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To celebrate Brilliant: Unexpected Art from Everywhere, ’s new book, three artists from its pages are coming to Ray Harl...
08/10/2026

To celebrate Brilliant: Unexpected Art from Everywhere, ’s new book, three artists from its pages are coming to Ray Harlem on October 21. Filmmaker Nadia Hallgren | Documentary Filmmaker , photographer and painter will each walk us through a key project and the process behind it, followed by an audience Q&A and a reception on the rooftop.

This time We’re holding 10 spots for the public. To be considered, DM RAY by Wednesday, October 14 with a brilliant, unexpected artwork you love. We’ll confirm by DM if you’ve been selected.

Ray Harlem residents will be able to reserve a spot through the resident portal.

2nd Thursdays continue at Ray Philly. Join us Thursday, October 8th for a night on North American Street: an evening of ...
08/10/2026

2nd Thursdays continue at Ray Philly. Join us Thursday, October 8th for a night on North American Street: an evening of open studios, art, and ikebana, 5 to 8 PM at 1525 N. American St. It’s free and open to the public, so bring friends and family!

Afterward, head across the street to Wissahickon Brewing. Pick up a drink ticket while you’re with us and bring it to the taproom to redeem for a free drink. Tickets are only available here at Ray Philly, so grab yours before you go. A big thank you to Wissahickon Brewing Company — Olde Kensington, our official beverage sponsor for Studio 105. Family-owned in Philadelphia since 2015, they pour b**r, w**e, canned cocktails, and non-alcoholic options.

Here’s what’s happening:

- Studio 104: Ulises joins Second Thursday with extended hours. Alongside Crane Arts, The Clay Studio, and other local businesses on N. American Street who will keep their doors open late.

- Studio 105: Come see “At Hand”, our Philadelphia Design Week exhibition, before it closes. Emerging and Philly-based makers working across ceramics, furniture, sculpture, and the decorative arts, with work by Paolo Mentasti, Jordan McDonald, Ashley Joseph Martin, Steph Trowbridge, Patricia Renee’ Thomas, and historical design objects from the collection of Michael Frechette. On view through November 3.

- Studio 108: Kaori Tokuoka | Wedding & Event Floral Designer, Philadelphia PA and Momoko present a special ikebana exhibition. Momoko Hirano is a certified master instructor from the Ohara School of Ikebana. Come see Japanese floral design shaped by form, movement, balance, and the natural character of each flower.

More event details and RSVP at the link in bio!

A sunken living room, a fireplace lounge, and a communal kitchen, all on one level. The fifth floor at Ray Phoenix is th...
06/10/2026

A sunken living room, a fireplace lounge, and a communal kitchen, all on one level. The fifth floor at Ray Phoenix is the building’s gathering place, meant to feel like an extension of home.

It’s where you meet new neighbors, cook for a crowd, and host a dinner party where guests stay long after their plates are cleared. Some mornings it’s a quiet corner and a coffee. Some nights it’s a full house.

Ray Phoenix is now leasing with immediate move-ins available. Visit the link in bio to book a tour.

Architecture by Johnston Marklee
Interiors by Parts and Labor and the Ray in-house Team

02/10/2026

For the last twenty years of his life, Monet painted almost nothing but one pond, and he designed it himself.

He moved to a farmhouse in Giverny in 1883 and spent the rest of his life turning its orchard and a marshy field across the road into something to paint, with eight gardeners by the end. He painted the dining room yellow, walls and furniture both, and hung more than two hundred Japanese prints through the house, including Hokusai, Hiroshige and Utamaro. Over the pond went a green footbridge, later covered in wisteria that still blooms every May.

The water lilies became his whole subject. He painted the pond again and again, in different light and different seasons. The day after the armistice in 1918, he offered his largest canvases to France, and they hang in the two oval rooms he helped plan at the Musée de l’Orangerie.

After his stepdaughter Blanche died in 1947, the garden grew wild, with trees coming up through his studio. In 1977 Gérald Van der Kemp, the former chief curator of Versailles, began restoring it with money from American patrons, working from old photographs, Monet’s plant orders, his letters and his paintings. It reopened in 1980.

This year marks a hundred years since his death, and the Orangerie’s centenary exhibition opened yesterday!

Join us this Friday, October 2, at Studio 105 for an evening of conversation and cocktails on the occasion of At Hand, p...
30/09/2026

Join us this Friday, October 2, at Studio 105 for an evening of conversation and cocktails on the occasion of At Hand, presented in conjunction with DesignPhiladelphia. Curator Sonya Tamaddon talks with Jennifer Zwilling, Mark Rosen, and Cole Akers about the exhibition and Philadelphia’s creative landscape, each coming from a different corner of craft, design, and architecture.

Jennifer Zwilling is Curator and Director of Artistic Programs at The Clay Studio and was previously Assistant Curator of American Decorative Arts and Contemporary Craft at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Mark Rosen founded Studio Roh, a creative consultancy working across art and design, after leading marketing and partnerships at Design Miami and TEFAF. Cole Akers is Curator and Associate Director of Special Projects at The Glass House, where he brings contemporary artists and designers into dialogue with significant architectural sites.

At Hand is on view through November 3, with works by Ashley Joseph Martin, Jordan McDonald, Paolo Mentasti, Patricia Renee’ Thomas, and Steph Trowbridge, alongside historical design objects from the collection of Michael Frechette.

Friday, October 2, 6 to 8PM. Talk begins promptly at 6:30PM.

RSVP at the link in bio!

