13 stories by "K.a. McFadden"
New galleries at The Woodmere in Chestnut Hill host a ceramics retrospective showcasing more than 50 years of sculptures by notable Philly artist Syd Carpenter. K.A. McFadden reviews.
A new children's book that tells the story of a once-prominent American artist raised in Brewerytown and reestablishes her work and its historical and political impact. K.A. McFadden preview…
Princeton University Art Museum closed down at the start of the pandemic, and it's finally reopened with beautiful updates that are free for all to visit. K.A. McFadden reviews.
Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100 gets its only US stop at the Philadelphia Art Museum. K.A. McFadden reviews.
The Woodmere marks the opening of its new Maguire Hall with prolific Philly painter and printmaker Peter Paone's Snowpeople, an arresting look at a traditionally cheery sculptural medium. K.…
With major public artworks by the Calder family already dotting the Parkway, our city welcomes the world's only museum dedicated to Alexander Calder, an endearing native Philadelphian. K.A. …
Artists Akiko Jackson, Minah Kim, and Kevin Snipes wrap up their three-year residency at the Clay Studio Center for Innovation in Ceramic Art with this trio of enigmatic and arresting solo s…
Eye of the Beholder, now on view at Woodmere Art Museum, curates picks from the collections of two luminaries of the local art scene with an eye for goodness and beauty. K.A. McFadden review…
Cecily Brown: Themes and Variations, now on view at the Barnes, offers a vibrant and satisfying consideration of art history that demands a long look while fighting renewed attempts to syste…
A new PMA exhibition curated by Ekow Eshun gathers 28 contemporary artists from across the Black and African diaspora in the US and UK, exploring Blackness as lived experience rather than so…
A new multi-media exhibition at the Barnes featuring New Jersey native Mickalene Thomas celebrates queer existence and the female gaze with mixed-media painting, collage, photography, video,…
A new exhibition from the Barnes draws on the best of the foundation's extensive collection of works by Matisse and Renoir, and places them in conversation with each other. K.A. McFadden rev…
With radically sweet images of women and hardly a man in sight, painter Marie Laurencin constructed a world of female friendship, camaraderie, and low-key eroticism, as explored in a new exh…
