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Our Questions of Practice research series includes in-depth publications on issues critical to artistic practice that derive from our experience as cultural grantmakers. Explore our web-based and print publications here.

Books & Major Publications

In Terms of Performance, A Keywords Anthology

Books & Major Publications

The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory

Books & Major Publications

danceworkbook: A Steady Pulse: Restaging Lucinda Childs, 1963–78

Books & Major Publications

What Makes a Great Exhibition?

Books & Major Publications

Pigeons on the Grass, Alas: Contemporary Curators Talk About the Field

Books & Major Publications

Curating Now: Imaginative Practice/Public Responsibility

Books & Major Publications

Gray Area: Provocations on the Future of Preservation

Books & Major Publications

Letting Go? Sharing Historical Authority in a User-Generated World

Books & Major Publications

danceworkbook: Susan Foster! Susan Foster! Three Performed Lectures

Programs at the Center

Shelf Life

Books & Major Publications

danceworkbook: Belonging and Solo: Roko Kawai

News

On Stage in April: Vijay Iyer at the Kimmel Center, Janine Antoni and Stephen Petronio at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, and More

April welcomes a number of Center-funded performances to the region.

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Adapt!: A Forum for What?: American Theater and Politics Today

The Wilma Theater presents a panel discussion on the role of theater in our current political landscape.

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Pew Fellows News: Pepón Osorio Named a 2018 USA Fellow, Kukuli Velarde’s First West Coast Exhibition, Afaa Michael Weaver’s Work Featured in New Book

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Rochelle Steiner

Rochelle Steiner is a curator, writer, public art producer, and professor of critical studies at the University of Southern California in the Roski School of Art and Design, where she was dean from 2010 to 2012. In 2015, Steiner served as a panelist in Exhibitions & Public Interpretation.

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Endless Shout Closing Party with Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society

The Institute of Contemporary Art presents a closing party for its multidisciplinary project Endless Shout featuring a performance by the musical group Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society.

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Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-garde Opening Reception and Performance

An opening reception for University of the Arts’ Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-garde highlights three of Philadelphia’s major composers: Vincent Persichetti, George Rochberg, and George Crumb.

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Grants & Grantees

A Queer Divine

Juggler, playwright, and solo theater artist Sara Felder developed and produced the world premiere of a whimsical theatrical reflection on art, aging, and grief.

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Yael Bartana: And Europe Will be Stunned

A newly commissioned site-specific performance and an exhibition showcase Israeli filmmaker and installation artist Yael Bartana, whose work addresses the complexities of migration, memory, and identity.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Blanka Zizka

Blanka Zizka is the Founding Artistic Director of The Wilma Theater.

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Questions of Practice

Mark Allen and Adam Lerner on Audience Engagement

Allen and Lerner visited the Center in August 2010 to share examples of their innovations and to discuss collaboration, the impact of institutional creativity, and the utmost seriousness of humor.

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News

Trey Lyford’s World Premiere of The Accountant Explores Memory and Loss through Physical Theater, Magic, and Crowdsourcing, Sept. 6–9

Philadelphia-based artist Trey Lyford creates an experience about memory and loss in the world premiere of The Accountant, running Sept. 6–9 at Christ Church Neighborhood House.

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Questions of Practice

What Makes a Great Exhibition?

Published in 2006, What Makes a Great Exhibition? is vital reading for arts professionals, art and curatorial studies students, art historians, practicing artists, and anyone curious about exhibition-making today.

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Grants & Grantees

Art in Process

A discovery project investigates best practices in sharing the process of art-making to create meaningful connections between contemporary art and audiences.

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Questions of Practice

Kevin Varrone: Fellows Friday Q&A

Since receiving his Pew Fellowship in 2012, Varrone has developed Box Score: An Autobiography, an app for iPad and iPhone that features work from his book Eephus, a collection of prose poems about baseball.

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Conservation Center's "Top 10 Endangered Artifacts" Project in the Philadelphia Inquirer

The *Philadelphia Inquirer* featured the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts' fundraising campaign for its *Pennsylvania's Top 10 Endangered Artifacts* project.

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OutBeat Jazz Festival: The Bill Stewart Quartet

The William Way LGBT Community Center presents *OutBeat: America's First Queer Jazz Festival*. The Festival continues with the Bill Stewart Quartet at Painted Bride Art Center.

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Grants & Grantees

Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training

Pig Iron Theatre Company launched the School for Advanced Performance Training: a two-year certificate program for actors and directors.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Russell Davis

Moments of grace or insight or good writing actually are dependent on a day-to-day process.

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The End of the Way It Was Open Salon

New Paradise Laboratories continues its Center-funded investigation into improvisational structures, audience interactivity, and games of chance through the ongoing project An Investigation of Contingency and the Uses of Data Streams.

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The Crossing in the Philadelphia Inquirer

The Philadelphia Inquirer reviewed the latest presentation in The Crossing's Month of Moderns festival, The Gulf (between you & me).

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