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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 24, 2025 visibility 17 link 4 artists, 4 galleries

louise fishman van doren waxter

Louise Fishman (1939–2021), a Queer Jewish abstract painter who deliberately distanced herself from the macho tradition of Abstract Expressionism, is the subject of a new exhibition at New York’s Van Doren Waxter. Titled “Louise Fishman: Always Stand Ajar,” the show features 10 late paintings from 2003 to 2013, all titled after verses by American poets Emily Dickinson and Wallace Stevens. The works, priced from $75,000 to $290,000, are part of an effort by Fishman’s widow, Ingrid Nyeboe, to cement the artist’s legacy as an unsung “Queer queen of abstraction.” The gallery began representing Fishman’s estate in 2024, and this is its first show dedicated to her.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 23, 2026 visibility 21 link 10 artists, 1 gallery

Philadelphia museums are pooling resources — and telling bigger stories together

Philadelphia’s major art institutions are entering an unprecedented era of collaboration, launching a series of joint exhibitions that pool resources and collections. The centerpiece of this movement is “Bodies and Souls,” a dual-site exhibition hosted by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) and the Woodmere Art Museum featuring the contemporary art collection of Robert and Frances Coulborn Kohler. Other notable partnerships include a three-museum retrospective of sculptor Syd Carpenter and an upcoming 18-gallery initiative titled “Radical Americana” led by the Clay Studio.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 30, 2025 visibility 19 link 7 artists

Philadelphia museum opens $20m expansion after winning back cancelled funding from Trump administration

Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia will unveil a $20 million expansion on November 1, adding the Frances M. Maguire Hall for Art and Education—a converted 19th-century mansion with 14 galleries and an education studio. The project, which also includes four acres of new green space, was funded in part by a gift from the Maguire Foundation and follows the museum's acquisition of the adjacent building in 2021. The expansion allows the museum to display more of its 8,000+ works by regional artists, including Pennsylvania Impressionists and Violet Oakley's preparatory sketches.

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article policy schedule Sep 8, 2025 visibility 13

woodmere art museum drops lawsuit against trump administration

Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia dropped its lawsuit against the Trump administration after the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) reinstated a $750,000 grant that had been unlawfully terminated. The museum had been preparing to go to court on September 12 when it received a Letter of Reinstatement on September 4, stating the termination review process was complete. The grant, awarded in 2024 through the IMLS’s “Save America’s Treasures” program, was intended to revamp the museum’s catalog system and digitize works for an exhibition honoring the 250th anniversary of the country’s founding. Woodmere had already received about $195,000 of the grant and entered into several contracts before the termination.

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article policy schedule Aug 29, 2025 visibility 13

woodmere art museum sues trump administration canceled imls grant

Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over the unlawful termination of a $750,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The grant, awarded in 2024 through the IMLS's 'Save America's Treasures' program, was intended to revamp the museum's catalog system and digitize works for its 'America 250' exhibition honoring the nation's 250th anniversary. After President Trump signed an executive order calling for the IMLS to be eliminated, the agency ceased distributing funding, leaving Woodmere with only about $195,000 of the grant received and scrambling to fulfill contracts already in place. The museum is seeking an injunction to stop the IMLS and the Office of Management and Budget from following the executive order.

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article local schedule Sep 25, 2025 visibility 14 link 5 artists

Arboretum poppies, a tribute to late Wyndmoor artist

The Morris Arboretum & Gardens in Philadelphia recently displayed supersized red poppies at its entrance, reproductions of the colossal sculptures "Papaver Rubrum Giganteum" created by the late artist Gary G. Miller. Originally installed at the arboretum in May 2008, the installation featured 300 handmade aluminum poppies with 20-inch flower heads on 10-foot stems. Miller, a sculpture and photography teacher at Germantown Friends School and a facilitator at Woodmere Art Museum, was killed by a drunk driver in 2013. To commemorate his work, the Chestnut Hill Community Association organized an exhibition titled "Papaver Rubrum Giganteum Redux," featuring photographs of the poppies in a pop-up space from September 27 to October 4.

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