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MISS DOCENT: Algebra and design, the Titanic's 100th, and last chance for “Righteous Dopefiend.”

POSTED: Thursday, February 23, 2012, 4:00 PM

Filed Under: Arts | Critical Mass Arts Events

Righteous Dopefiend closing

A thin man with wispy hair and beard crouches behind a road barrier amid the brush, shooting up. A car races past, oblivious to the pain hiding in alleys and corners across the city. These are some of the images in “Righteous Dopefiend: Homelessness, Addiction, and Poverty in Urban America.” (We mentioned the exhibit in December 2009 when it was new at the Penn Museum; we mention it again because it’s closing Sunday.) Visitors are welcomed into the lives of struggling Americans through forty unflinchingly honest black-and-white photographs by Jeffrey Schonberg, accompanied by transcripts from interviews conducted by Penn professor and anthropologist Philippe Bourgois. Blackboards posing questions such as “Will access to universal health care improve the lives of homeless people?” and “What do you think about the war on drugs?” draw you from the sidelines into the action, making it impossible to remain neutral. This weekend is the last chance to catch the exhibit that has called Penn Museum home since October 2009.

Through Sun., Feb. 26, $6-$10, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 215-898-4000, penn.museum.

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