Time for the Maya
No, the ancient Maya did not predict that the world will end in December 2012. Yes, the Penn Museum is taking advantage of the popular fascination with that distinctly North American misinterpretation of the Maya calendar to mount a wide-ranging exhibit examining Maya notions of time and much more about this rich, still-thriving culture.
Second Acts
Brad Rosenstein C’86
Race and History
Khalil Gibran Muhammad C’93
An All-American Odyssey
American Odyssey at Arthur Ross Gallery
Girls, Interrupted (by a Lens)
A new exhibition at the Arthur Ross Gallery shows “the pathological in the everyday.”
Inhabiting Geometry
Gallery-scale model by architect Anne Tyng Gr’75 at ICA.
At the Mosque Door
Painting by Osman Hamdi Bey, who played a major role in the Penn Museum’s first archaeological dig, at Nippur in the late 1800s.
Crafting Art
A new exhibition celebrates the singular designs of Wharton Esherick.
Flotsam and Jetsam at an Exhibition
Slought Foundation gathers “leftover” artifacts
Painting a Message of Melting
Diane Burko GFA’69
Life and Death in Ur
Museum mounts new show on Iraq’s Ancient Past
Excavating the Cult Center of the Netherworld
All about Abydos at the Penn Museum
The Art of Healing
Healing art at the Perelman Center
Designs on Nakashima
Alumnus explores early furniture by George Nakashima
The Dawn of El Saturn
A new exhibition at the ICA examines the early art, Arkestra, and Afro-futurism of the late Sun Ra.
Reconstructing the Maya
“Painted Metaphors” at the Penn Museum.
Abby’s Rhodes
Abigail Seldin C’09 G’09 snares Rhodes scholarship
Windows on Other Worlds
Two exhibitions and a new book of images by a physician-turned-photographer.
Listen You Bashful, Boneheaded Babies
Exhibition recalls days of “Broadside” battles
Beyond Zap
An exhibition at the ICA explores the many obsessions of
a comix genius.
A Prophecy Fulfilled
Student-curated exhibit restores Lenape history
Mining Treasures, Close to Home
What they found in the museum. Penn in the World
Lost Harmony, Found
Photographer John Yang GAr’57’s lyric journey
Beyond the Gulf
Window, Jul|Aug 2008