#this is a culturally-influenced take completely. women are the centers of art the prizes in love stories etc. etc.
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lately i’ve been thinking about how very annoying it is that we talk about women as if we are the objectively “more beautiful” binary gender. men are gorgeous and i mean this politically.
#if it weren't for the commodification of the female image we wouldn't have this perception for starters#this is a culturally-influenced take completely. women are the centers of art the prizes in love stories etc. etc.#we are the passive objects to be viewed to be seen but not heard.#even in our more liberated modern day (ha jk but y'know) this history still affects us bc even if women have more autonomy relative to men#our image is still enshrined in history as this. and men have never had that history. of being viewed as the epitome of beauty#as love or lust's main object.#men are beautiful and i mean i do I DO mean this politically. feministly. men are hot. beautiful. stunning. lots of them.#text post#this is fine to reblog#tag your favorite beautiful sexy man if you want to
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THE ANGEL DECODED
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CRASH THE CEMETERY GATES
IN THE DRESS
YOUR HUSBAND HATES
ORIGINAL BY: Koltan Greenwood * EDITED BY: Joe Smith-Engelhardt
The key symbol leading My Chemical Romance’s reunion involves an angel statue, and while many know it simply as the backdrop to their “Return,” there’s so much more to the alluring figure.
The statue is called the Angel Of The Waters, sitting atop the fountain in front of Bethesda Terrace in New York City. The two architectural features overlook The Ramble and Lake in Manhattan’s Central Park, with the angel fixture placed at the center of the terrace. The structure’s two levels are split by beautiful grand staircases, with a smaller one passing underneath Terrace Drive.
The history of the location dates back to the American Civil War and holds a significant level of importance to the architecture of the city. During the war, only two major constructions were built aside from the terrace and fountain-the Music Stand and the Central Park Casino restaurant, both of which have since been demolished.
Construction began in 1861, with the terrace stonework being laid down the following year. The masonry of the fountain was then constructed in 1863, with the majority of the stonework being completed by 1864. The upper level of the terrace started formation in 1867, while the figures on the fountain started being cast in bronze that same year.
While the architectural history of the location is important, it also serves as a grand statement for both the LGBTQ+ community and women in the U.S. Once the upper level of the terrace started taking shape, the city hired lesbian sculptor Emma Stebbins to design the famous angel statue. This marked the first time a woman was commissioned to create a major public artwork in New York City.
Stebbins got her start in architectural design after her brother encouraged her to move to Rome to pursue sculpting, where she met American actress Charlotte Cushman and exchanged vows with her just a year later, considering themselves to be married, Cushman used her influence to secure a number of projects for Stebbins, but the pair eventually moved back to the U.S. in 1857 to financially recoup after the actress suffered from her business manager embezzling funds.
Her most well-known work is by far the Angel Of The Waters, but obtaining the job carried some controversy, At the time, her brother was the chairman of Central Park’s Committee on Statuary, Fountains and Architectural Structure, and rumors of nepotism were abound. While today we look at it as a magnificent piece of art, back then the public believed her brother influenced the committee to give her the job.
That aside, it still stands as a testament to the stunning look of Central Park. For the actual design of the angel, Stebbins was inspired by a biblical tale of an angel blessing the waters of Bethesda with healing powers.
In the Gospel of John, Jesus is said to have visited Jerusalem for a Jewish feast and comes across a disabled man near the fountain. After asking him if he wants his ailments treated, the man explains he can’t go into the fountain because others won;t help him, and Jesus tells him to pick up his mat and walk over, which he’s suddenly able to do.
This infuriated many of the locals simply because it happened on the Sabbath, They told the man the laws of God forbade him from carrying his matm vut he clarified that Jesus told him to do it. This started the persecution of Jesus, as the Jews didn’t want him healing people on that holy day.
Drawing back to the Angel Of The Waters, though, the story continues by explaining that an angel would go down into the pool at certain times to stir the waters. Whoever entered the fountain after this was said to be cured of any and all ailments they suffered from. After the Romans captured Jerusalem in the first Jewish-Roman War, though, the fountain stopped working, and many believed that God would one day come to Earth, and the fountain would function again.
Adding more historical context to the statue, it stands as a reference to the Croton Aqueduct, the city’s first dependable supply of water. In respect to that, the angel holds a lily in one hand to represent purity while the other blesses the water flowing into the basin beneath it.
The statue stands at 8 feet tall and is encapsulated in bronze. Beneath the angel sits four cherubs representing four facets of life-- peace, health, purity and temperance. The Terrace originally held a more simple name as the Water Terrace but was changed to Bethesda Terrace after the angel statue was erected atop the fountain.
Construction was completed by 1873, just nine years before Stebbins’ passing. She spent many of her final years writing the biography of her wife’s life prior to succumbing to lung disease in 1882 and being buried in Brooklyn
The fountain ended up completely drying out in the 1970s, but luckily, it was restored throughout 1980 and 1981 as part of the Central Park Conservancy’s revitalization of the park. The fountain was the first project on their list, proving its historical importance.
A decade later, the statue found a new level of significance in the LGBTQ+ community. American playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner penned his two-part play, Angels In America: A Gay Fantasia On National Themes, prominently featuring the Angel Of The Waters as a symbol of the AIDS crisis. The end of the piece comes with a telling of the Bethesda Fountain curing the sick, offering a glimpse of hope for the characters as well as audience members who suffered or were simply worried about AIDS.
The play went on to win numerous awards for its groundbreaking themes and complex symbolism relating to the cultural fears of the time. It premiered in 1991 and had its big Broadway opening just two years later, bringing home a Pulitzer Prize for Drama and a Tony Award for Best Play, among other accolades.
While the statue’s presence in the My Chemical Romance world simply means another symbol to fans, its value to many is enormous. By adding a subtle element of LGBTQ+ history into their story, the band show solidarity and support for the community as an act with and audience who often cite them as a light within the darkness of the world.
#my chemical romance#mcr#alt press#mcr holy book#angel of the waters#the angel decoded#return#gerard way#ray toro#frank iero#mikey way#lgbtq+#sorry this took so long i just woke up
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Portraiture
Group practical
we sat parallel to another person, we had our pencils stabbed through paper so we could not see the paper below and we had to focus only on the face and not look down, basically a blind drawing as far as looking at the drawing but we could see what the object was as we drew it.
i did the same thing again in graphite and had got a better understanding of proportion considering we could not see the drawing.
we then chose a unique image of ourselves, well mine was rather unique and we did a rough sketch to help us decide what we wanted to draw for our social realism drawing, i was quite impressed by my sketch the proportions were not half bad.
photo REALISM
i chose to just do the center of my face as i felt it would look the best in the social realism style, i then grid my drawing in 4 by 5 squares and did the same to my paper before then beginning my drawing of the outline and basic shapes in order for me to add tone and texture later on
what is photo realism?
photo realism is a form of art where a drawing or painting looks absolutely identical to the object or photo it has been drawn from, so much so you cant tell the difference between the two, it takes time, patients and a lot of skill.
but most of the art community don’t consider this to be an art form.
Many would argue that the technical skill required to make Photorealism art can be exceeded by a decent color photocopier or a computer, thus avoid to use the word art in such context, but this discussion brings us to an analogy of photography. If photography is merely capturing an image of what is already there, where is the art in that? It is right there in the photographer’s perspective, the exact choice made by the person wielding the camera in what to capture and from which angle, moment and perspective. If a person creating a photorealistic recreation of a photograph doesn’t have that “artistic” input of a photographer, then what is artistic about the process? Some would say even those renditions are not strict interpretations of photographs, instead, they incorporate additional, often subtle, pictorial elements to create the illusion of a reality which does not actually exist, or cannot be perceived by the human eye.
In the end, as in many things in art, and life in general, the final conclusion remains behind the individual perspective
Da Vinci
Long recognised as one of the great artists of the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci was also a pioneer in the understanding of human anatomy. Had his ground-breaking work been published, it would have transformed European knowledge of the subject.
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At the outset of Leonardo’s career, anatomical illustration was in its infancy. To convey the three-dimensional form of the body and to show how it moves, Leonardo had to develop a whole range of new illustrative techniques. His challenges were in many ways the same as those faced by anatomists today, and some of Leonardo’s drawings are remarkably similar in approach to modern medical imagery, such as MRI and CT scans and 3D computer modelling.
Studies of Human Proportion
While studying Vitruvius for his work on the Milan and Pavia cathedrals, Leonardo became captivated by the ancient Roman architect’s detailed studies of human proportions and measurements. In addition, when he was measuring horses for the Sforza monument, he became interested in how they related to human proportions. Comparative anatomy appealed to his instinct for finding patterns across different subjects. So in 1490 he began measuring and drawing the proportions of the human body.
The construction lines and all of the annotation almost take away from the actual subject and become more of the focus, which was the main idea anyway It was not meant to be a work of art, but rather a manual for how to create it.
Da vinci was a polymath, a person of wide knowledge or learning. He was not only an artist but a scientist, sculpture and an architect.
Frida Kahlo
was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country’s popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society. Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. In addition to belonging to the post-revolutionary Mexicayotl movement, which sought to define a Mexican identity, Kahlo has been described as a surrealist or magical realist.
Kahlo’s paintings often feature root imagery, with roots growing out of her body to tie her to the ground. This reflects in a positive sense the theme of personal growth; in a negative sense of being trapped in a particular place, time and situation; and in an ambiguous sense of how memories of the past influence the present for either good and/or ill.[110] In My Grandparents and I, Kahlo painted herself as a ten-year holding a ribbon that grows from an ancient tree that bears the portraits of her grandparents and other ancestors while her left foot is a tree trunk growing out of the ground, reflecting Kahlo’s view of humanity’s unity with the earth and her own sense of unity with Mexico.[111] In Kahlo’s paintings, trees serve as symbols of hope, of strength and of a continuity that transcends generations.[112] Additionally, hair features as a symbol of growth and of the feminine in Kahlo’s paintings and in Self Portrait with Cropped Hair, Kahlo painted herself wearing a man’s suit and shorn of her long hair, which she had just cut off.[113] Kahlo holds the scissors with one hand menacingly close to her genitals, which can be interpreted as a threat to Rivera – whose frequent unfaithfulness infuriated her – and/or a threat to harm her own body like she has attacked her own hair, a sign of the way that women often project their fury against others onto themselves.[114] Moreover, the picture reflects Kahlo’s frustration not only with Rivera, but also her unease with the patriarchal values of Mexico as the scissors symbolize a malevolent sense of masculinity that threatens to “cut up” women, both metaphorically and literally.[114] In Mexico, the traditional Spanish values of machismo were widely embraced, and as a woman, Kahlo was always uncomfortable with machismo.[114]
image taken at the MoMa in Nyc
Fulang-Chang and I depicts Kahlo with one of her pet monkeys, interpreted by many as surrogates for the children she and Diego Rivera were unable to conceive. The painting was included in the first major exhibition of her work, held at Julien Levy Gallery in New York in 1938. In the essay that accompanied the show, the Surrealist leader André Breton described Kahlo’s work as “a ribbon around a bomb” and hailed her as a self-created Surrealist painter. Although she appreciated his enthusiasm for her work, Kahlo did not agree with his assessment: “They thought I was a Surrealist but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.” Kahlo later gave this painting to her close friend Mary Sklar, attaching a mirror to it so that, if Sklar chose, the two friends could be together.
Tai Shan Schierenberg
Tai Shan Schierenberg lives and works in London. He graduated from the Slade School of Art in 1987 and in 1989 won first prize in the National Portrait Gallery’s John Player Portrait Award. He was then commissioned to paint Sir John Mortimer for the Gallery. The National Portrait Gallery also holds his portraits of Lord Carrington from 1994, Lord Sainsbury, 2002 and most recently Seamus Heaney from 2004. Other noted commissions include Professor Stephen Hawking, Sir John Madejski and a double portrait of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh.
For Schierenberg, there is an emotional charge that comes from the different textures and densities, and ultimately the light conditions, that occur in a place at a certain time. He describes his process in 2010:
Painting and painting and painting, endlessly exploring ideas in paint on canvas, always painting my way. Finding that over time I can’t see the trees for the paint. Sometimes its good to try a new way, a different path, expose oneself to the vagaries of chance - and see the trees again.
Before he finishes a commission, Tai-Shan Schierenberg usually splatters a bit of paint in the corner of the portrait. It’s not a stylistic move – the brushstrokes in his paintings are fluid but the images themselves are representative – but rather one which gives the subject something to complain about.
in the image above you can clearly see the texture and markings on the canvas, the artist uses oil paint on canvas and applies it using a pallet knife and a large brush, making various large strokes in the work. this gives a rough texture and edge to the piece.
These instinctive visual images refuse to betray the plasticity of the medium. Unlike Freud, Schierenberg sees paint simultaneously as flesh. It is exactly this technique that establishes the major paradoxes characteristic of his work. It is both abstract and realist, edgy and sensitive, grand and inconclusive, violent and melancholic, physically intense and aesthetically detache
Lucian Freud
was influenced by surrealism, but by the early 1950s his often stark and
alienated paintings tended towards realism. Freud was an intensely
private and guarded man, and his paintings, completed over a 60-year
career, are mostly of friends and family. They are generally somber and
thickly impastoed, often set in unsettling interiors and city scapes.
The works are noted for their psychological penetration and often
discomforting examination of the relationship between artist and model.
Freud worked from life studies, and was known for asking for extended
and punishing sittings from his models.
one of my chosen artists, tai shan sheirenberg seems to be heavily influenced by the style of lucian freud yet he made his own style, they both use the same meduims, oil on canvas also.
here in the colder tones we have a painting by lucian freud, you can see the texture of the brush strikes that help carve out the facial features.
here is a painting by tai shan, the tones are a lot warmer, they are not of the same person tho they look similar, you can see the brush strokes again on this image that help carve out the facial features, tho they are a lot more prominent in this painting as thats tai shans style, you see paint before you see the face .
