Photographed by Marc Lecureuil
Shepard Fairley mural in Fishtown in conjunction with Philadelphia Mural Arts
The Barnes Foundation
To house the late Albert Barnes’ treasured art holdings, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects have designed a highly anticipated building that duplicates Barnes’ original gallery layout, while adding classrooms and an interior garden space. The new building allows the collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and early Modern paintings—including 181 Renoirs, 69 Cézannes, 59 Matisses and 46 Picassos—and African sculpture to be viewed as intended. The 93,000-square-foot building also includes a changing exhibition gallery, conservation lab, auditorium, library, café and gift shop.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art
Anchoring the Parkway, the third-largest art museum in the country houses 300,000 works spanning 2,000 years. Among the impressive holdings in Renaissance, American, Impressionist and Modern art: a Rogier van der Weyden altarpiece, a large Bathers by Cézanne, a room devoted to Philadelphia’s own Thomas Eakins and Marcel Duchamp’s mixed-media Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors (The Large Glass).
The Navy Yard
Located on over seven miles of water frontage along the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers, the Navy Yard is a 1,200-acre, dynamic urban development, offering the Philadelphia region a unique and centrally-located waterfront business campus committed to smart energy innovation and sustainability. Combining a beautiful waterfront setting with mature landscaping and century-old buildings, the Navy Yard is becoming a Philadelphia hub for work and leisure activities.
General Tadeusz Kosciuszko statue by artist Marian Konieczny,(1977)
American Street Showroom – Made in Philly furnishings
American Street Showroom is housed in a former PECO electric company substation built in 1921. The 11,000 square foot space has been converted for the purpose of bringing together original products, artwork, artifacts, and one-of-a-kind objects for design enthusiasts. The showroom features works designed, fabricated, collected, and curated by three Philadelphia-based but nationally recognized design driven fabricators: Amuneal, Groundwork Home, and Lostine.
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Barnes Foundation - Jan Rothschild, Senior VP for Communications
Fishtown neighborhood developer Roland Kassis
Roland is the dominant figure in the re-development of Frankford Avenue and Girard Avenue. The most ambitious part of the plan is a hotel, scheduled for a 2017 opening.
The Navy Yard
The Philadelphia Museum of Art - The Thomas Eakins Room
Philadelphia's Magic Gardens
Isaiah Zagar is the renowned mosaic artist of the South Street area. He has decorated more than 90 walls with his colorful, whimsical artwork. His masterpiece, though, is Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens, an indoor/outdoor, walk-through fantasy space of shattered mirrors, ceramic tile, cracked crockery and detached bicycle wheels.Magic Garden
Amuneal Manufacturing Corp
American Street Showroom – Made in Philly furnishings
The Navy Yard is home to more than 11,000 employees and 143 companies in the office, industrial/manufacturing, and research and development sectors, occupying 6.5 million square feet of real estate in a mix of historic buildings and new high-performance and LEED® certified construction.
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Moderne Gallery
Moderne Gallery has been internationally renowned for its high quality, vintage 20th Century furniture, lighting and accessories since 1984. More than 20,000 square feet on five floors of its historic building in the Old City section of Philadelphia are filled with an extensive inventory — from French and American Art Deco and French 1940’s —1950’s to exclusive Wharton Esherick pieces. In 1985 Moderne Gallery was the first gallery to promote the work of George Nakashima and still has the finest and largest selection in the US of his 1940’s-1980’s designs.
The Barnes Foundation
Amuneal Manufacturing Corp
Moderne Gallery
Magic Carpet by Philadelphia-based artist Candy Coated - Commissioned by the Association for Public Art
Fishtown neighborhood
The Barnes Foundation
Fishtown neighborhood
The Philadelphia Museum of Art - The Thomas Eakins Room
The Center for Art in Wood
The Center for Art in Wood celebrates one of the world’s most ancient artistic mediums by providing residencies for international artists. One day a year, visitors can see the residents in action, and the work is only on display for two to three months out of the year. People can also check out changing exhibitions of contemporary artwork, a permanent collection of 1,000 pieces and Saturday hands-on family workshops.
The Navy Yard
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Philadelphia City Hall
Fishtown neighborhood
The Navy Yard
Moderne Gallery owner Bob Aibel
The Barnes Foundation
The Philadelphia Museum of Art