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Choristers fret over fate of Westminster Choir College

The world of professional choir singers has been put on edge by the announcement last week that Rider University intends to sell Westmins ...

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Gong orchestra draws out ‘a different kind of beauty’ with virgin players [video]

In the Icebox Project Space, a huge concrete project space on American Street in North Philadelphia, 14 local musicians and artists are s ...

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West Philly film center becomes ‘Lightbox’ to stand out more from International House

Philadelphia’s longest-running, year-round art house cinema is changing its name. What had been known as Film at Internation ...

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 Aneta Kernová in Wilma Theater’s  production of 'Adapt!' (Photo courtesy of  Alexander Iziliaev)
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Review: ‘Adapt!’ because you must

Write about what you know, they say. And that’s just what Blanka Zizka, the bold and inventive artistic director of Wilma Theater, ...

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 These are 2016 file photos showing Philadelphia Phillies' Ryan Howard, (left), and Washington Nationals' Ryan Zimmerman.  (AP Photo, file)

Judge: Howard, Zimmerman can pursue suit against Al Jazeera over doping allegations

A federal judge says two Major League Baseball players can go ahead with their lawsuit on claims that an Al Jazeera documentary defamed t ...

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In remembering Chuck Berry, we have to play both sides of his record

When a loved one dies, the last thing we want to do is dwell on the unsavory aspects of their lives. Death, above all else, is supposed t ...

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Marcel Duchamp's ''Fountain,'' on exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, is an ordinary urinal purchased in a hardware store. This is a 1950 version of the 1917 original submitted under the pseudonym R. Mutt to the inaugural exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists in New York

‘Fountain’ springs eternal as joke on art world

Today, April 1, the Philadelphia Museum of Art is reviving an old art joke — one that still reflects serious issues of contemporar ...

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Young Grant family members, cousins (from left) Emily Murta, Kristen Murta, and Kaitlin Grant, get an up-close look at the family heirloom for the first time. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Stolen Rockwell painting returned to N.J. owners 40 years after theft

An original painting by Normal Rockwell — stolen from a home in Cherry Hill 40 years ago — was returned Friday morning. The FB ...

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Philadelphia Museum of Art begins construction on its next ‘wow’ moment

The Philadelphia Museum of Art has broken ground on an expansion of its iconic building on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Instead of expa ...

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Robert Lawrence Trotter deliberately damaged is forgeries of American folk art to make them seem old. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Winterthur exhibit takes a second look at old masters of deception

This weekend, the Winterthur Museum and Garden in Delaware opens an exhibition of fakes — forged art and objects that were successfully ...

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Funk act finds theater through Polyphone

This week, the University of the Arts’ Ira Brind School of Theater Arts is hosting Polyphone, a festival of theatrical musicals tha ...

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 Mary Martello as Lady Bracknell and Daniel Fredrick as Algernon in Walnut Street Theatre's production of 'The Importance of Being Earnest.' (Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin)
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Review: The importance of ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’

The Walnut Street Theatre seems a natural place to see Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest,” which premiered ...

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 The budget blueprint for President Donald Trump's first budget and released by the Office of Management and Budget is photographed in Washington, Wednesday, March 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)
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Attacking the NEA does not put ‘America first’

I thought about my grandmother last week, when Donald J. Trump unrolled a federal budget proposal that, to no on ...

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 Laure Biron, director of the  Porch Light Program for Philadelphia Mural Arts, sits in the program's newly burnished storefront on Kensington Avenue. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Combatting opioids with paint: Mural Arts sets up shop in heart of epidemic

It has been all hands on deck as Philadelphia wrestles with a worsening opioid drug crisis, one that has caused ...

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 Playwright James Ijames has won the Whiting Award, a national prize for emerging writers. (Emma Lee/WHYY, file)

Philly playwright James Ijames wins national recognition, wider audience

A Philadelphia playwright has won a national award for emerging writers. James Ijames, known as an actor, director, and writer in ...

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