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What are the critical issues in curating today? From risk-taking and experimentation, to performance in museums, to curatorial integrity and responsibility, leading visual arts and performance curators discuss their processes, challenges, and aspirations.

Interviews & Conversations

Designing Museum Galleries for Contemporary Audiences: Darielle Mason & Dan Spock in Conversation

Videos

Museum Director Robert Hicks & Artist Matt Adams on the Relevance of Pandemic History

Videos

Questions of Practice: Bisi Silva on the Contemporary Curatorial Practice in Africa

Interviews & Conversations

Questions of Practice: Visiting Scholar Kristy Edmunds on Why We Should Look Beyond the Local

Videos

Questions of Practice: Curator Lumi Tan on Cross-Disciplinary Curation at The Kitchen

Interviews & Conversations

Questions of Practice: Walker Art Center's Philip Bither on Curatorial Choices

Interviews & Conversations

Questions of Practice: Musician & Curator Argeo Ascani on Experimentation

Interviews & Conversations

Questions of Practice: FringeArts' Nick Stuccio on Curating Performance

Interviews & Conversations

Questions of Practice: Claire Tancons, Independent Curator, On Resistance and Artistic Practice

Essays & Articles

In Perpetual Motion: An Excerpt from Jason Rhoades, Four Roads

Essays & Articles

Excavating Real Estate: Alan W. Moore on The Real Estate Show (1980)

Questions of Practice

Philadelphia Orchestra Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the Joy Inherent in Live Music

Philadelphia Orchestra Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin explains what makes live music distinct among art forms.

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Event

Organize Your Own: "Falling In" with Writer Dan S. Wang

Writer Dan S. Wang leads a workshop based on "Falling In: American Counterculture for Chinese Nationals," as part of Daniel Tucker's Center-funded project, Organize Your Own.

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Blood Moon: Let Me Trompe Your L’oeil

As part of The Fabric Workshop and Museum's Blood Moon project, museum co-curator Alex Unkovic leads a tour of multidisciplinary artists Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley's installation with a focus on the artists' use of the trompe l'oeil technique.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Michelle Angela Ortiz

Through public art installations and a socially engaged practice, Ortiz examines issues of immigration, socio-economic inequalities, and human rights.

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News

Tony Award-Winner John Guare's Three-Part Epic on Stage, April 25–May 6

Philadelphia audiences can experience the world premiere of the first full presentation of Tony Award-winning playwright John Guare's Lydie Breeze Trilogy, April 25–May 6.

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Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Playwright James Ijames

Playwright and Pew Fellow James Ijames talks about how history influences his work, the importance of failure, and more.

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Vaclav Havel Interview at The Wilma Theater

In 2010, the Center hosted Václav Havel, the late renowned playwright and former President of the Czech Republic, for an interview at The Wilma Theater, prior to the American premiere of Leaving, his first play in 20 years.

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Event

Gospel Roots of Rock & Soul: Dixie Hummingbirds

In conjunction with its Center-supported project Gospel Roots of Rock & Soul, WXPN presents the Dixie Hummingbirds in concert at World Café Live.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Elizabeth Armstrong

Elizabeth Armstrong joined the Palm Springs Art Museum in January 2015 as the Chief Executive Officer and Director. She served as a Center exhibitions panelist and LOI panelist in 2012.

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Cai Guo-Qiang: Fireflies Opening Celebration

The Association for Public Art presents a public opening celebration to unveil Cai Guo-Qiang: Fireflies on Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

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Peggy Baker

Peggy Baker is one of Canada's most treasured modern dancers and choreographers, and the artistic director of Peggy Baker Dance Projects.

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview With Poet Rachel Zolf

Poet Rachel Zolf spoke to us about their works in progress and the “conscious choice” to live and work in Philadelphia.

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Allegra Kent Reads "My Discovery of Dance" from The Sentient Archive

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Merian Soto on Site, Improvisation, and Embodiment in "SoMoS"

Ain Gordon, the Center's 2011–13 Visiting Artist, spoke with choreographer and director Merián Soto about her Center-supported piece, SoMoS.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Catherine Wood

Catherine Wood is curator of international art and performance at Tate Modern.

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Event

Kasten Considered: Materials and Margins, with Sarah Crowner, Christine Poggi, and Jenni Sorkin

The first in a series of events programmed around the exhibition Barbara Kasten: Stages, the ICA hosts a conversation with artist Sarah Crowner and art historians Christine Poggi and Jenni Sorkin.

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Grants & Grantees

(ex)CHANGE: History Place Presence

Six temporary public artworks across Philadelphia, created by a multidisciplinary group of Asian American artists, reflect on the city’s diverse narratives and changing neighborhoods.

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News

In the News: Alien She, Now at Vox Populi

Alien She, the touring exhibition on the influential global punk feminist movement of Riot Grrrl, has received recent media attention from the Philadelphia Inquirer and other media outlets.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Christ Church Preservation Trust

Christ Church Preservation Trust (the Trust) supports the preservation, restoration, and maintenance of three historic sites: Christ Church, Christ Church Neighborhood House, and Christ Church Burial Ground.

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Event

PRISM Quartet Master Class and Panel Discussion with Dave Liebman, Greg Osby, and John Schaefer

This event features saxophonists/composers Liebman and Osby, and WNYC's John Schaefer, as they address the unique challenges of collaborating across genres.

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