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The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium's 2015 production of “Exit the King,” by Eugene Ionesco. Photo: Johanna Austin
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PAST EVENTS | 2019
THROUGH SEPT. 13: Works by JULIAN HOEBER at Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery of the University of the Arts. Opening Reception: Saturday, Aug. 3, 5 to 7:30 p.m. Born in Philadelphia, Hoeber's off-kilter canvases reveal both their recto and verso, playing with perception within the gallery space. The exhibition was conceived and co-organized by Isabel Lederman; the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery is free and open to the public weekdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturdays, noon to 5 p.m. 333 S. Broad St., Philadelphia. Click here for more information.
THROUGH AUGUST: "The Duchamp Family" at Philadelphia Museum of Art. Features works by the artists Jacques Villon (born Gaston Duchamp), Raymond Duchamp-Villon (born Raymond Duchamp), Suzanne Duchamp and her husband, Jean Crotti. And, of course, Marcel Duchamp, whose The Large Glass and Étant donnés: 1° la chute d'eau, 2° le gaz d'éclairage . . . (Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas . . . ) are part of The Philadelphia Museum of Art's stellar Duchamp collection. For more, visit PMA's website. Curated by Matthew Affron, The Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art; and Alexander Kauffman, The Andrew W. Mellon–Anne d’Harnoncourt Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow.
THROUGH AUGUST: series of exhibitions by participants in Swarthmore College's FRIENDS, PEACE, AND SANCTUARY program, at Twelve Gates Arts, Parkway Central Free Library and Philadelphia City Hall in Philadelphia. In October 2019, works will be shown at Booklyn in Brooklyn, NY.
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THROUGH AUG. 1 (AND SEPT. 13 - DEC. 22): Three-part exhibition, "Colored People Time" at Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), University of Pennsylvania, 118 S. 36th St. (at Sansom St.), Philadelphia. Free admission; closed Mondays and Tuesdays.
Also on view: "Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective," through Aug. 11.
From ICA's website: "Conceived by Meg Onli, assistant curator at ICA, Colored People Time challenges the traditional exhibitions structure and format to initiate a profound exploration into the banal and everyday ways in which the history of slavery and colonialism permeates the present and impacts the future.
"Broken into three separate chapters--Mundane Futures, Quotidian Pasts, and Banal Presents—which will open consecutively over the course of 2019, the exhibition explores how the subjugation of black people in America was not only part of our country’s foundation, but exists within our present moment, and shapes our future. Colored People Time will feature a range of emerging and established artists including Aria Dean, Kevin Jerome Everson, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Carolyn Lazard, Dave McKenzie, Martine Syms, Sable Elyse Smith, and Cameron Rowland."
Also on view: "Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective," through Aug. 11.
From ICA's website: "Conceived by Meg Onli, assistant curator at ICA, Colored People Time challenges the traditional exhibitions structure and format to initiate a profound exploration into the banal and everyday ways in which the history of slavery and colonialism permeates the present and impacts the future.
"Broken into three separate chapters--Mundane Futures, Quotidian Pasts, and Banal Presents—which will open consecutively over the course of 2019, the exhibition explores how the subjugation of black people in America was not only part of our country’s foundation, but exists within our present moment, and shapes our future. Colored People Time will feature a range of emerging and established artists including Aria Dean, Kevin Jerome Everson, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Carolyn Lazard, Dave McKenzie, Martine Syms, Sable Elyse Smith, and Cameron Rowland."
TUESDAY, JULY 16, 6 to 7 p.m. at the Barnes Foundation, Curators in Conversation: Bill Viola with Nancy Ireson, deputy director for collections and exhibitions & Gund Family Chief Curator at the Barnes, Susan Talbott, executive director of the Fabric Workshop and Museum, and Jodi Throckmorton, curator of contemporary art at PAFA. $10 admission includes Barnes exhibition access from 5 to 6 p.m.; free for members and students.
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JUNE 11-30: Don't miss Betty's Summer Vacation by Christopher Durang, directed by Tina Brock. June 11 - 30, 2019, produced by the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium (at Walnut Street Theatre's Independence Studio on 3. Philadelphia's Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium: "We Bring Good Nothingness to Life."
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Click image for the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium's website. Screenshot used with permission. Christopher Durang's "Betty's Summer Vacation" ran from June 11 through 30, 2019.
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JUNE 18, 7 p.m. 'Dreamweapons: A Musical Afterlife of Tony Conrad' with Jennifer Walshe and Lary 7's Owl Movie, celebrates the many influences of Tony Conrad (retrospective at ICA, through Aug. 11), presented by the Institute of Contemporary Art and Ars Nova Workshop. Free admission, Lightbox Film Center, 3701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Visit Ars Nova's site for more information and to RSVP for the free event.
THROUGH JUNE 16: Works by Elisabeth Kley, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery's Window on Broad project space, organized by Isabel Lederman. Kley's solo exhibitions of ceramics, watercolors, drawings and prints include: Pierre Marie Giraud (2017), CANADA (2016), GAVLAK (2015), 39 Great Jones (2014), Schema Projects (2014), John Tevis Gallery (2012), The National Gallery at the Georgian National Museum (2011), Le Petit Versailles (2010), and Momenta Art (2007). At the closing reception on Friday, June 7, 5 to 7:30 p.m., limited-edition (40) screen prints were available. Window on Broad, 333 S. Broad St., Philadelphia. (215) 717-6480. Hours: Mondays through Fridays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturdays, noon to 5 p.m.
