Visual Arts

The Mural Arts project was a bigger success than its creators imagined.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is considering selling its artwork to cover operational costs as it falls short of $150 million in revenue.

Who’s behind the viral image, and are they trolling for a reason?

The Knight Foundation has launched a $50,000 art and technology fellowship. Its first class includes a Philly duo making science fiction a reality.

They both wanted to pop the question. This South Philly couple decided to say it with street art — unbeknownst to each other.

The Asian Arts Initiative now has a ‘skate room,’ wheat-pasted with original posters by Philadelphia artists of color who identify as queer and/or trans.

Grounded by the pandemic, the world-famous fashion designer behind Ikiré Jones went searching for inspiration at home.

“Only Tony” features 25 portraits that Gilbert Lewis painted of a single model during the height of the AIDS epidemic.

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts has reopened in a big way, with big art on big walls that take your breath away with their sheer size.

We Are The Seeds, based in Philadelphia, is asking Native American artists from around the country to teach digital workshops open to the public.

Philadelphia stands to lose more than murals if the city, employers, and cultural institutions don’t do more to support the artists that create them.

Big Wash explores the laundromat as a site of queer domestic life where the private meets the public, and the idea of cleaning as both ritual and meditation.

“We Did That” is up near the Pennsylvania Convention Center, at the spot that felt like the center of the universe during ballot counting.

Queer artist Tiff Urquhart eased her pain by installing a wheatpaste of the LGBTQ icon.

If the owner of a wall wants to get rid of the mural on it, there isn’t much the artist or community can do. Jane Golden wants to change that.