Interpreting line
The Visual Element of Line is the foundation of all drawing. It is the first and most versatile of the visual elements. Line in an artwork can be used in many different ways. It can be used to suggest shape, pattern, form, structure, growth, depth, distance, rhythm, movement and a range of emotions.
We have a psychological response to different types of lines:
Curved lines suggest comfort and ease
Horizontal lines suggest distance and calm
Vertical lines suggest height and strength
Jagged lines suggest turmoil and anxiety
The way we draw a line can convey different expressive qualities:
Freehand lines can express the personal energy and mood of the artist
Mechanical lines can express a rigid control
Continuous lines can lead the eye in certain directions
Broken lines can express the ephemeral or the insubstantial
Thick lines can express strength
Thin lines can express delicacy
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Weekend Picks: Last Chance For Winter At Dilworth Park, Cinderella On Stage, NHL Stadium Series And More
It’s another can’t-miss weekend in Philadelphia full of great events, including the end of winter — sort of.
The winter attractions next to City Hall — collectively known as Winter at Dilworth Park — wrap up for the season on Sunday. Don’t miss one last chance to embrace the season at the ice rink, cabin and Wintergarden.
Speaking of wintry things, the Coors Light NHL Stadium Series welcomes the “Battle for Pennsylvania” on Saturday for a very special game outdoors at Lincoln Financial Field as the Philadelphia Flyers try to defeat the intrastate rival Pittsburgh Penguins.
On the arts scene, Broadway Philadelphia puts a modern twist on Cinderella at the Academy of Music, local acts celebrate the 20th anniversary of the iconic Things Fall Apart album by The Roots at World Cafe Live, the Barnes Foundation opens an exhibit of early photography and The African American Museum in Philadelphia closes its exhibition about cotton and slavery.
Select concerts this weekend — including James Blake, Flogging Molly and Scott Bradlee’s Modern Jukebox — are part of the Visit Philly Live Nation Hotel Package, a stellar hotel package that includes up to $230 in show-enhancing perks, including free hotel and concert parking, complimentary food and drinks during the show and other bonuses.
And lastly, don’t miss a chance to turn a fun weekend into a sleepover. Book the Visit Philly Overnight Hotel Package for a winter weekend getaway featuring up to $218 in free perks.
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Read on for our guide to this weekend in Philadelphia.
Attractions | Center City
Last Chance: Winter at Dilworth Park
It's the final weekend for this popular winter destination near City Hall, where visitors can ice skate, warm up in the cabin and stroll through the wintergarden...
Attractions | Avenue of the Arts
Swing @ the Kimmel at the Kimmel Center
The interactive (and free!) virtual-reality swing temporarily installed inside the Kimmel Center sparks nostalgia for childhood and playground memories...
Opening: Into the Mural at Meg Saligman Studio
Visitors get a closer look at mural making in this self-guided immersive experience that includes a scavenger hunt and hands-on adventures...
Visit Philly Overnight Hotel Package Winter Getaway
Book a Philly getaway for stays this winter and get up to $218 in free perks, including free hotel parking...
Blue Cross RiverRink Winterfest
Skate on the Olympic-sized ice rink, warm up in the cozy lodge, enjoy boardwalk eats and play arcade games at this open-all-winter waterfront attraction...
Orchid Extravaganza at Longwood Gardens
Delicate orchids drape windows, spill from planters and float overhead in this stunning display, on view all winter...
Black History Month in Philadelphia
This weekend's celebrations include a Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson tribute (Friday), an Underground Railroad discussion (Saturday) and a focus on enslaved cooks' influence on food (Sunday)...
Philadelphia Fishing Show at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center
Catch a fish in the trout pond, check out the latest rod and reed designs and stop by seminars about specific species of fish...
Live Music, Comedy, Theater and Dance
Theater | Avenue of the Arts
Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella at the Academy of Music
This weekend only, enjoy Broadway Philadelphia's modern take on this classic fairy tale, complete with elaborate costumes and sets...
74 Seconds...to Judgment at the Arden Theatre Company
Philly playwright and director Kash Goins (Creed, Split) wrote and stars in this story of six deadlocked jurors struggling to define "justifiable homicide"...
Shen Yun at the Kimmel Center
Classical Chinese dance and live orchestra music bring 5,000 years of ancient performance traditions to life on stage...
Last Chance: Broads at Plays & Players Theatre
Comedy theater company 1812 Productions honors the funniest females of the '40s, '50s and '60s in this three-person revue that ends Sunday...
Renaissance in the Belly of a Killer Whale at Theatre Horizon
Three women tell the story of gentrification in Harlem in this funny and emotional one-weekend-only show...
Ongoing Exhibitions
Last Chance: Cotton at The African American Museum in Philadelphia
Philadelphia artist John E. Dowell explores the relationship between cotton and slavery through photographs and installations in this exhibit closing Sunday...
Exhibitions | Center City
#TrackTakeover at Walnut-Locust Station
Works by local artists replace 110 ad spots in the subway at SEPTA's Walnut-Locust Station in this installment meant to spark civic and public art awareness...
Fabulous Fashion: From Dior's New Look to Now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Museum exhibit meets runway fashion in an exploration of color, materials and evolving trends that includes pieces from iconic designers from around the world...
America to Zanzibar: Muslim Cultures Near and Far at the Please Touch Museum
Kids and their caregivers can see mosques, explore global markets and learn about local and global Muslim traditions at this hands-on exhibit...
More Must-See Exhibitions in Philadelphia
Philadelphia's museums and galleries showcase can't-miss art and objects from around the globe and around the city...
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella is on stage at the Academy of Music for five performances this weekend. (Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella | Photo by Carol Rosegg)
Final Fridays: Celestial Bodies at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
An evening dedicated to the cosmos includes ink painting lessons, dance performances and a tour of the museum's recently reopened Chinese Galleries...
Events | Northern Liberties
The Spruce Foundation's Cabaret: Snowball Revue at the Ruba Club
Philly burlesque performers Honeytree Evileye, Kyla Ren and more perform, and New Liberty Distillery provides signature cocktails at this LGBTQIA* fundraiser...
Live Music, Comedy, Theater and Dance
James Blake at The Fillmore Philly
The soulful singer is touring behind his first album in almost three years, Assume Form, at this show that's also part of the Visit Philly Live Nation Hotel Package...
An Evening of Stand Up Comedy: Seth Meyers at Keswick Theatre
The Emmy Award-winning Late Night with Seth Meyers host and Saturday Night Live alum performs two shows in Montgomery County ...
The Philadelphia Flyers take on the Pittsburgh Penguins in the outdoor Coors Light NHL Stadium Series at Lincoln Financial Field on Saturday. (Photo courtesy Philadelphia Flyers)
Sports | South Philadelphia
2019 Coors Light NHL Stadium Series at Lincoln Financial Field
The Philadelphia Flyers face the Pittsburgh Penguins in round two of this Pennsylvania hockey battle, which takes place at the home of the Philadelphia Eagles...
Food and Drink | University City
15th Annual Beer Fest at World Cafe Live
More than 30 brewers, including many local independent makers, share three-ounce samples of their beers with a backdrop of live entertainment, prizes and giveaways...
Opening: Ancient Egypt at the Penn Museum
A special exhibit and the reopening of the Artifacts Lab offer a behind-the-scenes glimpse of objects in the under-renovation Lower Egypt Gallery...
Kennett Winterfest in Kennett Square
Bundle up for this seventh annual beer, food and music festival, featuring pours from 60 breweries and tunes from Chester County-based band AfroBear...
Bouts on Broad at The Met Philadelphia
Boxing returns to North Philadelphia inside the newly renovated historic opera house with fighters Gadwin Rosa, Branden Pizarro, Malik Hawkins, Jeremy Cuevas and Samuel Teah on the bill...
Live Music, Comedy, Theater and Dance
Things Fall Apart: 20 Year Celebration at World Cafe Live
Chill Moody, Zeek Burse and more local acts celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of the iconic Things Fall Apart album from The Roots...
Theater | Avenue of the Arts
The Life and Legacy of Marian Anderson at the Kimmel Center
The world premiere of the film about Anderson's life showcases the songstress' Philadelphia roots and her role in breaking down racial barriers...
Flogging Molly at The Fillmore Philadelphia
The punk rock group with Irish influences is on tour behind its new album due in June at this show that's also part of the Visit Philly Live Nation Hotel Package...
Silent Disco at XFINITY Live!
Experience an immersive kind of concert in a noiseless space where everyone rocking out can only hear the music in their headphones...
See the new photography exhibit, From Today, Painting is Dead, opening Sunday at the Barnes Foundation. (Photo courtesy Barnes Foundation)
Exhibitions | Logan Square
Opening: From Today, Painting is Dead at the Barnes Foundation
A new look at old photography explores the beginning of the art form through nearly 250 never-before-seen photos taken between the 1840s and 1880s...
Food and Drink | Chestnut Hill
Chestnut Hill Restaurant Week
A dozen restaurants offer fixed-price dinners between $30 and $64, plus BYOB options and free parking after 6 p.m....
Oscars Party & Screening at the Philadelphia Film Center
Movie lovers dress up and spend Hollywood's biggest night in Philly with food, drinks, a silent auction and the Academy Awards playing on the big screen...
Live Music, Comedy, Theater and Dance
Music | South Philadelphia
Michael Bublé at the Wells Fargo Center
The crooner is on tour fresh off the release of his 10th studio album, Love, and ready to perform top hits like Everything and Haven't Met You Yet...
Music | North Philadelphia
Philadelphia Orchestra Free Concert at Teatro Esperanza
The Philadelphia Orchestra continues efforts to bring its music to nontraditional venues with a free (registration encouraged) afternoon performance...
Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox at The Met Philadelphia
The group's Welcome to the Twenties 2.0 Tour adds 1920s jazz influences to current pop hits to help prepare the audience for the 2020s at this show that's also part of the Visit Philly Live Nation Hotel Package...
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Weekend Picks: Witches & Wizards, Festival For The People, New Exhibits And More
Happy weekend, Philly! With new exhibitions and major festivals on the calendar, these next few days are full of fun goings-on.
Formerly the Harry Potter Festival, the new-for-2018 Witches & Wizards takes over the charming town of Chestnut Hill for spellbinding events on both Friday evening (bar crawl!) and Saturday (street fest!) that morph the neighborhood into an enchanting magic-filled haunt.
In other festival happenings, Festival for the People continues its run of public art and performances on the Delaware River waterfront at the brand-new Cherry Street Pier and Race Street Pier on both Saturday and Sunday.
And the Barnes Foundation’s new Berthe Morisot exhibition — which provides a rare look at works by the famous female impressionist — opens Sunday, joining other recently unveiled exhibits at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (fashion), The Franklin Institute (Vikings) and the National Museum of American Jewish History (Rube Goldberg).
Elsewhere, Dilworth Park’s Made in Philadelphia Fall Market, Franklin Square’s Pumpkin Patch and other fall events are surefire ways to tell autumn is in full swing, as is the big Philadelphia Eagles game against the Carolina Panthers on Sunday in South Philly.
Make the most of this weekend with the Visit Philly Overnight Hotel Package, featuring free hotel parking and $193 in free perks.
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Read on for our guide to this weekend in Philadelphia.
Festivals | Chestnut Hill|(Fri, Sat)
Witches & Wizards in Chestnut Hill
This weekend, Chestnut Hill is transformed into a magical world of spells and spooky thrills, complete with a Quidditch tournament, a beer garden and a straw maze...
Film | Center City|(Fri, Sat, Sun)
Philadelphia Film Festival
See critically acclaimed films, movies with major stars, documentaries, local productions and more during this 11-day festival...
Halloween | Fairmount|(Fri, Sat, Sun)
Terror Behind the Walls at Eastern State Penitentiary
The frightening setting and professional scares make Terror Behind the Walls one of the country's top-ranked haunted attractions...
Shopping | Center City|(Fri, Sat, Sun)
Made in Philadelphia Fall Market in Dilworth Park
More than 50 local artisans display jewelry, skincare, accessories, photography, woodcrafts and more at this alfresco market...
Young Involved Philadelphia: State of Young Philly
YIP wraps up its 10-day civic engagement festival with quizzo, volunteer opportunities, panels and a closing happy hour...
Last Chance: Independence After Hours
A three-course dinner at City Tavern leads to an evening with the Founding Fathers in Independence Hall without the crowds...
Moby Dick Reading Marathon at the Independence Seaport Museum
Herman Mellville's literary classic Moby Dick is read aloud in its entirety from Friday evening to Saturday evening during this reading marathon that takes place in different spots around the museum...
Re-enacting a Revolutionary Gun Battle in Context of 21st Century Gun Violence at Historic Germantown
Cliveden and PhilaLandmarks invite all to Historic Germantown for a conversation about gun control and violence as well as a presentation about the Revolutionary War and its consequences...
Illuminated Fountain Performances at Longwood Gardens
More than 1,700 jets and streams soar up to 175 feet in the air and are lit by a rainbow of colors during this popular program that's set to classical music on Friday and popular movie soundtracks on Saturday...
Fall Fest at Shady Brook Farm
Shady Brook's season-long harvest festival includes autumnal favorites like apple- and pumpkin-picking, plus local craft beer and wine, moonlit corn-maze-wandering and more…
Live Music, Comedy, Theater and Dance
Hardwork Movement at Johnny Brenda's
Fresh from last month’s Philly Music Fest, the local hip-hop collective takes the stage in Fishtown with its horns and cello...
George Lopez at SugarHouse Casino
The comedian brings “The Wall World Tour” to Philly before the release of his upcoming thriller River Runs Red...
All My Sons at Curio Theatre Company
This Arthur Miller play about the aftermath of a tragedy in a suburban America family is running on select dates on Baltimore Avenue...
Sweat at Suzanne Roberts Theatre
Philadelphia Theatre Company begins its new season with the 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning story of deindustrialization in a Pennsylvania town...
