Arts
I Wanna Poke You With My Love Stick
Sex, gender and beauty at the Penn Museum's most recent exhibit.
DIY: Jack O' Lanterns
A great touch to any Beige Block porch
Peter LaBerge PUBLISHED TWO BOOKS AND STARTED A LITERARY MAGAZINE. HBU?
Meet the poet who would kill Shakespeare (if he had to).
Kimye: Art Or Artificial?
In 20 years you might be replacing your Picasso with a selfie from Kim Kardashian West.
You Have To Do This Over Fall Break
Stuck in Philly? Penn may be boring, but museums aren't.
Pennaissance Snaps: Pope Edition
The pope came to visit and this is obviously exactly how it went.
How To First Friday Like A Pro
First Friday is one of the best art events in Philly: don't fuck it up.
“The World’s Most Important Wrought-Iron Collection” and Why You Should Care
The key is in the details.
Philalalia: Small Press with a Big Message
Temple's Tyler School of Art's 2nd annual small press and art fair offered a look at nontraditional literature and innovative social activism.
Fall Into (A Lack Of) Street Art
Where the PMA’s event lacked in artwork, it made up for in its ability to bring people together.
Pennaissance Snaps
If Penn or Snapchat existed during the Renaissance, we imagine it would look something like this...
ICA Opening: Exploring Art and Communication
This Wednesday, the ICA hosted its fall opening of exhibits by Christopher Knowles, Josephine Pryde and Becky Suss.
Iconocamp: A Review of Gunnar Montana’s Purgatory
In light of the 2015 papal visit, Purgatory serves as an interesting commentary on the relationship between faith and deviance.
Pennaissance Snaps
If Penn or Snap Chat existed during the Renaissance, we imagine it would look something like this...
Student Profile: Chloe Kaufman
With the ICA’s Fall opening this week, Street spoke to one of the students actively involved with the museum and the art world at Penn.
Fake It Till You Make It: How To Pretend to be Artsy
Have you ever wanted to be more of a hipster but then remember that you like Taylor Swift unironically? Ever wanted to be more artsy so that your peers would find you more interesting but then remember that galleries bore you to tears? Well, this week Arts has you covered: Here's a guide to the best and most surefire ways to give your persona a complete makeover, just in time for the start of the semester. New year new you, amiright?
The Best Things Your PennCard Can Get You in the Art World
On a college budget? Love museums? Us too. Next time you go explore the Philly art scene, bring your PennCard.
PMA: Discovering the Impressionists
If a critic of the 19th century were to attend what is currently the Philadelphia Art Museum’s main exhibition, he might squint at the smudged, smeared, blotched canvases and describe it as “worth seeing for the same reason that one would go see an exhibition of pictures painted by the inmates of a lunatic asylum.”
