Former Please Touch head is honored
By Peter Crimmins - November 20th, 2009
Nancy Kolb spent 21 years leading Philadephia's Please Touch Museum. On the eve of her retirement, the city council said thanks.
By Peter Crimmins - November 20th, 2009
Nancy Kolb spent 21 years leading Philadephia's Please Touch Museum. On the eve of her retirement, the city council said thanks.
By Peter Crimmins - November 18th, 2009
One of the last buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright is a synagogue in Elkins Park, just north of the Philadelphia city line. The 1,100-seat sanctuary underneath a translucent pyramid roof did double duty as a religious building and a landmark of eccentric modernist architecture. The congregation has now built a visitor's center to accommodate tourists.
By Tom MacDonald - November 18th, 2009
A rare piece of U.S. history is up for sale in Philadelphia. The private group that owns a handwritten letter by Abraham Lincoln has decided to put a $60,000 dollar price tag on the artifact.
By Tom Byrne - November 17th, 2009
Elena Delle Donne opened her college career with a win, leading the Blue Hens to a 77-64 victory at St. Francis (PA) in their 2009-2010 season opener.
Cézanne and Beyond
Mar. 19, 2009
The Boston Globe wrote "There won't be a show anywhere in the world this year to compete- in ambition, scope, and sheer concentration of masterworks - with 'Cézanne and Beyond' at the Philadelphia Museum of Art." We talk with JOSEPH RISHEL, co-curator with Katherine Sachs of the exhibit, "Cézanne & Beyond" now showing at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He is the Gisela and Dennis Alter Senior Curator of European Painting before 1900 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. View images »
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The art of Andrew Wyeth
Jan. 22, 2009
While the public has embraced the work of Andrew Wyeth, the quality of his painting has been the subject of much debate among critics. We talk with ANNE KNUTSON, curator of the 2006 Andrew Wyeth retrospective, and New Yorker art critic PETER SCHJELDAHL about the life and career of Andrew Wyeth who died last week.
Andrew Wyeth dies at age 91
Jan. 16, 2009
The American realist painter, Andrew Wyeth, passed away earlier this morning after a brief illness. From WHYY's Arts and Culture desk, Alex Schmidt reports.
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