WHYY’s arts and culture reporter Peter Crimmins first became interested in radio in the fourth grade, when he smuggled a contraband crystal-diode radio into the Boy Scout summer camp. Subsequent radio projects were more successful.
Crimmins has been reporting on arts and culture for WHYY News since 2010, as well as filing award-winning radio and print stories locally and nationally. He started his career in the San Francisco Bay Area, cutting his teeth at community station KALX and producing syndicated radio programming for Ben Manilla Productions. He lives in Fishtown with his wife and two dogs.
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The series of short films bring Walt Whitman’s poetry to Alabama where regular folks recite lines from ‘Song of Myself.’
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The Philly Pops orchestra will invite a tap dancer onstage for its series of Harlem Renaissance concerts.
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With its Egyptian galleries closed until 2022, the archaeological museum in West Philadelphia has set up a smaller exhibition of artifacts.
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Listen 1:59‘Birth of photography’ on display at the Barnes Foundation
In 1840, photography was both the runt of the fine art world and its greatest threat.
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Listen 2:25South Philly’s Theatre Exile finds bargain-basement home right where it started
The South Philadelphia theater company lost its home of 10 years. Now, it’s moving back to a bigger, better — albeit underground — stage.
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Listen 3:18An anti-advertising campaign of artwork takes over Philadelphia subway station
Thirty Philadelphia artists submitted work that has replaced all advertising in the Walnut-Locust Station.
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Listen 1:53Life, then death. Then life again. 50 years of pictures by David Lebe
The Philadelphia Museum of Art has the first major retrospective of David Lebe’s experimental photography, tracing his life as a gay man for a half-century.
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Listen 2:16Rodin’s radical public monuments on display in Philadelphia
The Rodin Museum in Philadelphia keeps alive a discussion about public monuments started in 2017 by the Monument Lab.
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Opera Philadelphia to open next season with a Russian tragedy
Opera Philadelphia has commissioned “Denis and Katya,” an opera based on the 2016 shooting deaths of two Russian teens in a self-inflicted explosion of violence.
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Documentary tracks ‘secret history’ of black representation in horror movies
A Philadelphia production team released an online documentary on Shudder, tracking a century of black representation in the bloodiest of genres.
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Jumping on the bland wagon at Institute of Contemporary Art
“Mundane Futures” assembles African-American art and artifacts as it imagines a radically banal tomorrow. The exhibit continues through March 31 at Penn.
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Chekhov comes in threes as Philly-area theaters present ‘Three Sisters’ three times
It’s an accidental triple-threat as three regional theater companies simultaneously produce variations of Chekhov’s classic ‘Three Sisters.’
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