News Through the Heritage Philadelphia Program (HPP), the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage has awarded $766,325 to six local organizations, including two first-time grantees; the winners include the Preservation Alliance of Greater Philadelphia, for their effort to revitalize the John Coltrane House in North Philadelphia, and the Mural Arts Program, for Structure and Surface, a community-based public art initiative about the history [...]

In connection with the Exhibition, Possible Cities; Africa in photography and video at Haverford College’s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery March 18 – April 29, 2011, a symposium, Imaging Africa will be held on Saturday,  March 19, 10:45am-3:15 pm. bringing together leading curators, filmmakers, critics, and scholars to discuss the current status of African visual culture. The [...]

The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) this year presents its 14th annual Award for Curatorial Excellence to two curators—Helen Molesworth, Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Boston and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Codirector of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery, London. The prestigious awards will be presented at a gala dinner on April 13, 2011 at Capitale (130 Bowery) in New York City.

Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art
February 5 – April 23, 2011

Lebanese artist Rabih Mroué creates performance-based video installations that examine the powerful influence that photographic representations exert on cultural memory, official history and personal recollection. Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art is pleased to present The Inhabitants of Images, Mroué’s first solo exhibition at a public art gallery in Canada.

The search for a single unifying principle–a mathematical formula, or the atom, or God–is the sort of romantic obsession that underlies the Institute of Contemporary Art exhibit Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry. The exhibit is spare, with some small architectural models and some enormous geometrical forms large enough to step into–all below an enormous hanging double-helix, [...]

This is the first episode in our new series r3 that highlights the treasures of VernissageTV’s archive. R3 is a series of VernissageTV classics, now re-mastered, re-edited and reissued in High Definition. The series starts with a short that documents Tara Donovan’s 2006 exhibition at PaceWildenstein (now The Pace Gallery) in New York. Tara Donovan [...]

The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) invited the artist, Virgil Marti, to create an exhibition from works in the store rooms of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA), and Marti’s discoveries among the museum’s overflow, dis-attributed, unfashionable, and otherwise overlooked collections were a spur to his imagination. The objects in storage reminded Marti of the [...]

Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art
January 22 – May 11, 2011

Now is the moment to reconfigure our notions of time to reveal alternative ways of thinking and being for the future. In Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years Indigenous artists imagine the future within the context of present experiences and past histories.

It’s All A Blur Opening Reception
December 9, 2010, 6pm – 9pm
SOMArts Main Gallery
934 Brannan St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
Free admission

SOMArts Cultural Center presents It’s All A Blur, a major touring exhibition about levels of empowerment and e…

In this week’s roundup, William Kentridge receives the Kyoto Prize! Louise Bourgeois, Jeff Koons, Mike Kelley, and Paul McCarthy have childish things on exhibition and more! William Kentridge has been awarded the 2010 Kyoto Prize for Arts and Philosophy, becoming the first African recipient of Japan’s highest private award for global achievement.  The awards are [...]

SEPTEMBER 7 – OCTOBER 23, 2010 Artist Reception: Saturday, September 11, 2010, 4 – 6 PM. Pentimenti Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition with artist Jacob Lunderby. The show opens on September 7 and run through October 23, 2010. The artist reception will be held on Saturday, September [...]

SEPTEMBER 7 – OCTOBER 23, 2010 Artist Reception: Saturday, September 11, 2010, 4 – 6 PM. Pentimenti Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition with artist Jacob Lunderby. The show opens on September 7 and run through October 23, 2010. The artist reception will be held on Saturday, September [...]

It’s hip to be high-minded these days. In the cultural spheres, showing awareness of environmental concerns can prove to be a savvy PR move, and architectural firms and museum committees have taken note. Eco-friendly design in natural history and science museums is not, in this day and age, surprising at all, and art centers are [...]

Charles Fahlen, 70, died July 27 at his home in Guerneville, California from pancreatic cancer, according to a notice from Steven Wolf Fine Arts, his gallery in San Francisco. I am including the parts of the notice that seem especially pertinent: Fahlen spent most of his professional career in Philadelphia, where he taught at Moore [...]