One-Man Apocalypse Now at Plays & Players Theatre
One actor performs Apocalypse Now in 60 minutes during this special two-show performance...
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibitions | Chadds Ford|(Fri, Sat, Sun)
Last Chance: Natural Wonders at the Brandywine River Museum of Art
Works by 13 artists celebrate the wonders of nature while highlighting key issues like species extinction and over-cultivation...
Exhibitions | Old City|(Fri, Sat, Sun)
Rube Goldberg at the National Museum of American Jewish History
Rube Goldberg's Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoons, machine invention drawings and more are part of this first comprehensive display of his work...
Prisons Today at Eastern State Penitentiary
Prisons Today explores issues stemming frm the U.S. having the highest incarceration rate in the world...
Fast Lane: The NASCAR Photography of Darryl Moran at the Woodmere Art Museum
Get a glimpse of all aspects of a NASCAR race — including those chaotic-but-exciting race-day moments — courtesy of NASCAR's first official photographer...
Marian at the Marian Anderson Historical Society and Museum
Browse the African-American opera singer's personal collection, including performance gowns, costumes and photographs...
Cauleen Smith: Give It or Leave It at the Institute of Contemporary Art
This exhibit reimagines a future world that is Black, feminist and spiritual using objects, film and more...
Impressions on Paper: Henry Snell at the Michener Art Museum
Most of these drawings and watercolors, created during the Philadelphia artist's travels to Cornwall, have never been exhibited at the museum before...
Covered: Celebrating Muslim Women at Art Sanctuary
Artist Yusef Abdul Jaleel created this illustration series — which depicts various Muslim women of color — to combat negative stereotypes surrounding modesty...
A Dream Deferred: Redlining Past, Present, Future
This free interactive art-and-media exhibit explores how race and policy influence Philadelphia and its inhabitants...
25+ Must-See Exhibitions in Philadelphia
Philadelphia's museums and galleries showcase can't-miss art from around the globe and around the city...
Formerly the Harry Potter Festival, the new-for-2018 Witches & Wizards takes over Chestnut Hill this weekend for spellbinding events, including the Brews & Broomsticks Pub Crawl on Friday. (Photo by A. Ricketts for Visit Philadelphia)
Arts | Old City|(Sat, Sun)
Festival for the People at Race Street Pier and Cherry Street Pier
The three-weekend-long festival of installations, videos and contemporary art continues on the Delaware River waterfront...
History | Old City|(Sat, Sun)
Occupied Philadelphia Weekend at the Museum of the American Revolution
Visitors meet soldiers and spies, haggle at markets and more during this living-history event set in the fall of 1777 when the British captured and occupied Philadelphia...
Pumpkin Patch at Franklin Square
This free event for kids 10 and under includes a pumpkin for each child to paint, decorate and take home...
19th Annual Peoplehood Parade at Paul Robeson House
This annual march, which welcomes the Philadelphia Trans March this year, celebrates the city's diversity and honors those fighting discrimination...
Mural Dedication: Legacy at Lucien E. Blackwell Library
Philly students worked with a local fashion designer to create this colorful fabric-inspired design...
Live Music, Comedy, Theater and Dance
Hocus Poc-YASSS: A Halloween Drag Extravaganza at Tabu Lounge
The entire Hocus Pocus movie is performed on stage in a fully lip synched drag spectacular to a standing-room-only crowd...
Portland Cello Project at Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
Portland's alt-classical group presents its tribute to Radiohead's OK Computer album with guest vocals by Patti King of The Shins...
The Philly POPS: Experience Benjamin Wright at the Kimmel Center
Legendary orchestrator Benjamin Wright — who has worked with Michael Jackson, Mary J. Blige and more — joins The Philly POPS for an afternoon journey through Wright’s music...
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibitions | Fairmount|(Fri, Sat, Sun)
Fabulous Fashion at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Designs from the likes of Cristóbal Balenciaga, Oscar de la Renta, Christian Dior and more are on display — some for the first time — in this exhibit of rare garments...
Exhibitions | Logan Square|(Fri, Sat, Sun)
Vikings: Beyond the Legend at The Franklin Institute
Explore Viking culture, interact with artifacts and see a 21-foot long replica ship at this exhibition...
Thomas & Friends Explore the Rails at the Please Touch Museum
All aboard! Take a trip with Thomas the Tank Engine to the Island of Sodor, where visitors can build a train track, assemble a train and more...
Cultures in the Crossfire at the Penn Museum
Explore the cultures, populations and history of one of the world's most turbulent regions, told through ancient artifacts and modern works by a Syrian artist...
Corridor of Culture: 100 Years of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway at the Free Library of Philadelphia
Part of Parkway 100, this exhibit features photographs and artwork that illustrate the creation and use of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway over the last century...
Yael Bartana: And Europe Will Be Stunned at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Artist Yael Bartana reimagines historical narratives to create conversation about current social issues through film and public performances...
30 Years: Art at the Michener, 1988-2018
The Michener Art Museum celebrates its 30th anniversary with works from local students, objects from the vault that have never been displayed before and more...
Making a Difference: Social and Political Activism in Clay at The Clay Studio
A range of artists address current events through clay, with a goal of counteracting feelings of negativity, fear and isolation...
25+ Must-See Exhibitions in Philadelphia
Philadelphia's museums and galleries showcase can't-miss art from around the globe and around the city...
The Philadelphia Eagles hope to shake off the Super Bowl hangover and get back on the road to victory on Sunday against the Carolina Panthers at Lincoln Financial Field. (Photo courtesy Lincoln Financial Field)
Exhibitions | Logan Square
Opening: Berthe Morisot at the Barnes Foundation
Morisot’s retrospective highlights the defiance, talent and modern presentation of the only woman artist recognized alongside impressionists Degas, Monet and Renoir...
Sports | South Philadelphia
Philadelphia Eagles vs. Carolina Panthers at Lincoln Financial Field
Fans fill the Linc or head to their favorite sports bar to watch the Eagles take on the Panthers at 1 p.m....
AIDS Walk Philly
More than 30 years strong, the annual 5K walk and fun run raises money to fight HIV/AIDS in Philadelphia...
Events | Avenue of the Arts
Seven Things I've Learned: An Evening with Ira Glass at Merriam Theater
The producer and host of the iconic This American Life public radio program and podcast shares lessons from his life and work using audio clips, music and video...
Hotel Deal | Citywide|(Fri, Sat, Sun)
Visit Philly Overnight Hotel Package Fall Getaway
Book a Philly fall getaway for stays through November 30, 2018 and get FREE hotel parking and up to $193 in perks...
AAMP Commune: Spirit featuring Ruth Naomi Floyd at The African American Museum in Philadelphia
The international jazz vocalist, composer and photographer shares select compositions and joins a community-led conversation about spirit...
Earthfest Presents the Science of Scary at Temple Ambler Arboretum
Learn more about spiders, bats, birds and other "scary" things at this free event in Montgomery County...
Live Music, Comedy, Theater and Dance
Theater | Old City|(Fri, Sat, Sun)
Once at Arden Theatre Co.
This Tony Award-winning play about an Irish musician and a Czech immigrant features Academy Award-winning music...
Theater | Rittenhouse Square|(Fri, Sat, Sun)
Broken Biscuits at Plays & Players Theater
A popular coming-of-age story about three friends in the U.K. makes its U.S. premiere with Philly’s all-comedy company...
Ongoing Exhibitions
Doylestown|(Fri, Sat, Sun)
Last Chance: American Moderns at the Michener Art Museum
Get one last look at works of Philadelphia-area artists who shaped non-objective and precisionist art in this rare display of their collective pieces...
Hamilton: Constitutional Clashes at the National Constitution Center
Learn how Alexander Hamilton got along — or didn't get along — with Jefferson, Adams and Burr in this in-depth exhibition in the Historic District...
Cotton: The Soft, Dangerous Beauty of the Past at The African American Museum in Philadelphia
Philadelphia artist John E. Dowell explores the complicated connection between cotton and slavery in America using photographs, installations and more...
Xtreme Bugs at The Academy of Natural Sciences at Drexel University
Learn more about bugs' behaviors, motions and sounds in this interactive exhibition featuring 20 giant animatronic insects...
Rodin's The Kiss at The Rodin Museum
The museum commemorates the 100th anniversary of Auguste Rodin's death by focusing on the sculptor's depictions of love...
Cultures in the Crossfire at the Penn Museum
Explore the cultures, populations and history of one of the world's most turbulent regions, told through ancient artifacts and modern works by a Syrian artist...
And So The Story Goes at the Penn Museum
Objects from the Penn Museum's international collections help tell the tale of how cultures innovate storytelling...
Prisons Today at Eastern State Penitentiary
Prisons Today explores issues stemming frm the U.S. having the highest incarceration rate in the world...
A Dream Deferred: Redlining Past, Present, Future
This free interactive art-and-media exhibit explores how race and policy influence Philadelphia and its inhabitants...
25+ Must-See Exhibitions in Philadelphia
Philadelphia's museums and galleries showcase can't-miss art from around the globe and around the city...
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Weekend Picks: Witches & Wizards, Festival For The People, New Exhibits And More
Happy weekend, Philly! With new exhibitions and major festivals on the calendar, these next few days are full of fun goings-on.
Formerly the Harry Potter Festival, the new-for-2018 Witches & Wizards takes over the charming town of Chestnut Hill for spellbinding events on both Friday evening (bar crawl!) and Saturday (street fest!) that morph the neighborhood into an enchanting magic-filled haunt.
In other festival happenings, Festival for the People continues its run of public art and performances on the Delaware River waterfront at the brand-new Cherry Street Pier and Race Street Pier on both Saturday and Sunday.
And the Barnes Foundation’s new Berthe Morisot exhibition — which provides a rare look at works by the famous female impressionist — opens Sunday, joining other recently unveiled exhibits at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (fashion), The Franklin Institute (Vikings) and the National Museum of American Jewish History (Rube Goldberg).
Elsewhere, Dilworth Park’s Made in Philadelphia Fall Market, Franklin Square’s Pumpkin Patch and other fall events are surefire ways to tell autumn is in full swing, as is the big Philadelphia Eagles game against the Carolina Panthers on Sunday in South Philly.
Make the most of this weekend with the Visit Philly Overnight Hotel Package, featuring free hotel parking and $193 in free perks.
Follow Uwishunu on Twitter and Instagram for updates throughout the weekend.
Read on for our guide to this weekend in Philadelphia.
Festivals | Chestnut Hill|(Fri, Sat)
Witches & Wizards in Chestnut Hill
This weekend, Chestnut Hill is transformed into a magical world of spells and spooky thrills, complete with a Quidditch tournament, a beer garden and a straw maze...
Film | Center City|(Fri, Sat, Sun)
Philadelphia Film Festival
See critically acclaimed films, movies with major stars, documentaries, local productions and more during this 11-day festival...
Halloween | Fairmount|(Fri, Sat, Sun)
Terror Behind the Walls at Eastern State Penitentiary
The frightening setting and professional scares make Terror Behind the Walls one of the country's top-ranked haunted attractions...
Shopping | Center City|(Fri, Sat, Sun)
Made in Philadelphia Fall Market in Dilworth Park
More than 50 local artisans display jewelry, skincare, accessories, photography, woodcrafts and more at this alfresco market...
Young Involved Philadelphia: State of Young Philly
YIP wraps up its 10-day civic engagement festival with quizzo, volunteer opportunities, panels and a closing happy hour...
Last Chance: Independence After Hours
A three-course dinner at City Tavern leads to an evening with the Founding Fathers in Independence Hall without the crowds...
Moby Dick Reading Marathon at the Independence Seaport Museum
Herman Mellville's literary classic Moby Dick is read aloud in its entirety from Friday evening to Saturday evening during this reading marathon that takes place in different spots around the museum...
Re-enacting a Revolutionary Gun Battle in Context of 21st Century Gun Violence at Historic Germantown
Cliveden and PhilaLandmarks invite all to Historic Germantown for a conversation about gun control and violence as well as a presentation about the Revolutionary War and its consequences...
Illuminated Fountain Performances at Longwood Gardens
More than 1,700 jets and streams soar up to 175 feet in the air and are lit by a rainbow of colors during this popular program that's set to classical music on Friday and popular movie soundtracks on Saturday...
Fall Fest at Shady Brook Farm
Shady Brook's season-long harvest festival includes autumnal favorites like apple- and pumpkin-picking, plus local craft beer and wine, moonlit corn-maze-wandering and more…
Live Music, Comedy, Theater and Dance
Hardwork Movement at Johnny Brenda's
Fresh from last month’s Philly Music Fest, the local hip-hop collective takes the stage in Fishtown with its horns and cello...
George Lopez at SugarHouse Casino
The comedian brings “The Wall World Tour” to Philly before the release of his upcoming thriller River Runs Red...
All My Sons at Curio Theatre Company
This Arthur Miller play about the aftermath of a tragedy in a suburban America family is running on select dates on Baltimore Avenue...
Sweat at Suzanne Roberts Theatre
Philadelphia Theatre Company begins its new season with the 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning story of deindustrialization in a Pennsylvania town...
One-Man Apocalypse Now at Plays & Players Theatre
One actor performs Apocalypse Now in 60 minutes during this special two-show performance...
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibitions | Chadds Ford|(Fri, Sat, Sun)
Last Chance: Natural Wonders at the Brandywine River Museum of Art
Works by 13 artists celebrate the wonders of nature while highlighting key issues like species extinction and over-cultivation...
Exhibitions | Old City|(Fri, Sat, Sun)
Rube Goldberg at the National Museum of American Jewish History
Rube Goldberg's Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoons, machine invention drawings and more are part of this first comprehensive display of his work...
Prisons Today at Eastern State Penitentiary
Prisons Today explores issues stemming frm the U.S. having the highest incarceration rate in the world...
Fast Lane: The NASCAR Photography of Darryl Moran at the Woodmere Art Museum
Get a glimpse of all aspects of a NASCAR race — including those chaotic-but-exciting race-day moments — courtesy of NASCAR's first official photographer...
