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“Last Tango in Philly” – Phawker Previews Site Seeing
April 2, 2012
April 2, 2012
Phawker previews An Evening of Tango at Swann Memorial Fountain:
EARLY WORD: Last Tango In Philly
This coming Thursday, a crowd of people will dance the tango around Swann Memorial Fountain at Race and 18th Streets. Authorities will not stop it. This bacchanalia is no flash mob. Rather, it will commemorate the day when water will once again flow through Logan Square’s fountain. Anyone will be able to join the instructors, performers, musicians and party-goers with impunity to recreate an historic, massive “municipal dance” that was held to mark the opening of the …
An Evening of Tango at the Swann Memorial Fountain
March 29, 2012
Kicking off the Fairmount Park Art Association’s Site Seeing: Rediscover Public Art This Spring! free public art event series, An Evening of Tango at the Swann Memorial Fountain invites audiences to reimagine a historic 1924 Philadelphia dance party and celebrate the fountain’s water being turned on for the season — a Philly rite of spring — in the center of one of the city’s most famous intersections.
During the summers of the early 1920s, large-scale municipal dances were hosted weekly on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway; residents would come together to dance the tango to the beat of the Police Band. On July 24, …
Public Art Bike Tour
March 27, 2012
BIKE! PUBLIC ART
Marking the debut of a brand-new Public Art Bike Map, the Fairmount Park Art Association will host two days of twice-daily guided Public Art Bike Tours of Fairmount Park sculptures. Participants can choose from an easy, family-friendly 4-mile loop or a longer, more challenging 10-mile route that visits lesser-known sculptures in West Fairmount Park. The tours are being offered in partnership with Philadelphia Parks & Recreation and the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia.
SATURDAY, APRIL 14 and SUNDAY, APRIL 29
1:30pm to 4:30pm
Tours begin at the Iroquois Sculpture at 24th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue and end at the steps of …
History of the Parkway Dances
March 26, 2012
The Fairmount Park Art Association kicks off Site Seeing: Rediscover Public Art This Spring! – a month-long celebration of public art – with “An Evening of Tango at the Swann Memorial Fountain,” a free public tango dance party on April 5, 2012 from 5:30pm-7:30pm. The evening will reimagine a historic event when thousands danced the tango around Logan Circle to the music of a live band the day Swann Memorial Fountain first opened to the public on July 24, 1924. This impressive dance gathering on the Parkway was in fact one of the many weekly “Parkway dances” that took place during …
Site Seeing Featured in PW’s Spring Art Preview
March 20, 2012
March 20, 2012
“Site Seeing: Rediscover Public Art this Spring” is featured in Philadelphia Weekly’s Spring Art Preview:
Fairmount Park Art Association
You’ve heard of staycations. Here’s an itinerary for you: Visit 51 public art sculptures in Philadelphia. Would it sweeten the deal if I told you that flashlight mobs, tango, bike rides and giant balloons were also involved? If so, then the Fairmount Part Art Association has your number. Throughout the month of April, Site Seeing—aimed at acquainting Philadelphians with our impressive public art patrimony—invites participants to venture out on various family friendly art excursions …
Arrive Magazine Recommends MWW: AUDIO
March 11, 2011
Arrive Magazine (March/April 2011)
http://www.arrive-digital.com/arrive/20110304/?pg=79&pm=2&u1=friend
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Outside the Box
The LOVE sculpture by pop artist Robert Indiana is an icon, and to locals it’s the inspiration behind the informal name of John F. Kennedy Plaza, the square known as Love Park. Many recognize the piece, but do they know it was influenced by Indiana’s childhood memory of a Phillips 66 gas station sign? Or that the tilting of the “O” turns the sculpture into a perfect square?
It’s these kinds of tidbits that transform a public art piece into a rich experience. Museum Without Walls: AUDIO makes it possible to access such information …
Media Advisory – AUDIO LAUNCH
May 29, 2010
On Thursday, June 10 at Philadelphia’s famed LOVE Park beginning at 11:00 a.m., the Fairmount Park Art Association will launch Museum Without Walls™: AUDIO, a multi-platform, interactive audio experience created to engage the public with Philadelphia’s preeminent collection of public art and outdoor sculpture.