Art
Plié Meets Twerk in a Performance of Black Queer Joy
In Jumatatu Poe’s work, movements that appear classical blend seamlessly with voguing, African dance movements, and J-Sette, a style sprung out of black Southern drill teams.
Philadelphia
Books
The First Known Printed Bookplate
Dating to 1480, the oldest known printed bookplate is part of a centuries-long history of personalization by book lovers.
Art
Travel the Early-20th-Century World in Over 700 Films from the Penn Museum Archives
The Digital Penn Museum is a new portal to thousands of objects, videos, lectures, and other archives of the institution for archaeology and anthropology.
Art
American Artists' Fraught Responses to the First World War
From critical to patriotic and everything in between, a vast exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts displays the full range of US artists' reactions to World War I.
Art
The Challenge of Making US Museums Multilingual
Which languages should institutions prioritize? Should choices be based on current patrons or on visitors they'd like to reach?
Art
Painting a Fuller, More Complicated History of Mexican Modern Art
An exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Arts explores the many strands of Mexican modern art, shedding light on artists and movements beyond the best-known muralists.
Art
How Dutch Wax Fabrics Became a Mainstay of African Fashion
The Philadelphia Museum of Art examines the past and present of Vlisco fabrics, a symbol of our hyperconnected, postcolonial material world.
Art
Machines Triggered by the Ghost of Thomas Eakins
Artist Fernando Orellana is summoning the ghost of Thomas Eakins to Philadelphia through art machines and nude models.
Art
Ann Hamilton Pays Tribute to Philadelphia's Frayed Textile Industry
PHILADELPHIA — Started around 1907, Municipal Pier 9 was built as part of a comprehensive plan to upgrade the Delaware River as a shipping channel.
Art
Traces of the Past in Images of Today's Busy African Metropolises
PHILADELPHIA — In Akinbode Akinbiyi’s photograph, the pyramids of Giza, built over 4,500 years ago, are captured through a mess of fencing, with the tight rows of rigid iron rods obscuring the ancient wonders.
Art
In the Shadow of the DNC, Art About Politics vs. Political Art
PHILADELPHIA — It should come as no surprise that there are many ways one can experience art.
Art
Creating a Skeletal Symmetry from a 19th-Century Collection of Imperfect Skulls
Robbers, prostitutes, and fallen tightrope walkers: the craniums in the Hyrtl Skull Collection in the Mütter Museum at College of Physicians of Philadelphia are fractured remains of imperfect lives.