JUNE 13, 8 p.m.: Ars Nova Workshop presents SUN RA ARKESTRA, SOUNDS OF LIBERATION and ELI KESZLER at a Marshall Allen 95th Birthday & Record Release Celebration. Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St., Philadelphia. $20 General Admission - tickets are selling fast, and VIP tickets are sold out. The Sun Ra Arkestra continues Sun Ra's legendary interstellar sound, and their maestro, alto saxophonist Marshall Allen, turns 95 this year. Join the celebration with Sun Ra Arkestra and another Philadelphia collective, Sounds of Liberation. Sounds of Liberation has been a leader in Philadelphia's avant garde since the 1970s; Eli Keszler is "experimental electronic music's favorite drummer." For more about this phenomenal music event, visit Ars Nova Workshop's website.
MAY 30, 7 p.m.: PATTI SMITH at The Philadelphia Museum of Art. Click here for ticket information. Singer, artist and poet Patti Smith and her daughter Jesse Paris Smith reflect on the legacy of Walt Whitman through spoken word and song. Presented as part of Whitman at 200: Art and Democracy
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THROUGH MAY 20: "Wise Men Fished Here: A Centennial Exhibition in Honor of the Gotham Book Mart, 1920–2020," Kislak Center, 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. For opening days and times or to purchase the exhibition catalogue, visit the Kislak website here.
From the Kislak Center’s website: “During its formative years, the Gotham Book Mart was one of the few book shops in North America to specialize in avant-garde and modernist literature, film, and art. Over its long run of 85 years in business, the shop attracted not only New Yorkers but also an international clientele eager to purchase little magazines and small press publications. Like other modernist bookshops, the Gotham Book Mart not only served as a retail space, but also acted as a publisher, distributor, and agent. The shop played an advocacy role for independent publishers seeking a space to promote new books, and provided a meeting place and salon for many writers. Above all, founder Frances Steloff provided support and friendship to five generations of Anglo-American and European writers (and expatriates) who visited her shop in midtown New York." |
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MAY 19, 1 to 9 p.m.: Germantown Arts presents a celebration of Nina Simone. "Singing Nina: a cultural festival and conference" takes place in several Germantown locations: 1 to 2:30 p.m., "What Happened, Miss Simone" documentary screening at the People’s Sanctuary (5507 Germantown Avenue), followed by a panel discussion with Ursula Rucker, Tony “TNT” Jones, and Randall Grass, moderated by Sara Lomax-Reese. The festival continues: a VIP event with performance by M’Balia Singley at the Germantown Historical Society, a garden party at the historic Wyck House, and culminating in a 7 p.m. performance of "Dear Nina: a sonic love letter to Nina Simone" with Drea D’Nur and Rootstock Republic at Rittenhouse Filmworks, 219 W. Rittenhouse Street in Germantown. For tickets, click here.
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THROUGH MAY 12: Wilma Theater presents a world premiere by Kate Tarker, "Dionysus Was Such A Nice Man," directed by Dominique Serrand. From Wilma Theater's website:
"Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we self-destruct. "When a family of shepherds in the suburbs of Corinth learn their adopted son Oedipus has ascended the throne of Thebes, they plan a bender to end all benders. But who’s on cleanup after the party’s over? Equal parts irreverent comedy and emotional journey into family dysfunction; this world premiere commissioned for Wilma’s HotHouse Company examines with horror and humor the lasting effects of personal trauma." 'Anything that can be laughed at should be taken seriously, and vice versa.' – Kate Tarker, playwright Wilma Theater, 265 S. Broad St. (at Spruce), Philadelphia. Box Office: (215) 546-7824. Visit Wilma Theater's website here. |
WILMA THEATER presents the world premiere of Kate Tarker's 'Dionysus Was Such A Nice Man.' Come hear more from the playwright and others on Thursday, April 18, 5:30 to 7 pm. Click image for more. (Photo of Leo Sweeney by Matt Saunders, used with permission from Wilma Theater)
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MAY 11, 1:30 p.m.: Panel Discussion; 3 p.m.: House Tour, "Rafael Villamil, An Impassioned Vision," Woodmere Art Museum, Chestnut Hill, Pa., with David B. Brownlee, professor, History of Art, University of Pennsylvania and Rafael Damast, curator, Taller Puertorriqueño. Tour Villamil’s unique, multi-tiered house in Chestnut Hill. Tickets, $10-$25. Click here to register.
