Paid tickets required
$29 full price / 30% discount for members / $15 for students and 25-or-under

portrait of myself as my father explores black African masculinity. Using a boxing ring as a stage, Zimbabwe-born Brooklyn-based choreographer nora chipaumire, with Senegalese dancer Pape Ibrahima Ndiaye and Jamaican-born Brooklyn-based dancer Shamar Watt, celebrates and critiques the black male body (its presence, presentation, and representation). She also examines the different expectations society has of the black African man—as man, as father, as leader, as hero. Saturday's performance will include a talk-back element with the audience in attendance. Both performances are part of the 2016 FringeArts Festival and are co-presented with FringeArts.

Paid tickets required
$20 (free for members); includes Museum admission

Art historian Wolf Burchard explores Le Brun's role in the completion and adornment of the Louvre's Grand Gallery. Reception to follow.

Free tickets required

In the digital age, why do we need physical books at all? When digital surrogates can be delivered to our laptops with a single click, do we even need libraries? In this thought-provoking lecture, noted book historian and digital humanities leader Michael F. Suarez, Director of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia, considers the importance of books as objects and the future of the library in the twenty-first century.

Paid tickets required
$20 (Free for Members), includes Museum Admission

From identity to aesthetics, join thoughtful conversations about various topics raised in the Creative Africa exhibitions.

Learn about early American food and medicine practices from re-enactors, chefs, and demonstrators.

• Sunday, October 2, 2016, 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
• Sunday, November 6, 2016, 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
• Sunday, November 13, 2016, 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Free after admission

Every week a different masterpiece takes center stage during these in-depth, in-gallery participatory conversations facilitated by Philadelphia Museum of Art educators and graduate students from Bryn Mawr College, Temple University, the University of Delaware, and the University of Pennsylvania.

• Thursday, October 6, 2016, Starts at 11:00 a.m.
• Friday, October 7, 2016, Starts at 11:00 a.m.
• Saturday, October 8, 2016, Starts at 11:00 a.m.
• Thursday, October 13, 2016, Starts at 11:00 a.m.
• Friday, October 14, 2016, Starts at 11:00 a.m.
• Saturday, October 15, 2016, Starts at 11:00 a.m.
• Thursday, October 20, 2016, Starts at 11:00 a.m.
• Friday, October 21, 2016, Starts at 11:00 a.m.
• Saturday, October 22, 2016, Starts at 11:00 a.m.
• Thursday, October 27, 2016, Starts at 11:00 a.m.
• Friday, October 28, 2016, Starts at 11:00 a.m.
• Saturday, October 29, 2016, Starts at 11:00 a.m.
• Thursday, November 3, 2016, Starts at 11:00 a.m.
• Friday, November 4, 2016, Starts at 11:00 a.m.
• Saturday, November 5, 2016, Starts at 11:00 a.m.
• Thursday, November 10, 2016, Starts at 11:00 a.m.
• Friday, November 11, 2016, Starts at 11:00 a.m.
• Saturday, November 12, 2016, Starts at 11:00 a.m.
• Thursday, November 17, 2016, Starts at 11:00 a.m.
• Friday, November 18, 2016, Starts at 11:00 a.m.
• Saturday, November 19, 2016, Starts at 11:00 a.m.

Paid tickets required
$20 (free for members); includes Museum admission

Talk about art with the people who make it.

• The Rose Susan Hirschhorn Behrend Lecture: Joseph Kosuth
  
  • Friday, October 7, 2016, Starts at 6:30 p.m.
    Joseph Kosuth in conversation with Francis Naumann (curator and art dealer).
• Ranjani Shettar
  
  • Friday, October 14, 2016, Starts at 7:30 p.m.
    ​Inspired by nature and her life in India, Shettar uses an incredible range of materials to create enchanting sculptural installations.
    Support for this program is provided by The Pamela and Ajay Raju Foundation.
• Art As Activism
  
  • Wednesday, October 26, 2016, Starts at 6:30 p.m.
    Independent curator Pedro Alonzo moderates a panel on artists who explore politics and activism through street art, printmaking, and public art. Panelists include artists Marcos Ramírez Erre (Tijuana/San Diego), Rosario Martínez Llaguno of Lapiztola (Oaxaca), and Joe Boruchow (Philadelphia).
    In collaboration with the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program
• José Parlá
  
  • Wednesday, November 9, 2016, Starts at 6:30 p.m.
    ​In a conversation with Jane Golden, founder of the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, Parlá discusses what draws him to mural painting.
    In collaboration with the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program.

