(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.
InterAct’s Alumni-Packed Production
From actors to the creative team, alumni involvement runs deep in this production of "Man of God"—an example of how Penn grads are embedding themselves in Philly's theatre scene.
Milton Reads Shakespeare
How Claire M.L. Bourne’s Gr’13 essay helped unmask the famous 17th-century poet who marked up a copy of the Bard’s First Folio.
Calendar
Jan|Feb 2020
Depth Charge
Rebecca Rutstein GFA’97 explores earth’s turbulent topography.
Backstage with Beckett and Beauvoir
Deirdre Bair CW’57 on Beckett, de Beauvoir, and herself.
Crumb in Autumn
Q&A with composer George Crumb Hon’09 at 90.
Briefly Noted
Jan|Feb 2020
A Head for Design
Weitzman School celebrates design—and its new name.
Modern Look for Ancient Artifacts
The latest on the Penn Museum’s “transformation.”
“A Brood of Sturdy Men”
War Memorial Flagpole, 1952.
Hill Town
Watercolor memories.
Imaginary Homelands
Lilian Garcia-Roig GFA’90 is drawn to the wilderness.
Seven Lives and Then Some
New life for the works of Robert Montgomery Bird M1827.
Passages to India
Images—9,000(!)—from an extraordinary life.
Briefly Noted
Nov|Dec 2019
Arts Calendar
Nov|Dec 2019
A Literary Landmark Is Saved
Penn Book Center gains new lease on life.