The program complements artist and architect Rafael Villamil’s exhibition at Taller Puertorriqueño, "Paradise Has No Memory," up now through June 8 at Taller Puertorriqueño, 2600 N. 5th St., Philadelphia. Open Mondays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The program complements artist and architect Rafael Villamil’s exhibition at Taller Puertorriqueño, "Paradise Has No Memory," up now through June 8 at Taller Puertorriqueño, 2600 N. 5th St., Philadelphia. Open Mondays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
MAY 9, 6:30 to 9 p.m., "Public Lands, Private Hands" at Slought, 4017 Walnut St., tribal leaders and native community activists speaking about indigenous and settler land use and the Bears Ears National Monument. From Slought: "Slought and the Penn Social Justice & Arts Integration Initiative are pleased to announce Public Lands, Private Hands, a gathering of tribal leaders and community activists from Utah, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona speaking about indigenous and settler land use and the Bears Ears National Monument. The participants will speak about the importance of the Bears Ears National Monument debate, and about their relation to the sacred lands on which they live. This event is free and open to the public, and will include a public reception. The discussion will be moderated by Jaskiran Dhillon, co-editor of the forthcoming Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement."
APRIL 26, 6 - 10 p.m.: DEF POETRY REUNION at The Philadelphia Museum of Art. Nearly sold out: standing room only available. Click here for ticket information. PMA closes at 5 p.m., reopening at 6 p.m. for ticket holders.
APRIL 18: 5:30 to 7 p.m. at Kislak Center, University of Pennsylvania, 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia: "A Very Nice Panel on Dionysus," readings by actors Campbell O'Hare and Frank Nardi, Jr. from Dionysus Was Such A Nice Man by Kate Tarker, and discussion with the playwright.
The panel discussion, moderated by Mari Shaw, included Kate Tarker, playwright; Wilma Theater; Rosemary Malague, Program Director and Senior Lecturer in Theatre Arts, UPenn; Walter Bilderback, Dramaturg/Literary Manager, Wilma Theater; John Heon, PASC Co-Director; and Jessica Rizzo, writer, director and dramaturg. Presented by Wilma Theater; Producer Mari Shaw, Producer and former Board Chair, Wilma Theater; and PASC, this event is free and open to the public.
Click here for details, and come celebrate the world premiere of "Dionysus Was Such A Nice Man."
Says Paula Vogel (Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, "How I Learned to Drive"): "With Kate Tarker the American theatre at long last has a woman comedic anarchist, in the company of Jarry, Orton, Durang, Apollinaire!"
The panel discussion, moderated by Mari Shaw, included Kate Tarker, playwright; Wilma Theater; Rosemary Malague, Program Director and Senior Lecturer in Theatre Arts, UPenn; Walter Bilderback, Dramaturg/Literary Manager, Wilma Theater; John Heon, PASC Co-Director; and Jessica Rizzo, writer, director and dramaturg. Presented by Wilma Theater; Producer Mari Shaw, Producer and former Board Chair, Wilma Theater; and PASC, this event is free and open to the public.
Click here for details, and come celebrate the world premiere of "Dionysus Was Such A Nice Man."
Says Paula Vogel (Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, "How I Learned to Drive"): "With Kate Tarker the American theatre at long last has a woman comedic anarchist, in the company of Jarry, Orton, Durang, Apollinaire!"
APRIL 17: 6 to 8 p.m. at Slought, 4017 Walnut St., Philadelphia: "The Politics of Race in America" with Jonathan Metzl, Dorothy Roberts and Anthea Butler, presented by Slought and the Health Ecologies Lab. The panelists will discuss the impact of racial resentment on public health issues, followed by a reception and book-signing for Metzl's Dying of Whiteness (Basic Books, 2019). For details, please visit Slought's website.
APRIL 16: 7 to 9 pm, special screening of ZAMA (2017), presented at Lightbox Film Center, 3701 Chestnut St. Philadelphia, by Slought and the SP2 Social Justice and Arts Integration Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania. ZAMA, an award-winning surreal satire directed by Lucrecia Martel, is based on Antonio di Benedetto's novel. Film scholar Natalia Brizuela will talk about the film after the screening. Free and open to the public; registration requested. Seating is first come, first served--registration doesn't guarantee a seat, so please come early. Here's a link for more about the event on Slought's website.
APRIL 10:, 5 to 7 p.m., poetry reading and conversation with renowned poet Yu Jian at Slought, 4017 Walnut St. From Slought's website: "Slought is pleased to announce A Future Without History Is a Wild Horse, a poetry reading and conversation with Yu Jian about modernity and modernism in Chinese contemporary poetry. Yu Jian is a Chinese poet, essayist and documentary film director, and is currently the director of the New Poetry Institute of Southwest Associated University, affiliated to Yunnan Normal University, as well as a professor in the department of Chinese Literature. The reading will be followed by a conversation with professor Lei Yanni from Sun-Yat Sen University and scholar Jean-Michel Rabaté, a Senior Curator at Slought." For details, visit Slought's website.
Stay for a screening of excerpts from "Wackersdorf" (2018), 7 to 9 p.m. The film is "a true story of a Bavarian community taking a stand against injustice and corruption, and a local-level politician taking on a much stronger governing power. The program will be introduced by scholar Simon Richter; following the film program, director Oliver Haffner and film scholar Rahul Mukherjee will engage in conversation, followed by public Q&A." (From Slought's website; details here.)
