0500

We've been looking forward to this for weeks! Remember the Bellwether show at Vox? Remember those little slogans running the length of the whole entire space? The artist, Duncan MacKenzie (pictured above at the bottom right), runs BadatSports.com with a few other Chicago folk, and came to town to install his show and hang out with Funnel Pages, thanks to an email he received from our own Dustin

The man Inside City Hall

pages@funnelstudio.com (Funnel Pages) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:00:59 -0500

This post is taken from the universe-famous Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof's Artblog, written by Funnel Pages contributor Dustin Metz: [We've been waiting for this for six months--the re-establishment of the Office of Arts and Culture and the appointment of its head. Then, neither of us could make it to Mayor Nutter's announcement. So we asked Dustin Metz to go. Here's his report. (If you want

Christopher Davison's Had

pages@funnelstudio.com (Funnel Pages) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:49:26 -0500

Contributed by Andrea McGinty Had, Showing at Jenny Jaskey Gallery Through July 31st, 2008 Currently showing in the Cabin Project Space of the Jenny Jaskey/Tower Gallery in Northern Liberties is the work of Christopher Davison. The Philadelphia artist is showing twelve works that feature a variety two dimensional media, such as ink, pencil, paint, and cut paper, as well as one sculpture. The

A Short Story

pages@funnelstudio.com (Funnel Pages) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:01:07 -0500

by Sasha Fletcher he came down from the carriage house to find us gathered around everything we had ever lost which we had made into a bonfire. someone had, just that instant, returned from nepal with news of artificial glaciers. someone’s wife had packed a series of orange slices which were being distributed as mouth guards, to safeguard our mouths. we asked can things be done for us? can we

pages@funnelstudio.com (Funnel Pages) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:15:09 -0500

Sendak on Sendak & Nike on Assignment

pages@funnelstudio.com (Funnel Pages) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:18:58 -0500

by Nike Desis There's a Mystery There: Sendak on Sendak @ the Rosenbach Museum & Library In the Night Kitchen? Yes, definitely a mystery there. Likely a trace of that story lingers in your mind. If you need a refresher, it is worth a refresher. A dreaming boy named Mickey floats around a night kitchen, shedding his clothes as he enters a realm populated by three giant man bakers who bake boys.

Funnel Cast - Dustin Metz Interviews Zoe Cohen

pages@funnelstudio.com (Funnel Pages) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:01:34 -0500

This week I interviewed Philadelphia based artist, Zoe Cohen. My interest was peaked when I heard about her latest project, "Show Someone How You Feel About Something". The basic idea of it is that you do a drawing for someone and Zoe mails it to them. The project has gotten a lot of press lately, and has been seen in many different places- on site, blogs, newspapers- so I wanted to sit down and

The Final Countdown

pages@funnelstudio.com (Funnel Pages) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:10:51 -0500

Only 20 more days to call your mom and tell her you love her. If only there was someway to set that countdown as a screen saver. As far as the LHC (Large Hadron Collider), there are a host of arguments in favor/against gettting this thing running, all of which have there own scientific backing, and the ever present argument of: “As in all explorations of uncharted domains, there may be a risk,”

Waste Management at the Crane

pages@funnelstudio.com (Funnel Pages) — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:44:37 -0500

by Melissa McFeeters Waste Management by Daniel Petraitis Kelly & Weber Fine Art, Through July 1st, 2008 Daniel Petraitis, 2008 Daniel Petraitis’s latest exhibition Waste Management at the 201 Gallery combines a few of my own personal interests: Moldmaking = awesome. Graphic design = love it. Miniatures = adorable! With the help of these and other mediums, Petraitis has assembled quite a

Photos from Vox Populi's Solid Gold

pages@funnelstudio.com (Funnel Pages) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:17:01 -0500

pages@funnelstudio.com (Funnel Pages) — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:13:03 -0500

by Matthew Parrish "Radio Rocks and Quick Constructions" at Larry Becker Gallery through June 21st, 2008 When I see a painting, I attempt to isolate components of it to figure out where its essence lies. Is its quality enriched more by its spatial arrangement or its tonality? Its frame or its figures? Its fresh use of materials or its expansion of a genre? I hope my slicing and dicing fails

An Interview with F.U.E.L.

pages@funnelstudio.com (Funnel Pages) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:18:31 -0500

Contributed by Dustin Metz I went to F.U.E.L. this past week to interview Co-Founder Jen Yaron, and Curator Katerina Lydon-Warner. My interest has been piqued ever since this space opened up over a year ago. Not only is it in a prime location at 3rd and Arch in Old City, but it is in one of the most stunning buildings in that area AND devotes its walls to undergraduate/emerging artist. All of

My First Second Thursday

pages@funnelstudio.com (Funnel Pages) — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:18:38 -0500

by Andrea McGinty New to Philadelphia, and unfortunately having missed every First Friday since I've moved here, I was happy to discover the Second Thursday openings in the Kensington/Northern Liberties district. The Crane Arts Building, the home to an art community with room after room just begging to be explored, proved to be a promising starting point. On Thursday May 8th The Crane featured

