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Students in the ASE galleries
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ASE Community College Day

PAFA visitors walking on the Avenue of the Arts
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PAFA to the Parkway (And Back)

Jill Rupinski

Jill Rupinski

Chair of Fine Arts, Painting and Drawing
Image: M. Edlow for Visit Philadelphia

Visit Philadelphia | North Broad Street Neighborhood Guide

PAFA is a pick in Visit Philadelphia's January 2020 guide to North Broad Street, an area of the city that is full of significant transformation.
In the News
Wharton Chalking out Dannenberg Table
Exhibition Reception

Opening Reception | Wharton Esherick: An Artistic Legacy Through Necessity

Jonathan Lyndon Chase, "For you For us Come back soon" (2019). Seven-color plate lithograph on Somerset Satin white paper, 38 x 30 ⅜ inches. Edition of 10.  Collaborating Master Printer: Peter Haarz. Published by the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia.

Brodsky Center Publishes New Lithograph by Jonathan Lyndon Chase '16

The Brodsky Center at PAFA is pleased to publish a new lithograph by the Philadelphia-based artist Jonathan Lyndon Chase (MFA '16). For you For us Come back soon (2019) is the second print that Chase has created as the inaugural artist-in-residence at the Brodsky Center at PAFA.
Press Release
ASE Preview attendees in the galleries
Annual Student Exhibition
Online

Annual Student Exhibition Preview

Din Avec la Main Dans le Miroir, Mickalene Thomas, 2008
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The History of African American Art | The Contemporary Scene: African- American Art and the Diaspora

We Came to America, from the series; "The American Collection" Faith Ringgold, 1997
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The History of African American Art | The Black Arts Movement: Art and Politics

Firebirds, Romare Bearden, 1979
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The History of African American Art | The Harlem Renaissance: The New Negro

Nicodemus, Henry O. Tanner, 1899

The History of African American Art | The 19th Century and Craft Traditions

Bettina Nelson - She's Just A Picture
Exhibition Reception

Closing Reception | To Almost Tell

art.write.now installation view / image: maria sciarrino (PAFA)

Art.Write.Now.Tour

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Anne Bryan Gallery
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
David Lynch, Unified Field (Photograph by Matt Rourke / AP / Shutterstock)

New Yorker | The Top Thirty Cultural Moments of the Twenty-Tens

The New Yorker's Troy Patterson selects PAFA's 2014 exhibition of David Lynch's work, The Unified Field, as one of his top cultural moments of the decade:

I see that a certain sort of film critic, possibly possessive, possibly possessed by a bias against the tube, insists upon claiming the third…

In the News
Student Installing Work
Online

Spring Undergraduate Virtual Transfer Open House

Open Studio Night
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Spring Undergraduate Open House

Rippled Under
Exhibition Reception

Art.Write.Now Scholastic Exhibition Opening Reception

Examples of paperpaking and dyeing pulp.
Special Tours
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Papermaking Workshop with Nicole Donnelly

Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011) Untitled, 1967, Four color screenprint, 25 3/4 x 17 7/8 in., ed. 6/100. PAFA, Gift of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, New York © 2019 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Chiron Press, New York. Photograph by Kevin Ryan, courtesy Helen Frankenthaler Foundation
Special Tours
Canceled

At One Stroke and Frankenthaler on Paper

visitors look at the frankenthaler exhibit
Special Tours
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Helen Frankenthaler: Printmaker Extraordinaire

Miriam Schapiro (1923–2015), Frida and Me, 1996 Lithograph with collage elements, 42 x 29 3/4 in., AP Published by the Brodsky Center at PAFA PAFA, Gift of the estate of Miriam Schapiro ©2019 Estate of Miriam Schapiro / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Special Tours

Making Community: Breakfast Tour Celebration!

Two Friends Wharton Esherick, 1923
Art At Noon
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John Greig: Wharton Esherick

I Made Space For a Good Man, Deborah Willis, 2009
Art At Noon

Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale

Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011) Untitled, 1967, Four color screenprint, 25 3/4 x 17 7/8 in., ed. 6/100. PAFA, Gift of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, New York © 2019 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Chiron Press, New York. Photograph by Kevin Ryan, courtesy Helen Frankenthaler Foundatio
Art At Noon

Lynn Marsden-Atlass: Frankenthaler on Paper

 

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