Last summer, a staffer at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was digging through stacks of 19th century drawings when they stumbled upon something strange. It was a nondescript box with the vague ...

The Philadelphia Show will display these and other antiques from the past several centuries at its annual expo this spring.

You will, indeed, see such objects within “Creative Africa,” an exhibit now running at the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Ruth and Raymond C. Perelman Building. But “Creative Africa” seeks ...