Visual Arts

Mayor Jim Kenney’s revised COVID-19 budget gutted the city’s funding to arts and culture and did away with the Office of Arts, Culture and Creative Economy.

As a new COVID-19 emergency budget threatens to eliminate the city’s Cultural Fund, organizations urge the mayor to spread out the fiscal pain.

Philadelphia artists design a poster campaign to encourage people to stay home on election day and vote by mail.

Philly’s Mural Arts Program is finding ways to get artists work and to get them paid, despite concerns over looming budget cuts to arts funding and the city’s arts office.

Students created the locally-inspired design for Vans’ Custom Culture contest.

Quarantine life means no gallery shows, gatherings or classes so we turned our front yard into a place to share art. You can do it too.

Betsy James Wyeth, the widow, business manager and muse of painter Andrew Wyeth, has died at age 98.

PMA stopped construction in light of worker safety concerns. Work also stopped Monday at the new Philadelphia Police headquarters at 400 N. Broad.

Rob Buscher, a recently laid-off arts administrator, reflects on the impact the coronavirus pandemic is having on the arts in Philadelphia.

A street art campaign asked 10 women artists to depict 20 inspiring Philadelphia women.

Philadelphia’s National Museum of American Jewish History was never able to pay down the cost of its building.

Constance Clayton has been collecting African American art for 30 years. She recently gave much of her collection to PAFA in Philadelphia.

Attendance at the Penn Museum has shot up since the Global Guides first tours in 2018. Refugee and immigrant docents receive training in ancient history and storytelling.

For decades, the Allentown Art Museum displayed an oil-on-oak panel painting called “Portrait of a Young Woman” and credited it to “Studio of Rembrandt.”

An art gallery in Fishtown opens its doors on Valentine’s Day. Scavengers United is presenting “Trashed Hearts," a group show featuring valentines by local artists.