Topic: Visual Art

Can We Talk About the PMA’s Plastic Bidet?
The Art Museum’s exhibit of Japanese “super normal” artist Naoto Fukasawa is either universal — or hypocritical.
By Nora Grace-Flood
Art Exhibit … or Sex Shop?
The Museum for Art in Wood’s “Strange Woodcraft” exhibit raises the question: Where does this weirdness belong?
By Clay Davies
The Original Meme Hits Philly
The Utah Teapot, the first 3D model and inside joke of the computer art community, celebrates its 50th anniversary at InLiquid Art Gallery.
By Nora Grace-Flood
Cut and Paste
Jake Dombroski’s Collage Philadelphia is building a community around the most accessible of art forms, including in a show now open at the Athenaeum
By RJ Rushmore
Embracing Happenstance
Sculptor, painter, and street artist NDA has taken over a floor of Old City’s Paradigm Gallery with an intentionally “overwhelming” installation that invites exploration, curiosity, and audience collaboration. The latest in a series with Forman Arts Initiative.
By RJ Rushmore
Steward of Black Creativity
In going from art student to sculptor to ceramicist to curator to podcaster, Gerald Brown has been an advocate for and supporter of Black and Brown artistry — and a keen observer of the artistic process
By Logan Cryer
The Sound Sculptor
Next in a series with Forman Arts Initiative, Philadelphia artist Raúl Romero merges sculpture with an invisible medium: sound
By Morgan Nitz
Framing Black Joy
Andrea “Philly” Walls’ photos of Black joy can be seen as a visual act of ongoing resistance. They are, also, the exact antidote to the time we live in
By James Peterson
The Trans Culture Documenter
The next in a series with Forman Arts Initiative profiles performer/photographer Sa’Mantha SayTen, who uplifts queer trans artists through her studio and her own story
By Morgan Nitz
The Community Builder
Muralist Cesar Viveros, whose paintings are all over the city, has shifted his focus to activism and communion in the city’s Latino community
By Morgan Nitz