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Rectangular print with gentle peach, maroon and yellow colors featuring silhouettes of six different plants.

Brandywine Museum of Art presents This Earthen Door: Nature as Muse and Material

The art of Emily Dickinson’s garden

An elegant conceptual exhibition at the Brandywine Museum of Art explores conservation, the act of noticing, and the poetics of nature and art through the lens of Emily Dickinson’s garden and her historic herbarium. Gail Obenreder reviews.
Gail Obenreder

Gail Obenreder

Reviews 4 minute read
Graceful 8-foot indoor dome made of wood and minutely detailed stained glass in all colors, with an opening to enter.

Michener Art Museum presents Judith Schaechter: Super/Natural

Embracing the impermanence of beauty

In an eerie, exquisite show at Michener Art Museum, stained-glass artist Judith Schaechter explores the darker emotions and stories that make beauty and joy possible by contrast. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

Reviews 4 minute read
Portrait of 19th-century enslaved man Squire intricately wrought in tiny beads, with broken chains, a spear, and a ship.

The African American Museum in Philadelphia presents Demond Melancon: As Any Means Are Necessary

Preserving culture, one bead at a time

New Orleans glass bead artist Demond Melancon, a modern icon of the Mardi Gras tradition of Black Masking, a confluence of West African, Afro Caribbean, and Indigenous cultures, gets his first solo museum exhibition. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

Reviews 5 minute read
Two sculptures of two people’s heads face each other in a gallery with people visiting in the room.

Celebrating a history of LGBTQIA+ activism and community with Homecoming

Exploring themes of home

In a humble Victorian in Lansdowne, visitors can explore the comforts and complexities of queer domestic life this spring through the work of 20 LGBTQIA+ artists. Dara McBride previews.

Dara McBride

Previews 2 minute read
Show logo: title in blue & green at top left, over a single large eye with curly eyebrow & striped green & yellow pyramid.

Drexel University’s Paul Peck Alumni Center Gallery presents Kurt Vonnegut Jr. as a Visual Artist

When words fail, draw

A timely new exhibition of drawings by Kurt Vonnegut, many of which have never been displayed publicly, offers a new perspective on the iconic author that resonates in our own time. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

Reviews 4 minute read
Bright-colored painting of two slim men with light brown skin in preppy clothes, arms around each other casually.

Woodmere Art Museum presents Eye of the Beholder: Two Philadelphia Collectors’ Visions of Beauty in Art

The collectors’ art of resistance

Eye of the Beholder, now on view at Woodmere Art Museum, curates picks from the collections of two luminaries of the local art scene with an eye for goodness and beauty. K.A. McFadden reviews.
K.A. McFadden

K.A. McFadden

Reviews 4 minute read
A delicate bureau-like wooden structure on long legs attaches to a complicated pulley and display system on the wall above.

The Museum for Art in Wood presents The Longest Distance Between Two Points

If wood could watch us

A new exhibition at the Museum for Art in Wood brings Wisconsin illustrator and woodworker Katie Hudnall to Philly for a delightful, mind-bending show. Anndee Hochman reviews.
Anndee Hochman

Anndee Hochman

Reviews 5 minute read
A yellowed fragment of 18th-century paper has 8 lines of fine ink cursive and a flourishing signature.

The American Philosophical Society presents Philadelphia, The Revolutionary City

A Revolution through ordinary citizens’ eyes

A new exhibition at the American Philosophical Society about the lives of ordinary people in the Revolutionary Era brings an online history portal to life in the physical museum. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

Reviews 6 minute read
Orange, blue & yellow collage of a Black woman with long, fine locs wrapped in an elegant twist along the top of her head.

The TILT Institute presents Of Black Wombhood

An antidote to the erasure of Black bodies

A two-part exhibition, now getting its first installment at TILT, “explores the interiority of Black womb-bearing people” with a brilliant mix of photos and collage that are part of a larger oral history project. An Nichols reviews.
An Nichols

An Nichols

Reviews 5 minute read
A woman nurse with pale skin and brown hair, wearing blue scrubs, looks calmly outward from a thicket of red spring branches

The Mütter Museum presents Trusted Messengers: Community, Confidence, and Covid-19

Five years later: remembering pandemic heroes

A new special exhibition at the Mütter Museum marks five years since the first Covid-19 shutdowns, honoring the healthcare workers, researchers, and truth-tellers who saved millions of lives. Erin Dohony reviews.
Erin Dohony

Erin Dohony

Reviews 4 minute read