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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

As one of the largest museums in the United States, the Philadelphia Museum of Art invites visitors from around the world to explore its renowned collections, acclaimed special exhibitions, and enriching programs, both in person and online.

Also On View

Rooster "Six-Pack"
Now Through April 19, 2009
This exhibition highlights a selection of purchases, gifts, and bequests since the year 2000—a group so varied it encompasses the Museum’s departments of American art, costume and textiles, East Asian art, and European decorative arts.
Kitchen
Now Through May 28, 2009
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.
Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic)
August 2, 2008 - June 2009
The Museum welcomes two masterpieces made for Philadelphia by two of nineteenth-century America’s finest artists, Thomas Eakins and Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Close contemporaries and friends, they both trained in Paris and traveled in Europe before returning to the United States about 1870 to begin distinguished careers. Sharing a belief in the expressive power of the human body as a subject for modern painting and sculpture, they developed different styles.
Cape, Bodysuit, Chaps, and Clogs
May 24, 2008 - Spring 2009
Kansai Yamamoto is one of the founding fathers of Japanese contemporary fashion. Best known for his work during the 1970s and 1980s, his avant-garde designs are inspired by the colorful Azuchi-Momoyama period (1568-1600) and traditional Kabuki theatre. The exuberant Pop-like quality of his work contrasts with what is today associated with Japanese fashion, Zen-like simplicity and deconstructed silhouettes.

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Today's Highlight
From the Collection

http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/51585.html

What's New

Today at the Museum

Daily Tours
European Art 1500–1850
Starts at 10:00 a.m.

Daily Tours
Introduction to the Collections
Starts at 11:00 a.m.

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