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Young Professionals Night is back, and it's All About Love! ✨ Get ready to mix and mingle with the emerging creatives and young professionals who fuel Philly’s vibrant cultural scene. Whether you’re looking to explore our galleries, network with fellow art lovers, or dance the night away, #BarnesYP All About Love is the place to be. The theme honors our latest special exhibition, Mickalene Thomas: All About Love. See 40-plus works by pioneering artist Mickalene Thomas, and experience her dynamic vision of beauty, love, desire, and community. The Barnes's presentation of All About Love is curated by Renée Mussai. Enjoy a complimentary champagne toast starting at 7pm, music and spinning by DJ Val Fleury, an interactive collection tour: the Barnes After Dark Scavenger Hunt, tarot reading with Papa Boko and Danielle Williams, a photo booth by Pop Up Polaroid, collage and cyanotype art making with Qiaira Riley and Yannick Lowery, and a cash bar featuring beer, wine, themed cocktails, and light fare with a treat to finish the night! 🎨 Art making and activities end at 10pm 🎶 Music ends at 11pm 🎟 Get your tickets ➡ https://bit.ly/4h55lSf #BarnesFoundation #YoungProfessionals #Networking #Collaborating

Happy Birthday to Pablo Picasso, born on this day in 1881! 🥳 Can you spot Picasso in this artwork? Picasso celebrated his 19th birthday in Paris in 1900—this painting was likely made in the months following this trip (which was his first trip to Paris). As an outsider in France, he embedded himself in a community of Catalan artists, intellectuals, and activists residing in Montmartre—a location indicated by the windmill in the upper-right corner of this panel. This bleak winter scene depicts the artist with five compatriots from his 1900 stay in the capital. The artist's best friend, Carles Casagemas, stares directly at the viewer, but where is Picasso? Plan your visit to find him in-person ➡ https://bit.ly/4dxlugw 🎨 Pablo Picasso. Group of Catalans in Montmartre: Pichot, Mañach, Casagemas, Brossa, Picasso, and Gener, 1900, Oil on panel. The Barnes Foundation, BF2049.

Exciting news from the Barnes! We are launching a series of interactive videos, recorded right in our galleries and guided by our educators. Each video links curriculum topics—such as Art & Art Making, Literacy-Building, and Spanish—with artworks from the Barnes collection, offering a deeper learning experience. Students are prompted to explore the art like never before using our innovative Visual Experience Platform—zoom in, navigate, and engage with the works in incredible detail. Discover the full library of these immersive lessons ➡ https://bit.ly/3BQxGM4 Stay up to date on all of these exciting developments by joining our Barnes Foundation School Programs LinkedIn Group ➡ https://bit.ly/4dTGLkI 🖼 Paul Cézanne. The Card Players , 1890–92. The Barnes Foundation, BF564. Public Domain. #BarnesFoundation #ArtEducation #VirtualLearning #InteractiveLearning

Live music, dancing, art, cocktails and light bites? Count us in! No better way to kick-off your weekend than attending First Friday at the Barnes! We’re proud to present a night of jazz with Philly-born saxophonist and composer Immanuel Wilkins. Wilkins’s debut Omega, which explores trauma, beauty, and spirituality, was named the number-one jazz album of 2020 by the The New York Times and his latest release, The 7th Hand, continues to push boundaries while receiving critical acclaim. First Friday at the Barnes includes access to the collection and Mickalene Thomas: All About Love. This is definitely a evening you don't want to miss—seating is limited, so arrive early. 🎟 Get your tickets: https://bit.ly/4e8yVUB

Mickalene Thomas sat down with Tonya Pendleton for "Reality Check" on WURD Radio—the only African-American owned and operated talk radio station in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to discuss a range of compelling topics, from her creative process and sources of inspiration, to the influence of her mother, and her deep ties to Camden. In its only East Coast presentation, All About Love features approximately 50 stunning works by pioneering artist Mickalene Thomas created over the last two decades, centering Black femininity, beauty, agency, and kinship in fresh, powerful ways. The Barnes's presentation of Mickalene Thomas: All About Love is curated by Renée Mussai. Mickalene Thomas: All About Love is now on view! 🎟 Get your tickets: https://bit.ly/4fegQ8e

This past weekend was spectacular. 🤩 Between Barnes Art Ball and the opening of our Fall exhibition, Mickalene Thomas: All About Love, our guest's snapshots did not disappoint! All of your photos from this past weekend's programming are wonderful—keep tagging us as you visit and experience Mickalene Thomas: All About Love from now until January 12th. The Barnes's presentation of All About Love is curated by Renée Mussai (@mussairenee). Get your tickets today: https://bit.ly/3NFBX7D

✨ Mickalene Thomas: All About Love is now on view at the Barnes! All About Love is the first major international exhibition of Mickalene Thomas’s work, centering the beauty, power, and sensuality of Black women through photography, collage, painting, video, and installation. Thomas's art celebrates her close relationships with mothers, daughters, lovers, and friends, presenting empowered images of beauty and desire through a Black feminist perspective. Curated by Renée Mussai, this exhibition will be at the Barnes until January 12, the only East Coast stop on its tour. "To see yourself, and for others to see you, is a form of validation. I'm interested in that very mysterious and mystical way we relate to each other in the world." - Mickalene Thomas 🎟 Tickets: https://bit.ly/3ZeH9q5 After debuting at The Broad this spring, All About Love is at the Barnes through Jan. 12, 2025, and travels to the Hayward Gallery in London, and then to Les Abattoirs, Musée – Frac Occitanie in Toulouse. Further venues to be confirmed. 🖼 On view: The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (October 20, 2024–January 12, 2025) Hayward Gallery, London (February 11–May 5, 2025) les Abattoirs, Musée – Frac Occitanie Toulouse (June 13 – November 9, 2025) #BarnesFoundation #SpecialExhibition #OnView

Bring your art viewing experience to the next level with an exhibition tour of Mickalene Thomas: All About Love. Take an in-depth look at a selection of Mickalene Thomas’s key works from the past two decades—exploring Black female identity through visually rich and compelling paintings, collage, photography, video, and installation. Learn more about Thomas’s references, which span pop-culture and the history of painting. The Barnes's presentation of All About Love is curated by Renée Mussai. Tours begin October 24th, Thursdays–Mondays at 1PM. Includes access to the collection before and after the tour. 🎟 Tickets: https://bit.ly/47Ni3RC #BarnesFoundation #SpecialExhibition #ArtEducation #ArtHistory #OnView

The age-old question: does size really matter? Well, to us, it does! It turns out that miniatures have appeared in art practices all around the world and throughout centuries of art-making. Join the Barnes online as we use our Visual Experience Platform (VXP), an online learning tool that lets you to get close to art in ways that can’t be experienced in person, to see the tiniest details in some of the smallest art—including works from the Barnes collection and other notable museum collections around the world. Help us discover why miniatures can feel like magic. ✨ Size Does Matter: A History of Miniatures in Art 📆 Wednesdays, November 6 – December 4 🕑 2pm - 4pm ET 🎓 Scholarships available 🔗 Register: https://bit.ly/402aJ2y