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Polly Apfelbaum, Waiting for the UFOs (a space between a landscape and a bunch of flowers), 2019, installation view at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Courtesy of the artist; Alexander Gray Associates, New York; Frith Street Gallery, London, England; and Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria. Photo by E.G. Schempf.
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Polly Apfelbaum: For the Love of Una Hale

Jeffrey Cheung, Untitled.
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Unity at the Initiative

Douglas Dunn (left), Carolyn Brown (rear), and Merce Cunningham (far right), Persepolis Event, Shiraz Arts Festival, 1972. Photo courtesy Cunningham Dance Foundation archive.
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Beyond Borders research and development

Rendering of The Clay Studio's new building, exterior. Image courtesy of The Clay Studio.
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Making Place Matter

British soldiers firing on the Continental troops during the 2017 re-enactment of the Battle of Germantown. Photo by Garth Herrick. 
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Considering Re-enactments: The Battle of Germantown in the Light of 21st-Century Gun Violence

Archival image at the Kelly Pool, the Fairmount Water Works, 1962. Photo courtesy of the Fairmount Water Works and Philadelphia Water Department Collection.
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Pool: A Social History of Segregation

Doris Salcedo, Noviembre 6 y 7, 2002, New Palace of Justice, Bogotá, Colombia. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Exploring the ethical dimensions of a project with Doris Salcedo

RAIR, Digging Deeper: Field Studies Made Possible by the Waste Stream, 2017. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
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A Site To Be Seen: Concepts for and from the Superfund

John W. Mosley Photograph Collection, Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, Temple University Libraries.
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The Tenants of Lenapehocking in the Age of Magnets

1982 protest against the Warren County Landfill in Afton, North Carolina. Photo by Jerome Friar/UNC Libraries,
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The Ongoing Revolution

Ebony G. Patterson, ...called up, 2018, installation in abandoned pool, part of Open Spaces festival in Kansas City. Photo courtesy of The Village of Arts and Humanities.
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Staying Power

Pride and Progress mural, William Way LGBT Community Center. Photo courtesy of William Way LGBT Community Center.
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Remembrance

Broad Street Ministry dining hall. Photo courtesy of Broad Street Ministry.
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Voices from Broad Street Ministry: A Film Storytelling Project

Mercer Museum, Central Court. Photo by Kevin Crawford.
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Plus Ultra: Awakening the Mercer Museum Core

Slavs and Tatars, Not Moscow Not Mecca, 2012, installation view at Secession, Vienna. Photo by Otto Ottenschläger.
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The Contest of the Fruits

Shofuso Japanese House and Garden. Photo courtesy of the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia.
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Shofuso and Modernism: Mid-Century Collaboration between Japan and Philadelphia

Lanier Playground, renovated by The Trust for Public Land in 2018. Photo by Elyse Leyenberger.
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Heat Response: Creative action for Philly’s rising temperatures

Scientists from the Patrick Center for Environmental Research at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University collecting samples. Photo by John Hutelmyer, ANS.
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Watershed Moment

Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America, 2023, installation view, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. Photo by Constance Mensh.
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Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America

Suzanne Valadon, Nude Sitting on a Sofa, 1916, oil on canvas, 32” x 23”. Courtesy of the Weisman & Michel Collection, © 2021 Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York.
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Suzanne Valadon: Model, Painter, Rebel

Terence Nance, Swimming In Your Skin Again, 2015; video, two-channel projection, water, mirror, plants, sound system; installation view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA. Photo by Constance Mensh.   
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Swarm: Terence Nance, 2012-2022

Milford Graves, Beyond Polymath, sculpture detail. Photo courtesy of Ars Nova Workshop.
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Milford Graves: A Mind-Body Deal

Allyson Mitchell and Deirdre Logue, Killjoy’s Kastle, audience members participate in a conversation regarding their tour. Photograph by Tony Coelho.
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Killjoy’s Kastle

Beth Sholom Synagogue exterior, Elkins Park, PA. Photo by Lazlo Regos, courtesy of Beth Sholom Synagogue Preservation Foundation.
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David Hartt: The Histories (Le Mancenillier)