Briefly Noted
July|Aug 2015
Arts Calendar
July|Aug 2015
“One of Those Prodigious Victorian Polymaths”
Horace Howard Furness was a hopeful ghost-hunter, a Penn leader with a gift for stimulating donors’ “pocketbook nerve”—and the founder of modern Shakespeare scholarship.
Alan Sepinwall’s Farewell to ‘Mad Men’
The C'96 alumnus and well-known TV reviewer unpacks that final episode.
Above Us Only … Sky?
Window, May|June 2015
From Penn Medical Labs to Paperweight Legend
How an expert glassblower learned his art at Penn.
Grim and Grimmer
Terrible suffering, strikingly dissimilar. A Tale of Two Plantations.
When Resistance Is Beautiful
Departing MFA program coordinator Jane Irish on her art and life.
Briefly Noted
May|June 2015
Arts Calendar
May|June 2015
Pitch Perfect and Penn
What movie do Penn Masala, John Legend, and Elizabeth Banks all have in common?
Native (Hip-Hop) Voices at the Penn Museum
A look at Modern Native Voices: The Medium of Hip-Hop—a panel discussion at the Penn Museum with several prominent artists.
Enterprising Artists
In Michael Ketner’s MUSC168 class, students learn to manage the business half of careers as musicians, painters, and more.
Vicarious Bacchanalia
Window, March|April 2015
White Tower Power
White Towers Revisited at Architectural Archives.
Still Crazy Good After All These Years
Q&A with Ben Yagoda G’91 on his book, The B-Side.
Looking Beyond the Gold
Beneath the Surface at the Penn Museum.
Moving on from Marx
An emeritus professor of sociology recalls his political and intellectual evolution.
Briefly Noted
March|April 2015
Arts Calendar
March|April 2015
200 Years of African-American Art
Penn professor Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw discusses her new exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Arts Videos for a Snow Day (or Not)
Whether you're home on a snow day or not, these Penn-related arts videos from around the web are worth watching.
Becoming a Bowl
Window, Jan|Feb 2015
Feats of Clay
Pervasive Clay at the Charles Addams Gallery.