Philadelphia Contemporary

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Philadelphia Contemporary
Established2016
Location Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Founder Harry Philbrick
Website philadelphiacontemporary.org

Philadelphia Contemporary is an arts organization that commissions and presents contemporary visual art, performance art, and spoken word. [1] It was founded in 2016 with the intention to build a new non-collecting museum in Philadelphia for contemporary art in all of its forms. [2] [3] Philadelphia Contemporary organizes exhibitions and events through partnerships and space-borrowing with institutions such as the Barnes Foundation, Delaware River Waterfront Corporation, the Brandywine River Museum of Art, and Philadelphia Parks & Recreation. [4] [5] [6]

In 2018, Philadelphia Contemporary announced that the architecture firm Johnston Marklee would design their new building. [7] [8]

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