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Jason Rhoades, Garage Renovation New York (CHERRY Makita), 1993, installation view, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. Photo: Aaron Igler/Greenhouse Media.
Detail from The Temple of Knowledge and Beauty, a Shelf Life display by Laura C. Keim at The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Photo by Jeffrey Stockbridge.
Questions of Practice

Shelf Life

Valerie Cassel Oliver.
Peter Eleey.
Nato Thompson. Photo by Derek Schultz.
Astria Suparak.
Dan Byers. Photo courtesy of Roll Magazine.
Diana Vishneva and Abdiel Jacobsen in Errand Into the Maze. Photo by Costas.
Questions of Practice

Repetition Island

Detail from cover of Letting Go? Sharing Historical Authority in a User-Generated World, published by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage in 2011.
Cover of Curating Now: Imaginative Practice/Public Responsibility, published by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage in 2001.
Left to right: Song Dong, Song ErRui, and Yin Xiuzhen. Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Art Alliance.
Cover of What Makes a Great Exhibition?, published by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage in 2006.
Questions of Practice

What Makes a Great Exhibition?

Rally Under the Bridge, a 3-hour rally directed by Claire Tancons and Delaney Martin for New Orleans Airlift, New Orleans, April 5, 2014. Featured: 504 Boyz Horse Riding Club. Courtesy of New Orleans Airlift.
Jenn McCreary, 2013 Pew Fellow. Photo by Colin Lenton.
Katharina Grosse, psychylustro, 2014, site 3 (Drama Wall), Benjamin Moore acrylic indoor paint. Photo by Steve Weinik for the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program.
Questions of Practice

Two Perspectives on psychylustro

Katharina Grosse, psychylustro, 2014, site 6 (Warehouse). Benjamin Moore acrylic indoor paint. Photo by Steve Weinik for Philadelphia Mural Arts Program.
Questions of Practice

Approaching psychylustro

Katharina Grosse, psychylustro, 2014, site 3 (Drama Wall), Benjamin Moore acrylic indoor paint. Photo by Steve Weinik for the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program.
Questions of Practice

Learning to See psychylustro

Emily Abendroth, 2013 Pew Fellow. Photo by Colin Lenton.
Tacita Dean, JG, 2013. Color and black and white anamorphic 35mm film with optical sound, 26 ½ minutes. ©Tacita Dean courtesy Frith Street Gallery, London/Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris.