Wasser World
Julian Wasser’s photographic love affair with Hollywood began more than half a century ago. He’s been loving and hating and shooting it ever since.
Off the Beat: To ICCAs and Back
This student a cappella group has had a packed spring semester, from regional competitions to filming for a reality show.
Alumna Selected as Yale Younger Poet
Airea D. Matthews C’94 will have the next book (Volume 111) in the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets.
Arts Calendar
March|April 2016
Ghosts of Segregation
Barren campus. Without Regard to Sex, Race, or Color.
Behind the Bamboo Camera
“Father of Philippine Independent Cinema” Kidlak Tahimik WG’67.
When the Answer Is C) None of the Above
“Middlesex meets Mean Girls” in YA novel None of the Above.
Out of Texas
Paul Christensen Gr’73’s “A West Texas Marriage.”
The Small, Good Stories
The Penn Cultural Heritage Center was launched to provide a forum for an “intellectual discussion” of the meaning of heritage and the role of communities in preservation efforts. Then came the Syrian civil war and the rise of ISIS.
Briefly Noted
March|April 2016
The Peace Children of Syria
Art can’t provide a way out of tragedy, but perhaps a way through.
Make It Mini
Adjunct anthropology professor Louise Krasniewicz is a prize-winning miniature-maker—and she's researching our attraction to tiny worlds at the same time.
‘From Away’
In coastal Maine, the Tepler family—including dad Sheldon L'81, mom Denise C'78 G'81, and daughter Maya C'11—have opened their home to two Burundian asylum-seekers. Now Maya is making a documentary about the experience, titled 'From Away.'
Choosing Paper
Through a West Philly-based, non-profit print shop and zine library called The Soapbox, several alums are putting paper first.
Yo Zydeco!
Yearlong celebration of Zydeco at WXPN.
Having It All and Keeping It Too
Lisa Green C’82’s legal guide for women, On Your Case.
Of Monsters and Men
James Mundie CGS’97 documents “interesting people” in Exhibitionists.
Arts Calendar
Jan|Feb 2016
The Shapes of Things to Come
Haresh Lalvani Gr’81 believes there’s a universal code for architecture and sculpture—a “morphological genome” that determines the shape of built structures, similar to the way that DNA shapes living things. And he’s well into the process of decoding it.
Life Behind the ‘Wicked’ Stage
Jonah Platt C'08, now starring in 'Wicked,' pulls back the Broadway curtain.
Peeling Back the Vines
An exhibit at the Penn Library is painting a fuller picture of 'Madeline' author Ludwig Bemelmans.
Flying Flotsam
Window, Nov|Dec 2015
The Lost Art of Letterhead
The golden age of letterhead at the Penn Museum.
Century of the Sphinx
A big book on the Penn Museum’s “Colossal Sphinx.”