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Arts & Entertainment

A visitor admires impressionist portraits at “The Impressionist’s Eye” exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Visual Arts

Under renovations, the Philadelphia Art Museum gives its impressionists a fresh look

While the museum is undergoing extensive renovations to its galleries, it is reconsidering its works by Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh and Cassatt.

6 years ago

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Thirteen-year-old Lily, in her Easter finery, makes her way down Asbury Avenue during the annual BoardWaddle in Ocean City on Saturday, April 13, 2019. Tri-State Basset Hound Rescue hosted the 21st BoardWaddle as part of the Ocean City Doo Dah Parade. (Miguel Martinez for WHYY)
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New Jersey

Ocean City kicks off tourist season with celebration of basset hounds

Basset hounds were honored for their long ears, creative costumes and athletic prowess. The annual festivities help support the work of the Tri-State Basset Hound Rescue.

6 years ago

Writers Guild of America West President David Goodman speaks in Los Angeles at the 2019 union award ceremony. The WGA instructed is writers to fire their agents on Friday. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
NPR
Movies
TV

‘Uncharted waters’: Union tells Hollywood writers to fire their agents

The abrupt directive on Friday followed a breakdown in talks over proposed changes to the agreement that has guided the basic business relationship between writers and agents.

6 years ago

Language creator David Peterson created the fictional languages Dothraki and High Valyrian for
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Marketplace

He brought ‘Game of Thrones’ languages to life

David Peterson won a contest to create a fictional language for the show called Dothraki.

6 years ago

A visitor to the Franklin Institute's Marvel Comics exhibit poses for a photo with a life-size Spider-Man figure. The exhibit promises to be a crowd pleaser, with a quarter million visitors expected through the summer. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Kids
Movies
Visual Arts

Marvel universe brings all its superheroes to the Franklin Institute

The superhero exhibit traces 80 years of comics and movies. Visitors can also learn about the process of making comics, including drawing, inking, coloring, and layout.

6 years ago

Bill Dietz is staging Maryanne Amacher's works inside the Holy Apostle and The Mediator Church in West Philadelphia this weekend. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)
Architecture & Design
Music
Philadelphia

Hear music made ‘using an entire building’ in a West Philly church

This weekend, a church in West Philadelphia will host performances of music composed by experimental sound artist Maryanne Amacher.

6 years ago

Melinda Steffy's
History
Music
Visual Arts

Imparting the patterns of history and disaster repeating on Ruination Day

A Philadelphia artist takes cues from Gillian Welch and folk ballads to paint historic repetition.

6 years ago

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A still from Tierra Whack's video for 'Unemployed' (youtube)
NPR
Music

Philadelphia’s Tierra Whack serves up spuds with a side of horror in ‘Unemployed’ video

Philly rapper Tierra Whack's reputation as a surrealist and experimenter was sealed last year with the release of Whack World, her masterful debut.

6 years ago

Photo Richard Blanco
Radio Times
Books
Poetry

Poet Richard Blanco

Poet Richard Blanco describes himself as being "made in Cuba, assembled in Spain, imported to the USA" and his poems, focusing largely on national identity, reflect this.

Air Date: April 9, 2019

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Margaret McGriff (center), widow of jazz organist Jimmy McGriff, shares her trove of papers from her husband's career with Jack McCarthy and Suzanne Cloud of the Philadelphia Jazz Project. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Movies
Pennsylvania
Visual Arts

Knocking on doors in search of Philadelphia’s jazz history

A pair of historians are hunting for artifacts for an archive of Philadelphia’s jazz history. They’re holding a scanning party to digitize bits of music history.

6 years ago

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Elba Hevia y Vaca, artistic director of Pasión y Arte Flamenco, previews her new show, “La Bolivianita
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Dance

New Flamenco performance in Philly challenges the art form to be ‘about women, for women’

Flamenco dancer, choreographer Elba Hevia y Vaca, a Bolivian immigrant, previews a new work in Philadelphia about womanhood and the culture of Flamenco.

6 years ago

Tim Moyer (left) as the professor, Yousof Sultani as Nazrullah, and Nazli Sarpkaya as Getee in InterAct Theatre Company's production of
Shapiro on Theater
Performing Arts
Philadelphia
Shapiro on Theater

A ‘Heartland’ in two disparate places, from InterAct Theatre

Afghanistan and Omaha are the settings for an alternately funny and sad drama about the meaning of struggle.

6 years ago

The renovation at the Parkway Central Library includes staff space on the upper floor, two floors of multi-purpose common space, and on the lowermost level, shelves and climate-controlled storage. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Architecture & Design
Books
Public Spaces

Philadelphia Free Library builds new public rooms, new modern mission

More than 40,000 square feet of new, technology-savvy public space do not hold books, but aim to promote civic engagement as the Philadelphia Free Library refines its mission.

6 years ago

Sara's father's embroidered undershirt is one of many intimate objects and stories passed down through the generations. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
History
Religion
Visual Arts

Airing the cleaned, pressed, and folded laundry of the American experience

The wardrobe of Maira Kalman’s mother tells the story of a 20th century American Jewish experience. You can take a peek inside.

6 years ago

Trevor William Fayle and Stephanie Hodge as siblings in the Philadelphia Artists' Collective production of
Shapiro on Theater
History
Performing Arts
Shapiro on Theater

”Tis Pity She’s a Whore,’ controversial for almost 400 years, from Philadelphia Artists’ Collective

The play has been the object of scorn and disgust for its subject matter and even for its title. But this flawed presentation satisfies as a glimpse of theater history.

6 years ago

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