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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

Questions of Practice: Museum Director Robert Hicks and Artist Matt Adams on the Relevance of Pandemic History

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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)

Grants & Grantees

Kazimir's Colors

Pennsylvania Ballet presented the American premiere of Mauro Bigonzetti's Kazimir's Colors, inspired by the Russian avant-garde painter Kazimir Malevich.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Cynthia Ling Lee

Cynthia Ling Lee is a contemporary choreographer who draws on both postmodern and North Indian classical *kathak* training in her dance making.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Andrea Clearfield

Clearfield creates deep, emotive musical languages that she says, "synthesize disparate elements into a musical whole," in works that explore themes ranging from freedom and oppression, to ancient cultures, religion, health, and technology.

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News

Philadelphia Chamber Music Society Receives Advancement Grant

The Center has awarded $425,000 to the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, in support of the organization's efforts to research and develop new business models that respond to shifting trends in audience behaviors.

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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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Questions of Practice: Cohabitation Strategies on Authorship and Community Engagement

Cohabitation Strategies on the concept of authorship when developing collaborative projects with communities that are not their own.

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Event

The Contest in Context: Red-Black Thread Lecture-Performance with Slavs & Tatars and Zain Abdullah

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Frances McElroy

Frances McElroy (Pew Fellow, 2009) creates elegantly crafted documentaries that delve deeply into personal stories.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Susie Ibarra

Susie Ibarra is known for her innovative style and cultural dialogue as a composer, improviser, percussionist, and humanitarian.

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Event

Representing the Veteran Experience

Following Tuesday's performance of Don Juan Comes Home from Iraq, veterans will speak about the challenges of representing their experiences artistically.

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Song ErRui Philadelphia Art Alliance Interview

Song ErRui, the daughter of artists Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen, talks about her contribution to her parents' exhibition, "The Way of Chopsticks," her life as a young artist, and artistic collaboration.

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Event

Potluck and Dance Party with Rosie Ledet & the Zydeco Playboys

WXPN's yearlong project explores the origins and evolution of zydeco, a form of African-American roots music that blends Cajun traditions, blues, and R&B. On Saturday, December 13, Zydeco Crossroads and Allons Danser welcome zydeco musicians Rosie Ledet & the Zydeco Playboys to Norristown's Holy Saviour Club for a holiday potluck and dance party.

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Grants & Grantees

BATCH: An American Bachelor/ette Party Spectacle

Part play, part sporting event, part anthropological study, this physical theater work examined rites of passage.

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Friends of Laurel Hill Cemetery

Built in 1836, Laurel Hill was one of the country's first rural cemeteries. In the 21st century, the cemetery attracts visitors to musical programs, tours, photography programs, and more.

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The Body Lautrec Sneak Preview at the PMA

Aaron Cromie and Mary Tuomanen offer a sneak preview of their upcoming show, The Body Lautrec, in the galleries of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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News

Pew Fellows News: Sonia Sanchez Wins Wallace Stevens Award, Glenn Holsten’s Wyeth Documentary Makes PBS Debut, David Hartt’s Solo Exhibition at Art Institute of Chicago, and More

In September, Pew Fellows from across all art disciplines were nationally recognized for their work, launched new and innovative projects, and received prestigious honors and awards. See the latest updates in our news roundup below.

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Rhythmning & Improvising History

Germaine Ingram, a 2010 Pew Fellow, collaborated with improvisational dancer and choreographer Leah Stein in a year-long laboratory to explore rhythm and improvisation practices.

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In Memoriam: Elaine Hoffman Watts, Klezmer Musician and Pew Fellow

A celebrated percussionist and treasured mentor, Watts was known for bringing an authentic and refined approach to klezmer, a centuries-old form of Eastern European Jewish folk music.

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Opera Philadelphia’s First-Ever Festival O17 in The New York Times, NPR, The Washington Post, and More

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Grants & Grantees

AUX Curatorial Fellowship Program

Member-run artist collective Vox Populi will launch a curatorial fellowship program dedicated to performance art, hosting five curatorial fellows in total over a period of two years.

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