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Piecing It Together, curated by InLiquid at Hyatt Centric Rittenhouse Square, pairs Joseph Opshinsky’s Wissahickon collages with Michael Morgan’s Kensington ceramic sculptures. On view through September 7, opening reception July 16.
Jennifer Thompson has been named Deputy Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art after 25 years at the institution, including a decade stewarding the John G. Johnson Collection.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art Contemporary Craft Show celebrates its 50th anniversary November 6–8, 2026, with 195 juried artists across 13 craft disciplines, including a Philadelphia sister-brother slow-fashion duo and a solar-powered woodturner.
Former PAFA president Eric G. Pryor returns to his painting practice in a two-person show with Brazilian artist Ernani Silva at Moody Jones Gallery in Jenkintown. On view through July 31, 2026. Opening reception July 2, 5:30–8:30pm.
Philadelphia native Todd Anthony brings his sold-out one-man production RED to the Independence Seaport Museum for two nights only — July 10 and 11. Written and performed by Todd Anthony, directed by Crystal Lee Brown, the play traces the transformation of Malcolm Little into Malcolm X.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is including all special exhibitions in general admission ($30) from July 2 through August 2 — Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, the Rocky show’s final month, A Nation of Artists, and Workshop of the World opening July 12.
Philadelphia artist Rebecca Rutstein’s mid-career survey Universal Nature is on view at the Berman Museum at Ursinus College through November 24, with a free public reception September 17. Sea ice brine paintings, a suspended kinetic sculpture, and her first monograph.
The Barnes Foundation has appointed Connie H. Choi, PhD, to a newly created VP-level role as Gund Family Chief Curator — consolidating curatorial and educational leadership under single direction. She arrives from the Studio Museum in Harlem and begins September 8, 2026.
The 37th Manayunk Arts Festival 2026 takes over Main Street June 27–28 — free, 300 artists, the Carrera Paint My Ride Tour, 30 Emerging Artists on Grape Street, and a cover artist whose painting sold to a close friend of Jamie Wyeth.
On July 1, Princeton scholar Charmaine Branch leads a lunchtime discussion at PAFA on Elizabeth Catlett’s pedagogy, her networks of Black women artists, and the prints already hanging on PAFA’s walls.
