“Am I Not a Man and a Brother?”: Antislavery Art in the PMA’s Collection

A few months ago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art added two small yet vital items to its collection: a ceramic medallion (fig. 1) fabricated at the Wedgwood pottery in Etruria, in Staffordshire, England, in the late eighteenth century; and a miniature painting on ivory (fig. 2) likely created in Connecticut around the same time or…

Get to Know Batikh Batikh

An interview with Batikh Batikh, a SWANA (Southwest Asian, North African), femme, queer artist collective based in Philadelphia.  I spent the day at their exhibition Echoes / أصداء, by member Kenza Bousseloub, to get to know them better. James Izlar: So I wanted to start off with Batikh Batikh. How did you guys meet? How…

4 by 4 by 1: Four Immigrants, Four Stories, One Museum

Twenty years ago, when I first arrived in the United States as an international student, I took my first steps on American soil in Philadelphia. And what did I do as soon as I arrived? I made a beeline for the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Those iconic steps, made famous by the film Rocky, became…

The Proof is the Portrait

Looking closely at “Portrait of Elizabeth Brown Montier,” an 1840 portrait of a free Black woman from Philadelphia.

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