Happy Birthday, Redon! (Plus: Marley, Affordable Art, And More!)

Friday, April 20, 2012 Philly Up Close And Personal Zoe Strauss was given a camera for her 30th birthday. Even before she had the device, however, Strauss had a vision for a project that would present photographs of her hometown where people had access to them: right under the elevated portion of the I-95 freeway in Philadelphia. This vision is at the core of the exhibition "Zoe Strauss: Ten Years," which is also the name of the beautiful catalog released by Yale University Press. In an e-mail interview with HuffPost Arts, Strauss wrote, "It's a bit of a misnomer that I'm untrained, I just didn't go to school to study photography or art. I'm primarily self-taught, which isn't the same as being 'untrained.'" MARLEY Happy Birthday, Odilon Redon! Incredible Women Honored At Sackler Center First Awards This Is Made Of What?! The Return Of Affordable Art BLOG POSTS John Seed: Remembering William Theophilus Brown (1919-2012) Evelyne Politanoff: Cristóbal Balenciaga: The Great Master of Couture Velvet boleros, satin torero costumes, magnificent capes and mantelets, cashmere stoles, lace mantillas, dresses, samples of embroidery and trimming, all these lavish items figure in profusion in this collection assembled by the the great master of couture and generously donated to the museum by his family. Nadine B. Hack: Innocent Flesh Often, when Americans consider the sex trafficking of female children and teens, they view it as a foreign phenomenon. They don't know that hundreds of thousands of under-age American girls are victims of this corruption. Jennifer Rivera: Arts in America Why am I home right now, attempting to be a writer instead of wailing my guts out somewhere in an opera? Well, I was supposed to have a gig this spring with San Antonio Opera. Except San Antonio Opera filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and no longer exists. Jane Chafin: In Praise of the Intensely Visual: Fishes, Birds and Artists, Oh My!

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