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Arts & Entertainment

Flowers atop the main exhibit of the 2020 Philadelphia Flower Show, themed “Rivera Holiday.” (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community Events
Philadelphia

Philadelphia Flower Show opens with a trip to the Cote d’Azur

The annual floral extravaganza has a Mediterranean theme, “Riviera Holiday,” recalling one of its famous native daughters.

6 years ago

Opera Philadelphia General Director David Devan and Pulitzer Prize winning composer Jennifer Higdon. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Music
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Opera Philadelphia opens next season with a real-life art heist

The 2020-2021 season will open with a new chamber opera about a major 2012 art heist at the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam.

6 years ago

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Students performing as Queen Ramonda and her son, T’Challa, on stage during a rehearsal for the 'Black Panther' musical at Willingboro High School. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Music
New Jersey

‘Black Panther’ gets a musical premiere at Willingboro High School

A faith-based community theater company in New Jersey has turned the 2018 blockbuster superhero movie into a youth-empowering production.

6 years ago

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(Billy Penn illustration; Twitter/@Phillies)
Philadelphia
Sports
Billy Penn

New look proves it: The Phillie Phanatic is a modern dinosaur

Scales, a rounder snout and a bigger backside all point to this conclusion.

6 years ago

Former model and restaurateur B. Smith arrives at the BET Honors red carpet in the Warner Theatre in Washington. B. Smith, became one of the first African-American models on the cover of Mademoiselle and later opened restaurants, revealed last year that she has Alzheimer's disease. (Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo, File)
Media
Pennsylvania

Western Pa. native, B. Smith, model turned lifestyle guru, dead at 70

Model, restaurateur and lifestyle guru Barbara "B." Smith has died at her Long Island home, her family announced in a statement on social media.

6 years ago

Playwright Jacqueline Goldfinger (provided)
Shapiro on Theater
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

With ‘Babel,’ a Philly playwright to get six world premieres

The drama, about a society that tolerates only perfect pregnancies tested in utero, is being mounted, and refined, at National New Play Network theaters.

6 years ago

The mobile 'Ghost' by Alexander Calder hangs in the Great Stair Hall of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Architecture & Design
Sculpture

New showcase for the work of sculptor Alexander Calder is making its way to the Parkway

A future “sanctuary” on Philadelphia’s Parkway will be devoted to the famed mobile artist and his artistic family.

6 years ago

Lightbox Chief Curator Jesse Pires has relocated the film center to The University of the Arts, where screenings will resume this month. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Movies
Philadelphia

Art house cinema finds a home on the Avenue of the Arts

Philadelphia’s only year-round art cinema venue moves across town to the Avenue of the Arts.

6 years ago

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'Awakened in You,' an exhibit at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, celebrates the gift of Dr. Constance E. Clayton, a collector of African American art and former superintendent of Philadelphia public schools. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Race & Ethnicity
Visual Arts

PAFA displays Black art collection of Constance Clayton, former Philadelphia school superintendent

Constance Clayton has been collecting African American art for 30 years. She recently gave much of her collection to PAFA in Philadelphia.

6 years ago

Wilma Theater's four co-artistic directors pose in the middle of South Broad Street, across from the theater. From left: James Ijames, Blanka Zizka, Yury Urnov and Morgan Green. (Photo courtesy of Wide Eyed Studio)
Shapiro on Theater
Performing Arts
Philadelphia
Reinvention

One Wilma Theater artistic director becomes four, in a new leadership model

Each new addition will spend a season as lead artistic director, picking shows, casts and design teams with advice from the others, including Blanka Zizka.

6 years ago

(Mark Henninger/Imagic Digital)
History
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

Inside the money museum hidden a block from Philly City Hall

Take a selfie in a stagecoach and feel the weight of gold.

6 years ago

This photo combo provided by Allentown Art Museum shows from left, before and after restoration of a painting called
Pennsylvania
Visual Arts

Allentown Art Museum’s Rembrandt knockoff turns out to be the real thing

For decades, the Allentown Art Museum displayed an oil-on-oak panel painting called “Portrait of a Young Woman” and credited it to “Studio of Rembrandt.”

6 years ago

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an abolitionist, suffragist, poet, teacher, public speaker, and writer, one of the first African American women to be published in the United States. (Library of Congress)
Gender
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity

Getting to know Frances Harper: Pa. activist for civil rights, women’s suffrage

Before sculpture’s June dedication, Philly is invited to get to know the undersung 19th-century advocate for slavery’s abolition and women’s right to vote.

6 years ago

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JerriAnne Boggis, executive director of the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire, poses with a monument that was erected in Harriet E. Wilson's honor. Boggis says when she read Wilson's book, she felt as if it was written the book just for her. (Verónica G. Cárdenas for NPR)
NPR
Books
National
Race & Ethnicity

Early novel written by free Black woman called out racism among abolitionists

Here's one thing historians know to be true about Harriet Wilson: Some indomitable part of her spirit allowed her to survive a life on the margins of American society.

6 years ago

The Roots perform during the annual Roots Picnic at the Mann Center
Community Events
Music
Philadelphia

Tickets on sale for Roots Picnic 2020, feat. Meek Mill, Thundercat, Hardwork Movement

Taking over the Mann Center in Fairmount Park for the second year in a row, tickets for the Roots Picnic — Philly’s biggest hip-hop party — go on sale Friday at noon.

6 years ago

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