Arts & Entertainment
‘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.
8 years ago
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.
8 years ago
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.
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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.
8 years ago
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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‘The Color Purple,’ going straight for your heart at Theatre Horizon
The musical, in a sterling production, does justice to Alice Walker's book.
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‘I Hate Hamlet’ in a not-so-funny way at Bucks County Playhouse
The ghost of John Barrymore is the liveliest part of the play, and surely of this production.
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Writer Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
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Listen 35:29Writer Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
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