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Three months after shutting down, Philadelphia’s University of the Arts files for bankruptcy
The university’s leaders still face a host of legal disputes, but the filing may allow them to liquidate real estate holdings that have been valued at $87m
State officials will investigate sudden closure of Philadelphia’s University of the Arts as 600 workers are laid off
The Pennsylvania attorney general’s office is examining the circumstances surrounding the renowned school’s closure, and Philadelphia’s city council is planning hearings
Philadelphia's University of the Arts suddenly closes, prompting president's resignation, student protests and a class action lawsuit
The institution gave just week's notice before its 7 June closure, causing confusion and upheaval throughout the community
New arts complex to open in Philadelphia with help from Theaster Gates
The collectors Michael Forman and Jennifer Rice will both house their extensive collection there and engage the working-class neighbourhood where they bought almost a whole city block
Faculty at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts reach tentative contract agreement, averting strike
The potential deal between the union and administration came just hours before a vote to authorise a strike
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
Unionised University of the Arts faculty prepare to strike after more than two years of contract negotiations
Professors at the Philadelphia art school have been ramping up their attempts to move negotiations forward
Philadelphia's historic First Bank building to become museum thanks to $22.2m in federal funding
After being closed to the public for 50 years, the historic institution is getting an interactive update
Museum in Philadelphia under fire for hosting far-right group's event
The Museum of the American Revolution is facing pushback for its decision to rent some of its spaces to Moms For Liberty, an ultra-conservative non-profit
Checkmate for public art installation of giant game pieces in Philadelphia
“Your Move”, a sculptural installation in central Philadelphia, will be permanently removed after it was deemed too costly to maintain
Man fingered in Philadelphia theft of thumb from terracotta warrior will plead guilty
A man whose drunken antics at a 2017 ugly sweater party at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia got him in hot water with the FBI, is expected to take a plea bargain in order to avoid jail time
Home of Henry Ossawa Tanner—one of the first internationally renowned African American artists—faces demolition
A local grassroots group has begun a fundraising campaign to save a piece of local Black history in North Philadelphia
A first glimpse of Philadelphia's future Alexander Calder sanctuary
The $70m centre will feature indoor and outdoor spaces with rotating exhibitions of Calder’s work
Art history as a sitcom: Jayson Musson serves up satire and nostalgia in Philadelphia exhibition
The main film in Musson's Fabric Workshop and Museum exhibition explains art to a cynical puppet, with inspiration from classic PBS children’s programmes and Joseph Beuys
Uproar as Philadelphia excludes Black artists from commission process for statue of abolitionist Harriet Tubman
The $500,000 commission was awarded to a white artist whose work had previously been installed near the same site earlier this year
Staff, faculty and students at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts hold rally amid union vote and negotiations
The rally comes as faculty who have already unionised seek to secure their first contract and staff members undertake a vote to form their own union
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
Seeing double: huge Jasper Johns retrospective opens in two cities, 100 miles apart
Simultaneous shows in New York and Philadelphia cover the artist's seven-decade career and include more than 550 works in total
Former model Suzanne Valadon turns the tables with her own bold portraits
Exhibition at the Barnes Foundation looks at how the artist who had modelled for Renoir and Toulouse-Lautrec brought a new perspective to paintings of women
Report condemns two University of Pennsylvania anthropologists for ‘gross insensitivity’ in handling of human remains from a 1985 police attack
Investigation recommends a review of Penn Museum practices while clearing the two individuals of unethical conduct
'Intelligent design': Frank Gehry's surprisingly subtle $233m makeover of Philadelphia Museum of Art revealed
Architect's Core Project expansion creates 90,000 sq. ft of new galleries and reimagined public spaces at heart of 1928 landmark
Curator Meg Onli wins inaugural prize aimed at advancing racial equity in the arts
The $75,000 Figure Skating Prize will be awarded annually to a Black artist, curator or scholar
Seeing Chaïm Soutine through the eyes of Willem de Kooning
A side-by-side show at the Barnes Foundation brings together two Expressionist greats who fused the figurative and the abstract in their work
‘If they don’t have a story behind them, what’s the use?’ Elijah Pierce's woodcarvings portray America in the 20th century
Images of the Kennedys, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Watergate scandal go on show at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia
A 'sanctuary' devoted to Alexander Calder will open in Philadelphia
The non-profit space, likened to the Rothko Chapel in Houston, will offer visitors a place to introspectively connect with Calder's work
Amy Sherald, Michelle Obama's portraitist, unveils massive mural in Philadelphia
The six-storey 2,400 sq ft painting depicts an empowered black teenager
'Selling everything but the wallpaper'—auction reopens old wounds over Barnes legacy
Barnes Foundation’s sale of founder’s items follows nominal payment for lease of valuable land
The Confederate flag of surrender rises in Philadelphia
The artist Sonya Clark aims to make the symbol of truce better known than the more pervasive battle flag
Philadelphia Museum of Art explores African-American art from Civil War to civil rights
The exhibition unites 75 works under four historical sections from the early 19th century to the present
Statues by the elder Calder get laser treatment
These conservation efforts removed the many years of corrosion built up on the works