Celebrate the summer of the Semiquincentennial as John Adams intended, with Flash! Bang! Boom!, a new exhibition all about the history, science, and art of fireworks. Pamela J. Forsythe revi…
Artist from across the country representing six historic print shops converge at The Print Center, exploring America’s past, present, and future in a reflection of where our nation stands …
A new installation of Jesse Krimes quilts at the Fabric Workshop and Museum explores the humanity of incarcerated people and questions the American justice system. One of the quilts is now a…
A new exhibition at TILT honors 60 years of Philly protests thanks to the photographers who were there, from ADA rallies to campus activists, labor movements, No Arena, No Kings, and more. P…
A swashbuckling new exhibition at the Independence Seaport Museum marks America's 250th with a fascinating look at how trade with China shaped the young United States in its first hundred ye…
The National Constitution Center joins the 250th celebrations with America's Founding, featuring immersive new galleries that take us inside life in Philly before and during the Revolution. …
The Print Center's 100th ANNUAL International Competition drew 725 artists this year. Discover the three finalists, including Philadelphia's Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter, in the galleries now…
A new permanent gallery at the Penn Museum features an in-depth look at Native North American cultures, and acknowledges the fraught relationship between institutions and Indigenous groups. …
An international retrospective on Noah Davis, an important American painter lost much too soon, ends its tour at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.
A new show at Philadelphia Magic Gardens shines an often-mysterious spotlight on the people who have influenced iconic Philly mosaic artist Isaiah Zagar. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.
A new exhibition at the Science History Institute serves up a fascinating history of the school lunch, a topic with deep ties to Philly, as well as women on the front lines of food science. …
Fernando Postigo Silva fled fascism in Spain to work, study, and start a family in Philadelphia, but returned to Spain for decades as a groundbreaking photojournalist. A new show spotlights …
Two exhibitions at the University of Pennsylvania explore the work of Sam Maitin, which is an indelible part of our city's social, civic, and economic fabric"whether or not we know it. Pamel…
Moore College and the Franklin Institute partner for Michelle Lopez: Pandemonium, an enveloping reminder that America has been here before, and it's our turn to find a response in the wind. …
Letty Esherick, the wife of world-famous woodworker Wharton, opens up in an exhibition of textile works and letters discovered almost 50 years after her death, paired with contemporary artwo…
Iranian-born and New York-based artist Nazanin Noroozi explores history and memory with a multi-media Print Center exhibition plunging viewers into the journey of African migrants heading fo…
The PMA has acquired an interdisciplinary installation by the Swiss/German creator duo Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz. Moving Backwards was first commissioned in 2019 and feels even more r…
A pop art exhibition at Chestnut Hill's NoName Gallery draws artists who hail from Philly, the Lehigh Valley, Manila, Mexico, and Venezuela. It's a refreshing diversion for an oppressively h…
With several Barnes galleries closed for refinishing, some of the museum's 19th and 20th-century masterpieces get a new configuration in From Paris to Provence: French Painting at the Barnes…
In an eerie, exquisite show at Michener Art Museum, stained-glass artist Judith Schaechter explores the darker emotions and stories that make beauty and joy possible by contrast. Pamela J. F…
New Orleans glass bead artist Demond Melancon, a modern icon of the Mardi Gras tradition of Black Masking, a confluence of West African, Afro Caribbean, and Indigenous cultures, gets his fir…
From the Delaware Valley's earliest inhabitants to the "reform" movements and anti-urbanism of today, Philadelphia: A Narrative Historyis a window on the American experiment"especially as ce…
A timely new exhibition of drawings by Kurt Vonnegut, many of which have never been displayed publicly, offers a new perspective on the iconic author that resonates in our own time. Pamela J…
A new exhibition at the American Philosophical Society about the lives of ordinary people in the Revolutionary era brings an online history portal to life in the physical museum. Pamela J. F…
As Iraqi archeologists and experts reclaimed sites damaged by ISIS in the Gulf Wars, they discovered an extraordinary piece of Assyrian history. A new exhibition at Penn Museum explores the …