Art & Design Have Art, Will Travel: Uncovering the 69th Street Branch of PMA Bart Everts takes us out to Upper Darby where the Philadelphia Museum of Art experimented with a neighborhood branch museum in the 1930s
Architecture Arata Isozaki, Installation Designer Of First Louis Kahn Retrospective, Receives Pritzker Prize Celebrated Japanese architect Arata Isozaki wins the world’s premier lifetime achievement award in the building arts. In Philadelphia, he is known for his creative installation design of the first retrospective devoted to Louis Kahn. Lance Knickerbocker has the story
Architecture Unraveling Myths About Philly’s Pioneering African American Architect Amy Cohen separates fact from fiction surrounding one of Philadelphia’s most famous architects, Julian Francis Abele
History Archaic Expectations: Freeing Female Roles From A Dollhouse In Society Hill In this essay Mickey Herr examines women’s roles and social norms through the history of a dollhouse spanning seven generations
History The Origins of Morris Arboretum & The Mansion From Which It Bloomed Joyce Munro walks us through the gardens of Lydia Morris in Chestnut Hill where her Victorian summer home, Compton, once turned critics cold with its flamboyant style
Art & Design Replicas Of William Rush Originals Return To Fairmount Water Works Missing for decades, two signature sculptures come home to Fairmount Water Works. A. Leonard Pundt has the details on how conservation efforts and carefully-crafted reproductions brought the iconic public artwork back to life
History Ghost Station At Art Museum Rises From The Dead Harry K. walks us through the origins of the mothballed “Art Museum Station,” now being renovated at the PMA, and one man’s visionary plan for mass transit in Philly that never came to be
Architecture Gehry, PMA Break Ground On Major Renovation The $196 million “Core Project” to renovate key areas of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and create nearly 100,000 square feet of new space began this morning with an official ceremony
