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05/16/2026

This week’s is a special highlight from our very own City of Brotherly Love, and its history as a sports loving, Phanatical 😉 community.

With the opening of the 2026 WNBA season, PHL local graphic designer and artist Lydia Victor celebrated with the debut of her new zine, Girls Will Shoot Hoops: A Story About the Philadelphia Fox. This creatively stitched together homage to the sports team— which played 10 games in its inaugural 1979 season before dissolving for financial reasons— features a historical exploration of the team’s short history, including interviews with the former coach and players.

Victor tells the story of the Philadelphia Fox through this design-forward zine, reminding us that the history of women’s sports, while fraught, seems to be on an incline towards exciting new horizons.

📸 Photo courtesy of the Philadelphia Inquirer.

05/08/2026

It’s , and we’re celebrating by sharing some of the art educators who have made a difference not only in the landscape of fine art, but in the lives of art students across decades.

Solomon “Sol” LeWitt (1928-2007) was a conceptual artist worked across ettectively all mediums, though he was most well known for his vibrant drawings and
“structures”, or sculptures (though he preferred to call them the former).

LeWitt started taking art classes at a young age and, after getting his BFA from Syracuse University, spent part of his young adulthood in Europe, where he was exposed to Old Master paintings. The latter half of his younger years, however, were spent in the military; he was drafted in the Korean War and was stationed in California, Japan, and eventually Korea.

Throughout the 1960s and 70s, Lewitt taught at schools across New York City, including the Museum of Modern Art’s art school, Cooper Union, the School of Visual Arts, and NYU.

We’re so lucky to have brilliant artists that are willing to share their gifts with forthcoming painters, artists, and makers!

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🔹Portrait of Sol Lewitt, Wikimedia Commons

▫️Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #1111 Circle with broken bands of color (excerpt), 2003. Courtesy of RISD Museum.

🔸Sol LeWitt, Distorted Cubes, Plate #04, 2001.
New Britain Museum of American Art © Estate of Sol LeWitt 2025

05/06/2026

It’s , and to celebrate, we’re rounding up some of the incredible art educators who have imprinted themselves not only on the world of fine arts, but on the hundreds of students they took under their mentorship.

Charles White (1918–1979) was a dedicated educator and influential artist who mentored artists across generations. While he began his teaching career as a professor of fine arts at Dillard University, and eventually as a teacher in the New York public school system, he was most notably the first African-American faculty member at the Otis Art Institute (1965–1979).

His teaching style emphasized craft, of course, but also social justice; he encouraged his students to use their art as a means of sharing their political voice. His art did exactly that.

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🎨 Portrait of Charles White, via Amsterdam News

🖌️Charles White, Our Land, 1951. Private Collection. © The Charles White Archives. Photo: Gavin Ashworth. Courtesy Jonathan Boos.

05/05/2026

It’s , and to celebrate, we’re highlighting one artist everyday who gave us their art form, of course, but who also gave their communities the gift of education. Throughout history, women especially have made their name in the arts world while balancing a teaching profession; a reminder of just how hard these talented individuals had to work to be a force in the world of fine art.

Anni Albers (1899-1994) was a German-Jewish visual artist and printmaker, perhaps best known for her work in textiles. She began her career as an art educator at Bauhaus in Germany before its forced closure in 1932, where she taught design theory to their resident and student weavers. Anni and her husband Josef Albers fled to the U.S. after the political pressures of N**i Germany began to feel increasingly dangerous. Here, she taught at Black Mountain College in North Carolina for nearly 16 years, eventually becoming head of the weaving department. As her legacy as an artist continued to grow, she stepped away from Black Mountain and taught private lessons from her home; she also guest lectured at Yale, taught one-off workshops across the country, and took residency at MoMa, where she taught textiles.

It is because of incredible teachers and mentors like Anni Albers that we have such a vibrant landscape of artists in the U.S. and globally. Thank you to all the teachers, professors, and educators out there; your work does not go unseen!

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🌟Anni Albers with textile samples in her home in New Haven, Connecticut, ca. 1950

💛 Anni Albers, c. 1925, “Design 11/25 for Jaquard”

04/25/2026

Commissioned in 1589 by the famous Medici family of Italy, Palazzo Vecchio, a massive Neptune fountain that sits at the center of Tuscany’s capital, has stood for hundreds of years with only occasional wear-and-tear warranting repairs. That is…. until tourists happen.

A 28-year-old bride-to-be from an undisclosed country mounted the Neptune statue in the hopes of capturing a photo— she wanted to grope the Neptune, a “humorous” moment of bachelorette fun that resulted in over $5,000 in damages.

In climbing the statue, the woman damaged the legs of the two horses on Neptune’s chariot as well as the frieze she used to support herself.

This is one of the many tourist-induced repairs that has come from overtourism and loss of control over massive crowds.

Moral of the story? No matter where you go, respect art!

04/21/2026

For some artists, the work is never really over.