Stay for a screening of excerpts from "Wackersdorf" (2018), 7 to 9 p.m. The film is "a true story of a Bavarian community taking a stand against injustice and corruption, and a local-level politician taking on a much stronger governing power. The program will be introduced by scholar Simon Richter; following the film program, director Oliver Haffner and film scholar Rahul Mukherjee will engage in conversation, followed by public Q&A." (From Slought's website; details here.)
APRIL 6: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., screening of award-winning Trouble the Water, followed by discussion with directors Tia Lessin and Carl Deal at Slought, 4017 Walnut St.
The documentary, from 2008, focuses on a young couple's survival of Hurricane Katrina. Presented by Slought and the SP2 Social Justice and Arts Integration Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania. Free and open to the public; please visit Slought's website for more information.
The documentary, from 2008, focuses on a young couple's survival of Hurricane Katrina. Presented by Slought and the SP2 Social Justice and Arts Integration Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania. Free and open to the public; please visit Slought's website for more information.
APRIL 5: 5 to 7:30 p.m., Opening reception for "Jonathan Lasker: Paintings and Studies of Paintings" exhibition at The Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery of the University of the Arts, 333 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia. The exhibition continues through April 20. Visit the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery's website for more information.
APRIL 2: 6 p.m. at the Arts Cafe, Kelly Writers House: Poetry reading by ALLISON COBB and BRIAN TEARE (Creative Writing Program).
From KWH's website: "BRIAN TEARE is the author of five critically acclaimed books, most recently 'Companion Grasses,' which was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award, and 'The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven.' His sixth book, 'Doomstead Days,' will be out from Nightboat Books in 2019. ... ALLISON COBB is the author of 'After We All Died' (Ahsahta Press); 'Plastic: an autobiography' (Essay Press EP series); 'Born2' (Chax Press); and 'Green-Wood,' originally published by Factory School with a new edition in 2018 from Nightboat Books."
From KWH's website: "BRIAN TEARE is the author of five critically acclaimed books, most recently 'Companion Grasses,' which was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award, and 'The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven.' His sixth book, 'Doomstead Days,' will be out from Nightboat Books in 2019. ... ALLISON COBB is the author of 'After We All Died' (Ahsahta Press); 'Plastic: an autobiography' (Essay Press EP series); 'Born2' (Chax Press); and 'Green-Wood,' originally published by Factory School with a new edition in 2018 from Nightboat Books."
MARCH 28-30: Events and exhibition through April at Swarthmore College begin a series of shows by participants in FRIENDS, PEACE, AND SANCTUARY. Exhibitions continue, June through August, at Twelve Gates Arts, Parkway Central Free Library and Philadelphia City Hall in Philadelphia. In October 2019, works will be shown at Booklyn in Brooklyn, NY.
PANEL DISCUSSION: Thursday, March 28, 4:30 p.m. at Swarthmore's Lang Performing Arts Center, Cinema.
EXHIBITION OPENING and GUIDED GALLERY WALK: Friday, March 29, 4:30–6 p.m. at Swarthmore's McCabe Library.
ALL-DAY CELEBRATION, with food, art-making, advocacy workshops, and more: Saturday, March 30, noon–6 p.m.at Swarthmore's McCabe Library, Science Center 101, Eldridge Commons, Science Center Quad.
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PANEL DISCUSSION: Thursday, March 28, 4:30 p.m. at Swarthmore's Lang Performing Arts Center, Cinema.
EXHIBITION OPENING and GUIDED GALLERY WALK: Friday, March 29, 4:30–6 p.m. at Swarthmore's McCabe Library.
ALL-DAY CELEBRATION, with food, art-making, advocacy workshops, and more: Saturday, March 30, noon–6 p.m.at Swarthmore's McCabe Library, Science Center 101, Eldridge Commons, Science Center Quad.
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THROUGH MARCH 31: Slought, 4017 Walnut St.: "The Image-Event: A Joint Struggle." Exhibition that features the archive of the photographic collective Activestills. For more information, visit Slought's website. Opening reception: Friday, February 22, 2019, 6 to 9 pm, with a conversation featuring Vered Maimon, Paul Weinberg, Ahmad al-Bazz, and Shiraz Grinbaum at 7 pm. From Slought's website: "Working in Palestine/Israel since 2005, the collective is comprised of Palestinian, Israeli, and international activist-photographers."
THROUGH MARCH 31: "Rina Banerjee: Make Me a Summary of the World" at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) Historic Landmark Building, 118-128 N. Broad St., Philadelphia. Co-organized by PAFA and the San José Museum of Art (SJMA), the exhibition is the first in-depth exploration of the contemporary practice of artist Rina Banerjee. From PAFA's website: "Though Banerjee’s work has been shown extensively in Europe and South Asia, PAFA and SJMA will be the first North American museums to delve into the artist’s complex and fanciful worlds. ... Known for her large-scale sculptures and installations made from materials sourced throughout the world, Banerjee’s works investigate the splintered experiences of identity, tradition, and culture, prevalent in diasporic communities."
