Almanac, Vol. 47, No. 2, September 5, 2000

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September Extras!

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REPROS: Photographs by Sylvia Plachy

Through October 29, 2000.

See Exhibits or the Arthur Ross Gallery web site.

   
Right: REPROS, 1994 Left: Adrien Brody as Ritchie Rude, 1998


ICA: Three Exhibits

September 15 through November 12.

At right: Kristin Lucas: Temporary Housing for the Despondent Virtual Citizen; Brooklyn artist uses interactive video installation, performance and the web to explore automation and the psychological effects of new technologies.

Below: Cornelia Parker; British artist's installations, slide projections, sculptures and photographs.

Below, right: James Mills: Please Thank You; Phila. artist creates installations composed of donation receptacles in their myriad forms; including a 12' high fountain.

See Exhibits

 


 

44 Celebrity Eyes in a Museum Storeroom; artifacts chosen by celebrities from Museum storerooms. Events surrounding the exhibition: formal ground-breaking, April 14; gala preview party, April 15. Mainwaring Wing, 3rd floor, University Museum.

 
 
   
 
 
 

Some Celebrety Eyes, above: actor, Kevin Bacon (yellow); cellist, Yo Yo Ma (red); Ben Franklin (blue); designer, Mary McFadden (pink); Philadelphia Phillies' Doug Glanville (green); and chef, Georges Perrier (orange). See Exhibits .


This year's Morris Arboretum Garden Railway display commemorates the 2000 Presidential election and features Presidents' houses such as Monticello (above), the White House and Abraham Lincoln's log cabin. The display includes Philadelphia's historic landmarks including Independence Hall and the First Post Office. Paul Busse, the designer, is known for his creative use of natural materials to form a perfectly proportioned miniature landscape. For information call (215) 247-5777. See Exhibits.


 

Basket weaver Rosa Smith with her boat basket, ca. 1905. Photo by H.C. Meredith

 

Basket weaver Mary Posh, her husband Ned, their baby son Roger, and their daughter or niece, Margaret, ca. 1903. Photo by A.O. Carpenter.

 

Twined burden basket by Alice Worris. Diameter 76 cm. (30 in.). Photograph by Francine Sarin.

 

Basket weaver Alice Worris and her burden basket, ca. 1905, at the annual fish camp site on Upper Lake Shore (with framework for tule house behind her). Photograph by H.C. Meredith.

Pomo Indians and their baskets. From the University Museum exhibit "Pomo Indian Basket Weavers"-- now through February 25, 2001. See Exhibits.


Jazz Guitarist Charlie Hunter at Zellerbach Theatre, September 5. See Music or www.PennPresents.org for info.

Photo © 2000 Clay Patrick McBride.


Jazz Vocalist DeeDee Bridgewater at Zellerbach Theatre, September 22. See Music or www.PennPresents.org for info.

Photo by Phillippe Pierangeli.


 

A Feast for King Midas

   
Above: A lion-headed situla, or bucket, used for carrying beverages from larger to smaller cauldrons. (Drawing courtesy of The Gordion Project, 1957).
 
Above, right: A plaster cast head of "King Midas," reconstructed by Richard Neave, U. of Manchester, working from the actual skull found in the royal tomb.
 
At right: In "King Midas" Tomb; Gordion, Turkey.
 

 

The Museum presents "A Feast for King Midas," a special re-creation event, Saturday, September 23, 2000. See Special Events.

 

Photos courtesy of the Gordion Project, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology.

 


 Academic Calendar  Children's Activities Meetings| Conferences  Exhibits
 Films  Fitness/ Learning  Music  On Stage
 Religion  Special Events  Sports  Talks | Readings
Reestablishing the Historic Heart of Penn Perelman Quadrangle Grand Opening Events


Almanac, Vol. 47, No. 2, September 5, 2000

| FRONT PAGE | CONTENTS | JOB-OPS | CRIMESTATS | WELCOME BACK | FOR COMMENT: Policy on Copyright | HOLIDAYS: RELIGIOUS & RECOGNIZED | TALK ABOUT TEACHING ARCHIVE | BETWEEN ISSUES | SEPTEMBER at PENN | SEPTEMBER EXTRAS! | CALENDAR INDEX  | DEADLINES