The Institute of Contemporary Art hosts the first major museum survey of innovative interdisciplinary artist Carl Cheng, who has challenged ideas of art, science, culture, and nature for 60 …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:50AMNaoto Fukusawa is one of the world's most sought-after designers, and the PMA hosts his first major solo exhibition in the US, featuring a range of irresistibly practical objects. Pamela J. …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:23PMThe Fabric Workshop and Museum marks 50 years of its artists-in-residence program with this survey of intriguing multi-media works from the 1970s to the present. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:25PMBuilding Ghosts, an absorbing new book from Temple University Press, grasps a history that we barely know with essays and photos capturing the remnants of Philly’s lost and demolished buil…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:24PMA new exhibition at PAFA spanning the 19th century to today (but rooted in a movement launched in the 1500s) explores religious imagery that has been distorted to signify the artists’ dive…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:10PMFor 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 …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:29PMVisitors 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, m…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:55AMA 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. F…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:04PMThe Atwater Kent Collection got a new home with Drexel when the Philadelphia History Museum closed. Now, Philadelphia Revealed, a new exhibition at PAFA, brings the city’s history to life …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:08PMThroughout his groundbreaking career, artist David C. Driskell laid the foundation for the academic study of Black American art, long ignored by the art world. A new exhibition at Arthur Ros…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:40PMWith 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 s…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:07PMDox 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.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:03PMEverybody knows about the Founding Fathers, but historian C. Dallett Hemphill looks beyond, chasing the fascinating historical records of ordinary, little-known people who had a notable impa…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:40AM“Why have there been no great women artists?” An art critic posed the question in 1971 and Philly responded in 1974 with FOCUS, a citywide festival of women artists. Now, a new Woodmere …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:19PMA new book about the surprising history of Temple University’s expansion to a Japanese campus is full of diplomatic intrigue, political ambition, last-ditch rescues, frenemies, and heroes.…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:24AMThe layered, kaleidoscopic works of Barbara Earl Thomas, who ingeniously harnesses paper, light, and glass, are now on view at Arthur Ross Gallery. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:54PMTwentieth-century designer and photographer Alexey Brodovitch revolutionized more than one field of visual arts, but he’s best-known for his stint as art director at Harper’s Bazaar. His…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:52AMThe Mütter Museum displays arresting visual projects by Leah den Bok and Willie Baronet that illuminate and humanize homelessness. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:52PMA new book edited by the Barnes Foundation’s deputy director for research, interpretation, and education gathers perspectives on the famous (and famously polarizing) collection of Albert B…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:40PMIf 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 afte…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:38PMPhilly live music lovers should hurry to a new special exhibition at Drexel University spotlighting the history of the Electric Factory, including iconic guitars, a Rock-Ola jukebox, and ton…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:08PMIn 2017, PAFA became the preserver and promoter of globetrotting 20th-century American sculptor John Rhoden’s artistic legacy. Now, PAFA mounts the artist’s first comprehensive retrospec…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:20PMFrom 1912-1940, a little-known feminist debate society flourished in New York. Now, FWM artist-in-residence Jessica Campbell revives and reimagines their meetings in Heterodoxy, a new multi-…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:33PMThe National Constitution Center’s newest permanent gallery, all about the First Amendment, brings core American freedoms to life as we continue to shape them today. Pamela J. Forsythe vis…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:16PMNo, it’s not the hit HBO series about the backstabbing offspring of a fictional media mogul; it’s the Rosenbach’s look at the real-life succession of our own US presidents—reminders …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:13PMFor centuries, science was not an acceptable pursuit for women. But as a new exhibition at the American Philosophical Society shows, these groundbreaking scientists didn’t get the memo. Pa…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:33PMAt UPenn’s Arthur Ross Gallery, four artists consider what shared memory signifies for marginalized peoples, and how they preserve it. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:30PMIn a new book that promises to infuriate and illuminate in equal measure, Brett H. Mandel traces the roots of Philly’s notorious corruption, from the days of William Penn to Bobby Henon’…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:13PMPenn professor of sociology and Africana studies Tukufu Zuberi says W.E.B. Du Bois’s 1899 book The Philadelphia Negro is a beautifully written, essential text. It’s out in a new edition …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:02PMMinerva Parker Nichols was the first US woman to have her own architectural practice. Then she almost disappeared from history. A new exhibition helps to restore her legacy. Pamela J. Forsyt…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:38PMAcclaimed artist Henry Taylor’s recent stint at FWM puts us adrift in a sea of new meanings, thanks to a partnership with the re-use experts at Recycled Artist in Residency. Pamela J. Fors…
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