Marian at the Marian Anderson Historical Society and Museum
Browse the African-American opera singer's personal collection, including performance gowns, costumes and photographs...
Cauleen Smith: Give It or Leave It at the Institute of Contemporary Art
This exhibit reimagines a future world that is Black, feminist and spiritual using objects, film and more...
Impressions on Paper: Henry Snell at the Michener Art Museum
Most of these drawings and watercolors, created during the Philadelphia artist's travels to Cornwall, have never been exhibited at the museum before...
Covered: Celebrating Muslim Women at Art Sanctuary
Artist Yusef Abdul Jaleel created this illustration series — which depicts various Muslim women of color — to combat negative stereotypes surrounding modesty...
A Dream Deferred: Redlining Past, Present, Future
This free interactive art-and-media exhibit explores how race and policy influence Philadelphia and its inhabitants...
25+ Must-See Exhibitions in Philadelphia
Philadelphia's museums and galleries showcase can't-miss art from around the globe and around the city...
Formerly the Harry Potter Festival, the new-for-2018 Witches & Wizards takes over Chestnut Hill this weekend for spellbinding events, including the Brews & Broomsticks Pub Crawl on Friday. (Photo by A. Ricketts for Visit Philadelphia)
Arts | Old City|(Sat, Sun)
Festival for the People at Race Street Pier and Cherry Street Pier
The three-weekend-long festival of installations, videos and contemporary art continues on the Delaware River waterfront...
History | Old City|(Sat, Sun)
Occupied Philadelphia Weekend at the Museum of the American Revolution
Visitors meet soldiers and spies, haggle at markets and more during this living-history event set in the fall of 1777 when the British captured and occupied Philadelphia...
Pumpkin Patch at Franklin Square
This free event for kids 10 and under includes a pumpkin for each child to paint, decorate and take home...
19th Annual Peoplehood Parade at Paul Robeson House
This annual march, which welcomes the Philadelphia Trans March this year, celebrates the city's diversity and honors those fighting discrimination...
Mural Dedication: Legacy at Lucien E. Blackwell Library
Philly students worked with a local fashion designer to create this colorful fabric-inspired design...
Live Music, Comedy, Theater and Dance
Hocus Poc-YASSS: A Halloween Drag Extravaganza at Tabu Lounge
The entire Hocus Pocus movie is performed on stage in a fully lip synched drag spectacular to a standing-room-only crowd...
Portland Cello Project at Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
Portland's alt-classical group presents its tribute to Radiohead's OK Computer album with guest vocals by Patti King of The Shins...
The Philly POPS: Experience Benjamin Wright at the Kimmel Center
Legendary orchestrator Benjamin Wright — who has worked with Michael Jackson, Mary J. Blige and more — joins The Philly POPS for an afternoon journey through Wright’s music...
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibitions | Fairmount|(Fri, Sat, Sun)
Fabulous Fashion at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Designs from the likes of Cristóbal Balenciaga, Oscar de la Renta, Christian Dior and more are on display — some for the first time — in this exhibit of rare garments...
Exhibitions | Logan Square|(Fri, Sat, Sun)
Vikings: Beyond the Legend at The Franklin Institute
Explore Viking culture, interact with artifacts and see a 21-foot long replica ship at this exhibition...
Thomas & Friends Explore the Rails at the Please Touch Museum
All aboard! Take a trip with Thomas the Tank Engine to the Island of Sodor, where visitors can build a train track, assemble a train and more...
Cultures in the Crossfire at the Penn Museum
Explore the cultures, populations and history of one of the world's most turbulent regions, told through ancient artifacts and modern works by a Syrian artist...
Corridor of Culture: 100 Years of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway at the Free Library of Philadelphia
Part of Parkway 100, this exhibit features photographs and artwork that illustrate the creation and use of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway over the last century...
Yael Bartana: And Europe Will Be Stunned at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Artist Yael Bartana reimagines historical narratives to create conversation about current social issues through film and public performances...
30 Years: Art at the Michener, 1988-2018
The Michener Art Museum celebrates its 30th anniversary with works from local students, objects from the vault that have never been displayed before and more...
Making a Difference: Social and Political Activism in Clay at The Clay Studio
A range of artists address current events through clay, with a goal of counteracting feelings of negativity, fear and isolation...
25+ Must-See Exhibitions in Philadelphia
Philadelphia's museums and galleries showcase can't-miss art from around the globe and around the city...
The Philadelphia Eagles hope to shake off the Super Bowl hangover and get back on the road to victory on Sunday against the Carolina Panthers at Lincoln Financial Field. (Photo courtesy Lincoln Financial Field)
Exhibitions | Logan Square
Opening: Berthe Morisot at the Barnes Foundation
Morisot’s retrospective highlights the defiance, talent and modern presentation of the only woman artist recognized alongside impressionists Degas, Monet and Renoir...
Sports | South Philadelphia
Philadelphia Eagles vs. Carolina Panthers at Lincoln Financial Field
Fans fill the Linc or head to their favorite sports bar to watch the Eagles take on the Panthers at 1 p.m....
AIDS Walk Philly
More than 30 years strong, the annual 5K walk and fun run raises money to fight HIV/AIDS in Philadelphia...
Events | Avenue of the Arts
Seven Things I've Learned: An Evening with Ira Glass at Merriam Theater
The producer and host of the iconic This American Life public radio program and podcast shares lessons from his life and work using audio clips, music and video...
Hotel Deal | Citywide|(Fri, Sat, Sun)
Visit Philly Overnight Hotel Package Fall Getaway
Book a Philly fall getaway for stays through November 30, 2018 and get FREE hotel parking and up to $193 in perks...
AAMP Commune: Spirit featuring Ruth Naomi Floyd at The African American Museum in Philadelphia
The international jazz vocalist, composer and photographer shares select compositions and joins a community-led conversation about spirit...
Earthfest Presents the Science of Scary at Temple Ambler Arboretum
Learn more about spiders, bats, birds and other "scary" things at this free event in Montgomery County...
Live Music, Comedy, Theater and Dance
Theater | Old City|(Fri, Sat, Sun)
Once at Arden Theatre Co.
This Tony Award-winning play about an Irish musician and a Czech immigrant features Academy Award-winning music...
Theater | Rittenhouse Square|(Fri, Sat, Sun)
Broken Biscuits at Plays & Players Theater
A popular coming-of-age story about three friends in the U.K. makes its U.S. premiere with Philly’s all-comedy company...
Ongoing Exhibitions
Doylestown|(Fri, Sat, Sun)
Last Chance: American Moderns at the Michener Art Museum
Get one last look at works of Philadelphia-area artists who shaped non-objective and precisionist art in this rare display of their collective pieces...
Hamilton: Constitutional Clashes at the National Constitution Center
Learn how Alexander Hamilton got along — or didn't get along — with Jefferson, Adams and Burr in this in-depth exhibition in the Historic District...
Cotton: The Soft, Dangerous Beauty of the Past at The African American Museum in Philadelphia
Philadelphia artist John E. Dowell explores the complicated connection between cotton and slavery in America using photographs, installations and more...
Xtreme Bugs at The Academy of Natural Sciences at Drexel University
Learn more about bugs' behaviors, motions and sounds in this interactive exhibition featuring 20 giant animatronic insects...
Rodin's The Kiss at The Rodin Museum
The museum commemorates the 100th anniversary of Auguste Rodin's death by focusing on the sculptor's depictions of love...
Cultures in the Crossfire at the Penn Museum
Explore the cultures, populations and history of one of the world's most turbulent regions, told through ancient artifacts and modern works by a Syrian artist...
And So The Story Goes at the Penn Museum
Objects from the Penn Museum's international collections help tell the tale of how cultures innovate storytelling...
Prisons Today at Eastern State Penitentiary
Prisons Today explores issues stemming frm the U.S. having the highest incarceration rate in the world...
A Dream Deferred: Redlining Past, Present, Future
This free interactive art-and-media exhibit explores how race and policy influence Philadelphia and its inhabitants...
25+ Must-See Exhibitions in Philadelphia
Philadelphia's museums and galleries showcase can't-miss art from around the globe and around the city...
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Florida Keys & Key West events from the Official Florida Keys Tourism Council
Calendar of Events Event date Event location Event category Current Florida Keys Events Dec. 14, 2017 - Jan. 6, 2018 Location: Key West Category: Arts & Culture Waterfront Playhouse presents: Inspecting Carol 305-294-5015 Website Grab a large helping of holiday cheer with this hilarious, madcap comedy! It's a cross between A Christmas Carol and Noises Off. Behind the scenes of a struggling theatre's annual slapdash production of A Christmas Carol, rehearsals are at a standstill. Tim is no longer Tiny, Scrooge wants to do the play in Spanish (Feliz Navidad), and their funding is on hold pending an inspection. This laugh out loud spoof makes for a night at the theatre that is anything but show business as usual. "Inspecting Carol" is a delightful mix of "A Christmas Carol," "Noises Off," "Waiting for Guffman." Dec. 19, 2017 - Jan. 13, 2018 Location: Key West Category: Arts & Culture Red Barn Theater presents: Dancing Lessons Box Office 305-296-9911 Website Evers, a man with Asperger's Syndrome, seeks the instruction of a Broadway dancer to learn enough dancing to survive an awards dinner. The dancer, Senga, is, however, recovering from an injury that may stop her career permanently. As their relationship unfolds, they're both caught off guard by the discoveries...both hilarious and heartwarming...that they make about each other and about themselves. Featuring Carolyn Cooper and Dave Bootle. Show times and tickets online. Red Barn Theater is located at 319 Duval St. Dec. 26, 2017 - Jan. 13, 2018 Location: Key West Category: Arts & Culture Key West Theater presents: Hedwig and the Angry Inch 305-985-0433 Website Brilliantly innovative, heartbreaking, and wickedly funny. Hedwig & The Angry Inch is a genre-bending, fourth-wall-smashing musical sensation, with a pulsing score and electrifying performances, telling the story of rock-n-roll lead singer Hedwig, one of the most unique characters to ever hit the stage. Broadway choreographer Andrew Palermo is deep in rehearsal directing and choreographing Hedwig and the Angry Inch at the Key West Theater, which stars Phillip Cole White as Hedwig, Alexandra Zeto as Yitzhak, and members of Patrick and the Swayzees as the band "The Angry Inch." Showtimes and tickets online. Jan. 1, 2018 - Aug. 31, 2018 Location: Key West Category: Fishing Key West Fishing Tournament Doris Harris 305-923-5934 Email Website More than 40 species of fish are targeted during these months, with divisions for men, women, junior anglers (ages 10 to 14) and Pee Wees (under 10 years old). The Key West Fishing Tournament strongly encourages the release of game fish. All participating anglers receive certificates noting their catches and qualify for a variety of prizes. Jan. 2, 2018 - Jan. 29, 2018 Location: Key West Christopher Peterson's EYECONS Tickets 305-296-6706 ext 4 Website A master of impersonations, both visually and vocally, with impeccable comic timing. The show is all LIVE, no lip-sync. Thrill to his parodies of Marilyn Monroe, Carol Channing, Madonna, Joan Rivers, Reba McEntire, Bette Midler, Tina Turner, Julie Andrews, Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, Judy Garland, Eartha Kitt, Cher, Bette Davis, Lucille Ball, even Lady GaGa. Show dates are online. Show times 9 p.m., at La te da 1125 Duval St. Jan. 3, 2018 Location: Key Largo Orange Bowl Swimming Classic 305- 453-7946 Email Website Some of the best college swimmers - and perhaps future Olympians - in the country compete at Jacobs Aquatic Center, mile marker (MM) 99.6 oceanside, in a competition that is part of the celebration surrounding the annual Orange Bowl college football game in Miami. Spectators are invited to attend this free event and meet the swimmers and coaches. Warm-up is set for 10 a.m., meets are scheduled from noon to 2 p.m. Jan. 4, 2018 Location: Key West Category: Arts & Culture The Studios of Key West presents: First Thursday Gallery Walk 305-296-0458 Website From 6-8 p.m., The Studios' historic building at 533 Eaton Street will be filled with work by Cuban sculptor and printmaker Abel Barroso, assemblages by local artist Marta White, and photographs by Maggie Evans Silverstein, a former editor of the Miami Herald's Sunday magazine. Featured in the XOJ Gallery during the January 4 opening will be Key West/New York artist Marta White's assemblage sculptures and shadow boxes. Her creations are elegant studies in composition, and ache with memory and loss. Jan. 4, 2018 - Jan. 14, 2018 Location: Key Largo Category: Arts & Culture Uncorked ... the Key Largo and Islamorada Food & Wine Festival 305-522-1300 Email Website The 10-day food, wine and spirits showcase features 30-plus savory events to please virtually every palate and budget, spread among numerous Upper Keys venues with fresh, locally sourced seafood and international-style dishes. The festival's outdoor 'A Grand Tasting,' is set for Jan. 14. What better reason to 'Uncork' and unwind in the Florida Keys. For a complete events schedule, visit website. Jan. 6, 2018 - Jan. 7, 2018 Location: Marathon Category: Arts & Culture The Florida Keys Celtic Festival Website Some of America's most celebrated Celtic musical masters are to be featured at the Marathon Community Park, MM 49. The festival will also feature Irish and Scottish dancing, Highland athletics, Celtic merchandise, food and beverage booths and children's activities. Jan. 7, 2018 Location: Key West Key West Artisan Market, Art of the Art Edition Website Art of the Art is a unique opportunity to meet our local artists and learn how they make and design their craft. