Gazette | All Things Ornamental: The Arts

Sept\|Oct
	Annenberg Center 3680 Walnut St. (215) 898-3900 Anytown: Music by Springsteen, Scialfa and Tyrell; Dance by Shapiro and Smith Dance. Oct. 5-8. Eve Ensler: The Good Body \| Oct. 11-16. Diavolo The high-flying Los Angeles dance company. Oct. 18-19. Orchestra Europa \| All-Mozart program. Oct. 19. Leahy \| Celtic dance clan. Oct. 29.
Arthur Ross Gallery Fisher Fine Arts Library 220 S. 34th St. (215) 898-2083 Tues.-Fri.: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat., Sun.: 12 p.m.-5 p.m. Mapping the Pacific Coast: Coronado to Lewis and Clark. The maps and prints that led Jefferson to commission the Lewis and Clark expedition. Sept. 24 through Jan. 9.
	ICA 118 South 36th Street Wed.-Fri.: 12pm-8pm Sat.,Sun.: 11am-5pm (215) 898-7108 Rodney Graham: A Little Thought \| Perception and location are key in these photographs, light projections, and audio works. Sept. 10 through Dec. 23.
Kelly Writers House 3805 Locust Walk (215) 573-9748 Bruce Purchase \| Performance of Johnson is Leaving, a monodrama by John Wain. Sept. 13. Anne Applebaum \| A Reading & Conversation on the Soviet Gulags by the Washington Post columnist. Sept. 22. Norman Finkelstein and Harvey Shapiro \| Poets. Sept. 29. Anthony DeCurtis \| Rock critic and interviewer. Oct. 6. David Hickey \| Fiction writer and cultural critic. Oct. 31.	Penn Book Store 3601 Walnut Street (215) 898-7595 Maureen Corrigan Gr’87, book reviewer for Fresh Air and The Washington Post, will read and sign her new memoir, Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading. Oct. 11, 3-4 p.m.
	Penn Writers Conference (215) 898-6493 11th Annual Writers Conference at Penn \| Workshops and master classes, including “The Craft of Food Writing” and “Are You the Next J. K. Rowling?” \| Registration required. Oct. 1 and 2.
Slought Foundation 4017 Walnut St. (215) 222-9050 Wed.-Sat.: 11a.m.-6 p.m. Comicology: The New Magical Real \| Underground artists tell bizarre and humorous tales through their creations. Paper Architecture / Architecture de Papier \| Works by American painter Marjorie Welish and French artist Olivier Gourvil. Vera’s Room \| British visual artist Maria Chevska combines painting and sculpture in this installment on collectivity and narrative. All Sept. 10 through Oct. 22.
	University Museum 3260 South St. (215) 898-4000 Tues.-Sat.: 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Sun.: 1 p.m.-5 p.m. From Above: Images of a Storied Land \| Large-scale aerial photographs of the American Southwest by Adriel Heisey. Through October 2. Travels to the Interior of North America \| Rare, hand-colored engravings of interior North America and native peoples in the 1830s by Karl Bodmer. Through Dec. 31.
Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Annenberg Rare Book & Manuscript Library (sixth floor). (215) 898-7088 From Book to Gardenand Back \| Works by Ian Hamilton Finlay. Sept. 23 through Dec. 17.	World Café Live 3025 Walnut St. (215) 898-6677 Syreeta \| Sept. 10. John Gorka \| Oct. 29. Black 47 \| Oct. 31.