What Is the Future of the Past?
A new exhibition at the Penn Museum considers what is at stake when cultural heritage is destroyed in a war-torn region.
Sensing Freedom
The Freedom Principle at ICA highlights Chicago arts-group.
Feats of Clay
Pervasive Clay at the Charles Addams Gallery.
“Know That We Are Still Here”
With the new exhibition, Native American Voices: The People—Here and Now, the Penn Museum and a team of Native American advisors and collaborators aim to “transform your understanding of Native America today.”
Sex and the Art of Exhibitionism
Daniel Gluck W’91 GFA’92 put sex in a museum.
Get Happy
Stefan Sagmeister’s The Happy Show at the ICA
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.