Art
Bill Viola's Videos Elevate the Commonplace
Viola's art takes us to the core of humanity through technology, exploring birth, death, and transcendence, examining the soul through the human body.
Philadelphia
Film
Documentaries That Make New Connections Between the Personal and Political
At BlackStar Film Festival, filmmakers of color address topics ranging from immigration, to hip hop, to Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals.
Art
A Library of Photo Books Reveals the Texture of Location
Thinking of a Place fosters a feeling that we are seeing just a slice of what’s out there, potentially leaving us with a desire to experience the full picture of place.
Announcement
The Tyler School of Art’s Class of 2019 Earns Stunning “Diplomas” by Edgar Heap of Birds
A new initiative offers graduating students from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art a unique gift of art created by a different alum each year.
Performance
Dance Performances in Historic Churches Revive Spiritual Histories
The Grounds that Shout! project put Reggie Wilson in the role of curator as well as choreographer to present his own work alongside the dances of seven Philadelphia choreographers and companies who created the performances.
Art
A Photographer's Intimate Infinitude
David Lebe has often relied on alternative photographic processes to create powerful depictions of queer bodies.
Art
Painting 250 Years of Racial Violence in the Americas
In his brightly-colored acrylic works, Haitian-born, Philadelphia-based artist Claes Gabriel addresses the Haitian Revolution, global migration, and police brutality in the US.
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?”
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.