News
NYC’s Public Art Education Budget Reduced to 70% of Previous Year
Approved on July 1, the city’s overall arts and culture will be reduced by 11% in fiscal year 2021.
Philadelphia
News
Amid Mass Furloughs, Philadelphia Museum of Art Workers Schedule Union Election
News of the election follows PMA’s announcement that it would cut over 20% of its workforce via furloughs and voluntary separation agreements.
Art
Queer Art Workers Reflect: Dana Suleymanova Is Rooting for More Queer Arts Educators
LGBTQ Pride month is now. Every day in June, we are celebrating the community by featuring one queer art worker and asking them to reflect on what this moment means to them.
News
Pennsylvania Art School Asks Faculty to Keep Professional Affiliation Separate From Activism
Alumni, students, and members of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts community, including Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Didier William, have signed letters of concern condemning the college’s non-affiliation policies.
Art
Queer Art Workers Reflect: Golden Nightsong Collier Is Focusing on Liberation
LGBTQ Pride month is now. Every day in June, we are celebrating the community by featuring one queer art worker and asking them to reflect on what this moment means to them.
Art
Commemorating Juneteenth? Here Are a Few Black-Organized Events to Support
As the Black liberation holiday is being embraced by the mainstream, it feels important to note that actions (and dollars) speak louder than words. Here are a few Black-led organizations to support on June 19 and beyond.
Film
Looking Back at Philadelphia’s Notoriously Racist Mayor Frank Rizzo
Recent protests have finally ousted longstanding local monuments to Rizzo. The 1978 documentary Amateur Night at City Hall draws out a history of resistance to his brand of white authoritarianism.
News
Philadelphia Mayor Proposes Arts Budget of Zero, a Crushing Blow to Local Institutions
As statewide cultural grants are rescinded, Mayor Jim Kenny introduces a 2021 budget proposal that totally eliminates the city’s $4.4 million allowance for the arts.
Art
Karyn Olivier Subverts the Formal Seriousness of Monuments
Using materials both random and familiar, Olivier’s Everything That’s Alive Moves questions our physical, psychic, and material relationship to history.
News
Report Exposes Physical Abuse Allegations Against Philadelphia Museum of Art's Former Retail Director
Employees tell the Philadelphia Inquirer that James A. Cincotta would hit, slap, punch, pinch, and shove his colleagues to the point of bruising and tears, as well as denigrate them verbally, often in public.
Announcement
Karyn Olivier: Everything That’s Alive Moves, on View at ICA Philadelphia Through May 10
A solo exhibition of large-scale sculptures by Karyn Olivier explores the emotional weight of monuments at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania.
Announcement
Tyler School of Art and Architecture Announces 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibitions
Student work will be on view at Tyler on Temple University's Main Campus in Philadelphia from February 5 through April 11. The series of exhibitions will "push the boundaries of both technical and conceptual practice."