Quantum dot nanocrystals deposited on a silicon substrate (200x) by Seth Coe-Sullivan.
Crystallized acetaminophen and ascorbic acid (40x) by Edy Kieser.
Crystaliezed, glycine, tartaric acid and resorcinol (40x) by Edy Kieser.
Scolex (head) of Cysticercus psiformis (taperworm) (100x) by Christian Gautier.
Interference image of a microscopic flow-pattern in draining soap film (15x) by Tsutomu Seimiya.
Planarization of patterned silicon-nitride-coated silicon-substrate (200x) by Pedro Barrios.
Jonathan Tucker: Painted Forms
Esther Klein Gallery Through December 31
Compound 3 by Jonathan Tucker
Channel 2 by Jonathan Tucker
MFA Benfit Auction and 2nd Year Exhibition
Meyerson Gallery Through November 4
Self-Portrait. Image by Rita Natarova, MFA '05
Holiday Garden Railway
Morris Arboretum Through January 2
lights and winter décor adorn the Garden Railway for the holidays
Mimesis
Burrison Gallery Through November 28
From Computer Drawings: from Philadelphia to Newark series. Mark on paper, 3.5 x 6 inches, 2001-02. By Corliss Cavalieri.
Exhibits at Van Pelt-Dietrich Library
Vintage photo of Edgar Fahs Smith in his office in Harrison Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania. Featured in the Nine Lives of Edgar Fahs Smith exhibit.
By Michael Winkler, detail of speleed-forms from "Regular, Linear, Axial Chaos," 2004. Part of the Michael Winkler: Word Images 1982-2004 exhibit.
On Color: Green Exhibition
Esther Klein Gallery Through November 5
Keiko Miyamori, Night Becomes Day, 1999. Materials: chairs, branch, washi, shell powder, Japanese Indigo, charcoal.
Bioscleave House, 2004 (Long Island). Part of the Architecture Against Death exhibit.
Ku Klux Klan night ceremony and cross burning (Valdosta, Georgia, 1922). Part of the Non-Retinal exhibit.
Luis Benedit, Fitotrón (System of Hydroponic Cultivation), 1973. Featured in The Other Epistemology exhibit.
Tomb of Pharaoh Seti I (Luxor, Egypt).Courtesty of National Geographic, 2002. Featured in the Sun Ra Meets Napolean exhibit.
ICA Fall Exhibits Through December 12
ICA presents four new exhibits for the fall 2004 season beginning September 9. The exhibits on display are Ant Farm: 1968-1978, Trials and Turbulence: Pepón Osorio, An Artist in Residence at DHS, David Lamelas: Exhibiting Mediality and this year's Ramp Project with artist Amy Sillman.
Media Burn by Ant Farm, July 4, 1975. Performance at the Cow Palace, San Francisco, CA. Photo by John F. Turner.
Face to Face by Pepón Osorio, 2002. Mixed media with 5 computer monitors with video, 2 large projected DVDs, TV with home video. Photo by Becket Logan, courtesy of Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, NY.
Límite de una Proyección by David Lamelas, 1967. Installation view, Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires. Courtesy of the artist and Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam.
Unearth by Amy Sillman, 2003. Oil on canvas, 66" x 78". Courtesy of Brent Sikkema NYC.
A Garden For Your Walls Through January 9
Lillium Stargazer, watercolor by Gwen Koths
Three Leaves by Gwen Koths
Enchanting Plants: Images from a Roving Horticulturist
Morris Arboretum Through February 27
Weeping Beech at Royal Botanic Gardents, Kew by Anthony Aiello.
Track of the Rainbow Serpent
Penn Museum Through February 27
Kandimalal (Wolf Creek Crater) and the Rainbow Serpent by Boxer Milner from Billilunal, commissioned in 2000.
Stan Brumby from Halls Creek with Sugar Leaf Dreaming, commissioned in 2000. Photo:. Peggy Reeves Sanday
Transcendence: Louis I. Kahn at Dhaka
Kroiz Gallery Through April 8
Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur
Dietrich Gallery, Penn Museum Through May 28
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 by
Joan Myerson. Digital "painting" of the artist's mother as Penn student