Arts Calendar
Mar|Apr 2020
Getting It on Paper
Frankenthaler works on paper at the Arthur Ross Gallery.
Rewriting Wright
Paul Hendrickson on Frank Lloyd Wright. Plagued by Fire.
Briefly Noted
Mar|Apr 2020
Events
Mar|Apr 2020
Alumni Notes
Mar|Apr 2020
Obituaries
Mar|Apr 2020
Redefining Kin
The Wolf Humanities Center looks at kinship’s meanings.
Power to the Protest
Daniel Gillion on why protests matter.
Two Roads to Rhodes
Two Rhodes Scholars from Penn.
By the Numbers
Mar|Apr 2020
Loyal Classmen
At the turn of the 20th century, Julian Abele and Louis Magaziner—a black man and an immigrant Jew—were standouts in Penn’s School of Fine Arts about to launch distinguished careers in architecture. They were also beginning what would be a lifelong friendship. A Magaziner descendant and Abele admirer investigates what brought them together.
Her General Tubman
In Lorene Cary’s new play—her first—Harriet Tubman shuttles between leading a Civil War raid that freed hundreds of enslaved plantation workers and a men’s prison in present-day Philadelphia, where she finds love and recruits soldiers for the Union Army. The path to its production was complicated, too.
Jan|Feb 2020
Volume 118, No. 3
The Word Is Penn
From College Hall, Jan|Feb 2020
Letters
Jan|Feb 2020: What boys need, Wags is a wow, fighting lullaby, and more.
Events
Jan|Feb 2020
Crown Jewel
Jameel Mohammed C’18 makes jewelry inspired by the African diaspora.
Quaker Moderator, Times Two
Andrea Mitchell CW’67 Hon’18 and Ashley Parker C’05 shared a stage.
Journey to the Nobel
Gregg L. Semenza M’82 Gr’84 is a Nobel Prize winner.
Alumni Notes
Jan|Feb 2020
Obituaries
Jan|Feb 2020
Bottom Chef
Good enough nourishment.
Becoming Jo
“I, too, loved Little Women.”