July, 2nd
Entering the gallery at the University City Arts League last week was like looking into a time capsule. The exhibit there, Hidden Gems of West Philadelphia, is from the collection of Sylvia Egnal, one of the UCAL founders and long time supporter. She’s almost 98! Andy Warhol, Flowers, silk screen; this was one of the successful sales, and listed at $4,000 it had the highest asking price in the exhibit.
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A glimpse through time at the Arts League
July, 2nd
Enjoy the long weekend. See you Monday
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Happy Fourth (updated)
When is it okay (if at all) to exhibit previously-shown art? Are there hard and fast rules
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Deep Thought Thursday: Show it again, Sam
July, 1st
Several years ago I linked to a site featuring over 50 episodes of Osvaldo Cavandoli’s wonderful series of short animations, La Linea . That link has come and gone, but I did just find an extensive YouTube playlist of 78 La Linea episodes . I loved watching these as a kid
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La Linea
July, 1st
The standout piece at Fleisher/Ollman ’s Frenz exhibit is more than a standout. It’s outta heeeere. The exhibit includes work by 11 artists selected by singer-songwriter Will Oldham , aka Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy
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Frenz at Fleisher-Ollman
July, 1st
July, 1st
Drawger has set up the Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies where “tools of the trade that have died or have just about died a slow slow death are cheerfully exhibited.” I still have plenty of these kicking around from my school days — rubber cement pick-up, proportion wheel, dry cleaning pad, t-squares, triangles. I even use some of them still, despite having a heavily digital workflow.
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Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies
Continuing, sort of, from here and here … The Toledo Museum of Art has acquired Wayne Thiebaud’s 1963 Roast Beef Dinner (Trucker’s Supper) , at left. Roast Beef Dinner is a quintessentially mid-20th-century American still-life.
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Still-life Wednesday: Toledo’s new Thiebaud
July, 1st
Continuing from this morning … Luis Melendez, the greatest Spanish still-life painter of the 18th-century, elevated simple, rustic objects into palace decorations for royals. A survey of his still-life paintings is on view at the National Gallery of Art until Aug
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Still-life Wednesday, part two