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The Delaware Art Museum presents Jazz Age Illustration
Illustrators deserve to be on museum walls
In the first half of the 20th century, the music and culture of America’s Jazz Age drove major social change. Now, a new exhibition at the Delaware Art Museum captures the era’s masterful illustrators. Gail Obenreder reviews.
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The African American Museum in Philadelphia presents Shared Vision: Portraits from the CCH Pounder-Koné Collection
Honoring Black women who look up and out
In an exhibition curated exclusively for AAMP, arts patron and prolific actor CCH Pounder opens up her significant and uplifting portrait collection for Philly audiences. An Nichols reviews.
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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.
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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.
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents The Time Is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure
A historic, absorbing exhibition
A new PMA exhibition curated by Ekow Eshun gathers 28 contemporary artists from across the Black and African diaspora in the US and UK, exploring Blackness as lived experience rather than social construct. K.A. McFadden reviews.
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Woodmere Art Museum presents In the Moment: The Art & Photography of Harvey Finkle
Picturing the people’s power
For half a century, Harvey Finkle has trained his camera on those fighting for the rights of homeless, displaced, disabled, or undocumented people on the front lines of American protest. An exhibition at Woodmere looks back on his legacy. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.
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The Clay Studio presents The Future of Clay
What’s next for the enduring art of ceramics?
To close out its 50th anniversary year, the Clay Studio fittingly looks forward with The Future of Clay, which assembles eight artists for a streamlined show full of intriguing juxtapositions. Crystal Sparrow reviews.
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The Barnes Foundation presents Mickalene Thomas: All About Love
A sparkling philosophy of love
A new multimedia exhibition at the Barnes featuring New Jersey native Mickalene Thomas celebrates queer existence and the female gaze with mixed-media painting, collage, photography, video, and more. K.A. McFadden reviews.
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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.
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The Institute for Contemporary Art presents Where I Learned to Look: Art from the Yard
Art without walls
A new exhibition at Philly’s ICA explores what artists express in work made for the outdoors, from shrines to found objects to decorated cars and a mirrored orb by Jeff Koons. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.
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