Welcome to the Philadelphia Exhibitions Intiative Library

The Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative Library at The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage houses a growing collection of 2,000 volumes on contemporary art, theory, criticism, and curatorial studies. This continually expanding collection also includes publications produced for PEI-funded exhibitions, such as monographs and catalogues of thematic shows. The PEI Library is a professional development resource for the program’s constituents, and offers a unique opportunity to browse and study many of the field’s most significant international publications.

PEI also commissions and publishes critical writing on curatorial practice, including proceedings from the 2001 symposium Curating Now: Imaginative Practice/Public Responsibility and an anthology entitled Questions of Practice: What Makes a Great Exhibition?

The library is available to constituents of The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, by appointment only, 9am – 5pm, Monday – Friday. To make an appointment call 267.350.4930 or e-mail pei@pcah.us.

	Featured Publication Gabriel Orozco Gabriel Orozco emerged at the beginning of the 1990s as one of the most intriguing and original artists of his generation, one of the last to come of age during the twentieth century. Read More..
	Featured Publication Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection “Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection” is the first exhibition in the United States of the Athens-based Dakis Joannou Collection, renowned as one of the leading collections of contemporary art Read More..

Featured Publication

Gabriel Orozco

Gabriel Orozco emerged at the beginning of the 1990s as one of the most intriguing and original artists of his generation, one of the last to come of age during the twentieth century. Read More..

Featured Publication

Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection

“Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection” is the first exhibition in the United States of the Athens-based Dakis Joannou Collection, renowned as one of the leading collections of contemporary art Read More..