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(03/13/18 1:00pm)
When you visit Hadeel Saab’s (C ‘20) Facebook profile, her featured photos aren’t of that one night out with a group of friends or that really good solo shot. No, it’s a close–up of a bouquet of roses. It’s an aerial view of the skyline, the blue sky pinched by a fluttering rainbow parachute. It’s a canal by a street spotted by buildings that clearly have a story behind them. The choice of these photos is telling of the kind of artist Hadeel is, a kind of artist who finds the beauty in the everyday through multiple lenses, even if that means the most banal of things.
(03/14/18 1:00pm)
Louis I. Kahn: Penn alum, Penn professor, and, as so many often considered, “America’s foremost living architect.” But unlike the many Penn alum in the arts, whose legacies on campus are the mere facts that they attended the university, Kahn left a tangible, indelible mark in the form of his architectural designs for buildings on and off campus. Today, many of these plans can be found right here in metal drawers of the architectural archive at Fisher Fine Arts Library, depicting the inner workings of perhaps one of the most influential architects of the 20th century.
(03/15/18 1:00pm)
When I hear the words “American art,” I see a mental image of Thomas Cole’s The Oxbow; when I hear “European arts,” I see da Vinci’s Virgin of the Rocks; when I hear “Japanese art,” I see Hokusai’s The Great Wave. Clearly, where art derives from determines its character. In the same way, where Penn students go abroad for art shapes their individual creative processes.
(03/01/18 2:00pm)
The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) can be considered a landmark in this city. It’s the home of the Rocky Steps. It’s the place where the Eagles ended their victory parade. It’s the place where we (or at least most of us) dressed up for the gala that one night during NSO. But for me, the PMA was my reprieve. When I received a yearlong membership to the museum as a gift, I made it a goal to go twice a month and like most, I was first drawn to the museum’s extensive collection of impressionist artists, which soon expanded to the modern, the American, and the early religious arts. There was, of course, undeniably more than enough heavyweights from the late nineteenth to mid–twentieth centuries. Picasso, Dalí, Monet, Van Gogh, and Renoir adorn the walls of over half of the first–floor galleries.
(03/01/18 2:00pm)
August’s mother is dead at the end. We find this out in the opening line of Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn. “For a long time, my mother wasn’t dead yet.” There it is, the tragic plot twist, given away by the candid retrospective voice of the narrator. But this novel isn’t another one about death or grief or any of the common themes typically associated with tragedy. It’s about youth, friendship, healing, learning. Above all, it’s about memory.
(02/27/18 2:00pm)
(03/02/18 2:00pm)
Carmen Maria Machado is just like us. She binge watches Law and Order: SVU, she plays video games, and she didn’t get the job as a Starbucks barista. But unlike us, she received the Bard Fiction Prize, won the John Leonard Award for best first book, and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Kirkus Prize: all for her first collection of short stories, Her Body and Other Parties.
(02/28/18 2:00pm)
Walking into the launch party for the latest edition of The F–Word, it seems impossible that Penn’s only feminist arts and literary magazine was relaunched just three years ago. The gathering was held on Feb. 22 to celebrate the release of the inaugural fall mini–issue. The event featured an array of snacks and beverages as well as attendees who were eager to have important conversations about gender and equality.
(03/02/18 2:00pm)
Whether you want to spend time with a bookstore cat, go to poetry readings with friends, or see the places famous authors lived, you can do it all and make it back to Van Pelt to finish the readings you were actually assigned.
(03/15/18 1:00pm)
Jay Kirk has taught courses in experimental and creative nonfiction at Penn for 13 years and was recently awarded a $40,000 grant from the Whiting Foundation to conduct research and write his next book.
(02/25/18 2:00pm)
(03/19/18 1:00pm)
Allison Winn Scotch (C ’95) doesn’t outline.
(02/26/18 2:00pm)
The relationship between the literary and the visual is not like a couple holding hands, where the palm is the singular point of intersection; it’s more like an embrace, where complicated bodies meet infinitely, and the hand that appears to be of one person, belongs, instead, to another. In Professor Charles Bernstein’s course, “Experimental Writing,” students explored this relationship through hands–on, experiment–based work.
(04/23/18 1:00pm)
While many use it as a place to get where they’re going, some use Locust Walk as their runway. And Penn’s fashion photographers try to capture it.
(02/20/18 6:24am)
Sunday, Feb. 25, 14 of Penn’s a cappella groups and the popular group Pitch Slapped will unite to perform in Raise Your Voice, a benefit concert supporting Settlement Music School.
(02/19/18 1:59pm)
Last Saturday, on February 17th, the Institute of Contemporary Art and Philadelphia Printworks, a retailer centered on DIY culture and social justice, hosted “The Audre Lorde Syllabus: A Road Map During Times of Paralysis.” The evening was marked by multiple workshops, teach–ins, and self–care to the tune of a live DJ.
(02/23/18 2:00pm)
A red and gold dragon snakes through the deli meats and crêperies of Reading Terminal Market.
(02/21/18 2:51am)
It was dim and cool in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, but I felt giddy. It took me awhile to believe that John Singer Sargent’s original In the Luxembourg Gardens was indeed inches before me. Eyes wide, mouth wider, I was filled with a sentimental attachment: this was more than a painting. Gazing at the painting, the loose, dashing brushstrokes that so elegantly depicted the garden scene, I sensed spontaneity and closeness. In his casual positioning of the figures and seemingly random choice of setting, I saw a friend in the painting. Artworks like this expand my transient existence by allowing me to live, for a brief moment, in the grandmasters’ worlds across space and time.
(02/22/18 2:00pm)
At 9:15 am on a rainy Sunday morning in New York, my dad and I stand outside the doors of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in a quickly growing line. We’re waiting to see the famed exhibition, Michelangelo: Divine Draughtsman and Designer—the likes of which has never been seen before, and will probably never be seen again in my lifetime. Art experts and novices alike gather in line behind us as it grows from 40 to 250 people in less than 30 minutes.
(02/21/18 3:13am)
Considered a frontrunner for the 2018 Academy Awards, director Luca Guadagnino’s new film Call Me by Your Name is one of the more powerful and beautiful movies of the year. As with any great movie, it leaves you with that distinct post–movie sense that you actually learned or felt something new. But what makes Call Me by Your Name so different is the way in which it so heavily brings art back into film.
