In a series of recordings, mixed-media artist Dindga McCannon talks about life, work, and naming her plants
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The Woman Behind “Woman in Blue”
Art historian Ellen McBreen ponders the role of Henri Matisse’s muse, model, and collaborator, Lydia Delectorskaya, in this iconic painting
Kukuli Velarde Is Creating Her Own Canon
The Philly-based Peruvian artist on the beliefs and choices that have shaped her career
What Can a Textile Fragment Tell Us?
Getting up close and personal with centuries-old Middle Eastern textiles and the mysteries they hold
From “Unknown” to Edlinger
A mystery painting finally gets an attribution—and a major makeover for its frame
The Ghosts of Route 23
A photographic journey to unearth the relics of a defunct streetcar that once ran the length of the city
Party at Lansdowne House
The glitzy, star-studded past of one of the museum’s most glamorous period rooms
Clarence Lawson’s Prayer for Emmett Till
How the sculptor created an indelible memorial to a young man and a symbol of the fight for Civil Rights
The Hands of My Grandmothers
What is it like to encounter a work of great ceremonial value and personal meaning in a museum?
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