"Galleries" by Edith Newhall does not appear this week.
It's not often that a two-person show catches both of its artists on a perfect wave - or, rarer still, unites two who make each other shine - but Pentimenti Gallery's pairing of Jackie Tileston and Jedediah Morfit does both. While Tileston envisions the landscape as a place of ever-expanding possibility, Morfit uses it to evoke the inevitable passage of human life on Earth as it was viewed a couple of centuries ago, with some odd goings-on along the way.
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I somehow missed a salient fact about former punk-rock impresario Malcolm McLaren's Shallow 1-21, a video being shown in its entirety for the first time in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts' Morris Gallery: its length. Eighty-six minutes is an exceptionally long time to spend in the company of a single artwork, even a video that's made of up 21 parts, each of which McLaren terms a "musical painting."
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The colors, shades, and halftone prints that make up Tom Benson's modestly scaled, mostly monochromatic paintings are so appealing - even magnetic - that it's easy to appreciate them simply for that. The British artist's scarlet, lemon yellow, black, indigo, pale pink, and white paintings and black-and-white halftone prints in ink and paint seem to hover in the spartan whiteness of Larry Becker Contemporary Art.
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South Pacific's a hit again; John Cheever and Julia Child are our touchstones, again. Photography of a certain age is getting its close-up too, and looking surprisingly fresh. This month alone, Philadelphians have had at their fingertips a mini-retrospect
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When you think of all the various lucrative professions that people have quit to pursue careers in the arts, a switch from the crafts world to the fine-arts one hardly sounds earth-shattering. Moreover, in the case of John Eric Byers, one might logically
- Works by the finalists, all of whom are under 40, are being exhibited at the Temple Gallery.The recipient of the art award that's made the Tate Museum's 25,000-pound (about $40,000) Turner Prize look like a mere trifle is about to be named. On Oct. 22, one of three artists will take home $150,000 as the first winner of the Wolgin International Prize in the Fine Arts, the world's largest monetary prize exclusively for emerging fine artists, endowed by retired Philadelphia real estate developer Jack Wolgin and awarded through Temple University's Tyler School of Art.
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It had to happen. Lace - the only material that simultaneously brings to mind ancestral tablecloths, Jacqueline Kennedy's black mourning mantilla, and Victoria's Secret models - has become the darling of artists and designers. In their hands, lace-making is a malleable craft technique that can be adapted to virtually any material or form, the less-expected the better.
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The human being is hot again. Hence, at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Barkley Hendrick's strutting figures come on the heels of Sidney Goodman's writhing ones and the Institute of Contemporary Art's dancing ones ("Dance with Camera"
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The latest exhibition at the Schuylkill Nature Center should be seen as far in advance of its Nov. 23 closing date as you can manage. Most of the outdoor show's works involve fruits, vegetables, herbs, and flowers, all of which are inexorably moving into autumn mode and will have a distinctly different character by November.
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It's a zoo at FLUXspace. On the ground floor of the former factory building, a mass of snakes wriggles erotically on the freight elevator doors (one lone adventurer is slithering its way up the staircase).
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