April 30, 2013
Come spring, every First Friday starts to feel like a fantastic festival. The weather is perfectly mild, Philadelphians are excited to say goodbye to colder temps and artists seem to come out of hibernation. Plus, as of April, Old City expanded its First Friday event to First Friday Weekends. Now, for the entire first weekend [...]
Read more»April 18, 2013
A number of museums, galleries and other Philadelphia art attractions have dedicated space to the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts, allowing lovers of visual arts to check out PIFA offerings on their own schedules. Unlike performances and major events, PIFA exhibits run all day long at their respective locations. If you haven’t had the [...]
Read more»April 16, 2013
The Independence Seaport Museum hosts an exciting new exhibition that spotlights the Delaware River’s role in early African and African-American history. The museum teamed up with African American scholars while developing the idea and University of Pennsylvania professor Tukufu Zuberi, who curated the exhibit. Tides of Freedom: African Presence on the Delaware River is broken [...]
Read more»April 4, 2013
In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the Mercer Museum in charming Doylestown, Pa. hosts Turning Points, an interactive exhibit bringing to life Civil War history. The exhibit includes more than 300 items from the Civil War era. Check out letters, portraits, audio recordings and more from local soldiers and civilians. The [...]
Read more»April 4, 2013
After an epic run at The Franklin Institute, Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition closes its doors on Sunday, April 7. The impressive exhibition includes more than 300 artifacts retrieved from the wreck site of Titanic. The exhibition even has cool Philadelphia tie-ins — stories of 19 passengers who all have direct ties to Philadelphia are one of the focal points of the exhibit. The last admission on Sunday is at 7:30 p.m. Stop by the marquee exhibit before it sails away.
March 29, 2013
The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is slowly winding down. Before the exhibit ends, PAFA will host an artist talk with English-born Sue Coe on Thursday, April 4 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Much of Sue Coe’s artwork is on display at PAFA, and the [...]
Read more»March 26, 2013
Kick off first Friday festivities at the Fabric Workshop and Museum’s opening reception for its new exhibit, Changing Scenes: Points of View in Contemporary Media Art. The reception welcomes the exhibit to the museum with after-hours access from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday, April 5 Changing Scenes: Points of View in Contemporary Media Art [...]
Read more»March 21, 2013
Eastern State Penitentiary welcomes spring and flings its doors open wide to unveil a collection of artifacts that date back to the the days when Eastern State was a fully-functional state prison. The all-new exhibit, Pop-Up Museum! features four cases full of a variety of artifacts selected from the hundreds in the penitentiary’s treasury, and [...]
Read more»March 19, 2013
To help cap off its yearlong bicentennial celebration, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University has teamed up with Art in City Hall to present Library of Life, a juried art exhibit that centers on humankind’s impact on the natural world. More than 40 artists were selected by Jennifer Sontchi, the Director of Exhibits [...]
Read more»March 13, 2013
This spring, The Philadelphia Museum of Art hosts a new exhibit that delves into golf and its artistic history. Golf lovers, take note — The Art of Golf runs from March 16 to July 7. The exhibit centers around The Golfers, a masterpiece by Scottish artist Charles Lees that dates to 1847. The oil-on-canvas painting [...]
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