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Through Nov. 17

Museum show or sale promo?
A dealer's involvement in the Woodmere's Martha Walter show is remarkably heavy.

  


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   Auction will boost academy's American art goals
The academy will offer 34 European paintings at auction. The sales represent a concerted effort to purge its collection of remaining European works in a way that strengthens its American holdings.


  
Through Nov. 10


   A tragic painter tried on styles like hats
Suffering for art is supposed to be noble. It isn't supposed to kill you. But it killed the painter Middleton Manigault.


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   At the Art Museum: A display of generosity
Recent gifts have enriched the collections. An exhibition displays many of the treasures.


THEATER EXHIBITION  
Through Jan. 5

Shakespeare's reputation: From bad to Bard
"Making Shakespeare," at the Rosenbach Museum, chronicles the slow rise of Shakespeare from posthumous near-oblivion to the early 19th century, when the world came under the spell of Will power.

  


  
Through Jan. 12

Transcending style, and painting what he felt
Whatever you might want a painting to be, from realist to symbolist to abstract, you can find your ideal in the work of Edwin Dickinson, who is the subject of a retrospective at PAFA.

  


  
Through Dec. 15

   Exhibit gathers many questions about collecting
By bringing together four collections of markedly different character, Pictures, Patents, Monkeys and More looks at the differences between institutional and individual collecting.


  
Through Nov. 10


   Japanese prints with expressionist exuberance
Munakata Shiko was a nearsighted Japanese printmaker who shattered stereotypes during his 50-year career. He created consistent, pronounced visual excitement of a kind not usually associated with the traditional art of his country.


  
Ongoing

Can subliminal be sublime?
Warning to all Philadelphians: Stealth art is among us, thanks to the Imprint project. It is disguised as advertising billboards, lurking in bus shelters, and printed on paper coffee cups.


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IN GALLERIES  
A weekly review of gallery shows

New York tribute full of wonder, not woe
Although "A Tribute to New York" at the Perkins Center for the Arts was conceived as a response to the catastrophic events of Sept. 11, 2001, relatively few works in the exhibition refer to the World Trade Center.

  



IN NEW YORK  

MoSex and the city
That's "Mo" as in "Museum of," and "city" as in New York. The ex-Philadelphian founder intends the explicit exhibits to be more scholarly than steamy.

  

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