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Docent-led tour of the permanent collection featuring some of American art's finest paintings and sculptures. We recommend you call on the day of to confirm these times.

PAFA will exhibit 100 Polaroid and 51 black and white photographic prints donated by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to PAFA - one of 183 institutions designated in 2008 to receive portions of Warhol's artistic legacy as part of the Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program honoring the Foundation's 20th anniversary.

Herbert and Dorothy Vogel collected Minimalist, Conceptual, and post-1960s art over the course of four decades. In 1992 the Vogels pledged more than 2,000 works of art to the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. This exhibition highlights the fifty works received by PAFA from The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States program being administered by the National Gallery.

Docent-led tour of the permanent collection featuring some of American art's finest paintings and sculptures.We recommend you call on the day of to confirm these times.

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 in art, 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.

This event is free after museum admission.

Roxana Perez-Mendez is a Philadelphia-based, Puerto Rican artist known for her simple holograms, videos and multimedia installations, often projecting herself into the place of the Other and exploring the treacherous landscape of the immigrant experience. Her current installation in PAFA’s Morris Gallery, Este Es Mi Pais, combines paintings from the collection of the museum with Pepper’s Ghost holograms, video images, and ready-made material, creating a situation in which illusion and reality overlap. Perez-Mendez will discuss this work, as well as her interdisciplinary practice and early investigations into history and identity.

The Ecumenical Council (1960), one of Salvador Dalí’s most dramatic and tendentious religious paintings from his post-surrealist period, is generally interpreted as a pre-celebration of the Second Vatican Council. However, Jonathan Wallis of Moore College of Art Design argues that an additional interpretation of the painting emerges when the process Dalí employed to produce the painting – the “paranoiac-critical method” - is recognized as a necessary component to the process of unraveling it. From this “delirious” position, Wallis argues that The Ecumenical Council can be read as a personal declaration by Dalí of his “divinely justified” candidacy as the next official Vatican artist, poised to revise the Catholic Church’s modern artistic identity and religious program as it moved into the second half of the twentieth century.

Experience an exclusive preview of USArtists at an elegant cocktail reception and buffet.