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Is the Barnes move about accesibility, or is it a theft?

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If there ever was a week for the ol’ Harvey Danger, “if you’re bored than you’re boring” rip, it’s this one, which is chock full art & galleries coming out of hibernation. Just picture this bear with art inside of it’s white-walled tummy, except a whole city full of these things and that’ll just about give you the correct mood for this week’s event forecast. Not sure where I’m going with that? Me neither… but wait, it matters not cuz it’s Harvey Danger Clip Time!!!!

There’s so much to do! Which is great, super-fantastic news! But also intimidating… expect the synopses (synopsis’s? synopsii?) to be short & snappy this week. And as I get more & more tired, shorter and snappier. Also note, spelling, grammar & important facts will all be luxuries.

Wednesday, March 3rd

Arcadia Gallery: Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn
In the spirit of the Philagrafika tags, we’re now also tagging shows and events that are a part of the upcoming NCECA Conference, to be held in Philadelphia from March 31st to April 3rd. Expect to see that little guy more & more. Ai Weiwei’s exhibition at Arcadia features a selection of ceramic & photographic works in which the iconoclastic Chinese artist… drops the urn. The oldest pieces in the show date back to 5000 BCE, which is used quite radically by Weiwei who questions its’ value & significance in his process. Add one Buster Keaton trying to catch all these urns, and you got yourself some classic cinema. Dr. Charles Merewether (art historian, curator and writer) will give a lecture entitled Under the Hammer on the “role his ceramic work has played in its development and significance.”
Lecture begins at 6.30pm. Opening reception afterwards. Elkins Park.

Rosenbach Museum: A Mad Tea Party
The Rosenbach finds itself on time for tea, a feat in itself says the bunny. Corresponding with Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, which hits theaters March 5th, the Rosenbach invites its’ audience to celebrate Lewis Carroll’s books, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Also, sample unique teas from local companies Cha Cha Tea & NecessiTea among others, as Scott Chamberlin Hoyt of The Meaning of Tea and Alexis Siemons of Teaspoons & Petals teach you how to brew the perfect cup!
Tea Party from 6pm – 8pm. Free with museum admission. Center City.

Thursday, March 4th

Tyler School of Art: A Lunchtime Chat with Carl Pope & Mari Hulick
It’s a bring your own lunch lecture! Carl Pope speaks about his upcoming exhibition in the Tyler Gallery, The Wall Remixed: The North Philadelphia Small Business Advertising Campaign. To expound on that title, Pope, along with Mural Arts students, local businesses in North Philadelphia and collaborator/designer Mari Hulick, combined children’s drawings with local business brands. The project shuns the corporate megalopolis envisioned in Blade Runner, and instead envisions a neighborhood that bears a series of locally designed, vibrant & unifying identities. The lecture is free & open to the public, but due to limited seating, please RSVP at exhibitions@temple.edu.
Lecture runs from 12pm – 1pm. North Philly/ Temple U.

Friday, March 5th

Asian Arts Initiative: Carrying Across
The Asian Arts Initiative presents an exhibition curated by local artist Yvonne Lung. The resulting exhibition Carrying Across explores the natur, the processes and the products of the acts of interpretation and translation. Exhibiting artists include Sama Alshaibi, Midori Harima, Tomiko Jones, Sarah Koljonen, Larry Lee, Yvonne Lung, Shanjana Mahmud, Rana Sindhikara and I Gusti Putu Hardana Putra, James Sham, and total badboy hotshot megastar awesomeface artist Jong Kyu. I reject your accusations of bias.
Opening reception from 5.30pm – 7.30pm. North Chinatown.

Vox Populi: Dead Flowers
I’m not gonna lie, I am afraid of those ladies. I hope they are not at the exhibition. Curated by Lia Gangitano, Dead Flowers is a group exhibition based on the life & work of actor/director Timothy Carey. The exhibition focuses on Carey’s unique stance as an artist who developed an uncompromising and sometimes stubborn understanding of the meaning of success. Although he was defined as an “underground” artist, Carey never saw himself as a part of that movement. From this cue, the artists in the exhibition explore the ever changing relationship between the mainstream and the underground. Exhibiting artists include Charles Atlas, Alvin Baltrop, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Timothy Carey, Johanna Constantine, Marti Domination, Scott Ewalt, Georg Gatsas, Brandon Olson, Kembra Pfahler, Cynthia Plaster Caster, Tabboo! (Stephen Tashjian), and Paul Thek. The exhibition will be accompanied by the films of its’ provocateur, Timothy Carey.
Opening reception from 6pm – 11pm. North Chinatown.