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Guests are encouraged to ride bikes or the bus which conveniently stops in front of the Restaurant Store. Parking is available in the Old Town Parking Garage at 300 Grinnell Street. Please bring your own bags. Jan. 8, 2018 Location: Key West Category: Arts & Culture Key West Theater presents: The Zombies 305-985-0433 Website Now in their 54th year and cited as being one of the most influential UK pop/rock bands of all time, a mid-'60s rock group who wrote gorgeous melodies. Dominated by Colin Blunstone's breathy vocals, choral backup harmonies, and Rod Argent's shining jazz- and classical-influenced organ and piano, the band sounded utterly unique for their era. To this day, they're known primarily for their three big hit singles, "She's Not There", "Tell Her No", and "Time of the Season", however they have released multiple albums in recent years, both in the studio and live. Show starts 8 p.m. Jan. 11, 2018 - Jan. 14, 2018 Location: Key West Category: Arts & Culture 36th Annual Key West Literary Seminar 888-293-9291 Website The 2018 topic is "Writers of the Caribbean." Literary aficionados from around the world are to gather for readings, discussions and lectures led by some of contemporary literature's most acclaimed writers. The island nations of the Caribbean have produced some of the most powerful and exciting writers of our time. For the 36th annual Key West Literary Seminar, we look across the waves to the vital literature that has emerged from this region. Jan. 11, 2018 - Jan. 14, 2018 Location: Key West Category: Fishing Key West Kingfish Mayhem Jimmy Wickett 954-605-8284 Email Website Big fish, big money! Come fish for some of the largest kingfish in Florida Keys waters in this new tournament. Fishing headquartered at Stock Island Marina. First prize could earn $15,000 cash, based on a 50-boat field. Jan. 12, 2018 - Jan. 13, 2018 Location: Key West 58th Annual Key West House & Garden Tours 305-294-9501 Email Website Tour elegant and unique private homes of Key West, ranging from exquisite restorations to creative renovations, and the interior design that complements each. January tours are offered 3 to 7 pm each day. Transportation between homes is available via Conch Train for $40 each, seating is limited. Tickets without transportation are $30 in advance and $35 on tour days. Proceeds benefit the foundation's Oldest House Museum, grant and scholarship programs. Jan. 12, 2018 - Jan. 14, 2018 Location: Islamorada Category: Arts & Culture Sixth Annual Baygrass Bluegrass Festival Website Featuring several great Oldgrass, Newgrass and a blend of next generation Bluegrass as well as some tasteful variations of the genre. Tickets to be available in advance online and at the gate. Monies raised help fund music, dance and art scholarships for local students; main event is located at the ICE Amphitheater, MM 87 bayside at Founders Park. Other weekend musical activities are to be planned. Attendees can bring blankets and lawn chairs, but coolers are not permitted. Food and beverages available for purchase. Jan. 13, 2018 - Jan. 15, 2018 Location: Islamorada Category: Arts & Culture Island Boat Show & Festival Bob Phelps 239-691-3290 Website All the top boat brands will be featured at the Island Boat Show, being held at the Island Christian School campus at MM 83. Come enjoy a great show with loads of boats, auction items, food, vendors featuring a variety of merchandise, great fishing seminars presented by local captains... all at a very reasonable $10 admission. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sat & Sun., 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday. A silent auction and fishing seminars hosted by Captain Rich Tudor, co-host of Saltwater Experience, and other Keys captains, round out the weekend. Jan. 13, 2018 Location: Marathon 2018 Bar Olympics to Benefit the Florida Keys SPCA 305-743-4800 Register Email Website Do you have the best bar tending or service team at your bar or restaurant? Can you make the best original cocktail? This Olympic season, in addition to having fun while helping support a Keys local animal shelter, the winning bar or restaurant team of the Winter Bar Olympics at the Lighthouse Grill at Faro Blanco Resort & Yacht Club will take home gold metals and bragging rights for all of 2018. In addition to the main event, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., there will be games and challenges for pets and owners to participate in including a tennis ball lottery, red light green light and kissing contest!. With celebrity judges, shelter dog kissing booth, 50/50 raffle, silent auction and more! Jan. 13, 2018 Location: Islamorada Category: Arts & Culture 35th Annual Art Under The Oaks 305-360-8556 Email Website Fine art & original crafts, a variety of entertainment, specialty food booths, children's arts & crafts, as well as a raffle of items donated by the artists are part of the annual highlights. San Pedro Church Gardens, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m., Mile Marker 89.5 on Plantation Key in Islamorada. Onsite parking is available for a $5 donation. Free parking is available at Coral Shores High School, with shuttle service to the event. Jan. 13, 2018 - Jan. 14, 2018 Location: Key West Category: Arts & Culture 13th Annual Florida Keys Seafood Festival Caitlin 813-362-9555 Email Website A family-friendly event with local fresh Keys seafood, drinks, marine-related crafts, youth activities, and live music. $5 admission per person; hours open from 11 a.m. - 8 p.m. on Saturday; 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday, at Bayview Park, Truman Avenue and Jose Marti Drive. Jan. 13, 2018 - Jan. 14, 2018 Location: The Lower Keys Category: Arts & Culture 14th Annual Nautical Expo 305-872-2411 Email Website Admission and parking at this event are free, held at the Lower Keys Chamber of Commerce grounds, MM31, from 8AM to 2PM. Find steals and deals on everything imaginable for boating, fishing, diving and more, from nearly 200 vendors. Crafts, food and beverage, live music and entertainment round out the two-day event. Jan. 14, 2018 Location: Key West Key West Half Marathon & 5k Run Barbara Wright 305-240-0727 Email Website Recognized by Runners World magazine as one of the 10 great half-marathons of the winter season, the race follows a 13.1-mile course that includes Old Town Key West and the scenic waterfront. Now in its 20th year, the race typically attracts American and international runners to compete in Key West's balmy January climate. Named as one of the United States' leading winter half marathons in Runner's World, February, 2014; the same magazine included in its list of Best Destination Half Marathons; in April, 2015; Bucket List Best Half Marathons, and most recently in December, 2015 was ranked among 13 must-do U.S. half-marathons by Competitor.com. Jan. 15, 2018 Location: Marathon Category: Arts & Culture Florida Keys Concert Association presents: Throwback Website This prize-winning Barbershop Quartet, led by Sean Devine, brings together an infectious energy with a love of yesterday's music. Based in Florida, they have performed to great acclaim from Alaska to New York. show starts @ 7:30PM at the Marathon High School, 350 Sombrero Road, Marathon, FL 33050 (MM50). Tickets available online. Jan. 16, 2018 Location: Islamorada Category: Arts & Culture Florida Keys Concert Association presents: Throwback Website This prize-winning Barbershop Quartet, led by Sean Devine, brings together an infectious energy with a love of yesterday's music. Based in Florida, they have performed to great acclaim from Alaska to New York. All Islamorada Concerts are at Island Community Church @ 7:30 PM, 83250 Overseas Highway, Islamorada, FL 33036 (MM83). Tickets available online. Jan. 18, 2018 - Jan. 21, 2018 Location: Key West Category: Arts & Culture Fringe Theater presents: The Regina Monologues – A Staged Reading 305-731-0581 Website Admired, vilified, de-humanized. Six women with one thing in common. Marriage to a man called Henry. This re-telling of the lives of the wives of King Henry VIII views history through a modern lense. Cleverly constructed. Skillfully arranged. Based on the lives of the wives of King Henry VIII.! Limited Seating. Shows at 7 p.m., Parish Hall at St Paul's Church. 401 Duval Street. Jan. 19, 2018 - Jan. 20, 2018 Location: Islamorada RESCHEDULED: Conch Scramble Charity Golf Tournament Michelle Abramoff 305-509-0315 Email Website Floating greens, golf boats and biodegradable fish food balls highlight the annual "par-tee" on the water during the popular Conch Scramble charity golf tournament. Fans of golf and boating can expect to have a "hole" lot of fun honing their swings and raising money for charity one shot at a time. Up to 50 teams can enter this one-of-a-kind golf experience. Jan. 20, 2018 Location: Islamorada Category: Arts & Culture Free Outdoor Pops-in-the-Park: Back to the Future 305-853-7294 Email Website A free concert held at Founders Park, featuring a musical trip through time. Special theater troupe appearance is planned. Performance is outdoors; no chairs provided, bring blankets. Starts at 4 p.m. Admission free for all concerts. Presented by Keys Community Concert Band. Jan. 22, 2018 - Jan. 29, 2018 Location: Key West Category: Arts & Culture Kelly McGillis Classic International Flag Football Championship 305-896-8678 Email Website Women and girls from around the world are to meet on the playing field for hard-fought sporting action. Each year, nearly 30 teams from across the United States, Mexico, Central America, Sweden and India participate. Jan. 22, 2018 Location: Marathon Category: Arts & Culture Florida Keys Concert Association presents: Rising Star Website Each year we try to bring you a future star of the classical music world. We also encourage young people to attend (at no charge) and hear a young musical prodigy right here in the Keys. Stay tuned for further information. Show starts @ 7:30 PM at San Pablo Catholic Church, 550 122nd St., (MM53). Tickets to be available online. Jan. 23, 2018 Location: Islamorada Category: Arts & Culture Florida Keys Concert Association presents: Rising Star Website Each year we try to bring you a future star of the classical music world. We also encourage young people to attend (at no charge) and hear a young musical prodigy right here in the Keys. Stay tuned for further information. All Islamorada Concerts are at Island Community Church @ 7:30 PM, 83250 Overseas Highway, Islamorada, FL 33036 (MM83). Tickets to be available online. Jan. 23, 2018 - Feb. 4, 2018 Location: Key West Category: Arts & Culture Waterfront Playhouse presents: 1776, In Concert 305-294-5015 Website "1776" is the Tony Award winning musical which brings history to life as it dramatizes America's contentious Founding Fathers and their determination to do the right thing for a fledgling nation. Engaging, witty and passionate, this Broadway musical takes audiences back to the long, hot Philadelphia summer of 1776 when John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia bid members of the Second Continental Congress to proclaim independence from the tyranny of British monarchy and adopt the United States Declaration of Independence. Jan. 23, 2018 - Feb. 17, 2018 Location: Key West Category: Arts & Culture Red Barn Theater presents: 20th Century Blues 305-296-9911 Website This sharply funny and evocative exploration of time was the flat our hit of the 2016 Contemporary American Theatre Festival in the 25th season. The play centers on four women who bonded as protesters one night in jail in their youth. Through the vagaries of love, careers, children, and lost causes, the women reunite once a year for a photo shoot, chronicling their changing selves. But when these private photos have the potential to become part of a public exhibit, mutiny erupts and relationships are tested. Featuring Marjorie Paul-Shook, Annie Miners, Peggy Montgomery, Deborah Jacobson, Kathy Russ, and Justin Ahearn.show times and tickets online. Red Barn Theater is located at 319 Duval St. Jan. 23, 2018 Location: The Lower Keys Table-to-Sea Feast on Stock Island Website Outstanding in the Field Travels to the Florida Keys! Stock Island -- the farthest isle of Florida's Lower Keys across the strait from Key West just five miles from the end of the road at the archipelago's southernmost tip -- will be the site for an open-air Outstanding in the Field dinner on Tuesday, January 23. Hosted in collaboration with Lost Kitchen Supper Club, Roostica and Hogfish, the table-to-sea dining event is the traveling restaurant without walls' first visit to the Florida Keys. Per person cost is $225, all inclusive. Tickets available online. Proceeds benefit Hurricane Irma relief efforts. Outstanding in the Field has staged table-to-farm events in all 50 states across the US and 15 countries around the world, welcoming more than 120,000 people to its long table set in vegetable fields and orchard groves, at creameries and cheeseworks, in urban gardens and big-sky ranches. Jan. 24, 2018 - Jan. 28, 2018 Location: Key West Category: Arts & Culture Key West Food & Wine Festival 800-474-4319 Email Website Top chefs and restaurateurs display culinary creativity and the Keys' indigenous cuisine in a flavorful schedule of events for food lovers. Highlights include the lively "Old Town Uncorked," neighborhood wine strolls, food and wine pairings, intriguing seminars, winemaker dinner series and a grand tasting. Jan. 24, 2018 - Jan. 25, 2018 Location: Islamorada Category: Fishing IFC Sailfish Tournament Website Presented by the Islamorada Fishing Club, the event is the second leg this year of the three-pronged Florida Keys Gold Cup Championship series and typically draws a field of up to 30 boat teams of elite sport fishermen. Kickoff is 1/24 and fishing day is 1/25. A total cash payout for a full field at the IFC Sailfish Tournament could reach $30,000. Jan. 24, 2018 Location: Key West Key West Art & Historical Society presents: Conch Revival Picnic 305.295.6616 x111 Email The Key West Art & Historical Society and Isle Cook Key West have teamed up to present a picnic-style Conch heritage dinner and co-benefit for Grimal Grove prepared by acclaimed chefs Martha Hubbard and Dave Furman. Staged on the grounds of the Key West Lighthouse & Keeper's Quarters, the picnic features a wine and appetizer pairing, a variety of classic Key West/Conch recipes using produce from Grimal Grove, and a Molletes cook-off competition coordinated by Key West Food Tours creator Analise Smith and her Cuban-Conch recipe aficionada mother Teresa Menendez. Tickets $35 for Members and $45 for Non-members. Jan. 26, 2018 - Jan. 27, 2018 Location: Key West Category: Arts & Culture Key West Theater presents: Arlo Guthrie 305-985-0433 Website Arlo Guthrie has been known to generations as a prolific songwriter, social commentator, master storyteller, actor and activist. Born in Coney Island, New York in 1947, Arlo is the eldest son of Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, a professional dancer with the Martha Graham Company and founder of The Committee to Combat Huntington's Disease, and America's most beloved singer/writer/philosopher/artist Woody Guthrie. Arlo has become an iconic figure in folk music in his own right with a distinguished and varied career spanning over fifty years. Show starts 8 p.m. each night. Jan. 26, 2018 - Jan. 28, 2018 Location: Islamorada Category: Fishing Cheeca Lodge Presidential Sailfish Tournament Email Website Anglers compete for beautiful trophies and prizes in one of the most prestigious offshore tournaments in the Florida Keys, and this year is the third and final leg of the Florida Keys Gold Cup Championship. Jan. 27, 2018 - Jan. 28, 2018 Location: Key West Category: Arts & Culture 33rd Annual Key West Craft Show 305-294-1243 Email Website Tens of thousands of attendees browse and buy among juried artisans and crafters who gather to display their talents at this popular outdoor festival on lower Whitehead Street in historic Old Town Key West. Jan. 28, 2018 Location: Key West 24th Annual Key West Master Chefs Classic 305-294-9526, ext 25 Website Local restaurants vie for top honors in appetizer, entrée and dessert categories. Attendees sample the culinary treats while judges pick the winners. The show is held from 4-7 p.m. at the Margaritaville Resort & Marina pier, 245 Front St. Event proceeds benefit the nonprofit Monroe Association for ReMARCable Citizens. Jan. 28, 2018 Location: Key West Key West Artisan Market presents: Culinary & Wine Show Website Culinary & Wine Show features local chef specialties, exotic cheeses, wine tasting and dozens of great vino by the bottle and case. Guests are encouraged to ride bikes or the bus which conveniently stops in front of the Restaurant Store. Parking is available in the Old Town Parking Garage at 300 Grinnell Street. Please bring your own bags. Jan. 29, 2018 Location: Marathon Category: Arts & Culture Florida Keys Concert Association presents: Trio Solisti Website Hailed as "the most exciting piano trio in America" by The New Yorker Magazine, Trio Solisti is comprised of three brilliant instrumentalists - violinist Maria Bachmann, cellist Alexis Pia Gerlach and pianist Fabio Bidini. They have earned a reputation for soulful and passionate performances marked by soloist virtuosity, electric energy, seamless ensemble playing, and thrilling abandon. Performance at 7:30 PM, at San Pablo Catholic Church, 550 122nd St., (MM53). Tickets to be available online. Jan. 30, 2018 Location: Islamorada Category: Arts & Culture Florida Keys Concert Association presents: Trio Solisti Website Hailed as "the most exciting piano trio in America" by The New Yorker Magazine, Trio Solisti is comprised of three brilliant instrumentalists - violinist Maria Bachmann, cellist Alexis Pia Gerlach and pianist Fabio Bidini. They have earned a reputation for soulful and passionate performances marked by soloist virtuosity, electric energy, seamless ensemble playing, and thrilling abandon. Performance at Island Community Church @ 7:30 PM, 83250 Overseas Highway, (MM83). Tickets to be available online.
