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Moka Still Life    -    Kenny Harris ,  2022.

American, b.1974 -

“The dance of the blessed depicted in the detail view above was also called the the caròla:

The caròla was a kind of sacred dance, in which the dancers holding hands move in a circle, singing as they go. It was supposed to be the dance of Paradise.”

They Could Still Serve, Ellen Gallagher, 2001, MoMA: Painting and Sculpture

Emily and Jerry Spiegel and Anna Marie and Robert F. Shapiro Funds and gift of Agnes Gund Size: 10 x 8’ (304.8 x 243.8 cm) Medium: Dye, rubber cement, acrylic gel, oil paint, and pencil on paper mounted on canvas

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Philadelphia engineer and architect Frederick Graff worked with architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe to design the city’s water works at Centre Square and became their superintendent in 1805. This plan with its many notations made over the span of more than two decades shows how the water works became integrated into the fabric of the lives of the city’s residents.

Unsurprisingly, Graff included information about the length, width, and circumference of various walkways in the square, but we also learn through these additions of the presence of a gambling house and the discovery of a murder victim’s body.

Photography by Xuebing Du