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Sensitive head & shoulders quilt-like portrait of Tanisha, a Black woman, done in subdued purples, reds, and blues.

MUSE Gallery presents Seeking Freedom: Portraits of Mass Incarceration

Visibility can be a lifeline
Textile artist Carolyn Harper’s Seeking Freedom: Portraits of Mass Incarceration at MUSE Gallery brings us into the lives of the human beings caught in the US prison-industrial complex. Emily B. Schilling reviews.
Emily Schilling

Emily Schilling

Reviews 4 minute read
On a battered field of gray rectangles, weird white mechanical-looking structures of hard-to-identify parts stand and float.

The Print Center presents Rodrigo Valenzuela: Workforce

Machines dream in a post-worker world
The Print Center presents Rodrigo Valenzuela: Workforce, a surreal mixed-media exhibition about work, industry, power, and people. Emily B. Schilling reviews.
Emily Schilling

Emily Schilling

Reviews 3 minute read
Evocative red, pink, blue, turquoise, and black image of young Kahlo, looking down thoughtfully, wearing chunky jewelry.

Delaware Art Museum presents Our Red Planet and Estampas de la Raza

One museum, two journeys
This spring, Delaware Art Museum boasts a pair of striking but very different exhibitions: Our Red Planet: Anna Bogatin Ott and Estampas de la Raza: Contemporary Prints from the Romo Collection. Gail Obenreder reviews.
Gail Obenreder

Gail Obenreder

Reviews 5 minute read
An oval shape of complex curving and connected geometric lines in a dusty reddish-brown tone.

Woodmere Art Museum presents JUST IN: Form + Space, Near + Far

An abstraction appetizer
A tight selection of abstract artists and works make an inviting but not necessarily cohesive show in Woodmere’s JUST IN: Form + Space, Near + Far. Jake Foster reviews.
Jake Foster

Jake Foster

Reviews 3 minute read
Rendered in charcoal, a single flailing human figure falls horizontally through white space, knees facing the viewer.

Twelve Gates Arts presents Numb Images

Undoing the visual tools of oppression
Three artists with roots in Pakistan, the Philippines, and Iran, offer reality checks on the stories we’re told in a powerful mixed-media exhibition at Twelve Gates Arts in Old City. Emily B. Schilling reviews.
Emily Schilling

Emily Schilling

Reviews 4 minute read
Watercolor in gritty gray & brown tones: roof and chimney of an old stone house with a weathervane and birds flying overhead.

Brandywine Museum of Art presents Andrew Wyeth: Home Places

Wyeth’s most enduring legacy
This new exhibition studies the way Andrew Wyeth saw his favorite buildings, honoring the artist’s abstract work, as well as the better-known representational. Gail Obenreder reviews.
Gail Obenreder

Gail Obenreder

Reviews 3 minute read

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A detail of the painting, showing a waterfall coming from a dark cave, is reproduced in large scale right on the gallery wall

UPenn’s Arthur Ross Gallery presents At the Source: A Courbet Landscape Rediscovered

One painting, many stories
A painting by Gustave Courbet, a fascinating 19th-century French artist, was lost in a Philly basement for decades. Now it gets its due at Arthur Ross Gallery. Emily B. Schilling reviews.
Emily Schilling

Emily Schilling

Reviews 4 minute read
Black & white photo shows the white family described in the article. There’s a high wall behind them with bushes at its base.

Philadelphia Museum of Art presents House of Photographs

In the eye of the collector
House of Photographs is a visual treasure that wraps visitors in the collectors' point of view, ranging from a microscope to a Brooklyn sidewalk, from French gardens to Chinese arbors to outer space. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

Reviews 5 minute read
Outside, in front of a pile of lemons, two mirrors capture Mukherji and her mother making a dual portrait.

The Print Center presents its 97th Annual International Competition

The Light Outside Home, and other works on trauma and memory
For its 97th Annual International Competition, the Print Center selected three artists out of 400 applicants. Each of them grapples with trauma, memory, and immigrant experiences. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

Reviews 5 minute read
View of cathedral performance: dark pews full of people and a vibrant purple projection of light filling the chancel's arches

Lyric Fest presents Cotton

Recreation and catharsis
Cotton, an immersive multimedia experience recreating generational trauma, marks Lyric Fest’s 20th anniversary, with new music by Damien Geter and a slate of poets inspired by the photography of John Dowell. An Nichols reviews.
An Nichols

An Nichols

Reviews 2 minute read