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The Barnes Foundation opened Noguchi to Asawa: Designing Postwar America on September 20, 2026, on six Japanese American artists shaped by wartime incarceration.
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art will open El Anatsui: Prints and Play on December 19, 2026, more than 90 works tracing his material experiments since the 1980s.
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The Philadelphia Historical Commission is weighing whether to add Keith Haring's 1987 'We The Youth' mural to the city's Register of Historic Places — a first for an outdoor mural — with the Keith Haring Foundation backing the designation.
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Image: ArtskThe museum says its exhibition will bring together more than 90 works linked to the artist’s five decades of print experimentation.
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Image: ArtskVisitors can continue to choose their admission price after 5 p.m. on Fridays through June 2027.
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Image: ArtskJoanna Robotham and Colm Peare have been appointed to curatorial roles at the museum.
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Image: ArtskThe museum has appointed Tartsinis as curator and department head.
Source date ·Americana: Photographs 1850–1950 considers how people used cameras to record lives and communities.
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Image: ArtskThe museum’s new deputy director will oversee several departments that support exhibitions and collection care.
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