1/26/2012
PAFA Presents After Tanner: African American Artists Since 1940 PHILADELPHIA – In conjunction with its major exhibition of works by Henry O. Tanner, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) presents After Tanner: African American Artists Since 1940, on view January 28 – April 15, 2012.
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1/11/2012
PHILADELPHIA – In celebration of the debut of the Barnes Foundation in its new home on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) presents PAFA and Dr. Barnes, on view April 7 through July 8, exploring the connections between the Pennsylvania Academy and Dr. Albert Barnes. This exhibition will feature works from the permanent collection that relate to Barnes’s tastes and philosophy, as well as works by his friends (such as William J. Glackens), and items from the PAFA Archives.
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10/26/2011
PHILADELPHIA – The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is proud to announce the presentation of Ocean Without a Shore (2007), a major video installation by internationally acclaimed artist Bill Viola and a significant new addition to the museum’s collection. Exhibited in the United States for the first time, this profound and moving work of art can be experienced at PAFA from November 19 onward.
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9/9/2011
PHILADELPHIA — On view October 22 through December 31, 2011, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) presents here., an exhibition that considers how “place” is not simply the geographic locality where an artist lives and works but also the subject matter of lived experience. Recognizing how place influences and infiltrates each artist’s work in diverse and complicated ways, here. explores how a sense of place exists in the work of artists from six particular regions — Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Phoenix/Scottsdale, Raleigh-Durham, Detroit and Kansas City.
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8/24/2011
On August 20, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) witnessed a milestone in the history of this institution, the nation’s first museum and school of the fine arts, when Paint Torch, a sculpture by internationally renowned artist Claes Oldenburg was installed.
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7/19/2011
The Alumni Sales Gallery at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) presents Environmental Perspectives, A Landscape Show on view July 29 – October 23, 2011. This group exhibition features works by Alton Bowman, Philip Cohn, Mary Beth Clark, Kevin Broad, Paul Metrinko, John Pacer, Andrea Packard, Ben Pines, Sunny Ra, Judith Thomas, Elizabeth Wilson, and Julie Zahn.
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7/15/2011
A major exhibition of artwork by African-American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner will premiere at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), on view from January 27 through April 15, 2012. Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit will contain over 100 works, including 12 paintings that have never been shown in a Tanner retrospective and the only two known sculptures that Tanner completed. www.pafa.org/tanner/
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6/27/2011
PHILADELPHIA –Abstract Expressionism and its Discontents, a new installation at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) on view through August 28, 2011, revisits the post-World War II art movement to include artists historically not associated with Abstract Expressionism.
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6/14/2011
PHILADELPHIA – The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) presents Urbanism: Reimagining the Lived Environment, contemporary works by Philadelphia artists Arden Bendler Browning, the Dufala Brothers, Ben Peterson, and Amy Walsh, on view July 2 – September 4, 2011.
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4/20/2011
Philadelphia, PA – The new Alumni Sales Gallery at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) presents Water As The Source, on view April 29 – July 23, 2011, a group exhibition of works by Eliza Auth, Pat Boyer, James Brantley, Joe Danciger, Fred Danziger, Joann Doneen, Carolyn Hesse, Whitney Knapp, Zach Martin, Peter Schnore and Robin Tedesco.
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