Another museum opened during the pandemic, this one virtual. The Daring Diagonal Virtual Museum is not temporarily virtual but permanently. The museum delves into how artists and designers have used diagonal shapes and angular relationships to transform architecture, art and science and to influence urban design, fashion, jewelry, fine arts, product design and popular culture. Philadelphia Architect Joel Levinson, who resides in West Mt. Airy, created this quasi-fictitious museum online and filled 33 virtual galleries with visual treats and fascinating documentation, which will be especially intriguing to art, architecture and design enthusiasts.
The motif is still alive and vital today and there are many striking examples of diagonality in Philadelphia from the way the Benjamin Franklin Parkway cuts a diagonal through William Pennâs symmetrical gridiron for the cityâs street layout to the sculptures of people on tightrope in the lobby of the Comcast Center (look up to s
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03/04/2021
It’s long held nickname has been the “City of Brotherly” (recently amended to “and Sisterly”) Love. But, for your purposes why not just refer to this alluring, honeymoon-worthy, history-drenched urban haven as the “City of Love”? That’s because Philadelphia, awash in small-town charm, a bonafide Unesco World Heritage City, has all the makings for a romantic foray.
Hand in hand, you’ll start your mini-moon with the vigor of the fictional fighter Rocky Balboa. Like he did, you’ll dash up the 72 steps that lead to the entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Slightly out of tune, you’ll croon the “Eye of the Tiger” in voce alto as you scamper upward. Yes. That might seem corny but it’s fun. When you arrive, you’ll leap up, high five, take a photo, then kiss. Like Rocky, you’ve risen to a challenge. You got engaged, made it through the wedding and now this time is for you.
First Ladies As curator of an exhibition at the Smithsonian s National Portrait Gallery, Penn s Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw tells the stories of the women who supported U.S. presidents while in the White House. Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, associate professor of history of art, was the curator of the exhibition “Every Eye Is Upon Me: First Ladies of the United States” at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery. Shaw returned to Penn this semester after taking an 18-month leave to serve as the Gallery’s senior historian and director of history, research, and scholarly programs.
In a glass case in a Smithsonian Institution exhibition is a small cape, the ikat-dyed pink silk and fine black lace fanned out around a high collar in the center. The pleated taffeta fabric makes an almost perfect circle, except for an edge flipped over to reveal an interior inscription by the maker to the wearer.