Visual Arts
In three new ‘First 100 Days’ posters, Philly artists lay out policies for Biden and Harris
The Mural Arts project was a bigger success than its creators imagined.
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The Met considers selling its art to stave off financial shortfall
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.
3 years ago
The ‘Anti Flower Show Movement’ and the black-and-white photo sticker all over Philly streets
Who’s behind the viral image, and are they trolling for a reason?
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Black Quantum Futurism receives the Knight Foundation’s new art and technology fellowship
The Knight Foundation has launched a $50,000 art and technology fellowship. Its first class includes a Philly duo making science fiction a reality.
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A very Philly engagement story: Couple plans identical proposals with murals
They both wanted to pop the question. This South Philly couple decided to say it with street art — unbeknownst to each other.
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Skate park installation and printmaking exhibition bring queer and trans artists together
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.
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‘Love In Isolation’ portrait series celebrates the beauty of Black Philadelphia creators
Grounded by the pandemic, the world-famous fashion designer behind Ikiré Jones went searching for inspiration at home.
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Gilbert Lewis remembered as artist, mentor to Philly’s gay ’80s
“Only Tony” features 25 portraits that Gilbert Lewis painted of a single model during the height of the AIDS epidemic.
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PAFA invites women to take up space in new feminist exhibition
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.
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Native American artists offer hope and craft in online workshops
We Are The Seeds, based in Philadelphia, is asking Native American artists from around the country to teach digital workshops open to the public.
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Philly needs to protect public art — and the artists that make it too
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.
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Queer and Black at the laundromat: Jonathan Lyndon Chase at the Fabric Workshop and Museum
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.
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New Philly mural shouts out Black and queer organizers’ role in getting Biden elected
“We Did That” is up near the Pennsylvania Convention Center, at the spot that felt like the center of the universe during ballot counting.
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Down the block from the whitewashed mural, a colorful new Gloria Casarez tribute
Queer artist Tiff Urquhart eased her pain by installing a wheatpaste of the LGBTQ icon.
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Philly has 3,600 murals and few ways to protect them
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.
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