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Mark McCloughan (left) and Jaime Maseda of No Face Performance Group will premiere ''Abbot Adam: Matins / Lauds'' at the Barnes. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight

An overnight performance comes to the Barnes

There’s a call-out to aficionados of the night life. Make that the overnight night life.  Thursday, Friday and Saturday th ...

8 years ago

 Brooke Davis Anderson is the new director of the museum at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts hopes to expand appeal under new director

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts has a new museum director on the job. The selection of Brooke Davis Anderson was announc ...

8 years ago

 The artists' studio and gallery space on North 11th Street, known as the Vox building, has been shuttered by a fire that broke out in a stairwell. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Philly artists displaced by fire hope to return to Vox building

Following a fire, one of the main hubs of Philadelphia’s community of underground and emerging artists has been shut down by the ci ...

8 years ago

''Subversion and Surrealism in the art of Honoré Sharrer'' at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts examines in depth the artist's overtly political work and life. Pictured is Sharrer's best known work,''Tribute to the American Working People'' (1946-51). (Emma Lee/WHYY)

PAFA hopes to reintroduce America to surrealist painter Honoré Sharrer

Honoré Sharrer is a figure of contradictions. As a teenager she was the May Queen of her private high school in San Diego. A few years l ...

8 years ago

a White House media briefing
Radio Times

Journalism in the Trump age

Guests: Will Bunch, Paul Farhi, Josh Dawsey “So they caught Fake News CNN cold, but what about NBC, CBS & A ...

Air Date: June 28, 2017

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The Winter exhibit features a snow-covered slide for tubing. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Winter at the Philadelphia Zoo

Want to experience the joy of a snowball fight without having to claim the parking spot you just spent two hours shoveling with a folding ...

8 years ago

Elisabeth Garson of Steel Owl Room Adventures introduces the Island Escape room at the Franklin Institute. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Franklin Institute brings escape artistry to new levels [photos]

The lower level of the Franklin Institute used to hold the Kid Science Center, a 4,000-square-foot space filled with hands-on games to te ...

8 years ago

Boyz II Men Boulevard brings the group to South Philadelphia Saturday.
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Boyz II Men Boulevard is more than a street name for Philadelphia natives

How does Boyz II Men Boulevard sound? A portion of the Avenue of the Arts South now has a name other than Broad Street. The stretc ...

8 years ago

Michael Nichols' photograph of a giant redwood tree soars to the top of the Great Stair Hall at Philadelphia Museum of Art.(Emma Lee/WHYY)

Philadelphia Museum of Art thematically matches wildlife photos with paintings in new exhibit

“Wild,” the first solo exhibition of photography by Michael “Nick” Nichols features photographs of gorillas, tige ...

8 years ago

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DN sports columnist Marcus Hayes weighs in on Sixers ahead of tonight’s Draft

As the Philadelphia 76ers prepare to make the first pick in the 2017 NBA Draft, Philadelphia Daily News sports columnist Marcus Hayes joi ...

8 years ago

On what would have been Andrew Wyeth's 100th birthday, the Brandywine Museum takes a fresh look at the artist's life and works. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Brandywine art museum opens largest Wyeth exhibit to date

The artist Andrew Wyeth would have been 100 years old July 12. To mark the occasion, the U.S. Post Office will release a postage stamp in ...

8 years ago

 Author and filmmaker Sherman Alexie gives the keynote address at a celebration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day Monday, Oct. 10, 2016, at Seattle's City Hall. (Elaine Thompson/AP Photo)

Sherman Alexie on ‘Radio Times’: ‘We’re all storytellers’

In his new memoir, You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me, author Sherman Alexie writes about his complicated relationship with his mother. ...

8 years ago

 Allison Vulgamore,  Philadelphia Orchestra's president and CEO, pictured in this May 2010 file photo greeting Chinese students from local girl's middle school in Shanghai, China, is stepping down. (Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)

CEO of Philadelphia Orchestra to step down in December

The leader of the Philadelphia Orchestra has announced she will step down. Allison Vulgamore, who has been the president and CEO f ...

8 years ago

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 Before Theodor Geisel became Dr. Seuss, he began work on an array of faux taxidermy sculptures that foreshadowed the characters in his children's books. Resin reproductions can be seen and purchased at Ocean Galleries in Avalon. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Before Thing 1: Early Dr. Seuss inspirations on display at Jersey shore gallery

Dr. Seuss, the legendary children’s book author, not only drew whimsical creatures for his stories, he sometimes sculpted them as t ...

8 years ago

People express their pride by holding banners at Art All Night in Trenton. (Alan Tu/WHYY)
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2017 Art All Night – Trenton [photos]

One of Trenton’s secrets is that it’s a fun place to see art. Probably the best example is its annual 24-hour festival ...

8 years ago

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