Monday, April 1, 2024
A new book about the surprising history of Temple University’s expansion to a Japanese campus is full of diplomatic intrigue, political ambition, last-ditch rescues, frenemies, and heroes.…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:24AMTuesday, March 5, 2024
The layered, kaleidoscopic works of Barbara Earl Thomas, who ingeniously harnesses paper, light, and glass, are now on view at Arthur Ross Gallery. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:54PMTwentieth-century designer and photographer Alexey Brodovitch
revolutionized more than one field of visual arts, but he’s best-known for his
stint as art director at Harper’s Bazaar. His…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:52AMMonday, January 22, 2024
The Mütter Museum displays arresting visual projects by Leah den Bok and Willie Baronet that illuminate and humanize homelessness. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:52PMMonday, January 15, 2024
A
new book edited by the Barnes Foundation’s deputy director for research,
interpretation, and education gathers perspectives on the famous (and famously
polarizing) collection of Albert B…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:40PMMonday, December 18, 2023
If we won’t engage with the bare facts of climate change, is there another way in? Interdisciplinary artist Stephen Talasnik wonders in his FLOE: A Climate of Risk, which imagines the afte…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:38PMMonday, December 11, 2023
Philly
live music lovers should hurry to a new special exhibition at Drexel University
spotlighting the history of the Electric Factory, including iconic guitars, a Rock-Ola
jukebox, and ton…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:08PMTuesday, November 14, 2023
In 2017, PAFA became the preserver and promoter of globetrotting 20th-century American sculptor John Rhoden’s artistic legacy. Now, PAFA mounts the artist’s first comprehensive retrospec…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:20PMTuesday, October 31, 2023
From 1912-1940, a little-known feminist debate society flourished in New York. Now, FWM artist-in-residence Jessica Campbell revives and reimagines their meetings in Heterodoxy, a new multi-…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:33PMTuesday, October 17, 2023
The National Constitution Center’s newest permanent gallery, all about the First Amendment, brings core American freedoms to life as we continue to shape them today. Pamela J. Forsythe vis…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:16PMMonday, October 2, 2023
No, it’s not the hit HBO series about the backstabbing offspring of a fictional media mogul; it’s the Rosenbach’s look at the real-life succession of our own US presidents—reminders …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:13PMTuesday, August 15, 2023
For centuries, science was not an acceptable pursuit for women. But as a new exhibition at the American Philosophical Society shows, these groundbreaking scientists didn’t get the memo. Pa…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:33PMThursday, July 20, 2023
At UPenn’s Arthur Ross Gallery, four artists consider what shared memory signifies for marginalized peoples, and how they preserve it. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:30PMSaturday, July 8, 2023
In a new book that promises to infuriate and illuminate in equal measure, Brett H. Mandel traces the roots of Philly’s notorious corruption, from the days of William Penn to Bobby Henon’…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:13PMMonday, July 3, 2023
Penn professor of sociology and Africana studies Tukufu Zuberi says W.E.B. Du Bois’s 1899 book The Philadelphia Negro is a beautifully written, essential text. It’s out in a new edition …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:02PMFriday, May 26, 2023
Minerva Parker Nichols was the first US woman to have her own architectural practice. Then she almost disappeared from history. A new exhibition helps to restore her legacy. Pamela J. Forsyt…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:38PMMonday, May 1, 2023
Acclaimed artist Henry Taylor’s recent stint at FWM puts us adrift in a sea of new meanings, thanks to a partnership with the re-use experts at Recycled Artist in Residency. Pamela J. Fors…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:42PMMonday, March 13, 2023
House of Photographs is a visual treasure that wraps visitors in the collectors' point of view, ranging from a microscope to a Brooklyn sidewalk, from French gardens to Chinese arbors to out…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:14PMTuesday, March 7, 2023
For its 97th Annual International Competition, the Print Center selected three artists out of 400 applicants. Each of them grapples with trauma, memory, and immigrant experiences. Pamela J. …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:56AMMonday, February 13, 2023
Drexel professor and fashion journal editor Joseph H. Hancock II’s Fashion Brand Stories was originally written for students of the industry, but with its third edition, the book proves of…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:46AMMonday, January 23, 2023
A new sculpture exhibition at The Clay Studio features diverse artists from across the country whose figurative works demand a deeper look. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:25AMMonday, January 9, 2023
What makes city reform possible, and how did we achieve it in the past? A new book on the history of Philly’s political reforms explains, and argues we’re on the cusp of another cycle of…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:06PMMonday, December 12, 2022
An enigmatic exhibition at Penn’s ICA showcases an ever-present but often underappreciated perception: our sense of smell. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:13PMMonday, November 28, 2022
This interdisciplinary mosaic of work by David Hartt, James Hoff, and Kahlil Robert Irving challenges, interrogates, and transforms visitors at the Art Alliance galleries at UArts. Pamela J.…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:32PMMonday, November 21, 2022
George Biddle, born into wealth and prestige in Philadelphia, made a career of traveling the world and showing it as it really was, from underrepresented figures to the ravages of war. Pamel…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:43PMTuesday, October 25, 2022
John E. Dowell's exhibit photographs and soundscapes cotton fields at night, conjuring the spirits of his enslaved ancestors. Pamela E. Forsythe reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:54PMFriday, October 14, 2022
A new exhibition of mid-20th-century woman printmakers at Arcadia University traces a burgeoning feminist movement at New York print studio Atelier 17. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:26PMMonday, August 29, 2022
A juried selection of photographs from under-represented artists at Woodmere Art Museum champions the creativity of older, more mercurial art forms. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:10PMMonday, August 15, 2022
A new book from editor James Wolfinger explores the rise of a Black political identity in Philadelphia, from the industrial influx of World War I to the Goode, Street, and Nutter administrat…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:30PMMonday, July 25, 2022
Philadelphians don’t have to leave the city—even its most urban corners—to enjoy a wealth of wildlife. Exploring Philly Nature, a new book by Bernard S. Brown, is an accessible and eye…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:27PMThursday, June 30, 2022
This new exhibition of diverse and notable 19th-century prints explores an important corner of American art, when a Depression-era brainstorm made buying fine art accessible to the people. P…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:26PM 
