Art + Food Event at Moore College of Art

Do It Event!

The Galleries At Moore
Moore College of Art
20th Street and The Parkway Philadelphia, PA 
215.965.4027

Thursday, September 18, 2014
Opening Reception: Free 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

DO IT: Rirkrit Tiravanija and Relational AestheticsAn evening of social relations through food and conversation as we (re)create Rirkrit Tiravanija’s Untitled (1994) – a written instruction for the preparation of Thai green curry paste –and discuss the ideas, implications and debates surrounding relational aesthetics and the social context of art.more info

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The Galleries At Moore

Moore College of Art

20th Street and The Parkway

Philadelphia, PA 

215.965.4027

Friday, September 13, 2014

Opening Reception: Free 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Do It

What would happen if an exhibition never stopped? This is precisely what artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier, and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, asked themselves in a Paris café in 1993. To test the idea, they invited twelve artists to propose artworks based on written instructions that can be openly interpreted every time they are presented. Since then, hundreds of artists have been invited to submit instructions, and versions of do it have been presented in over fifty venues worldwide, giving new meaning to the concept of the “exhibition in progress.”  

For The Galleries’ presentation of do it, over seventy of these artist instructions will be interpreted by Philadelphia-based artists, performers and the public, resulting in installations, objects and performances that range from the sculptural to the performative, the poetic to the absurd. 

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Philadelphia Museum of Art

2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway

Philadelphia, PA

215.763.8100 

Saturday, September 13, 2014

Exhibition Opening: September 13, 2014 - November 30, 2104

Full Circle: Works On Paper Richard Pousette-Dart

Full Circle surveys the long and extremely prolific career of one of the twentieth century’s most creative draftsmen, Richard Pousette-Dart (American, 1916–1992). Focused on his works on paper, the exhibition explores his remarkably varied use of materials and techniques, which often involved layering and scraping, scribbling and dripping, dotting and blotting. Over the course of nearly seventy years, his imagery evolved through various approaches in an attempt “to express the spiritual nature of the universe.” In the 1940s and 1950s, Pousette-Dart was associated with Abstract Expressionists like Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Robert Motherwell, artists with whom he exhibited in New York galleries. 

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