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Exhibitions

Atmospherics/Weather Works

July 14, 2007 through December 30, 2007
Atmospherics/Weather Works is a project that translates data collected from meteorological events into sound. Andrea Polli weaves information from a highly detailed meteorological model of Hurricane Bob, the storm that ravaged coastal areas of the Northeastern United States in August 1991, into a sound composition... See more >

Molecules That Matter

September 8, 2007 through April 13, 2008
Molecules That Matter showcases ten organic molecules that profoundly altered our world in the twentieth century. Organized by the Tang Museum in partnership with the Chemical Heritage Foundation of Philadelphia, it examines how our capacity to understand and reshape matter at the atomic and molecular levels has led... See more >

Stripes

August 4, 2007 through December 30, 2007
Bold yet shifty, stripes are a powerful pattern. Their marks are found everywhere— zipping through toothpaste and across running shoes, coating neckties, spinnakers, and zoot suits. Hovering somewhere between line and shape, stripes might signal a disturbance or coax order from disarray. They seem to move quickly but... See more >

West African Masquerade

July 14, 2007 through December 29, 2007
Large-scale color photographs from 2005 to 2006 reflect the ritual adornment and spirituality of masquerade in Nigeria, Benin and Burkina Faso in West Africa. These portraits of masqueraders build on Galembo's work of the past twenty years photographing the rituals and religious culture in Nigeria, Brazil, Cuba,... See more >