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“Dancing around the Bride” Travels to London
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Exhibitions
February 20, 2013
Positive reviews have been sweeping through the U.K. press for The Bride and the Bachelors, the new iteration of the Center-funded exhibition Dancing around the Bride.
Who’s at the Center? Paul Schimmel and Helen Molesworth
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Exhibitions
February 18, 2013
Paul Schimmel and Helen Molesworth, two curators widely celebrated for their ambition and scholarship, visit the Center this week to discuss curating and historiography with visual arts and exhibition professionals from the Philadelphia area. Schimmel is substantially responsible for bringing international attention to Los Angeles art since the early 1980s, while Molesworth’s This Will Have Been: Art, Love, and Politics in the 1980s (2012) is the first U.S. museum retrospective devoted to the decade.
New York Times Art and Dance Critics Can’t Say Enough About “Dancing Around the Bride”
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Exhibitions
January 24, 2013
The New York Times has issued a string of glowing reviews regarding Dancing Around the Bride. This time Alastair Macaulay acknowledges the works of Merce Cunningham performed as part of the exhibit and calls it "a triumph."
More Press in the New York Times for “Dancing Around the Bride”
Exhibitions
January 8, 2013
The New York Times offers insight on the artist connections featured in Dancing Around the Bride as Alastair Macaulay interviews Jasper Johns about working with Merce Cunningham and Marcel Duchamp.
Philadelphia Museum of Art’s “Dancing Around the Bride” featured in the New York Times
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Exhibitions
December 7, 2012
A review of Dancing Around the Bride appearing in the New York Times called the exhibition "a sparkling piece of curatorial choreography."
The Institute of Contemporary Art Reflects on Curatorial Intensive
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Exhibitions
August 7, 2012
In response to their participation in the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative year-long Curatorial Intensive, Rachel Pastan of the Institute of Contemporary Art took to their Miranda blog to discuss the experiences of Senior Curator Ingrid Schaffner. The Philadelphia Curatorial Intensive, run with the guidance of Kate Fowle, Executive Director of Independent Curators International (iCI), provides a group of curators from the surrounding region a safe enviroment in which to challenge basic assumptions about curation.
“The Happy Show” Gets Its Wheels
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Exhibitions
June 7, 2012
The next time you're walking through Philadelphia, keep an eye out for The Happy Show bus—a rolling advertisement for the current exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, dedicated to Stefan Sagmeister's exploration of happiness. The black-and-yellow, bumblebee-like SEPTA bus has been spotted on Walnut Street recently. If you haven't yet seen it, the ICA's Happy Show tumblr page offers a quick glimpse of the bus as it drives by its building.
Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative May 2012 Press Release
Press Releases |
Exhibitions
May 7, 2012
The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Announces 2012 Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative Grant Recipients
Philadelphia, PA—The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage has awarded $1,108,700 through the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative (PEI) to seven visual arts and culture organizations in the Philadelphia area. This year’s grants include five exhibition and two planning projects. Two of the recipients are first-time grantees. The 2012 funded projects, several of which will completely transform the galleries in which they are presented, promise audiences a dynamic range of visual arts experiences.
Exhibitions 2012 Press Release PDF >
Exhibitions 2012 Grantee Roster PDF >
National Museum of Women in the Arts to screen Seductive Subversion
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Exhibitions
April 25, 2012
Where have all the women pop artists gone? You’ll find out in the documentary film Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958–1968. Produced by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, the film will be screened on Sunday, June 10, 2012 at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington, DC. Founded in 1987, NMWA is the only major museum in the world solely dedicated to recognizing women’s creative contributions.
Zoe Strauss: 10 Years in ArtForum
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Exhibitions
April 13, 2012
Zoe Strauss' mid-career restrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, supported by the Center through the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, is featured as a Critics' Pick in ArtForum.
Says Megan Heuer, "Strauss’s stated ambition as an artist is 'to create an epic narrative about the beauty and struggle of everyday life,' and the much-abused word epic truly animates this project, invoking Homer but also modernist echoes such as James Joyce and Bertolt Brecht."
