Art & Design The Pintos: A Philadelphia Immigration Story, Told Through Art At Washington Avenue Pier With Pier 53 officially open on the Delaware Riverfront today, Philadelphia welcomes its newest park—and its newest piece of public art. Brad Maule profiles Jody Pinto's Land Buoy and the tale of art, nature, and ...
Art & Design Life Anew For The Living Collections At The Barnes When the Barnes Foundation moved to the Ben Franklin Parkway, they recreated the galleries Albert Barnes crafted to a T. But the Barnes' living collections—the trees and gardens that his wife Laura crafted to enhance ...
Photography A First Visit, A First Year: The Barnes On The Parkway, A Photo Essay Accompanying Ben Leech to preview the Ellsworth Kelly exhibition, Brad Maule makes his first visit to the Barnes Foundation on the Parkway. This photo essay presents his first ...
Art & Design A Saga In Sculpture: The Barnes Brings Ellsworth Kelly Milestone Home To Philadelphia For The Summer With 'Ellsworth Kelly: Sculpture on the Wall', the Barnes Foundation's first contemporary exhibition in 90 years, and the first at the Parkway location, Kelly's Lobby Sculpture comes home to Philadelphia (albeit temporarily). Ben Leech traces ...
History In West Philly, Finding The Source Of Barnes’ Fortune The source of Barnes' fortune? Vivienne Tang traces it to a pharmaceutical factory in an old hotel (which, incidentally, now houses a pharmacy), where Barnes hung his paintings and taught his employees his theories on ...
Architecture Barnes Prequel On The Parkway: The Unbuilt Temple Of Music Jack McCarthy has the familiar story of a controversial move by a top Philadelphia arts institution to a Modern facility on the Parkway. But unlike the Barnes Museum, the Philadelphia's Orchestra's Temple of Music became ...
Art & Design The English Garden Beneath The Barnes The almost finished new museum is on the exact site of Thomas Penn's manor house Springettsbury, named for his mother Gulielma ...
Urbanism Make No Small Plans On the elusive potential of the Ben Franklin Parkway and the necessity of thinking big (while recognizing the value of small interventions and organic ...
