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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?

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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

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danceworkbook: Susan Foster! Susan Foster! Three Performed Lectures

Programs at the Center

Shelf Life

Books & Major Publications

danceworkbook: Belonging and Solo: Roko Kawai

Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Writer and Dancer Wendy Perron on Trisha Brown and the Body

Wendy Perron discusses Trisha Brown's fascination with "wanting to see the body horizontal in space."

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Let ‘im Move You: This is a Formation: Performance

J-Sette becomes the focus of the world premiere of jumatatu m. poe’s Let ‘im Move You: This is a Formation at Painted Bride Art Center.

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The Quiet Circus: Weekly Performances

Headlong presents outdoor performances every Saturday at the Washington Avenue Pier along the Delaware River.

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News

Letting Go? Media Mentions

The Center's publication, *Letting Go? Sharing Historical Authority in a User-Generated World*, received media attention from a number of publications.

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LIVE REMIX: Stage Adaptations in the New Media Age

LIVE REMIX is a three-part event guest curated by Tom Sellar, including a discussion with director Ivo van Hove, part of a series of programming related to the Center-funded performance of Ivo van Hove's work After the Rehearsal/Persona.

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Philadanco presents Ulysses Dove's Bad Blood

Philadanco reconstructs Bad Blood, a highly physical and seldom-performed piece by Ulysses Dove.

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Questions of Practice: Choreographer Boris Charmatz on Creating a Museum of Dance

Choreographer Boris Charmatz on how Musée de la danse is considering what a collection can be in the field of dance.

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Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Media Artist Tayarisha Poe

Media Artist Tayarisha Poe on becoming an artist, what motivates her to tap into her internal youth, and more.

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The Museum Educator in the Expanded Field

In 2011, the Center convened a round-table discussion with MoMA's Pablo Helguera and the New Museum's Eungie Joo to discuss the evolving state of museum education.

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Philly Block Project: Arts Carnival

The Philadelphia Photo Arts Center presents an arts carnival including artmaking workshops, carnival rides and games, and performances.

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crazy beautiful

Choreographer and Pew Fellow Tania Isaac (2011) presents an iteration of her Center-funded discovery project open notebook: crazy beautiful.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Elizabeth Smith

Elizabeth Smith is the executive director of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation in New York City.

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Grants & Grantees

Krzysztof Penderecki Week

A weeklong series honored the prolific composer's 75th birthday with concerts, lectures, and workshops.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Sonia Sanchez

Sonia Sanchez is an award-winning poet, playwright, professor, activist, and one of the foremost leaders of the Black Studies movement.

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Pennsylvania Ballet

Established in 1963, Pennsylvania Ballet has extended its important Balanchine-based repertoire by presenting new works by a variety of contemporary choreographers.

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ICA: Jason Rhoades, Four Roads

The first major American museum exhibition of the work of this exceptional artist. Jason Rhoades lived and worked in Los Angeles; however his art has been little seen in the United States until now.

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Michael Kuetemeyer & Anula Shetty

Kuetemeyer and Shetty combine new media storytelling and immersive documentary forms with socially engaged art-making practices to explore themes of place, cultural identity, memory, and hidden histories.

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News

Center Grantees and Colleagues Exchange Ideas at 2015 Creative Time Summit

A number of Center grantee and colleagues presented at the 2015 Creative Time Summit.

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Pablo Colapinto

Pablo Colapinto is a media artist and a 2005 Pew Fellow.

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Applying for a 2019 Pew Center Grant: What’s New This Year

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage is pleased to share our 2019 grant application guidelines and to announce updates to our grant making.

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