Special Events – We shortened our listings in the newsletter and added a new special events section on the site. To view a full description of any of the events listed below, click on its link.

InLiquid's newest members!
Arden Bendler Browning, Ellen Benson, Sally Eckhoff, Erin Elman, Eric Fausnacht, Nancy Frankel-Halbert, Joe Freeman, Cathy Hozack, Katherine Kaminski, David S. Kessler, Jack Knight, Kara LaFleur, Alphonse Lane, Charles Livingston, Janet Nelson, Andrea Poulsen, Matthew Alden Price, Nancy Reese, Brian Richmond, Maiko Sembokuya, Kim Senior, Patricia M. Smith, and Britt Tate.

New work by Sandra Milner, Michelle Ortiz, and Jeffrey Schaller

Coming soon: New work by Amy Orr, Randall Cleaver, June Julian, Erin Murray, Sarah Canfield, and Sharka Hyland

Feature on POST/Philadelphia Open Studio Tours

Back to top

To view full descriptions of the following member news listings, click here.

Julia Blaukopf's photograph Rainy Sign appears on the cover of Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought & Culture.

Opening reception: April 19, 7 - 10 pm at Gallery Aferro's New Media Room, Newark: Michelle Wilson is participating in Networked. 73 Market Street, Newark, NJ. Through May 17.

Friday, April 18, 6 pm at the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Keiko Miyamori, Hiro Sakaguchi, and Nami Yamamoto are participating in the panel discussion "Beyond Superflat: Emerging Japanese-American Artists in the Greater Philadelphia Region."

Saturday, April 19, 6 - 10 pm at Arachnid, Inc, Illinois: Janet Nelson is participating in the Unforgettable Art Event, a fundraiser for the Alzheimers Association. 6212 Material Ave. Loves Park, IL

Opening April 22 at Maryland Art Place, Baltimore: Diane Szczepaniak has been chosen by critic Robert Berlind for the 22nd Annual Critics' Residency Program. 8 Market Place, Suite 100, Baltimore, MD. Through May 31.

Now - June 15 at the White Dog Cafe: Carol McHarg has a solo exhibition of her paintings entitled Design Against Nature. 3420 Sansom Street, Philadelphia.

Closing soon:

Through April 19 at the Widener University Art Gallery: Sarah Canfield won the Peace Award at
the Artists Equity Anniversary Exhibition In Search
of Ourselves. One University Place, Chester, PA.

Through April 19 at little berlin: The collaborative exhibition These Ghosts that Haunt Us, a psychological excavation by artists Tyler Kline and Mike McGovern.

Through April 20 at St. Asaph Gallery: Lorraine Glessner: Fiber and Encaustic Paintings.

Through April 20 at Photo West Gallery: InLiquid members Robert Asman, Genevieve Courtubis, Amy Potsic, and Jack Ramsdale are participating in the exhibition Photography Out of the Blue, in response to conceptual artist Randy Dalton’s DO BLUE campaign.

Through April 20 at Snyderman-Works Gallery: Amy Orr is participating in the 2008 International Fiber Biennial.

Through April 24 at Muse Gallery: Nancy Frankel-Halbert has a solo New Members Exhibition.

Back to top

Friday, April 18, 5 - 8:30 pm in Center City Philadelphia: 18 galleries in the Center City District will be open late with receptions for Gallery Night.

Saturday, April 19 at Slought Foundation: Opening reception for 239 years (divided by 9 artists). Through May 19. 4017 Walnut Street, Philadelphia.

Thursday, April 24 at the Institute of Contemporary Art: Opening reception for Mike's World: Michael Smith & Joshua White (and other collaborators); Trisha Donnelly; and Trenton Doyle Hancock's Wow That's Mean and Other Vegan Cuisine.


Back to top

For details on this week's talks, click here.

Friday, April 18 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art: "Beyond Superflat: Emerging Japanese-American Artists in the Greater Delaware Valley Region."

Friday, April 18 at Project Basho: A lecture by Diana Bloomfield, who will discuss her 25 years of photographic experience focusing on pinhole photography and historical 19th century printing processes.

Friday, April 18 at Scribe Video Center: "eSights eSounds," Scribe's new media initiative, hosts a presentation by local artists working in new media.

Saturday, April 19 at The Print Center: Gallery Store talk with artists Bill McRight and Alex Lukas of Space 1026.

