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Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts’ faces institutional racism
Philadelphia Inquirer

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts’ faces institutional racism

Gwendolyn DuBois of the School of Arts & Sciences discusses the racism experienced by Black students of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts at the turn of the century.

Digging up modernist myths at the Glass House
Artforum

Digging up modernist myths at the Glass House

In an interview, David Hartt of the Weitzman School of Design discusses his artwork revamping and recontextualizing the modernist grounds of Philip Johnson’s Glass House.

At Penn, the world’s first graduate queer art history fellowship
students studying queer art history

Eduardo Carrera, Emma Jacobs, and Nina Hofkosh-Hulbert are all inaugural McDonough Fellows, studying the history of art with a concentration in queer art history.

At Penn, the world’s first graduate queer art history fellowship

The McDonough Fellowships are supported by a 10-year, $3 million donation from Alphawood Foundation Chicago. They’re the first of their kind in higher education.
Archaeologists restoring an ancient ISIS-destroyed monument in Mosul just found seven incredibly preserved Assyrian carvings buried beneath it
Artnet News

Archaeologists restoring an ancient ISIS-destroyed monument in Mosul just found seven incredibly preserved Assyrian carvings buried beneath it

Michael Danti of the School of Arts & Sciences discusses his team’s restoration of the iconic Mashki Gate in Iraq and their uncovering of ancient Assyrian slabs, with support from Mosul University and the Penn Museum.

Ancient rock carvings unearthed in northern Iraqi city of Mosul
NBC News

Ancient rock carvings unearthed in northern Iraqi city of Mosul

Experts from the University of Pennsylvania are supporting the reconstruction effort for the Mashki Gate in Iraq, which led to the discovery of eight marble slabs dating back to the Assyrians.