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Chris Forsyth, 2011 Pew Fellow. Photo by Colin Lenton.

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Fellows Friday: Q&A with Chris Forsyth

Interview with Freehaven Masjid in Lawnside, NJ. Photo by Diana Soukhaphonh, courtesy of Scribe Video Center.

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Questions of Practice: Louis Massiah on Technology and Storytelling

Tim Portlock, 2011 Pew Fellow. Photo by Colin Lenton.

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Fellows Friday: Q&A with Tim Portlock

Catie Rosemurgy, 2012 Pew Fellow. Photo by Colin Lenton.

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Fellows Friday: Q&A with Catie Rosemurgy

Sarah Sanford, Katherine Powell, and Mary Tuomanen, in Three Sisters at the Arden Theatre Company. Photo by Mark Garvin.

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Questions of Practice: Mary Tuomanen on "Timefulness"

Barbara Kasten: Stages, 2015, installation view, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), University of Pennsylvania. Photo by Constance Mensh. Courtesy of ICA.

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"Pictures and Props:" An Excerpt from Barbara Kasten: Stages

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Jumatatu Poe, 2012 Pew Fellow. Photo by Colin Lenton.

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Fellows Friday: Q&A with Jumatatu Poe

The Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia in rehearsal for the Bach/Mendelssohn St. Matthew Passion. Photo by Sharon Torello.

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"Whose Passion Are We Hearing?:" On Mendelssohn's Revival of the St. Matthew Passion

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The Magic Flute, LA Opera. Photo by Robert Millard.

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Questions of Practice: Opera Philadelphia's David Devan on Excellence and Accessibility

Up Hill Down Hall: An Indoor Carnival, 90-minute processional performance guest curated by Claire Tancons for the BMW Tate Live Series, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, August 23, 2014. Featured: Marlon Griffith’s No Black in the Union Jack under Gia Wolff’s Canopy. Photo by Oliver Cowling © Tate, 2014.

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Questions of Practice: Claire Tancons, Independent Curator, On Resistance and Artistic Practice

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Peter Saul, Mondrian Duck, 60” by 72”, acrylic/canvas, 2015. © Peter Saul. Courtesy of Mary Boone Gallery, New York.<br />

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Marginal and Contemporary

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Barbara Kasten: Stages, 2015, installation view, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), University of Pennsylvania. Photo by Constance Mensh. Courtesy of ICA.

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When Are We Contemporary?

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Detail from J.B. Murray, Untitled, c. 1978–1988, ink, marker on paper. Courtesy of Cavin-Morris Gallery.

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Text Made Visible in the Works of Self-Taught Artists

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Wise Blood by Chris Larson and Anthony Gatto, co-commissioned by the Walker Art Center and The Soap Factory, June 2015. Photo by Jordan Rosenow.

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Questions of Practice: Walker Art Center's Philip Bither on Curatorial Choices

Marian Bantjes, Lost Child, installed as part of Framing Fraktur at the Free Library of Philadelphia. Courtesy of the Free Library of Philadelphia.

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Questions of Practice: Graphic Artist Marian Bantjes on Textual Embellishment

Bob and Roberta Smith, MoMA WILL BE FREE (2011) and CREATING THINGS (2011), installed as part of Framing Fraktur at the Free Library of Philadelphia. Courtesy of the Free Library of Philadelphia.

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Questions of Practice: Artist Bob and Roberta Smith on Art as Advocacy

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Figure 8, performed by the Trisha Brown Dance Company. Photo © Thibault Gregoire, 2013.

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Questions of Practice: Dance Critic Claudia La Rocco on Dancing in Museums

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.

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Transmitting Dance Across Generations: On the Making of A Steady Pulse: Restaging Lucinda Childs, 1963–78

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. In this version the dimensions are 32 by 28 feet. Each dancer is represented by a discrete color. In her archive Childs refers to this as a “grid.” Courtesy of Lucinda Childs.

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A Return to Simple Movement: Lucinda Childs and Judy Hussie-Taylor in Conversation

Rehearsal photo of Aaron Cromie and Mary Tuomanen's The Body Lautrec. Photo by Richard Termine Photography.

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Questions of Practice: Theater Artist Mary Tuomanen on Character

Untitled work by Bob and Roberta Smith, installed as part of Framing Fraktur at the Free Library of Philadelphia. Courtesy of the Free Library of Philadelphia.

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Questions of Practice: Artist Bob and Roberta Smith on Virtuosity

Mike Kelley, Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #32, Plus, a Performa commission, curated by Mark Beasley. Photo by Paula Court. Courtesy of Performa.

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Act V: A Final Report: The Archive of Gestures by Jay Kirk

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Anna Halprin teaching Planetary Dance to Tamalpa Institute students, May 2015. Photo © Sue Heinemann.

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God Must be a Dancer