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Philadelphia's own superstar artist, 28-year-old Ryan Trecartin, has won the first iteration of the new Jack Wolgin International Competition in the Fine Arts, at $150,000 the largest juried prize in the world to go to an individual visual artist.

It's a new year, and new hopes abound in the air, and this Friday is the first Friday of February and new art will be on display in our area's art galleries and venues.

AxD Gallery is hosting an artists' reception tonight from 5-8 PM for the opening of a/chroma/scape/s . The exhibition features original paintings by Greg Minah and John Cartwright.

In the course of the last few years, the first weekend in December now sees the art world (and we mean the entire art world on a planetary scale), descend on the Greater Miami, Florida region for an astounding number of art fairs featuring tens of thousands of artists, all anchored by the Art Basel Miami Beach fair. About 25 "satellite" art fairs have popped up all over the Miami region in the last half decade, and as a result, art collectors, curators and art symbiots from all over the world hang around Miami visiting art fairs, absorbing and buying art, soaking up the sun and sand, eating Cuban food (and discovering that black beans are never, ever served together with the white rice but in separate bowls, and that a true mojito is made with guarapo (sugar cane juice)). We wish all of the Philadelphia galleries partipating in the art fairs (Pentimenti, Projects and a few others), the best of luck in Eff-LA, and please bring us back some tostones.

Time again to stroll through galleries and art venues as the First Friday openings and extended hours for November take place in gallery clusters around the city. Starting at Washington Square, the Bridgette Mayer Gallery will have a solo show of Scottish painter Dana Hargrove titled Divide and Consider. This new collection of work stems from the artist's recent summer residency in South Africa. During her time there, Hargrove (who is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Rollins College in Florida) discovered the still present consequences of colonization, imperialism, and segregation. The show will run from November 4 - November 29, 2008 with an opening reception on First Friday, November 7th, 6:00-8:30pm. The Bridgette Meyer Gallery is located at 709 Walnut Street, between South 7th and 8th Streets.

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On this day in 1967, the Outer Space Treaty went into effect. Since then, over 90 countries have agreed that our planet's nuclear annihilation will have to originate on the surface thereof rather than from orbiting weapons of mass destruction.

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Sooner or later you reach the point where the posters on your wall outlive their decorating value and original art is what should be hanging on your walls anyway; anything else is "wall decor" not art!

While single-stream recycling and sustainability are relatively new concepts in the timeline of human history, they're age-old practices in the art world. Artists have always used what's at hand for inspiration, but many use what others would consider junk as their physical medium.

Happy birthday Social Security! Here's to another 73 years—or at least until we retire.

NEXUS/foundation for today's art is a champion of local artists of all stripes; their commitment to maintain gallery space dedicated to local emerging and experimental artists has rightfully earned them a rep as a Philly art institution. The fruits of their mission will be on display tonight, as they present their new members exhibitions with an opening reception.