The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has built its reputation both as a sponsor of groundbreaking fieldwork, and a center for research and education. It is fitting, then, when developing an exhibition about its 120-plus years of growth and change, the Museum invited Penn students to research and shape the story.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art announced that it has completed the funding of its share in the joint acquisition of Thomas Eakins's heroic 1875 masterpiece, The Gross Clinic, through deaccessioning Eakins's Cowboy Singing, which has been jointly acquired by the Denver Art Museum and the Denver-based Anschutz Collection, as well as two oil sketches for Eakins's Cowboys in the Badlands, which have been acquired by the Denver Art Museum.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present a special installation devoted to the work of the English artists Gilbert & George who have created all their work in collaboration since the late 1960s and are known for their dramatic, large-scale photographic art. Drawn from the Museum collection and supplemented by additional loans, Gilbert & George (through November 2, 2008) includes 13 pictures indicative of the major phases of their art from the 1970s and 1980s.

The Smithsonian's National Postal Museum has received a well-known stamp collection from the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. The Harry L. Jefferys collection, which includes an inverted Jenny and numerous other philatelic rarities, was bequeathed to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia in 1948 by insurance executive H.L. Jefferys. It has been in storage at the Institute for decades.

Philadelphia police officers have been recorded on film by a TV helicopter crew dragging two suspected gumnmen from a car and repeatedly kicking and beating them. The video of Philadelphia police beating, shot by WTXF-TV, shows three police cars stopping a car on a city street yesterday, two days after a city officer responding to a bank robbery was fatally shot.

A magical machine transforms imperfect husbands into ideal spouses. A natural disaster competes with miraculous apparitions and serial murders to astonish the eye. A two-and-a-half-foot-tall souvenir poster produced in the year of the Eiffel Tower's construction serves as both a game board and a celebration of the world-famous landmark.

Live Cinema/ Carlos Amorales: Four Animations, Five Drawings, and a Plague focuses on the work of Carlos Amorales, one of Mexico's leading contemporary artists. This exhibition includes a selection of video animations in Gallery 179, along with a group of new drawings, and a cloud of black paper moths that swirl along a staircase and spread across the walls and ceiling of Gallery 178.

The kimono, the national dress of Japan, is celebrated worldwide for its elegant, distinctive silhouette. Though quintessentially Japanese, the kimono form has influenced fashion designers around the globe. The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present an exhibition featuring approximately 80 kimono created in the early-to-mid-twentieth century – one of the most dynamic periods in the history of this dress form.

The Philadelphia Orchestra's Global Concert Series continues with a broadcast of its performance on Thursday, April 10, at 8:00 p.m. (EST). The live concert, with enhanced and interactive content, will be transmitted in HD and Dolby surround sound. This season, dozens of colleges and universities in the United States and Europe have participated in the Global Concert Series program.

What better way to put the swing in spring than catching a live jazz or world music performance at Art After 5? Each Friday evening the Great Stair Hall at the Philadelphia Museum of Art becomes a lively cabaret, with table service, cocktails, elegant cafe-style appetizers, and desserts.

The 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, originator of the modern theory of evolution, is just months away. Now, the University of Pennsylvania, in conjunction with Penn Museum and major Philadelphia cultural organizations, launches an ambitious YEAR OF EVOLUTION of public programs and events, from late April 2008 through May 2009.

The art and culture, “Bollywood” films, diverse spiritual practices, and spicy foods of India are captivating the interests and palates of a rapidly growing international audience. India, in all its complexity and diversity, is the focus of a day-long celebration Saturday, March 29, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., as the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology presents Hello India!