In celebration of University of the Arts’ exhibition Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-garde curated by Sid Sachs with Jennie Hirsh, UArts will host Thomas Crow, Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at New York University, for the Keynote Lecture of the Invisible City Symposium–On Regionalism: Mid-century Art, Architecture and Culture in North America.
Crow, an art historian and critic, is best known for work considering the intersection of art and culture, including The Rise of the Sixties: American and European Art in the Era of Dissent(1996) and Modern Art in the Common Culture (1996). His most recent book is The Long March of Pop: Art, Design, and Music, 1930–1995 (2015). Crow is the recipient of numerous awards, with a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship among them.
Support for the Invisible City Symposium has been provided by the Edna W. Andrade Fund of the Philadelphia Foundation.
Support for the research, development and presentation of Invisible City has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
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