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Ask Benny: Is Eakins' famous painting still on campus?
Dear Benny, Is “The Agnew Clinic” by Thomas Eakins still hanging in one of the School of Medicine buildings? How did we come to have that painting? Is there some connection between Penn and Eakins? —Avid About Art
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A new focus
Q&A/When Becky Young started teaching at Penn, she was the only photography lecturer in the Fine Arts Department. Now photography is thriving at Penn, and for Young, it’s time to move on.
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Corporate scandals, past and present
David Skeel remembers being asked the same two questions, over and over, in the wake of the corporate scandals that unhinged the business world in 2001 and 2002. “I started getting a lot of calls, and people were asking, first, ‘Have we ever seen these kind of scandals before?’ said Skeel, a Penn Law professor and expert in corporate and bankruptcy law. “Then they were asking, ‘And do these scandals have anything in common?’”
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Up Close
When painter and printmaker Chuck Close was a student at Yale in the early 1960s, he was greatly influenced by abstract expressionism. But as the decade wore on, Close became increasingly fascinated with a way of working that more closely resembled photography —something that would come to be known as photorealism. In his unique working process, Close would first photograph his subject and then put a grid over it, breaking the image down into many tiny individual elements.
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Leading Experts on Leonardo daVinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti to Gather at Penn for Two-Day Conference
PHILADELPHIA -- Scholars from across the United States and Europe will visit the University of Pennsylvania for the second annual Coccia Centennial Celebration of Italian Culture, hosted by Penn's Center for Italian Studies. The two-day conference, which is free and open to the public, will commence at 3 p.m., April 1, in the Terrace Room in Logan Hall. Papers will be presented on Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti's mural projects.
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Honorary Degree Recipients Named for Penn's 249th Commencement
PHILADELPHIA -- Grammy-award-winning musician and producer Quincy Jones, philosopher Saul A. Kripke, Comcast-founder Ralph J. Roberts, journalist Judy Woodruff, and Nancy Fugate Woods, dean of the University of Washington School of Nursing have been named along with speaker Kofi Annan as the honorary degree recipients at the University of Pennsylvania's 249th Commencement ceremony.The ceremony will be held, Monday, May 16 at Franklin Field, 33rd and South streets.
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U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to Deliver Commencement Address at the University of Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA- Kofi Annan, secretary general of the United Nations, will speak at the 249th Commencement of the University of Pennsylvania on May 16. He will also receive an honorary Doctor of Law degree."Secretary General Annan's commitment to international peace, human rights, and the universal values of equality, liberty, opportunity and human dignity make him the perfect speaker to address Penn students as they begin their journey as citizens and leaders of an increasingly complex and interconnected global society, "Penn President Amy Gutmann said.
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Penn Announces $100 Million Mixed-Use Development in University City
Philadelphia- The University of Pennsylvania and Hanover RS Limited partnership of Texas will develop a $100 million mixed-use building of luxury apartments, retail shops and a parking garage at the northwest corner of 34th and Chestnut streets in University City. The University currently operates a surface parking lot at that location and will lease the land to Hanover for 65 years.
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Movable Feast: Ireland in Philly
It’s hard to find a true Irish pub these days. Most any amateur restaurateur can tack up a few Guinness signs, serve Harp on tap, put shepherd’s pie on the menu and declare themselves “authentically Irish.” But the experience, more often than not, feels more like Indiana than Ireland. As St. Patrick’s Day approached, we wondered if there were any truly authentic Irish experiences here in Philadelphia, a city steeped in Irish traditions. We had our doubts, but ended up pleasantly surprised. Here’s what we found: The Bards 2013 Walnut St.