Beginning Thursday, March 1, 2007, the Museum's parking charge, currently $5 on the Terrace on weekends, will be in effect seven days a week for general visitors. A $4 parking charge will apply to Museum members beginning April 1, 2007. The $5 parking fee has previously applied on weekends only.

The Division of Education at the Philadelphia Museum of Art invites families to participate in an exciting array of Family and Children's Programs this winter and spring. Presenting a series of cultural celebrations that includes hands-on workshops, performances, and kid-friendly gallery tours, this season's events build upon the nationally recognized excellence of the Museum's educational offerings.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present an exhibition of works by the 18h century Japanese master of ink painting Ike Taiga (1723-1776) and his wife Tokuyama Gyokuran (1727-1784). The first exhibition in the United States to focus on Taiga, it will bring together key works from Japanese and Western collections and provide an in-depth look at the major Japanese artist of the 18th century.

The Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial presents the final exhibition in the twenty-ninth season of the four-part Wind Challenge Series at Fleisher - the Delaware Valley's premier juried artist exhibition program. This season's twelve Challenge artists were selected from a field of nearly 330 applicants to exhibit in one of four three-person exhibitions. The last of this season's Challenge exhibitions features the work of artists Susan Abrams, Elaine Erne, and Nami Yamamoto.

The months ahead bring a diverse and exciting line-up of performers to the Philadelphia Museum of Art for its popular Friday night series Art After 5. From much-loved acts like the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, the most successful big band of recent decades, to up and coming performers like bassist and singer Esperanza Spaulding, who at age 22 has already collaborated with some of the biggest names in jazz, Art After 5 continues to offer one of the city's premier live music events.

The Young Friends of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a lively group of young professionals and art enthusiasts who support the Museum, are pleased to announce the 15th annual Winter Gala, to be held on February 24, 2007.

The second largest contribution made to date toward keeping Thomas Eakins' masterpiece, The Gross Clinic, in Philadelphia, has brought to $37 million the total amount raised in the unprecedented drive to secure the painting for the city.

Contemporary artists employ a dazzling array of techniques and technologies to engage with and expand upon the centuries-old tradition of creating art on paper. This spring the Philadelphia Museum of Art will present a diverse selection of prints, drawings, and photographs created by artists from around the world dating from the mid-1980s to the present.

In Tibetan-Buddhist practice, worship takes place not only in magnificent temples, but also in the homes of lay practitioners-many of which include a sacred space reserved for daily rituals. In 2004, the Philadelphia Museum of Art acquired a spectacular wooden Tibetan altar made for a private home and adorned with intricately carved niches and lively painted decoration that highlights domestic themes.

Thomas Eakins' 1875 masterpiece, The Gross Clinic, goes on public view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and in early March will hang at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. It is on loan to the Museum from Thomas Jefferson University until it is sold later this month by the University to the Museum and the Academy, which have joined in an extraordinary ongoing fundraising effort.

In support of the fundraising efforts of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the board of trustees of Thomas Jefferson University is lending The Gross Clinic, Eakins' 1875 masterpiece, to the Philadelphia Museum of Art for a special installation in advance of the conclusion of the sale on January 31.

The Fleisher Art Memorial is pleased to announce that Matthew J. Cassiere - better known as Matt The Knife-will bring his 'cutting edge of entertainment' to Philadelphia for a single outlandish performance at Fleisher on the night of Saturday, January 20th.