THROUGH MARCH 30: Philadelphia Photo Arts Center (PPAC). 1400 N. American St., Suite 103, Philadelphia, presents "The Women's Mobile Museum with Zanele Muholi." Concurrently, at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA): "Zanele Muholi & The Women’s Mobile Museum," works created by South African photographer Zanele Muholi and ten Philadelphia women during Muholi's year-long residency in Philadelphia through PPAC. The exhibitions, including work by South African teaching artist Lindeka Qampi, challenge "barriers of the art world while supporting emerging artists and reaching new audiences. Muholi and her collaborators ask, 'Whose portraits are shown in museums?' and 'Who is art for?' (from PPAC's website). Visit PPAC's website for more.
PAFA's concurrent exhibition is in the Richard C. von Hess Foundation Works on Paper Gallery, Historic Landmark Building, 118 N. Broad St., Philadelphia. From PAFA's website: "The ten female poets, photographers, painters, and digital artists have collaborated with each other, Muholi and Qampi to create art reflective of their individual and collective experiences. ... In addition to the works by Muholi and Qampi, this exhibition features work by Afaq, Shasta Bady, Davelle Barnes, Tash Billington, Iris Maldonado, Danielle Morris, Shana-Adina Roberts, Carrie Anne Shimborski, Muffy Ashley Torres, and Andrea Walls." Curated by Jodi Throckmorton. Visit PAFA's website for more.
PAFA's concurrent exhibition is in the Richard C. von Hess Foundation Works on Paper Gallery, Historic Landmark Building, 118 N. Broad St., Philadelphia. From PAFA's website: "The ten female poets, photographers, painters, and digital artists have collaborated with each other, Muholi and Qampi to create art reflective of their individual and collective experiences. ... In addition to the works by Muholi and Qampi, this exhibition features work by Afaq, Shasta Bady, Davelle Barnes, Tash Billington, Iris Maldonado, Danielle Morris, Shana-Adina Roberts, Carrie Anne Shimborski, Muffy Ashley Torres, and Andrea Walls." Curated by Jodi Throckmorton. Visit PAFA's website for more.
MARCH 24, 8 p.m.: Ars Nova Workshop presents Yunohana Variations. Experimental music with YoshimiO, drums; Susie Ibarra, drums and percussion; and Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (Lichens), electronics. Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia. $18 General Admission; details and tickets, visit Ars Nova Workshop's website.
MARCH 27, 5 to 6:30 pm: "A History of Space Debris," lecture at Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia. Free and open to the public; registration requested. Dr. Stuart Grey, Teaching Fellow, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Strathclyde Glasgow, researches the orbits of space debris; his talk is presented by Wolf Humanities Center, part of WHC's 2018-19 Forum on Stuff. From WHC: "The space race and more recent commercial space activities have led to a proliferation of objects in Earth’s orbit. What exactly are these objects? How do they behave? Who are we leaving them for? Is it junk or can it be reclaimed? Dr. Stuart Grey considers our role in polluting space and how this circulation of material impacts the future." For details and registration, visit the Wolf Humanities website here.
THROUGH APRIL 20: "Jonathan Lasker: Paintings and Studies of Paintings" exhibition at The Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery of the University of the Arts. Opening reception is Friday, April 5, 5 to 7:30 p.m., 333 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia. Visit the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery's website for more information.
FRIDAY, MARCH 1: "PEAL," a special Modernism conference (see below) event, 6:15 to 7:15 pm. Randall Couch, author of Peal (Coracle Press, 2017), "together with performers from Charlottesville-based Orchestral Maneuvers, presents an inter-genre work combining aspects of text art, algorithmic composition, and conceptualist poetry. The presentation will include an introduction to change-ringing and the book’s genesis, followed by a reading and polyvocal performance. Concrete and conceptual, structured and sensuous, in performance Peal offers the opportunity for procedural poetry to be both heard and deeply felt. Orchestral Maneuvers performers include Sandra Bain Cushman, Molly Derdeyn, Connor Douglas, Lisa Goff, Kathy Kuhlmann, Virginia Osterman, Laura Rogers, Tucker Rogers, and Thea Tupelo-Schneck, as well as Phil Walker (Charlottesville support team).