Reservations required
Free after admission

Collab and the Center for Architecture and Design, as part of DesignPhiladelphia, invite you to meet National Design Award recipient Stephen Burks for an illustrated presentation of his work at the Museum, followed by a Collab members-only reception.

Paid tickets required
$20 (free for members); includes Museum admission

Venice's increasingly imperiled fate has become emblematic of the future of historic cities everywhere as it capitulates to tourists and those who profit from them. Art historian Salvatore Settis argues that "hit and run" tourists are turning landmark urban setting into malls and theme parks and warns that Western civilization's prime achievements face ruin from mass tourism and global cultural homogenization.

Paid tickets required
$66 ($54 members; free for Patron members and up) Includes museum admission

Immerse yourself in themes of revolution, place, and identity. Enjoy a curator-led tour of the exhibition Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism, 1910–1950 followed by a dynamic trolley tour of Mexican- and Latino-inspired murals with artist Michelle Angela Ortiz and a Mural Arts tour guide.

• Thursday, November 3, 2016, 9:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
• Sunday, November 6, 2016, 9:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Paid tickets required
$80 ($65 members); price includes Museum admission and lunch

Architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe assembled a team of artisans in 1808 to execute his designs for the house and furniture of Philadelphia merchant William Waln and his wife Mary. The result was one of Chestnut Street's most conspicuous landmarks: a large house on a prominent corner lot with two small pavilions in front. Inside, drawing rooms painted in "flat Etruscan color, giving only outline on a rich ground" and a set of sumptuously painted and gilded furniture. Join an exciting roster of speakers who will share new scholarship and insights on Latrobe's design for the Walns' house and furniture, outlining its profound impact American on classical architecture and furniture.

Paid tickets required
$125 ($100 members); includes Museum admission

Gallery-based interactive art history courses.

• A Journey through 19th-Century France
  
  • Wednesday, September 28, 2016, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
    • Thursday, September 29, 2016, 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
      • Wednesday, October 5, 2016, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
        • Thursday, October 6, 2016, 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
          • Thursday, October 13, 2016, 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
            • Wednesday, October 19, 2016, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
              This participatory gallery-based course explores French art during the tumultuous and revolutionary nineteenth century, beginning with Neoclassicism and ending with Post-Impressionism. We will discuss the dramatic shifts in style and subject matter of art in this period and the social and political contexts from which it emerged.
              Instructor: Jenni Drozdek, Manager of Adult Learning
          • Exploring Abstraction
            
            • Wednesday, November 2, 2016, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
              • Thursday, November 3, 2016, 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
                • Wednesday, November 9, 2016, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
                  • Thursday, November 10, 2016, 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
                    • Wednesday, November 16, 2016, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
                      • Thursday, November 17, 2016, 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
                        Picasso. Mondrian. Kandinsky. Take an in-depth look at the varied ways artists utilized abstraction throughout the history of art in this interactive and participatory class. Meetings will be discussion based and take place in the galleries.
                        Instructor: Jenevieve DeLosSantos, Coordinator of Academic Programs

Paid tickets required
$125 ($100 members); includes Museum admission

​ Discover surprising thematic and stylistic connections between art and film. This course explores the thematic, visual and historical parallels between major moments in film and objects from the museum's collection. Topics include early cinema, science fiction, auteur theory in Alfred Hitchcock's films, and film techniques. Class sessions are held both in the classroom and in the galleries. The Art of Film I is not a prerequisite to take this course.

• Wednesday, October 5, 2016, 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. (CANCELED)
• Wednesday, October 19, 2016, 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. (CANCELED)
• Wednesday, October 26, 2016, 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. (CANCELED)
• Wednesday, November 2, 2016, 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. (CANCELED)

Paid tickets required
$125 ($100 members); includes Museum admission

​ Delve into the time when Hollywood was more unbridled, salacious, and subversive than any other: the pre-Code era. The “Code” refers to the studios’ Production Code Administration (PCA), a self-censorship body that was in place from 1930-1968.

• Wednesday, October 5, 2016, 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
• Wednesday, October 19, 2016, 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
• Wednesday, October 26, 2016, 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
• Wednesday, November 2, 2016, 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Practice your poses with Dhyana Yoga. Class size varies.