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(02/12/18 12:42pm)
Valentine's Day always has a way of sneaking up on me. It feels distant until the day before and then suddenly, it’s a mad scramble. And even though I ordered a gift for my girlfriend weeks ago, there are two problems with what I ordered online: one, it's not coming on time, and two, it feels impersonal. If you've found yourself in a similar position, handmade gifts are the way to prove not just that you remembered the holiday, but that you put thought into it. Here are some ideas to help you get started.
(02/14/18 3:43am)
Philadelphia is filled to the brim with interesting art galleries, exhibits, and installations that come and go so quickly that you only hear of them after the fact. This February, take in all the galleries on your bucket list with a date—the ones you’ll never get around to seeing to unless you pick a time, place, and person to go see them with. Show your date your mastery of high culture or laugh together at tasteful nudes. Museums and galleries are a great place to get to know the unknown about your potential partner—sometimes seeing how they react to Potato Jesus tells you all you need to know.
(02/23/18 2:00pm)
A picture is supposed to say a thousand words. But when the picture is of a person, does that mean the person can be reduced to ten thousand words? Surely not. What a picture does, or at least is supposed to do, is to say something inexpressible and incommunicable by language. It’s supposed to go beyond the constraints of our linguistic capacities. That’s exactly what Faith Cho (C ’20) does.
(02/07/18 7:55am)
This past weekend celebrated the winter opening of the Institute of Contemporary Art (located on 36th and Walnut Streets for those unfamiliar). Marking the first show of its installations, the opening hosted three exhibits: Tag: Proposals on Queer Play and the Ways Forward; Cary Leibowitz: Museum Show; and Broadcasting: EAI at ICA. Open until August 12 for the first two and March 25 for the latter, there’s no reason to miss these extraordinary works of art.
(02/08/18 5:39am)
Philadelphia: home of the Eagles, the Liberty Bell, and the good old Philly cheesesteak. What doesn’t come to mind, though, are the many art museums and cultural institutions that are responsible for the city's ranking as number one in its amount of outdoor sculptures and murals. These museums and institutions are precisely what make up the long grove that is the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the epitome of the arts culture in Philadelphia.
(02/06/18 5:09am)
Jenn Tran (W '19) is the epitome of a Whartonite. Concentrating in finance, legal studies, and BEPP, and a member of the Private Equity and Venture Capital Club here at Penn, a career on Wall Street isn’t all that elusive for her. What makes her distinct from everyone else who only knows the buildings Huntsman Hall and Steiny–D, however, are her artistic ventures. A member of The Collctve and the local Philly Art Collective, Jenn has a passion that’s almost anything but the Dow Jones Industrial Average: art.
(02/07/18 7:55am)
An all–expense–paid trip to anywhere in the world, from Paris to Beijing, is one of the lesser known perks of which fine arts and design students can take advantage. While a room at the Marriott and free international airfare sounds like a fairly cushy life for a college student, like most things at Penn, it remains elusive. This semester one such course is being offered: "Tiananmen Square: A Case Study For Fine Arts and Landscape Architecture."
(02/08/18 5:23am)
Philadelphia's Kimmel Center is the closest thing the city has to Broadway. So save some money on a train to New York and go downtown to see what Avenue of the Arts has to offer.
(02/02/18 2:09pm)
So, apparently, I look like Rembrandt. This isn’t some metaphorical comparison nor does it have some deep symbolic meaning. When I say I look like Rembrandt, I mean I literally look like Rembrandt—a laughing Rembrandt, to be precise. Or at least that’s what the app “Google Arts and Culture” told me. I’d dispute it, but even just looking at the comparison, I can’t help but see the uncanny resemblance.
(02/08/18 5:24am)
“I see another tourist
(01/30/18 12:24pm)
It’s a running joke just how preprofessional Penn is. The number of times we make fun of OCR and the memes we make of Goldman Sachs and McKinsey are almost countless. Being a bioengineering major, it would be hypocritical of me to say that being career–oriented is a negative quality. But in such an intense environment, there’s something to be said for the students who major in something different than their long–term goal. Visual studies majors who plan on going to med school may be hard to come by at Penn, but they are definitely a group to be admired.
(01/30/18 12:21pm)
Tucked away on a quaint side street in the heart of Philadelphia's Gayborhood is a Pennstitution like no other. Many Penn students are familiar with the Mask and Wig Club from their fall show at the Iron Gate Theater or their infamous Fling performances. Much fewer know of the group's clubhouse in Center City, located at 310 S. Quince Street, and their season–long spring musical performed there. This is what makes M&W so unlike the many other performing arts groups on campus.
(01/31/18 7:51am)
How do you describe the feeling of a color?
(02/04/18 8:57pm)
On January 19th, Edgar Allan Poe celebrated his 199th birthday. So he's been dead quite some time. How does one celebrate the achievement of a dead author? You could read his work. Or you could visit his house. For any poetry fan, this is a site of pilgrimage. Located on 532 N 7th St, Poe's house stands at over 100 years old at the edge of Philly's Historic District.
(01/25/18 2:00pm)
Located on the corner of 37th and Walnut, Raxx Vintage West houses local vendors like Frilly Gurl. Frilly Gurl, initiated by the local artist René Micheli, is a social change awareness project which found its beginning in the ideas of body and womanhood. Juxtaposing line art of naked female figures and declarations like ‘I Am Free’ and ‘No Cat Calls’ on tee shirts and posters, Micheli uses art to highlight the various issues modern women tackle in today’s Western culture. Frilly Gurl is not simply political. It is personal.
(01/24/18 2:00pm)
Cigar smoke–filled speakeasies, feathered flappers, bathtub gin; delusions, drunken fights, stolen affections. Zelda Fitzgerald’s life was split, in more ways than one. It’s easy to give blunt labels to any historical figure, but especially to someone as infamous as the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Zelda has been remembered in history as the lunatic wife, a common label given to unruly women. But Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler presents another unheard side of Zelda. This Zelda was adventurous. She was loving. She was jealous. She was human.
(02/09/18 1:14pm)
Walking down 2nd Street in Old City, you’d almost miss it. The paint on the metal doorframe is chipping, the back side of a window air conditioner juts out of the façade, and the yellow brick building above is dirtied with age. The dim of midday shadows the interior, and apart from a stained–glass panel spelling “Books & Art” and a small neon sign inviting passersby in, there is no sign of activity. Surrounded by well–kept art galleries and posh furniture stores, Jules Goldman Books & Antiques is a façade that many ignore.
(01/23/18 1:38pm)
When the last Empress of France needed to flee from both an invading Prussian army that had captured her husband and an angry citizen uprising engulfing Paris, she turned to her dentist.
(01/22/18 7:07pm)
At the corner of North Preston and Market Street by 40th Street Station, the creams, rustic reds, and light blues that define West Philadelphia are interrupted by a wall bursting with colors of green, blue, red, pink, and orange. Snaking between these hues are contours of black lines. But they aren't lines. They are words.
(01/22/18 7:36pm)
Participating in the 2017 Women's March last year after the inauguration as a student I felt like I was making history, but almost a year later, the signs, t–shirts, and pussyhats feel more distant than I would have guessed. Not too much—or at least as much as many would've hoped for—has changed since my friends and I sat in our dorm plastering poster paper with protests. President Trump is still attacking female politicians (last year it was Hillary Clinton, this year it’s Kirsten Gillibrand, among many others), and issues of immigration, climate change, and police brutality still persist.