Drawing Away: Exile and the Graphic Novel explores how various graphic novelists have used the theme of exile, whether from a home country, culture, or ethnic group, to create moving works of literary and visual art. This small display accompanies this year's One Book, One Philadelphia selection, Marjane Satrapi's The Complete Persepolis.
free and open to the public (please show photo ID at entrance)
Join Chef Fritz Blank (Deux Cheminées) taking questions on cuisine, collecting cookbooks, and running a restaurant. Chef Blank retired to Thailand in 2007 after nearly thirty years as one of America's foremost French chefs. He is returning to Philadelphia to celebrate the gift of his culinary archive and library to Penn. A selection from his collection is included in the current exhibition Who's Coming to Dinner?.
1st floor (next to the reference desk), Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
University of Pennsylvania, 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm
Saturday, by prior arrangement, noon-4pm
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