Sunday, April 20 at Vox Populi: Gallery talk with Richard Torchia, artist and director of Arcadia University Art Gallery, and Erica Battle, Project Curatorial Assistant, Modern and Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Sunday, April 20 at the Woodmere Art Museum: "Violet Oakley, American Renaissance Woman," a lecture by Dr. Patricia Likos Ricci, Associate Professor of the History of Art, Elizabethtown College.

Back to top

For a full list of this week's events, click here.

Friday, April 18 at Johnny Brenda's: "NightVisions: Ear Candy," presented as part one of the Mazzoni Center's "Heartworks " opening weekend. Among artist/performers to be featured are: Gang Gang Dance, David Jones, Kelly Marie Martin, Cory Arcangel, Douglas Armour, Paul Slocum, Professor Murder, Chad Brown, and Megawords.

Friday, April 18 at Moore College of Art: Secret Cinema presents an evening of "Weird Cartoons," highlighting unusual and bizarre animation from the 1930s through the 1960s.

Saturday, April 19, 6 - 11 pm at the Ice Box Project Space: "NightVisions: Eye Candy," presented as part two of the Mazzoni Center's "Heartworks " opening weekend. An evening of experimental multimedia video art by Alex Bag, photography by Patterson Beckwith in collaboration with filmmaker Joshua Callaghan, and works by other video artists.

Saturday, April 19 at Positive Space Sculpture Lot: All are welcome to pitch in ... weeding, cleaning up, planting, etc... for Positive Space's "Work Day."

Sunday, April 20 at Philadelphia Museum of Art: Time in the Sun (1940), from footage shot for Sergei Eisenstein’s ¡Que Viva Mexico!. Presented in conjunction with the Frida Kahlo exhibition.

Back to top

Click here for complete information on all of this week's announcements

Guggenheim Woes: Bilbao CFO Admits to Embezzlement

Ollie Johnston, Last of Disney's "Nine Old Men," Dead at 95

Back to top

For details on the following, plus many, many more, visit the InLiquid Opportunities section (New information for this week will be posted on the afternoon of Friday, April 18):

Until filled: Volunteer Summer Docent, Esther M. Klein Art Gallery

Deadline May 15: Executive Director, Center for Community Arts

Deadline May 16: "Positive Space Picture Show" Seeks Short Films & Animation

Deadline May 28: Axis Gallery Third National Exhibition - Call for Entries

Deadline June 2: apexart Seeks Provocative Short Video Submissions

Deadline June 18: "All Things Horses" Juried Photography Show

Back to top

For more details on this week's NYC exhibitions and events, click here.

Saturday, April 19 at the Brooklyn Museum: Panel discussion, "Envisioning Japan: Consuming Art in Japan / America."

Sunday, April 20 at MoMA and P.S.1: Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson opens to the public.

Tuesday, April 22 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Jeff Koons on the Roof, a rooftop installation of sculptures by Jeff Koons, opens to the public.

Tuesday, April 22 at Storefront for Art and Architecture: Opening reception for Koolhaas Houselife, a film by Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine presented as part three of On Mock-ups, Home Videos and Housekeeping: a video exhibition in 3 parts. Through May 3.

Back to top

For a detailed list of this week's exhibitions and events happening elsewhere, click here.

Friday, April 18 - Monday, April 21 at Brussels Expo, Belgium: artbrussels 26th Contemporary Art Fair.

Saturday, April 19, at Renaissance Riverfront Center for the Arts: Reception for Too Real is Too Real, a juried exhibition of paintings and sculpture by regional artists exploring the lasting impact of Surrealism.

Tuesday, April 22 at the Noyes Museum of Art: The retrospective exhibition From Cape May to Cairo: The Work of George Washington Nicholson opens to the public.

Back to top

Here's what hot on roberta fallon and libby rosof's artblog

Weekly Update: Air Kissing your way to success in the art world

Arbus auction preview -- but no auction -- in New York

Artistic forebears

artblog interview: Alex da Corte, forever and ever

Paul Santoleri's clubhouse for Mural Arts gets a party

A swarm and post-apocalyptic visions--Carlos Amorales at the PMA

Making do

Dolls, dolls, dolls

Also on the blog: What is art--the animals respond; Report from Fishtown

Back to top