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Three shows are better than one, at PAFA

Jacob Lawrence’s Hiroshima Jacob Lawrence, Market (part of the Hiroshima series of paintings), Tempera and gouache on paper; 23 x 17 1/2 in. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Alexander Harrison Fund, 2008.3.8 There are several reasons to go to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts right now. First there’s Jacob Lawrence‘s Hiroshima paintings in the Morris Gallery. These are wrenching images of daily life disrupted by the nuclear bomb. The images deliver a sermon on what matters in life–people and their ways–and contrasts the stable society with the destruction of war. The eight paintings were created by Lawrence ... More » »

PAFA’s hits three homers outta heeeere

This Place is Ours!, by Jim Houser, acrylic on paper collaged on canvas, 40 x 40 inches This is the age of aquarius over at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts–harmony and understanding and three star-quality shows. At last the the place is living up to that name that came and then slunk off into the night; what was it, the Museum of American Art? The place not only has recovered from the folly of meaningless corporate branding at the same time that it has actually become that museum it dreamed it was. So if you go there this ... More » »