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(10/14/19 6:00pm)
On the first Saturday evening of every month, the Philly Art Collective hosts the HERspace Women's Art Festival. HERspace’s goal is to provide female artists with a space to share and celebrate their artwork.
(10/11/19 11:32pm)
Podcasts are one of the fastest–growing forms of media in recent years. According to a CBS News poll, two–thirds of Americans listen to podcasts, and the New York Times reports that nearly one–third do so regularly. This is a far cry from a few years ago, when podcasts were a largely niche genre.
(10/02/19 1:59am)
It's rare to find spaces in the bustle of today’s world that allow for uninterrupted appreciation of art in all its forms. So, when you do come across one of these spaces, it's difficult to forget. The Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Friday Nights series is one such art haven. The series presents a new musician virtually every Friday night, drawing from the Philadelphia music community and beyond. The artists hail from a wide variety of countries, backgrounds, and musical histories, with classical jazz, Americana, folk, and Latin music among the styles represented. But the unifying feature of all the artists is their ability to create their own distinct ambiance.
(10/02/19 6:27am)
“Presenting the Damn Thing,” a solo exhibition of a collection of paintings, seeks to provoke a distinctly American dialogue. The creator of the exhibit and its artwork, artist Inga Kimberly Brown, brings a unique perspective to the conversation with how she brings her mixed media paintings to life.
(09/18/19 1:59am)
The quiet, mostly monochromatic art now residing in the first floor gallery space of the Institute of Contemporary Art doesn’t immediately incite its viewers to protest. That is to say, when compared to the '90s–era work of the art collective fierce pussy, these newer works are both less explicit in their motivations and more detached in their directions, and not simply because the ICA provides no description in its labels. No, the new exhibition arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified, which opened last Friday, brings us the art from four members of that collective. This new exhibition holds a tone distinct from the protest pieces of fierce pussy’s early days, one that now shares a refreshed and nuanced iteration of their fiery old resistance.
(09/13/19 1:48am)
Comedy is defined as “a dramatic work that is light and often humorous or satirical in tone.” Humor is defined as “The quality that makes something laughable or amusing; funniness.” Funny is defined as “causing laughter or amusement.” This means that comedy should be, well, funny. This may seem obvious, but the field of comedy is dominated by male figures making sexist remarks, such as Chris Rock saying "[Women] cry rape because they want money.” Or Dave Chappelle saying in his comedy special, “The Bird Revelation”, that the sexual assault allegations against Louis C.K. “made [him] laugh," stating that a woman “[sounded] weak” for not pursuing a career in comedy after Louis C.K. masturbated in front of her. These are all statements that are not only not funny, but also create a “boys club” environment in the comedy industry that excludes women.
(09/11/19 4:20am)
What is the human condition, really? This is a question that demands meditation, restraint, commitment, and, when the answer comes in the form of video art, extreme patience. That answer takes shape in the Barnes Foundation’s latest special exhibition, I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like, which displays seven works by Bill Viola, an American artist specializing in experimental video art. This exhibition, containing pieces from the years 1976 to 2009, looks with slow and quiet detail at our behaviors, our expressions, and our rituals as human beings throughout all of time.
(08/16/19 6:20am)
Penn’s campus is full of memorable public sculptures. Who hasn’t taken a photo by the Love statue, or walked under Covenant—the official name for the tall red beams on Locust? Now, with a long–term loan from the Association for Public Art for 99 years, Penn's sculpture collection grows even bigger. The relocation of two large–scale, outdoor sculptures—Louise Nevelson’s Atmosphere and Environment XII (1970) and Sir Jacob Epstein’s Social Consciousness (1954)—began in mid–July. Atmosphere and Environment XII has been placed on Shoemaker Green, and the installation of Social Consciousness is well underway at the Memorial Garden Walkway.
(07/16/19 7:37am)
Follow the bees. That's the first thing you should know if you decide to visit the brand new project put together by Penn’s School of Design in honor of the 50–year anniversary of landscape architect Ian McHarg’s 1969 ‘landmark book’ Design With Nature. The project is divided into three parts housed in close, yet different buildings on campus—some of which aren’t well–known to the average Penn student. Therefore, the entrance to each exhibit is covered with large, unmissable swarms of plastic bees, making it easy to find whichever one you’re looking for. Bees were specifically chosen as ornaments because they are symbolic in Rome—ornamental bees marked late Renaissance buildings owned by great patrons.
