Visual Arts

A Philadelphia artist takes cues from Gillian Welch and folk ballads to paint historic repetition.

A pair of historians are hunting for artifacts for an archive of Philadelphia’s jazz history. They’re holding a scanning party to digitize bits of music history.

The wardrobe of Maira Kalman’s mother tells the story of a 20th century American Jewish experience. You can take a peek inside.

High-end art fairs have become the backbone of the global contemporary art market. Now, a producer is trying it out on Philly.

The white dishcloth that ended the Civil War has been recreated in monumental size at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia.

Birdie Busch will perform a suite of songs based on female artists in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

The Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia is exhibiting work by a group of Dalit, once known as “untouchables,” to protest that social hierarchy.

A photojournalist and a fine-art photographer collaborate on a dual exhibition of the Baye Fall of Senegal and the indigenous deities of Sierra Leone.

Space 1026, being forced out of its current location, becomes the first artist collective in Philadelphia to buy a building.

Blueprints show a new tower rising on an empty lot next to existing warehouse buildings. Plans show retail, an outdoor cafe, and a bar or restaurant space.

Willis ‘Nomo’ Humphrey, 44, was a prominent Philadelphia muralist. An auction to raise money for his kids is this weekend.

The series of short films bring Walt Whitman’s poetry to Alabama where regular folks recite lines from ‘Song of Myself.’

In 1840, photography was both the runt of the fine art world and its greatest threat.

At 70, photographer David Lebe is having his first retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He didn't think he'd live to see it.

Thirty Philadelphia artists submitted work that has replaced all advertising in the Walnut-Locust Station.