Philadelphia Fashion Week 2009, October 8-10

If you haven’t already heard the great news, CMK Entertainment announced that Philadelphia will be the newest city to get its own fashion week this fall!  Philadelphia Fashion Week will take place October 8-10 at the 23rd Street Armory, and each day will showcase student, streetwear and contemporary couture designers based locally and around the [...]

Soiree in the City: The Bridal & Style Event in Philadelphia, Sept. 20

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“Menopause The Musical®” Returns to Philadelphia For One Week Only Sept. 29 – Oct. 4 At Kimmel Center

The Off-Broadway smash Hit “Menopause The Musical®,” returns to Philadelphia for one week only, beginning September 29 through October 4 at the Kimmel Center. This hilarious musical, has become an international phenomenon, and has been seen by over 11 million people all over the world since it debuted in a 76-seat perfume-shop-turned-theatre in Orlando, Florida in 2001. This will be a fun, laugh-out-loud musical you will not want to miss so buy your tickets today!

Inspired by a hot flash and a bottle of wine, Menopause The Musical® will make its Kimmel Center premiere beginning Sept. 29 through Oct. 4 at the Perelman Theatre.

Single tickets at $49.50 are on sale now and can be purchased by calling 215-731-3333, online at www.kimmelcenter.org/broadway, or at the Kimmel Center box office, Broad & Spruce Sts., (open daily 10 am to 6 pm). Tickets can also be purchased online at www.menopausethemusical.com.  Discounted prices for groups of 10+ are also available by calling 215-790-5883.  Performances include:  Tuesday – Thursday evenings at 7:30 pm; Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:00 pm; Sunday evenings at 6:30 pm; matinees Saturday at 2:00 pm and Sunday at 1:00 pm.

A Philadelphia favorite, MenopauseThe Musical®  last played to sold-out houses at the Society Hill Playhouse from 2004 to 2008. The show, which has become an international phenomenon was written by Jeanie Linders and is produced by South Florida-based GFour Productions. Menopause The Musical® has been seen by over 11 million people all over the world since it debuted in a 76-seat perfume-shop-turned-theatre in Orlando, Florida in 2001.

Billed as “The Hilarious Celebration of Women and The Change®,” the original, off-Broadway musical begins with four women, “Professional Woman,” “Soap Star,” “Iowa Housewife” and “Earth Mother,” at a Bloomingdale’s lingerie sale with nothing in common but a black lace bra – and hot flashes, night sweats, memory loss, chocolate binges, not enough sex, too much sex and day-to-day challenges with aging parents, aging children and aging partners.

They share their ups and downs through a collection of 25 re-lyricized baby boomer songs from the 60’s, 70’s and 80s.  Disco hit “Stayin’ Alive” becomes “Stayin’ Awake,” Motown favorite “My Guy” is transformed into “My Thighs,” “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” switches to “In the Guest Room or on the Sofa, My Husband Sleeps at night,” and “Puff The Magic Dragon” becomes the anthem to exercise, Puff, My God I’m Draggin’”.

“It may not be Shakespeare, but our focus is different.  We want to bring women together and empower them.  This is an event – a happening,” says Kathi Glist, one of the show’s producers.  “It resonates with just about any woman over 40, but it is enjoyed by all.  And the younger women laugh just as hard,” she adds. “It’s a party every night!”

“The show has become a point of relating, a celebration of a life passage that launches women into a new exciting phase of their lives,” says Linders. “Most women know intuitively what every other woman is facing with the onset of the menopause. They talk about it with their friends and, on occasion with their spouses. But, when they are in a theatre with hundreds of women, and they’re all shouting ‘That’s Me!’ then they know what they are experiencing is normal. They call it a sisterhood!”

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The Off-Broadway smash Hit “Menopause The Musical®,” returns to Philadelphia for one week only, beginning September 29 through October 4 at the Kimmel Center. This hilarious musical, has become an international phenomenon, and has been seen by over 11 million people all over the world since it debuted in a 76-seat perfume-shop-turned-theatre in Orlando, [...]

