31 May 2011
This Friday at 6PM I return to Frank’s world for the opening of an art show: “Northern Liberties: A Transformation” at the Projects Gallery at 629 N. 2nd organized by Jennifer Baker. I’ll read selections from Song of the City. Plus there will be a viewing of a film about the neighborhood by John Thornton.
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.” .
15 February 2008 | Philly Skyline
“Sabes, how do you stem the tide? You like it here, you want to come eat in our restaurants, buy up our stores, go for it. You want to come live here? No.”
29 January 2008 | Philly Skyline
But the act of catching up is itself the act of moving forward, looking back, and dreaming all at once. It may be that parts of Philadelphia have disintegrated so much that there is nowhere to go but up.
18 December 2007 | Philly Skyline
As much of the jazz world, he was a heroin addict. And heroin was about to wreck his career. Inside that house facing Fairmount Park he went cold turkey.