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ArtAnswers is apparently on a little lull right now, which means: It needs you! We know you gots questions, now you can get them answered by any of our dear readers! Which also means, as a dear reader yourself, that you should gets answers.

Currently Churning:

Why do you go to Art Openings?

and

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

So there you have it, your weekly AAUpdate. Hop to it!

And now, for something completely different, The Listings:

Holy Badge City! This week is filled with NCECA/PGKA badges, perhaps I went a little crazy, but it’s just so fun!Also, note that I wrote the listings backwards this week, so when I seem surprised about double festival shows late in the game, it was actually early, and I had good reason to be excited about it.

Wednesday, March 10th

Area 919 @ CitySpace: Occupant

Occupant participants Gillian Pears and Ryan Widger close out the exhibition with an artist talk and reception. This is your last chance to check out the exhibition which

presents the viewer with a central question; a question of containment, of self-awareness, of position and exposure. It is a question of occupancy.

Starts at 6pm. Center City

Thursday, March 11th

Bahdeebahdu: Emergence

Curated by Brooke Hine and part of NCECA, PGKA,  and FiberPhiladelphia (sorry, no badge for that one!), Emergence features the work of Julie Elkins, Shane Keena, Casey McDonough, Brooke Hine, KyoungHwa Oh, Colby Parsons, Alison Ragguette, Talia Greene, Chris Landau, Eric McDade, Katie Murken, Paul Roden & Valerie Lueth: Tugboat Print Shop, Ben Volta, Andrea Gaydos Landau, Ana B. Hernandez, and Lisa Kellner. Now take a breath. If you have never been to the wacky named gallery/furniture showroom/awesome stuff shelter that is Bahdeebahdu, now might be a good time to take the trip!

Starts at 6pm, ends at 9pm. Crane Arts Area

Crane Arts: Medium Resistance; Fabricating Ideas

In case you missed the opening to the cooperative efforts of the Cranes own Richard Hricko and Nick Kripal along with Philip Glahn, then here is you second chance to see it in the Ice Box. As Dave said last week, Medium Resistance is “a case study of the revolutionary tendencies, processes and ideas in craft & print that rail against the implied history of their respective mediums.” Fabricating Ideas, presented by Chad Curtis and Forrest Snyder, presents some high (tech) art (see what I did there?) fabricated by fantastical machines that make me drool, and takes place in the Grey Space. There is also stuff gong on in the Green Space, The Project Room, and The Hall, so check out the Crane site for all of those ongoings!

Starts at 6pm, ends at 9. Crane Arts Building

Nexus: The Extra-Dimensional Printmaking Invitational

From the Nexus p.r.:

Curated by Nexus Artist Member Rebecca Gilbert, The Extra-Dimensional Printmaking Invitational features artists and artworks that embrace the history, tradition, and process of printmaking while rejecting the confines of the 2-D picture plane. Invited artists will exhibit works that are Extra-dimensional in spatial physicality and conceptual scope.

Starts at 6pm. Crane Arts Building

Rebekah Templeton: SUPPOSEDLY

Sebastien Leclercq, whose name is not spelled any of the ways you think it might be, brings SUPPOSEDLY to the R.T. The show will feature a vinyl tape site-specific installation jam on the outside of the gallery, while the inside will hold 132 drawings. From the p.r.:

Based in drawing, Leclercq’s work consists of the creation and augmentation of structural semi-narrative circumstances. Whether these conditions are constructed of graph paper or architectural structures, Leclercq subtly undermines the certainty and order denoted by their object-hood.

Sorry for the p.r. copy, but it’s a complex thing to reinterpret. Plus I love blockquotes.

Starts at 6pm. Fishtown/NoLibs Borderish

UD@Crane: Rate of Return

UD takes a look at the multiple and the value that surrounds it. It’s riddled with topics ranging from commodity to availability to preciousness. I kind of inserted that last one myself, but that’s what I get out of the description.

Starts at 6pm. Crane Arts Bldg.

Friday, March 12th

Sande Webster Gallery: A Place of Our Own and Pulp

SWG almost pulls double duty this month with A Place of Our Own and Pulp. APoOO is part of NCECA, and Pulp is a few print marks away from Philagrafika, but just not quite enough, apparently, to find it’s way to both satellite festival stages. Syd Carpenter presents ceramic works based upon African American Farms in A Place. PULP, which coincides with Philagrafika as a conceptual starting point, takes a look at the renewed interest in paper within the art world. It does not, however, feature anyone from St. Martin’s college. Get it? Common People? Pulp?

Starts at 6pm, ends at 8. Center City

Saturday, March 13th

The Academy of Natural Sciences: Looking at Animals

OK, so I happened upon a show on PBS this weekend about a National Geographic photographer who took these really great photos, and it kind of made me re-consider nature photography the way that every now and then I reconsider Norman Rockwell. It’s just a fun little exercise to do, and a great way to argue the art vs. design issue, if you have one of those. But it got me excited about this: 24 large format black and white images that explore animal portraiture. Maybe it’s your thing, maybe it’s not, but there it is. So have at it.

No Opening Recetption, Exhibition through May 16th.

Pentimenti Gallery: Spark, Borrow, and Steal; Julie York: Reflectionoitcelter

Pentimenti doubles down with the festivals in town (you can put that rhyme to a beat, if you want to) with this month’s exhibitions. As part of Philagrafika, Spark Borrow, and Steal features the works of Matt Haffner, Judy Gelles, Patricia Lambertus, Aurora Robson, and Viviane Rombaldi Seppey, and is inspiried by the Picasso quote, “Good artists borrow, great artists steal”. Reflectionoitcelter by Julie York shows “the artist’s interest in visual relations and ways of seeing”, as well as her interest in making up German sounding words.

Starts at 4, ends at 6:30pm. Old City

Seraphin Gallery: Joan Wadleigh Curran: Succession

It’s plant vs. city in Curran’s second solo exhibition at Seraphin. I’ll give you a quote, you make the call:

the struggle for succession of plant over shard…where the fragile and the tenacious at once embrace and co-exist

Starts at 6pm, ends at 8. Center City

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Shaun