Patron Paints; Pafa's Making Good On Its Promise to Modernize Its Collection.

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For a glimpse of future programming at the Academy, I spoke with Alex Baker, PAFA's curator of contemporary art. Baker, who's in charge of the Morris Gallery, PAFA's contemporary project space, scored a coup for contemporary art with his Philadel-phia Exhibitions Initiative-funded project "Mirror" by Brooklyn artist Ellen Harvey. The video project, coming in October, will invade the Furness Building's upper reaches and comment on the collection and the architecture.

The Morris Gallery schedule for 2005-'06 is tantalizing. It includes a nice mix of local, national and international artists whose art is outside the Academy tradition. San Francisco painter Eamon Ore-Giron's show opens in March. (Ore-Giron had work in "Broken Western" at 222 Gallery last year.) Korean artist Do-Ho Suh will have an exhibit in the gallery curated by the Fabric Workshop and Museum. And New York-based set-up photographer Vik Muniz, people-photographer Nan Goldin, local video artist Nadia Hironaka and former Philadelphia video artist Elizabeth Leister, who's now based in L.A., will all have shows at PAFA as well.

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Patron Paints; Pafa's Making Good On Its Promise to Modernize Its Collection.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), the museum and school founded by Charles Wilson Peale in 1805 and chartered that year by 70 prominent Philadelphians, has always been ...

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