“Great and Mighty Things”
Outsider Art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection
March 3–June 9, 2013
Dorrance Galleries

This spring, more than two hundred objects from one of the United States’ finest private collections of works by American self-taught artists will be on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. “Great and Mighty Things”: Outsider Art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection willpresent drawings, paintings, sculptures, and other objects by twenty-seven artists who worked outside the boundaries of the mainstream modern and contemporary art world.

“For over three decades, Jill and Sheld...

Dancing around the Bride:
Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg, and Duchamp
 October 30, 2012–January 21, 2013

Examining one of the most important chapters in the history of contemporary art, Dancing around the Bride is the first exhibition to explore Marcel Duchamp’s American legacy by tracing his interactions and exchanges with four postwar masters: composer John Cage, choreographer Merce Cunningham, and visual artists Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition will feature over one hundred works, including more than sixty by Johns and Rauschenberg and more than forty by Duchamp, as well as prerecorded and live music by John Cage and live performa...

Exhibition explores this classical theme and its place in the development of modern art
(June 20–September 3, 2012)

Philadelphia, PA (April 2012)—The dream of Arcadia, a mythic place of beauty and repose where humankind lives in harmony with nature, has held an enduring appeal for artists since antiquity. With its promise of calm, simplicity, and order, it has served as both an inspiration—the sought for, but never fulfilled ideal of a paradise here on earth—and as an image of refuge, a place that is distant and seemingly protected from the vicissitudes of life.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a time of sweeping and often disrup...