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Getting Heads from Jun Kaneko

POSTED: Thursday, September 17, 2009, 8:55 PM

Filed Under: Arts | Visual Art Opera

This guy, one in a series of Jun Kaneko's Heads sculptures, will be up in City Hall's courtyard through October 24. It's massive ' 11 feet tall ' pretty, and super Zen. It's part of a larger, impressive collaboration between the Opera Co. of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Kimmel Center, Locks Gallery and the city to showcase Kaneko's works, titled "On the Wings of Music: Art, Opera & You." (The one in the picture, by the way, was taken when it temporarily lived in New York City.) For more information on his other works showing around the city, check the specific venues listed above. They're not all straight sculpture ' his work with the Opera Co., for example, includes set design and costumes for its production of Madama Butterfly, which runs from October 9-18.

Kristen Stein

Posted 2009-09-17 23:12:35

So cool! I love it!

Cara

Posted 2009-09-22 14:53:59

Want to see the head in Philly?  Here he (?) is in the City Hall Courtyard. http://twitpic.com/ilnw6. Thanks Meredith at GPTMC who took the photo.  All this art around town inspired me to get a ticket to Madama Butterfly.

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