libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - 41 minutes ago
While we were in Miami we tweeted a half dozen juicy little tidbits. Here they are — illustrated and annotated! — for your delectation. More posts coming today. Art Basel Miami Gavin T...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Dec 4, 2009, 8:28 am
Lately, I’ve noticed that colour and Quebec seem to go hand in hand. From the Claude Tousignant retrospective last year and the Francine Savard show currently at the MAC, colour has been...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Dec 3, 2009, 8:07 am
This week’s Weekly has my December First Friday roundup. Copy below with a few pictures. “Slo Mo” at Germ Books and Gallery is a valedictory exhibit celebrating three now-defunct....
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Dec 2, 2009, 10:34 pm
How many gold sculptures did we see at Art Basel Miami Beach today. Uh, we lost count. Here are just a few of the artists. Madeln , Spread 023. silver and gold chain word art laid out on the floor an...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Dec 1, 2009, 1:39 pm
Fasten your seat belts, we’ve assigned ourselves to cover the Miami art fairs beat.  We’ll be there with Andrea Kirsh and if you’re down there come see us at the artblogger’s ...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Dec 1, 2009, 12:20 pm
Ebullient drawings of heaving landscapes and meditative mark-making by Kelsey Halliday Johnson, now up at the Green Line Cafe, caught my eye on my way in for a cup of joe. I was drawn in by the mix of...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Nov 30, 2009, 4:29 pm
Artblog’s picks for December are now up on maps & listings. See for yourself and pick for yourself. If you haven’t submitted yet, submit!
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Nov 30, 2009, 8:12 am
Rabari mirror-work (embroidery with appliqued mirrors) Threads and Voices; Behind the Indian Textile Tradition, Laila Tyabji, ed. (Marg Publications, Mumbai: 2007), ISBN 8185026793 India has an extr...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Nov 29, 2009, 10:36 am
If you are in the throes of questioning why you are making art and are looking for support for this decision,  this month’s post by Annette Monnier on her blog One Review a Month is not to be m...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Nov 29, 2009, 6:56 am
Henri Cartier-Bresson. On The Banks Of The Marne, 1938. Everyday life as metaphor. After the crowds at the FIAC in Paris subside, the gathering at Paris Photo, held in the Carrousel du Louvre, create...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Nov 27, 2009, 2:32 pm
Liilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen's performance 'How to Break the Great Chinese Wall' 2009 Jenny Jasky is Philadelphia’s loss and New York’s gain; she recently moved and already found an ou...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Nov 24, 2009, 5:29 pm
The movie (untitled) mocks everything you love to hate about contemporary art and how it’s marketed. The movie also pokes fun at the pretensions in the atonal music scene (one of my fave lines&...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Nov 24, 2009, 9:26 am
The maps & listings page is eager to accept your December and January shows and events. If you put in your December listings last month, they are still in there. We are still not automated, so please ...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Nov 23, 2009, 4:20 pm
Finlay & Mus...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Nov 22, 2009, 5:48 pm
This is part 2 of a 2 part post. Part 1 is about the talk delivered by show juror Joao Ribas. Ribas’ choices for the Arcadia Works on Paper exhibit raise issues of sharing, reproducibility and ...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Nov 22, 2009, 5:21 pm
The prestigious Works on Paper show at Arcadia, which opened Wednesday, raises worthy questions about the value of art objects in the year 2009. A woman stood guard over Gabriel Boyce and Preston Lin...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Nov 22, 2009, 9:17 am
Post by Lauren Whearty I have been to the Luc Tuymans exhibit at the Wexner Center at least 5 times in the past few months.  There are four or five galleries set up to exhibit different stages of th...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Nov 21, 2009, 3:41 pm
The long east wall in the Ice Box at the Crane Arts Center has so much wall space–25 x 100 feet–that founders Nick Kripal and Richard Hricko decided to make something even bigger of itR...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Nov 20, 2009, 9:25 am
Dead of the Living Night at Space 1026 is a mash note for horror movies with a surprise psychedelic candy-coated center. Neon sign on the black box created for Dead of the Living Night Jonathan...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Nov 19, 2009, 2:24 pm
Sad news.  She of the flame red hair and peppery personality.  NY Daily News story. Thanks to Andy Carvin via Megan Wendell.