28/09/2026

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum looks like it was lifted out of Venice, and in a way, parts of it were.

At seventeen, Isabella told a friend that if she ever inherited money, she’d build a house full of beautiful pictures for people to come and enjoy. More than forty years later, she did. She bought windows, arches and columns from dealers in Venice, sometimes from photographs alone, and the eight balconies around the courtyard came from the Ca’ d’Oro on the Grand Canal. Then she moved into the top floor.

A few of our favorite details: the Titian Room, where she hung one painting over pale green silk cut from one of her own dresses. John Singer Sargent’s El Jaleo, a Spanish dancer mid-performance, which she gave its own space by splitting a music room in two. And the Roman mosaic at the center of the courtyard floor, a Medusa almost two thousand years old that was dug up outside Rome in 1892.

Thirteen works were stolen in 1990 and none has come back. The museum is free to visit on Thursday nights from five to nine, and always free if your name is Isabella!

RAY Presents: The School of Architecture (TSOA) in conversation with Sharon Johnston (Johnston Marklee)For Desert Design...
23/09/2026

RAY Presents: The School of Architecture (TSOA) in conversation with Sharon Johnston (Johnston Marklee)

For Desert Design Week, Sharon Johnston, founding partner of Johnston Marklee, joins us at RAY Phoenix for a lecture and conversation moderated by TSOA President Chris Lasch alongside students from the school.

The conversation traces the firm’s work from early residential projects to arts institutions like the Menil Drawing Institute, the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. From there, it turns to RAY Phoenix: the green facade, how the building responds to desert light, and the role of shade, landscape, art, and shared spaces in connecting it to Roosevelt Row. Johnston Marklee received the 2024 Richard Neutra Award for Professional Excellence, an honor previously given to Tadao Ando, Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, and other world renowned architects.

Tickets available for purchase at Desert Design Week’s website. Limited complimentary tickets are available to Ray Phoenix residents available to reserve on the resident portal.

Sunday, October 11
Doors at 2pm, conversation from 2:30 to 4pm
Reception to follow with light bites and refreshments from kid sister

Thank you to our generous sponsors Kohler for making this event possible.

22/09/2026

Before it was Fondazione Prada, this corner of south Milan was a distillery making gin and brandy. Miuccia Prada’s foundation brought in Rem Koolhaas and OMA, who kept the old buildings and added three new ones, so every space shows art a different way.

Worth knowing before you go:
The gold building is the Haunted House, four floors clad in gold leaf. Its Italian name, Casa degli Spiriti, is a nod to what they used to make here.
Bar Luce is by Wes Anderson. Look up: the vaulted ceiling is a miniature of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele.
The cinema foyer has a Lucio Fontana ceramic originally made for a Milan movie theater.
The courtyard and bookshop are free, no ticket needed.
One €15 ticket covers this venue and the Osservatorio in the Galleria, within 30 days.
Closed Tuesdays. Take the M3 to Lodi T.I.B.B.

Save this for your next trip to Milan.

22/09/2026

In 1981 lightning burned most of the Vitra factory near Basel. Rolf Fehlbaum could have rebuilt it in one style. Instead he went one building at a time, each by a different architect.

What’s there now: Zaha Hadid’s first completed building, a fire station that now holds exhibitions. Frank Gehry’s first building in Europe. Tadao Ando’s conference pavilion, set low into the ground to spare a meadow of cherry trees. And Herzog & de Meuron’s Schaudepot, clad in bricks split by hand with the rough face out. That wall is the reason our Ray Philly facade looks the way it does.

If you go:
Bus 55 from Basel Badischer Bahnhof stops right at the campus.
Or take tram 8 to Weil am Rhein and walk the Vitra Design Path, lined with miniature furniture classics by the Bouroullecs.
Open daily, 10 to 6.
Go Thursday to Saturday so you catch the Circle Store, where Vitra pieces sell at reduced prices.

Save this for your next trip Vitra!

22/09/2026

Fondazione Prada is the art foundation Miuccia Prada started in 1993. Since 2015 its main venue has been a distillery in south Milan that produced gin and brandy from the 1910s until the plant closed.

The site was given to Rem Koolhaas, who had already built her New York store and has spent a career arguing that the interesting question is what you keep. He kept seven buildings, the laboratories, the warehouses, the fermentation silos, and added three, arranging them so the work could be shown a different way in every one. He has described the result as neither a preservation project nor a new architecture. The cinema is clad in mirror so it half disappears into the courtyard.

The four story building in the worst condition was clad entirely in 24 karat gold leaf, drainpipes and window frames included, and nicknamed the Haunted House. In Italian that is Casa degli Spiriti, house of spirits, which is also what the factory made. Inside it, four floors Robert Gober built for that specific building. Gober is a sculptor who makes ordinary domestic things by hand, sinks and doors and drains, so precisely they look manufactured. On the first floor, a Louise Bourgeois cage of old doors with clothes hanging inside it.

The tower, finished in 2018, stacks nine floors with ceilings climbing from 2.7 metres to 8, because Koolhaas has said the effect of space on art was the whole point of the place, not architecture serving art but the two of them interacting. Half the floor plans are rectangles and half are wedges, and no two are alike. The cinema is named for Godard and holds the editing studio he sent over from Switzerland in 2019. The café is by Wes Anderson, who has said he wanted a bar rather than a film set, with an arched ceiling that is a miniature of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele.

Prada has staged its Milan runway shows in one of the warehouses since 2018, with sets by AMO, the research arm of Koolhaas’s office, which has designed every Prada show since 2004.

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