Chef Steve Gonzalez to Debut Zavino, a Wine Bar & Pizzeria, in Philadelphia’s Midtown Village

This October, up-and-coming star chef Steve Gonzalez is set to open Zavino, an Italian wine bar and pizza kitchen, in Philadelphia’s trendy Midtown Village.  Menu items will vary seasonally, with three classic pizzas being served year-round: Rosa, with tomato sauce and roasted garlic;  Margherita, with tomato sauce and buffalo mozzarella, topped with fresh basil;  and Polpettini, tomato [...]

Mike Watson’s “Autumnal Visions” at Philadelphia’s Edge Gallery, Sept. 4-27

Get out to Edge Gallery in Philadelphia this September to see Mike Watson’s “Autumnal Visions” exhibition, which will display an abstract interpretation of landscape.
The exhibition opens on First Friday, September 4, 2009 and will remain on view through September 27, 2009.
Born in Guam, Mike Watson, lived in Spain during his youth and attributes his early [...]

Philadelphia Museum of Art Presents Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective

Visit the Philadelphia Museum of Art from October 21 2009-January 10, 2010 to see the Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective exhibit. There will be over 180 paintings, sculptures and works on paper reflecting the extraordinary work of Arshile Gorky’s career. This will be the first major museum exhibition to highlight the artist’s Armenian heritage and examine the impact of Gorky’s experience of the Armenian Genocide on his life and work. Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective will be a fascinating exhibit so make sure you don’t miss this!

The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present a major traveling retrospective celebrating the extraordinary life and work of Arshile Gorky (American, born Armenia, c.1904-1948), a seminal figure in the movement towards gestural abstraction that would transform American art in the years after World War II. The first comprehensive survey of the work of this artist in nearly three decades, Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective will premier at the Museum and present 180 paintings, sculptures and works on paper reflecting the full scope of Gorky’s prolific career. Drawn from public and private collections throughout the United States and Europe, this retrospective will reveal the evolution of Gorky’s unique visual vocabulary and mature style. It is organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and will be accompanied by a major publication, published in association with Yale University Press. The exhibition will travel to Tate Modern, London (February 10 – May 3, 2010) and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (June 6 – September 20, 2010) following its debut in Philadelphia.

“Gorky built upon the achievements of the early modern artists he greatly admired and broke new ground during a remarkable moment to become an inspiration to a new generation of American painters,” said Timothy Rub, the George D. Widener Director-elect and CEO of the Museum. “The exhibition and catalogue will offer a deeply moving reassessment of the artist’s entire career, including his struggles and his triumphs-personal as well as artistic-and the powerful legacy of his work.”

Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective is the first major exhibition of its type since 1981 and the first to benefit from the publication of three biographies of the artist: Nouritza Matossian’s Black Angel: The Life of Arshile Gorky (1998), Matthew Spender’s From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky (1999), and Hayden Herrera’s Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work (2003), all of which shed new light on the artist’s Armenian background and his central role in the American avant-garde. This will be the first major museum exhibition to highlight the artist’s Armenian heritage and examine the impact of Gorky’s experience of the Armenian Genocide on his life and work. The retrospective and its accompanying catalogue have also benefited from in-depth interviews with the artist’s widow, Agnes “Mougouch” Gorky Fielding, who has generously supported the project from the start, through key loans and first-hand accounts of Gorky’s artistic practice as well as his cultural milieu. Among the works to be included are such renowned paintings as the two versions of “The Artist and his Mother,” 1926-36 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York) and about 1929-42 (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.); “The Liver is the Cock’s Comb,” 1944 (Albright-Knox Art Gallery), the artist’s largest easel painting; “Water of the Flowery Mill,” 1944 (Metropolitan Museum of Art), which demonstrates his deep absorption in nature-based abstraction; “The Plow and the Song series,” 1944-47, which reflects Gorky’s continuing engagement with memories of his rural Armenian childhood; “Agony,” 1947 (Museum of Modern Art, New York), Gorky’s haunting late painting, a product of his increasingly tormented imagination in the late 1940s; and “The Black Monk” (”Last Painting”) (Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid), which was left unfinished on Gorky’s easel at the time of his death in 1948. Some of the works included in the exhibition have not been on public view before, among them the wood sculptures, “Haikakan Gutan I, II, and III” (Armenian Plow I, II and III), of 1944, 1945, and 1947 (collection of the Diocese of the Armenian Church of America (Eastern), on deposit at the Calouste Gulbenkiam Foundation, Lisbon), as well as the Museum’s recently acquired “Woman with a Palette” (1927).

