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Nora Gibson, Janet Pilla, and Michele Tantoco in Melody Excerpt (1977). Photo by Jorge Cousineau.
Eungie Joo.
Image from Hayward Gallery's 2010–11 exhibition, Move: Choreographing You.
Installation shot of Alien She at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University: Posters (c. 1991–present) from Riot Grrrl related shows, conventions and meetings internationally, solicited from institutional and personal archives through open calls, word-of-mouth, and invitations. Photo courtesy of the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University.
Cover of Pigeons on the Grass, Alas: Contemporary Curators Talk about the Field, published by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage in 2013.
Conflict Kitchen, Pittsburgh, 2011. Image courtesy of Conflict Kitchen.
Thaddeus Phillips' Red-Eye to Havre de Grace. Photo by Johanna Austin.
Jason Rhoades, Garage Renovation New York (CHERRY Makita), 1993, installation view, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. Photo: Aaron Igler/Greenhouse Media.
Detail from The Temple of Knowledge and Beauty, a Shelf Life display by Laura C. Keim at The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Photo by Jeffrey Stockbridge.
Questions of Practice

Shelf Life

Valerie Cassel Oliver.
Peter Eleey.
Nato Thompson. Photo by Derek Schultz.
Astria Suparak.
Dan Byers. Photo courtesy of Roll Magazine.
Diana Vishneva and Abdiel Jacobsen in Errand Into the Maze. Photo by Costas.
Questions of Practice

Repetition Island

Detail from cover of Letting Go? Sharing Historical Authority in a User-Generated World, published by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage in 2011.
Cover of Curating Now: Imaginative Practice/Public Responsibility, published by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage in 2001.
Left to right: Song Dong, Song ErRui, and Yin Xiuzhen. Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Art Alliance.
Cover of What Makes a Great Exhibition?, published by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage in 2006.
Questions of Practice

What Makes a Great Exhibition?