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A robot portrait painter created a gallery of 'everyday geniuses'
Community Events
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

Want to honor a local hero? Submit a photo and a robot will draw a portrait

The Da Vinci Art Alliance is soliciting for subjects to be rendered by a mechanical automaton.

6 years ago

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The Woodland Cemetery Mansion in Philadelphia
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Sound artist makes creepy Edgar Allan Poe installation available in your home

An artist was planning a sound installation based on Edgar Allan Poe’s work into a historic Philly mansion. Thwarted by COVID-19, it can now be installed in your home.

6 years ago

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Besty Casañas'
Philadelphia
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Broke in Philly

“It kills us.” Philly’s Latinx artists cope with lost incomes and voices amid arts and culture cuts

Mayor Jim Kenney’s revised COVID-19 budget gutted the city’s funding to arts and culture and did away with the Office of Arts, Culture and Creative Economy.

6 years ago

Campers at Al-Bustan percussion camp.
Performing Arts
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

Arts groups are prepared for Philly budget cuts, but will fight elimination

As a new COVID-19 emergency budget threatens to eliminate the city’s Cultural Fund, organizations urge the mayor to spread out the fiscal pain.

6 years ago

Close up of a dictionary word
Philadelphia
Public Health

Coronavirus update: Pa. extends benefits window for unemployment compensation

A program to add 13 weeks to the amount of time residents of Pennsylvania can collect unemployment benefits launched over the weekend, said state officials.

6 years ago

Posters help people learn how to vote by mail
Elections
Public Health
Visual Arts

Grassroots art campaign: stay home and vote by mail

Philadelphia artists design a poster campaign to encourage people to stay home on election day and vote by mail.

6 years ago

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The Mural Arts Program installed works on storefronts boarded up due to coronavirus lockdowns in Center City. This cheerful squirrel across from City Hall is by artist Gina Triplett. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Business
Public Spaces
Visual Arts
Broke in Philly

How Mural Arts is helping artists get paid during the pandemic

Philly’s Mural Arts Program is finding ways to get artists work and to get them paid, despite concerns over looming budget cuts to arts funding and the city’s arts office.

6 years ago

Wilma Theater
Performing Arts
Philadelphia
Public Health

Wilma Theater asks subscribers to buy into an unknown future

As theaters shut for the rest of the season, the next 2020-2021 season remains uncertain. The Wilma Theater asks subscribers to buy into it.

6 years ago

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Vikram Paralkar is an oncologist and author of Night Theater
Radio Times
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Night Theater

In Vikram Paralkar's new novel, a surgeon in India has one night to bring three people back from the dead, raising questions about medicine, corruption, and the afterlife.

Air Date: May 7, 2020

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Display cases inside the Wagner Free Institute of Science (David Graham/The Wagner Free Institute of Science)
The Why
Biology
History
Philadelphia

Learning about life on Earth at the Wagner Museum

In the next installment of our series 'Why didn’t I go there?' co-host Shai ben-Yaacov and his son take a virtual tour the Wagner Free Institute of Science in Philly.

Air Date: May 4, 2020

Listen 18:39
Philadelphia Art Museum
Economic Development
Philadelphia

Coronavirus update: Kenney budget calls for shuttering arts office; 53 N.J. hospitals get $1.7B from feds

The proposed fiscal 2021 budget eliminates funding for both the Philadelphia Cultural Fund and the Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy.

6 years ago

TAYARISHA POE
Movies
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

Breakout movie director centers Black Philly girls — meet her at a watch party and live Q&A

Chat with “Selah and the Spades” creator Tayarisha Poe on Tuesday, May 5.

6 years ago

A Naval Aircraft Factory float heads south on Broad Street in Philadelphia
History
Music
Philadelphia

Choral music about 1918 flu resonates today

The Crossing choir premiered the original work last year. “Protect yourself from infection” is now available to stream online.

6 years ago

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The National Museum of American Jewish History
Philadelphia
Public Health

Jewish museum in Philly sends most of its staff home without pay

The National Museum of American Jewish History entered bankruptcy court right before the pandemic hit.

6 years ago

Listen 1:44
Love from Philly virtual music concert
Music
Philadelphia
Technology

Massive Philly music festival launches online this weekend

From John Oates to Christian McBride to The Districts to Schooly D, the 75+ acts will benefit the musician relief fund.

6 years ago

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