Michael Taylor, the Museum’s Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art and curator of the retrospective, stated: “Gorky was a pivotal figure in modern American Art who has since come to be known as the quintessential artist’s artist. It is our sincere belief that this landmark retrospective will secure Gorky’s place alongside Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning as one of the most daring, innovative, and influential American artists of the 20th century.”

Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective will be presented in a generally chronological sequence. Thematic groupings will represent each phase of Gorky’s career, which underwent an astonishing metamorphosis as he assimilated the lessons of earlier masters and movements and utilized them in the service of his own artistic development. Beginning in the mid-1920s with Gorky’s earliest experiments with Impressionism and the structural rigor of the paintings of Paul Cézanne, and continuing through his prolonged engagement with Cubism in the 1930s, the exhibition ends with the Surrealist-inspired burst of creativity that dominated the final decade of Gorky’s life and left us with so many breathtakingly beautiful paintings and drawings. In the 1940s, Gorky’s contact with Surrealism informed his breakthrough landscapes in Virginia and the visionary works made in his spacious, light-filled studio on Union Square, which he called his “Creation Chamber.” Several galleries in the exhibition will serve as “creation chambers” in their own right, highlighting the artist’s working process by presenting Gorky’s most significant paintings alongside the numerous painstaking studies that informed their making.

Catalogue
The exhibition will be accompanied by a 400-page catalogue, Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, published by the Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press. The catalogue will include essays by a group of noted art historians and curators: Harry Cooper, Jody Patterson, Robert Storr, Michael Taylor, and Kim Theriault, who will present new theoretical approaches to the artist’s work. The essays will build upon new biographical details about the artist’s Armenian background that have emerged in recent years, while also exploring Gorky’s creative thinking, his unique experimentation and extraordinary command of materials, and his imaginative exploration of various themes. The catalogue will be fully illustrated in color and include a section devoted to Gorky’s exhibition history, a bibliography, and a chronology of his life and work.

About Arshile Gorky
Born Vosdanig Adoian around 1904 near Lake Van in an Armenian province of Ottoman Turkey, Gorky witnessed as a young boy the ethnic cleansing of his people, the minority Armenians. Turkish troops in 1915 drove Gorky’s family and thousands of others out of Van on a death march to the frontier of Caucasian Armenia. Suffering from starvation in 1919, during a time of severe deprivation for the Armenian refugees, Gorky’s mother died in his arms. With his sister, Vartoosh, he eventually arrived in the United States where, claiming to be a cousin of the Russian writer Maxim Gorky, he changed his name to Arshile Gorky.

Gorky stayed briefly with relatives in Watertown and Boston, Massachusetts, before settling permanently in New York in 1924, where he studied at the Grand Central School of Art, later becoming an art instructor there. Gorky met and became fast friends with many of the city’s emerging avant-garde artists, including Stuart Davis, Willem de Kooning, John Graham, Isamu Noguchi, and David Smith. Among his students was Mark Rothko.

