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• 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

• January 16, 2020

  “I Have A Dream…” Martin Luther King Jr. 1963 Archived Dream Speech

  "I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago a great American in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree is a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames o[ withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But 100 years later the Negro still is not free..." (Copyright 1963, Martin Luther King Jr.)

• January 16, 2020

  History on How Martin Luther King Jr. Day Become a Federal Holiday

  Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929. He was an American Christian minister and important leader in the Civil Rights Movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. On the third Monday of January every year, the federal government closes up shop for a day to honor this civil rights hero. Let us not forget his dream and continue to stand and work towards equality and justice for all.