1. Heat Shimmer Of The Pavement: Summer Idylls At Gallery 339
A topless woman on a rocky beach. Water condensing on a glass. Kids back-flipping in a river. A kite. A sea side horizon. From idyllic summer scenes of a nap in the grass to the scorched weird realities of family vacation land, Summer Idylls, continuing at Gallery 339, presents a collection of those white heat infused moments that might have melted in your mind had they not been captured so eloquently for you to possess beyond lazy summer memory.

2. The Greeeateest Loooove of Alllll = TITS!/Boobies At Falling Cow
Boobies, continuing through August 26 at Falling Cow Gallery exhibits works which should be self explanatory (after you stop snickering like a 10 year old, that is). On a more serious note, the gallery is committed to donating 10% of proceeds to the Linda Creed Breast Cancer Foundation. A fitting fundraiser for an appropriate cause and a very cool song-writing lady. She also wrote the hit “Rubberband Man”, which lends a little more street cred than belting the Whitney Houston ballad titled above. Bounce along with it, and then go see some boobs, but more importantly buy something!

3. Beautiful Boy: Icons & Idols At The DAM
In early November of 1980, a photo session for a promotional piece on their new album Double Fantasy captured enough tender moments between John and Yoko to prompt her to call the photographer, Jack Mitchell, a few days later to ask if the couple might use one of them for their 1980 Christmas card. It‚Äôs unlikely that the card was ever produced, but some rarely seen images from that session are finally on display as part of the exhibit Icons & Idols, A Photographer’s Chronicle of the Arts, at the Delaware Art Museum. Also included are many other legendary portraits of some of the greatest dancers, actors, artists, composers, performers, and writers of the late 20th century. I know,I know Dela-WHERE? Just trust us. It‚Äôs worth the hike for a cool exhibit and an even cooler (think about it, air-conditioned!) museum.

4. Fishtown Revisited: Traces At The Gershman Y
Calling All Frankford Arts Corridor Pioneers! Last chance to see what your Fishtown haunts and streets used to look like before you moved your homesteads and studios there, making it safe for developers and real estate moguls to jack up the prices of the warehouse territories that you settled! Traces: Fishtown in Flux, at the Gershman Y, which closes August 13, exhibits photographs by two local artists that document what came before the changes this section of the city has seen thanks to the influx of edgy, creative types, um, I mean artists in recent years. Man, if this kind of exhibit is already happening I wonder who the hell has photos or even remembers what Northern Liberties used to look like…

5. These Are The Charitable Artists In Your Neighborhood: Bambi!
And now for a string from the locals who do know. Aw, everyone has a crush on Bambi.

Ten-four,
Ms. Honeypenny

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This entry was posted on Friday, August 4th, 2006 at 2:56 pm.