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May 28
2012

A New Look at the Art Museum

A reader who was enjoying having the city to themselves on this holiday weekend sent us this photo of the Perelman Building at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, wondering how someone was able to yarn bomb this building without any interference from the, ahem, authorities.

Awesome

It was only after a little digging that we discovered that this apparent act of subversion was instead an installation in and of itself. According to a post on Architizer,  Elisabeth Agro, Curator of American Craft at the museum, asked artist Jessie Hemmons (Philadelphia’s resident yarn bomber, Ishknits) to create this piece, Craft Spoken Here, for the museum.

Certainly something cool to check out as you wring the last hours out of this long weekend.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/bobbydombroski Bobby Dombroski

    I drove by this yesterday. I thought that was Jessie’s work. That is really awesome to see local art on display at the museum. Even if it is only on the outside.

  • tosenheejk

    Are people really that dumb that they had no clue that it was an installation by the art museum!!!???  It has been up for about 3 weeks now. Do your readers think the museum staff would let that stay up unless they had it put there! Also the Perelman Building  is a big disappointment. There is not really that much display space to make it worth while going to.

  • Jobu

    Your an idiot

  • qguy

    At least he can spell.

  • http://philaphilia.blogspot.com/ GroJLart

    … and Yarn Bombing jumps the shark. 

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