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Collage of 12 headshots of Asian people of different ages, genders, and ethnicities.

Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists presents Philly Asian Futures

Imagining the future Philly's Pan-Asian community
A multidisciplinary theater project features nine performance installations by local artists that pull from listening circles held with local Asian elders. Krista Mar previews.
Krista Mar

Krista Mar

Previews 3 minute read
Close-up on wooden shelves full of clay cups with different designs, mostly in reds, blues, and grays.

The Clay Studio presents Clay as Care: Ceramic Art and Wellbeing

Clay as power, healing, and catharsis
With Clay As Care, The Clay Studio welcomes four very different ceramic artists to explore the ways attention to art and the work of our hands can heal, empower, and connect us. Anndee Hochman reviews.
Anndee Hochman

Anndee Hochman

Reviews 5 minute read
A Black man wearing black, with variously shaped locs, sits on the floor looking warily off to the left.

Philly Fringe 2025: FringeArts presents nora chipaumire’s Dambudzo

Dambudzo means trouble
nora chipaumire’s “anti-genre” performance installation Dambudzo, part of the curated Fringe Festival, is a postcolonial fever dream. Melissa Strong reviews.
Melissa Strong

Melissa Strong

Reviews 3 minute read
In a dark room, a large screen shows 3 people walking toward a glittering metallic curtain, all reflected on the shiny floor

The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz’s Moving Backwards

One step forward, two steps back?
The PMA has acquired an interdisciplinary installation by the Swiss/German creator duo Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz. Moving Backwards was first commissioned in 2019 and feels even more relevant now, especially here. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

Reviews 5 minute read
Installation view on a sunny day outdoors, focused on a life-sized photo of the view from a City Hall window.

Mural Arts presents Emilio Martínez Poppe’s Civic Views

A government of individuals
Civic Views, a new public art installation from Mural Arts on view in the City Hall Courtyard, offers engaging perspectives from city employees at a time when public-sector workers face increasing threats. Isabel Soisson reviews.
Isabel Soisson

Isabel Soisson

Reviews 3 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
View straight down into a few stories of the narrow exhibit, crammed with wooden structures and assembled found objects.

Arcadia University’s Spruance Gallery presents Perpetual Inventory: A Ruminative Installation by Scott Kip

Unmoored and uncanny
Visitors to Scott Kip’s Perpetual Inventory can decide if they want to look at an inventory or gallery notes before entering—but it might be worthwhile to wait for an impressionistic, mysterious encounter. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

Reviews 4 minute read
A stylish, simple bronze chair with front and back legs like an Afro pick, with the handle forming the chair’s back.

The Wexler Gallery presents Jomo Tariku’s Juxtaposed

A fresh take on old and new art
Ethiopian American artist and design star Jomo Tariku, whose work spans from the PMA and the Smithsonian to Marvel’s onscreen Wakanda, gets his first-ever solo show at Fishtown’s Wexler Gallery. An Nichols reviews.
An Nichols

An Nichols

Reviews 4 minute read
Portrait of Hsu, a Taiwanese woman. Her arms crossed in a sweater, she stands along tall, large rocks by large body of water

Rachel Hsu presents The Weight of Our Living

A contemplative art installation on reflexology on the Parkway
Philadelphia artist Rachel Hsu’s first installation draws inspiration from traditional Chinese medicine and her childhood as the daughter of a Taiwanese immigrant. Kimberly Haas previews.

Kimberly Haas

Previews 5 minute read
A tea party in an ornately draped tent of lace, with one guest who has a giant pink rose instead of a face.

The BSR Podcast, season 8, episode 9: talking with John Jarboe about her new Rose Garden

A stage show about gender becomes an installation at the Fabric Workshop and Museum
BSR Podcast host Darnelle Radford sits down with cabaret star John Jarboe, whose latest show has become an alluring installation at the Fabric Workshop and Museum.
Darnelle Radford

Darnelle Radford

Podcast 1 minute read