Art
A Monumental Cloth That Tells a New Truth About the US Civil War
Contemporary artist Sonya Clark asks, “Who said monuments have to be steel?”
Philadelphia
Art
Finding Intimacy in the Immensity of Infinity
In Intimate Immensity at PAFA, touch, materiality, the sensual, and the subversive are part of a feminist lineage.
Art
A Painter With a Purpose
In Evan Fugazzi's paintings we are given the pleasure of experiencing how each color helps to define the others.
Art
An Artist's Commentary on the Damages of Men
The most shocking thing about Sarah McCoubrey's paintings is their startling and deeply unfashionable, unapologetic beauty.
Art
Documenting the Horrors of America's Opioid Crisis in One of the Hardest-Hit Cities
"I basically went from photographing abandoned houses to photographing abandoned people," artist Jeffrey Stockbridge says about his Kensington Blues series in Philadelphia.
In Brief
After Breaking Thumb off Terracotta Warrior, Man Points Finger at Museum
The Franklin Institute is locked in a legal battle with the finger's thief, but the defendant's lawyers are demanding that the museum release security records that could prove this was merely a case of drunken vandalism.
Art
A Photographer's Portrait of Addiction and Recovery
Jeffrey Stockbridge's images reinsert those with opioid addictions into public discourses, picking up where mass media has failed.
Announcement
Tyler School of Art Announces 2019 MFA Thesis Exhibitions
Student work will be on view at Temple University in Philadelphia through April 13. The series of exhibitions will showcase a “spirit of collaboration and a hunger to transcend boundaries.”
Art
The Ghosts of Cotton in the American Landscape
John E. Dowell takes as his subject one of the most influential plants in US history.
Art
Refugees Connect Their Personal Stories with a Museum’s Ancient Artifacts
The Global Guides program at the Penn Museum hires recent refugees from the Middle East to give personalized tours. The leader of my tour was Moumena Saradar, a refugee from Syria who has lived in Philadelphia for two years.
Performance
Everyone Falls for Everyone in This Operatic Romp Based on Shakespeare
Rather than sticking to a literalistic depiction of the woods of Fairyland, Robert Carsen sets his adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream in a more symbolic land of beds.
Announcement
A Three-Part Exhibition Explores Race, History, and Time at ICA Philadelphia Throughout 2019
Curated by Meg Onli, Colored People Time: Mundane Futures will be on view through March 31, 2019.