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Article"Rickshaw For Sitting," Theaster Gates. Theaster Gates has training as an urban planner as well as a sculptor (in fact, he got an MS in 2006 in Urban Planning, Ceramics and Religious Studies, dig that one). He works with structures, with public spaces and with the...
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ArticleOn 2nd Street, just south of Arch in Old City, one can find the headquarters for the Philadelphia chapter of the American Institute for Graphic Arts (AIGA). Founded in 1981 by a group of Philadelphia area designers, the AIGA Space represents the first local manifestation of the organization. AIGA Philadelphia...
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ArticleBy Giselle Heraux, AIRIE Photographer Krista Elrick Photographer Krista Elrick is not taking an ordinary road trip. There is no visit to the Grand Canyon or a Broadway play on her agenda. Instead, Elrick is following in naturalist painter John James Audubon’s footsteps, and the trail...
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ArticleMoving images often capture the whole range of human emotions that live beneath the surface of our skin. These moving images express what words sometimes fail to express. But, more often than not, films find a way to combine the power of language with imagery to create a dynamic force...
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ArticleLynchings are not a part of our past many of us wish to dwell on or even acknowledge. Instead public memory wishes to suppress this past atrocity. Not only is the abstraction disturbing to our concepts of law and justice, but when faced with the factual details, we feel nauseous...
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ArticlePeter Nishanian (left) discusses his work at the opening reception for his exhibit at The Gallery at Macon Arts Alliance on November 2 in Macon, Georgia. Photo by Jonathan Dye Visual art and music have long been entwined in a love story fit for a television...
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ArticleCory Loven, "Please Vote." Courtesy of the artist's website www.coryloven.com. It seems only appropriate, as this campaign season (at last) draws to a close, that I spent the last Saturday before election day browsing through politically-charged poster designs – in “Poster Offensive 6” at Big Table...
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ArticleBy Geraldine Lopez, Miami Music Project Through Miami Music Project's newly named El Sistema inspired program, ESMIA (meaning “it’s mine” in Spanish), young musicians have seen their own orchestras grow and new chapters emerge, like the one in Little Haiti. But none of them have ever imagined sharing a stage...
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ArticleBy Laura Zabel, Springboard for the Arts Last week, we hosted Art Happens Here: A celebration of artist-led creative placemaking along the Green Line, happened on October 27 at ZagLaug Chaw (read KnightArts blogger Susannah Schouweiler's full report here) Mayor Chris Coleman spoke and artists performed and lead visitors in...
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ArticleBy Kathryn Dimond, DIA director of community relations It’s that time of year again. All of the Inside|Out reproductions have been taken down and carefully packed away for the winter. This year marked an increase in community involvement, partly because having the experience of two years doing the program, both...
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ArticleNicola Lopez's "Bone Dry." The peak of the art season has arrived. From now through March, museums and galleries will be putting their best faces forward. These days, that often includes hyper-visual and -optical art works, including video, installation, big painting and a combination of all...
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ArticleTuesday, October 30th marked the closing event for a collaborative show about locality, "From Here On Out," featuring work by Toby Millman and "Hamtramck Redact," a map rendering in charcoal by Andrew Thompson, staged at 2739Edwin in Hamtramck. Steve Panton, operator of 2739Edwin, introducing the evening's...
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ArticleBy Linda Harris, Center City District Philadelphia As construction continues on the renovation of Dilworth Plaza, people who observe only the street level sometimes remark that it doesn’t seem as if much is happening. But that’s because the bulk of the work underway right now is beneath the surface, creating...
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ArticleBy Elizabeth R. Miller, Knight Foundation While headlines focus on Art Basel Miami Beach each December, a new mini-series will feature the local artists who have steadily built the region’s reputation as an international art center. Debuting Sunday in South Florida, the Artist-to-Artist series will feature artists like Daniel Arsham,...
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ArticleArtist-to-Artist: Conversations at MOCA from MOCA North Miami on Vimeo. While headlines focus on Art Basel Miami Beach each December, a new mini-series will feature the local artists who have steadily built the region’s reputation as an international art center. Debuting Sunday in South Florida, the Artist-to-Artist series will feature artists like Daniel Arsham, whose sculptures and conceptual objects have been exhibited across Miami and were the reason he was selected as a set designer for famed choreographer Merce Cunningham. Naomi Fisher, co-founder of an alternative art space in Miami, Bas Fisher Invitational also will be featured. Supported by Knight, the Artist-to-Artist series is a collaboration of the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami and WPBT-PBS2. It will highlight artists each Sunday in November, starting this Sunday. The Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami’s Executive Director and Chief Curator Bonnie Clearwater, who hosts the series, says the goal is to share insights on not only what it is like for artists to make and experience art, but also how their careers have impacted the art scene locally and across the rest of the world. Clearwater tells the Miami New Times: