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Maria Hassabi: PLASTIC (2015-16), Installation view, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, January 31–March 1, 2015. Courtesy the artist; Koenig & Clinton, New York; The Breeder, Athens. Photo credit, Thomas Poravas.
Contributor, Visitor

Maria Hassabi

Darielle Mason, Stella Kramrisch Curator of Indian and Himalayan Art and Head of the Department of South Asian Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Contributor

Darielle Mason

Dan Spock, Senior Vice President for Audience Engagement at the Levine Museum of the New South.
Contributor

Dan Spock

Mosaics and woven textiles capture the attention of visitors wandering in the Safavid Court. Photo courtesy of Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Questions of Practice

Designing Museum Galleries for Contemporary Audiences: Darielle Mason & Dan Spock in Conversation

Interview
Patricia Wellenbach, Please Touch Museum President and CEO.
Contributor, Grantee

Patricia Wellenbach

Please Touch Museum, America to Zanzibar, exhibit courtyard and fountain filled with visitors’ shared wishes for the world. Photo courtesy of the Please Touch Museum.
Questions of Practice

Inside Please Touch Museum: Q&A with President and CEO Patricia Wellenbach

Interview
Tracie Morris. Courtesy Vermont Studio Center.
Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Poet and Performer Tracie Morris on Preserving a “Feeling of Liveness” in a Museum Setting

Video
Lumi Tan.
Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Curator Lumi Tan on Cross-Disciplinary Curation at The Kitchen

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Guitarist Nels Cline on Virtuosity

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 Jon Rubin, photo courtesy of the artist.
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Jon Rubin

Reggie Wilson, …they stood shaking while others began to shout, performed by Fist and Heel Performance Group as part of Grounds that Shout! (and others merely shaking), Church of the Advocate. Photo by Daniel Kontz Design.
Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Choreographer Reggie Wilson on the “Cultural Retentions” of Sacred Spaces

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Yannick Nézet-Séguin, photo by Chris Lee.
Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on Leadership

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Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Photo by Jessica Griffin.
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Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Leah Stein, 2018 Pew Fellow. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Choreographer Leah Stein

Interview
Trenton Doyle Hancock, Moundverse Infants exhibition at Tyler School of Art. Photo by Constance Mensh.
Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Visual Artist Trenton Doyle Hancock on the Social Connotations of Dolls

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Trenton Doyle Hancock, photo by Constance Mensh.
Contributor

Trenton Doyle Hancock

Alex Torra. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Theater Artist Alex Torra

Interview
Bisi Silva. Photo by Gabriela Herman.
Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Bisi Silva on the Contemporary Curatorial Practice in Africa

Video
Taylor Mac, A 24-DECADE HISTORY OF POPULAR MUSIC, “Decade 1 (1776-1786).” Photo by Teddy Wolff.
Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Theater Artist Taylor Mac on Duration and Ritual in Performance

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Taylor Mac, photo courtesy of the artist.
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Taylor Mac