Museums
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Penn Museum presents Preserving Assyria
Rediscovering the world’s first empire
As Iraqi archeologists and experts reclaimed sites damaged by ISIS in the Gulf Wars, they discovered an extraordinary piece of Assyrian history. A new exhibition at Penn Museum explores the find. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents Naoto Fukasawa: Things in Themselves
A world-renowned designer gets his first major US solo show at the PMA
Naoto Fukasawa is one of the world's most sought-after designers, and the PMA hosts his first major solo exhibition in the US, featuring a range of irresistibly practical objects. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.
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The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History presents Humans of Judaism
The popular online platform honoring the diversity of modern Jewish life comes to museum walls
The Weitzman on Independence Mall honors the diversity of the modern Jewish experience with a new exhibition based on the popular social-media platform Humans of Judaism. Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer reviews.
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The Delaware Art Museum presents Jazz Age Illustration
Illustrators deserve to be on museum walls
In the first half of the 20th century, the music and culture of America’s Jazz Age drove major social change. Now, a new exhibition at the Delaware Art Museum captures the era’s masterful illustrators. Gail Obenreder reviews.
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The African American Museum in Philadelphia presents Shared Vision: Portraits from the CCH Pounder-Koné Collection
Honoring Black women who look up and out
In an exhibition curated exclusively for AAMP, arts patron and prolific actor CCH Pounder opens up her significant and uplifting portrait collection for Philly audiences. An Nichols reviews.
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Brandywine Museum of Art presents The Crafted World of Wharton Esherick
A rare gallery glimpse of iconic woodworks
Wood comes alive in The Crafted World of Wharton Esherick, now on view at the Brandywine Museum of Art. It’s a rare chance to see the interdisciplinary artist’s full oeuvre outside his historic home. Gail Obenreder reviews.
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents The Time Is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure
A historic, absorbing exhibition
A new PMA exhibition curated by Ekow Eshun gathers 28 contemporary artists from across the Black and African diaspora in the US and UK, exploring Blackness as lived experience rather than social construct. K.A. McFadden reviews.
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