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Fiberglass KAWS Companion sculptures invite a comparison between the old and new and PAFA hopes to create a dialogue on the topic. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

KAWS’ cartoon sculptures echo classical works at Pa. Academy of Fine Arts

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts has been invaded by a street artist named KAWS. The classical paintings in the historic ...

12 years ago

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First for Friday, October 11, 2013

Turf war The partial government shutdown is hitting our soldiers and airmen where it hurts, in their wallets. If that wa ...

Air Date: October 11, 2013

 Assistant curators in the Egyptian section of the Penn Museum, Josef and Jennifer Wegner have acquired their own collection of all things Egypt in their West Philadelphia home. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
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Cleopatra bobbleheads are among treasures of Egyptian kitsch

This weekend the University of Pennsylvania museum launches an exhibition celebrating the 100th anniversary of the arrival of its sphinx. ...

12 years ago

 Lauren Sowa as Emma and Jake Blouch as Frank Churchill in Lantern Theater Company's production of
Shapiro on Theater

Review: ‘Emma’ — When does a story become theater?

Can a stage adaptation be too faithful to the book it’s taken from? The version of Jane Austen’s venerable “Emma,” ...

12 years ago

 The new FringeArts Building at Race Street and Columbus Boulevard opens this weekend with The Elephant Room, a Fringe performance from last year. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

FringeArts Building allows ‘fringey’ spirit of festival to continue all year in Philly

This weekend, a new performance venue will open on the Philadelphia waterfront. The FringeArts Building at Race Street and Columbus Boule ...

12 years ago

 In her new novel, author Elizabeth Gilbert, known best for her memoir,

Historic Philadelphia mansion leaves imprint on Elizabeth Gilbert’s ‘Signature of All Things’

In Elizabeth GIlbert’s breakthrough, bestselling memoir, “Eat, Pray. Love,” she goes on a globetrotting journey seeking ...

12 years ago

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 Rachel Greenberger, 17, reads the part of Janet, from the play

After legendary high school drama director bows out, former student takes on role in Levittown

After 44 years of ground-breaking theater at the high school level, Lou Volpe retired in May. Volpe created a legendary drama prog ...

12 years ago

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 The Shepard Fairey wheatpaste on the Norris Street side of Rocket Cat Cafe went up in 2010 and is now covered with a brown tarp until owner Karen Breese decides how to revive the mural. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

Drenched in graffiti, iconic artwork by Shepard Fairey now under cover in Fishtown

Something’s missing on the side of a building in Philadelphia’s Fishtown neighborhood. Drivers heading up Frankford Avenue no ...

12 years ago

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 Carlo Campbell (left) as one of
Shapiro on Theater

Review: ‘The Brothers Size’ — tough love, anyone?

It’s a treat to see “The Brothers Size,” a stirring piece about two adult brothers who mostly get along by not getting ...

12 years ago

‘What We Sow’ dinner event transplanted to Center City due to U.S. shutdown

The Mural Arts Project has spent months planning a series of community engagement events, called “What We Sow,” that was supp ...

12 years ago

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First for Friday, October 4, 2013

Protecting student athletes You only have to look at the $765-million NFL concussion settlement to know that this is a bi ...

Air Date: October 4, 2013

Shapiro on Theater

Review: Barbara Cook and the rebirth of a cabaret

When the celebrated performer Barbara Cook sang her first notes Wednesday night at the revitalized Prince Music Theater, she wasn’t ...

12 years ago

 From the left, Scott Greer, Rachel Camp, Sarah Gliko, Alex Keiper and Caroline Dooner of the ensemble in Arden Theatre Company's production of Parade. Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin.
Shapiro on Theater

Review: ‘Parade’ passes by, then and now and all at once

The Arden Theatre Company’s stage bursts with talent in its meticulously delivered production of “Parade,” but the pers ...

12 years ago

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 The present-day Temple University campus, by daylight, is not nearly as frightening as it was one night 21 years ago for Billy Smith. (Nathaniel Hamilton/for NewsWorks)

When you know that the boy with a gun doesn’t really want to shoot you

Each month, NewsWorks presents a story from the First Person Arts Podcast. In this edition, a Temple grad and Philadel ...

12 years ago

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 Charles A. Lindbergh is shown in this 1927 file photo with his plane, the Spirit of St. Louis, with which he made the first solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean from west to east, the same year. (AP Photo, file)

In new book, Bill Bryson revisits marvelous and mundane summer of 1927

The summer of 2013 has come and gone, but Bill Bryson wants to tell you about the summer of 1927. “It was the most magical a ...

12 years ago

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