Perhaps you remember the Tiki Bar at Copy Gallery. Annette Monnier, one of the group that ran Copy Gallery, calls it one of her favorite shows there–a kind of social experiment in which people expect to find a gallery with one set of rules, but instead enter a bar with a whole other set of [...]

Before the Vox building became a stacked art building, it was home to Black Floor Gallery. The groundbreaking Black Floor and its successor, Copy Gallery, are both gone, but they will remain remembered as among the best collective galleries in town in the first decade of the Twenty-First Century. One of the founders of both [...]

Ingrid Schaffner, ICA’s Senior Curator, has been with the Institute for ten years, and in that time she’s created many great exhibitions. Schaffner has a an easy smile, a ready laugh, and an interest in the absurd, from Dali and Dada to more contemporary artists like Richard Artschwager, for whom she worked as an archivist, pre-Philadelphia. [...]

The day we talked to Matt Savitsky, he was moving out of his North Philadelphia studio, in preparation for a road trip across the country with his father. Savitsky, moved to Philadelphia from what he called “the New York pressure cooker.” Here he found a whole different way of life–first isolation and unemployment, and then [...]

Whether Amber Dorko Stopper is fighting to resurrect Nam Jun Paik’s  “Video Arbor” installation, on Franklin Town Blvd., for which the software has degraded and fallen out of date, or whether she is devouring Korean horror movies and textile traditions–all of which grew out of a quest to help one of her adopted child know [...]

Amber Dorko Stopper thinks of herself as a writer, not an artist. But she makes beautiful art, has a printing press in the living room (yes she uses it), and can knit her way out of a paper bag into a garden of unearthly delights–ephemera to be used, abused and tossed. She lives in a [...]

Locks Gallery sponsors this episode. Tyler Kline grew up in the small town of Stone Mountain, GA, a once-magical place with lakes and a pine forest and flowering magnolias and weeping willows. Tyler felt the heavy hand of history in the south growing up, and he also felt the terror of the Atlanta child murderer [...]

Amir Lyles has used the brick dust that falls off the cellar walls to give his paint texture. He has also used bits of his beard. His house and his family are essential parts of the identity that he pours into his paintings, many of them with themes of African identity–but also Rastafarianism, jazz, and [...]

The triumvirate who run Extra Extra aim their exhibitions at fellow artists. For the gallery’s team of Derek Frech, Joe Lacina and Daniel Wallace, success is not defined by sales. Rather, it’s defined by ideas, the conversation and the buzz the exhibit generates in Philadelphia’s alternative art community. They want to get people thinking, and [...]

The Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the artist-run radio project Neighborhood Public Radio (NPR) as the spring 2011 participants in Engagement Party, MOCA’s program presenting new works by innovative Southern California–based artist collectives. Harnessing the airwaves, NPR will create three interactive sound projects for MOCA visitors to experience on the first Thursday evenings of April, May, and June 2011. All events are FREE to the public and no reservations are required. For further information, visit moca.org/party.

NYC on Channel TWo at Pace Digital, 163 Williams Street, NYC, opening April 5, 2011 at 6PM, and running through April 29http://csis.pace.edu/digitalgallery/contact.htmlChannel TWo (CH2) is an instantaneous, post-network culture empire providing localiz…

Radio Without Boundariesa conference about Radio & Transmission Art9th Anniversary – May 27- 29, 2011@ Artscape Wychwood Barns 601 Christie St, TorontoBegins 6pm May 27th with opening reception, registration and performances.Earlybird discount Marc…

Sculptor and installation artist Carl Marin contemplates nature through the eyes of someone who was brought up in a hunting culture. With that experience he brings a different viewpoint to ecology and to the art cliche of the deer as a symbol for a lost natural paradise. Below is a brief sample of what Carl [...]

This March, Art Dubai Projects, a programme of films, talks, radio dispatches and performances, will feature the work of more than 75 artists commissioned to create interactive works in response to the fair. Presented by Art Dubai and featuring collaborations with regional and international organisations, Art Dubai Projects 2011 will be the fair’s largest and most dynamic series of curated programming yet.

Leah Bailis changed up her art significantly in her last solo show at Vox Populi.  From sculptures of forlorn and fragile architectural fragments, her show Magical Thinking was a mix of photos,  sculpture, and wall works whose focus was on forlorn and macabre relationships taken from the cinema.  We met Leah in her studio to [...]

Rie Nakajima with Ken Bodden | I Can Hear It | 12.I.2011 – 29.I.2011 | Wed – Sat | noon – 6pm

Radio show | Framework:afield | Resonance 104.4FM / | Download here:

SoundFjord is delighted to present the work of Rie Nakajima working with Ken …

A year and a half has passed since Angel O graduated from Moore College of Art. She had some work at the Great and Terrible Collective in the fall, but we wondered why we weren’t seeing more from this original young artist. So we tracked her down in Harrisburg, back at home after the Philadelphia [...]

Out of the context of conceptual art in the sixties and in close contact with some of the best known artists, heterodox figures emerged such as the New Yorker Seth Siegelaub (1941). Gallery owner, editor, art dealer and independent curator, Siegelaub i…

Kristin Neville-Taylor co-founded Little Berlin with Martha Savery in 2007.  Recently, she curated the show “Landscape Techne” at the alternative space.  In this clip she talks about the large, sumptuous — and completely cyber-generated — landscape photographs by Alex McLeod that appeared in the show, which closed Nov. 27.  Is beauty in art suspect these [...]

JUAN MUÑOZ’S WORKS FOR RADIO

From 1992 to 2001, Juan Muñoz carried out a series of works using materials that we would not expect to find in the hands of a sculptor: the voice, music, sound. Muñoz conceived and made these works specifically for rad…