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(02/01/19 11:57pm)
"I know you have an endless list of achievements—from writing poetry, to creating music, to composing musicals and opera. What would you say first inspired you to get into multimedia text to begin with?"
(01/28/19 11:36pm)
Transform your lazy Sunday by heading to Old City and immersing yourself in Time Passes, an unusual performance piece of Virgina Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. Yes, it is actually eight hours long—a little over the length of the novel’s audiobook.
(01/30/19 3:47am)
Philadelphia is grossly underrated as an arts city. I mean, how often do you think about the fact that we just so happen to have a Van Gogh sunflower painting at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, or that the walls of the Barnes Foundation are dripping with Matisse and Cézanne paintings. Moreover, the City of Brotherly Love is a hub for the performing arts as well, with comedy clubs and small theaters galore. In order to celebrate the theater scene of Philly and the tri–state area, Theater Philadelphia is bringing back Philly Theater Week, which aims to make theater more accessible to the local community.
(01/21/19 2:00pm)
Upon entering Slought's front gallery at 40th and Walnut, a wardrobe full of photos takes center stage. A video flickers across one of the walls, playing ambient music that compliments more pictures lining the walls. Inside the drawers of the center wardrobe are piles of unlabeled pictures, representing the combined efforts of not one, but a community of artists.
(01/24/19 9:02pm)
We all have childhood staples that we can't imagine growing up without—movies, paperbacks, and TV shows which have left a mark on us as kids and now have a special place in our hearts. Among those classics is Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series, which follows the adventures of Percy Jackson, a demigod whose story blurs the line between Greek mythology and life as we know it. Since the first book, The Lightning Thief, was published in 2005, the best–selling series has inspired many a teen's love for novels and Greek mythology. Riordan's words have once again been brought to life through the on-stage magic of The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical. Drawing from The Lightning Thief's plot, this musical brings its audience back to the world of mythological adventure through a mix of music, acting, and song.
(01/22/19 3:05am)
This winter break it seemed like everyone and their mother (myself included) was reading Michelle Obama’s new memoir, Becoming. It's become a best–seller internationally, topping book charts in eleven countries and being published in 31 languages. It was the best-selling book of 2018, and stops on her book tour have attracted thousands. However, for Obama, it's not about the money or the recognition. Simply put, she said, "If I want anything to come from [Becoming], I want us to share our stories with each other. That's what we're missing, right now...and I think people are hungry for that."
(12/13/18 12:59am)
2018 is nearly over. And with the new year comes reflection, retrospection, and some top ten lists. This year gave us an onslaught of pop culture, and now Street has endeavored to choose the best of all of it—best albums, best movies, best television shows, and best books from this year, based on staff's picks.
(12/13/18 12:33am)
2018 is nearly over. And with the new year comes reflection, retrospection, and some top ten lists. This year gave us an onslaught of pop culture, and now Street has endeavored to choose the best of all of it—best albums, best television shows, best books, and best movies from this year, based on staff's picks.
(12/07/18 1:00pm)
At the corner of 36th and Market, the Esther Klein Gallery, a gallery exploring the connections between art, science, and technology, hosted a display of life. Not in a metaphorical sense, but in the most literal one. A jar of mealworms, a petri dish of cultured bacteria, and a vest–like garment of microbes from the mouth—the gallery was teeming with life. On December 5, students from the class “Integrative Design Studio: Biological Design” exhibited their final projects in a live showcase of the intersection of art and biology
(12/04/18 1:00pm)
Comprised of found paper, wood, and a variety of mixed media, Pittsburgh artist Seth Clark’s solo exhibition Fragmentation explores the temporal nature of man–made structures and the complex manner in which they deteriorate, shedding light on what he refers to as the “beauty of decay.” The exhibition is Clark’s third show with the gallery and remains on view until December 6. It is a continuation of an extensive body of work by Clark that focuses on similar subject matter, though the artist breaks new ground in terms of deconstruction and abstract representation.
(12/10/18 1:00pm)
Good graphic design is magic. It creates space and meaning through the design, the relationship between each letterform, and the structure of area. That’s what PennDesign faculty member David Comberg does: using graphic design, he harnesses its power to generate positive change.
(12/05/18 6:18pm)
From within a hollowed–out cavern in an ancient statue, a face peeks through. Shadowed and half–hidden, wearing an expression of guarded innocence, it gazes evenly to the outside world like a child in a hiding place waiting to be found. The layers of cut paper framing its countenance resemble cut–open flesh, as if the statue itself has been tunneled through to reveal a living soul trapped inside.
(12/01/18 10:33pm)
Mark Paraskevas (C ’17) packs the same thing for lunch every day: “a chicken gyro basically, with like pita bread and spinach and cheese. I just cook a lot of chicken in advance.” In between hours spent at the studio, Mark, a former The Daily Pennsylvanian and Street staffer, is a high school teacher in New York City with the two–year placement program Teach For America.
(12/05/18 1:00pm)
Behind the hand adorned gates of Charles Addams Hall lies a culmination of the 2019 fine arts seniors' sweat and blood, an encapsulation of their semester's worth of work, a visual telos of their past four years at Penn. Bronze hands wave at you as you walk in, reminiscent of metal winged birds in flight all of them beckoning your entrance.
(12/05/18 6:20pm)
Everyday we come across various architectural designs and we automatically divide them into object forms that leap forward into the foreground and those that recede into the background, oftentimes regardless of their actual distance to us. This seemingly simple concept, however, belies profound questions of how we perceive our temporal–spatial environment and how we ascribe meaning and value to architecture itself. Members of PennDesign faculty, along with teaching assistants and students, together explored these questions through their projects that culminate in the exhibition “12 Objects & 12 Images.”
(12/07/18 1:00pm)
Christmas - the holiday that is one quarter decorations, one quarter gift-giving, and one half food. Think butter cookies decorated in colored icing, baked pies galore, raisin pudding, egg nog, roast turkey with mashed potatoes and gravy—all the seasonal dishes rarely seen during the rest of the year. Think spices: cinnamon, nutmeg, clove—all of them warm and cozy against your tongue; each heralding the arrival of Christmas.
(11/27/18 1:00pm)
Up a short flight of steps in the lobby of International House Philadelphia spans a row of artworks across the wall that, at first glance, seem to have nothing to do with each other. One is an abstract black–and–white monoprint that resembles a Jackson Pollock scatter–painting. Another is a colored–pencil drawing of “Satan,” who dons a black cloak with the words “No one escapes me” scrawled across it, the facial expression oddly resembling something out of a rage comic.
(11/27/18 1:00pm)
The hallway is lined with trash cans filled to the brim. In them are paper towels used to wipe away accidental errors, that line of paint a little out of place, and the smudge on the side of the canvas. In my own field of vision, there’s four giant yellow rectangles, all marked “Flammable”—far too many for a single narrow hallway, in my opinion. But perhaps not for this specific place. I’m at the Duhring Building, the studios of seniors in the Fine Arts Department and where, last Thursday, the Open Studio for the Fine Arts Senior Project took place.
(12/10/18 1:00pm)
New College House may have gotten all the attention but these architectural additions from recent years are just as impressive. Next time you are walking around campus, check out these underrated spots.
(11/20/18 3:13pm)
Seated at Starbucks, Alex Fisher (C '19) talks with an air of quirkiness, creativity, and humor. In his red button–up and blue camo vest, he smiles while introducing himself. His eyes crinkle at the corners while recalling memories from early college years; they light up whenever he hits upon naturalistic photography and film.