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.
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.