Fun around town, for $10 or less: FRIDAY: Too Cool For: Screening of The Cool School: Story of the Ferus Art Gallery followed by The Way We Do Art Now and Other Sacred Tales at the International House (3701 Chestnut), 7PM. $7 Not Lost: Found, a performance by Davy Rothbart, at the Painted Bride (230 Vine), 7PM. $10 No Wining: Breaking Through the Cork Ceiling, a wine panel discussion with six female winemakers at the......

If you can get there early enough before all the savvy and experienced art collectors pick up the best works of art, from May 10 through June 1, 2008, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts will host its 107th Annual Student Exhibition (ASE) in the Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building. We're big fans of student artwork, and this exhibition has a reputation for being one of the best in the nation. Underwritten by the Women's......

Let us say up front that we buy into Virginia Woolf’s theory about women artists: it was/is often lack of opportunity, rather than lack of talent, that keeps the gender imbalance in the classic art canon holding steady. Controversy still abounds as to the placement and display of female artists, particularly whether it matters. If art is good, it is good, right, and will be recognized as such, regardless of gender. Would that it were......