Singing Across Social Distance
Penn alumni and student singers are continuing to make music during the pandemic—and getting creative with their videos of those performances.
Arts Calendar
May|Jun 2020
Adventures in Social Media
“Pro-social” media maker Paul Falzone Gr’08.
City Shaper
K—A. Eugene Kohn Ar’53 GAr’57—tells KPF’s story.
We Are The Storm
Exhibition of activist posters presented by Common Press.
Cloak, Dagger, and Card Catalogues
Kathy Peiss on WWII’s librarian-spies. Information Hunters.
Briefly Noted
May|Jun 2020
Book Hunter
Honoring a book collector’s “obsession.”
Editing ‘Tiger King’
Cinema Studies alum Dylan Hansen-Fliedner C’14 helped edit 'Tiger King' into the smash-hit docuseries it became.
(Un)cancel Culture
College junior Connor Beard brought the Native American experience to stage.
‘Re-Covering the Ney’
PhD candidate Juan Castrillón created an exhibition of classic reed flutes—and even with Van Pelt closed, you can still visit it online and watch him play one.
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
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.