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Philadelphia, PA AA rr tt ss GG uu ii dd ee PHILADELPHIAPHILADELPHIA Arts Section Association of College and Research Libraries ACRL 14th National Conference March 30 - April 2, 2011 Introduction Welcome to the ACRL Arts Section’s ArtsGuide Philadelphia! This selective guide to cultural attractions and events has been created for attendees of the 2011 ACRL Conference in Philadelphia, PA. Map of sites listed in this guide See what’s close to you or plot your course by car, foot, or public transportation using the Google Map version of this guide: http://tinyurl.com/artsguidephiladelphia Where to search for arts and entertainment • VisitPhilly.com: Official Visitor Site for Greater Philadelphia http://www.visitphilly.com/things-to-do/ • Philly Fun Guide http://www.phillyfunguide.com/ • Philadelphia Weekly or City Paper’s event listings http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/events/ http://citypaper.net/agenda/ This guide has been designed and prepared by: Eamon Tewell (Moore College of Art & Design) Contributors: Yvette Cortes (Skidmore College) Jenna Rinalducci (George Mason University) Katherine Williamson (GSLIS Student, Simmons College) *Efforts were made to gather the most up to date information for performance dates, but please be sure to confirm by checking the venue web sites provided. Contents VISUAL ARTS AND MUSEUMS 1 African American Museum in Philadelphia 1 Barnes Foundation 1 Fabric Workshop and Museum 1 Institute of Contemporary Art 1 Mütter Museum 1 Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 2 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 2 Philadelphia Museum of Art 2 Rodin Museum 2 Rosenbach Museum & Library 2 Gallery Districts 3 ARCHITECTURE 3 CENTER CITY DISTRICT City Hall 3 Masonic Temple 3 FAIRMOUNT PARK Eastern State Penitentiary 4 Cedar Grove 4 Lauren Hill Cemetery 4 Mount Pleasant 4 Woodford 4 OLD CITY DISTRICT Betsy Ross House 5 Christ Church and Burial Ground 5 Elfreth’s Alley and Museum 5 Franklin Court 5 Independence Hall & National Historic Park 5 Physick House 6 Powel House 6 Second Bank of the U.S. 6 UNIVERSITY CITY/SOUTHWEST PHILADELPHIA Fisher Fine Arts Library, University of Pennsylvania 6 Bartram’s Garden 6 Helpful Websites & Self-Guided Walking Tours 7 DANCE 7 Philadelphia Dance Collection, Temple University 7 Dance Links 7 THEATRE 8 Academy of Music 8 Arden Theatre Company 8 Lantern Theatre Company 8 Philadelphia Theatre Company 8 Walnut Street Theatre 8 Wilma Theater 8 MUSIC 9 Art After 5 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art 9 Chris’ Jazz Cafe 9 Philadelphia Chamber Music Society 9 Philadelphia Orchestra 9 R5 Productions 9 South Street 9 FILM 10 International House 10 The Ritz Theaters 10 Roxy Theater 10 Secret Cinema 10 The Tuttleman IMAX Theater 10 VISUAL ARTS AND Fabric Workshop and Museum Located in a renovated industrial building in MUSEUMS Center City Philadelphia, the facilities of The Fabric Workshop and Museum (FWM) include three exhibition galleries, a video lounge, and the African American Museum in Museum Shop. Philadelphia (AAMP) Location: 1214 Arch St. Neighborhood: Center City Founded in 1976, the AAMP is the first institution Distance from Convention Center: .2 miles funded and built by a major municipality to Transportation: 5 minute walk from Convention preserve, interpret and exhibit the heritage of Center African Americans. The AAMP houses four Hours: Monday-Friday 10-6, Sat. & Sun. 12-5 galleries, each of which offers exhibitions anchored by three themes: the African Diaspora, Admission: $3 the Philadelphia Story, and the Contemporary Website: http://www.fabricworkshop.org/ Phone: 215-561-8888 Narrative. Location: 701 Arch St. Neighborhood: Center City Institute of Contemporary Art Distance from Convention Center: .6 miles The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at the Transportation: SEPTA Blue Line University of Pennsylvania believes in the power (Market/Frankford) subway to 8th Street Station of art and artists to inform and inspire. The ICA is Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10-5; Sunday 12-5 free for all to engage and connect with the art of Admission: $10 our time. Website: http://www.aampmuseum.org/ Location: 118 S. 36th St. (at Sansom) Phone: 215-574-0380 Neighborhood: University City Exhibitions/Events: Audacious Freedom: Distance from Convention Center: 2 miles African Americans in Philadelphia 1776-1876; Transportation: SEPTA Blue Line 381 Days: The Montgomery Bus Boycott Story; (Market/Frankford) subway to 34th Street Station Photographic Legacy of Jack Theodore Franklin. Hours: Wednesday 11-8; Thursday & Friday 11- 6; Saturday & Sunday 11-5 Barnes Foundation Admission: Free Established by Albert C. Barnes in 1922 to Website: http://www.icaphila.org/ "promote the advancement of education and the Phone: 215-898-7108 appreciation of the fine arts", the Barnes Foundation is home to one