The expatriate Impressionist's subject was never mas simple as mothers and children; she herself never had kids.

Isaac Julien's video installation for the Barnes Foundation explores the intertwined histories of Albert Barnes, Alain Locke, and European and African art.

"Banal Presents" was the final installment in a trilogy of exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art curated by Meg Onli and titled Colored People Time, after a black expression that frames a…

Rina Banerjee's midcareer retrospective at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), "Make Me a Summary of the World," feels like a serendipitous pairing of an artist's corpus and an…

Over the course of eight months in 2013, Bourouissa lived near, drew, photographed, and filmed the riders and organized a public riding pageant, for which the riders collaborated with Philadelphia art…

Bruce Nauman’s Contrapposto Studies, I through VII (2015–16) is part of his ongoing search for capaciousness in the particular. This seven-part video installation is split between two galleries at…

Norman Lewis (1909–1979) was an energetic participant in the Harlem Renaissance and one of the only African-American painters who associated himself with the Abstract Expressionists. While he founded…

It is challenging to choose terms to describe the works in Jennifer Bartlett’s recent show at Locks, titled “Hospital.” We are told in press material that the show’s 10 oil paintings, all 54 inches sq…

The ground floor galleries of the Institute of Contemporary Art currently house “Stages,” the first and sorely overdue survey of Barbara Kasten’s photography-based, multi-medium practice.&nbsp…

Easternsports (2014) is a collaborative installation by Alex Da Corte and Jayson Musson with two and a half hours of atmospheric video on four channels, and a disjointed essay-poem of tens of…