A Legend Brings Soul to Seoul
Checking in with John Legend C’99.
Artist with a Syringe
Artist and cosmetic-surgeon Eric Finzi C’77.
The Roar of the Literary Canon
Making sense of war and peace in literature.
Penn Theatre: A Work in Three Acts
Theatre has a long, rich—and somewhat obscure—history at the University. A new initiative aims to help Penn’s professional, academic, and student performing arts entities do more to work together and raise their collective visibility on campus and beyond.
Near Death Experiences
Annenberg’s Barbie Zelizer on images of impending death.
Serious Satire
The satiric science fiction of James Morrow C’69.
Urban Gardens of Earthly Delight
Renaissance city maps at the Library’s Kamin Gallery.
Technology and Art Converge in Storyville
Alumni create online home for fiction in Storyville.
Girls, Interrupted (by a Lens)
A new exhibition at the Arthur Ross Gallery shows “the pathological in the everyday.”
On with the Show!
A new book examines the remarkable history of the American musical theater.
Briefly Noted
May|June 2011
Shredding the Classics on a Roman Holiday
DJ, guitarist—and classics-scholar—Corey Brennan C’81.
Tracing the Class of 1811
The Class of 1811 in profile.
She’s Got Guests and a Show, Too—Pretty Cool
SNL’s newest star, Miley mimic Vanessa Bayer C’04.
Jennifer Egan C’85 takes home the National Book Critics Circle award for fiction (updated: and the Pulitzer)
The award statement calls A Visit From the Goon Squad “a novel at once experimental in form and crystal clear in the overlapping stories it delivers, offering us a sense of youth and what gets lost along the way.”
Experimental poetry gains a new home at the Kelly Writer’s House
Jacket2 comes to Penn.
Cynthia Kaplan C’85 is feeling a little bit Fangry
Kaplan was in Philly just before Christmas, delivering her yuletide carols to an enthusiastic crowd at the Tin Angel.
Now on YouTube: Classless
Undergrad life, skewed and skewered.
Jon Sarkin C’75 splashes some paint on Guster
The art of Jon Sarkin C'75 is all over the music video for Guster's hit song "Do You Love Me," and if you look closely you can see Sarkin himself make a cameo.
Art With Punch
Worth 1,000 words.
Superblock Gets a Sitcom
Students produce “Classless” comedy.
Classical Revolutionary
Veronica Jurkiewicz C’04 foments Classical Revolution.
Inhabiting Geometry
Gallery-scale model by architect Anne Tyng Gr’75 at ICA.