Crane Arts: Medium Resistance
Oh boy, the nebulous blob that is the Crane Arts building is now moving into First Friday territory. The space now includes nine separate exhibiting spaces, and eleven different exhibitions. So let me concentrate and this one, and you can figure the rest out. Medium Resistance examines works of print & craft that attempt to defy the traditional limitations that have come to define these mediums in contemporary art. A collaboration between Crane owners Nick Kripal, Richard Hricko and Tyler philosopher Philip Glahn, Medium Resistance, in the Ice Box space, is a case study of the revolutionary tendencies, processes and ideas in craft & print that rail against the implied history of their respective mediums.
Opening reception from 6pm – 9pm. No. Libs/ Crane Arts.

Philadelphia Photo Arts Center: .matrix
Traditionally, prints are created from a single original surface, called a matrix. In this exhibition, the idea of the matrix or “mold” is used as a metaphor for both infinitely reproducible and sacred images. The exhibition .matrix intends to blur the line between printmaking and photography processes by creating new printing techniques, site specific installations or re-contextualized images. Exhibiting artists include: Richard Benson, Matthew Brandt, Donald Camp, GD Loft, Bryan Graf, KesselsKramer, Khanh Le, Susan Lipper, David Benjamin Sherry, and Ann Woo.
Opening reception from 6pm – 9pm. No. Libs/ Crane Arts.

Nexus foundation: Susan Abrams & Tasha Doremus
While most of the other Crane building buzz will celebrate the opening of exhibitions, Nexus will be sending off their latest exhibiting artists, Susan Abrams & Tasha Doremus. Doremus’s exhibition, entitled Scars, Caresses and Souvenirs, uses skin and vacant lots to explore the endearing qualities of memory. Conversely, Abrams’ exhibition, entitled Abiding Ephemera, uses photography to create memory by capturing the ephemeral in order to make it tangible.
Closing reception from 6pm – 9pm. No. Libs/ Crane Arts.

Little Berlin: 1st Annual Little Berlin Print Invitational
This independent project of Philagrafika features twelve artists from across these states working in the medium of printmaking. The inaugural invitational hopes to highlight the forms of printmaking & the role it plays in contemporary art. Wait a sec, aren’t those just Philagrafika’s words? Write your own press, Pannell. Great, I read that last line out load and now I want a panini press. Participating artists are Kabuya P. Bowens, Vicky Chen, Kate Copeland, Stella Ebner, Juan Garcia, Amelia Hankin, Morgan Hill, Fleming Jeffries, Robert T. Pannell, Serena Perrone, Alice Thompson and Tanya Ziniewicz.
Opening reception from 6pm to 10pm. Kensington.

Highwire Gallery: George Shinn & Barbara Spadaro

This month at Highwire features paintings by George Shinn & an installation by Barbara Spadaro. While George Shinn’s paintings are left to speak for themselves, Barbara Sparado invokes a series of questions such as…

What does it mean to be an undocumented self? Does the “dividual self” boil down to an intertextual web that controls us? Do the multiple roles we inhabit make us “fractured selves”? Can the government really open your mail? Whose turn is it to do the dishes?

But we’ll never know whose turn it is to do such dishes, as we are all invited to ponder these questions. This has to be the worst cliffhanger since Who Shot JR. Who knew that hussy Kristen had it in her?
Opening reception from 5pm – 9pm. Fishtown

Silicon Gallery: Photo Competition Winners Exhibition
Silicon Gallery presents to us a juried competition via the internet file-sharing service, YouSendIt. Entrants sent three images via YouSendIt, which were subsequently juried, printed, framed and hung for the exhibition. It’s a perfect system for a future where everybody will work from home and nobody will ever leave their house. I’m curious to know from the photographers – is this a slap in the face for you guys, or is this how the medium works nowadays with the ubiquity of digital processes? If you happen to be catching this text ON MONDAY, there’s still a chance you can be in the show! The deadline for entries is midnight of March 1st, so hurry on over to the entries page and send over three images already.
Opening party from 6pm – 10pm. Old City.

