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How can we reimagine works from the past for today’s audiences? Here, artists and performers discuss how they merge tradition with innovation, discover the limitations and opportunities of cross-cultural translation, and reinvigorate centuries-old practices to advance the legacy of their art forms.

Videos

Questions of Practice: Visual Artist Trenton Doyle Hancock on the Social Connotations of Dolls

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Questions of Practice: Choreographer Reggie Wilson on the “Cultural Retentions” of Sacred Spaces

Essays & Articles

Just Say It and Think It and It Is So

Interviews & Conversations

Who Gets to Be Contemporary? Brooklyn Museum's Catherine Morris and Arcadia Gallery's Richard Torchia on Pati Hill

Interviews & Conversations

Questions of Practice: Conductor Donald Nally and Violinist Hanna Khoury on Blending Musical Traditions

Interviews & Conversations

Questions of Practice: Flamenco Master Israel Galván on Reinvigorating Tradition

Interviews & Conversations

God Must be a Dancer

Essays & Articles

Questions of Practice with Ken Vandermark: Is Jazz Dead?

Interviews & Conversations

Questions of Practice: Composer and Pianist Vijay Iyer on Musical Lineage

Interviews & Conversations

Questions of Practice: Centrala's Michał Zadara and Barbara Wysocka on Classical Works and the Avant-Garde

Interviews & Conversations

Miranda July on Riot Grrrl

Collaborators & Colleagues

William Dalrymple

Dubbed a "master storyteller" by The Independent, William Dalrymple is a renowned historian, bestselling author, essayist, curator, and co-founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival, the largest literary festival in the world.

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News

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Announces 2017 Grants for Philadelphia Artists, Organizations

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage today announced 53 grants in support of the Philadelphia region’s cultural organizations and artists.

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Event

Color Theory Concert: PRISM Quartet and So Percussion

PRISM Quartet's Center-funded project Color Theory features a series of performances, lectures, and workshops that investigate the concept of "musical color," including a concert with the ensemble So Percussion.

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Aux Performance Space Presents:MARISA WILLIAMSON, J. SOTO & JUDITH LEEMANN

Anthony Romero and AUX present an evening with Marisa Williamson, J. Soto, and Judith Leemann—artists from New York City and Chicago addressing a range of creative approaches to deconstructing marginalized voices.

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Swarthmore College Exhibition: Sanctuary

Swarthmore College presents Sanctuary, one of three culminating exhibitions at City Hall for Friends, Peace, and Sanctuary.

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Questions of Practice

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

Darielle Mason and Dan Spock discuss issues of museum accessibility, experiential design, and the influence of digital culture on visitor engagement.

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Questions of Practice: Choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar on Artistic Evolution and Risk

Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, founding director of Urban Bush Women, reflects on her artistic evolution and the importance of living on the "edge of failure."

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Gospel Roots of Rock & Soul: Closing Musical Celebration

WXPN presents a closing musical celebration and panel discussion for the Gospel Roots of Rock & Soul.

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Grants & Grantees

Reconstruction and the Fourteenth Amendment Project

An original theater work sheds new light on the Reconstruction era in the United States, the constitutional legacy of the Civil War, and the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Damon Rich

Damon Rich is a designer, planner, and partner at Hector, an urban design, planning, and civic arts studio.

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Grants & Grantees

Radio Silence

Internationally noted artist Michael Rakowitz wove the stories of local Iraq War veterans and Iraqi refugees, cultural traditions, music, and found sound into a participatory performance at Independence Mall, combined with a 10-episode radio program for a national audience, providing an intimate, multifaceted, and sustained portrait of Iraq.

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Questions of Practice

Two Perspectives on psychylustro

Katharina Grosse's epic psychylustro—a five-mile-long "painting" sprayed intermittently along a stretch of train tracks in northeast Philadelphia—challenges a number of assumptions about the role of both painting and public art. Interested in understanding how the project might be evaluated from different disciplinary perspectives, we invited a painter and an urbanist to share their thoughts.

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Event

Paul Evans Seminar: Collecting Mid-Century Modern Furniture

A panel of specialists from New York and Philadelphia auction houses and galleries will explore the mounting interest for mid-century modern furniture.

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Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview With Visual Artist Quentin Morris

For more than 50 years, visual artist Quentin Morris has been creating monochromatic paintings and works on paper that explore the possibilities of the color black. He talks about the early moments that shaped his career, starting with trips to the Philadelphia Museum of Art with his father, and how Philadelphia has transformed in his time as an artist.

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Philadelphia Real Book Concert: Creative Struggle

Jazz Bridge presents a concert featuring sets by jazz guitarist Pat Martino and jazz pianist and Pew Fellow Uri Caine.

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Master Class with Israel Galván

The Philadelphia Flamenco Festival offers a free master class with flamenco master Israel Galván at Drexel University on March 11.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Greg Osby

Greg Osby (Pew Fellow, 2012) has made an indelible mark on contemporary jazz over the past 20 years, leading his own ensembles and performing with musical icons such as Dizzy Gillespie.

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Bring Your Own Project

This creative "place-keeping" project will put Fleisher's spaces and resources into the hands of Southeast Philadelphia community members, in an effort to make exhibitions more responsive to area residents and to preserve and promote the diverse cultural life of immigrant-rich neighborhoods.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Catherine Morris

Catherine Morris is curator at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum.

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John Corbett

John Corbett is a writer, musician, radio host, teacher, record producer, concert promoter, and, with co-owner Jim Dempsey, of Corbett vs. Dempsey art gallery in Chicago.

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