The noted art critic Harold Rosenberg observed that Gorky, “a lifelong student, was an intellectual to the roots, he lived in an aura of words and concepts, almost as much at home in the library as in the museum or gallery.” He was largely self-taught, visiting museums and galleries and reading voraciously. Gorky became familiar with modern European art and embarked on a systematic study of its masters and their methods, from Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse, whose landscapes and still-lifes he emulated masterfully, to Pablo Picasso’s Cubist and neoclassical works, and the biomorphic abstractions of Joan Miró. Works by Giorgio de Chirico and Fernand Léger informed, respectively, Gorky’s vast Nighttime, Enigma, and Nostalgia series of the early 1930s and the sequence of murals on the theme of aviation that Gorky created in 1936 for the Administration Building of Newark Airport, under the aegis of the Public Works of Art Project (later the Works Progress Administration), through which Gorky and many other American modernists found employment during the Great Depression.

One of the key themes of Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective will be the artist’s profound engagement with the Surrealist movement throughout the 1940s. Gorky’s relationships with members of the Surrealist group in exile in the United States, including its leader, André Breton, as well as painters Yves Tanguy, Wifredo Lam, and Max Ernst, and his close friendship with the Chilean-born artist Roberto Matta all contributed to the development of his singular visual vocabulary, a highly original form of Surrealist automatism characterized by biomorphic forms rendered with thinned-out washes of paint. After his marriage in 1941 to Agnes Magruder, whose parents had a farm in Virginia, Gorky’s experience of the American landscape would enrich his artistic vision, and, beginning in 1943, emerges as a central theme in the lush, evocative paintings for which Gorky is best known. The rich farmland and bucolic atmosphere of rural Virginia (and later Sherman, Connecticut) reminded Gorky of his father’s farm near Lake Van, and inspired him to create freely improvised abstract works that combined memories of his Armenian childhood with direct observations from nature. The resulting paintings, such as “Scent of Apricots on the Fields” (1944) and “The Plow and the Song” series (1944-1947), are remarkable for their evocative strength, lyrical beauty, and fecundity of organic forms.

Gorky’s last years were tragic. In January 1946, a fire in his Connecticut studio destroyed 27 recent paintings. Shortly thereafter, he underwent a painful operation for rectal cancer, and while recovering created some of the most powerful, though agonized, works of his final years, including the haunting “Charred Beloved” series (1946), which alludes to his lost paintings. In June 1948, Gorky was involved in a serious car accident that left him with a broken neck and temporarily paralyzed his painting arm. His young wife left him shortly afterward to pursue a brief affair with Matta, Gorky’s friend and mentor. Gorky took his own life on July 21, 1948, leaving behind an impressive body of work that secured his reputation as the last of the great Surrealist painters and an important precursor to Abstract Expressionism.

Gorky and Philadelphia
The Philadelphia Museum of Art’s extraordinary collection of modern art provides a unique context for understanding Gorky’s work, since it includes many paintings from the A.E. Gallatin Collection, such as Fernand Léger’s “The City” (1919), Pablo Picasso’s “Self-Portrait” (1906), Giorgio de Chirico’s “The Fatal Temple” (1914), André Masson’s “Cockfight” (1930), and Joan Miró’s “Dog Barking at the Moon” (1926), all of which inspired the artist during his formative years. Gorky often visited the Gallery of Living Art at New York University where the Gallatin Collection was on view in the 1920s and 1930s, and he made several paintings that were directly inspired by works by modern artists that he encountered there. De Chirico’s painting “The Fatal Temple” (1914) provided the point of departure for the “Nighttime,” “Enigma,” and “Nostalgia” series, which consists of more than 80 drawings and paintings made between 1930 and 1934. Gorky also had his first one-man show at the Mellon Galleries in Philadelphia in February 1934, and one of his first patrons was the noted Philadelphia collector Bernard Davis. Bernard and Irmgard Davis were keen collectors of modern art and assembled a large collection under the name of La France Art Institute, including numerous works by Gorky, many of which were later donated to prominent American museums, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gorky and his first wife Marny George even spent their honeymoon with the Davis family in Frankford, a neighborhood in northeast Philadelphia, during which time Gorky visited the Philadelphia Museum of Art (then known as the Pennsylvania Museum of Art) as well as the Barnes Foundation in nearby Merion. The Museum also owns three major works by Gorky that will be included in the exhibition: “Abstraction with a Palette” (1930), “Dark Green Painting” (1948), and the recently acquired “Woman with a Palette” (1927).

Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective is organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with Tate Modern, London, and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

The international tour is made possible by the Terra Foundation for American Art. The U.S. tour is supported by The Lincy Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

In Philadelphia, the exhibition is made possible by The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage through the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, and the Neubauer Family Foundation. Additional funding is provided by the Dadourian Foundation, The Robert Montgomery Scott Fund for Exhibitions, and the Friends of Arshile Gorky, a group of generous individuals.

The catalogue was made possible by Larry Gagosian and The Andrew W. Mellon Fund for Scholarly Publications, with additional support provided by Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is among the largest art museums in the United States, showcasing more than 2,000 years of exceptional human creativity in masterpieces of painting, sculpture, works on paper, decorative arts and architectural settings from Europe, Asia and the Americas. The striking neoclassical building stands on a nine-acre site above the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and houses more than 200 galleries. The Museum offers a wide variety of enriching activities, including programs for children and families, lectures, concerts and films.

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Visit the Philadelphia Museum of Art from October 21 2009-January 10, 2010 to see the Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective exhibit. There will be over 180 paintings, sculptures and works on paper reflecting the extraordinary work of Arshile Gorky’s career. This will be the first major museum exhibition to highlight the artist’s Armenian heritage and [...]

Sake Sunday at Philadelphia’s World Cafe Live, August 30

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Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute Hosting BODY WORLDS 2 & The Brain Exhibit, Beginning Oct. 17

Visit the Franklin Institute for Gunther von Hagens’ fascinating exhibition BODY WORLDS 2 & THE BRAIN, which opens Saturday October 17, for a limited 18-week display.  At BODY WORLDS 2 & THE BRAIN, visitors will have the chance to see real human bodies that have been preserved through a process called Plastination.  Visitors will learn about how the brain and nervous system function, how a brain with Alzheimer’s looks physically, and much more.  This will be a unique learning experience that you won’t want to miss so get your tickets today!

Philadelphia, PA ­ August 13, 2009

The Franklin Institute announces a special ticketing offer today for its newest special exhibition, Gunther von Hagens’ BODY WORLDS 2 & The Brain, which opens to the public on Saturday, October 17 for a limited 18‐week engagement.  Starting today, the museum begins a special one‐week pre‐sale – allowing visitors to call a special number to reserve tickets now without having to pay the additional ticket surcharge by calling 215.448.1254!

BODY WORLDS is the original and acclaimed exhibition of real human bodies that have been preserved through a process called Plastination.  This chapter, The Brain, features over 200 all‐new authentic human specimens, including whole body plastinates, organs and body slices, never seen in Philadelphia.

BODY WORLDS 2 & The Brain focuses on the latest neuroscience findings on brain development and function; brain disease and disorders; and brain performance and improvement. Among the real human body specimens are more than 20 full‐body specimens in life‐like, dramatic poses; healthy and unhealthy organs; and body slices-all preserved through a remarkable process called Plastination.  Additional highlights include an exploration of how the brain develops through time‐lapsed MRI’s of the brain from childhood through adolescence; how a brain with Alzheimer’s looks physically – and a copy of a letter issued to the American public by Ronald Reagan, revealing his Alzheimer’s diagnosis; a deep dissection of the nervous system, and much more.

The Franklin Institute hosted the East Coast premiere of the original BODY WORLDS in 2005. The exhibit made history at The Franklin Institute with a total of more than 600,000 visitors during its 6‐month run.

