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AGENDA .
Start Date: 11/18/2009 | End Date: 11/18/2009
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Wed., Nov. 18
Nov.
18
Wed
1-5pm
FREE
Features sketches by Thomas Eakins, N. C. Wyeth, Thomas Moran and more, with works ranging from pastel portraits to scratchy, pen-and-ink pieces.
Nov.
18
Wed
9:30am-4:30pm
$4-$11
Features patent models that show the progress of 19th-century inventions and technology, with more than 120 miniature inventions on display.
Nov.
18
Wed
10am-4:30pm
$10-$12
Features dioramas that exhibit animals from the three continents in their natural habitats. The 37 dioramas include animals such as lions, tigers and zebras. (You thought we were going to say "bears," didn't you?)
Nov.
18
Wed
4:30-5:30pm
$12
Learn how to turn an opponent's energy and momentum against him or her in this martial arts class.
Occurs: Daily
Nov.
18
Wed
5:30-6:30pm
$12
Learn how to turn an opponent's energy and momentum against him or her in this martial arts class.
Occurs: Daily
Nov.
18
Wed
6:45-8pm
$12
Learn how to turn an opponent's energy and momentum against him or her in this martial arts class.
Occurs: Daily
Nov.
18
Wed
8pm
$20-$23
w/ Nervous Cabaret
Nov.
18
Wed
9:30am-5pm
$12-$14.75
free for members
Features 25 rarely displayed machines, including Mailardet's automaton and a model of the Strasbourg cathedral clock.
Nov.
18
Wed
8pm
$30
This Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning drama follows a group of characters whose lives are quickly unraveling. They struggle to pull themselves together during the growing AIDS epidemic and troubling political climate of the '80s.
Nov.
18
Wed
9:30am-4:30pm
$5-$7
Features demonstrations of how certain animal species, like the black rhino and giant anteater, overcome difficult environmental pressures to survive.
Nov.
18
Wed
10:30am-6pm
FREE
Features photographs by Thomas Brummett, who processes his prints manually and then manipulates them digitally to produce a grainy, dreamy feel reminiscent of paintings. His portraits of animals explore the idea that they are individuals with extreme psychological depth and intensity.
Nov.
18
Wed
noon-5pm
FREE
Features contemporary jewelry by the title artist, who combines black gems and chunky stones with tiers of enameled chain to explore form and contrast.
Nov.
18
Wed
7am-7pm
FREE
Features acrylic and mixed-media food portraits on wood and canvas by Mark Mattson, whose work involves "things that should not have faces, with faces." That includes everything from teapots to donuts.
Nov.
18
Wed
9am-5pm
@ Ardmore Farmers Market,
6 Coulter Ave.
610-896-7560
Nov.
18
Wed
10am-5pm
$12-$16
Features approximately 178 works by abstract artist Arshile Gorky. The exhibit is the first full display of Gorky's work in about 30 years.
Nov.
18
Wed
10am-4pm
$7-$14
Features a site-specific sculpture made entirely from local twigs and saplings. Dougherty's creations, which are often more than 20 feet tall, and which look like giant huts and balls of string, last for about two years before they begin to dissolve.
Nov.
18
Wed
FREE
Features video and sculpture by Ronnie Bass, telling the story of an astronomer who plans to flee an oppressive situation and start a new life.
Nov.
18
Wed
9:30pm
$5
Nov.
18
Wed
10am
$8
When Alan and Jane run away from home in search of the magical Toyland, the toys and their parents set out to find them.
Nov.
18
Wed
10:30am-5:30pm
FREE
Features multimedia works by 25 artists from around the world, including Jose Bedia (Cuba), Francesco Clemente (Italy), Bowa Devi (India), John Baldessari (United States) and more. Based on the original 1989 "Magiciens de la Terre" exhibition in Paris, the show brings together pieces by artists from the both the Western "centers" (U.S., Europe) and the "margins" (Africa, Latin America, Asia and Australia).
Nov.
18
Wed
noon-7pm
FREE
Features sculptures made out of bacon by Ellen Cagnassola, Jacob Crose, Mike Geno, and more. Subjects range from sock monkeys to deranged toys.
Nov.
18
Wed
8-11pm
$10
Take this class with Ballroom Joe before you go dipping your date's hair into the dessert buffet.
Occurs: Every Wednesday
Nov.
18
Wed
8pm
$8
w/ Cheat To Win, Slave Ships & Scareho
Nov.
18
Wed
10am-5pm
$10-$15
Features 57 paintings by Philadelphia-born artist Barkley L. Hendricks. He grew up during the Civil Rights movement, which inspired his life-size portraits that explore black identity, fashion and expression.
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