DIY terrariums! Outrageous outfits! Jesus mixing electronica! Last week the ICA celebrated a new season of art installations with a magical mid–winter party. Street hit the galleries to check out the artwork. But mostly to see what all of the beautiful people in attendance had to say.
The Philly Face Blanket
Jon Yeston
Senior in the College studying Cognitive Science
“The intellectual story: I went on vacation and I was reading a lot of Camus and Salinger at the time, which made me think that shaving was useless etc.
Now that Penn social life is dedicated to psychologically testing the freshmen, there couldn’t be a better time to burst the bubble and head to the city on a Friday night.
This is the one week of the semester you’re in the Penn Book Centre. While you’re there, pick up the required reading for classes you won’t find on Penn in Touch.
Every October, the Eastern State Penitentiary dresses up for
Halloween. The prison in North Philadelphia’s Fairmont neighbourhood hosts
“Terror Behind the Walls,” its annual benefit where the fortress–like building
is renovated into a helluva haunted house.
Think Old City is just more of the same Benjamin Franklin crap we get on campus? Think again. Last Saturday, Design Philadelphia celebrated
the diverse artistic vitality of the neighbourhood with a street party.
Museum without Walls is a self–guided audio tour of Philadelphia’s public sculptures. On audio files on the museum's website, experts talk about each work for a few minutes.