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Exhibits

  • Medieval wood carving depicting scribes

    "Who Created the New and Copied the Old:" Printed Books of the Fifteenth Century

    October 7, 2019—February 16, 2020
    Rebecca and Rick White Gallery, Lutnick Library

    Curated by Alex Stern '20, “Who Created the New and Copied the Old”: Printed Books of the Fifteenth Century examines the many roles of printed books in the first fifty years following the advent of print, moving throughout medieval Europe through the lens of religion and scholarship to explore the relationship between printed text and its owner.

  • Library card catalog drawer

    Kameelah Janan Rasheed: Scoring the Stacks (Experiment II)

    October 25, 2019—December 15, 2019
    Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery

    Using a set of scores or performance instructions that riff on the traditions of musical notation, conceptual art, constrained writing techniques, and recreational mathematics, Kameelah Janan Rasheed’s Scoring the Stacks (Experiment II) encourages participants to explore Haverford’s newly renovated library, the arboretum, and other forms of institutional spaces and collections in unconventional ways.

  • A quinceanera

    A Survey of Recent Acquisitions of Photographs from 2017-2019

    October 26, 2019—December 8, 2019
    Atrium Gallery, Jane Lutnick Fine Arts Center

    In the last two years, the Haverford College Photo Collection has been gifted and purchased hundreds of new pieces, including those by Pierre Petit, Catherine Jansen, Ben Magid Rabinovitch, and Steve McCurry. Collectively, these works represent slices of photographic history from its origins in the 19th century through contemporary works. A Survey of Recent Acquisitions of Photographs from 2017-2019 presents 40 of these recent collection acquisitions together to illustrate the story of the photographic artform from landscapes and portraits to travel, photojournalism, and conceptual works.