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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 3, 2026

Radical Reclamation at the First-Ever ArtPhilly Festival

Hyperallergic reports on the inaugural ArtPhilly festival, a new city-wide biennial in Philadelphia featuring over 30 original commissions. The festival opened on May 27 and runs through July 2, 2026, offering an alternative to nationalist celebrations of the US semiquincentennial. Highlights include artist indira allegra's project 'Sail Through This to That,' which honors Ona Judge, who escaped enslavement by George Washington in 1796, and Dominique 'Rem'mie' Fells, a Black transgender woman murdered in 2020. The work involves a procession to the Delaware River, sails adorned with symbolic plants, and community rituals blending mourning, resilience, and reclamation.

museum exhibitions schedule May 11, 2026

What Did Mozart’s Life Look Like?

An exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum, titled "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Treasures from the Mozarteum Foundation of Salzburg," presents a curated journey through the composer's life and career. The show features well-preserved ephemera, including Mozart's childhood violin, original sketches for the opera "The Magic Flute," and personal letters that reveal his scatological humor, alongside portraits of his patrons.

museum exhibitions schedule May 7, 2026

Artists Pay Tribute to Koyo Kouoh in Poetry Caravan at Venice Biennale

At the Venice Biennale on May 7, 2026, Cuban artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons led a poetry caravan across seven locations in the Giardini to honor Koyo Kouoh, the late curator of the Biennale's main exhibition "In Minor Keys," who died of cancer at age 57 in 2025. The procession, inspired by a 1999 voyage Kouoh took with nine African poets from Dakar to Timbuktu, featured performances by poets Natalie Diaz, Robin Coste Lewis, Batool Abu Akleen, and Anne Waldman, kora player Saliou Cissokho, and Kouoh's husband, Swiss saxophonist Philippe Mall, who played a composition dedicated to her. The event was organized by a team of Kouoh's assistants and advisers, including Marie Hélène Pereira, who served as stand-in lead of the 2026 Biennale.

museum exhibitions schedule May 6, 2026

Shoot the Shit With Jack Kerouac

An exhibition at the Grolier Club in New York City, titled "Running Through Heaven: Visions of Jack Kerouac," presents over 60 pieces of ephemera and unpublished correspondence from the Beat Generation icon's life. Curated by antiquarian collector Jacob Loewentheil, the show includes first editions, a Buddhist mala, a tobacco pouch, and a signed 1964 portrait of Kerouac, organized thematically around religion, jazz, and family. The exhibition runs through May 16 and offers an intimate look at the man behind the myth.

candle obituary schedule Mar 25, 2026

Pat Steir, known for her colorful, cascading “Waterfall” paintings, dies at 87.

Pat Steir, the influential abstract painter celebrated for her large-scale "Waterfall" works created by pouring paint down the canvas, has died at the age of 87. Her death was confirmed by family and her gallery, Hauser & Wirth.

person people schedule Mar 23, 2026

Joel Meyerowitz on Photographing Giorgio Morandi’s Studio