Visual Arts
Philly’s Pew Center names new director and announces $8.6M in arts funding
Christina Vassallo, previously of the Fabric Workshop and Museum, will run the major arts funder for the Philadelphia region.
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Listen 1:09A year of Philadelphia ‘firsts’: Artists will celebrate the city’s ingenuity throughout 2026
Fifty-two Philadelphia innovations will be spotlighted in 2026, one each week, by the city’s artists and visitors bureau.
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Listen 1:15The project will see a monument in each of the state’s three regions tell stories of migrants' roles in the Garden State labor force.
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Listen 1:00Art festival launching in Philadelphia in 2026
ArtPhilly will showcase Philly culture, past and present.
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Listen 1:07Penn Museum’s new Native North America exhibition collaborates with Indigenous curators
Eight curators from eight Indigenous nations redesigned Penn Museum’s Native North America display.
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Listen 1:20Historic Old City bank building to become artistic fantasia in March
“The Ministry of Awe” will be an immersive art experience in Old City, opening in a former bank building March 14.
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Listen 1:15Weitzman museum plans an America250 exhibition from an island in the Caribbean
“The First Salute,” opening in April, will tell the story of a tiny, largely Jewish island that played a key role in the Revolutionary War.
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Listen 1:12What does Sasha Suda claim in her lawsuit vs. Philly’s Art Museum?
The director and CEO of the Art Museum was abruptly fired last week. Here's a summary of her 30-page lawsuit against the museum.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber visits the Delaware Art Museum’s Pre-Raphaelite collection
The musical theater composer stopped in Wilmington during the “Phantom of the Opera” revival tour to talk about Victorian-era paintings.
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Philadelphia veterans find community at Operation Mud
A class at Philadelphia’s Clay Studio connects veterans through creating art.
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Recently fired CEO of Philadelphia Art Museum sues over her ousting
Days after being terminated “for cause,” Sasha Suda described the museum board as “corrupt” and “dysfunctional.”
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A look inside the ‘Dreamworld’ of surrealism at the Philadelphia Art Museum
The art movement originated in France in 1924 and quickly began influencing all forms of media across the globe.
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Philadelphia Art Museum’s 49th Contemporary Craft Show is this weekend
The show at the Pennsylvania Convention Center continues its tradition of connecting attendees directly to artists across mediums.
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Philadelphia Art Museum fires CEO Sasha Suda
Sasha Suda was hired just three years ago from Ontario. A reason for her termination was not given.
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An ‘exuberantly eclectic’ new building is set to open at Chestnut Hill’s Woodmere Museum
The new Maguire Hall is a 173-year-old industrialist’s mansion converted into a showcase of Philadelphia artists.
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