ARTS AND CULTURE

ARTHUR ROSS GALLERY
Fisher Fine Arts Library, 220 South 34th Street
In collaboration with Penn's Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center and Penn Humanities Forum.
Personal Space Paintings by Scott Kahn, C'67
Intensely introspective oil paintings by this Penn alumnus, infuse everyday surroundings with surrealistic overtones stemming from dreams and memory.
Hours: Tuesday - Friday, 10 am - 5 pm
Saturday and Sunday, Noon - 5 pm
For more information, call (215) 898-2083 (general information) or (215) 898-1479 (gallery front desk) or e-mail arg@pobox.upenn.edu

INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART
118 South 36th Street
Fall Exhibitions
Trials and Turbulence: Pepón Osorio, An Artist in Residence at DHS
Drawing on his three-year residency at Philadelphia's Department of Human Services (DHS), this internationally renowned artist has created detailed tableaux of the architecture of social services, giving voices and faces to individuals whose welfare depends on a system disturbingly close to crisis.

Ant Farm: 1968-1978
Organized by the Berkeley Art Museum, this is the first museum exhibition to survey the work of the legendary art and architecture collaborative formed in San Francisco in 1968 by Doug Michaels and Chip Lord.

David Lamelas: Exhibiting Mediality
ICA's 2003-2004 Whitney-Lauder Curatorial Fellow, Tanya Leighton, organized this reconstruction of one of the Argentinean artist's pioneering media installations from the 1960s.

Ramp Project: Amy Sillman
New York-based painter Amy Sillman's large wall-work is the latest project in ICA's ongoing commission series. Sillman paints according to an idiosyncratic method of post-Surrealist, latter day Chicago Funk School, stream-of-consciousness. Founder of the artist-run gallery Four Walls in Brooklyn, Sillman is the Milton Avery Professor in the Arts at Bard College and a 2001-2002 recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship.
Hours: Wednesday through Friday, Noon - 8 pm
Saturday and Sunday, 11 am - 5 pm
For more information, call (215) 898-7108/5911, or visit www.icaphila.org

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY
3260 South Street
Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur
2nd Floor, Dietrich Gallery
More than 200 ancient Sumerian treasures from the site of Ur in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) are featured in this popular exhibition. See what art critic and former Metropolitan Museum of Art Director Thomas Hoving has called "the finest, most resplendent and magical works of art in all of America": the Ram-in-the-Thicket, Lady Puabi's lapis lazuli and carnelian jewelry, an electrum drinking tumbler, and a gold ostrich egg - as well as other treasures, large and small - from this world famous, 4500-year-old Sumerian collection.

Guided Tours
The Spread of Buddhism
Saturday, October 16, 1:30 pm
Explore how this great world religion influenced the Asian cultures it entered, and, in turn, was influenced and changed by them. Highlights of the Collection.

Sunday, October 17, 1:30 pm
View a selection of the Museum's world-renowned collections from several galleries.
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 am - 4:30 pm; Sunday, 1- 5 pm
For more information, call (215) 898-4000 or visit www.museum.upenn.edu. Show your Alumni card to enter free and receive a 10% discount at all three Museum shops all weekend long.

PENN PRESENTS
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
3680 Walnut Street
The Playboy of the Western World
Friday, October 15, 8 pm
Saturday, October 16, 2 pm and 8 pm
Sunday, October 17, 2 pm
Abbey Theatre, the National Theatre of Ireland, celebrates its 100th anniversary with a U.S. tour of J.M. Synge's sparkling masterpiece. Nearly a century after its electrifying, riot-causing Dublin premiere, this comedy continues to enthrall audiences with its mock-heroic epic of Christy Mahon, a young and impassioned renegade who bursts into a coastal County Mayo pub one evening with a gloriously, seductive tale of death and destruction, captivating the publican's beautiful daughter and the local regulars. Special discounts for Penn alumni. For tickets and information, call the Box Office at (215) 898-3900 or visit www.PennPresents.org.

PENNDESIGN
The School of Design celebrates emerging and established designers in exhibitions this fall.

Kroiz Gallery
Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania
Fisher Fine Arts Library Building, 220 South 34th Street
Capital Architecure
This celebrated image from the Oscar-nominated documentary film My Architect is featured in the Architectural Archives' retrospective of renowned architect Louis I. Kahn's work in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Experience Kahn's masterpiece through this exhibition of models, drawings, and photographs by former Penn professor and alumnus Louis I. Kahn BArch'24. The Architectural Archives is home to the internationally renowned Louis I. Kahn Collection, and the works of more than 400 designers from the 18th century to the present. www.design.upenn.edu/archives/archives

Addams Gallery
The Charles Addams Fine Arts Hall
36th and Walnut Streets
MFA 1st Year Preview Exhibition

Graduate Student Center
3615 Locust Walk
Selected Works by MFA Students
Hours for all PennDesign Galleries: Friday, October 15, 10 am - 5 pm; Saturday, October 16, 10 am - 5 pm; Sunday, October 17, 12 - 4 pm For more information, call (215) 898-2539 or visit www.design.upenn.edu

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