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Jason Rhoades, Garage Renovation New York (CHERRY Makita), 1993, installation view, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. Photo: Aaron Igler/Greenhouse Media.
Detail from The Temple of Knowledge and Beauty, a Shelf Life display by Laura C. Keim at The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Photo by Jeffrey Stockbridge.
Questions of Practice

Shelf Life

Valerie Cassel Oliver.
Peter Eleey.
Nato Thompson. Photo by Derek Schultz.
Astria Suparak.
Dan Byers. Photo courtesy of Roll Magazine.
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?

Detail from the cover of the No Idea Is Too Ridiculous catalog, published by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage in 2010.
Questions of Practice

No Idea Is Too Ridiculous

Sam Miller, 2015. Photo courtesy of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. 
From left to right: Jiri Zizka, Tom Sellar, Václav Havel, and Paul Wilson at The Wilma Theater in Philadelphia, May 26, 2010. Photo by Karl Seifert.
Anna Deavere Smith in Second Stage Theater’s production of Let Me Down Easy at Washington’s Arena Stage, December 31, 2010 to February 13, 2011. Photo by Joan Marcus.
Playgrounds for Useful Knowledge Neighborhood Convening, June 29, 2015. 632 Jackson Street. Photo by Steve Weinik. Courtesy of the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program.
The Wooster Group's version of Tennessee Williams' Vieux Carre. Pictured: Scott Shepherd and Kate Valk. Photo by Nancy Campbell.
Works by Thomas Nozkowski on view at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, in 2009. Photo courtesy of Stephen Friedman Gallery.
Dancers rehearsing J-Sette with LaKendrick Davis and Donte Beacham. Image courtesy of idiosynCrazy productions.
Screencap from Braiding / Unbraiding / Rebraiding with Headlong Dance Theater and Tere O'Connor.
Screencap from Belonging and Solo: Roko Kawai.
Susan Foster. Photo from the "Susan Foster! Susan Foster! Three Performed Lectures" danceworkbook.