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Almanac - December 21, 2010, Volume 57 No. 16

Annenberg Center


Flatland

FLATLAND 2010 is a physical theatre work that examines contemporary human (mis-)communication. This diverse cast of 11 athletic performers explores what happens to human relationships in a “flattened” world of abbreviation and oversimplification, where the sound bite supersedes substance and the instant message overpowers the intellectual one. Directed by Jumatatu Poe and choreographed by Poe along with all the performers, FLATLAND 2010 is a reflective musing on the American Millenial generation. Join these 11 characters in their struggle for depth in two dimensions.

Keigwin
Harold Prince Theatre, January 15, 8 p.m.

Keigwin + Company

Zellerbach Theatre, January 20-22



Arthur Ross Gallery

The Dogon: Women, Work and Water
Photographs by Stuart Franklin

Through January 9


Dogon

Part of the University’s theme year of Water, the new exhibition opening November 6 at the Arthur Ross Gallery, The Dogon: Work, Women and Water, illustrates issues of water and sustainability in the Dogon region of Mali through photographs by Stuart Franklin.

Pictured: MALI. Dogon region. Songho. Girl with bucket filled with water by the well. 2009.


Movement

Pan Xinglei, Chinese,1969–
Movement, 2005
Paint, plaster, and concrete dust on canvas;
Smith College Museum of Art. Gift of Ethan Cohen in memory of James Connolly, 2008.

Part of Post-Mao Dreaming: Chinese Contemporary Art at the Arthur Ross Gallery, January 22-April 3, 2011.





Institute of Contemporary Art


Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry

January 13 - March 20, 2011

Shary Boyle & Emily Duke: The Illuminations Project

January 13 - March 20, 2011



Burrison Gallery


Fiber Revolution and the Kalahari Quilts are pleased to present its Botswana Collection exhibition at The Burrison Gallery at UPenn. This collection started out as an exchange of culture between the Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) regional group Fiber Revolution and the collective quilting group of women in Gaborone, Botswana.

January 10 – February 18, 2011


Penn Museum

Archaeologists and Travelers in Ottoman Lands

Through February 6, 2011


Ottoman Lands

Pictured: The Excavation at the Temple Court in Nippur, Oil on Canvas, Osman Hamdi Bey, 1904.

This painting, based on an 1893 photograph by John Henry Haynes, was commissioned by the University of Pennsylvania in 1903 for its envisioned Nippur Gallery.

Arthur Ross Gallery

The Dogon: Women, Work and Water
Photographs by Stuart Franklin

Through January 9


Dogon

Part of the University’s theme year of Water, the new exhibition opening November 6 at the Arthur Ross Gallery, The Dogon: Work, Women and Water, illustrates issues of water and sustainability in the Dogon region of Mali through photographs by Stuart Franklin.

Pictured: MALI. Dogon region. Songho. Girl with bucket filled with water by the well. 2009.




Institute of Contemporary Art


Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry

January 13 - March 20, 2011

Shary Boyle & Emily Duke: The Illuminations Project

January 13 - March 20, 2011



SLOUGHT Foundation


Wolf Man

The Wolf Man Paints!

Featuring drawings and paintings by Sigmund Freud's famous patient Sergius Pankejeff

November 18-January 22, 2011


Morris Arboretum

 

Holiday Garden Railway

November 26-January 2

Pictured: The Holiday Garden Railway Display at the Morris Arboretum is a festive annual tradition that enchants vistors of all ages.

 

Penn Museum

Righteous Dopefiend: An Anthropological Installation on Homelessness, Addiction and Poverty in Urban America

Through May 2011


Righteous Dopefiend

Righteous Dopefiend: An Anthropological Installation on Homelessness, Addiction and Poverty in Urban America, through May 2011 at the Penn Museum. © Jeff Schonberg 2009


Penn Museum

Fulfilling a Prophecy: the Past and Present of the Lenape in Pennsylvania

 


lenape 1 Lenape2

Lenape Meesing Candle holder made of metal and paint. Each year, the Lenape of Pennsylvania honor Meesing, the protector of the woodlands, with a fall Meesing ceremony. At the ceremony, a member of the Medicine Society, a group of men responsible for organizing and performing the Meesing ceremony, represents Meesing as a dancer. The Meesing dancer prepares for his task during the year preceding the ceremony by meditating on Meesing and making objects with Meesing’s image, which are given to the Medicine Society.  

A Lenape fan made of beads, deerskin and feathers rests in the hands of Shelley DePaul, director of the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania and co-curator of Penn Museum’s new exhibition, Fulfilling a Prophecy: the Past and Present of the Lenape in Pennsylvania.

Photos: Lauren Hansen-Flaschen.