of the world's largest Mütter Museum collections of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist Founded in 1858, the Mütter Museum is home to and early Modern paintings, with extensive over 20,000 anatomic specimens, plaster casts, holdings by Picasso, Matisse, Cézanne, Renoir wax models, and paintings. The Museum is part and Modigliani, as well as important examples of of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. African sculpture. Location: 19 S. 22nd St. Location: 300 N. Latches Lane Neighborhood: Center City West Neighborhood: Merion, PA Distance from Convention Center: 1 mile Distance from Convention Center: 8.5 miles Transportation: SEPTA Green Line trolley to Transportation: SEPTA Regional Rail (Paoli 22nd Street Station bound) to Merion Station Hours: Monday-Sunday 10-5 Hours: Thursday-Sunday 9:30-5 Admission: $14 Admission: $15 Website: Website: http://www.barnesfoundation.org/ www.collphyphil.org/Site/mutter_museum.html Phone: 610-667-0290 Phone: 215-563-3737 ArtsGuide Philadelphia | 1 Museum of Archaeology and Philadelphia Museum of Art Anthropology, University of The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) is one of the world’s greatest art institutions. The Pennsylvania museum, founded over 125 years ago, houses Founded in 1887, University of Pennsylvania’s over 225,000 works of art encompassing some Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has of the greatest achievements of human creativity. conducted more than 400 archaeological and Location: Benjamin Franklin Parkway at 26th St. anthropological expeditions around the world. Its Neighborhood: Art Museum District galleries feature materials from Egypt, Distance from Convention Center: 1.5 miles Mesopotamia, the Bible Lands, Mesoamerica, Transportation: SEPTA buses No. 7, 32, 38, 43, Asia and the ancient Mediterranean World, as 48, 76 serve the Museum. well as artifacts from native peoples of the Hours: Tues-Sun 10-5; Friday until 8:45 pm Americas, Africa and Polynesia. Admission: $16 Location: 3260 South St. (at the intersection of Website: http://www.philamuseum.org/ Spruce St. and 33rd St.) Phone: 215-763-8100 Neighborhood: University City Exhibitions/Events: Alessi: Ethical and Radical, Distance from Convention Center: 2 miles The Peacock Male: Exuberance and Extremes in Transportation: SEPTA Blue Line Masculine Dress, Flora and Fauna in Korean Art, (Market/Frankford) subway to 34th St. Station Isamu Noguchi at the PMA. Hours: Tuesday 10-5; Wednesday 10-8; Thursday-Sunday 10-5 Admission: $10 Rodin Museum Website: http://www.penn.museum/ The Rodin Museum, which opened to the public Phone: 215-898-4000 in 1929, houses 124 sculptures, including bronze Exhibitions/Events: Secrets of the Silk Road, casts of the artist's greatest works: The Thinker, Year of Water. The Burghers of Calais, Eternal Springtime, and The Gates of Hell. The museum also includes Rodin’s plaster studies, drawings and prints. Pennsylvania Academy of the Location: Benjamin Franklin Parkway at 22nd St. Fine Arts (PAFA) Neighborhood: Art Museum District PAFA's museum is known for its collections of Distance from Convention Center: 1 mile 19th- and 20th-century American paintings, Transportation: SEPTA Green Line Trolley to sculptures, and works on paper. 22nd Street Station Location: 118-128 N. Broad St. Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10-5 Neighborhood: Center City Admission: $5 suggested contribution Distance from Convention Center: .2 miles Website: http://www.rodinmuseum.org/ Transportation: 5 minute walk from the Phone: 215-568-6026 Convention Center Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10-5; Sunday 11-5 Admission: $10 Rosenbach Museum & Library Website: http://www.pafa.org/ James Joyce and Maurice Sendak fans rejoice! Phone: 215-972-7600 Location: 2008-2010 Delancey Place Exhibitions/Events: Anatomy Academy, Neighborhood: Center City/Rittenhouse Square American Art Starts Here: PAFA Refreshed, Distance from Convention Center: 1.3 miles Reloaded. Transportation: Green Line trolley to 19th Street Station Hours: Tuesday & Friday 12-5, Wednesday & Thursday 12-8, Saturday & Sunday 12-6. Admission: $10 Website: http://www.rosenbach.org/ Phone: 215-732-1600 ArtsGuide Philadelphia | 2 Gallery Districts ARCHITECTURE For listings of Philadelphia art galleries: Center City District Gallery Guide-Philadelphia: www.artinfo.com/galleryguide/northamerica/city/ 42414/ City Hall InLiquid: www.inliquid.com/gallery/gallery.php Topped by a 37-foot bronze statue of William PhillyArtGalleries.com: Penn above a 548-foot tower, City Hall was www.phillyartgalleries.com/art_gallery_directory. Philadelphia’s tallest building until 1987. Today, htm with 642 rooms, it functions as the largest and most elaborate city hall in the country as well as Selected gallery districts: the tallest masonry-bearing building in the world. Exhibits of the tower and
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