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NOTE: 11
x 17 paper needed
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Performances
Penn
Presents
Annenberg Center
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Baaba Maal, Senegalese singer |
Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre |
Actors in the production Othello |
Special Events
As part of ICA's 40th
anniversary lecture series Laurie Anderson, will lecture
on March 24 in
Meyerson Hall. The lecture will be followed by ICA's Annual
Benefit back at ICA. See Exhibits.
World
Culture Day: Celebrate Japan!
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Origami expert Barbara Pearl will offer an exhibition,
and hands-on workshop, of the Japanese art of paper
folding. Pictured here are some finished origami pieces.
Photo courtesy Barbara Pearl.
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UPM has Japanese
art and artifacts on display as part of its long-term
exhibition, "Buddhism: History and Diversity of
a Great Tradition." Included in that exhibition
is a spectacular Japanese Buddhist shrine, pictured
here. Photo: Terry Wild.
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Taiko drummers from Tamagawa University in Tokyo.
Photo: Kelly & Massa Photography.
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Exhibits
Treasures
from the Royal Tombs of Ur
Dietrich Gallery, UPM
Through September
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Three vessels. Gold bow, electrum tumbler, and a gold
vessel in the shape of an ostrich egg, with lapis lazuli,
red limestone, shell, and bitumen, all ca. 2650-2550
B.C.
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Gold bull amulet,
1.5 cm x 1.5 cm
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Cosmetic box with inlaid lid, of silver, lapis lazuli
and shell, found in the Lady Puabi's tomb.
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Some of Lady Puabi's jewelry, found in her tomb chamber,
including pins of gold and lapis lazuli, a garter and
cuff of gold, lapis lazuli and carnelian, finger rings,
and more.
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Headdress of the Lady Puabi
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Front view of the bull-headed Great Lyre from the
"Kings Grave" at Ur. Gold, silver, lapis lazuli, shell,
bitumen, and wood.
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Art-in-Science
XVIII: The Earth Exposed
Esther Klein Gallery
Through May 15
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Americas by Steve Young.
Philadelphia by Steve Young
Works
in Encaustic on Wood
Burrison Gallery
Through April 30
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R3 by Neil Garrioch.
Encaustic on wood, 2003. 18 in. x 18 in. x 2 in.
A
Look at Nature: Flowers & Landscapes
Burrison Gallery
Through March 13
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Blue Flower by Deen
Gu. Watercolor on silk, 2003. 17 in. x 11.5 in.
A
Show of Roses: Watercolors for the Morris
Arboretum
Morris Arboretum
Through June 27.
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Sky Roses by Marcy Abhau
Modern
Ireland: Four Centuries through
English, American, and Irish Eyes
Rosenwald Gallery, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library
Through March 15
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Engraving of Bryen
Boiroimhe from Geoffrey Keatings "General History of
Ireland". London: Printed by J. Bettenham, for B. Creake,
at the Bible, 1723.
Leaf
and Flower: Photographs by Nora Odendahl
Morris Arboretum
Through March 21
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Ink on watercolor, Nora
Odendahl.
Dusk
of Dawn
Amistad Gallery, Du Bois College House
Through March 31
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Tracks, by Demetrius
Oliver, a second year fine arts graduate student
Me
Alter's Egoes
Slought Foundation
Through March 31
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Title page of "me
ineman monophone"
ICA:
Spring Exhibits
Through April 4
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Child sculpture, part of Nothing
Ever Happens by Yoshitomo Nara.
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Epistle, Sarah McEneaney, 1997. Courtesy
of the artist and Gallery Schlesinger, New York.
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Unnamed map of Tokyo, Aleksandra
Mir, part of NAMING TOKYO (Part III), 2003.
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Smartwrap, KieranTimberlake
Associates LLP. Courtesy of KieranTimberlake Associates.
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Antique
Rugs of the Turkman Tribes
Arthur Ross Gallery
Through April 4
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Main Carpet, Erasari
tribe, Turkemenistan, circa 1875, 6 x 10 ft.
New
Society for Universal Harmony
Slought Foundation
Through April 15
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Case Study,
New Society Archives
Mythic
Visions: Yarn Paintings of a Huichol Shaman
UPM
Through August
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All paintings by José Benítez
Sánchez
Artist imagines how odd
the Sun god would have looked to the ancestors when
he first appeared. 16" x 16".
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This is the sacred circle
of deer of and peyote. 12" x 12".
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This work shows that the Huichol world
is full of things made of more than one identity.
16" x 16".
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Artists shows
that there is a conscious like on as well as beneath
the surface of the earth. 24" x 24".
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A skeletonized shaman
with his feathered power arrow as held aloft. 48" x
48".
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Hichol Peyoteros fill
shoulder bags and burden baskets with peyote for
ceremonial use at home. Photo by Peter T. Furst,
1968.
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Only
Controversial and Not Detrimental: The Legacy
of Modern Design in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia
Kroiz Gallery
Through May 31
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Mrs. Thomas Raeburn White House, 1963. Mitchell/Giurgola, architects. Photo
by Rollin LaFrance. |
Vanna Venturi House, 1959-1964. Venturi & Short, architects, Robert
Venturi, project architect. Courtesy of Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates.
Photo by Rollin LaFrance. |
Beaux-Arts
at Penn
Kroix Gallery
Through May 31
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Robert Fulton Memorial,
Competition, 1909,
Paul Phillippe Cret, architect
A
Wonderful Life: A Daughter's Tribute to a Family
of Educators
Lobby, GSE
Ongoing
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Pennsylvania Daughter by
Joan Myerson. Digital "painting" of the artist's mother as Penn student
Visit
the artist's web site for more images
Almanac, Vol. 50, No.
23,
February 24, 2004
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