Featuring Michael Taylor, the Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Join the Philomathean Society for a special preview of “Paris Through the Window: Marc Chagall and His Circle,” opening in March of 2011 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Taylor will provide a unique, behind-the-scenes look at what goes into organizing an exhibition at a major museum as he discusses Chagall’s early career as an aspiring painter living in bohemian Paris and revolutionary Russia. The exhibition will feature Chagall’s masterpieces from the 1910s and ‘20s, including the Museum’s Half-Past Three (The Poet) of 1911, as well as paintings and sculptures by his French and Eastern European contemporaries.

Undressing Race is Penn Race Dialogue Project’s Fall Art Exhibit
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“Undressing Race” examines the intersection of race and human exteriors. Our collection of t-shirt designs probes race as an appearance that an individual is unable to choose, as a shirt one can never take off. Underneath our clothing, skin color also subjects individuals to a set of assumptions. A photography piece explores the diversity of the human skin tone gradient. In the Philomathean Art Gallery, mixed media pieces by a Philadelphia artist explore layered identities.

Contributors to our exhibit include: Philadelphia artist Sophie Sanders, Shrestha Singh (C’12), and other Philadelphia and Penn student artists!

Opening event featuring Excelano Project, DJ Rico, and free food:
Sunday 11/14 at 4pm in Cohen Hall’s Fox Art Gallery
(Cohen Hall Ground Floor, entrance between Terrace Room and G-17)
Gallery will run from 11/14 – 12/8 (Closing event, “Redressing Race” on 12/8)

For more information: contact racedialogueproject (at) gmail.com or visit the Race Dialogue Project website!

The Philomathean Art Gallery presents

HAPPY BIRTHDAY
A solo exhibition featuring the work of Artie Vierkant

Opening Reception
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
7:30 PM

Come celebrate the opening of this aptly-titled exhibition with a reception on the artist’s birthday. Refreshments will be provided.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY will be on display in the Philomathean Society Art Gallery until 7 October, 2008.

For more on the artist, visit www.artievierkant.com

8 PM, 22 March, 2010 | 4th floor College Hall

I know you’ve all been waiting with bated breath. The theme of this year’s three part film series is Bizarre Biographies, and on the 22nd, we will be showing the second film in the trio.

The Philm we will be watching is a movie from the Philippines made in 1977 called Mababangong Bangungot or Perfumed Nightmare–a  ”semi-autobiographical fable about a Filipino named Kidlat Tahimik and his awakening to, and reaction against American cultural colonialism.”

Also, there will be phood!

Sic itur ad Tagalog with English voiceover.

On Monday the 19th at 8 PM we will be showing the last installment of the three part Philm series Bizarre Biographies, a cross national look of lives represented in film, in an either autobiographical or intimately biographical format. The movie being shown is “My Architect,” a wonderful film about the life of architect Louis Kahn, made by his illegitimate son, Nathaniel Kahn.

The New York Times comments on the film, that “in its formality and dispassion, the son’s movie oddly mirrors the father’s architecture. The creation of something meant for the ages, be it a building or a film, isn’t an endeavor to be undertaken lightly.

Another fun fact from the NY Times: “Kahn, it turned out, juggled three families for many years, one official and two not. He was so secretive about his triple life that many of his colleagues didn’t even know he was married.”

Philm events are not to be missed! Furthermore, this one will have food.