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Performances
Penn Presents |
Brenda Bufalino stars with many of today's best tappers in Thank You, Gregory! A Tribute to the Legends of Tap.
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The Philadelphia Singers, joined by the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, performs a concert of Psalm settings.
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The Holmes Brothers and Sister Marie Knight in a special concert, Shout Sister Shout: A Tribute to Sister Rosetta Tharpe. |
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Exhibits
OLE 2005: Fotos Aflamencao |
Photographer Karen A. Santiago captures evocative images of Flamenco culture in Seville, Spain. This exhibit details the incorporation of flamenco into various facets of Sevillian life.
Exhibit from the Fine Arts Department |
The Stylish Brides Inner Struggle for Sanity and Serenity by Neff, oil on canvas, 2005. Included in the Fox Family All Campus Show.
Through May 1.
Iraq's Endangered Cultural Heritage: An Update |
Repeating design featuring concentric ovals. Black stone. Steatite (?). Jemdet Nasr, ca. 3100-2900 BCE. Size: Diameter, 1.1 cm; height: 1.5 cm.
Segmented seal, with each section showing a pigtailed woman, hands raised, seated on a low dais. Black stone. Steatite (?). Late Uruk-Jemdet Nasr, ca. 3300-2900 BCE. Size: Diameter, 1.4 cm; height: 1.4 cm.
Birds reversed above and below undulating line. Black stone. Early Dynastic. ca. 2500 BCE. Size: Diameter, 1.8 cm; height: 2 cm.
Exhibits at Slought Foundation |
Cielito lindo by Julio Grinblatt (2004). Part of the Cielito lindo exhibit through May 19. |
Hermann Nitsch, Das Orgien Mysterien Theater/Theater of Orgies and Mysteries, Salzburg, 1990. Part of the Hermann Nitsch/Die Aktionen: 1962-2003 exhibit through May 19.
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Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur |
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,
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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.
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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. |
PAFA at Penn |
Glass-scape by Carol Fairlie, 2004, watercolor
Textiles of the Burma Hills |
Maru Jacket, Kachin group
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Lahu Woman's Skirt with Applique, Burma, 1920-1960, commercial and homespun cotton |
Antoin Sevruguin and the Persian Image |
Veiled Woman with Pearls, photograph taken by Antoin Sevruguin. Sevruguin was the first Iranian photographer to focus on the aesthetic, as well as the documentary, potential of photography. Images like this haunting portrait brought a new artistry to turn-of-the-century Iranian photography.
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Barber Dying Nasir al-din Shah's Mustache, photograph taken by Antoin Sevruguin. In addition to taking official portraits of royalty, Sevruguin had the privilege of witnessing more intimate moments, such as here.
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The Luggage Bearers. As ethnographer, Sevruguin turned his attention to various occupations in Iran, such as these luggage bearers posed outside in an open square. The image was part of his series on transportation. |
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ICA Exhibits |
Exhibit Richard Pettibone: A Retrospective features Roy Lichtenstein's , Trigger Finger and Frank Stella's Yozd II; Yozd II, 1969 acrylic on shaped canvas 9 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. On extended loan to the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery from a Private Collection. Through July 31. |
Untitled by Erick Swenson 2004. Polyurethane resin, acrylic paint, MDF, polystyrene, 276 x 174 x 23.5 inches. Angstrom Gallery, Dallas; James Cohan Gallery, New York. On display in the Springtide exhibit through July 31. |
Exhibit Framing Exposure: Process and Politics. Work by M. Ho; Untitled, 2005; collage on newspaper; 22 x 13.5 inches; courtesy of the artist. Exhibit through July 31. |
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Morris Arboretum Exhibit |
West Field, one of the works from a new exhibit, Water, Trees and Sky: Uncommon Views of the Arboretum.
The exhibit will run through September 4.
A Wonderful Life: A Daughter's Tribute to a Family of Educators |
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. 51, No. 30, April 26, 2005
ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS:
April 26, 2005
Volume 51 Number 30
www.upenn.edu/almanac
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