“Karen loves the Powel House,” said Ms. Schaffner, a close friend of Ms. Kilimnik (although, like other curators, she has never visited the home where she lives alone and works). Ms. Schaffner had been actively looking for a historic space in Philadelphia for one of Ms. Kilimnik’s site-specific transformations, to coincide with her Institute of Contemporary Art show. Given the post-modern architecture of the museum, Ms. Schaffner said, “I felt we weren’t giving Karen a space she could…
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