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Opening Tonight

Zoe Strauss at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
And the Megawords space is open too.
Read about it in the New York Times.
There is also aew issue of Megawords available as well as new ‘zines from by Alex Lukas, Matthew Gallagher, Matt Schwartz, Rebekah Maysles, Isaac T Lin, Ray Potes of Hamburger Eyes, and Lena and Marten from Denmark. Each books is 64 pages b&w with a color cover. Megawords has also curated a bookshop in the museum with titles covering a wide range of topics: music, film, urban affairs, photography, fiction, philosophy, cycling, etc.

Zoe Strauss & MEGAWORDS at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

As part of the upcoming (and very exciting) Zoe Strauss mid-career retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art MEGAWORDS has planned a series of programs including creating a publishing studio and bookshop in the museum, musical performances, panel discussions, workshops and classes, film screenings and office hours held in the museum. They will also publish Issue 17 of Megawords with photos by Ryan Collerd, Christopher Gianunzio, Matthew Gallagher, Zoe Strauss, Philip Maysles, Katrina Ohstrom and work by Isaac Lin and Alex Lukas as well as produce an original edition of artists books.

You can read more about Zoe Strauss: Ten Years here, more about Megawords programing here and reserve tickets for the Exhibition Opening Dance Party here.

Oh – and then on January 28th: Steve Earle and Zoe Strauss have a Conversation About Art and Politics!!!!

Things To See In Philadelphia
Later This Week

Here and Now
Astrid Bowlby, Steven and Billy Blaise Dufala, Vincent Feldman, Daniel Heyman,
Isaac Tin Wei Lin, Virgil Marti, Joshua Mosley, Serena Perrone, Hannah Price,
and Mia Rosenthal
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Berman and Stieglitz Galleries
September 10th – December 4th, 2011

Certain Things – Dan Murphy
Accents for the Self-Made Man – Nick Paparone
Fleisher / Ollman Gallery
September 8th – October 15th, 2011

And while we’re at it – far, far from Philadelphia:
Ned Vena at Société - Berlin
September 9th – October