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A dramatic smoky yellow sky over a hill with a tiny train puffing up, smokestacks at right & icy river at the foreground.

PAFA presents Layers of Liberty: Philadelphia and the Appalachian Environment

The world’s oldest mountains get a gallery at last

PAFA’s new Layers of Liberty exhibition, a rare close-up on Appalachian art, continues a trend of museums exploring our complicated, often greedy relationship with the natural world. Gail Obenreder reviews.
Gail Obenreder

Gail Obenreder

Reviews 5 minute read
Exhibit view: signage about medical racism on green walls, with a tall wooden cabinet of medical specimens at right.

The Mütter Museum presents its Postmortem Project exhibition

Exhuming the past, examining the future

With its Postmortem Project exhibition, the Mütter Museum continues a fraught but necessary process to evaluate and present its collections in line with modern medical, legal, and ethical standards. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

Reviews 6 minute read
A triptych piece within a wooden frame has hands of different skin tones reaching and interacting, two in the center touching

National Liberty Museum presents In Pursuit: Artists’ Perspectives on a Nation

An all-American sculptural showcase

Seven artists and two guest curators offer gorgeous and searing expressions of their American experiences in a satisfying and thought-provoking exhibition at Independence Mall’s National Liberty Museum. Emily B. Schilling reviews.
Emily Schilling

Emily Schilling

Reviews 4 minute read
Seen from behind, a bald Black man in a suit jacket looks at a wall of many Dox Thrash portraits.

AAMP Presents IMPRINT: Dox Thrash Black Life, and American Culture

Remembering a revelatory Philadelphia artist

Dox Thrash, the Georgia-born artist who settled in Philadelphia and invented a whole new method of printmaking, gets an important new show at AAMP. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

Reviews 5 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

Anndee Hochman

Reviews 5 minute read
From the waist up, a woman leans face-down on a white table, framed by the angle of one slender arm in a long white glove

Delaware Art Museum presents In Focus

Where women photographers wield intimate power

In a small gallery away from its usual bustle, Delaware Art Museum presents In Focus, a gathering of powerful works by women photographers featured from the museum collection. Gail Obenreder reviews.
Gail Obenreder

Gail Obenreder

Reviews 3 minute read
A person in all black attire on stage, with light hoops swirling around their arms. A DJ is behind them on elevated platform

Marie Curie's Radiant Ball at the Mütter Museum

Fancy, jazzy science

The Mütter Museum is inviting Philladelphians to put on their best scientific chic to celebrate Marie Curie’s legacy. Crystal Sparrow previews.
Crystal Sparrow

Crystal Sparrow

Previews 2 minute read

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Two singers. Dressed in all black, singing on stage towards the audience.

Marian Anderson Museum presents Porgy and Bess

Preserving a legendary Philadelphia institute

The Marian Anderson Historical Society will host a performance of Porgy and Bess and looks to continue the museum’s challenging reconstruction project. An Nichols previews.
An Nichols

An Nichols

Previews 2 minute read
Close-up high-contrast black & white photo of an Indian toddler with huge eyes and plaintive expression.

The Mütter Museum presents Unhoused: Personal Stories and Public Health

Facing homelessness

The Mütter Museum displays arresting visual projects by Leah den Bok and Willie Baronet that illuminate and humanize homelessness. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

Reviews 5 minute read
Four pale women surround one at center in a luxurious green robe; a Black child holds a burnished cup of pink roses at front.

The Delaware Art Museum presents The Rossettis

A new look at some old radicals

The Delaware Art Museum has the biggest collection of British Pre-Raphaelite artworks outside the UK, and this exhibition, which opened at Tate Britain and now lands stateside, honors the radical Rossettis. Gail Obenreder reviews.
Gail Obenreder

Gail Obenreder

Reviews 5 minute read