We asked the Boston ICA's chief curator to tell us what "authorship" and "co-authorship" mean to her and her practice. Read more >
Posted by Mia Breitkopf | October 29, 2010
Join Lamont Steptoe (2006 Pew Fellow) at a book release party tomorrow at Robin’s Bookstore. Steptoe is one of the writers featured in the Light of Unity Association’s anthology, E Pluribus Unum: An Anthology of Diverse Voices.
Robin's Bookstore
110A South 13th Street
Philadelphia
October 30, 2010, 2–5:30 p.m.
Find out more details about the release party, including who’s performing >
Learn more about Lamont Steptoe on his Pew Fellow’s page >
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Posted by Mia Breitkopf | October 29, 2010
Image: Mappamondo (Globe), 1966–68. Michelangelo Pistoletto, Italian, born 1933. Newspaper and wire. Wire ball, diameter c. 71 inches (c. 180 cm); newspaper ball, diameter 39 3/8 inches (100 cm). (Collection of Lia Rumma) © Michelangelo Pistoletto)
Michelangelo Pistoletto: From One to Many, 1956–1974 opens on Tuesday at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This PEI-funded project will be the first survey of Pistoletto’s art in the U.S. in over two decades. The museum will create its own version of Cittadellarte, a center for the study and promotion of creative activity Pistoletto founded in his hometown of Biella, Italy, in 1998.
In 1967, Pistoletto rolled a giant ball of newspapers through the streets of Turin. Tomorrow, Pistoletto will roll a replica of the newspaper sphere made by Spiral Q Puppet Theater out of the museum and onto the streets of Philadelphia. Join them for a walk through the museum’s adjoining neighborhoods and along major streets with a few special stops along the way. Walking Sculpture will depart from the West Entrance at 1:30 p.m.—rain or shine!
Scultura da passeggio: Walking Sculpture with Michelangelo Pistoletto
Philadelphia Museum of Art
West Entrance
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Departs at 1:30 p.m.
Free
See the full schedule of Cittadellarte-inspired performances, lectures, and workshops in the Museum’s Perelman Building >
Buy the exhibition’s accompanying publication here >
Read more about Cittadellarte >
Find out more about Pistoletto. Visit his Web site >
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Posted by Jacque Liu | October 28, 2010
By Erin McLeary, 2009 HPP Scholar
There’s a pitch at the end of this blog entry! The American Philosophical Society Museum is seeking your input into a public program currently being developed, described in more detail below. Read on and then contact Jenni Drozdek to join their focus group!
Do you recognize where this picture was taken?
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Posted by Mia Breitkopf | October 26, 2010
Kingdom Under Glass, a nonfiction narrative by 2005 Pew Fellow Jay Kirk, is available today! He will lecture and sign books at the Academy of Natural Sciences tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. A book party will immediately follow at the Rose Tattoo (19th and Callowhill Streets, Philadelphia).
From an interview with Jay Kirk on the Macmillan Web site:
What led you to tell the story of Carl Akeley?I first ran across the name Carl Akeley while working on a story for Harper's. It was a piece about all of these inexplicable sightings of mountain lions in the eastern United States. The thing is, the eastern mountain lion (aka cougar, puma) has been extinct since 1888, and yet there were, and still are, more cougar sightings than Elvis sightings. It was the first story I wrote that got me into the whole natural-history thing, however paranormally tinged, but I realized that, for me, here was the really essential story about America that's never gone away, and it's never going away because it's part of our collective national DNA, and that's our relationship with the wilderness. So in addition to spending a lot of time roaming mountainsides in Appalachia with game wardens and amateur cougar experts, I was reading a lot of history about how we had wiped out the cougar, along with just about everything else, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and somewhere in there, I read something in passing about this "famous taxidermist" who had once "Strangled a Leopard with His Bare Hands." It was just a moment of research serendipity. I can honestly say that my first thought was: I want to write a book about this guy.
Jay Kirk
Lecture, book signing
Academy of Natural Sciences
1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
6:30 p.m.
Buy the book and listen to Jay Kirk talk about writing Kingdom Under Glass >
Read an excerpt >
Meet the 12 artists who received a 2010 Pew Fellowship >
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Posted by Mia Breitkopf | October 22, 2010
Hear two premieres this weekend! The Emerson Quartet will perform the Philadelphia premiere of Lawrence Dillon’s Quartet No. 5: Through the Night tonight at the Perelman Theater. Violinist Elizabeth Pitcairn and pianist Marcantonio Barone will play the world premiere of David Finko’s Violin Sonata on Sunday at the Independence Seaport Museum. Pitcairn will perform on the Red Mendelssohn Stradivarius of 1720, which is said to have inspired the film The Red Violin.
These concerts were funded by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through a Philadelphia Music Project 2010 grant to the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society (PCMS) for the Next Generation Project. With this series of concerts, PCMS hopes to forge connections between the world’s preeminent chamber musicians and the next generation of classical music audiences.
Emerson Quartet
Perelman Theater
Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
260 S. Broad Street
Philadelphia
Tonight, Friday, October 22, 2010
8 p.m.
Elizabeth Pitcairn
Independence Seaport Museum
211 S. Columbus Boulevard
Philadelphia
Sunday, October 24, 2010
3 p.m.
Buy tickets and learn more about the Emerson Quartet, Elizabeth Pitcairn, and Marcantonio Barone >
Read more about the Next Generation Project funded by the Philadelphia Music Project >
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