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Monday, May 20, 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.
Also On ViewNow Through August 25, 2013 Presented on the occasion of the artist’s ninetieth birthday, this installation brings together a selection of four works that span Ellsworth Kelly’s prolific oeuvre. One of the most prominent artists of the postwar period, Kelly is known for his explorations of contrasting formal relationships: flat color versus depth, shape, and scale.![]() Now Through May 27, 2013 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.In the Galleries![]() Gallery 286, second floor This installation pairs objects that were made in both central Europe and Pennsylvania to illustrate the transfer of artistic traditions from the Old World to the New. ![]() Gallery 204, second floor A Medieval cloister was usually a space at the heart of a monastery where a variety of highly regulated events in the lives of members of the religious order took place. The Museum’s cloister, based on the design at Saint-Genis-des-Fontaines in southwestern France, and the rare Romanesque fountain at its center, afford visitors a space for quiet thought. What's New
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