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Tell Mayor Nutter that the arts in Philly need funding!


Austin Lee and Mayor Nutter. See this as a video animation.


Artist Anthony Campuzano at Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, in front of work in his one-man show in January


Jodi Rice
Adam Wallacavage's house
photo by-Adam Wallacavage


hi. my name is tim bowman. i'm an artist in philadelphia and i
remember mayor nutter's campaign promise to create an office of arts
and culture. i'd really like him to make it happen.


Sign me up! says artblog correspondent and Copy Gallery co-founder Annette Monnier

Join the Kiss for Mayor Nutter campaign! Send in your 281(h) x 375(w) jpeg photo of yourself to libbyandroberta@gmail.com and help us demonstrate how many people care about the mayor's campaign promise to create an Office of Arts and Culture.

Email this project info around to every Philadelphia artist and art lover you know. Let's show Mayor Nutter the face of Philadelphia's amazing arts community. No broken promises, Mayor Nutter, please!!

Two Articles Off-Site

High Art, Cheap Beer and Regionalism

Annette Monnier, one-fifth director of Copy Gallery and one-sixth founder of the now defunct Black Floor Gallery, will be writing on artblog from time to time, by way of introduction her first post is on the relationship between place, art, and cheap beer.

Pabst Blue Ribbon (PBR)



Before I moved to Philadelphia I thought of PBR as the beer in the David Lynch movie, Blue Velvet, it was somewhat unusual and hard to find and even a little bit avant garde. "The Hard to find" part of that idea was quickly displaced upon arrival in Philly. One of the first places I was taken to was Bob and Barbara's, which of course is a veritable gallery of old PBR ads, and I was introduced to the city wide special; three dollars gets you a shot of jim bean with a PBR to wash it down, though some people might say it's a PBR with a shot of jim bean to wash it down. I drank a lot of those and it did nothing to discourage my view of PBR as the beer of the underground. We served it proudly at all of our Black Floor Openings. Read more on artblog

"I thought this was a gallery. I don't get it."

Were the words Alex DaCorte teacher uttered when he brought him over to the living room of 1409 Ellsworth Street, the place where he had decided to host his senior thesis exhibition. The "living room" in question was Padlock Gallery, a thriving arts space that has been opening it's doors to both the insiders and outsiders of Philadelphia's art scene since February of 2004. Read more on digphilly