Tag Archive "academy-of-natural-sciences"

News: Vollis Simpson ArtPlace grant, Dilworth + Occupy, Cannonball Press and opportunities

News Vollis Simpson Park receives ArtPlace grant We told you back in September that Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe received grants from ArtPlace, well here is another great use of the money from that organization.

Weekly Update – Beautiful with fur or feathers

This week’s Weekly has my review of Beautiful Creatures at the Academy of Natural Sciences. Bennie, a Moluccan cockatoo, looks like he’s about to deliver the punchline of a salty joke. A red fox evokes Joan Rivers on the red carpet, her mouth open and big, dark eyes looking straight at you, an aging raconteur. And a barn owl is a diva on the runway, wings up and strutting. These gorgeous animals, captured in dramatic black-and-white photos by University of the Arts students, exude star power at the Academy of Natural Sciences’ new Art of Science gallery.

Weekly Update — New story, old bones at the Academy of Natural Sciences

This week’s Weekly has my article about the Hadrosaurus foulkii exhibit at the Academy of Natural Sciences. Below is the copy with some pictures and a little video I made when I visited the exhibit. New mounting of the dinosaur Hadrosaurus foulkii at the Academy of Natural Sciences. In most science museums, dinosaur skeletons are mounted upright, as if the bones just walked through the front doors. But it wasn’t always this way. Before 1868 dinosaur bones were stored flat in glass vitrines like other inanimate specimens. So who got the dinosaurs on their feet? Note the Victorian wrought iron ... More » »

Sherman’s march

I went to hear author Sherman Alexie Wednesday night at the Academy of Natural Sciences. This was one of the evening lectures that went with the “Cocktails with Lewis and Clark” programming to coincide with their bicentennial exhibit about the explorers’ 1804-1806 trip across America. (image is Bucks County coffee served nicely in front of a scene with a big buck. Serendipity or no? You be the judge.) Before the lecture, folks milled around outside the auditorium where food tables and a bar were set up. Whoever placed the Colonially-garbed Mark Carroll three-piece band in front of the rams knew ... More » »