American Still Life on exhibit

Audubon to Warhol: The Art of American Still Life. Philadelphia Museum of Art through January 2016. The Art of American Still Life Audubon to Warhol. Edited by Mark D. Mitchell. Yale University Press, 2015. When you think of Still Life as an art form, you usually think of fruit on…

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Impressionists and the man who made them

 
Some patrons may feel baffled as to why a big exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Musée du Luxembourg Paris and the National Gallery in London is centered on the work of an art dealer.

Furthermore, one could question whether commercial transactions should be the basis of a major art presentation. Should Academy Awards be given to …

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Kano art and a family reunion

The Brandywine River Museum is deservedly famed for displaying three generations of art by the Wyeth family. In contrast, newly assembled at the Philadelphia Museum of Art are sixteen generations of art by the Kano family which dominated Japanese painting from the fifteenth century until the twentieth.

Nadine Kano is a descendant of this illustrious family. She grew …

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