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»December 3, 2012
Beginning at the opening reception this Thursday, December 6, you can see Philadelphia in a day through the perspective of 1,800 beginner, amateur and professional photographers at the 2012 Philly Photo Day exhibition. Back on October 26, The Philadelphia Photo Arts Center (PPAC) launched the biggest ever Philly Photo Day during which everyone in the [...]
Read more»August 6, 2012
Another new month means another chance to catch Second Friday along Lancaster Avenue. This lively avenue in West Philly will host its August “Second Friday” event on August 10 from 5-8 p.m. With an expanded ten blocks of vendors, artists and musicians, Lancaster Avenue gives you a great reason to get outdoors and celebrate the [...]
Read more»July 5, 2012
We love First Fridays but it’s time to show some love to the other Fridays of the month. Lancaster Avenue, home of last fall’s LOOK! public art project, invites you to “Come Out and Play” as July’s theme for their Second Friday event on July 13. Stretching from 34th to 41st Streets along Lancaster Avenue, [...]
Read more»June 10, 2011
With the help of Sweden’s Princess Madeleine, The American Swedish Historical Museum recently debuted a new gallery exhibit dedicated to the New Sweden Colony and its earliest European inhabitants. Before William Penn made his mark on Philadelphia, Swedish settlers put down the city’s original roots in a colony known then as New Sweden. The Sven [...]
Read more»March 9, 2011
In conjunction with the Kimmel Center’s upcoming inaugural Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA), the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is presenting a new French exhibition entitled “How ‘ya gonna keep ‘em down on the farm after they’ve seen Paree?” on view April 1 through May 29. An installation of modernist art [...]
Read more»February 11, 2011
Love is in the air… and on the walls this month at Highwire Gallery in Fishtown. Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Highwire’s The LOVE Show features mixed media pieces that express the multifaceted emotions of love. Local artists use their chosen medium to dissect the origins and meanings of different iterations of love, including [...]
Read more»February 10, 2011
Project Basho, one of the photography resource centers in Philadelphia, has announced the ONWARD ’11 exhibition, featuring 70 photographs by 63 emerging photographers from around the world. This year’s curator and judge is famed photographer Larry Fink. Fink’s work has been exhibited at places like New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art and the Musee [...]
Read more»July 23, 2010
The MMS Gallery is a new project that aims to showcase creativity provided by everyday people, whether they consider themselves actual artists or not. And they’re doing it initially with more than 1,000 photo submissions taken with cell phone cameras. The Gallery’s Mission: “Perceptions of art are evolving. We believe in making art attainable. As [...]
Read more»June 4, 2010
It was in 1805 when the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) became America’s first art museum and school of fine arts. Throughout the year, PAFA presents special exhibitions, an outstanding permanent collection, and work by some of the region’s most talented contemporary artists. Many major American artists have taught, studied or exhibited at PAFA. [...]
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