Arts Calendar
Sept|Oct 2015
Jazzing Up the Music Scene
Saxophonist Matthew Clayton directs the Penn Jazz Combos—and his vision for the program is far from improvised.
Book Publishing in the Digital Age
Here's how Maris Kreizman C'00 is blazing a new path for herself in the book world—as head of publishing projects at Kickstarter, and as the author of a Tumblr-born book of her own.
Mary Ellen Mark, 1940-2015
Window, July|Aug 2015
At Last, Our Prince Has Come
Hal Prince C’48 Hon’71 gets Penn Alumni Creative Spirit Award.
When the Light Goes Out
A poet’s memoir of life after death. The Light of the World.
Penn Masala Nails Perfect Pitch
Penn Masala gets a Hollywood moment in Pitch Perfect 2.
Briefly Noted
July|Aug 2015
Arts Calendar
July|Aug 2015
“One of Those Prodigious Victorian Polymaths”
Horace Howard Furness was a hopeful ghost-hunter, a Penn leader with a gift for stimulating donors’ “pocketbook nerve”—and the founder of modern Shakespeare scholarship.
Alan Sepinwall’s Farewell to ‘Mad Men’
The C'96 alumnus and well-known TV reviewer unpacks that final episode.
Above Us Only … Sky?
Window, May|June 2015
From Penn Medical Labs to Paperweight Legend
How an expert glassblower learned his art at Penn.
Grim and Grimmer
Terrible suffering, strikingly dissimilar. A Tale of Two Plantations.
When Resistance Is Beautiful
Departing MFA program coordinator Jane Irish on her art and life.
Briefly Noted
May|June 2015