
Arts & Entertainment
Shuttered Bucks County Playhouse hopes for summer revival
Theater people are a scrappy bunch. They do whatever it takes to get through the show. That philosophy works well for summer stock ...
13 years ago
Philadelphia firm unveils vision for New York’s Met
A Philadelphia firm’s vision will guide major renovations at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The museum unveiled a ...
13 years ago
Digitizing some Native American recordings while keeping others sacred
There are 3,000 recordings, representing languages and songs of more than 40 Native American tribes, in the archives of the American Phil ...
13 years ago
Tattoo convention descends on Philadelphia
The Philadelphia Tattoo Arts Convention was last weekend at the Pa. Convention Center. Tattoo artists from Amsterdam, Austin, Texas, Ne ...
13 years ago
Philly museum reopens with new name & old treasures
The first thing visitors see when they enter the newly renovated Philadelphia History Museum at the Atwater Kent (formerly the Atwater Ke ...
13 years ago
Give us your questions for renowned Iranian author Azar Nafisi
Azar Nafisi, the Iranian academic author of “Reading Lolita in Tehran,” will address ...
13 years ago
Exploring an illustrated history of tattoos at Philly museum
The inaugural show at the Independence Seaport Museum’s Community Gallery features art by pioneers of American sailor tattoos and t ...
13 years ago
Drawing on digital age, Moore to issue iPads to art students
Incoming freshmen will be required to go digital as Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia incorporates the iPad into its core c ...
13 years ago
Charles Dickens’ 200th birthday celebrated
This year marks 200 years since the birth of Charles Dickens, the great Victorian author who bequeathed the world such literary masterpie ...
13 years ago
Mob scenes: Philly students create play from random city violence
This weekend, another flash mob is coming to Philadelphia — this time as documentary theater. For three days, Thursday throu ...
13 years ago
Van Gogh exhibit in Philadelphia focuses on his last years
The new exhibition “Van Gogh Up Close” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, is not about exploring the Dutch artist’s tum ...
13 years ago
Celebrating Henry Ossawa Tanner’s legacy of art, inspiration
Henry Ossawa Tanner was a turn-of-last-century African-American artist who became one of the most important painters of his time. ...
13 years ago
Thousands gathered in State College to pay tribute to JoePa
The campus buses flashed “Paterno Proud” on their hood marquees. The creamery showed a spike in sales of its Peachy Paterno i ...
13 years ago
Printmakers rescue stories long imprisoned for Moore exhibit
“Doing Time/Depth of Surface” uses prints to transport the walls of a Philadelphia prison into a gallery. The ...
13 years ago
Space craft: Artist brings lessons down to earth for Philly kids
At first, Astronaut Tim is little more than a floating head appearing on a computer monitor. “So, I’m here, in the Int ...
13 years ago