So, A Chair or Shoes?

pages@funnelstudio.com (Funnel Pages) — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:03:47 -0500

by Matthew Parrish Art critic James Panero said the following (in an article titled, "Criticism After Art" from the New Criterion, Dec. 2005): A world of difference separates those who criticize art from those who seek to know about how art criticism is done, because art criticism is done by doing it. To ask after the details beyond the most practical ones is already a step in the wrong

Between Dance and Theatre

pages@funnelstudio.com (Funnel Pages) — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:09:22 -0500

by Henry Hughes Review of "Self Portrait" as performed by Miro | Dance. Theatre. on May 5th, 2008 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Images courtesy of Miro | Dance. Theatre. Amanda Miller of Miro Dance Theatre stepped onto a platform in front of the Art After 5 crowd at the PMA last Friday. Immediately, she posed and was hit with the bright light of two overhead projectors. Her feet, nestled

Gaudy Details

pages@funnelstudio.com (Funnel Pages) — Mon, 05 May 2008 11:07:19 -0500

First Friday reviews by Matthew Parrish Bridgette Mayer Gallery: Build Up, through May 24th The Clay Studio: Small Favors III, through May 18th Artists' House: Group Show, through June 1 The auras of Ivan Stojakovic's pieces (this concept in the artistic context is taken from Walter Benjamin) in his show "Build Up" at the Bridgette Mayer Gallery radiate virulence of the most pleasing kind (

And Friends, Let Me Tell You About My Hat, Please Leave The Lights On & Your Own Personal Trainer, & And Friends, Let Me Tell You About My Hat

pages@funnelstudio.com (Funnel Pages) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:22:05 -0500

Poems by Sasha Fletcher And Friends, Let Me Tell You About My Hat federal savings and loan walked outside to a very open space and began, very slowly, to build something, on the sort of day when the rains come hard for one solid unrelenting minute and are forgotten like motel bibles. as he hammered, he thought about the act of slowly borrowing everything in his next door neighbor’s bedroom item

New Blood Draws on Old Themes; 'Taiwan New Cinema' Seeks an Identity of Fearlessness

pages@funnelstudio.com (Funnel Pages) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:54:57 -0500

A Review of Help Me Eros (2008) As screened at the 2008 Philadelphia Film Festival Anyone familiar with the Taiwan New Cinema movement of the past 20 years, or comparatively the films of Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami (TASTE OF CHERRY), or even select works of Michaelangelo Antonioni (L'AVVENTURA), will be better apprised of how to palate Lee Kang-Sheng's sophomore effort, HELP ME EROS (2008

Pentimenti Preview/Early Review

pages@funnelstudio.com (Funnel Pages) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:02:24 -0500

by Matthew Parrish Matthew Kucynski: You’re Apocalypse! and David Ambrose: The Braille Landscape Pentimenti Gallery April 21 - May 31, 2008 David Amborse (Image taken from: http://localephemera.blogspot.com/2007/ 07/real-bling-was-on-street.html) The new show at the Pentimenti Gallery doesn't officially open until next Friday but I've taken a peak and here's what I saw: David Ambrose's

Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib

pages@funnelstudio.com (Funnel Pages) — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:43:47 -0500

Ice Box project space at the Crane Arts building “The soft epic or: the savages of the pacific west.” Review by Joseph DiGiuseppe “The soft epic or: the savages of the pacific west” by Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib Friday night lights, mights, maybes and the possibilities for Artadelphia. You know the icebox project space, aka the space that typically no one uses well in Olde Kensington?

The New Museum, Not a Reason to go to NY before March 30th

pages@funnelstudio.com (Funnel Pages) — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:01:54 -0500

by Nike Desis Bear with me here, the Unmonumental show is really unmonumental. Assemblage is the key theme to the sculpture part of the Unmonumental show and truly the work is fragmented. According to the program assemblage “emphasizes the juxtaposition of elements for symbolic or suggestive effect.” Instead, what gets represented is a bunch of junky sculpture that appropriated a lot of

The Void of Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib's "Black Hole"

pages@funnelstudio.com (Funnel Pages) — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:22:19 -0500

by Henry Hughes While Black Hole by Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suid primarily presents a feast of high definition images and a strange narrative evocative of David Lynch, it’s most interesting accomplishment is within it’s presentation: the void. Upon walking into the dark room and viewing the video, it’s a quick linear thought that links the title to the image of a hole in a wall sucking in

Artvid.net-Now On Your Computer!

pages@funnelstudio.com (Funnel Pages) — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:13:24 -0500

Austin Lee, a local Philadelphia area artist, has just unleashed Artvid.net, a website that showcases video art. The site includes Philadelphia artist DJ Yardsale, as well as Robert T. Pannell, Wreck N Salvage, Robert Judge, as well as Lee himself. Consider it YouTube with a bit more class and art-friendly potential. Artvid is on the lookout for other video artists interested in showing