Events
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Organization |
Dates |
Location |
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Vaults of Heaven: Visions of Byzantium
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University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology |
10/15/11 -
02/12/12 |
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum), Philadelphia |
Valentine's Day Tour: Romance at the Rosenbach
Presented by Rosenbach Museum and Library at Rosenbach Museum and Library February 11-February 12, 2012 You're invited to discover the passionate side of the museum's collections on this hour-long tour of the Rosenbach brothers’ home. Expert docents will share stories of love —sometimes ending with heartache, and sometimes with happily ever after.
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Rosenbach Museum and Library |
02/11/12 -
02/12/12 |
Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia |
Economic Self Sufficiency in the African-American Community Film & Panel Discussion Program Series
Presented by ICPIC New Africa Center February 12, 2012 Black Wall Street with panelists Dr. Weldon McWilliam and Fareed Shakir.
This documentary chronicles one of the nation's worst acts of racial violence, the Tulsa Race Riot, which occurred on June 1st, 1921, when 35 square blocks of African American homes and businesses were torched and destroyed by mobs of angry whites.
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ICPIC New Africa Center |
02/12/12 |
ICPIC New Africa Center, Philadelphia |
Family Arts Academy: From Istanbul to Cairo
Presented by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) February 12, 2012 You're invited to experience the world travels of Henry Tanner for yourself with a sensational Mediterranean dance performance by the Mosaic Dance Theater Company, who will take you from Istanbul to Cairo. While they perform, learn from artists how to capture the human body as it sways and swirls and bends and twirls.
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) |
02/12/12 |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia |
Amanda Burnham: Walkshed
Presented by Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts at Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts December 16, 2011-February 16, 2012 Burnham creates installations based on American urban landscapes. Starting with observational sketches made on site, she compiles, manipulates, and then pieces together fragments to arrive at a more subjective representation of place. In Walkshed, impressions of quotidian details from routine daily encounters trace the terrain of community and home.
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Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts |
12/16/11 -
02/16/12 |
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington |
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Honor Struggles For Freedom
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National Constitution Center |
02/01/12 -
02/29/12 |
National Constitution Center, Philadelphia |
Robert Asman: Silver Mine
Presented by The Print Center at The Print Center December 16, 2011-March 31, 2012 Robert Asman: Silver Mine is a retrospective exhibition of an exceptional photographic career characterized by idiosyncratic experimentation with the bounds of black and white photography. Robert Asman is one of the most important photographers of his generation. For most of the last thirty-five years Asman (Asheville, NC) has been devoted to investigating and stretching the conceptual and technical boundaries of silver prints, through extended, and related, explorations of the human figure...
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The Print Center |
12/16/11 -
03/31/12 |
The Print Center, Philadelphia |
Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit
Presented by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) January 28-April 15, 2012 The subject of this exhibition is the career and life of the artist Henry O. Tanner (1859-1937), including the pioneering African American artist’s upbringing in Philadelphia in the years after the Civil War; the artist’s success as an American expatriate artist at the highest levels of the international art world at the turn of the 20th century; Tanner’s role as a leader of an artist’s colony in rural France and his unique contributions in aid of American servicemen...
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) |
01/28/12 -
04/15/12 |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia |
Zoe Strauss: Ten Years
Presented by Philadelphia Museum of Art at Philadelphia Museum of Art January 14-April 22, 2012 Zoe Strauss: Ten Years is a mid-career retrospective of the acclaimed photographer’s work and the first critical assessment of her ten-year project to exhibit her photographs annually in a space beneath a section of Interstate-95 (I-95) in South Philadelphia. Strauss’s subjects are broad but her primary focus is on working-class experience, including the most disenfranchised people and places. Her photographs offer a poignant, troubling portrait of contemporary America....
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Philadelphia Museum of Art |
01/14/12 -
04/22/12 |
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia |
Soft Village: Studio Makkink & Bey
Presented by Fabric Workshop and Museum at Fabric Workshop and Museum February 3-June 20, 2012 Soft Village: Studio Makkink & Bey
On view from February 3rd-Late Spring 2012
Opening Reception and Artist Talk:
Friday, February 3rd, 6-8 pm
Artist Talk by designer Jurgen Bey begins at 6:30 pm
The Fabric Workshop and Museum (FWM) is pleased to present an exhibition by the Dutch design collaborative Studio Makkink & Bey which is led by architect Rianne Makkink (b. 1964) and designer Jurgen Bey (b. 1965)—one of the first Droog Design...
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Fabric Workshop and Museum |
02/03/12 -
06/20/12 |
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia |
Capitalism by Gaslight:
Presented by Library Company of Philadelphia January 17-August 24, 2012 Drawing on books, pamphlets, newspapers, magazines, prints, photographs, and ephemera in the Library Company's collection, guest curator Wendy Woloson explores underground urban commerce in the 19th century in our upcoming exhibition "Capitalism by Gaslight: The Shadow Economies of 19th-Century America."
The exhibition focuses on how many Americans earned their livings outside the spheres of wholesale and retail commerce, conducting economic transactions in illicit and...
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Library Company of Philadelphia |
01/17/12 -
08/24/12 |
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Imagine Africa with the Penn Museum
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University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology |
09/18/11 -
08/31/12 |
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum), Philadelphia |
Audacious Freedom: African Americans In Philadelphia 1776-1876
Presented by African American Museum of Philadelphia at African American Museum in Philadelphia September 10, 2009 - Ongoing This permanent exhibition details the freedom journey of African Americans in Philadelphia during the nation's first century. Stories of individuals and groups highlight the Underground Railroad, the free black community in Philadelphia, African American soldiers in the Civil War, and early struggles for civil rights.
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African American Museum of Philadelphia |
09/10/09 -
Ongoing |
African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia |