Fiber Philadelphia launched on Friday, and over at Crane Arts, the opening for Outside/Inside the Box literally blew our minds. Blurring the boundaries of what is fiber and textile art, the exhibition showcased some amazingly intricate pieces made of a wide spectrum of beautiful, strange and unlikely materials. A few of our favorites were Ann [...]

Happy Saturday everyone! Whilst compiling art listings for next week’s First Friday shenanigans, we thought we would mention one in particular that you should check out. Head to 144 N. 2nd street after 4pm to check out local artists’ work and support them in their cause to raise money for Japan. Members of the Rutgers [...]

Last night we were invited to the hanging of print show, A Nation of Evil Men, at Masthead Studios, curated by Sam Heimer, sponsored of course by Masthead’s Shawn Hileman, in coordination with the Philly Cartoonist Society. The opening is tonight, in the little white box on the second floor of 340 Brown Street, and [...]

Occasional gentle teasing of the Live Arts Fest aside, September is already shaping up nicely in the local arts scene, and we are already getting pumped for the new semester of the Headlong Performance Institute. The program takes 14 young artists from across the country and puts them through a rigorous semester-long creative boot-camp of [...]

If you’ve stopped by Olde City art collective/local clothing boutique/alcohol producer Art In The Age Of Mechanical Reproduction lately, you may have seen the new exhibit in the back gallery space. Philadelphia and Its Manufactures: Photographs and Objects from Factories Here and Gone provides a throught-provoking look at Philadelphia’s history as a manufacturing capital. Through a [...]

Yeah yeah, it’s Thursday and payday’s not until tomorrow. But tonight at 7pm for only five bucks, you can party like a rockstar at Fishtown’s latest gallery addition: Porkchop. This amazing space is the brainchild of local artists Robert Aiosa and Schuyler Blanchard. Tonight’s event is in celebration of Porkchop’s grand opening. With the trapeze [...]

When we saw the flyer for Nick Paparone‘s Rent Time at Copy Gallery (viewable after the jump and at philebrity.com/firstfriday), we had to ask: What is up with this? “It’s a performance in a lecture series type format that surveys the constant rituals brought forth everyday, every month, every year until our demise,” he said. [...]

For exhibitions in the past, artists Steven and Billy Blaise Dufala have made a giant tank/ice cream truck/performance space that alsoe featured a kitchen and toilet, and a cardboard tank, flanked by images of exploding people. For “Trophy,” their first solo exhibition at Fleisher/Ollman, the brothers explore “concepts of consumption, use-value, sentimentality, exaggeration, efficiency, and [...]

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, [...]

>>> 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 [...]