Visual Arts

A recent study shows fine art can more effectively communicate climate change than data visualization.

July 13 - July 16: Blobfest in the Philly ‘burbs, Matchbox 20 in N.J., and the Wilmington Street Food Festival are among the weekend’s highlights.

The Paradigm Gallery in Old City features rugs fabricated by Tuft the World, but designed by a robot.

Expect paintings of goats, sharks, and other animals Brad Spence has cooked. “There’s gonna be a judgment day,” he joked.

The popular 24-hour art festival has been hit by a series of tragedies and snags since 2018. Organizers are determined to keep it going.

“Seeing Philadelphia” is the first public exhibition of the city’s historical archive since the collection was acquired by Drexel University.

An art exhibition in Louis Kahn Park features photos of Philly gay life circa the 1980s and ‘90s.

An old-fashioned rotary telephone, wired to nothing, encourages people to speak to their loved ones as a form of grief therapy.

The Village of Arts and Humanities developed a tarot deck that will inform the construction of a new art gallery.

Eight decades after his landmark exhibition at MOMA, William Edmondson’s “Monumental Vision” gets refreshed at the Barnes.

Adebunmi Gbadebo makes work from materials sourced directly from her enslaved ancestors.

Maren Hassinger’s “Steel Bodies” reanimates a vision of American history at the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial along the Schuylkill River.

Opened as a movie house, it faltered in the postwar years — until rock promoter Rick Green came around.

June 15 -19: Juneteenth celebrations, “I Hate Hamlet” in N.J., and Keb’ ‘Mo in Delaware are among the weekend’s highlights.

Scholars argue the Art Museum’s damaged “Lady with a Guitar” is not a copy of a 17th century Old Master, but the real deal.