Join Felice Fischer, The Luther W. Brady Curator of Japanese Art and Curator of East Asian Art, for a trip to the Brooklyn Museum to see two exhibitions: Utagawa: Masters of the Japanese Print, 1770–1900, featuring work by the Utagawa School, and © MURAKAMI, showcasing the art of Takashi Murakami.

 

Discover a variety of styles and techniques in the Museum's superb collection of nineteenth-century art.

 

Tours meet in the Perelman Building lobby.
Space is limited.

Resplendent with multicolored and gilded ornaments and animated with sculptures carved in limestone and cast in terracotta and metal, the Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building is the most richly embellished example of Art Deco architecture to be erected in Philadelphia in the 1920s.

 

Perfect for the first-time visitor, this tour provides an overview of some of the Museum's most renowned treasures in a variety of mediums.

 

Discover the history of glass and explore objects in the American art galleries.

 

This tour focuses on the Museum's extraordinary collection of American art, including paintings, furniture, and decorative arts.

 

Join Park House Guides on a walking tour of Boathouse Row and discover local sculpture and the Fairmount Water Works.

Members $5, member child (13-18) $1, nonmembers $6, nonmember child (13-18) $3, children 12 and under free. Tickets are available at any Visitor Services Desk on the day of tour and departs from the West Entrance.

 

Tuesday Afternoons
April 22 - May 20, 2008
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Wednesday Afternoons
April 23 - May 21, 2008
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Thursday Mornings and Afternoons
April 24 - May 22, 2008
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Children ages 3–5 with an adult

Tuition: Members $60, Nonmembers $75

Discover the Museum with your child in the galleries and studio. Parents attend free.

 

Perfect for the first-time visitor, this tour provides an overview of some of the Museum's most renowned treasures in a variety of mediums.

 

Discover a variety of styles and techniques in the Museum's superb collection of modern and contemporary art.

 

Thursdays: 4 sessions, May 1, 8, 15, and 22; 9:30 - 10:30 a.m.
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Saturdays: 2 lectures, May 10 and 31; 9:30 - 11:45 a.m.
Lecturers: Peter Barberie (PB), Visiting Lecturer, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University; and Katherine Ware (KW), Curator of Photographs, Alfred Stieglitz Center, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Members: $64
Nonmembers: $80

This course surveys the history of American photography, with an emphasis on the ways landscape was used to forge and explore American identity. Join us for an in-depth look at the work of key figures such as Carleton Watkins, Timothy O’Sullivan, Alfred Stieglitz, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Ansel Adams, Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, and Robert Frank.

• Applied Science, Practical Art: Documents, Surveys, and the Romance of the American West (PB)
• Gilded Lilies: Pictorialism and Its American Advocates (PB)
• Inventing an American Style: Ansel Adams / Berenice Abbott / Walker Evans (KW)
• Road Trips: Photographic Journeys Up, Down, and Across the United States (PB)

 

Travel from the High Renaissance to the Neoclassical period with paintings, sculpture, furniture, ceramics, and tapestries.

 

Tuesday Afternoons
April 22 - May 20, 2008
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Wednesday Afternoons
April 23 - May 21, 2008
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Thursday Mornings and Afternoons
April 24 - May 22, 2008
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Children ages 3–5 with an adult

Tuition: Members $60, Nonmembers $75

Discover the Museum with your child in the galleries and studio. Parents attend free.

 

Perfect for the first-time visitor, this tour provides an overview of some of the Museum's most renowned treasures in a variety of mediums.

 

Explore the ancient world of Constantine the Great through the majesty of the Museum's 17th-century French and Italian tapestries.

 

Join Museum Park House Guides on a tour of the historic Perelman Building highlighting the rich ornamentation and unique architectural details of this Art Deco landmark.

 

Discover a variety of styles and techniques in the Museum's superb collection of nineteenth-century art.

 

Tuesday Afternoons
April 22 - May 20, 2008
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Wednesday Afternoons
April 23 - May 21, 2008
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Thursday Mornings and Afternoons
April 24 - May 22, 2008
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Children ages 3–5 with an adult

Tuition: Members $60, Nonmembers $75

Discover the Museum with your child in the galleries and studio. Parents attend free.

 

Thursdays: 4 sessions, May 1, 8, 15, and 22; 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
- or -
Saturdays: 2 lectures, May 10 and 31; 1:30 - 3:45 p.m.
Lecturer: David Raizman, Professor of Art History, Department of Visual Studies, Drexel University, Philadelphia
Members: $64
Nonmembers: $80

This course examines decorative arts, furniture, and furnishings in Western Europe and the United States from 1870 to 1914. The unprecedented rise in the demand, production, marketing, and retailing of manufactured goods during this period spurred new approaches to design that sought to reconcile art, craft, and industry. Join us as we explore several of these innovative approaches, integrating examples from the Museum’s design collection. In addition to analyzing objects and interiors from this period, lectures address the role of international exhibitions, department stores, mail-order catalogues, and advertising.

*This course is the first in an ongoing series on design that will look at objects in the Collab Gallery in the Perelman Building of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

• Christopher Dresser and “Industrial” Design; "Art Furniture"
• The Aesthetic Movement; Art Nouveau and Its Variations
• The Arts and Crafts Movement
• Standardization and Efficiency

 

Perfect for the first-time visitor, this tour provides an overview of some of the Museum's most renowned treasures in a variety of mediums.