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From visiting the Temple of Literature to sitting under a tree where Buddha was enlightened, these are just some of the best things to do in Hanoi, Vietnam.
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1. GO ON A FREE WALKING TOUR OF THE CITY
One of the best ways to get acquainted with any city in the world is to go on a walking tour. Originally developed in Europe, the concept of the free walking tour is to give visitors a general and entertaining introduction to the city, led by enthusiastic locals.
We’re very pleased to say that these tours have no made it to Vietnam, and there’s no better way to start your trip in Hanoi than by taking part in one. Started in 2011, the Hanoi walking tour lasts half a day or all day and visits some of the best attractions around the city.
Being guided by a local student, these tours allow you to find the best attractions, restaurants, bars and hidden spots around the city, and really is one of the best things to do in Hanoi.
There’s a bunch of different variations of these Hanoi tours, so whether you’re interested in the French Quarter, the Ho Chi Minh Complex, or just finding the best street food in the city, these guys have you covered.
Note that while the tours are free, donations are expected for guides that do a great job.
2. WANDER AROUND THE OLD QUARTERS
The Old Quarters are one of the two most well-known districts in Hanoi (the other being the Ba Dinh District). The Old Quarters is a business center and also a very prominent spot among tourists.
A typical scene in Hanoi streets are sidewalks teeming with bicycles and scooters while crowds of people scavenge markets and barter loudly with street vendors.
While exploring Old Quarters you have no choice but to confront the traffic as a local would do and experience the history on the go. It’s an interesting blend of ancient history (Hanoi celebrated a millennial birthday in 2010) and commercialism.
Packed with French colonial architecture, temples and Buddhist temples you'll want to get lost on the streets. The street bearing the name of the business was established more than 1,000 years ago.
Most of these businesses were craft shops, but today a lot of them turned into something more commercial and modern. Even now you can find shops owned by the same family for centuries, selling Vietnamese-original handicrafts.
It is expected to see many cafes, restaurants, shops, art galleries, and bars even in this historic area.
3. SEE THE ANCIENT HOUSE AND ST JOSEPH’S CATHEDRAL IN THE OLD QUARTERS
The best way to understand the difference between Vietnamese architecture and later on French colonialism is through these two buildings (luckily both situated in the same neighborhood). The ancient House is an example of the typical architecture of ancient houses.
The house is made of two main blocks bound together by a square yard in the middle on the ground floor, and a small balcony on the 1st floor. The yard is included at the center of the building to moderate the air, providing the house with sunlight and cool air. Today, you can come and see the Old House and see for yourself how Hanoians live.
On the other hand, Saint Joseph Church is a combination of Vietnamese and Western architectural styles. Saint Joseph Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral done in a Neo-Gothic style. It was built around 120 years ago.
The cathedral was constructed and completed in 1886 after the French army conquered Hanoi. The architecture of the cathedral clearly follows the rules of the Gothic style and design of the Paris Cathedral.
The appearance of the cathedral, the doors, the stained glass windows and the religious paintings all follow a clear Western style. But the interior is decorated in the way of Vietnamese people, with the main color is yellow and red.
4. VISIT THE HO CHI MINH MAUSOLEUM
The mausoleum is the resting place of, the revolution leader Ho Chi Minh, who was the President of the Communist Party of Vietnam, at the very same place where he is 1945, read the Declaration of Independence and established the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
The Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum was inspired by Lenin’s Mausoleum (in Moscow) but with a Vietnamese twist. It incorporates elements that are tied to Vietnamese architecture like the sloping roof.
The exterior of the mausoleum is made of grey granite while the interior is black, grey and red polished stone. All materials used for construction have been purchased from all over Vietnam.
Fauna from different regions of Vietnam surrounds the mausoleum. The embalmed body of Ho Chi Minh is located in the central hall of the mausoleum, protected at all times by a military guard.
If you’re wondering what to do in Hanoi, make sure this is near the top of your list.
Price: Admission is free
5. PEOPLE WATCH AT HOAN KIEM LAKE
In ancient times circulated a story that claimed the Heaven-sent Emperor Ly Thai To a sword with magical properties. He used that sword to expel the Chinese from Vietnam.
Following the end of the war, a giant golden turtle took the sword and escaped to the depths of the lake to return the sword to its divine owners thus earning its name, the Lake of the Restored Sword. If you’re not amused by legends don’t fret because the lake is special for other things as well.
This is the only lake in Vietnam that is home to an iconic tortoise. The tortoise is considered a sacred animal so the lake itself is a holy place. If you’re in luck you’ll be able to catch a glimpse of these majestic animals.
People have long thought that they became instinct until a cow came out of the lake a few years ago. The Hoan Kiem Lake is very popular among Hanoians as a gathering place for families, nature lovers, and hangouts.
If you want to spend time as the local residents do, show up at 6 am and practice Tai Chi with them. The best time to visit is from Fridays to Sundays because the nearby traffic is banned from 7 pm to midnight turning it into a peaceful oasis.
6. VISIT THE NGOC SON PAGODA
If the lake itself isn’t enough to peak your interest, then make sure to visit the Ngoc Son Temple, a pagoda surrounded by the Hoan Kiem lake. It was built in memorial of the 13th-century figure Tran Hung Dao, a brave military leader who fought against the Yuan Dynasty.
The island on which the pagoda was built is called Jade Island and is accessible by the famous Sun Floating Bridge. The bridge is built out of wood, colored red in a classical Vietnamese fashion.
Pagodas and lakes are probably the most famous places in Hanoi. It is one of those places where you just lie down, relax and enjoy the blissful tranquility.
Price: 30,000 VND
7. GO SHOPPING AT DONG XUAN MARKET
Established in the late 19th century, the Dong Xuan Market can be found in a four-story communist styled building on the edge of the Old Quarters.
Dong Xuan Market is the largest indoor market in Hanoi. What one can find is truly astounding. Whatever you’re looking for whether it’d be some fresh local produce, souvenirs or in need of a laptop – chances are some vendor tucked away has it?
Like other markets in Southeast Asia, Dong Xuan Market has a market dedicated to meat, seafood, vegetables and flowers from all over Vietnam.
If you’re not into testing the different flavors of Vietnam head up to the upper floors.
You will be able to find handbags, fabrics, handicrafts all of which are sold at wholesale prices! So many things to choose from at Đồng Xuân Market.
8. CATCH A SHOW AT THE OPERA HOUSE
Like the St Joseph’s Cathedral, this opera house was modeled after one of Paris’s counterparts, the Palais Garnier. Hanoi Opera House in European style is quite clear. It has Italian marble floors, ceilings decorated with French murals and bronze chandeliers.
It is regarded as one of the most famous architectural and cultural landmarks in Hanoi. Today, it has a strong cultural influence and is a center for art shows, dance performances, and concerts.
Price Range: 100,000 VND – 500,000 VND
9. DON’T MISS THE VIETNAMESE WOMAN’S MUSEUM
This wonderful modern museum offers a beautiful tribute to Vietnamese women throughout history. The museum is run by the Vietnam Women's Union. The museum focuses on the position of Vietnamese women throughout history. From street merchants, mothers to entrepreneurs and scholars.
The narratives focus on their role in society, the obstacles they overcame as society changed, and an abundance of information on everyday life, such as marriage, motherhood, fashion, and life-changing rituals.
One of the most interesting exhibits focuses on the position women play in the Vietnam War.
The museum has displayed a lot of information about all of its exhibits in French and in English. Historic relics which include Taoist books (among other impressive collected artifacts) give an in-depth insight into a better understanding of the women of Vietnam.
10. VISIT THE TEMPLE OF LITERATURE
The Temple of Literature is often regarded as one of the most visited tourist attractions.
In 1070 it was made with the intention of serving as a university and was dedicated to Confucius and scholars.
Fortunately, the building is remarkably preserved and is an excellent example of traditional Vietnamese architecture. The temple offers an abundance of literature, turtle steles as well as the Well of Heavenly Clarity.
This temple is a tribute to education and literature. This place has witnessed thousands and thousands of the best scholars in Vietnam. The most acclaimed prize for the most successful scholars was to have their names engraved onto a stone stele on top of the stone turtles. Today students come and pray for good grades.
Price: 30,000 VND
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The 20 Most Influential Artists of 2017
It’s a daunting task to name the individuals who most profoundly shaped and inspired the global art world in 2017. Decades ago, creative scenes were relatively tiny and cliquish, but the ongoing explosion of interest in contemporary art has meant more of everything: more artists; more galleries and museums; more biennials, art fairs, and unconventional projects; more excitement and energy. Still, there remain artists whose vision and influence find them towering above the crowd. Here, Artsy’s editors offer up our take on the 20 who continue to have a pervasive, undeniable impact on artistic production and culture at large.
B. 1962, Paris. Lives and works in Paris and New York
The single most ambitious work of contemporary art created in 2017 wasn’t in Venice’s Giardini but in a disused ice rink behind a Burger King in the German city of Münster. Enabled by the rink’s coming demolition, Huyghe (pronounced hweeg) was given carte blanche for After ALife Ahead: He excavated its floor and installed panels into the roof that opened and closed according to a musical score. The composition was based on the triangular patterns present on the shell of a venomous sea snail, placed in a tank on a central island of concrete left in the carved-out rink’s center. Human cancer cells multiplied in an incubator on the far side of the rink, while an augmented-reality app let viewers witness pyramid-like representations of those cells be spawned, most of which eventually fly out the rink’s roof openings. (For a deeper look at the mechanics of this complex piece, read Artsy’s coverage here.)
Huyghe, who this year won the Nasher Prize, has been a revered figure of the conceptual art movement known as Relational Aesthetics since the ’90s, though popular recognition of the 55-year-old artist has sometimes lagged behind that of peers like Philippe Parreno. After ALife Ahead marked the culmination of several experiments and preparatory works over recent years. And it continued the unique brand of environmental installation in which viewers themselves become actors within the work (each exhale of CO2 caused the cancer cells to multiply more quickly) that he used to acclaim at Documenta 13 in 2012. There, Huyghe’s contribution involved a surreal, living sculpture garden (complete with a pink-legged dog) hewn out of a compost heap in Kassel’s Karlsaue Park. Huyghe’s installations strike a canny balance between his viewers’ simultaneous participation in and subjection to the system that he creates—a system that, once set off, is also outside of his control. The results, with their infinitely intertwined elements and cascading effects, create environments that mirror the complexity of our own, a fact that has earned Huyghe his status as one of the most important artists of his generation.
B. 1939, Philadelphia. Lives and works in New Paltz, New York
Schneemann is a touchstone for the feminist art movement in America during the 1960s and ’70s. But it took over half a century for the Body Art and performance pioneer to get the recognition she’s long been due. This year she netted the prestigious Golden Lion lifetime achievement award at the Venice Biennale, and in October, MoMA PS1 opened “Carolee Schneemann: Kinetic Painting,” the first comprehensive survey of the artist’s 60-year-long career.
The exhibition features over 300 works, beginning with her rarely seen bright and brushy semi-abstract paintings from the 1950s and ephemera from her Fluxus-inspired collaborations from the 1960s—including her famed Meat Joy (1964), a pivotal work that features men and women rolling around in raw meat and fish to a rock soundtrack. More recent installations from the early 2000s showcase Schneemann’s ability to easily shift from painting and performance to digital media, as seen in More Wrong Things (2001), which intermingles footage of major public disasters with archival footage from the artist’s own archive. It loops across 14 screens suspended from the ceiling, with a mess of wires and chords charting a chaotic, networked relationship.
