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 immigration it weaves on the site where her father came to America with his family

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 the total Barnes Foundation experience—were immovable. Two years after the art’s relocation, the gorgeous 12-acre Barnes Arboretum is open to the public in a way it never was before

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 impressions

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 its Penn Center roots and finds paralleling stories in overlapping eras

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 art and learning

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 a victim of the deepening Great Depression

The almost finished new museum is on the exact site of Thomas Penn’s manor house Springettsbury, named for his mother Gulielma Springett

On the elusive potential of the Ben Franklin Parkway and the necessity of thinking big (while recognizing the value of small interventions and organic change)