Several Fridays ago I had the extreme pleasure of spending a morning with Elisabeth Agro, the Nancy M. McNeil Associate Curator of American Modern and Contemporary Crafts and Decorative Arts at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
She inspired, educated, danced. She was alive, passionate, smart. She was breeze on a summer day. I adored her.
And so I wrote about Elisabeth for the
Philadelphia Inquirer in this weekend edition that extends an open welcome to politicians, delegates, media, and conventioneers. Why not take a break from the balloons and debates and slip in among the art? Why not go to a quiet, thoughtful place and ponder the future of us?
A link to the story will go live on Sunday.
Meanwhile, those of you arriving or departing from Terminal D at the Philadelphia International Airport will perhaps notice the LOVE display that was unveiled a few months ago, in anticipation of this week. Based on the essays and photos in my book
Love: A Philadelphia Affair, that mural, too, celebrates the museum as part of a broader celebration of our region.
We hope for peace and intelligent conversation this week. We hope to be a city well received and well remembered.
Today was the day. Long-awaited. More wonderful than imagined. With greatest thanks to Leah Douglas and Ursula Stuby of the Philadelphia International Airport Exhibitions Program for their glorious interpretation of
Love: A Philadelphia Affair (Temple University Press), now on exhibit at Terminal D (10). How glorious it was to spend time with these two wonderful women, and to spend time as well with the Airport's delightful CEO, Chellie Cameron—learning about the plans for this airport and the future of travel in my beloved city.
With thanks to my father, for joining us, and to Bill, for taking the photographs you see here. I'll be forever honored by this.
For the past many months, Leah Douglas and Ursula Stuby have been working with their incredible team to bring my
LOVE: A Philadelphia Affair photographs and thoughts to life at the Philadelphia International Airport.
Today they unveiled the exhibition. It is up. It is real.
An exhibition like this one stills the whirligig thoughts that haunt me. It makes me stop, pause, be grateful for all the wanderings and ponderings that have led me here.
The exhibit is located in Terminal D, accessible by ticketed passengers and presented by the Exhibitions Program at the Philadelphia International Airport. It will be up through the Democratic Convention—its own brand of welcome committee to those who travel to and from our city.
I am, and always will be, grateful.
If you are en route and happening by, this wall would love to greet you.
Over the past many weeks, I've traveled through and around Philadelphia, listening as others told their Philadelphia stories. I've thought about the role the city plays as an artistic canvas and about the traces we individually, collectively leave. I write about that in this weekend's
Philadelphia Inquirer. I'll share the link to the story when it is live.
In the meantime, I share this: The photos and words of
Love: A Philadelphia Affair are being transformed into a stellar exhibition at the Philadelphia International Airport. The exhibition will run from December 21, 2015 through July 2016. It is located in Terminal D, accessible by ticketed passengers, and presented by the Exhibitions Program at the Philadelphia International Airport, under the generous direction of Leah Douglas.
If you are in Terminal D after December 21 and happen by it would be fun to hear from you.
