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![Gold-framed collage-like painting in blue, pink, black, and green, featuring two Black figures, described in text below.](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/Arthur-Ross_BSR_7_22_24.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=863f9ca9912e05a6ae3e7877093050f7)
Arthur Ross Gallery presents David C. Driskell and Friends: Creativity, Collaboration, and Friendship
Proving Black art's place at the center of American history
Throughout his groundbreaking career, artist David C. Driskell laid the foundation for the academic study of Black American art, long ignored by the art world. A new exhibition at Arthur Ross honors him and his legacy. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.
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![A stylized woman sits in a chair next to a large flower bouquet, a book in her lap and her cheek leaning on one hand.](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/Barnes_BSR_7_2_24.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.878&fp-y=0.3176&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=52bfbf4e9e442579a91517a1fa4bd294)
The Barnes Foundation presents Matisse & Renoir: New Encounters at The Barnes
The OGS of their genres
A new exhibition from the Barnes draws on the best of the foundation’s extensive collection of works by Matisse and Renoir, and places them in conversation with each other. K.A. McFadden reviews.
![K.A. McFadden](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/headshots/K.A.-McFadden.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5024&fp-y=0.5733&h=32&q=80&w=32&s=8bcd4d2a4cc11a2374a09f34d24d416c)
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![Acrylic on canvas painting, a young woman to the right, painted in blue and black. Lined paper figurine cutouts on the left](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/Keith-Andrews-TBD-BSR-6-30-24.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.7541&fp-y=0.3479&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=6856ff26601d6f3f20287f758dc88390)
The Barnes Foundation and Mural Arts Philadelphia present Visions
An exhibition for restorative justice
The Barnes and Mural Arts’s Visions opens this week featuring artworks from system-impacted young people in southeast Pennsylvania. Cass Lewis previews.
![Cass Lewis](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/headshots/Cass_Lewis.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=32&q=80&w=32&s=ca79017862e05e70201ae21b8a6e7190)
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![Exhibit view: signage about medical racism on green walls, with a tall wooden cabinet of medical specimens at right.](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/Mutter-header_BSR_6_25_24_2024-06-25-200005_etxy.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=b10b510be556c5cfe48264b395218774)
The Mütter Museum presents its Postmortem Project exhibition
Exhuming the past, examining the future
With its Postmortem Project exhibition, the Mütter Museum continues a fraught but necessary process to evaluate and present its collections in line with modern medical, legal, and ethical standards. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.
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![A gold, slender halter-style dress with a long, delicate pleated skirt and opulent beaded bodice in muted purple and blue.](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/McFadden-header_BSR_6_25_24.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.4358&fp-y=0.1972&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=9b0867e6ae2e468454e14e21da6591ea)
Drexel University presents Modern Ritual: The Art of Mary McFadden
A “design archeologist” arrives at Drexel
Globetrotting fashion designer Mary McFadden’s archive is now housed at Drexel’s Robert and Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection, and its first exhibition there offers a tantalizing glimpse of her world. Wendy Univer reviews.
![Wendy Univer](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/headshots/WUniver_Headshot_HI-RES-copy.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.4752&fp-y=0.4659&h=32&q=80&w=32&s=1a20a5aa4038093ad7fefb01517a3a2a)
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![Painting of a white woman with coiffed brown hair & puff-sleeved golden dress with fur-lined burgundy satin wrap.](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/Woodmere_BSR_5_14_24.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5047&fp-y=0.2758&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=47a63a7dd0d0ab98ac95cbf7aea730fd)
Woodmere Art Museum presents Through Her Eyes
Marking the 50th anniversary of a historic celebration of women artists
“Why have there been no great women artists?” An art critic posed the question in 1971 and Philly responded in 1974 with FOCUS, a citywide festival of women artists. Now, a new Woodmere show marks its 50th anniversary. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.
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![Dark-haired mother kisses the shoulder of a chubby rosy-cheeked dark-haired toddler in a white shift falling off his shoulder](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/PAFA-Cassatt_BSR_5_14_24.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.3867&fp-y=0.3293&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=abb41e4fc3bb3b978a1b6ffa351d1640)
Philadelphia is spending summer 2024 with Mary Cassatt
Meet the iconic Impressionist with a new exhibition and public virtual class
Philadelphia will celebrate hometown artist Mary Cassatt this summer, kicking off with a major new exhibition that was years in the making at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Camille Bacon-Smith looks closer.
![Camille Bacon-Smith](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/headshots/CamilleBaconSmith_BSRAuthors_090516.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=32&q=80&w=32&s=5b588641340b703625e2bee9b29af1c7)
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![As if two surfboards side by side, a view of each side of Wind’s piece: a yellow surfboard covered in multimedia collage.](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/Naked-Show_BSR_5_7_24.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=59192b97d02282a2a3146631a3f74fe4)
InLiquid Gallery presents The Naked Show
What does nakedness show us? What does it hide?
A new ensemble exhibit featuring 15 InLiquid Gallery members poses plenty of worthwhile
questions along with its nudes, but something is missing from the show’s promise to honor humanity’s infinite variations. Anndee Hochman reviews.
questions along with its nudes, but something is missing from the show’s promise to honor humanity’s infinite variations. Anndee Hochman reviews.
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![Painting of 9 Black women in dresses around the edge of a sunflower quilt with Van Gogh beside, sunflowers all around them.](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/Ringgold_Delaware_Art_Museum_BSR_4_8_24.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.4527&fp-y=0.306&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=3e5fa2f0efb1084609fe36c10510d1fd)
Delaware Art Museum presents There Is a Woman in Every Color: Black Women in Art
A better picture of Black women in American history
Current representations of Black women in American history are improving, and a traveling exhibition now at Delaware Art Museum is a welcome addition to the trend. An Nichols reviews.
![An Nichols](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/headshots/An_Nicholson.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=32&q=80&w=32&s=b3a258b925f69c20bd90c159b769545f)
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![Unsettling oil painting of a skinny boy in shorts, shirt, tie & black cape pointing down toward his wooden hand-lettered sign](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/Wyeth_Dead-Cat-Museum_BSR_4_2_24.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.3405&fp-y=0.3399&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=c7f9a13bd1c81a83c2a7d350807f9759)
The Brandywine Museum of Art presents Jamie Wyeth: Unsettled
A Wyeth who casts his own shadow
A bold, chilling, and magnetic Brandywine Museum of Art exhibition disentangles Jamie Wyeth from the legacies of his father and grandfather. Gail Obenreder reviews.
![Gail Obenreder](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/headshots/GailObenreder_BSRauthors_100116.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=32&q=80&w=32&s=6b06d1c43a7bead0d21ebb25d53017b0)
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