Along with peers like Judy Chicago, Mary Beth Edelson, and Rachel Rosenthal, Schneemann was part of a second wave of feminist cultural discourse that challenged taboos about the female body and sexuality while subverting the long-held (white) male gaze. Her more recent work continues this legacy of speaking out against oppressive and outmoded social norms. Consider Precarious (2009), which relies on a rotating mirror system to implicate the viewer into a cage-like setting, surrounded by video projections of prisoners, animals in captivity, and Schneemann dancing. And as the charming 78-year-old made clear during a recent conversation with uberfan Ragnar Kjartansson at the New Museum, she’s continuing to innovate and explore new avenues of artmaking—including collaborating with her cat.
B. 1961, Los Angeles. Lives and works in Los Angeles
With every passing year, Bradford’s art grows larger, his themes more ambitious. For “Tomorrow is Another Day” at the 2017 Venice Biennale, he transformed the American Pavilion into a decaying wasteland, host to a giant, festering, abscess-like form. Visitors to the pavilion (which the artist, speaking with the New York Times, noted loosely resembles a smaller-scale White House or a Jeffersonian plantation) found Spoiled Foot, a thickly textured, malignant red-and-black outgrowth composed of layers of paper, canvas, and varnish with the familiar skin-like pockmarks that so often feature in his paintings. It nearly consumed the front gallery space. Elsewhere, palimpsests of peeling paint and paper reinforced the sense of moral bankruptcy emanating from Bradford’s metaphorical representation of the United States.
Just months later, he unveiled Pickett’s Charge, a vast, site-specific work in the American capital, at D.C’s Hirshhorn Museum. A 360-degree mural, or “cyclorama,” the piece reimagines the 1883 Gettysburg Cyclorama, by French artist Paul Dominique Philippoteaux, which placed visitors at the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. Recreating the panorama in abstract form—using digital printouts of the original painting, blown up and reconfigured—Bradford updated the immersive mural in a contemporary vocabulary, capturing the weight of this history and asserting its continued relevance.
Next September, the artist will be taking his Venice Biennale presentation to the Baltimore Museum of Art and combining it with a monumental new “waterfall” work—his series of paintings-turned-sculptures composed of cascading ribbons of painted and dyed fabric suspended from beams. It is set to be his most impressive iteration to date, and will continue his ongoing preoccupation, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, with themes of water and flooding; this particular “waterfall” will extend dramatically from the museum’s second-floor galleries down into the lobby, like a biblical torrent.
B. 1978, Paris. Lives and works in New York
There are never enough hours in a day, or so goes the tired adage of the perpetually busy. Henrot must agree. In addition to her inclusion in nearly a dozen group shows across the globe this year—including “The Message: New Media Works” at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., and the National Gallery of Victoria’s triennial in Melbourne, Australia—the 39-year-old French-born, New York–based artist netted her first major solo exhibition in her hometown of Paris this fall, a sprawling exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo that takes as its theme the days of the week. “Days are Dogs” divides up the 64,500-square-foot space into seven sections to question the arbitrary structure of how we mark time and ritualize our lives, as perhaps best exemplified in Saturday, a stark 20-minute film that immerses viewers in the Sabbath celebrations of the Seventh-day Adventists, who observe the Sabbath on Saturdays rather than Sundays, like most other Christian sects.
Henrot’s career has been gaining steam since she won the Silver Lion award at the 2013 Venice Biennale for the video Grosse Fatigue, a visually snappy meditation blending scientific facts and creation stories through items in the Smithsonian Institution’s archives; a subsequent companion installation, The Pale Fox, which debuted at London’s Chisenhale Gallery in 2014, explored our collective obsession with objects.
“Days are Dogs”seems almost like a mini retrospective for the artist, who has gained a reputation for poignant, essayistic multimedia works that interrogate the stories we tell ourselves, whether through ancient myths or everyday objects. Henrot shines through as an artist truly unafraid to blur media and categories of making, whether she’s placing abstract sculptures in a rural field, creating a series of comically bulbous “telephones,” or experimenting with drawings and paintings that explore everything from the lives of animals to the dregs of her email inbox.
B. 1957, Beijing. Lives and works in Berlin
Ai has swiftly become the art world’s conscience when it comes to the plight of displaced peoples around the world. (The artist himself spent his childhood in exile from his native Beijing, as a result of pressure put on his father, a poet.) He has fervently dedicated himself to raising awareness of the global refugee crisis. Last year saw the occasional misstep—a self-portrait in the pose of a drowned Syrian infant refugee, reenacting a viral news image, raised a bit of ire—but that was followed by four concurrent gallery shows across New York City, all adeptly addressing the sheer scale of the global refugee crisis.
In 2017, the artist unveiled his largest work to date at Prague’s National Gallery: Law of the Journey, a 70-meter inflatable boat sculpture filled with 258 sculptural figures intended to call out the “shameful” politicking in Europe and abroad that ignores the plight of millions seeking shelter on other shores. He also made his first foray into film with Human Flow, which debuted at the Venice Film Festival in September: a visually stunning and emotionally wrenching documentary that follows the migrant passage of millions across the globe, with Ai’s camera turned on Berlin, Calais, Gaza, Turkey, Bangladesh, Jordan, and the U.S.-Mexico border, among other locations. (The film snagged an Oscar nominee for Best Documentary.) Ai then brought this issue home in New York with a 300-piece exhibition, “Good Fences Make Good Neighbors,” on view through February 11, 2018. The city-wide public art project includes banners of refugees strung above the Lower East Side’s Essex Street Market; portraits of New York immigrants installed on bus shelters in Harlem, Brooklyn, and the Bronx; and, most notably, a much-Instagrammed large steel cage sculpture constructed under Washington Square Park’s iconic arch.
B. 1954, Zanzibar, Tanzania. Lives and works in Preston, United Kingdom
Himid made history this year when she took home the 2017 Turner Prize, Britain’s most prestigious art award. The artist is not only the first woman of color to win, but at 63 she is also the oldest awardee thanks to the Tate’s announcement earlier this year that artists of any age can be considered. Himid is known for her darkly witty yet challenging works that explore black identity and creativity, the legacy of colonialism and racism, and institutional biases against women and people of color.
Take, for instance, her range of traditionally fashioned British crockery works festooned with scenes of slavery, or her well known “Negative Positives” series begun in 2007—for which she paints decorative patterns over large swaths of pages from newspaper The Guardian that feature black subjects, underscoring the often unconscious stereotyping lurking in the accompanying text. (She pursued a similar approach with the New York Times for a recent show at New York’s FLAG Art Foundation.)
Though prolific, Himid’s work has been under the radar for decades. But she took the U.K. by storm in 2017, with exhibitions at Nottingham Contemporary, Spike Island in Bristol, and Modern Art Oxford, as well as a site-specific commission for this year’s Folkestone Triennial: a human-scale jelly mould installed on the seaside town’s beach that plays on the connection between the rise of sugarcane plantations and the popularity of jiggly British tea-time treats.
B. 1968, Remscheid, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin and London
While Tillmans’s visionary artistic practice has been progressing since the 1980s—including figurative and abstract images, made using both analog and digital technology—the past two years have seen the artist reaching a new level in terms of critical and popular recognition. The once-prevalent ghettoization of photography apart from the mainstream art world has thankfully continued to break down, thanks in no small part to creatives like Tillmans. (And part of what makes his images exciting in the white cube context derives from his signature installation philosophy—which experiments wildly with scale, and can happily pair a professionally framed photo next to one that hangs loosely from clips).
Tillmans was the first non-Brit to win the prestigious Turner Prize in 2000, and this year was the subject of further English accolades when Tate Modern mounted its major survey exploring work made since 2003 (a period ripe with digital and abstract experiments, as well as a focus on political issues, like the invasion of Iraq). However, it was a major retrospective at Switzerland’s Fondation Beyeler, concurrent with Art Basel in Basel, that had his name on everybody’s lips. The exhibition’s 200-odd works spanned the artist’s career from 1986 to 2017, ranging in scope from still lifes and candid portraits to non-representational texture-and-light studies, Xerox-manipulated images, photographs made without a camera at all, and a brand new audiovisual installation. The masterful exhibition suggested that Tillmans is still capable of transforming his practice with ease, not to mention the field of photography in general.
B. 1983, Enugu, Nigeria. Lives and works in Los Angeles
Through her collage-based paintings depicting intimate, personal scenes, Nigerian-born, L.A.-based artist Akunyili Crosby is pulling focus onto a larger trend, what’s become known as “Afropolitanism”: the shifting multicultural identity of African citizens and members of the African diaspora as they move to more urban centers across the globe. The artist’s career has risen rapidly over the past few years, culminating this year with a highly coveted MacArthur “Genius” grant.
Her works—mingling acrylic, textiles, Nigerian magazine cut-outs, photographic image transfers, and other media—are currently on view in New Orleans’s Prospect.4 triennial, and are the subject of two concurrent exhibitions this fall at the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Tang Museum at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs. Akunyili Crosby creates densely patterned scenes that explore moments of personal reckoning that span generations, from her grandmother’s isolated upbringing in a village to the artist’s own Western, urban life. Akunyili Crosby’s latest works, as seen in Baltimore, take a decidedly heavier turn, however, exploring the implications of casual racism faced by the artist as an immigrant in America.
B. 1983, Paris. Lives and works in Paris and New York
In September, a 70-foot-tall baby was spotted crawling across the arid borderland between Mexico and California. The brainchild of 34-year-old French photographer and street artist JR, Kikito—as the gargantuan black-and-white toddler is affectionately named—peeps curiously from the Mexican side of a fence erected at Tecate, roughly 45 miles southeast of San Diego. JR is known for his deeply humanist, architecturally scaled outdoor works that often appear in areas of socioeconomic disparity or cultural contention. These include Women are Heroes (2008), which featured the eyes of local women smattered across the sides of buildings in Rio de Janeiro’s oldest favela, and Wrinkles of the City, a collaboration with José Parlá for the 2012 Havana Biennial that included depictions of elderly Cubans who lived through their country’s revolution in the 1950s. His habit of surreptitiously muralizing public walls has prompted some to call him the French Banksy.
Thanks to the help of Tecate-area residents, Kikito went up in a matter of days after President Trump’s decision to repeal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which offers legal protection to some who entered the U.S. illegally as minors, often with their parents. It’s hard to disassociate the image of a giant child behind an imperious metal barricade from the contentious presidential mandate. But the work also effectively makes light of Trump’s campaign promise and Executive Order to build an expansive, high-security border wall, making the existing stretch of wall at Tecate seem flimsy indeed: surmountable by a baby.
2017 also saw JR install a 150-square-meter mural at the Palais de Tokyo, take over the Renzo Piano pavilion at Château La Coste, and notch a show at the Paris location of Perrotin. He also debuted Faces/Places, a documentary created with legendary 89-year-old Belgian filmmakerAgnès Varda. It documents their interactions with the rural France people whom the unlikely duo meet while traveling around the country creating portraits of those they encounter. The understated and poignant film—in which Varda likens JR to a young Jean Luc-Godard—won the L’Œil d’Or award when it premiered at May’s Cannes Film Festival, and it was met with critical acclaim when it was released in October (and later landed on the shortlist of Oscar nominations for Best Documentary).
B. 1945, Newark, New Jersey. Lives and works in New York and Los Angeles
The “Pictures Generation” member has been a pioneering influence for decades—her work cropped up in the influential 1973 Whitney Biennial, and she had a solo at MoMA PS1 in 1980—but it continues to resound in an age of political division and sloganeering. Kruger has remained faithful to her own best format: appropriated imagery mixed with brash, in-your-face, Futura text. But this instantly recognizable style is as impactful as ever, translated by the artist into an endless variety of contexts, including on billboards (a format the artist has worked in since the ’80s). Prefer your Kruger in wearable form? There was a wicked t-shirt available at “Anger Management,” a pop-up store organized by Marilyn Minter and hosted by the Brooklyn Museum between September and November. The artist’s fashion-ready messaging was as acerbic as ever: “Admit nothing. Blame everyone. Be bitter.”
In 2017, Kruger closed out a retrospective at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and, at Sprüth Magers in Berlin, presented FOREVER, an installation for which she plastered a borrowed Virginia Woolf text across the walls and floor to dizzying effect. In New York, for the 17th Performa biennial, Kruger went all out, commandeering a school bus, a skatepark, a MetroCard design, and a billboard for components of an interconnected project that jabbed at the streetwear brand Supreme (whose logo cops Kruger’s signature typographical treatment). The centerpiece of her participation was Untitled (The Drop), billed as the artist’s first foray into performance, in which the only performers were store clerks, offering Kruger-branded schwag (skate decks, hats, hoodies) to a consumer audience. Not everyone was sold on the affair, but it certainly got people talking outside the normally hermetic confines of the art world. Like a number of feminist artists who came of age in the 1970s, Kruger’s work has gained wider acclaim this year, becoming a calling card for progressive politics at a time when those values are under attack.
B. 1955, Newark, New Jersey. Lives and works in Chicago
The prevailing memory of the 2017 Whitney Biennial will likely be the outrage over Dana Schutz’s painting of Emmett Till, but it would be a shame if that overshadowed Pope.L’s strange, complicated, and typically irreverent 2017 work, Claim (Whitney Version). A large, pink-colored cube, the installation was festooned with pieces of bologna, as well as small photographic portraits of what the artist claimed were Jewish people. (“Fortified wine” was also used as a material.) The enigmatic work proves especially complex amidst the current resurgence of identity politics, and in June, it netted the artist the coveted Bucksbaum Award.
