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California Literary Review (Free subscription) | yesterday
The people of that ancient nation had been decimated in the opening genocide of modern times, victims of Turkish aggression during the First World War. "Who now remembers the Armenians?" Adolf Hitler exclaimed, as he and his Nazi lieutenants planned the Final Solution. The answer can be found lining the walls of the masterful exhibition in Philadelphia. Arshile Gorky remembered. "I shall...
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Channel Insider Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The defending World Series champions, the Philadelphia Phillies, put up a good fight in defending their title, but just couldn't hold off the irresistible force known as the New York Yankees. In the process of losing, the team hailing from the City of Brotherly Love let down one of their biggest fans - unified communications VAR Alteva, which lost a bet to Big Apple rival Stage 2 Networks. Under the...
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Washington Post (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Forgive me, readers, for I have sinned. Whenever I've gone by Titian's great "Venus With a Mirror," sitting topless in the Renaissance rooms at the National Gallery of Art, or Canova's marble "Naiad," lounging a floor below in the no-kini of a classical goddess, carnal thoughts have come to me.
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Bingo Blast (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
It is not easy to come across a unique gift idea, in particular when a lot of people already seem to have pretty much everything they need and want. If you are interested in Novelty Gifts then you might consider getting a Rocky Balboa Bathrobe. Rocky Balboa Bathrobe Here is a short description of the Rocky Balboa [...]
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The Rago Art & Auction Center will join the rush of autumn art sales this month with a two-session event a week from tomorrow devoted to American and European works from the 19th and 20th centuries and to the post-World War II era. Between the two, more than 350 works will be offered at the gallery at 333 N. Main St. in Lambertville.
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Near the end of July, on a gray, cloudy day, glimmering Joan of Arc was hoisted, horse and all, onto a flatbed truck and carted away from the spot where she had stood - across from the Philadelphia Museum of Art at the head of Kelly Drive - for nearly 50 years.
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Authentic Art DC (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The second season of the Baltimore-based Contemporary Museum’s New Art Dialogue Series, a forum for discussion of contemporary art in Baltimore, will begin Wednesday, November 11 at 7 p.m. with Carlos Basualdo, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The lecture is held in collaboration with the Maryland Institute College of Art, and [...]
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
To hold a fashion exhibit featuring contemporary red carpet-worthy gowns at a renowned art museum in honor of a retail executive is a rarity.
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The Compass Rose (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Emmet Gowin [1941-] was originally a student of Harry Callahan's, and the presumed association seems apt, judging from the work alone. From the beginning, Gowin displayed the same reverential regard for family and a self-contained, attentive interest in immediate surroundings that had characterized his master's oeuvre. His first major monograph, Emmet Gowin Photographs [Philadelphia Museum of Art,...
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ShoppingBlog.com (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Fiskars , a global supplier of consumer products for the home, garden and outdoors, celebrates its 360th year of business in October. Fiskars is most well known for its iconic orange-handled scissors. The scissors are part of the permanent design collection in the Museum of Modern Art in New York as well as the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Nearly one billion pairs have been sold worldwide since their...
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Looking Around (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Arshile Gorky had one of the most singular careers in American art — a decades-long, almost self-annihilating immersion in the work of a few painters he revered, and then an explosion in the early 1940s into an art that was entirely his own. From now through January 10 there's a terrific new Gorky retrospective [...]
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Pearlblossom Highway (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
AERIAL 6/7 Originally uploaded by Michael_Kelleher AERIAL 6/7 Rod Smith, Editor I think I bought this at Talking Leaves...Books, but I am not sure. I may have bought it for one of Charles Bernstein's classes. It's a reminder of how good a well made, thoughtfully designed, and carefully edited book actually feels in one's hands. Flipping through it again I am struck mostly by its physical presence....
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Phillydeals (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
A couple of VoIP firms are betting on the World Series
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
On a dreary wet day a month into its new life, the sculpture garden at the Philadelphia Museum of Art has a still feeling, more like a remote clearing in the woods than an urban hilltop.
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craigrom | 08/04/2009
A city not only known as the city of American freedom or the birthplace of America but also known for the revolutionary role it has played since centuries. Welcome to Philadelphia, a life-size city in Pennsylvania and the birthplace of America...
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artandyou | 04/09/2009
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is offering us, from March 20 to June 21, a rare experimentation of the incarnation of time, through three works of the artist Tim Hyde : "Building in Reverse"
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