Visual Arts

This year marks the 100th anniversary of Andrew Wyeth's birth. The Brandywine River Museum of Art celebrates his life through an exhibit of his best work.

On the First Friday of the month, thousands of art lovers wander Philadelphia galleries that stay open late. A cluster of art coll ...

Early morning, an hour before and after sunrise, provides wonderful lighting opportunities. Sometimes it’s ethereal, sometimes myst ...

Since its inception in 1925, the New Yorker has published some 70,000 cartoons featuring the likes of Charles Addams, George Booth, Saul ...

Alida Fish was given a camera as a child to capture her world. Now through her art, she creates worlds of her own.

Photographs used to be magic: prestidigitation performed by alchemists armed with white umbrellas, light meters, lenses, and endless roll ...

One of Trenton’s secrets is that it’s a fun place to see art. Probably the best example is its annual 24-hour festival ...

A childhood pyromaniac grows up, becomes a chemist and makes sparks fly in the lab. Matt Cline, 43, is a chemical engineering lab ...

Hollywood directors have a direct line to consulting scientists. Let’s say you’re a filmmaker. You want to put a littl ...

When the Free Library put out a call for Philadelphia artists who are "seeking a wider audience for their work and would like to get paid for it," I was hopeful.

The Samuel M. V. Hamilton Building at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts was the scene of intense activity in early May as students fi ...

They languished in storage for years, but now, the first mural project of famed illustrator Howard Pyle are back on display.

I thought about my grandmother last week, when Donald J. Trump unrolled a federal budget proposal that, to no on ...

Brianna Wu has been outspoken about sexism in male-dominated video game culture. Brianna Wu has loved video games ever since she w ...

Virginia Abrams was teaching biochemistry, when she discovered art quilts. She's since traded the lab for a sewing machine.