Visual Arts
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.
6 days ago
Listen 1:23Princeton University to reopen its newly rebuilt art museum
Designed by architect David Adjaye, Princeton’s new museum corrects the problematic old one.
2 weeks ago
Listen 1:20The outsider who came in: Henri Rousseau retrospective opens at Philly’s Barnes Foundation
The celebrated French post-impressionist was dismissed during his lifetime as “naive,” but held many secrets.
2 weeks ago
Listen 1:19Moki Cherry, matriarch of a musical family, gets the spotlight at Philadelphia’s Fabric Museum
Neneh Cherry visited the posthumous solo exhibition of her mother, Moki, at the Fabric Workshop and Museum.
3 weeks ago
Listen 1:46Will AI kill human creativity?
The examples of AI art are pretty astounding, but if computers can make art, will we still value art made by people? And what are the limits to the algorithmic imagination?
Air Date: October 16, 2025 12:00 pm
Listen 45:41The Philadelphia Museum of Art has changed its name and its brand
The PMA will now be the more colloquial Philadelphia Art Museum, reflecting an institute embracing its host city.
4 weeks ago
Listen 1:17A new Holocaust mural on the Parkway tells a story of displacement in 28 languages
“Lay-lah Lay-lah,” by artist Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson, uses ancient texts to connect the historic atrocity to a range of communities and underscore a shared humanity.
1 month ago
Listen 1:22How Delaware’s ‘King of Transit’ turned a lifelong love of buses into an art exhibit
Geraldo Gonzalez’s exhibit showcases 11 art pieces that capture the charm, history and culture of public transportation.
1 month ago
A new mural by Shepard Fairey about the ideals of American liberty appears in Philly
Just in time for the nation’s 250th birthday celebration next year, Fairey’s work replaces a 112-foot mural of a classically Greco-Roman sculpture.
1 month ago
The show, LOOK HERE, at Haverford’s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, blends accessibility, inclusion and unique perspectives.
2 months ago
Major new art attraction for the work of Alexander Calder opens in Philadelphia on Sunday
The $100 million Calder Gardens, on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, reinvents what a museum is supposed to do.
2 months ago
Listen 1:34More than a T-shirt: Philadelphia Museum of Art showcases the pinnacle of fine art screenprinting
The PMA is now the repository of everything Brand X has done and will do. “Innovation in Screenprinting” is the first of several exhibitions.
2 months ago
Listen 1:11John Obringer uses an Etch A Sketch to draw Philly sports logos, the LOVE sign and the Philly skyline. Others are buying his artwork.
2 months ago
Native flora and fauna in the spotlight at the New Jersey State Museum’s ‘Ecosystems at Risk’
The exhibition highlights the state’s natural habitats and efforts to protect them.
2 months ago
Listen 2:39How romance and a road trip led to the purchase of the world’s oldest drive-in theater
Matt McClanahan and Lauren McChesney bought Shankweiler’s Drive-In in Oreland, Pennsylvania, in 2022 after learning the property might be sold to developers.
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