For an evocative art experience, check out The Time Is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure exhibition focusing on the urgency around artistic expression. The exhibition features 26 Black and African diasporic contemporary artists who employ figurative painting, drawing, and sculpture to capture the rhythms and complexities of Black life today. The promotional material explains: “Through their work, these artists invite us to consider Blackness as a lived experience rather than as a biological fact.” One true fact is that the exhibit was created by Ekaw Eshun, a Ghanaian-born and U.K.-based curator and writer, and organized by the National Portrait Gallery in London, along with the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The curators are Erica Battle and Yocari De Los Santos. Part of the exhibit’s title, The Time is Always Now, is inspired by an essay by writer James Baldwin in 1961 about desegregation. The social-rights activist called for urgency, and wrote: “The challenge is in the moment, the time is always now.” $30 (adults over 19), students: $14; pay as your wish on the first Sunday of the month; Open Mondays, Thursdays to Sundays, 10 a.m. EST to 5 p.m. Philadelphia Museum of Art/ Dorrance Galleries, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy. E-mail: [email protected]. 215-763-8100 or philamuseum.org.