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Around French photography in 60 years. (Photo by Rick Echelmeyer)

The Barnes Foundation presents Live and Life Will Give You Pictures (second review)

The world in one city

The Barnes Foundation's first photography exhibition depicts the "movable feast" in early-20th-century Paris in all its gritty, gorgeous glory. Stacia Friedman reviews.
Stacia Friedman

Stacia Friedman

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Elizabeth Osborne, 'Black Doorway,' 1966. (Photo courtesy of the artist and the Locks Gallery, Philadelphia)

Delaware Art Museum presents Elizabeth Osborne and Truth & Vision

Past (the '60s) and present meet in Wilmington

Two new exhibitions at the Delaware Art Museum take visitors back to the 1960s in Elizabeth Osborne's work and right up to now with a survey of contemporary realist artists. Gail Obenreder reviews.
Gail Obenreder

Gail Obenreder

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Oh, just Bill Graham as Father Time on a magic mushroom during New Year's Eve at the Oakland Auditorium in 1982. (Photo courtesy of Ken Friedman)

NMAJH presents Dennis McNally and Susana Millman

Backstage with the Dead

Bill Graham archivist and Grateful Dead publicist Dennis McNally, along with photographer Susana Millman, discuss their years with the Dead at the National Museum of American Jewish History's Bill Graham and the Rock & Roll Revolution exhibition. Neil Bardhan reviews.
Neil Bardhan

Neil Bardhan

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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts presents Thomas Eakins: Photographer (first review)

An old master embraces a new art form

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts's new exhibition shows Philadelphia’s master painter and innovative teacher as a visionary photographer ahead of his time. Gary Day reviews.
Gary L. Day

Gary L. Day

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José Clemente Orozco's 'Omnisciencia' (1925). (Photo via Creative Commons/Wikimedia)

Philadelphia Museum of Art's Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism, 1910-1950

Beyond Kahlo and Rivera

The Philadelphia Museum of Art's new exhibition, Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism, 1910-1950 shows a nation embracing its indigenous heritage. Stacia Friedman reviews.
Stacia Friedman

Stacia Friedman

Articles 4 minute read
The newly lit Temple Hall. (Photo courtesy the Philadelphia Museum of Art)

The Philadelphia Museum of Art's redesigned South Asian galleries

New look at an ancient place

The Philadelphia Museum of Art redesigns and reopens its South Asian wing. Steve Cohen takes a look.
Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen

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"Boulevard de Strasbourg, Paris" by Eugène Atget, 1912. (Photo courtesy of the Barnes Foundation)

The Barnes Foundation presents Live and Life Will Give You Pictures (first review)

La Vie, l'amour in French photographic masterworks

The Barnes Foundation's first-ever photography exhibition celebrates Paris life at the turn of the 20th century, as seen through lenses of some of this new art form's masters. Gary Day reviews.
Gary L. Day

Gary L. Day

Articles 3 minute read
The crest on this dining room chair symbolizes nobility. Von Rydingsvärd often carved the gryphon, a mythical combination of the lion and eagle. (Photo by Pamela Forsythe)

The American Swedish Historical Museum's Flowers and Monsters

Hiding in plain sight

An exhibition of hand-carved furniture at the American Swedish Historical Museum highlights an overlooked Arts and Crafts innovator. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

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Those perfectly imperfect vessels. (Photo courtesy of the Mütter Museum)

The Mütter Museum presents David Orr's 'Perfect Vessels'

Measuring perfection among the imperfect

The Mütter Museum's new exhibition, 'Perfect Vessels,' leads Treacy Ziegler to wonder about the relationship between art and science.
Treacy Ziegler

Treacy Ziegler

Articles 4 minute read
Venus at Chicken Bone Beach. (Photo by John W. Mosley)

Woodmere Art Museum's A Million Faces: The Photography of John W. Mosley

Viewing the past with an eye toward the future

John W. Mosley’s photographs of African-American Philadelphia in the 1950s and '60s provide a visual narrative of where we've been and still need to go. Stacia Friedman reviews.
Stacia Friedman

Stacia Friedman

Articles 4 minute read