25 stories by "Emily Schilling"
A new show at People’s Light mixes the imagination of playwright Suli Holum with a documentary history of the world’s first medical school for women in 1890s Philadelphia. Emily Schillin…
Programming Steel Magnolias could be a risky choice, but a new production at People's Light never becomes syrupy. Emily Schilling reviews.
An enchanting new exhibition at the Barnes exploring the weird, unsettling, and captivating world of Henri Rousseau will travel to Paris next spring. Emily Schilling reviews.
Kathryn Grody premieres her third autobiographical play, kick-starting the 2025-2026 season at People's Light with a brilliant marathon of a monologue. Emily Schilling reviews.
The Brandywine Museum of Art's Wyeth Study Center
invigorates the storied local artist's legacy. Andrew Wyeth at Kuerner Farm:
The Eye of the Earth features intimate works made over 70 years…
As a trustee emeritus of the Barnes Foundation, author Neil L. Rudenstine is clearly biased, but his book offers interesting details about the collection of Albert Barnes, and how his fraugh…
A new solo exhibition by Philly conceptual artist and writer Theodore A. Harris, inspired by Nina Simone's history with the Curtis Institute, questions the ways that art, artists, patrons, a…
Seven artists and two guest curators offer gorgeous and searing expressions of their American experiences in a satisfying and thought-provoking exhibition at Independence Mall's National Lib…
Emily B. Schilling visits Philly artist Nasir Young at his first-ever solo exhibition, asking him and two gallery colleagues, all PAFA graduates, about some big news from this Pennsylvania c…
(Re)FOCUS connects a landmark feminist arts festival from 1974 with a new set of exhibitions and celebrations in 2024 throughout the city. Emily Schilling previews.
This triumphant premiere based on Lorene Cary's 2019 memoir
about caring for her 99-year-old Nana explores the burden and privilege of caretaking,
interwoven with family stories that illustr…
A Philly tradition since 2006, This Is the Week That Is attempts to wring mirth from the news, but this year's iteration ranges from offensive to baffling. Emily Schilling reviews.
Works by Philadelphia artist Barbara Bullock are dancing right off the walls at the Woodmere Art Museum in an enthralling retrospective that explores the intersection of Bullock's studio art…
All That Fall, a hilarious and unsettling jaunt to a train station in 1950s Ireland, is expertly staged by Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium in this year's Fringe, offering laughs right up…
Kicking off the academic year with two uplifting shows about how we communicate, learn, and teach, the Philadelphia Art Alliance at UArts welcomes SKZ Monochrome Classrooms
and L'école. Emi…
Emily B. Schilling cared for her dying mother at home, and about a decade later, she faced a similar goodbye to her husband. Hospice is exhausting and heartbreaking, but she doesn't regret o…
Textile artist Carolyn Harper's Seeking Freedom: Portraits of Mass Incarceration at MUSE Gallery brings us into the lives of the human beings caught in the US prison-industrial complex. Emil…
The Print Center presents Rodrigo Valenzuela: Workforce, a surreal mixed-media exhibition about work, industry, power, and people. Emily B. Schilling reviews.
Six international artists explore the mashrabiya, widely used throughout the Islamic world as cooling structures, or boundaries"between public and private life, men and women, women and visi…
Three artists with roots in Pakistan, the Philippines, and Iran offer reality checks on the stories we're told in a powerful mixed-media exhibition at Twelve Gates Arts in Old City. Emily B.…
A painting by Gustave Courbet, a fascinating 19th-century French artist, was lost in a Philly basement for decades. Now it gets its due at Arthur Ross Gallery. Emily B. Schilling reviews.
Expect the unexpected at a colorful and challenging new solo exhibition from internationally known interdisciplinary artist Alex Da Corte, a Camden native and UArts grad. Emily B. Schilling …
Internationally known mixed-media artist Rose B. Simpson adds architectural installation and video work to her wide-ranging repertoire for the first time in this special exhibition at The Fa…
A new Barnes exhibition detailing the latest scholarship and technology in the world of Modigliani has a big surprise: four previously unverified paintings will be on the walls. Emily Schill…
Jayson Musson launches His History of Art at The Fabric Workshop and Museum while the anonymous Philadelphia Wireman's work appears at Fleisher/Ollman Gallery. Emily Brewton Schilling sugges…
