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Performances

Penn Presents
Annenberg Center


Claudia Villela
Brazilian jazz vocalist,
Claudia Villela
Syndey Dance Company
Sydney Dance Company

Moscow
Moscow State Radio Symphony

 

 

Celebration of African Cultures
UPM


Momma Sandi

Momma Sandi, a member of the National Association of Africa Storytellers serves up two programs of stories rich with songs, movement and rhythm. Photo by Momma Sandi.

Queen Nur

Storyteller Queen Nur joins the Nigerian percussionist Yomi Awodesu to offer a performance, "The Games We Play: Stories, Rhythms in the Oral Tradition".

Universal Dancers

Members of the Universal African Dance & Drum Ensemble, which offers two West African drum and dancing performances. Photo by Jennier Chiappardi.

 

 

 

 

Exhibits

 

Through Her Eyes: Works in Photography and Prose
Kelly Writers House
Through February 28

Through Her Eyes by Beandrea Davis, 2004

 

 

Modern Ireland: Four Centuries through
English, American, and Irish Eyes
Rosenwald Gallery, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library
Through March 15

Engraving of Bryen Boiroimhe from Geoffrey Keatings "General History of Ireland". London: Printed by J. Bettenham, for B. Creake, at the Bible, 1723.

 

 

New Society for Universal Harmony
Slought Foundation
Through April 15

Case Study, New Society Archives

 

 

Me Alter's Egoes
Slought Foundation
Through March 31

Title page of "me ineman monophone"

 

 

Antique Rugs of the Turkman Tribes
Arthur Ross Gallery
Through April 4

Main Carpet, Erasari tribe, Turkemenistan, circa 1875, 6 x 10 ft.

 

 

Leaf and Flower: Photographs by Nora Odendahl
Morris Arboretum
Through March 21

Ink on watercolor, Nora Odendahl.

 

 

ICA: Spring Exhibits
Through April 4


Child sculpture, part of Nothing Ever Happens by Yoshitomo Nara.

Epistle, Sarah McEneaney, 1997. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Schlesinger, New York.

Unnamed map of Tokyo, Aleksandra Mir, part of NAMING TOKYO (Part III), 2003.

Smartwrap, KieranTimberlake Associates LLP. Courtesy of KieranTimberlake Associates.

 

 

Mythic Visions: Yarn Paintings of a Huichol Shaman
UPM
Through August

All paintings by José Benítez Sánchez

Sun God

Artist imagines how odd the Sun god would have looked to the ancestors when he first appeared. 16" x 16".

Circle of deer and peyote

This is the sacred circle of deer of and peyote. 12" x 12".

Multiple Identities

This work shows that the Huichol world is full of things made of more than one identity. 16" x 16".

Conscious Life

Artists shows that there is a conscious like on as well as beneath the surface of the earth. 24" x 24".

Shaman

A skeletonized shaman with his feathered power arrow as held aloft. 48" x 48".

Huichol Peyoteros

Hichol Peyoteros fill shoulder bags and burden baskets with peyote for ceremonial use at home. Photo by Peter T. Furst, 1968.

 

 

Only Controversial and Not Detrimental: The Legacy of Modern Design in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia
Kroiz Gallery
Through May 31



Mrs. Thomas Raeburn White House, 1963. Mitchell/Giurgola, architects. Photo by Rollin LaFrance.

Vanna Venturi House, 1959-1964. Venturi & Short, architects, Robert Venturi, project architect. Courtesy of Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates. Photo by Rollin LaFrance.

 

 

Beaux-Arts at Penn
Kroix Gallery
Through May 31

Robert Fulton Memorial

Robert Fulton Memorial, Competition, 1909,
Paul Phillippe Cret, architect

 

 

A Wonderful Life: A Daughter's Tribute to a Family of Educators
Lobby, GSE
Ongoing

Pennsylvania Daughter

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. 50, No. 19, January 27, 2004

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