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Duo of exhibitions showcase ‘Moveables’ and portraiture
Love seats and side tables placed in front of arched mirrors.

One of three furniture pieces by Ken Lum, a featured artist in the “Moveables” exhibit at the ICA.

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Duo of exhibitions showcase ‘Moveables’ and portraiture

“Moveables” and “When the Children Come Home” are the latest exhibits on display at the Institute of Contemporary Art, which remains free to all.
A summer studying the aesthetic brain
People looking at modern art in a museum or gallery setting.

Image: iStock/SeventyFour

A summer studying the aesthetic brain

For third-year Olivia Kim, a PURM research experience with Penn neuroscientist Anjan Chatterjee allowed her to combine her love of neuroscience and art in a working lab.
A Philadelphia artistic collaboration at Penn 
Kay Seohyung Lee standing in art gallery leaning against a wall

Kay Seohyung Lee, lecturer in fine arts at the Weitzman School of Design.

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A Philadelphia artistic collaboration at Penn 

An exhibition of 50 artworks by 34 undergraduate students in six Philadelphia colleges and universities, “Let Me Know You Are Alright,” is on view at the Charles Addams Gallery on campus through Aug. 18.

Louisa Shepard

Ukraine from revolution to war—in photos
A person walking through the rubble of a collapsed building in Ukraine.

The remains of a residential building in Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv, in June 2022.

(Image: Joseph Sywenkyj)

Ukraine from revolution to war—in photos

A new exhibit on display at the Annenberg School shows conflict and resilience in Ukraine, as documented by Ukrainian and American photojournalists.

From Annenberg School for Communication

‘Ritual and Remembrance’
two artists laughing with each other standing in gallery in front of wooden balusters on wall

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‘Ritual and Remembrance’

Work by four artists in the current Arthur Ross Gallery exhibition, “Songs for Ritual and Remembrance,” uplift histories that have been repressed and underrepresented, including those of enslaved people and oppressed laborers.

Louisa Shepard

In MATTERS course, art materials are traced to their source
students standing on a hill of seashells

Students with Kaitlin Pomerantz and site host and Bayshore Center Facilities Manager Scott Eves in Shell Pile, New Jersey, learning about sand mining and marine aquaculture.

(Image: Lucia Thome)

In MATTERS course, art materials are traced to their source

Through an innovative new course in the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, students explore the life cycles of the materials frequently used in art and design—from paints to potting soil.
Fair use in visual arts
Left: Photograph © Lynn Goldsmith; Right: Art work from The Andy Warhol Foundation 

(Left) Photograph © Lynn Goldsmith. (Right) Artwork from The Andy Warhol Foundation.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Carey Law)

Fair use in visual arts

Penn Carey Law’s Cynthia Dahl weighs in on the SCOTUS decision regarding Andy Warhol and fair use in art.

From Penn Carey Law