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Rehearsal photo of DUO by William Forsythe at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on September 12, 2016. Performance by Brigel Gjoka and Riley Watts.
Questions of Practice

Contemplating the Museum as Score

Essay
Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool installation at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Questions of Practice

Just Say It or Think It and It Is So

Essay
Boris Charmatz leading community workshop, Drexel University, 2016. Photo by JJ Tiziou.
Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Choreographer Boris Charmatz on Creating a Museum of Dance

Video
Michael Rakowitz, The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist, 2007. Installation of drawings, cardboard and newspaper sculptures, museum labels, sound. Featured at the Sharjah Biennial (2007), Istanbul Biennial (2007), Bard College, Hessel Art Museum (2008), Modern Art Oxford (2009), Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (2013), Smart Museum of Art, and University of Chicago (2014). Courtesy of the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program.
Contributor

Michael Rakowitz

Radio Silence, by Michael Rakowitz and Mural Arts Philadelphia. Photo by Steve Weinik, courtesy of Mural Arts Philadelphia.
Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Artist Michael Rakowitz on Threading Disparate Sources into a Cohesive Whole

Video
Laurie Zierer, executive director of Pennsylvania Humanities Council. Photo by Greg Irvin.
Contributor

Laurie Zierer

Reclaim. Rebuild. Repurpose. workshop, part of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council’s Chester Made Cultural Exploration Zone. Photo by Mark Garvin.
Questions of Practice

Inside Pennsylvania Humanities Council: Q&A with Executive Director Laurie Zierer

Interview
Radio Silence, by Michael Rakowitz and Mural Arts Philadelphia. Photo by Steve Weinik, courtesy of Mural Arts Philadelphia.
Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Artist Michael Rakowitz on the Live Experience of Radio

Video
Bisi Silva. Photo by Gabriela Herman.
Contributor

Bisi Silva

Bisi Silva. Photo by Gabriela Herman.
Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Bisi Silva on considering “the Local” and “the Global” in Curatorial Practice

Video
Charles O. Anderson and Vincent Sekwati Koko Mantsoe, Tar, 2007.
Grant

Tar

Jorma Elo, Scenes View 2, 2006. Photo by Alexander Iziliaev, courtesy of BalletX.
Grant

Scenes View 2

Adrienne Mackey, Recitatif. Photo by JJ Tiziou.
Grant

22nd New Edge Residency

Nicole Cousineau, Still Unknown, 2006. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Grant

Still Unknown

Grant

Numen

Headlong, Cell, 2006. Photo by JJ Tiziou.
Grant

Cell

Rennie Harris Puremovement. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Grant

Rennie Harris Performance Retrospective

Grant

Robert Battle Commission

Lisa Kraus, The Partita Project, 2006. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Grant

The Partita Project

Leah Stein Dance Company, Carmina Burana, 2006. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Grant

Carmina Burana

Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers, Crossing, 2007. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Grant

Crossing