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‘What in the World?’ at the Penn Museum, Print Invitational at Little Berlin, ‘Dead Flowers’ at Vox Populi

For the past couple decades ever more museums have invited artists into their store rooms to curate exhibitions: in an early example, the RISD Museum invited Andy Warhol; MoMA asked Chuck Close and Scott Burden; and Fred Wilson has made a career of the practice.  The results have almost always been interesting.  Artists, of course, have their own questions of and approaches to objects and collections and it’s always enlightening to see familiar things in unexpected ways.

New Leadership at the Penn Museum

Richard Hodges, the Williams Director of the Penn MuseumThe University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (previously known to its friends as The University Museum, but now called The Penn Museum) is one of the great collections of its kind. While its location at South and 33rd Streets, at one edge of Penn’s campus, makes it easy to access by car, train, subway, trolley and bus, it suffers from the fact that it’s neither on the way to anyplace else nor at the top of a hill on a major urban axis, as the PMA is. That’s just one ... More » »