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Accessing an artistic archive as an ICA summer intern
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Rising senior Min Park, an art history major in the College of Arts and Sciences, is a curatorial intern at the Institute of Contemporary Art through Penn's Summer Humanities Internship Program. (Photo: Wendy Qian)

Accessing an artistic archive as an ICA summer intern

Rising senior Min Park, an art history major from South Korea, is organizing the book and image archives as the summer curatorial intern at the Institute of Contemporary Art, and helping plan a September reopening with two new exhibitions.

Louisa Shepard

In Zoë Ryan, a collaborative new leader for the ICA
Zoë Ryan in front of brick wall ICA Director Zoë Ryan pictured on campus in July 2021.

In Zoë Ryan, a collaborative new leader for the ICA

Zoë Ryan began her role as director of the Institute of Contemporary Art in November. Here, a look at Ryan’s time at the ICA so far and what’s ahead for the institution.
New Arthur Ross Gallery exhibition focuses on introspection and contemplation
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The Arthur Ross Gallery’s new exhibition features 17th-century Dutch genre paintings paired with rare books from the Penn Libraries collection. On display until July 25, “An Inner World,” co-curated by Gallery Assistant Director and Curator Heather Gibson Moqtaderi, focuses on contemplation.

New Arthur Ross Gallery exhibition focuses on introspection and contemplation

The Arthur Ross Gallery’s new exhibition features 17th-century Dutch genre paintings paired with rare books from the Penn Libraries collection. On display until July 25, “An Inner World” focuses on contemplation.

Louisa Shepard

Mystics and visionaries: A fine arts seminar
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(Pre-pandemic image) Exhibition view of Hilma af Klint's 'The Ten Largest' at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, 2018. (Image: Courtesy of Ryan Dickey)

Mystics and visionaries: A fine arts seminar

The Weitzman School’s Jackie Tileston’s seminar looks at the ways in which alternative forms of knowledge have fed artistic practices, both in the past and for contemporary artists in cultures around the globe.

Kristen de Groot

National myths and monuments
Cartoon depicting Black Lives Matter images, a black fist, NO JUSTICE NO PEACE, and a statue of a horse.

National myths and monuments

Season two, episode four, of the OMNIA podcast “In These Times” features three faculty discussing the movement to reexamine monuments and the history and myths they symbolize, and how the public should think about the artworks in public squares.

Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw on the future of Cuban politics, economy, and art
A larger building flies the Cuban flag. A sign in front says "Cuba"

The Hotel Nacional, owned by the state-run chain Gran Caribe, is a tourism anchor in the el Vedado district of Havana, Cuba. (Image: Yuting Gao, Pexels)

Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw on the future of Cuban politics, economy, and art

On April 19, Raúl Castro stepped down from his role as the head of Cuba’s communist party. Penn Today talked with Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw of the School of Arts & Sciences about the future of Cuban politics, the economy, and art after the close of the Castro era.

Kristina Linnea García

Monument Lab app expands space and time at Art Museum steps
A digital image of Ursula Rucker standing at the base of the Philadelphia Art Museum steps with three people walking behind her.

The OverTime app features poet and artist Ursula Rucker at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. (Image: Courtesy Monument Lab)

Monument Lab app expands space and time at Art Museum steps

OverTime, a new augmented reality app that weds public art and history in a personal visual format gives users access to interactive, self-guided tours of public spaces, and invites users to add stories of their own.

From the Weitzman School of Design

Julie Nelson Davis named a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow
Julie Nelson Davis smiles for portrait outside her office

Julie Nelson Davis, a history of art professor in the School of Arts & Sciences, has been named a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in the fine arts research humanities category. Considered a foremost authority on Japanese prints and illustrated books, she teaches a wide range of courses on East Asian art and material culture.

Julie Nelson Davis named a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow

Considered a foremost authority on Japanese prints and illustrated books, the history of art professor teaches a wide range of courses on East Asian art and material culture.

Louisa Shepard

Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw puts the nation’s first ladies on display
professor standing in front of a painting in a museum gallery

Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, associate professor of history of art, was the curator of the exhibition "Every Eye Is Upon Me: First Ladies of the United States" at the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery. Shaw returned to Penn this semester after serving as the Gallery's senior historian and director of history, research, and scholarly programs.

Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw puts the nation’s first ladies on display

As curator of the first comprehensive exhibition on first ladies at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw weaves her scholarship into the stories of the women who supported U.S. presidents while in the White House.

Louisa Shepard