ARTISTS
2024
Andrea Kirsh sees the 'Barbara Bullock: Fearless Vision' exhibit at Woodmere and says "Viewers will be "swept up by her visual intensity and exuberance."
2023
Sharon Garbe visits the Woodmere 81st Annual Juried Show and finds many connections between artists and a wealth of materials and methods used to produce works, from painted canvases to upcycled material constructions.
Photography, sculpture, and paintings to see at Philly museums or shows.
2022
The artist was well known in the 1930s and 1940s, but his social realist style went out of fashion. Could his "lost" drawings of the Nuremberg trials pack a contemporary wallop?
George Biddle wasn鈥檛 having it. 鈥淣o more Hellenic nudes representing the spirit of American Motherhood, Purity, Democracy and the Pioneer Spirit,鈥� he declaimed in the March 1934 issue of Scribner鈥檚 Magazine.
2021
Larry Day: Body Language at Arcadia University, Woodmere Art Musueum and the University of the Arts, Philadelphia
On November 7, 2021, Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia hosted a panel discussion on the exhibition Body Language: The Art of Larry Day.
Body Language: The Art of Larry Day celebrates the centenary year of Larry Day (1921鈥�98), a visual maestro and brooding intellectual figure in post-war American art...
The new 鈥淧ortal to Discovery鈥� can be seen in the passageways of the 5th Street/Independence Hall SEPTA station. An exhibit at Woodmere Art Museum tells the backstory.
On Saturday, February 27, 2021 Woodmere Art Museum unveiled its latest exhibition, History in Motion: Tom Judd鈥檚 Subway Mural.
In 1955, a group of Philadelphia painters, architects, musicians, and dancers organized a series of exhibitions and public forums across the city, presenting their work as a catalyst for vigorous public dialogue about the role of art and science in the postwar era.
2020
In the mid-1950s, American painters 鈥� New Yorkers 鈥� dominated the art world as powerfully and aggressively as American armed forces dominated the sea and skies.
Patrick Coue visits the Gilbert Lewis exhibitions at Woodmere Art Museum, Kapp Kapp, and William Way (virtual).
Somber, reflective and activist ideas are the focus of Philly's fall art shows.
With three shows opening this weekend at Philadelphia museums, it looks almost like the beginning of a normal fall art season.