Events
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Art at Lunch - Clocks, Calendars, and Conversion Charts
Presented by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) February 15, 2012 This talk explores how the first modern globalization wave around 1900 profoundly altered notions of time, space, and simultaneity. In 1884, Greenwich Mean Time was adopted as a new universal time standard. Clocks and watches became more affordable and proliferated among ordinary people and as a consequence, new understandings of personal time management, punctuality and time efficiency emerged. Vanessa Ogle, from the University of Pennsvlvania, traces these heated and controversial debates...
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) |
02/15/12 |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia |
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Family Arts Academy: Dance of Color
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) |
02/19/12 |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia |
Art at Lunch - Moe Brooker: Start to Finish
Presented by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) February 22, 2012 Artist and PAFA faculty member Moe Brooker has been instructing young artists for almost forty years. Brooker’s philosophy of art-making includes the belief that process determines product, focusing specifically on how studio practices and choice of materials determines the types of images that an artist creates. This talk by Brooker, at the same time that an exhibition of his work is on view in PAFA’s Alumni Gallery, highlights his own process of creation and tracks the...
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) |
02/22/12 |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia |
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Family Arts Academy: Painted Stories
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) |
02/26/12 |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia |
Art at Lunch - Between Shores: Henry Ossawa Tanner and Transatlanticism
Presented by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) February 29, 2012 Henry Ossawa Tanner lived a life between two shores of the Atlantic – America and France – and his navigation of these national boundaries deeply affected his art. Tanner pursued his prolific body of religious paintings solely during this time “in between,” never painting a religious scene on American soil, and in this talk, Jeff Richmond-Moll, a Lecturing Fellow at PAFA, discusses how a Transatlantic vision of space and a precedent of “betweenness” in...
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) |
02/29/12 |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia |
Pen and Paintbrush Club: In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck
Presented by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) March 7, 2012 Steinbeck’s socially engaged novel highlights the frustration of a community of fruit pickers and their resulting attempts to organize an ununionized strike in 1930s California. Paintings like Philip Evergood’s Mine Disaster and Alice Neel’s Investigations of Poverty at the Russell Sage Foundation will highlight artist interest in the plight of the working class at a volatile time in American history.
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) |
03/07/12 |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia |
PAFA after Dark: Turned On
Presented by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) March 8, 2012 See PAFA’s biggest exhibition of the year in a totally new light.
View Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit during the artist’s favorite time of day—night—and participate in interactive experiences provided by inventor artists extraordinaire The Hacktory and Hive76.
Fourth Wall Arts curates the guest performances, including percussion group Spoken Hand, opera singer Alicia Mendoza and spoken word poet extraordinaire Nina “Lyrispect” Ball.
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) |
03/08/12 |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia |
Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit
Presented by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) January 28-April 15, 2012 The subject of this exhibition is the career and life of the artist Henry O. Tanner (1859-1937), including the pioneering African American artist’s upbringing in Philadelphia in the years after the Civil War; the artist’s success as an American expatriate artist at the highest levels of the international art world at the turn of the 20th century; Tanner’s role as a leader of an artist’s colony in rural France and his unique contributions in aid of American servicemen...
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) |
01/28/12 -
04/15/12 |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia |
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Moe Brooker: The Evidence of Things Not Seen
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) |
02/10/12 -
04/15/12 |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia |
After Henry Tanner: African American Artists since 1940
Presented by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) January 28-April 16, 2012 Henry Ossawa Tanner was a mentor and role model for younger artists during his lifetime and a source of pride for many generations of artists since his death in 1937. Drawing on PAFA’s outstanding examples of work by African American artists, this permanent collection installation will complement the Tanner retrospective on view in the Fisher Brooks Gallery to give a sense of Tanner’s enduring legacy for artists working today.
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) |
01/28/12 -
04/16/12 |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia |
Bill Viola: Ocean Without a Shore
Presented by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) November 19, 2011-November 19, 2012 Bill Viola is recognized internationally as one of the most important American artists working today. A pioneer of video and installation art, he is an artist whose subject matter is the profound question of our being and one that considers human life and its relation to the universe, to the soul and human spirit, and to nature and death. Ocean Without a Shore, a recent PAFA acquisition, is a major video installation and a profound experiential work which combines a reverence for the...
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) |
11/19/11 -
11/19/12 |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia |