Briefly Noted
Mar|Apr 2005
America (the Books, the Maps, the Whole Nine Yards)
Rare collector Jay Kislak
Now Playing on the Big Screen
Cinema studies is a new major program at Penn, but the University’s involvement with the form goes back to Eadweard Muybridge and the earliest days of moving pictures.
The Serpent’s Story—Revealed on Canvas
Aboriginal art explores meteor crater’s creation
Live!
A new home for WXPN and an upscale “clubhouse” for its fans.
Always on the Move
How do we live in a world where the ground beneath our feet is not fixed?
Tight Lips Sink Societies
Stifling criticism is no way to fight a war.
Building: An Online Bible
A new architectural website offers everything you ever wanted to know about Philadelphia architecture.
Briefly Noted
Jan|Feb 2005
Color Their World
Colorful catalyst Ruth Lande Shuman CW’64
Strange Labyrinth
Behind the gift to Penn’s library of a very rare 17th-century book lies the moving story of an alumna scholar’s groundbreaking research and untimely death.
Monumental Task
Rybczynski named to Commission of Fine Arts
Curating Theory, Practicing Art
A conversation with Slought director Aaron Levy
Kulchur and Politics
Loving Ezra Pound
Jon & Hayden Go To L.A.
Jon Hurwitz’s multicultural stoners Harold & Kumar
Act of Mann
Singer-songwriter Gabriel Mann
Briefly Noted
Nov|Dec 2004
Homage to a Cathedral of Hoops
Palestra praiser Mikaelyn Austin
All That Jazz: Keeping the Music Alive
Jazz preserver Michael Cuscuna
The Art of Exhibitionism
Art exhibitionist Sanford Smith
The ICA at 40: Still Blazing Trails
At 40, ICA looks back.
Now Batting: Jim Crow
Negro League Baseball. The business of black baseball.
Thinking Outside the Box Score
The Numbers Game. Stat-boys of summer.
Putting the Lit in Chick Lit
Chick Lit, Quaker style.