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The three artworks: a wooden sculpture hanging in the center and the others on one wall each of the white-walled corner.

Drexel University’s Pearlstein Gallery presents A Certain Slant of Light

Illuminating nature

A new Pearlstein Gallery show featuring three former Drexel professors spans sculpture, photography, and painting to explore our relationship with nature as part of a larger whole. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

Reviews 4 minute read
Gallery photo of Cheng’s work, a rectangular yellow box with water pouring on a rock on one side & rocks waiting on the other

The Institute of Contemporary Art presents Carl Cheng: Nature Never Loses

Designed to destruct

The Institute of Contemporary Art hosts the first major museum survey of innovative interdisciplinary artist Carl Cheng, who has challenged ideas of art, science, culture, and nature for 60 years. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

Reviews 6 minute read
Black & white image of Dawn Stanley holding up a basketball, with a serious expression, on geometric blue & white background

The African American Museum in Philadelphia presents Shaheed Rucker: (re)Covering the Iconic

Reimaging Jet magazine covers with Black Philly-area icons

AAMP continues to lead the Philly area in showcasing Black art with Shaheed Rucker: (re)Covering the Iconic, featuring notable portraits in the striking style of vintage mid-century media. An Nichols reviews.
An Nichols

An Nichols

Reviews 4 minute read
Illustration. Two fish are linked by a chain, another chain trails off one's tail. Blue, white watery strokes the backdrop

Morton Contemporary presents We Are All Doing Time

Illustrating America’s mass incarceration crisis

Morton Contemporary’s new exhibition provides a glimpse into the criminal justice system through the art of six local artists who have experienced it. Kimberly Haas previews.

Kimberly Haas

Previews 4 minute read
Gay and Landau, seen from behind, standing in front of a large crowd visiting the show in a gilded hallway of City Hall

Councilmember Rue Landau and Creative Philadelphia present Transcending Uncertainty: Art Endures at Home in Philadelphia

Honoring the UArts community with a new exhibition at City Hall

City Councilmember Rue Landau and Creative Philadelphia teamed up to honor the UArts community with a special exhibition, free to view at City Hall through January 25, 2025. An Nichols visits.
An Nichols

An Nichols

Reviews 8 minute read
About 30 small white wooden figurines of fantastical yet familiar people on tiny pedestals, on a black background

The Museum for Art in Wood presents La Famiglia

Family trees

With this exhibition at the Museum for Art in Wood, turned-wood figures by artist Mark Sfirri explore likeness and difference, ancestry and environment, asking how family takes root. Anndee Hochman reviews.
Anndee Hochman

Anndee Hochman

Reviews 4 minute read

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Vintage sleeveless pink dress with the artwork title written on it in large black block lettering.

The Fabric Workshop and Museum presents Soft/Cover

Celebrating 50 years of FWM Artists-in-Residence

The Fabric Workshop and Museum marks 50 years of its Artists-in-Residence program with this survey of intriguing multi-media works from the 1970s to the present. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

Reviews 5 minute read
Minich’s multimedia piece has a blue silhouette of person at the center of a classical-looking halo, described in the article

PAFA presents Making Strange: Sacred Imagery and the Self

Spiritual art … with a twist

A new exhibition at PAFA spanning the 19th century to today (but rooted in a movement launched in the 1500s) explores religious imagery that has been distorted to signify the artists’ divergent views. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

Reviews 5 minute read
A smiling man helps a kindergarten-aged girl affix a little paper note to a wooden rack with many other notes.

The Please Touch Museum presents XOXO: An Exhibit About Love & Forgiveness

A chance for Philly youngsters to explore compassion

XOXO, a traveling installation now at the Please Touch Museum, welcomes youngsters for a variety of displays and activities exploring their feelings and compassion for others. Jill Brooke reviews.
Jill Brooke

Jill Brooke

Reviews 3 minute read
Portrait of Zakat. Several TVs with screens splashed with color cover his face. Wears a shirt that says Uses of The Ironic

Rashid Zakat and Uses of the Ironic

How the spirit shows up

Multimedia artist Rashid Zakat’s exhibit at Asian Arts Initiative is a meditation on music, joy, and spiritual vitality. John Morrison profiles.
John Morrison

John Morrison

Profiles 2 minute read