en-usCopyright 2010 Philadelphia Museum of ArtFri, 12 Mar 2010 02:30:00 -0600The Philadelphia Museum of Art is among the largest and most important art museums in the United States.http://www.philamuseum.org/February 24, 2010 - April 25, 2010: Internationally recognized as one of the most innovative and influential artists of the twentieth century, Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) was at his most ferociously inventive between 1905 and 1945. Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris surveys his work during these crucial decades, when he transformed the history of art through his innate virtuosity and protean creativity.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/354.htmlFebruary 24, 2010November 22, 2009 - June 13, 2010: The visionary and revolutionary Dutch designer Marcel Wanders (born 1963) is creating for the Museum a dreamlike, multimedia installation of objects personally selected by the artist to represent pivotal points in his extraordinary career. Using shifting video images, lighting, and sound to illuminate the development of his boldly inventive body of work, Wanders provides the visitor with a unique visual and sensory experience dramatizing the evolution of his designs over the past twenty years.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/368.htmlNovember 22, 2009October 24, 2009 - March 14, 2010: In 1759, the young Josiah Wedgwood (1730–1795), who would become one of England’s most famous potters, established his first factory at the Ivy House Works in Burslem, England. A Purer Taste of Forms and Ornaments: Josiah Wedgwood and the Antique celebrates the 250th anniversary of this vastly influential factory and its extraordinary founder.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/369.htmlOctober 24, 2009December 19, 2009 - March 14, 2010: This exhibition brings together for the first time the two surviving tondos by the great Flemish master Hans Memling (c.1433 – 1494). These small round oil paintings of the Virgin Mary nursing the infant Jesus are peculiarly personal and affective devotional objects that could be held in the hand or hung on a wall.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/380.htmlDecember 19, 2009December 11, 2009 - March 21, 2010: Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms is the result of a close collaboration between the Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Fabric Workshop and Museum. Conceived as an homage to the late Anne d’Harnoncourt, former director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the exhibition gracefully addresses time’s passing and the role that memory and memorials play in attending to the past.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/381.htmlDecember 11, 2009November 21, 2009 - April 4, 2010: Days and Giorni, Nauman’s compelling sound installations recorded in two languages, English and Italian, have traveled from the 53rd International Art Exhibition (La Biennale de Veneziato) to Philadelphia.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/375.htmlNovember 21, 2009January 29, 2010 - April 11, 2010: The vital role of the printed image in contemporary art is the focus of the international festival, PHILAGRAFIKA 2010, to be held throughout the city of Philadelphia January 29 through April 11, 2010. The core exhibition of the festival, PHILAGRAFIKA 2010: The Graphic Unconscious, will be shown across five venues, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Museum will display installations by two artists, the Japanese artist Tabaimo (b. 1975) and the Colombian artist Óscar Muñoz (b. 1951), that explore the translation of printmaking into other mediums and expand the conceptual boundaries of printmaking.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/377.htmlJanuary 29, 2010September 5, 2009 - April 18, 2010: Jun Kaneko, born in Nagoya, Japan in 1942, began his formal studies in art in the United States at the Chouinard Art Institute and continued at Berkeley and Claremont Graduate School. These four sculptures represent a larger body of work called the Mission Clay Project, which created a total of forty-one new sculptures. This project took three years to complete.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/371.htmlSeptember 5, 2009February 21, 2009 - Spring 2010: Artists have been inspired by the inner and outer beauty of the pomegranate since biblical times. The objects on view in this exhibition represent a cross-section of textiles from the Museum’s collection that feature this richly symbolic fruit.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/344.htmlFebruary 21, 2009February 24, 2010 - April 25, 2010: This exhibition, held in conjunction with Picasso and the Avant Garde in Paris, explores American Modernism through artists such as Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O’Keeffe. A selection of American photographer Paul Strand's portraits of Picasso and Georges Braque are also on view.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/392.htmlFebruary 24, 2010February 27, 2010 - May 23, 2010: An exhibition of some 75 works dating from the late nineteenth century to the present, The Platinum Process showcases a selection of outstanding platinum prints drawn from the Museum’s collection. Highlights include photographs by early masters of the platinum process including Frederick H. Evans and Paul Strand, as well as works by skilled contemporary practitioners such as Lois Conner.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/362.htmlFebruary 27, 2010November 28, 2008 - June 5, 2010: John G. Johnson acquired many seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish still-life paintings, including three by Willem Kalf; an early kitchen scene and two of the later pronk, or sumptuous still lifes, for which Kalf is best known.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/340.htmlNovember 28, 2008December 12, 2009 - July 25, 2010: Stitching kanthas was an art practiced by women across Bengal, a region today comprising the nation of Bangladesh and the state of West Bengal, India. Lovingly created from the remnants of worn garments, kanthas are embroidered with motifs and tales drawn from a rich local repertoire and used especially in the celebration of births, weddings, and other family occasions. This exhibition presents some forty superb examples created during the nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth century.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/364.htmlDecember 12, 2009November 25, 2009 - August 2010: Bengal (modern Bangladesh and eastern India) is a lush region of lotus pools, fish-filled rivers, and tiger-haunted forests punctuated by rice and banana fields, rural villages, and teeming cities. The domestic arts made by and for Bengali women during the 19th and 20th centuries include intricate embroidered quilts called kanthas, vibrant ritual paintings, and fish-shaped caskets and other implements created in resin-thread technique.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/374.htmlNovember 25, 2009July 11, 2009 - August 2010: The Two Qalams explores the relationship between calligraphers and artists through five exemplary works of calligraphy, drawing, and painting dating from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/366.htmlJuly 11, 2009July 5, 2009 - Summer 2010: This installation, drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection, brings together objects employed in the service and consumption of alcoholic beverages.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/363.htmlJuly 5, 2009January 9, 2010 - Fall 2010: From classical Noh theater to poetry competitions to the joys of fishing, the pleasures and pastimes depicted in Japanese art are many and varied. This exhibition features masks and gorgeous costumes of the Noh theater as well as libretti and musical instruments that accompany the Noh performances.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/361.htmlJanuary 9, 2010September 14, 2009 - Summer 2011: The inaugural installation in the Museum's new Sculpture Garden, Isamu Noguchi at the Philadelphia Museum of Art is a fascinating selection of sculptures by an artist who had longstanding ties with the Museum and our late Director Anne d’Harnoncourt, and is represented in the collection by the extraordinary cast-bronze biomorphic Avatar.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/373.htmlSeptember 14, 2009