Since the 1970s, Pope.L has developed a layered practice that combines performance, video, painting, and sculpture. Some of his most iconic works were acts of endurance in which the artist donned various costumes and crawled for great lengths; at 62, he’s still making the same sort of sacrifices, and still taking risks. For Documenta 14, he unveiled Whispering Campaign (2016–17), a sound piece sited in both Kassel and Athens for which performers whispered lines from a script into mini headsets that were then broadcast via speakers placed in offbeat locales around the cities. Also in 2017, at the Detroit alternative exhibition space What Pipeline, the artist launched a simple but loaded project: He took lead-damaged water from Flint, Michigan, bottled it, and sold the results as a kind of unhealthy readymade. “Flint Water” turned the gallery into a sort of factory or store, with 100% of the proceeds going to a charity (a signed bottle of Flint’s chemical tap can still be yours for $250).
B. 1929, Matsumoto, Japan. Lives and works in Tokyo
Kusama’s career spans seven decades, but 2017 might have been her biggest year yet. The prolific 88-year-old Japanese artist’s immersive installations bridge Pop Art and Minimalism, putting her on the map by the middle of the 20th century—and helping make her one of the highest-grossing female artists at auction today. Meanwhile, Instagram has provided a new platform for a younger generation of fans to engage with Kusama’s glittering, mirrored installations, giant polka-dotted pumpkins, and energetic abstract paintings. (For even younger art lovers, 2017 also saw the publication of a children’s book about Kusama’s life.)
The artist kicked off this past year with an attendance record-shattering solo exhibition at Washington, D.C.’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden that will continue to travel North America through 2019, while another major retrospective, “Life is the Heart of a Rainbow,” originated at the National Gallery of Singapore in June, and travelled to Australia’s Queensland Art Gallery in November. In October, a five-story museum entirely dedicated to the artist’s career opened in Tokyo. Kusama is closing this monumental year out by storming New York with a solo show at Judd Foundation’s SoHo space and two concurrent exhibitions spanning both of David Zwirner’s Manhattan galleries. Blockbuster-worthy lines have greeted her fan-favorite “Infinity Mirror Rooms” at Zwirner’s West 19th Street location, while its East 69th Street outpost showcases 10 new paintings that harken back to Kusama’s “Infinity Net” canvases from the late 1950s and early 1960s—bringing an illustrious career full circle.
B. 1977, London. Lives and works in London
2017 was a year of transcendence, artistic and otherwise, for British artist Mirza. Known for his kinetic, sculptural assemblages that exude sound and light, the artist kicked off the year with his first solo show in Canada at Vancouver’s Contemporary Art Gallery, titled “Entheogens,” debuting a series of new works emulating the psychedelic sensations of plants like peyote and magic mushrooms. He then realized a hefty commission from the Zabludowicz Collection, commemorating the 10th anniversary of its London space, a show which quickly became the talk of Frieze Week. The resulting four works respond to or otherwise intervene in visitors’ experience of the building and the artworks within it; one of them, a sensory deprivation chamber, aims to create an altered state of consciousness for participants.
Mirza also started working on a large-scale outdoor sculpture inspired by megalithic structures like Stonehenge for Ballroom Marfa, to be unveiled in the winter of 2018. The institution’s most ambitious commission since Elmgreen & Dragset’s now-iconic Prada Marfa from 2005, stone circle will be situated in the remote high desert grasslands of West Texas. There, eight black marble boulders integrated with LEDs and speakers will emit electronic sound and light. A ninth “mother” stone (festooned with solar panels that help power the piece) creates a sound and light score activated each month by the full moon, making stone circle a suitably mystical experience for the new millennium.
B. 1978, Giessen, Germany. Lives and works in Frankfurt
At this year’s Venice Biennale, Frankfurt-based Imhof’s minimalist, goth-inflected performance Faust drew the longest lines—and ultimately netted the German Pavilion the illustrious Golden Lion Award for Best National Participation. (If you missed it in Venice, you can relive the experience with our own 360 video.) The 39-year-old artist considers her choreography-based practice to be rooted in drawing and painting, but she’s become better known over the past decade for her gruellingly long and sometimes uncomfortably voyeuristic performance works.
Faust was no exception. Lasting roughly five hours, performers clad in black athleisure and denim casualwear performed a choreographed sequence of dancing, climbing, and crawling over—and under—raised glass floors and partitions, occasionally interjecting some sort of communication ranging from banging on a wall, yelling, or just mindlessly checking their phones. At the prompting of a rhythmic beat, however, the performers would march in formation, like militarized normcore fashion models. Imhoff managed to make fashionableness into something foreboding, no less so because the performance was staged in a Nazi-era building surrounded by fences and guarded by Dobermans. Faust was touted as a masterpiece of modern-day angst, ceaselessly investigating the power structures both past and present that dictate our lives and enslave us with their promises of freedom and self-expression.
While certainly not as high-profile as the Golden Lion, Imhof also scored the 2017 Absolut Art Prize, which comes with a nearly $120,000 budget to stage a new performance, this one to be set in the harsh desert of Death Valley, California.
B. 1965, Bristol, United Kingdom. Lives and works in London
“Undoubtedly one of the worst exhibitions of contemporary art staged in the past decade,” wrote Andrew Russeth of ARTnews, reflecting on “Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable,” Hirst’s two-part blow-out at both locations of the Pinault Collection in Venice that opened in April. That level of critical vitriol directed at the 52-year-old artist is representative of the consensus among members of the art press and the vast majority of those in the inner circles of the art world. But, more so than any artist, Hirst has purposefully cultivated a different and much larger audience, hoards of whom lined up outside the Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana to see his entirely for-sale show.
Hirst’s Venetian outing, as well as its critical reception, generated some welcome and uneasy questions: What sort of audiences matter in 2017? When is appropriation cultural theft? Is it even possible to discuss the line between art and commerce with a straight face anymore? “Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable” was crazily dramatic, uneven, at times knowingly stupid, blatantly spectacular—and also undeniably entertaining. Trying to unpack it in the context of the so-called serious art world would be a bit like comparing the later works of Shakespeare with Season 16 of Law & Order: SVU.
The show presented a postmodern jumble of references, styles, and materials. One of its hallmark works was Demon with Bowl (Exhibition Enlargement) (2014), a several-story-tall painted resin sculpture of a headless man with an action-hero physique; a time-lapse video of its piece-by-piece completion suggests that it required a level of effort on par with a small Hollywood film. Elsewhere, much tinier faux-artifacts were presented in vitrines, aping the style of a natural history museum. The whole conceit was bound together by a fiction of Hirstian proportions—the sculptures supposedly being the reclaimed booty following a shipwreck. Whether you loved it or hated it, the outing affirmed that the brash, take-no-prisoners artistic ego is alive and well.
B. 1976, Buenos Aires. Lives and works in New York
The Argentine-born, Israeli-raised, New York-based artist says her goal is “to make work that’s as accessible as possible, while being intelligent.” Rottenberg, primarily a video artist and sculptor, squeezes thorny subjects (labor, globalization) through her distorted, technicolor lens. The resulting films and their whimsical, immersive environments are undeniably odd, cerebral, and fun, as evidenced by a standout installation at the 2017 Skulptur Projekte Münster. The centerpiece there was a film, Cosmic Generator, shot on both sides of the United States/Mexico border, as well as in China. As is her style, Rottenberg combined quasi-documentary footage with dreamlike sequences—like a scene in which tiny men, dressed as tacos, burrow through underground tunnels before arriving to be eaten at a Chinese-Mexican restaurant.
In December, Rottenberg opened an exhibition at the freshly reopened Bass Museum of Art in Miami, bringing her eccentric vision to the broad audience in town for Art Basel in Miami Beach. There, a new version of Cosmic Generator was joined by sculptural installations (incorporating emergency food supplies, ceiling fans, and inflatable palm trees) and a second video, NoNoseKnows, which debuted at the 2015 Venice Biennale. It imagines the globalized economy as a fleshy machine, powered by raw muscle (and mussels), absurd actions, and more than a few bodily secretions. Rottenberg cannily mixes footage of actual labor (women scooping and sorting pearls out of shellfish) with surreal moments (a drab bureaucratic office where a woman sneezes out plates of pasta).
Much like Pipilotti Rist or Ragnar Kjartansson, Rottenberg has earned popular acclaim while resolutely following her own passions and curiosity, which often involves engaging with communities other than her own. In an art world that might scoffingly consider “accessible” a dirty word, she continues to prove that brainy and big-hearted aren’t mutually exclusive.
B. 1974, Camp Springs, Maryland. Lives and works in Berlin
Over the last decade, American artist (and 2017 MacArthur “Genius” grantee) Paglen has been probing the technology behind governmental surveillance and data collection, and how it alters the world around us both psychologically and physically. Paglen uses his unique skill set and background—he trained in both photography and geography, and had an itinerant childhood on military bases across the U.S. and Germany—to document obscure military installations, satellite launches, and hidden National Security Agency locations. He’s also evinced a curiosity for how technology can be put to less nefarious aims: an exhibition at New York’s Metro Pictures this past fall, “A Study of Invisible Images,” explored his research into computer vision and artificial intelligence’s applications for artmaking.
Things are only looking up for Paglen in 2018, which promises to be literally astronomic for the 43-year-old Berlin-based artist’s career. Paglen is turning his sights skyward as he works on completing the world’s first space sculpture, with support from the Nevada Museum of Art. Set to launch in the spring of 2018, the mirrored inflatable, dubbed Orbital Reflector, will be visible in the night sky for roughly eight weeks before it disintegrates. Although he’s already traveled to extremes for his work (including to the depths of the ocean, where he captured images of internet cables buried on the seafloor) the artist’s low-orbiting satellite is a feat unprecedented in contemporary art. Soon thereafter, Paglen will be the subject of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s exhibition “Sites Unseen,” the first major survey of this pioneering artist’s work in the U.S., opening in June.
B. 1970, Euclid, Ohio. Lives and works in Los Angeles
Long a touchstone for and key figure in the Los Angeles art community, Owens got an overdue East Coast spotlight with a major survey at the Whitney Museum of American Art that opened this fall. There are plenty of artists who continue to expand the field of contemporary painting, but few do it with such verve, playfulness, and rigor. The Whitney’s entire eighth floor, for instance, is given over to a multi-part sculpture in which Owens enlarges and remixes drawings and a short story appropriated from her own son, who is in middle school.
Another installation pairs artist-designed wallpaper with an interactive component: Text a question to a dedicated number, and pre-recorded audio answers play in the gallery space. (I asked “What is art?” A rather blasé voice answered, “I don’t know, but his gallery moved away from there.”) Owens was previously lauded in the (somewhat controversial) 2014 Museum of Modern Art survey “The Forever Now,” and her turn at the Whitney—which follows inclusion in two of the institution’s biennials—should cement her future as a kind of godmother for younger talents.
Meanwhile, back home in L.A., she continues to oversee 356 Mission, the art space that she co-founded with Wendy Yao and Gavin Brown in 2012. It’s been a point of contention this year, as protestors in the Boyle Heights neighborhood have turned their ire on it (as well as other venues) for being the advance guard of gentrification. But, despite the pushback, the artist-supportive venue has undeniably become a centerpiece of the city’s art scene, holding exhibitions with the likes of Seth Price, Maggie Lee, Wu Tsang, and many others.
B. 1937, Bradford, United Kingdom. Lives and works in Los Angeles
In his 80th year, the venerated British artist is still pushing the boundaries of painting, most recently unveiling a series of vividly colored compositions of interior and outdoor settings with wild fun-house perspectives and peculiarly shaped canvases. (He’s also recently made much-publicized forays into digital painting using apps on his iPad). Best known for his depictions of crystalline swimming pools (and the attendant Californian lifestyle), Hockney has for some six decades experimented with media and subject matter of all kinds—including landscapes, still lifes, and nuanced and life-affirming portraits of friends, often painted in pairs. That tonal range has been on view in his retrospective this year, beginning at the Tate Britain in February—where it broke attendance records—before going on to the Centre Pompidou this summer and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it is on view through February.
The exhibition confirms Hockney’s position as one of our greatest living artists and one whose influence on painting cannot be underestimated. Drawn to Los Angeles’s intense light, abundant vegetation, and unabashed pleasure-seeking, the artist has long excelled as a colorist, incorporating garish Fauvist hues into his work and mastering the technicalities of his materials. Hockney has explored how paint can be manipulated to create different textures and degrees of luminosity—as well as exploring a catalogue of perspectival and compositional effects, from a near-Cubist flatness and angularity to a greater depth of perspective and receding space. He is also celebrated for having expressed queerness in his work long before the Culture Wars, painting supple male nudes in the shower or swimming in sun-soaked L.A. bliss.
B. 1954, Glen Ridge, New Jersey. Lives and works in New York
The self-portrait pioneer had her share of shows in 2017, including a multi-decade survey at Mnuchin Gallery in New York and her retrospective, “Imitation of Life,” which moved from the Broad in Los Angeles to the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. Throughout her career, Sherman has kept pace with changing trends. And it was her canny transition to Instagram that unexpectedly caught the art world’s attention this year, as she began using simple apps like Facetune to unnerving effect. Another favored tool, Perfect365, is a go-to for social-media users who want to add digital makeup effects to their selfies. (“It’s like having a glam squad in your pocket!”, the app’s marketing claims.) While the original intent of these programs was to help users cheat a sort of artificial beauty, Sherman exploits them to different ends—as a meditation on self-presentation and how we show ourselves to the world.
Sherman isn’t alone among an older generation of artists who are hooked on the image sharing app (count photographic icon Stephen Shore among them), but her account is unique in how it extends her practice into a more casual space. “I feel pretty,” she comments, annotating a way-close-up selfie in which her shocked eyes pop in surprise over a comically distended mouth. In other posts, she seems to inhabit the role of a high-society alien—her skin jaundiced or purple—as she indulges in various luxuries and then pays the price (in one case ending up, horrifically shriveled, in a hospital bed).
For W’s annual art issue in December, Sherman contributed an Instagram-style selfie for the cover. “They’re just fun, like a little distraction,” she said regarding her social media postings. Still, the buzz that sprung up around this “little distraction” in 2017 is a testament to Sherman’s ongoing influence and relevance. She remains a star that nearly any young artist—especially those engaged with identity, beauty, and the self-portrait—must reckon with.
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