Peter Crimmins

The Philadelphia Contraption Contest went dormant during the pandemic. It took an experimental theater company to bring it back.

Christina Vassallo, previously of the Fabric Workshop and Museum, will run the major arts funder for the Philadelphia region.

Fifty-two Philadelphia innovations will be spotlighted in 2026, one each week, by the city’s artists and visitors bureau.

Before the National Dog Show taped in Philadelphia, it held an off-book barking contest. Here’s what barking tells us about dogs.

The Constitution Center’s Jeffrey Rosen wrote songs about the moral philosophy behind the Founding Fathers’ signature phrase.

ArtPhilly will showcase Philly culture, past and present.

Eight curators from eight Indigenous nations redesigned Penn Museum’s Native North America display.

Weiss has ties to the Philly region and had been the head of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

With “You Are Here,” teenagers carve out their own space in West Philly to express themselves freely.

America’s oldest folk parade will feature 10,000 participants on New Year’s Day.

Opera Philadelphia and WHYY will present a holiday concert in the Wanamaker Building Dec. 2, to be broadcast on TV12 on Dec. 23.

Thomas Jefferson University asked one of its customer service employees to write an alma mater.