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Friday, December 24, 2004
Best of 2004 and some disappointments
The best
local genius award--Terry Adkins (image right, from his show at Pageant)
Best indoor show by outdoor artist: David McShane at Artists House
Sexiest art talk: Ernesto Neto
Best night-time video lounge in town (too much glare during the day) at Vox Populi: best so far, Guy Ben-Ner with his lo-tech “Moby Dick” in the kitchen and backwards walking ostriches; best dirty video there, “Chirpy” (okay, so it wasn’t in the video lounge) by John Goras in the "Screwball" show; Sheena Macrea's layered version of "Dallas" reduced to its essentials.
most long overdue solo museum show--Sarah McEneaney at the ICABest stichery--Xiang Yang, a new local artist to keep in our sights (image left from his show at SPECTOR)
endless soap opera --Barnes
endless mini-soap opera--Isaiah Zagar’s garden
slide show rises to art and performance--Zoe Strauss
Special kudos for African art merch and Manet kitsch merch at the Philadelphia Museum of Art gift shop
best random list--Rodger Lapelle’s why do people buy art
most daring experiment by McArthur genius--Kara Walker at the Fabric Workshop and Museum to mixed resultsbest kept secret immigrant artist--Henry Bermudez (image right, "Viagio Rojo" shown at City Hall).
best ICA makeover--Pepon Osorio
inflammotory situation burns itself out--David Stephens’ cross burning for Slought Foundation
Most disappointing
demise of the Philadelphia Independent, the most stylish newspaper in town.
continued loss of favorite old murals--Sarah McEneaney’s old mural, David Guinn’s old mural near Bookbinder’s, and we still mourn Sidney Goodman’s shrunk-to-irrelevance “I contain multitudes,” proving that in art, size is everything
Philadelphia cuts the Office of Arts and Culture, meanwhile spending more than $100 million to clean up City Hall and then light it up all night.
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