en-usCopyright 2013 Philadelphia Museum of ArtThu, 23 May 2013 02:30:10 -0500The Philadelphia Museum of Art is among the largest and most important art museums in the United States.http://www.philamuseum.org/March 3, 2013 - June 9, 2013: The power of self-taught artistic talent, the drive of the human spirit to create, and the wonders of highly original inner worlds revealed. These are just a few of the reasons why the Philadelphia Museum of Art is proud to debut the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection, a promised gift to the Museum of more than two hundred works by self-taught artists.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/768.htmlMarch 3, 2013March 16, 2013 - July 7, 2013: The Golfers (1847), an iconic work by Scottish painter Charles Lees (1800–1880), is the centerpiece of The Art of Golf, an exhibition celebrating what has been called “a game of considerable passion” on the occasion of the U.S. Open Championships, which will be played in June at the Merion Golf Club, in Ardmore, Pennsylvania.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/782.htmlMarch 16, 2013May 4, 2013 - November 17, 2013: Multimedia artist Candy Coated blends nineteenth- and twentieth-century children's fancy dress costumes from the Museum's collection into a rich wonderland of colorful vinyl decals, ceramic wall gems, hand-screened fabrics, and wallpapers in the Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building's Joan Spain Gallery.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/785.htmlMay 4, 2013April 14, 2012 - 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.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/771.htmlApril 14, 2012July 28, 2012 - July 14, 2013: Sean Scully’s paintings speak eloquently to the history of abstraction, engaging in a passionate conversation with the legacies of Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism while offering new models for the continuing role of nonfigurative art.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/769.htmlJuly 28, 2012May 11, 2013 - August 11, 2013: Photogravure, a printmaking process that combines elements of aquatint etching and photography, was a prized medium among artist-photographers of the late nineteenth century, who labored over their hand-pulled prints.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/789.htmlMay 11, 2013May 11, 2013 - August 11, 2013: Starting from Scratch showcases more than seventy of the Museum’s finest etchings, demonstrating the ways in which some of history’s most famous artists have embraced the medium to create original and dynamic works of art.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/790.htmlMay 11, 2013April 27, 2013 - 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.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/792.htmlApril 27, 2013December 21, 2012 - December 1, 2013: All Dressed Up: Fashions for Children and Their Families focuses on clothing from the late eighteenth through mid-twentieth centuries, comparing and contrasting adults' apparel with children’s smaller styles.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/786.htmlDecember 21, 2012