Archived - Shows And Events

October 25, 2016 - January 8, 2017 - The exhibition tells the story of this exhilarating period through a remarkable range of images from the start of the Mexican Revolution in 1910 to the aftermath of World War II, artists in Mexico were at the center of a great debate about their country’s destiny. Paint the Revolution offers a deep look at the forces that shaped modern art in Mexico, the progre...

September 14, 2016 - March 19, 2017 - This large-scale group exhibition links the vibrant legacy of avant-garde jazz and experimental music of the late 1960s (particularly within the African American arts scene on the South Side of Chicago) and its continuing influence on contemporary art and culture today. The exhibition will occupy the entire museum.

September 3, 2016 - January 1, 2017 - This exhibition will present ten pieces from the Walns’ original set all from the Museum’s collection in a new light after comprehensive research and conservation treatment. The exhibition will offer new discoveries about the house and the team who created the furniture with Latrobe: cabinetmaker John Aitken, decorative painter George Bridport, and upholsterer...

June 28, 2016 - September 5, 2016 - This exhibition celebrates the Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Collection, one of the nation’s leading collections of contemporary art. A large number of the works have been generously donated or pledged as promised gifts to the Museum, signaling the couple’s deep commitment to the institution and the city of Philadelphia. From sculpture and painting to large-scale...

June 24 - August 22, 2016 - Live and Life Will Give You Pictures: Masterworks of French Photography, 1895 – 1945. Animated by flânerie—the idle, detached observation of street life that 19th-century writers and artists associated with the rise of modern cities, and making reference to African tribal art, Ward’s oeuvre resonates with the Barnes collection and speaks with penetrating insight and ima...

Conference host is Embassy Suites Philadelphia - Airport. The Embassy Suites features two-room suites, complimentary breakfast and evening cocktail reception, free WiFi through the hotel and guest rooms, free shuttle service for destinations within a five-mile radius of the hotel and free parking. Please be sure to mention that you are attending as a Haviland Collectors International Foundation me...

May 31 - August 14, 2016 - The works in this exhibition unsettle this passage with forms of heredity that are often undervalued or unconventional: used or surplus possessions, intergenerational collaborations, maternal memories and matter, transatlantic journeys, spoken words, and sound waves.​ Descent animates alternative modes and materials of inheritance across generations of families, artists,...

May 31 - August 14, 2016 - In this exhibition these sculptures, paintings, room-sized constructions, videos, and performances embody our social fabric in patterns cut by class, economic status, culture, race, gender, and history.

May 31 - August 14, 2016 - The ICA presents an exhibiton of sketchbooks, miniature paintings, and small sculptures. Not much bigger than two inches by three inches, the miniatures are as completely realized as full-breadth canvases. The sculptures, some cast in bronze from plaster models, have been constructed largely from found objects, are so elemental in form and substance they appear almost ge...

May 22 – June 27, 2016 - This exhibition presents works that are the result of a draw-a-thon – a project organized by Joshua Marsh in partnership with the Social & Studio Practices graduate department – that will engage alumni of Moore's MFA in Studio Art graduate program, as well as current and incoming Social & Studio Practices students and faculty. Over the course of nearly four hours, the grou...