Peter Crimmins

The Asian Arts Initiative has made socially engaged art for 25 years. Now its original director is moving on.

America's first coffee-table book, circa 1800, showed Philadelphia as the world's next great city.

Abu-Jamal, a former journalist and member of the Black Panther Party, was found guilty of killing Philadelphia Police Officer Danial Faulkner in December 1981.

One of Ursula von Rydingsvard's works, “Bronze Bowl with Lace,” is a 20-foot bronze, cast in a cedar mold, that resembles a tornado.

Philadelphia poet laureate, Raquel Salas Rivera, publishes book-length poetry cycle on Puerto Rican debt crisis.

Camden's king of haiku poetry - Nick Virgilio - now has a writers house named after him.

Former Attorney General Eric Holder spoke at National Constitution Center to mark 150th anniversary of 14th Amendment

A new play "¡Bienvenidos Blancos!, or Welcome White People!" tracks a descendant of the Cuban exodus as he re-assesses his feelings for the island nation.

Photographer and Drexel professor Andrea Modica photographed Mummer wenches, one day a year for 10 years.

The Penn Museum has greatly expanded its Middle East gallery, the first part of a building-wide renovation.

Philadelphia Museum of Art dives deep into its Modernist collection for its 'Modern Times' summer exhibition

Philadelphia Young Playwrights shows what on teenagers' minds during the festival.