Philly’s skyline in 1893, as seen in this photo taken from a hot-air balloon one-mile above the city, shows a town without a City Hall or Philadelphia Museum of Art. The former would change the ...

In addition to helping people traverse from Philadelphia to New Jersey across the Delaware River, the Ben Franklin Bridge has another little-known function: it's a mini-art museum, displaying ...

Philadelphia is a superb destination for dining, shopping, and strolling, but as a uniquely historic city, it's so much more than that. Philadelphia is where the Declaration of Independence was ...

“This museum has an annual budget of about $60 million a year and an endowment of about $600 million. We’re paid, on average, 20% less than other museum workers at similar museums.” Workers at the ...

The steps leading to the Philadelphia Museum of Art have long marked the most iconic location to gaze at the city's skyline. Naturally, some 1,500 people assembled there on a crisp December night ...

The structure of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, built in 1928, is inspired by Grecian temples. It was designed by Julian Abele, the first African-American graduate of the architecture school at ...

Etcher Joseph Pennell called it "that Greek garage." But the sun-colored classic shell of the Philadelphia Museum of Art is big enough to house the Parthenon in part of one wing. For 20 ...

The Philadelphia Museum of Art has about a quarter-million objects in its collection, of which about 1,400 are associated with Black artists and the African continent. Now the PMA has established a ...

Philadelphia Museum of Art employees picket outside the north entrance on Oct. 5, 2022. Two years after the museum workers joined a union, they voted to strike during first contract negotiations.

Frank Gehry talks about the porticoed and pedimented structure that houses the Philadelphia Museum of Art as though it were a living being, referring to its “good bones” and its “heart.” The Pritzker ...

A New Philadelphia Art Museum — Calder Gardens — Is Finally Happening. I’ve been hearing about Calder Gardens for so long that I assumed the museum, like so many other big proposals ...