Over this past weekend, I made it back to The Barnes Foundation for the first time since I visited when I toured Penn as a high school student. I was especially excited to see the specially exhibition about Berthe Morisot, a female artist who produced — impressionist works during her lifetime. It was super inspiring…
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Penntrification and Project 4
For Project 4, Jesse and I chose to explore the topic of “Penntrification” or gentrification perpetuated by Penn’s administration. We decided to project images and text onto a chosen building in University City. The content of the projections described the impact that Penn’s expansion has had on the surrounding neighborhood of West Philadelphia. Our intention…
Local design lab’s LED sculptures for TedxPenn
I was watching old TedxPenn clips on Youtube recently and these colorful, cyndrical LED sculptures on the stage caught my eye. I found out thought some internet scouring that they were produced by PXL Labs, a local design lab/production space/gallery in Philly. I love the aesthetic of their work. They are definitely worth checking out…
Billie Eilish x Apple present ‘Come Out and Play’ in the spirit of the holidays
It astounds me how successful of a year Billie Eilish has had for her age. At 16, she has become one of the biggest breakout artists of 2018. She co-wrote her most recent track “Come Out and Play” with her brother and it was featured as the music accompanying an animated short film produced by…
Animations by Anna Mantzaris
I’ve never been one to watch animated short films in my free time, but this class has exposed me to how wonderfully beautiful they can be. I’ve really enjoyed the films by Anna Mantzaris, who is a young animator and film director from England. I never really noticed how animators draw attention to the finest movements,…
Banksy Painting Self-Destructs Seconds After Selling for $1.4 million at Sotheby’s
Renowned street artist Banksy may have just pulled the greatest prank in all of art history. Just moments after it was sold for $1.4 million at Sotheby’s, the artist’s famous painting titled “Girl with Red Balloon” began emitting a mechanical noise before seeming to self destruct, to the shock of all onlookers. As you can…
Acclaimed designer’s work now on exhibition in Philadelphia
Anne Neukamp is a German designer and graphic artist. A selection of her most recent work is on exhibition at the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia through Friday, September 28. I chose to highlight this exhibition because it’s local and relevant to our curriculum. Both of our projects so far have…
Inspiration via Vogue x Marc Jacobs
My Instagram feed has been absolutely flooded with photos from New York Fashion Week recently, and I’m not mad about it. In my regular peruse of Vogue’s website, I stumbled across this album of images depicting many of the women credited for having inspired Marc Jacobs’ recent Spring 2019 collection. I’m feeling particularly moved by…
Maybe the greatest artistic collaboration of 2018
It’s back-to-school, which –– on Penn’s campus –– translates to a nonsensical frenzy of constant partying, OCR events, frantically shopping for classes, and applying to clubs. Recently I was breezing through an online club application when the last section of the Google Form forced me to pause. “Paste a link below to something you think…
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