The arts chart: Your culture crash course
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Anti-hate, cybersex and quitting the biz in this week's rundown of what's coming up in arts.
[ photography ]
Antidote to a Hate-Crime: A Celebration of Love
A gay couple was beaten viciously on Sept. 11 allegedly by a group of people shouting homophobic slurs. In Pennsylvania, these people cannot be charged with committing a hate crime. But not everything is terrible. Photographer Barbara Proud invites viewers to a “celebration of love,” featuring First Comes Love: Portraits of Enduring LGBTQ Relationships, a book and a traveling exhibition of photos and relationship stories of 65 LGBTQ couples, 20 from the Philly area. Let it soothe you.
Free, through Tue., Sept. 30, Hamilton and Arronson Galleries, University of the Arts, 320 S. Broad St., 215-717-6001, firstcomeslove.org.
[ film ]
Found Footage Festival
A VHS tape called “How to Have Cybersex on the Internet?” Who would (unironically) buy that? Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher would. They began collecting videotapes in the early ’90s from thrift stores, garage sales and dumpsters. They tour the U.S. hosting viewings of “strange, outrageous and profoundly stupid videos.” We imagine in their collection are dozens of awful sex-ed videos, miles of employee-training footage and at least one video guide to using Internet Explorer. How cruel time can be.
Thu., Oct. 2, 7:30 and 10 p.m., $12, Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., foundfootage-fest.com.
[ visual art ]
Nick D’Angelo, Paintings Achro-mic VII: “Goodbye … For Now”
Along with samples of his stark, saturated, color-selective paintings of both striking figures and cheeky still lifes, Nick D’Angelo recently sent out a so-long. “I’m saying goodbye to painting,” he writes. “There is no security in any creative pursuit.” Ouch. Real talk. D’Angelo does add “for now,” so unlike the aging rock band on its 10th reunion tour.
Oct. 1-Nov. 2, Rodger LaPelle Galleries, 122 N. Third St., 215-592-0232, rodgerlapellegalleries.com.
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