Arts & Entertainment

After eight years of controversy, a commemorative installation where the first White House once stood is open. “The Presiden ...

The home where George Washington shared space with his slaves has opened to visitors. The long-buried  structure also opened a debat ...

A new strategic plan implemented by the board of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts last fall is reaping rewards. A major collecti ...

Peggy Amsterdam led the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance until she died of cancer last year, the day after Christmas.  ...

Philadelphia will see the American premiere of a new comic opera this week. But it won’t be at the Academy of Music, nor the Kimmel ...

Octavius Catto was, in his day, as known for his civil rights activism as was Frederick Douglass.

The film “Black Swan” starring Natalie Portman opens this weekend. Several Philadelphia dancers appear alongside her in the ...

He has played with Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock and Stan Getz. He has won three Grammy awards, and is now up for a fourth. He ...

The religious and the secular make strange bedfellows during the holiday season as shopping and egg nog share the same space with spiritu ...

Several artists based in Philadelphia are experimenting with an alternative way of raising money. A new website called United States Arti ...

In real estate, the balance between development and preservation is a delicate one. But some historic buildings in Philadelphia could fac ...

Philadelphia is represented in the Grammy nominations released last week. Artists ranging from jazz to R&B to hip hop — even in ...

On Tuesday, one of the rarest, most expensive books in the world will be auctioned at Sotheby’s in London. An original copy of John ...

While many neighborhood arts organizations dream of expanding, a North Philadelphia program dreamed of shrinking. For 11 years, th ...

For more than 50 years, George Balanchine’s “Nutcracker” has been the gateway for thousands of first-time ballet dancer ...