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WHYY By Redesigned Lenfest Hall at the Philadelphia Museum of Art West Entrance opens onto a soaring event space and new galleries. (Emma Lee/WHYY) For decades, the Philadelphia Museum of Art has known it needed more space. Recently, architect Frank Gehry helped them realize they had the space they needed the whole time. About 90,000 square feet has been carved out of what used to be staff office space and a vaulted corridor running underground for 640 feet, spanning the entire footprint of the museum, unused for nearly 50 years. This weekend, the museum unveils its “Core Project,” a majo...

Philadelphia Museum of Art Opens New Galleries and Public Spaces in Major Renovation May 06, 2021 20:46 Subject Line Please provide verification code Email is invalid Lenfest Hall, facing East toward the Forum (below), the Great Stair Hall (above) - On view- Generation, 1988, Martin Puryear - Steve Hall © Hall + Merrick Photographers, 2021 Philadelphia Museum of Art On May 7, 2021, the Philadelphia Museum of Art unveils to the public the culmination of two decades of planning, design, and construction: a project by the celebrated architect Frank Gehry that represents a major milestone in t...

The Williams Forum at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, looking west into Lenfest Hall from the ground level. The architect Frank Gehry demolished a former auditorium and replaced it with a dramatic 40ft-high open space Photo: Elizabeth Leitzell; courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art Enlisting the creativity of Frank Gehry, the Philadelphia Museum of Art has completed a $233m renovation and reorganisation of the lower interior spaces at the heart of its landmarked 1928 Beaux-Arts building. The latest phase of a master plan for improvements that was approved by the museu...

Here is Philadelphia and the landscape of America as a marching line of geometric forms, full of color, full of darkness, hard-edged, freighted with anger and possibility. And here is Philadelphia as a place that does not exist, except within the imagination of the artist. And here is Philadelphia as ruins, as circles of energy reconstituted by memory, as a haven for the down-and-out, as ...

The Rundown | March 4-11 The city is slowly starting to reopen, and we’ve found some events that actually take place outside of your living room. You remember, right? Actually going places and seeing things in-person? But, be sure to double check with the venue to make sure nothing has changed before venturing out. Drive-In at the Navy Yard The Philadelphia Film Society has announced that the PFS Drive-In at the Navy Yard will reopen on March 5 with the highly-anticipated Disney animated feature film “Raya and the Last Dragon.” Additionally, in the coming weeks PFS will continue their f...