"Interested in learning more about Peal? We encourage you to visit the exhibition "Writers Making Books," presented in conjunction with the Pew Foundation's regional project "Whitman at 200: Art and Democracy," at Arcadia University's Spruance Art Gallery in Glenside, PA, February 28–April 21, 2019." -- the Kislak Center's website
"Interested in learning more about Peal? We encourage you to visit the exhibition "Writers Making Books," presented in conjunction with the Pew Foundation's regional project "Whitman at 200: Art and Democracy," at Arcadia University's Spruance Art Gallery in Glenside, PA, February 28–April 21, 2019." -- the Kislak Center's website
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FEB. 28 - MARCH 2: ‘Modernism – Materiality – Meaning’
FREE three-day conference, Thursday, Feb. 28 through Saturday, March 2, at the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, 3420 Walnut St., Philadelphia. The conference is free and open to the public, but seating is limited; attendees are asked to register. PASC co-sponsors Session III on March 1, "James Joyce, Surrealism, and the Gotham Book Mart," featuring a talk by Dr. Matthew Affron, Curator of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, on Marcel Duchamp's work in the 1940s and his Gotham window, "Lazy Hardware." The Modernism conference is in conjunction with "Wise Men Fished Here: A Centennial Exhibition in Honor of the Gotham Book Mart, 1920–2020," up Feb. 18 through May 20. From the Kislak Center’s website: “During its formative years, the Gotham Book Mart was one of the few book shops in North America to specialize in avant-garde and modernist literature, film, and art. Over its long run of 85 years in business, the shop attracted not only New Yorkers but also an international clientele eager to purchase little magazines and small press publications. Like other modernist bookshops, the Gotham Book Mart not only served as a retail space, but also acted as a publisher, distributor, and agent. The shop played an advocacy role for independent publishers seeking a space to promote new books, and provided a meeting place and salon for many writers. Above all, founder Frances Steloff provided support and friendship to five generations of Anglo-American and European writers (and expatriates) who visited her shop in midtown New York. |
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"Responding to growing interest in the concept of the modernist book store, the ‘Modernism – Materiality – Meaning’ conference will provide a framework for exploring the role of the Gotham Book Mart within the larger context of the printing arts, non-commercial publishing, retailing, and the marketing of modernism, with particular attention to the important role of little magazines and small presses. Other topics will include Surrealism, the New York poetry scene, the Beats, Edward Gorey, and much more. The conference will be preceded by a film festival inspired by the Gotham Book Mart’s promotion of modernist film. Other events will include a poetry reading, panels, and workshops.
"Speakers participating in the conference include keynote speaker Andrew Thacker (Nottingham Trent Oxford University), Lise Jaillant (Loughborough University), Matthew Affron (Philadelphia Museum of Art), Steve Clay (Granary Books), Brian Cassidy (Brian Cassidy Books), Anne Waldman (Naropa University), Dan Saxon (magazine publisher), Paul Saint-Amour (UPenn), Jean-Christophe Cloutier (UPenn), Josh Kotin (Princeton University), Brad Duncan (UPenn), Liliane Weissberg (UPenn), Michael Duncan (art critic), Michael Thurston (Smith College), Steve Rothman (book collector), and Tim Murray (University of Delaware), among others.
"Speakers participating in the conference include keynote speaker Andrew Thacker (Nottingham Trent Oxford University), Lise Jaillant (Loughborough University), Matthew Affron (Philadelphia Museum of Art), Steve Clay (Granary Books), Brian Cassidy (Brian Cassidy Books), Anne Waldman (Naropa University), Dan Saxon (magazine publisher), Paul Saint-Amour (UPenn), Jean-Christophe Cloutier (UPenn), Josh Kotin (Princeton University), Brad Duncan (UPenn), Liliane Weissberg (UPenn), Michael Duncan (art critic), Michael Thurston (Smith College), Steve Rothman (book collector), and Tim Murray (University of Delaware), among others.
FEB. 5 - 24: Elmer Rice's "Dream Girl," The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium
("We Bring Good Nothingness to Life"), Philadelphia's own theater of the absurd, presents its 2019 season. Website and tickets here.
Elmer Rice's "Dream Girl," directed by Tina Brock, runs Feb. 5 through 24, 2019, presented at The Sanctuary at St. Mary's Church, Hamilton Village, 3916 Locust Walk. From IRC's website: "A lovely young woman quite inefficiently runs a bookstore, where the slightest suggestions send her off into the most extravagant daydreams. Thirty-two characters bring to life the Philadelphia premiere of this comedy in two acts from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Adding Machine.'"
Tickets are also now on sale for "Betty's Summer Vacation" by Christopher Durang, June 11-30, 2019, presented at The Walnut Street Theatre's Independence Studio on 3.
("We Bring Good Nothingness to Life"), Philadelphia's own theater of the absurd, presents its 2019 season. Website and tickets here.
Elmer Rice's "Dream Girl," directed by Tina Brock, runs Feb. 5 through 24, 2019, presented at The Sanctuary at St. Mary's Church, Hamilton Village, 3916 Locust Walk. From IRC's website: "A lovely young woman quite inefficiently runs a bookstore, where the slightest suggestions send her off into the most extravagant daydreams. Thirty-two characters bring to life the Philadelphia premiere of this comedy in two acts from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Adding Machine.'"
Tickets are also now on sale for "Betty's Summer Vacation" by Christopher Durang, June 11-30, 2019, presented at The Walnut Street Theatre's Independence Studio on 3.
THROUGH FEB. 18 & 25: MoMA, New York City: Bruce Nauman retrospective, "Disappearing Acts," is ongoing through Feb. 18, 2019 (and through Feb 25 at MoMA's PS1 location). Visit MoMA's website for more.
The PS1 exhibition is well worth the quick journey: from MoMA, go across 53rd Street to the subway station on 53rd near 5th Ave.) and take the E or the M to Court Square/23rd Street Station. Walk south three blocks to PS1 at 22-25 Jackson Ave, New York, NY 11101. The whole trip should take less than 20 minutes. For map, hours, driving directions and more, see www.moma.org/visit/ .
