Date: 2007-09-18 07:48 Subject: Travel 0918097: The Arts (Boston, Philadelphia, NYC) Security: Public

Travel Tips for TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

Massachusetts >> Museum explores work of Pollock, Matter 
Through Dec. 9, the Boston College McMullen Museum of Art is presenting "Pollock Matters," an exhibit that explores, for the first time, the personal and artistic relationship between famed American Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock and noted Swiss-born photographer and graphic designer Herbert Matter. "Pollock Matters" reveals the aesthetic connections between Pollock and Matter, and the crucial role that Matter’s technical innovations played in helping stimulate Pollock’s radical artistic conception of "energy made visible." The museum, located at the college's Chestnut Hill (Mass.) campus outside of Boston, is open Monday to Friday (11 a.m. to 4 p.m.) and weekends (noon to 5 p.m.). Admission is free. For more information, visit www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/artmuseum.

Pennsylvania >> Philadelphia museum hosts photo exhibit 
Through Sept 23, The University of Pennsylvania is hosting "Adventures in Photography: Expeditions of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology," a show of 40 black-and-white photographs selected from the tens of thousands of expedition images in Penn Museum's Archives to offer a view of some of the more than 400 field projects in the museum's 120-year history. Included in the show are images from expeditions to the Amazon (1913-1916), Memphis, Egypt (1915-1923), Ur in Iraq (1922-34), and Tikal, Guatemala (1956-1970). Highlights include the photography of Stanislaw Niedzwiecki, who captured stunning views of the Tepe Hissar excavations in Persia in the 1930s, and the work of Carleton S. Coon, one of the last "generalist" anthropologists who documented the cultural and physical diversity of human populations in South Asia and the Near East in the 1950s and 1960s. Located at 3260 South Street, the museum is open Tuesday to Saturday (10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.) and Sunday (1 p.m. to 5 p.m.). Admission donation is $8. For more information, visit www.museum.upenn.edu.

New York City >> University to sponsor Jazz Festival
From Sept. 19 to 29, the Columbia University/Harlem Festival of Global Jazz will present leading composers, journalists and scholars from more than 16 countries in 10 days of performances, conferences, symposia, film screenings and technology-based community events. All events are open to the public, and most events are free or charge a low admission price. Events will be held at venues on the university campus and in the Harlem area. For a complete listing of performances and events, visit www.drumtv.com/GlobalJazz.  

-- Kathleen Jay, kathleen.j.jay@gmail.com

Copyright 2007, Kathleen Jay.  This content appeared in the 09/18/2007 edition of the San Francisco Examiner.