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A museum guide explains a painting of a fox in snow to an engaged visitor. The artwork is large, set in a gold frame, with serene mountain scenes nearby.
A Nation of Artists

Exhibition Tours: A Nation of Artists

A museum guide explains a painting of a fox in snow to an engaged visitor. The artwork is large, set in a gold frame, with serene mountain scenes nearby.
A Nation of Artists

Exhibition Tours: A Nation of Artists

A museum guide explains a painting of a fox in snow to an engaged visitor. The artwork is large, set in a gold frame, with serene mountain scenes nearby.
A Nation of Artists

Exhibition Tours: A Nation of Artists

A museum guide explains a painting of a fox in snow to an engaged visitor. The artwork is large, set in a gold frame, with serene mountain scenes nearby.
A Nation of Artists

Exhibition Tours: A Nation of Artists

A museum guide explains a painting of a fox in snow to an engaged visitor. The artwork is large, set in a gold frame, with serene mountain scenes nearby.
A Nation of Artists

Exhibition Tours: A Nation of Artists

A museum guide explains a painting of a fox in snow to an engaged visitor. The artwork is large, set in a gold frame, with serene mountain scenes nearby.
A Nation of Artists

Exhibition Tours: A Nation of Artists

A museum guide explains a painting of a fox in snow to an engaged visitor. The artwork is large, set in a gold frame, with serene mountain scenes nearby.
A Nation of Artists

Exhibition Tours: A Nation of Artists

A museum guide explains a painting of a fox in snow to an engaged visitor. The artwork is large, set in a gold frame, with serene mountain scenes nearby.
A Nation of Artists

Exhibition Tours: A Nation of Artists

A museum guide explains a painting of a fox in snow to an engaged visitor. The artwork is large, set in a gold frame, with serene mountain scenes nearby.
A Nation of Artists

Exhibition Tours: A Nation of Artists

A museum guide explains a painting of a fox in snow to an engaged visitor. The artwork is large, set in a gold frame, with serene mountain scenes nearby.
A Nation of Artists

Exhibition Tours: A Nation of Artists

A museum guide explains a painting of a fox in snow to an engaged visitor. The artwork is large, set in a gold frame, with serene mountain scenes nearby.
A Nation of Artists

Exhibition Tours: A Nation of Artists

A museum guide explains a painting of a fox in snow to an engaged visitor. The artwork is large, set in a gold frame, with serene mountain scenes nearby.
A Nation of Artists

Exhibition Tours: A Nation of Artists

A museum guide explains a painting of a fox in snow to an engaged visitor. The artwork is large, set in a gold frame, with serene mountain scenes nearby.
A Nation of Artists

Exhibition Tours: A Nation of Artists

A museum guide explains a painting of a fox in snow to an engaged visitor. The artwork is large, set in a gold frame, with serene mountain scenes nearby.
A Nation of Artists

Exhibition Tours: A Nation of Artists

Aerial view of a vast autumn forest with Philadelphia's skyline in the distance. Text overlay reads "In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America."
A Nation of Artists

In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America Episode 3 Screening

A surreal, realist painting features several figures in eclectic costumes—including a woman in equestrian gear, a man in a top hat, and a ballerina—posed enigmatically around a car on a flat, desolate landscape.
Art At Noon

Artist Talk with Bo Bartlett

Gothic-style gallery with arched windows, ornate red and gold ceiling, and classical sculptures. Warm lighting and red walls create an elegant ambiance.
A Nation of Artists

Architecture Talk with Michael J. Lewis

An elderly man in a black suit lifts a heavy red velvet curtain to reveal a long museum gallery filled with rows of taxidermy birds and a large mastodon skeleton.
Art At Noon

The Peale Family & The Artist in His Museum

Cover of "The Nine O'Clock Whistle" shows a megaphone, civil rights marchers holding signs, and a brick building. Tone is empowering and historical.
A Nation of Artists

Voices of Freedom: "The Nine O'Clock Whistle" and Dr. Willa Cofield

PAFA's Gothic Revival Historic Landmark Building and the contemporary Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building on North Broad Street in 2019.

Philadelphia should take pride in PAFA’s next chapter

On April 12, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts will reopen its Historic Landmark Building after two years of renovation. It will do so with “A Nation of Artists,” an exhibition that tells a sweeping story of American creativity.

Moments like this invite more than celebration. They ask…

In the News
A blue museum gallery wall features the bold title "Bodies & Souls" alongside an exhibition text panel and a framed double portrait of two figures
Bodies and Souls

Exhibition Tours: Bodies & Souls

A blue museum gallery wall features the bold title "Bodies & Souls" alongside an exhibition text panel and a framed double portrait of two figures
Bodies and Souls

Exhibition Tours: Bodies & Souls

A blue museum gallery wall features the bold title "Bodies & Souls" alongside an exhibition text panel and a framed double portrait of two figures
Bodies and Souls

Exhibition Tours: Bodies & Souls

An architectural floor plan rendered in minimalist black and white, featuring a large, symmetrical building outline with two prominent blacked-out areas labeled with the word 'Shop.'

FRED WILSON: THE MASTER PLAN or In Between the Big Bang and Modern Art Is the Restroom

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Richard C. von Hess Foundation Works on Paper Gallery
Historic Landmark Building

 

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