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View straight down into a few stories of the narrow exhibit, crammed with wooden structures and assembled found objects.

Arcadia University’s Spruance Gallery presents Perpetual Inventory: A Ruminative Installation by Scott Kip

Unmoored and uncanny

Visitors to Scott Kip’s Perpetual Inventory can decide if they want to look at an inventory or gallery notes before entering—but it might be worthwhile to wait for an impressionistic, mysterious encounter. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

Oct 28, 2024 Reviews 4 minute read

A stylish, simple bronze chair with front and back legs like an Afro pick, with the handle forming the chair’s back.

The Wexler Gallery presents Jomo Tariku’s Juxtaposed

A fresh take on old and new art

Ethiopian American artist and design star Jomo Tariku, whose work spans from the PMA and the Smithsonian to Marvel’s onscreen Wakanda, gets his first-ever solo show at Fishtown’s Wexler Gallery. An Nichols reviews.

An Nichols

Oct 18, 2024 Reviews 4 minute read

Portrait of Hsu, a Taiwanese woman. Her arms crossed in a sweater, she stands along tall, large rocks by large body of water

Rachel Hsu presents The Weight of Our Living

A contemplative art installation on reflexology on the Parkway

Philadelphia artist Rachel Hsu’s first installation draws inspiration from traditional Chinese medicine and her childhood as the daughter of a Taiwanese immigrant. Kimberly Haas previews.

Kimberly Haas

Jul 31, 2024 Previews 5 minute read

A tea party in an ornately draped tent of lace, with one guest who has a giant pink rose instead of a face.

The BSR Podcast, season 8, episode 9: talking with John Jarboe about her new Rose Garden

A stage show about gender becomes an installation at the Fabric Workshop and Museum

BSR Podcast host Darnelle Radford sits down with cabaret star John Jarboe, whose latest show has become an alluring installation at the Fabric Workshop and Museum.

Darnelle Radford

Jun 20, 2024 Podcast 1 minute read

A large dressing room installation with white walls washed in blue light and huge projections of Jarboe’s face.

The Fabric Workshop and Museum presents John Jarboe: The Rose Garden

Exploring what drag does best

The latest phase of John Jarboe’s Rose project, an immersive multidisciplinary installation at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, interrogates rigid notions of gender with serious playfulness. Jake Foster reviews.

Jake Foster

Jun 11, 2024 Reviews 3 minute read

Woodsy view from the ground, looking far up the trunk into the multicolored autumn foliage against a blue sky.

The Museum for Art in Wood presents To Understand a Tree

Our arboreal family

A new exhibition by woodworker and interdisciplinary artist Gina Siepel at the Museum for Art in Wood asks what happens when we regard trees as “you” rather than “it.” Anndee Hochman reviews.

Anndee Hochman

Apr 16, 2024 Reviews 5 minute read

In the crowded gallery, Wong, holding papers, looks down smiling at Steinborn, who sits on the floor and looks up.

Meet FRIEDA, where an intergenerational community (re)connects over food, arts, and culture

An antidote to the loneliness epidemic

With its versatile Walnut Street storefront in Old City, FRIEDA has become a magnet for transplants and Philly natives alike. Wendy Univer talks to the founders about this burgeoning cultural hub’s found family and latest exhibition, POMBAA.

Wendy Univer

Mar 12, 2024 Features 5 minute read

Black and white photo of a large tent in a snowy, wooded area, cords holding it up

The Museum of the American Revolution explores the travels of Washington’s war tent

A travelin’ soldier

Casting light on an installation that sits at the centerpiece at the Museum of the American Revolution, and building a narrative around more than just a tent. Lowry Yankwich explores.

Lowry Yankwich

Feb 14, 2024 Previews 3 minute read

Six large b&w portrait photos of adults, one child, on tapestries at an exhibit wall with touch pads and headphones in front

Jefferson’s Helix Gallery presents File/Life—We Remember Stories of Pennhurst

A community archivists’ research project on the lives of Pennhurst residents

File/Life—We Remember Stories of Pennhurst at the new Jefferson University Helix Gallery highlights the work of community archivists who researched archival files of former residents of the Pennhurst institution. Barbara Sheehan previews.

Barbara Sheehan

Feb 07, 2024 Previews 3 minute read

In a nighttime gallery room next to a large window, an airy, dramatically lit large sculpture of white bamboo strips.

The Museum for Art in Wood presents FLOE: A Climate of Risk

Cold, hard fiction

If we won’t engage with the bare facts of climate change, is there another way in? Interdisciplinary artist Stephen Talasnik wonders in his FLOE: A Climate of Risk, which imagines the aftermath of an icebound shipwreck. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.