Tyler School of Art
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Robert Blackson, director of Temple Contemporary, has forged a new partnership between Temple's Tyler School of Art and the city's Mural Arts Program...
May 13, 2013
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After 42 years of enduring the best shots that age, urban decay and commercial evolution could deliver, Joe Frazier’s Gym earned a spot on the...
May 2, 2013
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Yesterday, the site of Frazier's gym was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Temple students were part of the multi-step effort to get...
May 1, 2013
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A juried exhibition of art by 38 graduates of Temple's Tyler School of Art from around the nation — the most ambitious exhibit of Tyler alumni art in all media ever assembled — is on display at the Crane Arts Center's Ice Box Project Space in Philadelphia's Northern Liberties neighborhood through April 13. A free, public opening reception for "Victory for Tyler" will take place on Saturday, April 6, from 6 to 8 p.m. The exhibit benefits student scholarships at Tyler.
April 3, 2013
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If you climb to the top floor of Temple's Tyler School of Art in the middle of the night at almost any time of year and walk into the expansive painting studio, you'll probably find senior Jordan Artim at work on one of his large, colorful canvases. In this installment of the student profile series, meet a student who lives to paint.
March 29, 2013
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An unsolved 23-year-old art heist in Boston may have local connections. In the years following the theft of 13 works worth $500 million from the...
March 17, 2013
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Two Tyler School of Art students worked with Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program last semester to help restore a faded sign for the Henssler Locksmith Company, at 13th Street and Girard Avenue. Restoring such ghost ads has become a popular pursuit for preservationists across the U.S., and Tyler students hope to play a larger role in Philadelphia.
March 7, 2013
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What do a college student, an art instructor and an Irish journalist all have in common? Marcellus shale inspires them. Jennie Shanker collects shale...
February 27, 2013
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Tyler School of Art students swept top honors at 20th Annual Collab Student Design Competition, held in conjunction with the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Their challenge: Either redesign and repackage an existing, iconic game or design a game of their own. The winners earned cash, got to interact with the judges (all industry leaders), met celebrated Tyler Graphic and Interactive Design alumna Paula Scher and got to have their work displayed at the museum's Perelman Building (through April 14, 2013).
December 18, 2012
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On Saturday, friends and family gathered at Ivy Hill Cemetery to unveil Joe Frazier’s new crypt. In the year after his death, Frazier's legacy is...
November 15, 2012
Tyler School of Art professor presents lecture at Alliance Francaise event
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Tyler School of Art Professor Thérèse Dolan presented an illustrated lecture, sponsored by the Alliance Francaise de Philadelphie, titled "Manet and...
November 13, 2012
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A 41-photo slideshow tells the story of the election night balloon drop at Tyler School of Art’s Temple Contemporary. The evening featured DJ King...
November 7, 2012
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Mental health terminology — words such as "dysfunctional" or "depressed," for example — is often used to describe cities. In an event on Wednesday,...
October 24, 2012
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"Philadelphia is on track to become one of the world's leading centers for the contemporary glass arts," says Irvin Borowsky, who has just given...
October 24, 2012
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Linguist William Labov is a pioneer in mathematically quantifying regional accents, and mapping their trends. He can show his research in maps,...
October 22, 2012
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Philadelphia philanthropists Irvin J. Borowsky and Laurie Wagman have given more than $1 million to the Tyler School of Art's glass program. Borowsky...
October 24, 2012
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Temple's Center for the Arts announced that the Glass Program at the Tyler School of Art has received a gift totaling more than $1 million — one of the largest ever given to a college glass program — to promote the study and creation of glass art from noted Philadelphia philanthropists and art collectors Irvin J. Borowsky and Laurie Wagman.
October 23, 2012
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The gallery at Tyler School of Art, recently renamed Temple Contemporary, has been outfitted with a publication studio. The printing setup is...
October 1, 2012
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To help sustain momentum to preserve Joe Frazier's Gym, the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Temple's Department of Architecture co-...
October 16, 2012
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Every December, a giant bird goes up in flames in suburban Phoenixville, Pa., the main event of the annual Phoenixville Firebird Festival. But before...
October 5, 2012
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Dennis Playdon, an architecture instructor at Temple, was "astounded" to see a 'for sale' sign on Joe Frazier's Gym last summer. He immediately...
September 23, 2012
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The art gallery at the Tyler School of Art once known as Temple Gallery has a new name — Temple Contemporary — and a window full of neon signs. But the biggest changes are within, where Tyler Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs Robert Blackson has redefined the art gallery experience for visitors and enlisted the Temple and Philadelphia communities' to keep programming relevant.
September 25, 2012
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The efforts of architecture instructor Dennis Playdon and his students to save Joe Frazier's Gym in North Philadelphia were highlighted in SI's "For...
September 17, 2012
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A former destination for aspiring fighters and children seeking refuge from gang violence, Joe Frazier’s Gym is now a discount furniture store....
September 5, 2012
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Renowned architect Robert Venturi is retiring. Brigitte Knowles, architecture professor at Temple, says Venturi expanded the boundaries of the field...
July 25, 2012
