Ground Cover: NYT hits up some of Philly's best galleries and collectives, discovers our "hardy, low-budget, DIY, do-it-for-love creativeness"

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Ground Cover: NYT hits up some of Philly's best galleries and collectives, discovers our "hardy, low-budget, DIY, do-it-for-love creativeness"

POSTED: Friday, August 28, 2009, 6:01 PM

Filed Under: Arts Visual Art

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fabric workshop and museum reppin' philly in the NYT

In yesterday's New York Times, Randy Kennedy took his readers on a pretty kickass tour of Philly's still-burgeoning art (and food) scene, visiting everywhere from FLUXspace (we'll forgive the square-pants NYT mis-capitalization) to the Fabric Workshop, calling our fair city "a lively and unpredictable place to see new art." Hell yeah!

Also on Kennedy's tour were various Mural Arts Program murals, the Museum of Mourning Art in Drexel Hill and Fleisher/Ollman Gallery; he didn't quite make it to PIFAS, but maybe next time. (He also checked out Matyson, Little Fish and Paesano's. Good taste, friend.)

Here's a snippet:

There is a particularly Philadelphian brand of hardy, low-budget, do-it-yourself, do-it-for-love creativeness evident in art and art spaces across the city. It is a climate that, as new as it sometimes feels, has been embodied and nurtured for decades by organizations like two I included on my itinerary: the Fabric Workshop and Museum, founded in 1977 as a way to combine world-class artistic collaborations with community outreach and education, and the Mural Arts Program, which grew out of the city's anti-graffiti efforts and has worked with neighborhood residents and artists for 25 years to create more than 2,800 towering murals on walls throughout the city.

Check out the article here; an NYT slideshow here; and Robin Rice's City Paper review of the latest Fabric Workshop and Museum exhibit here.

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