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Nov 19, 2009, 11:27 am
In a show that should attract all the techno-art hackers out there, the University of Delaware faculty show themselves able to out-techno the technologists. Feats of tech derring-do abound in video a...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Nov 19, 2009, 10:07 am
My brain was buzzing when I left the Francine Savard mid-career retrospective at the Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal (MACM) curated by Lesley Johnstone. The 60 works on display express intellec...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Nov 18, 2009, 8:43 am
Last week I visited Portraiture Now: Communities, at the National Portrait Gallery through July 5, 2010, with paintings by Rose Frantzen, Jim Torok and Rebecca Westcott.  It was organized around the ...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Nov 18, 2009, 8:04 am
This week’s Weekly has my review of Joe Boruchow’s Public Service at Bean Cafe.  Below is the copy with pictures. Many artists now work in the once-scorned craft media of cut paper, but ...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Nov 17, 2009, 1:32 pm
The performance Dumb at Exclamation Gallery Saturday night was totally of this moment in time and art. Chris Golas in his performance Dumb. He is drooling thanks to the effects of chewing on...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Nov 16, 2009, 8:32 pm
Post by Lee Arnold Last Friday I had the honor of hosting Lillian Schwartz for a talk at Drew University. Lillian is a pioneer in digital art and has inspired generations of artists who work with t...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Nov 16, 2009, 1:50 pm
Mt. Airy Contemporary, in an ancient Civl War era carriage house behind the home of Brooklyn transplants Colin and Andrea Keefe, opened a few months ago in a space a couple of blocks off of Lincoln Dr...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Nov 15, 2009, 3:54 pm
Steven Daiber is an artist who runs Red Trillium Press. He recently published a book, El Muro, with Cuban artist Eduardo Hernandez Santos. Before the book was published, the prints were shown at the ...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Nov 10, 2009, 9:02 pm
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-nam...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Nov 10, 2009, 10:33 am
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 a...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Nov 10, 2009, 9:27 am
artblog contributor Matthew Rose’s exhibition A Book About Death is in its last week at the Queens Museum. Catch it before it ends Nov. 15. Rose organized the exhibit/book, in which some 500 a...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Nov 9, 2009, 9:44 am
We are in love.  There’s a new blog out there that we want to recommend for its humor, its great design chops, its corporate anonymity and its snarky commentary on Philadelphia area art blogs l...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Nov 8, 2009, 3:07 pm
The multitalented Brooklyn-based artist Ronnie Bass has brought his video/installation The Astronomer, Part 1: Departure From Shed, to Marginal Utility–the newest gallery to open at 319A N. 11th...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Nov 7, 2009, 8:49 pm
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, “...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Nov 7, 2009, 4:00 pm
Brian Jungen ‘Blanket No. 7' (2008) professional sports jerseys, 69 x 53½” Sender Collection. All images ©Brian Jungen The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) consistently embeds ...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Nov 6, 2009, 11:17 am
Curator and artist Marianne Bernstein last month created the Welcome House in LOVE Park, and tonight she brings you Shelter at the Painted Bride. (The m.o. is similar–invite some terrific artist...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Nov 5, 2009, 7:21 pm
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 use...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Nov 5, 2009, 3:05 pm
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...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Nov 4, 2009, 3:51 pm
Sarah Amos is an artist with a consummate mastery of printmaking. In this new body of work, her third show at Cynthia Reeves Gallery in Chelsea, she pits macro against micro, playing bold, dramatic sh...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Nov 4, 2009, 12:56 pm
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 ...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Nov 4, 2009, 8:07 am
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 fo...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Nov 2, 2009, 9:13 am
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 o...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Oct 31, 2009, 5:02 pm
Jack Pierson's inevitable sculpture, The Show Must Go On, 2008, let folks know this was indeed an art fair. Private collection. Perhaps the perfect metaphor for the contemporary art fair is the m...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Oct 30, 2009, 5:49 pm
Willem de Kooning 'Untitled VI' (1983) Meyerhoff Collection The only thing dull about The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection at the National Gallery of Art: Selected Works (NGA) through...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Oct 30, 2009, 12:41 pm
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. Urs Fischer, Service a la francaise, 2...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Oct 29, 2009, 8:25 am
Great Q&A with PMA’s new director, Timothy Rub at Lee Rosenbaum’s Culture Grrl blog.  The questions deal with money, and specifically about re-directing funds from one pot (acquisitions) ...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Oct 28, 2009, 10:03 pm
This week’s Weekly has my review of the ICA’s Dance with Camera.  Below is the copy with some pictures. “Dance With Camera” at the Institute of Contemporary Art is a visual and audio...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Oct 27, 2009, 9:51 pm
Portraits are everywhere, right now, major portraits. I had a nice conversation with myself after seeing two terrific shows of Philadelphia portraits in the same week–the show Personal Views: Co...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Oct 26, 2009, 6:58 am
John Baldessari that bastard, the late Jimmie Byers, the late Nancy Spero, august Louise Bourgeois, Claes the great Oldenburg, and Alighero e (and) Boetti are International School artists sharing...
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libby and roberta r. posted an article on ArtBlog - Oct 25, 2009, 4:35 pm
Last time I saw Annette Monnier (at Little Berlin’s BYOTY last weekend), she said she was going to take the West Philly el tour of ex-graffiti artist Steve Powers’ A Love Letter for You se...
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