Stop. Look. Listen.

I was unbelievably shocked by the news of Anne d’Harnoncourt’s death. What a terrible loss for the museum, Philadelphia and the cultural community at large.
http://www.philly.com/philly/obituaries/19481959.html
Edward Sozanski’s comment:
http://tinyurl.com/3tyglu

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The boundaries between high art and small business, conceptualizing and everyday life, are broken in Cottage Industry, a new exhibit opening at Baltimore’s Contemporary Museum June 1.
The exhibit will feature 6 artists and artist collaboratives “that have merged art with business by creating small shops, business ventures and alternative cultural institutions,” according to a museum press release. From […]

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The Lancaster Museum of Art’s “Show Up and Show Show,” held in conjunction with ArtWalk at the museum’s 215 N. Queen St. site, always draws a wide range of participants and there’s always something surprising, something a little offbeat, creations from young and old, amateur and professional in all kinds of media: encaustic, watercolor, screenprint, woodburning and old-fashioned “3D” […]

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This weekend is all about needles and thread, fiber and craft. In addition to the Quilter’s Heritage Celebration at the Host, which began today and runs through Sunday, fiber artist Debi Hartranft will be at the Living Light Gallery on 150 N. Prince St. Saturday for the opening of a show of her works. (There […]

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NORRISTOWN, Pa. - Opponents of a plan to relocate The Barnes Foundation’s multibillion-dollar art collection to downtown Philadelphia on Monday asked the judge who approved the move to allow new hearings on the contentious issue.

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State-owned museums were open free Sunday for Charter Day (every second Sunday in March), including three in Lancaster County: the Landis Valley Museum, the Ephrata Cloister and the Railroad Museum of Pa. Guides explained the austere way of life at the Cloister as the bright late-winter sun shone in the windows and lit up the […]

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