Philadelphia Museum of Art

Thursday, December 5, 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.

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Sol LeWitt: Lines in Four Directions in Flowers

In 1981, leading conceptual artist Sol LeWitt (American, 1928–2007) was invited by the Fairmount Park Art Association to propose a public artwork for a site in Fairmount Park. Installed thirty years after its conception, Lines in Four Directions in Flowers is a work of monumental scale, made up of more than 7,000 plantings arranged in strategically configured rows.

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The Path and the Fruit: Tibetan Buddhist Art of the Sakya Lineage

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.