Music in the Key of Green
Presenting the Morris Arboretum Suite.
Briefly Noted
Sept|Oct 2018
Arts Calendar
Sept|Oct 2018
National Book Award Finalist Is Also A Penn Writer-in-Residence
Carmen Maria Machado has published her first short story collection—and it's been winning awards ever since.
Thirty Years of Screen Credits
From Wes Anderson movies to "Old Jews Telling Jokes"—and now his first feature film as a writer and director—Sam Hoffman C'88 reflects on the 30 years he's spent working in movies and TV.
Reclaiming the Female Form
Allison Zuckerman C’12’s “grotesque but beautiful” figures.
Splendid Digs
Middle East Galleries trace humanity’s “journey to the city.”
Rags to Riches to Ruin
Fantastic, flawed, forgotten Mr. Fox. The Man Who Made the Movies.
Briefly Noted
July|August 2018
Arts Calendar
July|August 2018
The Power and the Glory
An architect explores Mexico’s early churches.
Mock Me, Ludwig
On a humorous note, Beethoven.
Innovation in Action
Sachs Program’s public launch.
Our Love Affair with Movies
A movie producer and Class of ’68 alumnus recalls the cinematic passions of his senior year—and offers some advice on rekindling the romance for today’s audiences.
The Philosophical Composer
In the year of his centenary, a look back at the music and thought of American composer and Penn faculty member George Rochberg G’49, who first embraced 12-tone music and serialism and later rejected avant-garde styles as a form of “self-extinction.”
No Longer ‘Adrift’ in Hollywood
David Branson Smith C’06 on finding his footing in Hollywood—and rewriting the script for 'Adrift,' which came out June 1.
The Unpainted Word
Beyond description.
Songs of Love and Kvetch
Robert Freedman L’54 and his wife, Molly, have a gift for music.
Arts Calendar
May|June 2018
Twisting Identities
Text-based artist Cary Leibowitz’s “Museum Show” at ICA.
Worldviews at the Fairs
At ARG, students collect—and question—objects from world’s fairs.
Plumbing the Depths with Art
New worlds on ravaged ground. Surviving Genocide.
Briefly Noted
May|June 2018
Why Chaucer and Why Now?
David Wallace on Chaucer, his world, and ours.