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God Complex: Different Philadelphia
The Arthur Ross Gallery presents this installation exhibit curated by ceramicist, social activist, poet, and educator Robert Lugo, courtesy of a grant from The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation. Lugo creates multicultural mash-up works that often speak to themes of inequality, poverty, and racial justice.
Ends December 19, 2021
Exhibits
Ulysses Jenkins Exhibit
The ICA presents the first major retrospective of the work of Ulysses Jenkins, a video artist from Los Angeles whose work rose to prominence in the 1970s and has been an influence on contemporary art since. The exhibition is co-curated by Meg Onli and Erin Christovale.
Ends December 30, 2021Printing Abolition
As part of the A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography, the Kislak Center hosts Michael F. Suarez of the University of Virginia for three lectures about the fight to end the British slave trade, referencing influential political prints, newspapers, private diaries, and other bibliographical sources. Suarez refers to the push to end the British slave trade as the first humanitarian mass media campaign.
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