Tag: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America

This partnership between art institutions of disparate missions and unequal standing and resources has produced a notable exhibition, in which 20 cross-generational artists address the the state of democratic values in the US
Joan Semmel – interview: ‘I was simply not excluding those who did not conform to any preconceived notions of beauty’

With a retrospective at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts covering 60 years of work, from her early abstracts to her nude self-portraits, Semmel looks back at her career and explains why she chooses to paint her own body…