Weeks before the pandemic necessitated its temporary closure, Philadelphia’s National Museum of American Jewish History filed for bankruptcy in hopes of keeping its doors open.
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Heirs Sue Philadelphia Museum of Art for a Piet Mondrian Painting
The artwork was looted by Nazis before it was purchased by a New York collector and friend of Mondrian, who donated it to the PMA.
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Tyler School of Art and Architecture Opens Fall 2021 MFA Thesis Exhibitions
In Philadelphia, a series of solo shows delves into the interdisciplinary practices of graduates whose work explores identity, familial bonds, political constructs, and nature’s fragility.
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Model, Rebel, and Painter, Suzanne Valadon Defied the Odds
Her female nudes were extraordinary for the time because she portrayed female sexual desire. Her subjects defied conventional ideals of femininity.
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PAFA’s Brodsky Center Presents New Editions by Resident Artists at E/AB Fair
The collaborative handmade paper- and printmaking center at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts publishes new works by Liz Collins and Sarah McEneaney.
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A History of Motherhood Through Design
Designing Motherhood includes over 100 objects spanning medical devices to depictions of laboring women in films.
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The Political Vision of South Asian Abstraction
The works in Fault Lines prove that abstraction need not be confined to the inner life of the artist.
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At Haverford College, an Exhibition Inspired by a 19th-century Uyghur Poem
In The Contest of the Fruits, the art collective Slavs and Tatars investigates language, politics, religion, humor, resilience, and resistance in a pluralistic world.
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ICA Philadelphia Presents the First Major Retrospective on Ulysses Jenkins
Over 50 years of the artist’s video and media work on how images, sound, and cultural iconography inform representation is on view through December 30.
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How Soutine Showed de Kooning a Way Out
It seems to me that Soutine’s complete lack of interest in the cubists’ desire for order was exactly what appealed to de Kooning.
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Penn Museum Workers Accuse Leadership of Union-Busting Tactics
Workers are charging the museum’s leadership with “obstructing the free and fair election process through anti-union activity.”
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Jessica Vaughn’s Cathartic Critiques of Office Culture
In Vaughn’s hands, “success” takes shape as a parade of etiquette, competition, and power.