Exhibitions - Philadelphia Museum of Art
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- Ellsworth Kelly in Resonance: Selections from the Collection
October 9, 2006 - January 31, 2007: Between 1948 and 1954, American artist Ellsworth Kelly lived in Paris, where he met a number of artists and developed the distinctive artistic practices for which he is known. The remarkable range of styles in this exhibition, featuring a selection of works by various artists, reveals the impressive reach of Kelly’s artistic practice, particularly his experimentation with color, technique, and composition. - Latin American Colonial Art from the Collections
September 29, 2006 - January 31, 2007: This exhibition celebrates the Museum's long-standing interest in the art of the New World with paintings on copper and canvas, ceramics, and textiles. - Live Cinema/Mircea Cantor: The Title Is the Last Thing
November 11, 2006 - February 11, 2007: A new series of film and video programs, Live Cinema explores the diversity of single channel video and film work by number of local, national, and international artists. The Title Is the Last Thing features a series of eight videos by Mircea Cantor, as well as a selection of photographs and objects, that offer poignant commentary on the relationship between time and labor, politics, tourism, and history. - Ellsworth Kelly
March 11, 2006 - February 2007: The paintings, drawings, and collages in this exhibition illustrate the significant changes in the work of Ellsworth Kelly during a formative period, when the artist experimented with strategies that would prove to be instrumental to his artistic development. - Thomas Eakins' The Gross Clinic
January 5, 2007 - March 4, 2007: This exhibition focuses on The Gross Clinic, an icon of Philadelphia since it was painted in 1875. The masterpiece of the young Thomas Eakins, an artist born and educated in Philadelphia, this it is acclaimed as the greatest American painting of the nineteenth century. - Georg Jensen Silversmiths
November 17, 2006 - April 1, 2007: This exhibition focuses on the Danish silversmith Georg Jensen (1866-1935) and the renowned group of designers who helped establish the company he founded as one of the world’s most important silverwares firms. - Modern People: A Tribute to Arnold Newman
September 23, 2006 - April 8, 2007: This exhibition, drawn from the Museum collections, is a tribute to Arnold Newman (1918–2006)—one of the great portrait photographers of his time. It includes a number of photographs that were part of his first solo exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1945, as well as a selection of portraits by his contemporaries that demonstrate the range of modern portrait photography. - Crouching Spider by Louise Bourgeois
May 24, 2006 - April 30, 2007: Crouching Spider, a gigantic sculpture of bronze and stainless steel made up of a globular body and long, attenuated legs, is part of a celebrated series of spider sculptures that Louise Bourgeois produced beginning in the early 1990s. Measuring 106½ x 329 x 247 inches, this extraordinary work is at once both threatening and playful. - Celebrate Korea: A Decade of Collecting
July 7, 2006 - Spring 2007: Featuring screen paintings, hanging scrolls, furniture, and ceramics, this exhibition looks at a decade of Korean art collecting at the Museum with the support of Korean Heritage Group. - Notations: Out of Words
November 22, 2006 - April 2007: This exhibition gathers works of art in which words are conceived not only as communicational tools, but also visual and physical things in themselves. The range of artistic strategies found in these objects, which date from the 1960s to the present, points to the importance of text in contemporary art. - Conserving a Tibetan Altar
December 9, 2006 - Spring 2007: This exhibition displays—for the first time—a newly cleaned Tibetan altar adorned with intricately carved niches and lively paintings. It explores both the conservation of the altar as well as its cultural context, and reveals hidden mysteries of the altar’s construction and decoration. - Fantastic and Functional Animals in Indian Art
December 9, 2006 - June 2007: This exhibition explores the many meanings of India’s scaly, feathery, and furry inhabitants, both natural and supernatural, in a rich collection of the Museum's ‘miniature’ paintings. - Pop Art and Its Affinities
July 29, 2006 - June 2007: Highlighting works from the 1960s and early '70s, this exhibition captures a pivotal moment in the history of American art and features artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg. - The Bizarre and the Beautiful: Silks of the Eighteenth Century
July 1, 2006 - Summer 2007: Opulent and exuberant, this focused exhibition explores silk—indisputably fashion's favored fabric in the eighteenth century—with thirteen objects from the Museum's collection. - Celebrating American Craft: 30 Years of the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show
September 19, 2006 - Fall 2007: This exhibition celebrates the 30th year of the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, which has been organized annually by the Women’s Committee of the Museum since 1977. It features several outstanding objects demonstrating the vitality of the field of contemporary American crafts.
