Arts & Entertainment

The Barnes Foundation now has it world-famous collection of Impressionist paintings in place, and will finally restore them to public vie ...

One of the biggest stars in rap will put together a massive outdoor concert on Labor Day weekend. JayZ (aka Shawn Carter) is organ ...

Here’s the list of characters: Dad: dedicated and attentive, but dead. He got hit by a c ...

The most famous Haiku by Nick Virgilio is the one engraved on his tombstone. It goes like this: Lily: Out of the water̷ ...

For most of the 20th century, fine art museums have eschewed craft as not worthy of being showcased in a gallery alongside revered artwor ...

Stefan Sagmeister is an Austrian Grammy-award winning graphic designer, who’s behind album covers for the Talking Heads, Lou Reed, ...

For the past few years the Mütter Museum has been eagerly opening itself to artistic interpretation. Philadelphia’s archive of mor ...

A little-known civil rights activist from the 19th century is being honored in Philadelphia this month. Martin Delany was the high ...

Since 1981, an estimated 500 artists have come and gone through the five floors at the former railroad building and warehouse at 915 Spri ...

The 28th Virginia Infantry, Company D, has a website. On it are tips for women to pass as men on the battlefield: Cut hair short, or tuck ...

WHYY’s Arts Calendar curator Robin Bloom sorts through hundreds of listings each week to find out what’s happening in the Del ...

Amy Smith is a dancer and choreographer with the Headlong Dance Company. In 2004, when she proposed to her husband that they build a geod ...

Next month, the Philadelphia Orchestra will be in China for an unprecedented cultural exchange that should strengthen its global reach. ...

For almost 70 years, Andrew Wyeth worked in a converted country schoolhouse in Chadds Ford, Pa. Now the studio of one of the most revered ...

The Philadelphia Orchestra has cleared the last major hurdle in its bankruptcy proceedings. It has negotiated a settlement with the music ...