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(09/30/18 12:00pm)
Through March 17 of next year, three Penn students, Braden Cordivari (C ‘18), Fiona Jensen–Hitch (C ‘19), and former Street writer Linda Lin (C ‘18) will have their own curated exhibit displayed in the Penn Museum. Titled “And So the Story Goes… Innovations in Storytelling,” the public exhibition explores how different cultures take on communicating narratives and innovated storytelling.
(09/19/18 3:09am)
The ushers at Bloomers and SPEC Film’s annual LaughtHERfest’s performance wear light blue T–shirts emblazoned with the slogan “Crack Jokes. Break Ceilings.” LaughtHERfest, in a word, is funny. It’s female–oriented, and organizers make a point to say that the “her” is for any woman or non–cisgender person. The Saturday night performance on September 15 featured some smaller groups and acts leading up to the headliner, Saturday Night Live’s Melissa Villaseñor.
(09/19/18 3:29am)
This article is part of 34th Street's Philadelphia, Curated issue. Click here to see more of our favorite spots from all over the city.
(09/19/18 3:30am)
This article is part of 34th Street's Philadelphia, Curated issue. Click here to see more of our favorite spots from all over the city.
(09/19/18 3:29am)
This article is part of 34th Street's Philadelphia, Curated issue. Click here to see more of our favorite spots from all over the city.
(09/24/18 12:00pm)
Next Friday, on Sept. 28, “Shitholes” is coming to Philadelphia. A one–day only art gallery at the Adrienne Theater in Rittenhouse Square, “Shitholes” is showcasing art from countries across the world, countries described so infamously by President Trump as “shitholes.”
(09/18/18 12:00pm)
Last Friday, the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) opened its two latest exhibits for the fall: Ree Morton: The Plant That Heals May Also Poison and Cauleen Smith: Give It or Leave It. Both open through December 23, the two, at first, seem like an eclectic collection of miscellaneous art pieces and sundry objects. And maybe, it is so. The exhibits are not bound by their creative content, but rather are threaded together by their underlying themes of openness and expansiveness.
(09/13/18 9:57pm)
This is your chance to finally play the role of art exhibit curator. Up until this Saturday, Citizen Salon is crowdsourcing votes from you, where each vote for a piece of artwork is a vote for which piece is to be displayed. It’s turning art into a democratic process—and this time, it’s you who’s getting the vote. (Vote here.)
(09/17/18 12:00pm)
He was the co–curator of Monument Lab. He’s an Officer in the Order of Canada. He has exhibited from one end of the world to another, crossing Sydney, Sāo Paolo, Shanghai, and so much more. This is Professor Ken Lum: Professor and Chair of the Fine Arts department, artist, curator, and educator.
(09/15/18 12:00pm)
You’ve been to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and probably heard of the Barnes. But Philadelphia is a city thriving in small museums and galleries that are often overlooked in the age of mega–institutions. Between Little Berlin, the Colored Girls Museum, and the Woodmere Art Museum, there’s so much in Philly still to see outside of the typical touristy art spots.
(09/10/18 12:00pm)
At FringeArts festival from Sept. 6–23, artists will be exhibiting and attendees of the festival will be watching. Meanwhile, Chuck Schultz (LPS ‘19) will be live sketching the whole thing: the narrative, the lighting, and the movements.
(09/10/18 12:00pm)
William Wordsworth called poetry “the spontaneous overflow of feelings” originating from “emotion recollected in tranquility.” This is exactly what Juliet Lubwama (C ‘22) strives for: a collected space in which to reflect and encapsulate her emotions. And that space, for her, is found in poetry.
(09/05/18 12:00pm)
Emma Berson (C ‘19) is a renaissance woman in the arts. Graphic designer, sculptor, screenwriter, director—and that’s just the shortlist. While she is focusing on film at present, she has spent her college career doing anything and everything artistic from designing politically charged apparel to creating permanent geofliters.
(09/05/18 12:00pm)
For those not yet familiar with the medium–sized, used–to–be–white, glass–paneled building tucked between Urban Outfitters and Wawa down 36th, it’s the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), a museum designed to introduce the university community and broader Philadelphia to what was “new and happening” in art and culture.
(08/30/18 12:00pm)
As classes start up again, so does the all–too–familiar race to secure your schedule. Left and right people are scrambling to hop on PennInTouch after receiving that long–awaited email from PennCourseNotify. Well, forget MATH104 and ECON001 because there are some open art classes ready to be enrolled in. Here are three art classes worth adding to your course cart.
(08/30/18 12:00pm)
In a world oriented around order and established roles, William Kentridge captures human experiences of uncertainty and spontaneity, namely, in his words, “an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncomplicated gestures, and uncertain endings.” His touring exhibit, William Kentridge: Universal Archive, is displayed in the Arthur Ross Gallery from now until November 11.
(08/31/18 12:00pm)
The book ends with a line about bare genitals. To be specific, bare genitals staring stupidly and sadly at the yellow sand. And no, that’s not why this book is fitting to read after NSO. The ending of Kundera’s The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is a showcase of the line between the meaningful and the meaningless, a line crossed by laughing and forgetting. And that’s why this book is fitting for the new year—past the literal level, past the political jest, and past the tinges of nihilism is a reminder to laugh and to forget, to draw our own lines between what is meaningful and what is meaningless.
(08/22/18 8:56pm)
Every year, the 46 groups in the Performing Arts Council (PAC) put on productions for the Penn community to enjoy. From a cappella to dance (and everywhere in between), these groups provide a creative outlet for hundreds of students and entertainment for thousands. While many of these groups write, choreograph, or compose their own shows, others take a completely different route; this subset of groups applies for rights to various theatrical pieces, which they then perform on campus. These productions range from Broadway musicals to slapstick farces, from operettas to contemporary tragedies. Here, we look ahead to the shows that have been licensed to various Penn groups this semester.
(07/24/18 1:29pm)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, a leader of the Impressionist movement, popularized some of the now-ubiquitous café imagery, with his piece Luncheon of the Boating Party being a subject of debate in the quirky French romance film Amélie. Now, you can see some of his most evocative work right in Center City.
(04/27/18 4:48pm)
Sick moves performed by enthusiastic kids to the cadence of popular beats. Vibrant stage lights. Pounding music. Chaos rings through Iron Gate Theatre, and the passion for dance CityStep inspires in students from West and South Philadelphia becomes clear within five minutes of my visit to their dress rehearsal.