 

From dramatic panel paintings to colorful stained glass to ornate architectural elements, discover the Museum's superb collection of treasures from Medieval Europe.

 

What other partners created art besides Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera? Join us and explore such partners as Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, Thomas Eakins and Susan Macdowell, Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt, and Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner.

 

Exquisite service pieces and table decorations (much of which has royal provenance) are highlighted in this tour exploring the fine art of dining in Europe.

 

Oliver Lake (alto saxophone), Reggie Workman (bass), and Andrew Cyrille (drums) have an uncanny communication with each other that has driven a twenty-year collaboration. Between the three musicians, they have played alongside jazz giants like John Coltrane, Art Blakey, and Wayne Shorter.

 

Discover a variety of extraordinary treasures in an hour.

 

Explore fascinating treasures from the Museum's Medieval and Asian art galleries.

 

Travel from the High Renaissance to the Neoclassical period with paintings, sculpture, furniture, ceramics, and tapestries.

 

Get to know works of art from the twentieth century, from the very first modern paintings through the movements of Cubism, Fauvism, Pop, and Contemporary.

 

Discover works of art pertaining to churches and castles alike.

 

Enjoy the sometimes startling and often poignant works of Philadelphian Thomas Eakins.

 

All family members are welcome to try their drawing skills in the Museum galleries. An artist is on hand to provide materials and encouragement.

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What other partners created art besides Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera? Join us and explore such partners as Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, Thomas Eakins and Susan Macdowell, Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt, and Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner.

 

Explore the Museum's extensive collection of Asian art, including treasures from Japan, China, and Korea.

 

This tour discusses the role women have played in art throughout history, and looks at objects by women artists in a variety of mediums and techniques.

 

Explore beautiful works of art that were once considered scandalous.

 

What other partners created art besides Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera? Join us and explore such partners as Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, Thomas Eakins and Susan Macdowell, Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt, and Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner.

 

Explore the Museum's extensive collection of Asian art, including treasures from Japan, China, and Korea.

 

Vocalist Paula West, who is coming off an acclaimed run at the Algonquin Room in New York, performs from an eclectic songbook of jazz and pop standards. Her voice has been compared to Nina Simone and Cassandra Wilson but with "a thicker caramel coating" (The New York Times). Her affinity for Bob Dylan, whose songs she regularly performs, recalls the passion for his music expressed by Nina Simone.

 

This tour focuses on the Museum's extraordinary collection of American art, including paintings, furniture, and decorative arts.

 

Discover a variety of styles and techniques in the Museum's superb collection of nineteenth-century art.

 

Travel from the High Renaissance to the Neoclassical period with paintings, sculpture, furniture, ceramics, and tapestries.

 

This tour takes a look at some of the Museum's most renowned treasures.

 

Discover exciting, innovative, and sometimes controversial works of art created in the twentieth century.

 

Thursdays: 4 sessions, May 1, 8, 15, and 22; 9:30 - 10:30 a.m.
- or -
Saturdays: 2 lectures, May 10 and 31; 9:30 - 11:45 a.m.
Lecturers: Peter Barberie (PB), Visiting Lecturer, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University; and Katherine Ware (KW), Curator of Photographs, Alfred Stieglitz Center, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Members: $64
Nonmembers: $80

This course surveys the history of American photography, with an emphasis on the ways landscape was used to forge and explore American identity. Join us for an in-depth look at the work of key figures such as Carleton Watkins, Timothy O’Sullivan, Alfred Stieglitz, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Ansel Adams, Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, and Robert Frank.

• Applied Science, Practical Art: Documents, Surveys, and the Romance of the American West (PB)
• Gilded Lilies: Pictorialism and Its American Advocates (PB)
• Inventing an American Style: Ansel Adams / Berenice Abbott / Walker Evans (KW)
• Road Trips: Photographic Journeys Up, Down, and Across the United States (PB)

 

Take a look at stunning works of art by Vincent van Gogh, and examine the innovative ways in which the artist used color in his paintings.

 

Thursdays: 4 sessions, May 1, 8, 15, and 22; 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
- or -
Saturdays: 2 lectures, May 10 and 31; 1:30 - 3:45 p.m.
Lecturer: David Raizman, Professor of Art History, Department of Visual Studies, Drexel University, Philadelphia
Members: $64
Nonmembers: $80

This course examines decorative arts, furniture, and furnishings in Western Europe and the United States from 1870 to 1914. The unprecedented rise in the demand, production, marketing, and retailing of manufactured goods during this period spurred new approaches to design that sought to reconcile art, craft, and industry. Join us as we explore several of these innovative approaches, integrating examples from the Museum’s design collection. In addition to analyzing objects and interiors from this period, lectures address the role of international exhibitions, department stores, mail-order catalogues, and advertising.

*This course is the first in an ongoing series on design that will look at objects in the Collab Gallery in the Perelman Building of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

• Christopher Dresser and “Industrial” Design; "Art Furniture"
• The Aesthetic Movement; Art Nouveau and Its Variations
• The Arts and Crafts Movement
• Standardization and Efficiency