Visual Arts

A new portrait that is vaguely reminiscent of something painted by an old master is headed to Christie's New York auction block later this week

Artists contribute to New York library's public archive of 'process work,' the throw-away sketches made in pursuit of the final work.

Berthe Morisot - a founding artist of French impressionism who was nearly forgotten - is coming back at the Barnes Foundation.

The Philadelphia Orchestra is bringing together strange bedfellows.

Exhibit on life and work of Rube Goldberg opens at National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia.

In her largest solo show, Suzanne Bocanegra takes over the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia with four installations about women in trouble.

The Navy Yard in Philadelphia unveils its first major public art installation, a comically ferocious sea monster.

Philadelphia is a city of neighborhoods—and depending on where you and your family live, whether within the city limits or in the Philly suburbs, there may be lots of neighbor

The Municipal Services Building in downtown Philadelphia hosts a temporary mural and programming about citizens returning from prison.

The Barnes Foundation arboretum, at the original Lower Marion location, is now operated by St. Joseph's University.

Trump once called them "shitholes." Now artists from those countries are reclaiming the epithet.

An exhibition of murals by local artists urges people to register to vote.

The Women’s Mobile Museum is a year-long artist residency and exhibition project of the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center (PPAC).

The complex films of Yael Bartana at the Philadelphia Museum of Art wrap multicultural messaging with nationalist propaganda.

Artist John Dowell mixes personal memory and American history in his surreal vision of cotton, now at the African American Museum in Philadelphia.