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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.
Score for Lucinda Childs' Melody Excerpt. This score represented all the possible pathways that each dancer may traverse during the course of performing Melody Excerpt, along with stage measurements in feet. Each dancer is represented by a discrete color. Courtesy of Lucinda Childs.
Tania Isaac, 2011 Pew Fellow, dancing in 2007.
Pastor Harry Moore, Sr. of Mount Olive Baptist Church approaches the lectern remodeled with 3711 Melon Street’s front door, as his choir performs at the funeral service for the row home. Interior detail of Temple Contemporary’s publication for Funeral for a Home.
Jason Rhoades, UNTITLED (FROM MY MEDINAH: IN PURSUIT OF MY ERMITAGE…), 2004, installation view, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. Photo: Aaron Igler/Greenhouse Media.
Merce Cunningham, Ocean, 2008. Rainbow Quarry, Waite Park, Minnesota. Photo by Cameron Wittig.
Mendelssohn's original Bach St. Matthew Passion full score. Throughout the score, Mendelssohn made dynamic and articulation marks in light pencil, preserving the original manuscript. Photo courtesy of the Bodleian Library, Oxford University.
On the set of Colombian telenovela Alias El Mexicano. Photo by Thaddeus Phillips.
Questions of Practice

Act IV: The Layover by Jay Kirk

Matteo Scammell in New Paradise Laboratories' The Adults, at the Painted Bride Art Center (detail). Photo by Plate 3 Photography.