The show is over and we took a day to see Philly. We planned 3 things for the day: The Fabric Workshop Museum, the main Philly Museum, and a Phillies game.
The Fabric workshop is great. The current show is a collaboration btwn the FWM and the New Temporary Contemporary and it represents 4 artists currently living in Philadelphia. Tristin Lowe’s big, inflated felt sperm whale is fun for its size and texture. The permanent collection has some recognizable names (kiki smith, william wegman, felix gonzolez tores…) that don’t usually use fabric as their main med., here have used fabric. And in a separate space, down the street a few doors, a Ryan Trecartin exhibit. Real good.

The Philadelphia Museum is a great, big museum. They have a really impressive collection of stuff that we’re not really into right now. We mainly wanted to see their big collection of Duchamp…all but two small pieces had been sequestered behind a velvet rope for an upcoming “show” featuring Duchamp. Sweet.

We got to the Phillies game early because the Museum disappointed us. Its a new park and its real clean and nice. Our seats were as nose-bleeding as can be, but they were still good seats. Unfortunately, we were sitting in the middle of a section bought out by Drexel University and students were coming and going and shifting and craning and talking about professors and classes (in super nerdy tones with sprinkled “dude”s). We left in the bottom of the 6th.