Exhibitions

American Duet: Jazz and Abstract Art

Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art 15 Nov 2024 - 4 Jan 2026 Jazz transcends the boundaries of music. Its spontaneous, vibrant form is built on decades of adaptation. Evolving from blues and ragtime in the African American community, jazz was born of Creole and African traditions in New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th century. A uniquely American genre, jazz maintains the... Read more

Mavis Pusey: Mobile Images

ICA Philadelphia 13 Jul - 7 Dec 2025 This exhibition marks the first major museum survey dedicated to the work and life of Jamaican-born artist Mavis Pusey (1928-2019), featuring over 60 artworks from her prolific 50-year career. An important figure in geometric abstraction, Pusey created rich abstract paintings and works on paper that reflect her wide-ranging engagement with... Read more

Tending to the Past

Lehigh University Fairchild Martindale Library 26 Sep 2025 - 27 Mar 2026 Drawn entirely from the Petrucci Family Foundation’s collection, Tending to the Past brings together 33 works by 22 Black American artists that engage the persistent presence of history in Black cultural memory and futures. These pieces prompt us to consider the possibilities of preservation as an act of memory work,... Read more

Long Term Loan: American Galleries

Allentown Art Museum 27 Feb 2025 - 15 Feb 2026 Explore over 150 works of American art—and their connections to both local and global artistic communities—through our American galleries. This ongoing exhibition investigates how trade, colonization, and the migration of people and ideas have shaped our nation’s culture. Recent acquisitions, including contemporary art and works by African American, Latinx, Latin... Read more

Other Octaves: Curated by Jennie C. Jones

Pulitzer Foundation 5 Sep 2025 - 1 Feb 2026 Jennie C. Jones explores the intersections between the visual and the acoustic with paintings, sculptures, drawings, and installations. The Pulitzer Arts Foundation will present two concurrent exhibitions in collaboration with Jones—one of the artist’s work and one curated by her. A Line When Broken Begins Again will include a selection... Read more

Margaret Gest: Painting at the Threshold in 20th-c. Philadelphia

France M. Maguire Art Museum 18 Sep - 14 Dec 2025 This groundbreaking exhibition is the first major solo show on Margaret Ralston Gest (1900-1965), an artist who exhibited with the Philadelphia Ten, a group of professional women artists who organized regional and national exhibitions from 1917 to 1945. Featuring approximately 50 artworks, the show will bring together for the first... Read more

Black Artists in America: From the Bicentennial to September 11

Crocker Art Museum 5 Oct 2025 - 11 Jan 2026 Black Artists in America: From the Bicentennial to September 11 is an exhibition exploring works by Black artists made during the transitional moment from the late 1970s to the dawn of the 21st century. The exhibition picks up where the Dixon Gallery and Gardens' 2023 exhibition Black Artists in America:... Read more