Posts tagged with “Design Philadelphia”

Living In A Box

1 October 2009 | Philadelphia City Paper

“I remember writing in my journal that I loved the idea of ‘a city dialoguing with itself,’” says photographer Marianne Bernstein, who this year curates one of Design Philadelphia’s seminal events, the Welcome House in Love Park.

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What’s Your Function?

14 October 2008 | Philadelphia City Paper

One gray morning two weeks ago, Josh Owen was sitting in an intimate corner of the vast contemporary space now occupied by Philadelphia University’s industrial design program. It’s a 1950s building on the university’s East Falls campus originally designed to accustom students to working in a factory.

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One City Art Movement, Open To Everyone

6 March 2008 | Philly Skyline

Taylor says to understand this current moment we have to travel back to the 1960s. Marcel Duchamp came here in 1961 for a panel discussion at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art (now UArts) and said prophetically, “Where do we go from here? The great artist of tomorrow will go underground.” .

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