Girard in Amber
Through the Looking-Glass on Girard Avenue
Briefly Noted
Mar|Apr 2012
Commemoration by Candlelight
Window, Mar|Apr 2012
To the Moon, Artist!
For conceptual artist Lowry Burgess FA’61, space is the place
The Dark Forest
The Third Reich, seen through the eyes of the American
ambassador and his family.
Transience Preserved
Essence of a place. Lost Worlds
Glee in the Gazette
Window, Jan|Feb 2012
Hunting Shadows
A new documentary pursues the reasons why so many Nazi war criminals were never brought to justice.
Brave New Voices
A concert of vocal works by young composers, many of them Penn graduate students, shakes up the classical scene.
Phantom at Fifty
Norton Juster Ar’52’s The Phantom Tollbooth turns 50
Diamonds in the Soul
Inside the medieval village known as the Diamond District.
Leveraging the Legacy of a Whirlwind
“Monty” Foundation will support student artists
Briefly Noted
Nov|Dec 2011
The Art of Nursing
Window, Nov|Dec 2011
An All-American Odyssey
American Odyssey at Arthur Ross Gallery
Between the Lines
A new biography examines the public and private lives of the great Brooklyn backstop Roy Campanella.
Harmonic Convergence
A musical polymath brings out the best in Penn’s Chinese Musical Society.
The “Uncreative Writer” in Washington
So there’s Kenneth Goldsmith, hanging out in the White House, about to meet the president of the United States.
Briefly Noted
Sep|Oct 2011
Coming Soon: Penn Park
Window, Sep|Oct 2011
Surprises Are Always the Best
Like her four previous books, Jennifer Egan C’85’s A Visit from the Goon Squad received generally stellar reviews. But it didn’t look like this resistant-to-summary novel-in-stories would catch on with the public—that is, until she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Cup O’Doodles
Artist Gwyneth Leech C’81 started drawing on used paper cups as a distraction when she got “antsy,” but “then it began to really take over.” A few hundred cups later, she spent six weeks doing the same thing while sitting in a window in New York’s Fashion District in an exhibit called Hypergraphia.
Dinosaurs De/Reconstructed
A high-tech look at the fossil record. Jurassic CSI.
A Legend Brings Soul to Seoul
Checking in with John Legend C’99.