Site Read is an anthology of essays from exhibition makers who illuminate the site-based innovations in now-iconic exhibitions they organized.
The Center produces in-depth web-based and print publications derived from our experience as cultural grantmakers. Discover diverse perspectives on evolving cultural practice in publications on topics such as exhibition making, cross-disciplinary approaches, restaging of performance works, and more.
Site Read is an anthology of essays from exhibition makers who illuminate the site-based innovations in now-iconic exhibitions they organized.
The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory gathers the work of artists and cultural practitioners in dance, architecture, science, and the visual arts with essays that cross boundaries within and between disciplines, and illustrate how the body serves as a repository for knowledge.
As practitioners and curators increasingly cross artistic boundaries and borrow among disciplines, the web-based publication In Terms of Performance—produced by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage and the University of California, Berkeley—provokes dialogue, debate, and discovery in an anthology of keywords designed to generate shared literacies.
Danceworkbook, a series produced by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, documented the creative practice of living and working with dance.
Danceworkbook is a series produced by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage and documents the creative practice of living and working with dance.
Danceworkbook was a series produced by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, between 2009 and 2015, to document the creative practice of living and working with dance.
Danceworkbook is a series produced by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage and documents the creative practice of living and working with dance.
A book from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage featuring contributions from Carlos Basualdo, Peter Eleey, Helen Molesworth, Hou Hanru, Rita Gonzalez, Jens Hoffmann, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Ralph Rugoff, Robert Storr, Ingrid Schaffner, Claire Tancons, Nato Thompson, and many more.
Using the Philadelphia region as a point of departure—but encouraging regional, national and global perspectives—Gray Area considered preservation in light of new economic realities, demographic shifts, technological changes, environmental pressures, and myriad fast-changing factors.
In 2013, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage launched An Experiment in Five Acts (Five Acts), conceived of in collaboration with Obie Award-winning playwright and former Center Visiting Artist Ain Gordon. Five Acts was aimed at artists and cultural producers working in the Philadelphia region who are negotiating mid-career challenges—be they purely aesthetic or more practical.
Letting Go? investigates path-breaking public history practices at a time when the traditional expertise of museums and historical institutions is constantly challenged by evolving trends in technology, community-based programming, oral histories, and contemporary art.
Published by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage in 2006 and edited by Center Executive Director Paula Marincola, What Makes a Great Exhibition? aims to stimulate thought about how overarching issues meet-on-the-ground practicalities.
Published in 2001 and edited by Paula Marincola, Curating Now: Imaginative Practice/Public Responsibility documents the proceedings of an October 2000 symposium that addressed the state of current curatorial practice.