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Art Matters: A monumental steel sculpture on Shoemaker Green 
steel sculpture under construction

The sculpture “Atmosphere and Environment XII” was reassembled cube by cube as part of the move to Penn’s campus from the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2019. 

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Art Matters: A monumental steel sculpture on Shoemaker Green 

“Atmosphere and Environment XII” by Louise Nevelson, an 18-foot-high geometric steel structure, was moved to Penn’s campus from the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2019.

Louisa Shepard

Art Matters: ‘Ava’ by Shirin Neshat
artwork photograph of person's face with lines of text written over it

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Art Matters: ‘Ava’ by Shirin Neshat

A new installment in the “Art Matters” series examines “Ava” by photographer and filmmaker Shirin Neshat, on view at Perry World House.

Louisa Shepard

Art Matters: Hand-coiled clay jar by Pueblo artist Les Namingha
clay jar in museum case surrounded by other clay works

The clay jar by artist Les Namingha is on view in the Penn Museum’s long-term exhibition, Native American Voices: The People. Here and Now.

(Image: J. DiSanto, Penn Museum)

Art Matters: Hand-coiled clay jar by Pueblo artist Les Namingha

A hand-coiled clay jar by pueblo artist Les Namingha is on view in the Penn Museum’s Native American Voices gallery. The abstract surface design references water and its use in the U.S. Southwest.

Louisa Shepard

Art Matters: ‘Bridges’ by Roberto Lugo
The artwork “Bridges” by Robert Lugo in the Arthur Ross Gallery.

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Art Matters: ‘Bridges’ by Roberto Lugo

A ceramic vase with the face of the artist’s father on one side and Benjamin Franklin’s on the other is on view in the Van-Pelt Dietrich Library Center.