
Arts & Entertainment
Final call for Jessica Lang dance company
Jessica Lang Dance, a New York City company that has won the highest dance accolades, will fold in April.
7 years ago
UPenn opens crowd-curated art exhibition
The Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania opened the campus art collection to the internet; these are the ones upvoted to the top.
7 years ago
Listen 1:50Iconic Manhattan sculpture finds a new home in Collegeville, Pa.
An icon of bustling Rockefeller Center in NYC, the sculpture "Cubed Curve" is now on the leafy campus of Ursinus College.
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Listen 2:07On his new podcast, LeVar Burton has it all: ‘A microphone, a good story, and my voice’
WHYY Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn spoke with actor LeVar Burton ahead of his appearance at the Scottish Rite Auditorium in Collingswood, New Jersey Tuesday evening.
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Listen 6:13‘Freedom is very intoxicating’ says artist behind ‘The Complicit Eye’
Kukuli Velarde — a Peruvian-born, Philadelphia-based artist — has a first major show in her adopted home town.
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How the ‘New World’ symphony introduced American music to itself
Dvorak's Symphony No. 9, subtitled "From the New World," has become one of the world's most beloved orchestral works.
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Holiday market vendors hope for higher sales as LOVE park construction wraps
After enduring 2017’s reconstruction of LOVE park, local vendors at Philadelphia’s Holiday Markets say this year sales are merrier.
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Delaware museum sends George Washington’s dishes back to China
While America and China have been at war of words over trade policy, a Delaware museum has been doing its own cultural diplomacy by helping Chinese scholars preserve history.
7 years ago
Listen 3:31‘Thank you, America’: A crowdsourced holiday poem that’s a blessing to read
Earlier in November, we asked our readers and listeners to share what about America they are most thankful for.
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A sea change at Independence Seaport Museum with new science of water exhibit
The Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia turns to science for its new exhibition about the Delaware River.
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The cold can’t stop the Philadelphia tradition of the Thanksgiving Day Parade
The fact that the Thanksgiving Day Parade felt more like the bitter cold Mummers Day Parade didn't stop Alexis McCormick and her family.
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Champs take a bow wow at National Dog Show
More than 3,000 dogs competed in the show in Oaks, Pennsylvania, sponsored by the Kennel Club of Philadelphia.
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6 years after museum heist, missing Picasso possibly found in Romania
A painting by Pablo Picasso that was stolen from a Dutch museum six years ago may have resurfaced in Romania, prosecutors say.
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PAFA to name gallery after student killed in ’13 building collapse
Anne Bryan, an art student who died in the 2013 collapse of a Salvation Army building, will have a new PAFA art gallery named after her.
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Listen 1:24Birth of cool: 40-year retrospective of Dieter Rams’ product design at Philly art museum
If you’ve ever tried to imagine what a space-age bachelor pad might look like, this exhibition of his stereo equipment and modular furniture may come close.
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