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 VisitingOn ViewCollectionsResearchCalendar & EventsEducationJoin & SupportInformationVisiting  On ViewCollectionsResearchCalendar & EventsEducationJoin & SupportInformationSunday, December 8, 2013 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.
Léger: Modern Art and the Metropolis
Join exhibition curator Anna Vallye on a tour through the colorful galleries of Léger: Modern Art and the Metropolis. See how Léger and his contemporaries were inspired by the energy and movement of the modern city to combine different arts into their own work. A sculpture expresses motion like a film, paintings become like advertising posters, and color combines with architecture to form murals, all working together to create a new vision of urban space brought to life.
Watch Video >>Also On View September 24, 2013 - Spring 2014 Taking cues from the Dada movement and from the work of Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, Cy Twombly (American, 1928– 2011) created poetic objects whose serene white surfaces and allusive forms seem to recall remote worlds of myth and the ancient past. After reaching an indisputable maturity in his early sculpture, created from 1946 to 1959, Twombly returned to working in three dimensions in the mid-1970s and continued to cast new works up until his passing in 2011.New In the Galleries Gallery 232, second floor Discover paintings and sculpture created for the Sakya lineage, one of the four main traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. Founded more than a thousand years ago in southern Tibet, the Sakya lineage held tremendous political power in the region during the thirteenth century. The Lamdre (literally “the path and the fruit”) is the principal teaching of this lineage. Most "Loved" Object
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