Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Obituariesnews
David Lynch, artist and film-maker who portrayed America’s dark side with surreal humour and violence, has died, aged 78
Lynch trained as a painter before becoming a successful film-maker and ultimately returning to visual art in recent decades
Art schoolsnews
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts to end its degree-granting programmes
The institution, which began offering BFAs and MFAs in 2013, will wind down those programmes next year
Philadelphianews
Hundreds call for reckoning with American artist Thomas Eakins’s troubling legacy
Eakins, who is celebrated far and wide in his native Philadelphia, was embroiled in controversy during his lifetime and made disturbing photos of young girls
Reopeningsnews
Five Philadelphia museums jointly announce that they are reopening this month
Institutions act on go-ahead from the city after their second closing in November