Thursday, April 8
7:00 p.m. EDT
Aperture and Rockefeller Center, in collaboration with Parsons School of Design and MACK, is pleased to present an artist talk with Irina Rozovsky as she discusses her project
In Plain Air (2011–20), featured in the “New York” issue of
Aperture magazine. For ten years, Rozovsky has been making lyrical portraits of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park both of the landscape and its visitors perfectly capturing the democratic nature of the space. From images of women fishing to family barbeques to young couples in the grass,
In Plain Air is a lover letter to Prospect Park and all those who spend time there.
The UFC must have thought long and hard before deciding what fight would be the headlining contest in the promotion’s return to Philadelphia after not holding an event in “The City of Brotherly Love” for nearly eight years. The reputation of Philadelphia sports fans for being difficult to please and quick to voice their displeasure is well documented, so the lightweight fight between all-action contenders Edson Barboza and Justin Gaethje makes perfect sense.
After dropping consecutive fights to Khabib Nurmagomedov and Kevin Lee, Barboza righted the ship with a third-round TKO of Dan Hooker in December, punishing the Kiwi fighter throughout the fight until a punch to the body finally proved to be too much for Hooker to withstand. Gaethje also won his last fight via stoppage, but his was a far less prolonged assault, knocking James Vick out cold with one right hand just a minute and a half into the first round. The knockout win over Vick also snapped a two-fight skid for Gaethje
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Another museum opened during the pandemic, this one virtual. The Daring Diagonal Virtual Museum is not temporarily virtual but permanently. The museum delves into how artists and designers have used diagonal shapes and angular relationships to transform architecture, art and science and to influence urban design, fashion, jewelry, fine arts, product design and popular culture. Philadelphia Architect Joel Levinson, who resides in West Mt. Airy, created this quasi-fictitious museum online and filled 33 virtual galleries with visual treats and fascinating documentation, which will be especially intriguing to art, architecture and design enthusiasts.
The motif is still alive and vital today and there are many striking examples of diagonality in Philadelphia from the way the Benjamin Franklin Parkway cuts a diagonal through William Pennâs symmetrical gridiron for the cityâs street layout to the sculptures of people on tightrope in the lobby of the Comcast Center (look up to s