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Member Events
In Conversation: The Nature of Celebrity
Sunday, September 12th
1:00 p.m.
Meet in the lobby of the Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
No reservation required. Free after museum admission
When Andy Warhol declared that “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes,” he not just forecast the coming of a digital age but offered commentary on his own working practice of capturing and mass producing the dazzling personalities that he encountered. Join PAFA curators Julien Robson, Bob Cozzolino and Anna Marley for a talk about the changing nature of capturing celebrity on canvas, including Thomas Sully’s early portrait of the nineteenth century actress Fanny Kemble, Florine Stettheimer’s 1918 depiction of a dreamy afternoon picnic with Marcel Duchamp, and of course, Andy Warhol himself and his Polaroid snapshots currently on view in PAFA’s galleries.
Admission is free for those with PAFA membership cards; free after museum admission for the public. For more info, call 215-972-2105 or email mzimmerman@pafa.org.
USArtists American Fine Art Show & Sale
Reminder: all PAFA members receive free admission to USArtists (with Membership Card). USArtists American Fine Art Show & Sale is the major annual fundraising event created, organized and chaired by the Women's Board of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts to benefit PAFA's mission to educate and promote American artists. For the first time in its 18-year history, the world's largest show and sale of American art will be held at PAFA in the Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building in Center City, following 17 years at the 33rd Street Armory in Philadelphia. For more info, visit www.pafa.org/usartists.
Autumn Exhibition Members Reception
Join us on Friday, October 22 from 6 to 8 p.m. for the Opening Members’ Reception of Narcissus in the Studio: Artist Portraits and Self-Portraits.