Silk, Sweat, and Socialism
A new book examines a forgotten component of the labor movement.
Arts Calendar
July|Aug 2017
Briefly Noted
July|Aug 2017
PennDesign Takes Up Residence
As artists-in-residence at Manitoga, PennDesign students have transported their large project 150 miles north, where it's on view through November.
Philly by Drone
Christopher Kao, a rising senior at Penn, has launched a business around his drone photography.
Arts Calendar
May|June 2017
Extracting Signatures from Crowds and Bananas
PennDesign’s Orkan Telhan’s “signature” work.
Celebrating Philadelphia Art
Woodmere Art Museum director William Valerio G’87 WG’04.
Screen-Player
Scott Neustadter C’98’s latest screenplay is The Disaster Artist.
A Life Entangled: Shedding new light on Louis Kahn
A life of Kahn. You Say to Brick.
Discovered—But Not Captured
Erica Armstrong Dunbar C’94 wrote about Ona Judge’s escape from slavery.
Political Graffiti
Signs of the times in Cuba.
After 10 Years of Funding, the Curtain Falls
What $22 million in Annenberg fellowships accomplished in 10 years.
Shakespeare’s Secret Helper
Big data and the Bard: what’s in a the, or and, or with, or or?
Taking the Performing Arts to the Next Level
The Annenberg Center’s new director Christopher Gruits.
Danke Schoen, Wayne
Meet the Penn alumna who opened for Wayne Newton this month in Beverly Hills—and see footage from her performance.
A ‘Philadelphia School’ of Architecture?
Jason Tang C’17 and Swarthmore student Izzy Kornblatt make the case in an on-campus exhibition.
What Is the Future of the Past?
A new exhibition at the Penn Museum considers what is at stake when cultural heritage is destroyed in a war-torn region.
Oscars with a Side of Pizza
Cinema studies faculty came together Wednesday afternoon to talk about this year's Oscar race.
Witness to a Demolition
Elaine Simon’s photographs “capture the stages of demolition as a way to remember the site and make a statement about cycles of destruction, displacement, and development.”
Art for Eyes and Ears
Landscape/Soundscape at the Arthur Ross Gallery
Serial EarthQuakers
Alumni writers dig up their satiric LA-earthquake novel.
Notes and Whispers
An “extraordinary evening” at the Penn Museum.
Down the Rabbit Hole and into Art
A graphic-memoir of healing through dementia in Aliceheimer’s.