Stop. Look. Listen.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art’s “Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective” ends its run Jan. 10, and if you haven’t seen it yet, you should. It’s the very model of how an exhibition should be put together, illuminating Gorky’s awe-inspiring work and heartbreaking life and bringing a sometimes-marginalized figure into the forefront. My story here, and more information here.

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The Philadelphia Museum of Art makes its case for Paul Cézanne as a painter of enormous influence in “Cézanne and Beyond,” a big exhibit opening Thursday which not only gathers 40 paintings and 20 watercolors and drawings by Cézanne and many more by artists inspired by him, but ranges across the 20th century and even into […]

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Long-lost Calder banners are back on view in Philadelphia.

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Performance art. Affordable art. Where they meet.
More about the store.

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But you can play City Hall!
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia Orchestra is going to end its summer Neighborhood Concert season with a first: The orchestra will perform at Dilworth Plaza on the west side of City Hall.
The concert on Tuesday, Sept. 23, will be free and open to the public. It will begin at 7 […]

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At last, Philadelphia has a long-promised arts office. On Friday, July 18, Mayor Michael Nutter signed into being the Office of Arts, Culture and Creative Economy, and named Gary Steuer chief cultural officer. The Office of Arts and Culture had been closed in 2004; the addition of the words “creative economy” to the title says a […]

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Local artists made an impressive showing at the annual Art of the State Exhibit, now on display at the State Museum of Pennsylvania. Mary Stoudt of Reinholds won a first prize in crafts for her quilt, “Rio Marianion.” Dorothy Frey of Willow Street won a second prize in painting for oil-on-canvas “Pivot (shown at right)” […]

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Group won’t file any more appeals over judge’s decision to allow the Barnes Foundation to move.

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The city of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Museum of Art have declared Thursday, June 19, a day of appreciation to honor the museum’s Museum’s longtime Director and Chief Executive Officer Anne d’Harnoncourt, who died unexpectedly on Sunday, June 1. The museum will be open free all day, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and there will be a tribute […]

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I was unbelievably shocked by the news of Anne d’Harnoncourt’s death. What a terrible loss for the museum, Philadelphia and the cultural community at large.
http://www.philly.com/philly/obituaries/19481959.html
Edward Sozanski’s comment:
http://tinyurl.com/3tyglu

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