After a storm toppled the ‘Giant Chip’ statue, a beloved fixture of the Lehigh Valley that lives outside a popular ice cream shop, roadside artist Mark Kline knew exactly what to do; a repair of massive proportions was in order, with a banner beside Giant Chip reading “Please Send: Duct Tape & Hope”.

For locals, Giant Chip is something of a Lehigh Lady Liberty. He’s one of my many statues worked on by Kline, and his design was originally molded from a roadside “muffler man” used for a car business.

Kline works on repairs of massive proportions somewhat regularly; he noted having to make a new head for one of these after a tornado took down a statue in Missouri. Like many a great artist, Kline’s work may go overlooked, and he serves as a reminder that, to be a great artist, you don’t necessarily need gallery shows— just a rallying of locals to show just how much your art means to a community.

Courtesy of the Morning Call

📸: Monica Cabrera

04/17/2026

Greetings, Earthlings! Have you seen the out of this world photos from ARTemis II?

Armed with professional cameras for documentation, the astronauts up in space have been capturing their experience with beauty and grace, highlighting the truly unbelievable views from up in space. In case you’ve missed it, we’ve rounded up a few of their best works to-date!

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🌕 Astronaut Christina Koch on April 2, 2026. NASA.

🌖 Solar eclipse from space on April 6, 2026. NASA.

🌗 Earth from the Moon on April 6, 2026. NASA.

04/08/2026

In this week’s Art News, we’re highlighting a new exhibition at MoMA that celebrates the man best known for his…. Controversial Toilet?

The retrospective exhibition of Marcel Duchamp, the Dada artist responsible for “The Fountain”, will be hosted at the MoMA in collaboration with the Philadelphia Museum of Art and will feature some of the artist’s best known works, including his collection of “Readymades”, or works designed from existing items.

This will be the first US retrospective of the artist in over 50 years.

📸: Marcel Duchamp with The Large Glass (1915–1923), Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1965

04/01/2026

It may be April Fool's Day, but all jokes aside, it's also the first day of Arab American Heritage Month!

This week, we're celebrating the sundry of incredible artists who identify with an Arab American heritage.

🎨 Helen Zughaib’s “Abaya Mondrian” (“Changing Perceptions”), gouache on paper. (© HELEN ZUGHAIB)

03/25/2026

It's , and while we recognize the importance and value of the women in fine arts, that value does not always translate in modern art sales.

In an article by CNN in November of 2025, Lianne Kolirin investigates the cost disparities between art made by women and art made by men. Even with artists like Frida Kahlo and Georgia O'Keeffe, who have become (nearly) household names, the valuation of their work pales in comparison to their male counterparts. Much as there is a wage gap, more men-owned than women-owned businesses, and disparities between the quality of men's and women's healthcare, there is also a price gap between the cost of art made by women and art made by men.

In conversation with Kolirin, Renée B. Adams, a professor of economics and gender bias researcher, Adams noted that this gap has nothing to do with the quality of the art. “The discount in art prices is not driven by merit, but by factors related to societal perceptions of women. It has nothing to do with whether the painting is good or bad.”

The first step in ending this gap? Acknowledging it. Advocating for equitable pricing at auction. Refusing to let another great woman in the arts go undervalued because of their gender.

To read the full article, head to the link below!

📸: Marlene Dumas' "Miss January". Photographed by Anthony Behar/Sipa USA/AP. Courtesy of CNN.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/18/style/why-women-art-less-valuable-scli-intl

03/20/2026

It’s , and to celebrate we’re highlighting some of the incredible women who have made a lasting impact— in history and the present tense— in the arts community.

Elizabeth Catlett, born as Alice Elizabeth Catlett, was an American and Mexican sculptor and graphic artist who was known for her depictions of the 20th century Black-American experience, often portraying women and motherhood in the Modernist mix of abstract and figurative expression.

The child of formerly enslaved parents, Catlett struggled to find opportunities for her to practice as a black woman artist. However, she devoted her career to teaching, and eventually received a fellowship that allowed her to travel to Mexico City and establish herself as an artist.

Despite having her admissions revoked from Carnegie Institute of Technology after the administration discovered she was black, despite being told she couldn’t stay in dormitories when accepted to University of Iowa’s graduate program; despite facing years of rejection and hardship, Elizabeth Catlett became the first woman of African-American descent to receive her MFA from U of I, and developed a strong career and reputation in the world of art and sculpture. Her career spanned over half a century, and her legacy is one of resilience, dedication, and brilliance.

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🖼️ Photo of Elizabeth Catlett taken by Charles Storer, courtesy of the June Gallery

🎨 Elizabeth Catlett, Survivor (1983). Courtesy of the Johnson Collection

⭐️Elizabeth Catlett, Mother and Child (1993). Courtesy of the Studio Museum in Harlem.

🖌️ Elizabeth Catlett, War Worker (1943). Courtesy of the Johnson Collection

🌟 Elizabeth Catlett, Mother and Child (1956). Courtesy of MoMA.

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