Books
A History of Motherhood Through Design
Designing Motherhood includes over 100 objects spanning medical devices to depictions of laboring women in films.
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Art
The Political Vision of South Asian Abstraction
The works in Fault Lines prove that abstraction need not be confined to the inner life of the artist.
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At Haverford College, an Exhibition Inspired by a 19th-century Uyghur Poem
In The Contest of the Fruits, the art collective Slavs and Tatars investigates language, politics, religion, humor, resilience, and resistance in a pluralistic world.
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ICA Philadelphia Presents the First Major Retrospective on Ulysses Jenkins
Over 50 years of the artist’s video and media work on how images, sound, and cultural iconography inform representation is on view through December 30.
Art
How Soutine Showed de Kooning a Way Out
It seems to me that Soutine’s complete lack of interest in the cubists’ desire for order was exactly what appealed to de Kooning.
News
Penn Museum Workers Accuse Leadership of Union-Busting Tactics
Workers are charging the museum's leadership with "obstructing the free and fair election process through anti-union activity."
Art
Jessica Vaughn’s Cathartic Critiques of Office Culture
In Vaughn’s hands, “success” takes shape as a parade of etiquette, competition, and power.
News
Penn Museum Apologizes for Holding Remains of MOVE Bombing Victims
The museum has not yet addressed demands to terminate the curator who was in charge of the remains.
News
Penn Museum Kept Remains of MOVE Bombing Victim; Now, Activists Call for Curator’s Firing
Janet Monge used the victim’s remains in an online course titled “Real Bones: Adventures in Forensic Anthropology.”
News
Controversy Erupts Over Penn Museum’s Possession of MOVE Bombing Victims’ Remains
The bones of Black Philadelphians killed in the 1985 airstrike have been kept at the museum for decades.
News
After Protests, Penn Museum Vows to Repatriate Stolen Remains of Enslaved People
Students and activists have urged the museum at UPenn to abolish the Morton Collection and end use of data sourced from it.
News
Activists Renew Calls for Penn Museum to Repatriate Skulls of Enslaved People
Philadelphia activists accuse the museum of lack of transparency in its proceedings to repatriate the crania.