The Philadelphia Museum of Art 2027 schedule starts before 2027 does. Western Graphics: Prints from New Mexico opens November 12, and Make Her Mark: An Era of Women in Contemporary Craft opens November 14, both folded into the full program the museum announced on November 10.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art 2027 program runs through November 2027. It spans the main building and the Rodin Museum, with a Scottish painter, a Lagos-based designer, and a stop-motion opera among its biggest swings. It follows a 2026 season that opened with Noah Davis, and it reads as a deliberate turn toward living artists.

Philadelphia Museum of Art 2027 Begins With Prints, Craft and El Anatsui

Western Graphics looks at lithographs from a workshop that opened in Albuquerque in 1975 and gave Native American and non-Native artists room to rethink what the American West looks like. It runs through March 22, 2027, in the Korman Galleries. The question it asks, who and what make up the West, gets a different answer from each artist.

Make Her Mark draws on sixty years of the museum’s craft collection, including pieces bought with Women’s Committee funds, and it opens in Colket Gallery 251 with Judith Schaechter, Claire Zeisler, Betty Woodman and Sheila Hicks among the names. It is organized in recognition of that committee and the annual PMA Contemporary Craft Show, which makes it a Philadelphia story as much as a craft one.

El Anatsui: Prints and Play follows on December 19 and runs through May 2, 2027, as the first comprehensive museum survey of the artist’s prints. Anatsui, born in Ghana in 1944, is known for sculptures made from aluminum bottle caps, wooden market trays, and cassava graters. The prints push printmaking through the same nontraditional materials, and Philadelphia’s Brandywine Workshop and Archives is among the shops credited on the works.

The Marcel Duchamp retrospective stays in the Dorrance Galleries through January 31, and A Nation of Artists runs through July 5, 2027, so the Philadelphia Museum of Art 2027 shows open into a building already full.

Philadelphia Museum of Art 2027 Spring: Murals at the Rodin and Sunday Best

France-Lise McGurn, born in Scotland in 1983, opens Kicking Silk at the Rodin Museum on February 27 as an inaugural site-specific installation. She is painting new murals to sit beside Rodin sculptures she picked herself, and she is adding painted furniture and drapes, colored screens that filter the window light, banners on the building’s exterior, and a music playlist. The building becomes part of the work.

^{“What me, worry?,” 2026. France-Lise McGurn. Oil and marker on canvas in two parts: left panel 200 x 180; right panel 200 x 180 cm; overall 200 x 360 cm. Courtesy of the Artist, MASSIMODECARLO and The Modern Institute/ Toby Webster Ltd., Glasgow}

Sunday Best: The Power and the Glory of Black Style follows on May 1 and runs through August 22 in the Dorrance Galleries. Organized with the Art Gallery of Ontario, it traces style and self-fashioning in Black diasporic communities from the 1880s to the present through fashion, photography, painting and time-based media.

Clare Sauro of Drexel University’s Fox Historic Costume Collection is one of its curators, which gives the Philadelphia Museum of Art 2027 schedule a local voice.

Philadelphia Museum of Art 2027 Summer and Fall: Da Corte, Art Front and Marcus-Bello

Alex Da Corte: The Party arrives July 2 in Colket Gallery 251 and stays through January 2, 2028. It is a stop-motion animated opera in three acts that pays homage to Marisol’s sculptural assemblage of the same name, with reconstructions of her sculptures playing the characters. The story follows twelve women working out how to go on after their pasts. Colm Peare curates the Philadelphia presentation with the Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

^{“The Party” (still), 2026. Alex Da Corte. Courtesy of the artist.}

Art Front: Prints and Politics in the United States, 1929 to 1945 opens July 10 in the Dietrich Galleries and runs through November 28. It begins with the 1929 crash and follows artists who left the studio for organized street struggle during the Depression, the New Deal, and the rise of fascism, using prints as their answer. Rockwell Kent and William Henry Johnson are among them.

The year ends on November 20 with Nifemi Marcus-Bello in Alter Gallery 276, the first solo museum exhibition for the Lagos-based artist and designer, born in 1988. It surveys a decade of work built on bold material experiments, including the Oríkì series, and Tiffany Lambert curates.

^{“Oríkì (Act III): Whispers of a Trail,” 2025, Nifemi Marcus-Bello. Courtesy of the artist and Marta Los Angeles. © Jide Ayeni}

A program that starts with lithographs from Albuquerque and ends with a first museum solo for a Lagos-based designer is a wide invitation, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art 2027 calendar gives the city the time to accept it.

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