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Alex Da Corte’s 2019 ‘Street View (Hoagiefest)’ meets Thomas Birch’s 'Perry’s Victory on Lake Erie' (c. 1814). (Photo by Barbara Katus, courtesy of PAFA.)

PAFA presents ‘Ancient History of the Distant Future’

The archive of now

PAFA’s permanent collection meets the future of contemporary art in partnership with KADIST, exploring everything from eroding Founding Fathers to riffs on Goya, where Wawa meets the War of 1812. Pamela Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

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Steven Guarnaccia moves three little pigs into a famous Frank Lloyd Wright in his 2010 ‘The Three Little Pigs: An Architectural Tale.’ (Image courtesy of Abrams.)

Brandywine River Museum presents ‘Cinderella & Co. ‒ Three Fairy Tales Reimagined’

Stories under the surface

Fairy tales always have more going on under the surface, and a new exhibition at the Brandywine River Museum offers fresh, multicultural takes on three of our favorites. Gail Obenreder reviews.
Gail Obenreder

Gail Obenreder

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“Damnit, she wore it.” Debra Rapoport’s 1969 ‘Fibrous Raiment.’ (Photo by Timothy Tiebout, courtesy of Philadelphia Museum of Art 2019.)

The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents ‘Off the Wall: American Art Ready to Wear’

A new body of art

Typically, art needs two parties: the artist, and the person who experiences the art. But as the PMA explores in a new exhibition of wearable art, you have to consider the person who dons it too. Pamela Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

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Kaywin Feldman (in red) with members of the organizing Society of Winterthur Fellows. (Image courtesy of Winterthur.)

Winterthur Museum welcomes National Gallery of Art director Kaywin Feldman

Will art museums speak to us in the future?

The first woman director of the National Gallery of Art has already been shaking up the field around the country. Kaywin Feldman offered a vision for museums of the future in a special lecture at Winterthur. Gail Obenreder was there.
Gail Obenreder

Gail Obenreder

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‘Isaac Hayes in His Office at Stax Records, Memphis, Tennessee,’ a 1970s gelatin silver print by Ernest C. Withers. (Courtesy of Decaneas Archive, Revere, MA. © Dr.Ernest C. Withers, Sr.)

The Delaware Art Museum presents ‘Posing Beauty in African American Culture’

Beautiful humanity

‘Posing Beauty’ at the Delaware Art Museum is an especially important offering for Wilmington and beyond. Crystal Sparrow reviews.
Crystal Sparrow

Crystal Sparrow

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Włodzimierz Siwierski’s ‘A Day Off,’ drawn inside Auschwitz in 1941. (Image courtesy of Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.)

The National Liberty Museum presents ‘Forbidden Art’

The art that survived Auschwitz

The National Liberty Museum welcomes an extraordinary collection of “forbidden” art that documented life inside Auschwitz from the prisoners’ own point of view. Daralyse Lyons considers.

Daralyse Lyons

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Anticipatory structures: a gallery view of 2018’s ‘Another Generosity.' (Photo by Juan Arce, courtesy of the PMA, 2019.)

The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents ‘Designs for Different Futures’

What’s to become of us?

The good, the bad, and the ugly—of everything to come: it’s all on display at the PMA, in the wide-ranging and innovative ‘Designs for Different Futures.’ Pamela Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

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Newspaper clippings from the time show preparations to bury an unprecedented number of flu victims. (Image courtesy of the Mütter Museum.)

The Mütter Museum presents ‘Spit Spreads Death’

A world without vaccines

The influenza pandemic of 1918-19 killed millions of people around the globe, but Philadelphia was the hardest-hit of any major American city. The Mütter Museum explores this history, and its implications for modern public health, in ‘Spit Spreads Death.’ Michelle Nugent reviews.
Michelle Nugent

Michelle Nugent

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Asking no favors: US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg in her official portrait. (Image courtesy of WDC Photos/Alamy Stock Photo.)

NMAJH presents ‘Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’

Changing the world for women in America

A new exhibition from the National Museum of American Jewish History and LA’s Skirball Cultural Center charts the life, career, and rise of our own RBG. Pamela Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

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Life after a head-wound in battle: a portrait of Richard St. George, by Irish artist Hugh Douglas Hamilton. (Image courtesy of MOAR.)

The Museum of the American Revolution presents ‘The Life and Death of an Irish Soldier’

Picturing the Revolution

In a rare mixture of history, art, and art history, the Museum of the American Revolution revives Irish artist and soldier Richard St. George, revealing the American Revolution anew. Gail Obenreder reviews.
Gail Obenreder

Gail Obenreder

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