(06/23/19 7:00am)
Summer office jobs and classes can be draining for the creative soul. In between looking at computer screens, readings, and reports, it may be refreshing to look at something with a little more color and depth than a laptop screensaver. Enter Philadelphia's array of art museums. This summer, the city will be home to amazing works from artists ranging from Van Gogh to local filmmakers. Adventure out and explore these four special exhibits that, like summer, won’t be here for long.
(04/24/19 10:34pm)
After walking up a long, gray path into the spacious, high–ceilinged lobby of the Barnes Foundation, you are quickly immersed in 19th century photography—this is the current exhibition, From Today, Painting is Dead: Early Photography in Britain and France, which will run until May 12.
(04/22/19 11:28pm)
It’s not every day that you get to open for the Rockettes, live at Radio City.
(04/29/19 7:06am)
Anne Ishii is not your typical literary translator or editor. Growing up as an Asian American in an Asian–American community, she was heavily influenced by her heritage and sought to maintain that connection through language. Her education consisted of French throughout college, then Japanese literature in grad school. After brief stints at a Japanese translating start–up and in venture consulting and advertising upon graduation, Ishii eventually found her calling in translating and editing gay erotic manga and founded Massive, a creative agency for feminist and queer art, comics, and fashion with business partner Graham Kolbeins in 2013. Now, as executive director of the Asian Arts Initiative, "a multi–disciplinary and community-based arts center in Philadelphia" founded in 1993, she works in hosting exhibitions, performances, and art projects throughout local communities.
(04/18/19 2:26am)
Before the school year even started, the Pennchants' board members were meeting in order to prepare for their 30th anniversary show. Pennchants—Penn's "premier all–male a capella group”—has been a prominent musical force on campus for almost three decades now. They will be having their biggest show yet on April 26 and 27. “The name ‘XXX’ is a pun on the fact that it’s our thirtieth anniversary,” Dylan Levine (E’19), the music director, explains about the title—which parallels the group’s partly professional and partly goofy style. “But then also it’s kind of like a sexy Magic Mike–like sort of thing.”
(04/18/19 2:17am)
It’s no wonder that Penn’s Lebanese Club’s most significant event this year was a night spent with one of the most significant comedians from Lebanon: Nemr Abou–Nassar. A cultural leader in the region, Nemr’s honest and outspoken humor connects people from all over the world.
(04/23/19 12:03am)
The Kelly Writers House bubbles with excited chatter from both students and Philadelphia community members alike. Knitted sweaters lay on display, their interwoven colors bright and beaming against the table top's neutral wood grain. A crowd bustles around, eyes trained on the beautiful fabric.
(04/15/19 1:51am)
Huddled around a table are three strikingly different figures: one wears brown glasses with hues of blue and rounded lenses, another dons a neutral colored scrunchie and big golden hoops complemented by her subtle nose piercing, and the third has blonde locks and a dark green hoodie. These three students—Aayush Sanghrajka (W '19), Belle Carlson (C '19), and Ethan Daly (W '19)—each have unique personalities, yet the chemistry between them is evident. As they sit down, the three immediately exchange updates on their respective weekends in New York, with continual laughter and the casual exchange of chocolate covered raisins.
(04/13/19 7:33am)
When I first read Weike Wang’s name on the roster of the Penn English Department, I was thrilled. The Chinese–American author, teaching one course this semester and two next semester, is not only known for her debut novel, Chemistry—which received the PEN/Hemingway Award—but also for the journey she took to get there. With an undergraduate degree in chemistry and doctorate in public health from Harvard University, as well an MFA in fiction from Boston University, Weike’s career trajectory reflects a curious intersection between two areas that do not often mix.
(04/10/19 5:07am)
There’s a small crowd of people spilling from the entrance of the Arthur Ross Gallery into the exhibit, curving out in both directions. A few minutes pass, and even more people slip in carrying small paper plates laden with foods like golden yucca sticks and squares of flan nestled in soup spoons.
(05/30/19 7:00am)
In chaos theory, the ‘butterfly effect’ is the phenomena which supposes that the slightest shift in initial conditions can surmount to substantial changes in final circumstances. If you are anything like me, then the simple sight of y = mx + b induces an uncomfortable back–of–the–throat queasiness. I know for a fact (read: Wikipedia skim) that Jennifer Egan majored in English Literature (C'85), yet, her novel A Visit from the Goon Squad parallels a physicist's investigation, as it tracks initiality, or the unpredictability and impulsivity of human nature, to finality, which she calls “A→B.”