Philadelphia and PASC have connections with Bruce Nauman, whose "Topological Gardens," was the U.S. exhibition in the 2009 Venice Biennale, commissioned by curators Michael R. Taylor (PASC Co-Director) and Carlos Basualdo for the Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Topological Gardens" won the Golden Lion award for best national pavilion. Later that year, Bruce Nauman's "Days" and "Giorni," sound installations that were part of the exhibition in Venice, made their U.S. debut at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
The PS1 exhibition is well worth the quick journey: from MoMA, go across 53rd Street to the subway station on 53rd near 5th Ave.) and take the E or the M to Court Square/23rd Street Station. Walk south three blocks to PS1 at 22-25 Jackson Ave, New York, NY 11101. The whole trip should take less than 20 minutes. For map, hours, driving directions and more, see www.moma.org/visit/ .
Philadelphia and PASC have connections with Bruce Nauman, whose "Topological Gardens," was the U.S. exhibition in the 2009 Venice Biennale, commissioned by curators Michael R. Taylor (PASC Co-Director) and Carlos Basualdo for the Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Topological Gardens" won the Golden Lion award for best national pavilion. Later that year, Bruce Nauman's "Days" and "Giorni," sound installations that were part of the exhibition in Venice, made their U.S. debut at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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FEB. 19: "Jasper Johns: Redo an Eye": Talk by Dr. Roberta Bernstein at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 6 to 7 pm.
Perelman Auditorium, Perelman Building. (Tickets are free with museum admission; members free). Dr. Bernstein, project director of Jasper Johns: Catalogue Raisonné of Painting and Sculpture, discusses her new book and experience working with Jasper Johns. For more information, visit the Philadelphia Museum of Art website, the Jasper Johns Catalogue Raisonné Project site, in association with The Wildenstein Plattner Institute and published by Yale University Press. |
Poster for a 1964 Jasper Johns exhibition at The Jewish Museum in New York. (Courtesy James Brewton Foundation)
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FEB. 7 - 17: Philly Theatre Week. Events, discounted tickets: visit Theatre Philadelphia's website.
THROUGH FEB. 17: Slought, 4017 Walnut St., Philadelphia: Photography in Crisis: Depression Era, 2011-2019, a retrospective exhibition presenting the Depression Era project, a collective lens-based arts project based in Athens, Greece, with work that engages the so-called "Greek crisis" and its aftermath, on display through February 17, 2019. During this time, Allan Sekula's "Waiting for the Tear Gas" (1999) will also be on view in the Slought Mediatheque as a companion piece to the exhibition.
The opening reception, Thursday, Jan. 17, featured a conversation featuring with members of the collective, including Pavlos Fysakis, Yiannis Hadjiaslanis, Yorgos Prinos, Georges Salameh, Vangelis Tatsis, and Pasqua Vorgia.
The opening reception, Thursday, Jan. 17, featured a conversation featuring with members of the collective, including Pavlos Fysakis, Yiannis Hadjiaslanis, Yorgos Prinos, Georges Salameh, Vangelis Tatsis, and Pasqua Vorgia.
FEB. 11 & 12: JOHN R. KEENE at Kelly Writers House, part of the Kelly Writers House Fellows program. Reading, Feb. 11 at 6:30 p.m.; brunch conversation, Feb. 12 at 10 a.m. Both programs will be broadcast live on KWH-TV; attendance is by RSVP only to whfellow [at] writing.upenn.edu.
From the KWH website: "John R. Keene, born in St. Louis in 1965, is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, translator, and professor best known for his fictions, "Annotations" (1995, New Directions) and "Counternarratives" (2015, New Directions). The latter book received an American Book Award. Keene received his bachelor's degree from Harvard College, and an MFA from New York University, where he was a New York Times Fellow. In 1989, Keene joined the Dark Room Writers Collective, and has been a Graduate Fellow of the Cave Canem Writers Workshops. He is the author of the poetry collection "Seismosis," with artist Christopher Stackhouse, and a translation of Brazilian author Hilda Hilst's novel "Letters from a Seducer." Keene received a 2005 Whiting Writers Award for fiction and poetry. He has had his work published in a wide array of journals, including African-American Review, AGNI, Encyclopedia, Gay and Lesbian Review, Hambone, Indiana Review, Kenyon Review, Mandorla, Ploughshares, and Public Space. He teaches at Rutgers-Newark where he is an Associate Professor of English and chair of the Department of African American and African studies. He also teaches in the MFA program in Creative Writing. John Keene is a 2018 MacArthur Fellow."
From the KWH website: "John R. Keene, born in St. Louis in 1965, is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, translator, and professor best known for his fictions, "Annotations" (1995, New Directions) and "Counternarratives" (2015, New Directions). The latter book received an American Book Award. Keene received his bachelor's degree from Harvard College, and an MFA from New York University, where he was a New York Times Fellow. In 1989, Keene joined the Dark Room Writers Collective, and has been a Graduate Fellow of the Cave Canem Writers Workshops. He is the author of the poetry collection "Seismosis," with artist Christopher Stackhouse, and a translation of Brazilian author Hilda Hilst's novel "Letters from a Seducer." Keene received a 2005 Whiting Writers Award for fiction and poetry. He has had his work published in a wide array of journals, including African-American Review, AGNI, Encyclopedia, Gay and Lesbian Review, Hambone, Indiana Review, Kenyon Review, Mandorla, Ploughshares, and Public Space. He teaches at Rutgers-Newark where he is an Associate Professor of English and chair of the Department of African American and African studies. He also teaches in the MFA program in Creative Writing. John Keene is a 2018 MacArthur Fellow."
