August 26-October 26, 2008

TIGER BY THE TAIL! WOMEN ARTISTS OF INDIA TRANSFORMING CULTURE

Socially engaged and politically active, women artists are interrogating the experience of the women of India, creating a provocative visual language to confront and critique age-old stereotypes and restrictive social norms while providing new models of empowerment. Painting, sculpture, photography, installation art, and video by 17 women artists including Rummana Hussain, Navjot Altaf, and Gigi Saroj Pal. In cooperation with the Center for South Asian Studies and the Department of the History of Art.

November 8, 2008 – January 11, 2009

SONG WITHOUT WORDS: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF COUNTESS SOPHIA TOLSTOY

Never before published, 70 photographs made between 1885 and 1910 by Sophia Andreyevna Tolstoy comprise this National Geographic exhibition made possible with academic and logistical support from the Tolstoy State Museum in Moscow and the Tolstoy estate at Yasnaya Polyana. From
a thousand photographs depicting the everyday life of an aristocratic family—domestic scenes and landscapes along with Leo Tolstoy’s celebrity visitors—the photographs reveal the Countess’ intriguing life, while portraying a time, a place, and an existence that would soon disappear.

April 11 – June 14, 2009

JOHN MOORE PAINTINGS
THIRTEEN MILES FROM PARADISE

Works by this celebrated faculty member and out-going chair of Penn’s Department
of Fine Arts.  In collaboration with the School of Design.