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Frank Sherlock, 2013 Pew Fellow. Photo by Colin Lenton.
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.
Example 1: 12th-century Beneventan staff. All images courtesy of the author.
Alex Torra in Pig Iron Theatre Company's Zero Cost House by Toshiki Okada. Photo by Jacques-Jean Tiziou.
San Francisco Ballet performing William Forsythe's Artifact Suite. Photo by Erik Tomasson.
Example 8: Page 134 from Cornelius Cardew's Treatise, 1963–67.
Photo of Imagine Africa @ Penn Museum by Maanvi Singh, courtesy of the Penn Gazette blog.
Motion Bank home page, accessed September 25, 2013. Image courtesy of Linda Caruso Haviland.
Paula Vogel speaks to a group of constituents at The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage on January 22, 2012. Photo by Jaime Alvarez.
National September 11 Memorial & Museum rendering by Squared Design Lab: pavilion interior tridents. Photo courtesy of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum Foundation.
The Greenhouse Projects installation at the American Philosophical Society Museum, designed by architect and 2010 Pew Fellow Jenny Sabin. Photo courtesy of the American Philosophical Society Museum.