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Exhibition Minutes

Zaha Hadid: Form in Motion
Paris Through the Window: Marc Chagall and His Circle
Live Cinema/In the Round: Contemporary Art from the East Mediterranean
Live Cinema/Histories in Motion: Jennifer Levonian, Martha Colburn, Joshua Mosley
Kantha: The Embroidered Quilts of Bengal from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz and the Stella Kramrisch Collections
Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms
Jun Kaneko
Live Cinema/Tim Hyde: Building in Reverse
Cézanne and Beyond
Live Cinema/Anita Sieff: Films
Linda Day Clark: The Gee's Bend Photographs
Photo Mandalas: Bill Armstrong and Milan Fano Blatný
Gee’s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt
Live Cinema/Carlos Amorales: Four Animations, Five Drawings, and a Plague
Frida Kahlo
The Art of Lee Miller
Marguerite Stephens
Notations/William Kentridge: Tapestries
Live Cinema/The Return of the Image: Video from Central Asia
Renoir Landscapes
William H. Johnson's World on Paper
Ike Taiga and Tokuyama Gyokuran: Japanese Masters of the Brush
Live Cinema/Marine Hugonnier: Trilogy
Thomas Eakins' The Gross Clinic
Live Cinema/Mircea Cantor: The Title Is the Last Thing
Tesoros/Treasures/Tesouros: The Arts in Latin America, 1492–1820
Dreaming in Black and White: Photography at the Julien Levy Gallery
Gilding the Lotus: Enriching the Himalayan Collection
Andrew Wyeth: Memory and Magic
Why the Wild Things Are: Personal Demons & Himalayan Protectors

Lectures

Diego Rivera and the Mexican Mural and Print Revolution, January 7, 2007
Comments by Guadalupe Rivera Marín, Ph.D., Founder and Board Chair of the Diego Rivera Foundation, and the daughter of Diego Rivera. Introduced by Jane Golden, Director, City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program.
Painting and 'Pataphysics from Max Ernst to Thomas Chimes, March 9, 2007
The Museum's Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art, Michael Taylor, discusses the influence of French Symbolist writer Alfred Jarry on a wide range of twentieth-century artists in the Museum's collections. The lecture examines how the iconoclastic writer's invented science of 'Pataphysics, which Jarry defined as "the science of imaginary solutions," has provided a farcical, tongue-in-cheek philosophy and inspiration for artists as varied as Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso, and William Kentridge. One of the most radical inheritors of Jarry's ideas is the Philadelphia artist Thomas Chimes, who is the subject of Thomas Chimes: Adventures in 'Pataphysics, a retrospective on view at the Museum.
Alfred Jarry/Ubu and the Truth Commission: William Kentridge in Conversation with Michael Taylor - April 12, 2007
William Kentridge, a South African artist best known for poetic animated films based on his charcoal drawings, has long been fascinated by the ideas of nineteenth-century French Symbolist author Alfred Jarry. Jarry's writings have provided the inspiration for works including the 1997 film Ubu Tells the Truth, in which Kentridge used the French author’s grotesque figure of Ubu Roi as a commentary on the destructive legacy of apartheid. Kentridge will discuss his admiration for Jarry's plays and novels, especially as they relate to his own work as a socially conscious visual artist, with curator Michael Taylor.
This event was held in conjunction with the special exhibition Thomas Chimes: Adventures in 'Pataphysics.
AAST: William Kentridge in Conversation with Susan Stewart - December 12, 2007
Part of the Art and Social Transformation Lecture Series, William Kentridge in Conversation with Susan Stewart (poet, critic, and Annan Professor of English, Princeton University).
This event was held in conjunction with the exhibition Notations/William Kentridge: Tapestries.
Gee's Bend Artists Talk - September 13, 2008
Hear the wonderful and fascinating stories of the artists of Gee's Bend.
This event was held in conjunction with the exhibition Gee’s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt.
Julian Abele II in Conversation with Professor David B. Brownlee - October 17 2008

The Montiers of Philadelphia - January 9, 2010

Joe Lovano - April 14 2011

Chris Potter - May 27 2011

Art Tours

Arms and Armor
Learn the history of the Museum's extraordinary collection of armor and weaponry, and discover the facts and myths behind objects used not only in war, but also in various forms of tournament and ceremonies.
Historic America: Family Tour
Take a stroll through the history of the United States, and let furniture, decorative objects, paintings, and sculpture shed light on the ways American families lived in centuries past.
Museum Highlights
Travel through time and around the globe as you enjoy the treasures of the collection.
Modern and Contemporary Art
Explore exciting, thought-provoking, and sometimes controversial works of art from the Museum's world-class collection of modern and contemporary art.
Asian Art
Visit rare architectural settings and discover intriguing works of art from all parts of Asia, including some of the oldest objects in the collection.
Constantine Tapestries
Explore the illustrious history of the Constantine Tapestries.
Rodin Museum
Explore the largest public collection of works, outside of Paris, by the celebrated late nineteenth-century French sculptor Auguste Rodin.
Artists and Heroes
Artists and Heroes in Revolutionary Philadelphia.
Medieval
Discover the Museum's superb collection of Medieval paintings, sculptures, and architectural elements.
19th Century European Painting
Discover groundbreaking paintings, including masterpieces of French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, that represent both the conventions of the early half of the century and the innovations of the latter half.
Sculpture Garden
The Sculpture,Garden presents a superb and versatile outdoor setting for the appreciation of art, offering a lively experience of sculpture for both the casual passerby and devoted art lovers. Gracefully integrated into the existing landscape, the Sculpture,Garden extends the Museum’s vast galleries to the outdoors while strengthening the Museum’s connections to the city and Fairmount Park. Its pathways and vistas, green space, and water feature create a variety of spaces for art while maintaining an open setting that invites Philadelphia’s public to explore a new expression of the Museum’s goal to make more art available to an ever-growing audience.
Perelman Building Architecture
The Architecture of the Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building
European Art 1500-1850
Listen as Museum curators share their knowledge of masterpieces from the collection of European paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts ranging from a Renaissance portrait of a Medici prince, to a carpet made for Louis XIV of France, to a sensuous mythological painting once owned by the brother of Napoleon Bonaparte.

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