News

• February 13, 2020

  Penn Today Features “Designs for Different Futures”

  The Philadelphia Museum of Art’s “Designs for Different Futures” exhibition, which is up through March 8, includes contributions and installations from several Penn faculty and alumni. The exhibition is organized into 11 sections: Resources, Generations, Earths, Bodies, Intimacies, Foods, Jobs, Cities, Materials, Power, and Data.

• February 13, 2020

  Acclaimed Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Speak at Penn’s 264th Commencement

  Award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will deliver the address at the 2020 University of Pennsylvania Commencement on Monday, May 18. “We are honored to bestow our highest degree on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and have her address our graduates at Penn’s 264th Commencement,” said President Amy Gutmann. “Her compelling narratives and absolutely fascinating commentary on complex cultural issues elevate the power of the individual voice.”

• February 6, 2020

  Behind the Scenes: Curators Reflect on ‘Making the Renaissance Manuscript’ and ‘Medieval Life’

  Making the Renaissance Manuscript: Discoveries from Philadelphia Libraries opens in the Goldstein Family Gallery on the sixth floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center. The exhibit, which runs through May 19, features manuscripts, cuttings, and incunables dating from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. “The manuscripts presented in this exhibition extend far beyond the rarefied atmosphere of the Renaissance studiolo,” Making the Renaissance Manuscript gives precedent to “everyday” documents over more elaborate texts.

• February 3, 2020

  Ricardo A. Bracho Named Inaugural Abrams Artist-in-Residence in Penn Arts & Sciences

  Ricardo A. Bracho has been named the first Abrams Artist-in-Residence in Penn Arts & Sciences, in the Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. Artists-in-residence are outstanding visual artists, musicians, writers, and other creative practitioners who work with students and faculty.

• January 23, 2020

  New York Times Reviews ‘Designs for Different Futures’ at the PMA

  "'Designs for Different Futures,' at the Philadelphia Museum of Art...tackles issues from housing to food, privacy to health, and expands the world of design to include many visions of the future. It took five curators to organize, and they all see the future differently... While the exhibition professes to be about the future, in many ways it’s about the present — even the recent past — dealing with our current obsessions, worries and hopes, from medical science to the fate of the earth." - Arlene Hirst, New York Times