First, an apology: What with everything that’s been going on, we’ve allowed our art listings to slip into disarray. We’ll be working on that today, but while we do and are sifting through the piles of listings we need to update, we came across some images from 222 Gallery’s Group Show, which opens this Friday, [...]

>>> Pardon us: We let last week go by without any mention of the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Barnes Foundation on the Parkway. While it’s true that Lower Merion residents may have just lost their singular pride and joy, let’s not dwell on the negatives, folks. What the Barnes’ neighbors in the 610 just [...]

A few things we wanted to tell you about that are opening tonight, lest they be lost in the normal Weekend Picks deluge:
· At OneCulture, There’s a slew of info about “Given Enough Eyeballs”, the group show at Esther Klein Art Gallery opening tonight that considers “open source art,” something very right-now and relevant, you [...]

>>> We’ll have a lot more First Friday news for ya as the week progresses — we’re updating our art listings page right now, and frankly, there’s a dizzying amount of shows opening up this week — but think of this as the calm before the storm. Over at your local Print Liberation silkscreen shop, [...]

>>> For anyone who missed it — and that includes us, poor, flu-ridden, us — there was apparently a Tiki Speakeasy at the Copy Gallery on First Friday created by Ben Peterson, complete with limbo dancing (pictured), palm trees and funny dranqs. The Tiki jam was apparenty one night only, but the theme will apparently [...]