Exhibitions
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Councilmember Rue Landau and Creative Philadelphia present Transcending Uncertainty: Art Endures at Home in Philadelphia
Honoring the UArts community with a new exhibition at City Hall
City Councilmember Rue Landau and Creative Philadelphia teamed up to honor the UArts community with a special exhibition, free to view at City Hall through January 25, 2025. An Nichols visits.
Reviews
8 minute read
The Museum for Art in Wood presents La Famiglia
Family trees
With this exhibition at the Museum for Art in Wood, turned-wood figures by artist Mark Sfirri explore likeness and difference, ancestry and environment, asking how family takes root. Anndee Hochman reviews.
Reviews
4 minute read
The Fabric Workshop and Museum presents Soft/Cover
Celebrating 50 years of FWM Artists-in-Residence
The Fabric Workshop and Museum marks 50 years of its Artists-in-Residence program with this survey of intriguing multi-media works from the 1970s to the present. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.
Reviews
5 minute read
PAFA presents Making Strange: Sacred Imagery and the Self
Spiritual art … with a twist
A new exhibition at PAFA spanning the 19th century to today (but rooted in a movement launched in the 1500s) explores religious imagery that has been distorted to signify the artists’ divergent views. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.
Reviews
5 minute read
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The Please Touch Museum presents XOXO: An Exhibit About Love & Forgiveness
A chance for Philly youngsters to explore compassion
XOXO, a traveling installation now at the Please Touch Museum, welcomes youngsters for a variety of displays and activities exploring their feelings and compassion for others. Jill Brooke reviews.
Reviews
3 minute read
Rashid Zakat and Uses of the Ironic
How the spirit shows up
Multimedia artist Rashid Zakat’s exhibit at Asian Arts Initiative is a meditation on music, joy, and spiritual vitality. John Morrison profiles.
Profiles
2 minute read
Brandywine Museum of Art presents The Crafted World of Wharton Esherick
A rare gallery glimpse of iconic woodworks
Wood comes alive in The Crafted World of Wharton Esherick, now on view at the Brandywine Museum of Art. It’s a rare chance to see the interdisciplinary artist’s full oeuvre outside his historic home. Gail Obenreder reviews.
Reviews
5 minute read
The Center for Emerging Visual Artists presents Thesentür/The Thinker: Nina Simone and the Politics of Music
Lines of inquiry
A new solo exhibition by Philly conceptual artist and writer Theodore A. Harris, inspired by Nina Simone’s history with the Curtis Institute, questions the ways that art, artists, patrons, and money are bound together. Emily B. Schilling reviews.
Reviews
4 minute read
The Academy of Natural Sciences presents The Ecology of Fashion
Getting thrifty with it
The new exhibition at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University explores how fashion impacts our environment and our everyday lives. An Nichols previews.
Previews
2 minute read
TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image presents Wherever There Is Light
Stunning photographs by formerly incarcerated men of color
Wherever There Is Light, a new exhibition combining portraits, landscape, and collage, starts a new conversation about imprisonment, identity, and justice with cameras in the hands of formerly incarcerated people. Anndee Hochman reviews.
Reviews
5 minute read