Visual Arts

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.

Museums were forced to temporarily shut down in November amid the city’s rising coronavirus cases.

A nonprofit has identified 2,000 works by women artists that were stashed in Italy's museums and damp churches. It's also helped restore works from the 16th to 20th centuries.

In a year that cried out for it, artists created hope, spread awareness, honored victims, and added beauty to the city.

The pioneering artist was the first woman in her field to win a Pulitzer.

A rare solo exhibition by the Philly artist brings his organically whimsical creatures into a “jungle of ornament.”