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Performances

Penn Presents
Annenberg Center

BublÈ

Michael Bublé, jazz singer

 

 

 

Slought Foundation Concerts

Marco Eneidi

 

Kevin Norton

 

Cooper-Moore, Abbs and Taylor

 

 

 

Special Events

20th Annual Children's Festival
Annenberg Center


Jack-Five Oh

BAM-The Blue Barrel Show

Jabali Acrobats

Kaleta: A Children's Festival

 

Jamie Adkins in Typo

 

Stars of Peking Acrobats

Mark Jaster--A Fool Named "O"

Stageworks

 

 

 

Exhibits

 

Nature Observed: A History of Botanical Engravings
Morris Arboretum
Through May 9

Pink Flowered Rocu by Maria Sibylla Merian

 

 

 

Folio Exhibition
GSC
Through May 28


Link by Scott White, Fine Arts Lecturer. Lithograph, 22 x15

Untitled digital print by Nigel Rolfe, Senior Critic


Art Agonist by Susana Jacobson, Assistant Professor

 

 

 

 

Show Support: A Benefit Exhibition
Slought Foundation
Through June 12

Slought Foundation (Room A1), 2002

 

 

 

Arts and Science Community V: Neighborhood Bike Works
Esther Klein Gallery
Through June 30


Buffalo Ride by Joe Tiburino

Non Stop Watch by Caroline Peterson

 

 

 

ICA Spring Exhibits
Through August 1


Moon by Roe Ethridge, 2003. C-print, 24 x 30 inches. Courtesy of Andrew Kreps Gallery.

Neither Here Nor There by Judy Pfaff, 2003. Installation view courtesy of Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art, NY. Photo by Alyson Horn.

 

The Forbidden City Ghosts by Yun-Fei Ji, 2002. Ink and mineral pigment on mulberry paper, 64 x 67 inches.

 

 

 

 

Mythic Visions: Yarn Paintings of a Huichol Shaman
Penn Museum
Through May 2

All paintings by José Benítez Sánchez

Sun God

Artist imagines how odd the Sun god would have looked to the ancestors when he first appeared. 16" x 16".

Circle of deer and peyote

This is the sacred circle of deer of and peyote. 12" x 12".

Multiple Identities

This work shows that the Huichol world is full of things made of more than one identity. 16" x 16".

Conscious Life

Artists shows that there is a conscious like on as well as beneath the surface of the earth. 24" x 24".

Shaman

A skeletonized shaman with his feathered power arrow as held aloft. 48" x 48".

Huichol Peyoteros

Hichol Peyoteros fill shoulder bags and burden baskets with peyote for ceremonial use at home. Photo by Peter T. Furst, 1968.

 

 

 

Framing (a Condensation Cube)
Slought Foundation
Through May 20

Condensation Cube, 1963-65.

 

 

 

 

Public Override Void
Slought Foundation
Through May 20

Sentence Frame Code

 

 

 

Art-in-Science XVIII: The Earth Exposed
Esther Klein Gallery
Through May 15

Americas by Steve Young.

 

Philadelphia by Steve Young

 

 

 

Only Controversial and Not Detrimental: The Legacy of Modern Design in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia
Kroiz Gallery
Through May 31



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

Robert Fulton Memorial

Robert Fulton Memorial, Competition, 1909,
Paul Phillippe Cret, architect

 

 

 

Terror: A Collaboration Between a
Palestinian and an Israeli Artist
Slought Foundation
Through June 12

From "The Family." Digital Print, 2001.

 

 

 

A Show of Roses: Watercolors for the Morris Arboretum
Morris Arboretum
Through June 27.

Sky Roses by Marcy Abhau

 

 

 

Master Drawings (1800-914) from the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Arthur Ross Gallery
Through June 27


Portrait of a Girl by Franz Horny (1798-1824), pencil on paper.

César-Paul Helleu (1827-1859), Two studies of a girl’s head, ca. 1896-7 red, black, and white chalks on fine-textured white paper inscribed in red chalk. Courtesy of Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

A Portrait Head of a Man in Profile by Jeane Auguste Donimique Ingres (1780-1867), graphite on paper.

A Woman Seated in Profile by James Jacques Joseph Tissot (1836-1902), black chalk with body color on blue paper.

 

 

 

 

Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur
Dietrich Gallery, Penn Museum
Through September


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.

Gold bull amulet,
1.5 cm x 1.5 cm

 

Cosmetic box with inlaid lid, of silver, lapis lazuli and shell, found in the Lady Puabi's tomb.

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.

 

Headdress of the Lady Puabi

Front view of the bull-headed Great Lyre from the "Kings Grave" at Ur. Gold, silver, lapis lazuli, shell, bitumen, and wood.

 

 

 

A Wonderful Life: A Daughter's Tribute to a Family of Educators
Lobby, GSE
Ongoing

Pennsylvania Daughter

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. 31, April 27, 2004

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