Visit the Museum during Member Appreciation Days and take advantage of special savings and offers designed just for you! Receive an additional 10 percent discount—a total of 20 percent off any purchases in the Museum Stores, including the Online Store, and at the Museum Restaurant and Cafes. Enjoy discounted rates on gift memberships available only to our members. Members are an important part of our Museum family, and we want to thank you for your support! Check your mailbox in the coming weeks for additional information about Member Appreciation Days.
- Friday, November 20, 2009, Starts at 10:00 a.m.
- Saturday, November 21, 2009, Starts at 10:00 a.m.
- Sunday, November 22, 2009, Starts at 10:00 a.m.
Starts at 10:15 a.m.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is home to the world’s most important collection of works by 20th century artist Marcel Duchamp. This tour explores how works such as The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass) and Étant donnés forever changed how we define art.
Membership Required
Reservations requiredTours meet at the West Entrance. Free members event. Space is limited, and reservations are required.
The work of Constantin Brâncuşi redefined sculpture for a new century. Working in Paris after 1904, Brâncuşi aimed to develop a sculptural idiom that looked absolutely modern. Seeking inspiration in ancient, folk, and exotic precedents, which bypassed the classical Western tradition of sculpture, and brought his style to a more essential and simplified form. The Philadelphia Museum of Art has the largest collection of Brâncuşi sculptures in the U.S. and this tour explores his work within the context of his modernist contemporaries.
- Friday, November 20, 2009, Starts at 2:15 p.m.
- Saturday, November 21, 2009, Starts at 10:15 a.m.
Starts at 4:00 p.m.
Members at the Sustainer, Sponsor and Patron levels are invited to join curator Michael Taylor for an Exclusive Look lecture on Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective. Call 215-235-SHOW (7469) to RSVP, for more information or to upgrade your membership to attend.
Starts at 10:30 a.m.
Membership Required Reservations requiredFree for Members. Space is limited and reservations are required.
We invite new members who have joined us in the past several months to visit us for a complimentary New Members Morning to learn about your membership benefits, the Museum's history and enjoy an inside look at our current special exhibition; Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective. It’s our way of saying “thanks for joining!”.
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Join film lecturer Michael McGonigle for “From the Book Shelf to the Multi-Plex: Adapting Novels into Films.” This talk is followed by a screening of Adaptation. Directed by Spike Jonze, neurotic screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Nicholas Cage) is hired to adapt the book The Orchid Thief by Susan Orleans (Meryl Streep) into a viable screenplay. But this proves tricky for Kaufman and we find ourselves simultaneously thrust into both the world of Hollywood and orchid thievery in one of the most indescribable films in recent memory. (2002, 114 minutes, Rated R).
Membership Required Reservations requiredFree for Members. Tours meet at the West Entrance. Space is limited, and reservations are required.
This exhibit presents a critical reassessment of this key figure in modern art and includes over 178 paintings, sculpture, prints, and drawings which reveal Gorky’s development as an artist and the evolution of his singular visual vocabulary and mature painting style. This comprehensive retrospective is the first full-scale survey of Gorky’s work in nearly thirty years, thus providing a new generation of viewers with the opportunity to see this complex, influential, and deeply moving body of work.
- Saturday, November 21, 2009, Starts at 2:15 p.m.
- Sunday, November 22, 2009, Starts at 10:15 a.m., and 2:15 p.m.
- Tuesday, November 24, 2009, Starts at 10:15 a.m.