The Franklin Institute President Dennis Wint notes that, “We are thrilled to host a new installment of the BODY WORLDS experience, which features an exploration of the brain, as well as the iconic and awe­inspiring BODY WORLDS whole body specimens.  It is another opportunity to expand the scope of our educational mission and present the science of anatomy and important health messages in a way that we know will encourage further science learning and positively impact the lifestyle choices of many who see the exhibit.”

In keeping with his mission of educating lay people, Dr. Gunther von Hagens, inventor of the Plastination process and creator of BODY WORLDS and his wife, Dr. Angelina Whalley, conceptual planner and creative designer of the exhibitions, have created a holistic meditation on the brain that merges anatomy, neuroscience, and philosophy that resonates with everyone.

“The brain is an incredible marvel of engineering. I wanted people to recognize what is known about this amazing gem inside our heads, and be awed by its possibilities and capacities,” said Dr. von Hagens.

“We wanted to present this most complex organ in a way that was accessible to the general public, and in the most elegant way,” said Dr. Whalley, the physician who planned the BODY WORLDS exhibitions that have been seen so far by more than 28 million people worldwide.

THE PROCESS OF PLASTINATION

During Plastination, all bodily fluids and soluble fats are replaced with reactive resins and elastomers such as silicon rubber and epoxy, through vacuum‐forced impregnation. After gas, heat, or light curing, the specimens assume rigidity and permanence. “The purpose of Plastination from its very inception was a scientific one, to educate medical students.  But the interest that laypeople had in the plastinated specimens inspired me to think of creating public exhibitions, which was followed by the realization that I had to offer a heightened sense of aesthetics, to avoid shocking the public and to capture their imagination,” said von Hagens.

The striking whole‐body plastinates in BODY WORLDS-people who in their lifetime donated their bodies for Plastination for the express purpose of educating future generations about health-allow viewers to see inside the staggeringly complex and completely interconnected network of muscles, tendons and blood

vessels that make up our bodies.  To date, more than 10,000 people have agreed to donate their bodies to the Institute for Plastination and use in the exhibits.

TICKET INFORMATION

BODY WORLDS 2 & The Brain single ticket pricing at The Franklin Institute follows:

Adults:    $27.00; $18.00 (After 5pm – exhibit only)

Seniors:    $24.75; $16.75 (After 5pm – exhibit only)

Children ages 4‐11:  $19.80; $13. 75 (After 5pm – exhibit only)

Tickets are timed and dated, and admission before 4:30pm includes museum general admission and a Fels Planetarium show.  Exhibition hours are 9:30 am to 9:00pm daily, with the last entrance at 7:30 pm.  The evening ticket price begins with the 5:00pm exhibition admission.  Advance ticket purchase isrecommended.

From Thursday, August 13 through Wednesday, August 19, surcharge free ticket purchases can be made by calling 215.448.1254.  Beginning Thursday, August 20, please call 1.877.TFI.TIXS or visit www.fi.edu to purchase tickets. Information on tickets for groups of 15 or more is available

For more information on BODY WORLDS visit www.bodyworlds.com

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Visit the Franklin Institute for Gunther von Hagens’ fascinating exhibition BODY WORLDS 2 & THE BRAIN, which opens Saturday October 17, for a limited 18-week display.  At BODY WORLDS 2 & THE BRAIN, visitors will have the chance to see real human bodies that have been preserved through a process called Plastination.  Visitors will learn [...]

StreetTalkin to cover “Girls Night Out” at the Pier Shop at Caesars… Be there to get on camera!

StreetTalkin will cover Girls Night Out on Thursday, September 3 so if you’re dying to be on camera and also see the hottest fall trends, get out to The Pier Shops at Caesars! This must-attend event is FREE and the first 200 people to register and attend will receive a complimentary bag filled with goodies [...]