
Arts & Entertainment
Art Museum renovation changes the building, and perspectives
This weekend, the Philadelphia Museum of Art unveils its “Core Project,” a major renovation project four years in the making.
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A West Philly artist is the latest designer to bring the old Bulletin Building into the future
Artist Serena Saunders manifested her commission to create a mural for the 3025 Market St. icon on social media.
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Philly tourism expecting a big summer as COVID numbers trend down
Visit Philly has launched a tourism marketing campaign, to show people fed up with pandemic isolation where to go to enjoy the season.
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Philadelphia Orchestra to welcome audiences back to the Kimmel next season
For its 2021-2022 season, the Orchestra will keep performing digital concerts while also welcoming audiences back to the Kimmel Center.
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New monument in North Philly honors women helping others survive long Pa. prison sentences
A temporary art installation acts as both a monument and memorial to honor the women and transgender people serving long sentences in Pa.
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Imposter posed as NYC art curator to spread supposed news of ‘missing Picasso’ in Philly
Billy Penn has retracted the story — and the perpetrator has gone silent.
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Despite pandemic, Atlantic City casinos reinvesting millions
The latest to open the corporate checkbook is Hard Rock, which told The Associated Press on Monday it will spend $20 million on renovations.
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African American Museum in Philadelphia announces new exhibit, May 6 reopening
The museum’s reopening marks the launch of a new exhibit that features a pioneering Philly graduate: ‘Anna Russell Jones: The Art of Design.’
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Truck in high-femme drag brings performances to Philly neighborhoods
Bearded Ladies Cabaret outfitted an old box truck into a stage on wheels, to bring queer-friendly performance into neighborhoods during the pandemic.
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Roller skate under a hula-hoop canopy at Dilworth Park
Given the growing popularity of the nostalgic pastime and the strength of Philly’s homegrown skate scene, you may want to book tickets in advance.
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New museum for America and the Bible opens at Independence Mall
The Faith and Liberty Discovery Center in Philadelphia uses cutting-edge technology to tell the story of America’s relationship to religion.
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Franklin Institute to ‘reimagine’ itself for its bicentennial
The science museum on the Parkway has received a $1 million gift to develop new science exhibitions.
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Michelle Zauner, “Crying in H Mart”
Michelle Zauner's new memoir, Crying in H Mart, details the journey of grief, Korean food, identity, and memory that Zauner has been on since losing her mother.
Air Date: April 27, 2021
Listen 48:03The Woodmere Museum builds hugels as environmental art
The Woodmere Museum turns a traditional mounded gardening technique into land art.
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Listen 2:29Neon Museum lights up forgotten corners of Philly’s past
A new museum in a Kensington warehouse showcases vintage neon signs from a proud working-class past.
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