extra extra: Brad Troemel: Pre-Career Retrospective: Works From 2009-2010
What is an exhibition if the artist has no consent on the presentation? The directors of extra extra gallery, who present the internet works of artist Brad Troemel in this way, claim that it is “is emblematic of immaterial art’s free movement into any receptive home.” In fact, they claim that

[t]he freedom of an artist with an immaterial practice extends to a freedom by all those who wish to appropriate their imagery. No longer understood as a definite end point, art’s digital existence is a middle ground for a host of other agents to influence. “Pre-Career Retrospective” literally enacts this new, inevitably collaborative process between artists and the presenters of their art.

Wait, so does the artist have no consent, or is he a collaborating partner? Either way, keep going where you going, eexxttrraa. Notice that all the blogs related to this exhibition are on tumblr, whose secret public mission is to plagiarize everything.
Opening reception begins at 7pm with artist talk at 8pm. Fishtown.

Rodger Lapelle: Yuri Machoveychuk & Michael Zansky: Portraits
It would be narrow minded, biased and naive of me to say that paintings suck and portraits suck. What I’m saying is don’t title a show, of all things, Portraits. I can’t think of a show title that would make me less excited. That being said, I really like the press images from both of these artists. They’re portraits that go beyond “this is what this person looks like” and add elements that are surreal and absurd to draw in its’ viewer.
Opening reception from 6pm – 10pm. Center City.

Bambi Gallery: Gillian Pears: Still & Linda Guenste: Fun with…
Direct from the mouthpiece of Bambi, a briefer than brief description of this month’s exhibitions…

Gillian Pears, subtle photographer, in the main gallery.
Linda Guenste, gas masks and gouache, in the new projects space.

So beautiful in it’s simplicity… I must not add more. Okay wait, how did they fit a project space into that storefront?
Opening reception from 6pm – 10pm. Piazza at No. Libs.

Dalet Gallery: Island Cuba
Island Cuba is an exhibition of Cuban photographers, who now live in Havana. During his many trips to Cuba, US photographer came to befriend many kindred artisans, such as Pedro Abascal, Mario Diaz, Lissette Solorzano, and Enrique de la Uz. Their collective speaks of a richly diverse Cuba, which continues to innovate in the arts and education despite its’ deep economic and political realities. All these photographers work in black & white imagery, and represent three distinct sociopolitical generations of Cuban photography.
Opening reception from 5pm – 9pm. Center City.

Saturday, March 6th

Slingluff Gallery: Julian Duron: Windows
The new work of Julian Duron is focused and inspired from the synthetic, organic and imaginary textures of Brooklyn, where he lives. Aside from being a painter and a New York fan, Duron publishes two webzines: Coattails.org and Bodegaboys.com. On the new series, entitled Windows, Duron has to say…

There is no such thing as a freestanding work of art. Each work is bracketed by: 1) everything that came before it, and 2) the next blank surface. Between the two is the grand gulf that excites artists and collectors alike. Windows emerges almost exclusively from the natural environment. Textures – organic, synthetic, and imaginary – are an important part of the composition, and are natural outgrowths of the subject matter.

Opening reception from 6pm – 9pm. Fishtown.

Sunday, March 7th

Da Vinci Art Alliance: CONFLUENCE: three artists three sensibilities
While they don’t hitch their wagon explicitly to the Philagrafika behemoth hovering over our fair city, they do so implicitly by including the word “printmaking”. Confluence celebrates the work of three artists using traditional and contemporary technologies to explore the complexities of the printmaking process. The artists are Bobbie Adams, Rachel Citrino, and Linda Dubin Garfield, who are connected by their obsession and love of mark making.
Meet the Artists from 1pm – 5pm. South Philly.

This week, I’m going to assume I’ve missed none of the listings. Please leave no comments regarding mistakes because there are none. But DO add our email to your press list, listings{at}funnelpages{dot}com.

Thanks for reading. Oh, and please remember that Bing sucks.