Competition and Camaraderie
Joshua Bennett C’10’s new book mixes cultural and personal history.
In the Stitch
Kartik Kumra C’22 is creating “Indian future vintage” menswear.
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May|June 2023
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Mar|Apr 2023
Lost and Found
Penn’s lost and found Courbet landscape at Arthur Ross Gallery.
Walking The Edge
“Walking the Edge,” curated by photographer JJ Tiziou C’02.
The French Connection
An old painting and a new book unlock a family’s origins.
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Mar|Apr 2023
Rich History, New Visions
At Penn Live Arts, the legendary Negro Ensemble Company is creating new work that explores this country’s racial tensions and challenges. A February world premiere, Mecca is Burning, brought together five playwrights to imagine how four Black families in Harlem might navigate a white-supremacist revolution.
At the Crossroads
The Penn Museum’s new Eastern Mediterranean Gallery casts the cradle of Abrahamic religions and alphabetic innovation as a cosmopolitan sphere—not just a conflict-ridden one.
Safe Harbor, Fitful Prospects
How Philadelphia has repelled, attracted, and been reinvigorated by refugees.
The Lambs of War
Buzz Bissinger explores World War II through a group of football players pushed into the ultimate sacrifice. Daniel Akst probes the legacy of pacifist resisters.
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Jan|Feb 2023
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Jan|Feb 2023
Night Fever
DJ “Michael the Lion” (also a researcher and lecturer in the Weitzman School of Design) is a big believer in the nighttime economy.
Head Trip
A Penn Libraries exhibit melds Arthur Tress’s surreal photography with his voracious appetite for Japanese illustration.
Enablers
A business school professor examines the many flavors of complicity.
Sea Stewards
In a pair of new books, on coral reefs and sperm whales, two impassioned ocean lovers offer contrasting visions of how to safeguard its splendors.
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Nov|Dec 2022
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Nov|Dec 2022
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Sep|Oct 2022
Framing History
A pair of history profs teams up with Getty Images to create a public-facing, photography-oriented window into Black history.
Art Scents
Sissel Tolaas’ olfactory aesthetics at ICA.
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Sep|Oct 2022