FEB. 8: Wolf Humanities Center symposium, "Stuff: Anxieties and Aspirations of the Material World," Friday, Feb. 8, 2019, from 9:30 am to 6 pm. Held at the Institute of Contemporary Art, 118 S. 36th Street, Philadelphia; for more information and RSVP, visit Wolf Humanities Center's site. FREE and open to the public.
From WHC's website: "'Stuff: Anxieties and Aspirations of the Material World' asks us to reconsider our relationship with stuff - the materials and matter that surround us on a daily basis. Stuff speaks both to the promises and perils entangled in things. Through the lens of aspiration and anxiety, the program will reflect on the creation, use, preservation, discarding and collection of stuff across geographic and temporal contexts. In doing so, the symposium brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to examine these themes and to probe the ethics, promise, and recalcitrance of human engagement with the material world."
From WHC's website: "'Stuff: Anxieties and Aspirations of the Material World' asks us to reconsider our relationship with stuff - the materials and matter that surround us on a daily basis. Stuff speaks both to the promises and perils entangled in things. Through the lens of aspiration and anxiety, the program will reflect on the creation, use, preservation, discarding and collection of stuff across geographic and temporal contexts. In doing so, the symposium brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to examine these themes and to probe the ethics, promise, and recalcitrance of human engagement with the material world."
FEB. 6: The Decolonial Imagination, 5 to 7 pm at Slought, 4017 Walnut St., Philadelphia. From Slought's website: "a conversation with Walter D. Mignolo, Gabriel Abudu, and Victor E. Taylor on the history and development of decolonial thought and theory, on Wednesday, February 6, 2019, from 5 to 7 pm. This event is co-presented with the York College of Pennsylvania's Institute for Civic Arts and Humanities and the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania.
"The Decolonial Imagination engages Mignolo's recent book with Catherine E. Walsh entitled On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis. As Mignolo writes, decoloniality is a way to fundamentally address and resist how human beings are being "ruled." It is an examination and confrontation of power alongside and before coloniality—the material conditions for invasion and control. Decoloniality is also a way of imagining, a process of creatively shaping a world-future that holds the possibility of an existence radically unaligned with Western systems of epistemological, political, and theological hegemony. The decolonial imaginary gives us a perspective on these possibilities and the material conditions required to bring them more fully to life in the arts, literature, and politics."
"The Decolonial Imagination engages Mignolo's recent book with Catherine E. Walsh entitled On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis. As Mignolo writes, decoloniality is a way to fundamentally address and resist how human beings are being "ruled." It is an examination and confrontation of power alongside and before coloniality—the material conditions for invasion and control. Decoloniality is also a way of imagining, a process of creatively shaping a world-future that holds the possibility of an existence radically unaligned with Western systems of epistemological, political, and theological hegemony. The decolonial imaginary gives us a perspective on these possibilities and the material conditions required to bring them more fully to life in the arts, literature, and politics."
Wednesday, Jan. 23, 6 p.m. in the Arts Cafe at Kelly Writers House: A READING BY NASSER HUSSAIN (Writers Without Borders) hosted by Al Filreis. From KWH's website: "NASSER HUSSAIN is a Lecturer in Literature and Creative Writing at Leeds Beckett University. He published his first full collection of poetry, boldface, with Burning Eye Press in 2014. His work has appeared in a number of poetry journals and anthologies, most recently in Wretched Strangers (BoilerHouse press, 2018), and Concrete and Constraint (Penteract Press, 2018). His current poetic interest is mass transit, and his latest book, SKY WRI TEI NGS (Coach House Press 2018) is a book of poems written entirely from IATA airport codes. Tweet him @nassershussain"
Thursday and Friday, Jan. 17 (5:30 to 8 pm) and 18 (9 am to 5 pm), 2019, "Digital & Archival Approaches to Theater History, conference in honor of the Philadelphia Playbills Project at Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, sixth floor 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA. Free and open to the public (please show photo ID at entrance).
From the UPenn Libraries' website: "The challenge of theater and performance history has always been how to reconstruct and understand ephemeral events of a previous age. This conference addresses how scholars, librarians, archivists, and digital humanists take on this challenge in the 21st century as we look back at the materials in our archives that document past performances and look forward to the way new digital approaches can transform the we approach the study of theater history. Please register to attend here.
"We are grateful for the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities for making this conference possible."
From the UPenn Libraries' website: "The challenge of theater and performance history has always been how to reconstruct and understand ephemeral events of a previous age. This conference addresses how scholars, librarians, archivists, and digital humanists take on this challenge in the 21st century as we look back at the materials in our archives that document past performances and look forward to the way new digital approaches can transform the we approach the study of theater history. Please register to attend here.
"We are grateful for the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities for making this conference possible."