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Arts & Entertainment

Philadelphia Flower Show goes back inside for ‘23 after 2-year run in FDR park

COVID-19 pushed the Philadelphia Flower Show outside the last two years. In 2023 it will return to its traditional indoor setting and start just before spring.

7 days ago

Cristina Conyers (left) and Jazmin Hurtado, visitors to Philadelphia from Los Angeles, check out Jean Shin's ''Freshwater'' at the Cherry Street Pier. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Sculptural fountain at Philly’s Cherry Street Pier is a 16’ glass bed of living mussels

“Freshwater” by Jean Shin spotlights the importance of mussels as “ecosystem engineers” keeping our rivers clean.

1 week ago

An arching trellis with flowers is shown over a walkway with trees and a blue sky in the background.
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

Photos from the Philadelphia Flower Show, with 15 acres of colorful beauty in FDR Park

Visitors said the event, now in its second time outdoors, was head and shoulders above last year’s edition.

1 week ago

Artist Marianela Fuentes stands in the ribcage of her sculpture, ''Alpha Sacred Beings (The Order of Creation),'' mounted on a six foot concrete plinth in Philadelphia Navy Yard. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

A dinosaur with native beadwork emerges in Philly’s Navy Yard

A life-size sculpture of a Parasaurolophus decorated with Lenni Lenape beadwork is the first permanent sculpture introduced by the Navy Yard’s developer.

2 weeks ago

Virginia Maksymowicz holds one of the cast-plastic tools she created for her sculpture, ''Tools of the Trade,'' now installed in the North Waiting Room of William H. Gray III 30th Street Station. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

First new sculpture in 70 years for Philly’s 30th Street Station

Amtrak built a wall on wheels to accommodate Virginia Maksymowicz’s “Tools of the Trade,” honoring hand labor in the national rail system.

2 months ago

Rendering of the OY/YO sculpture in front of the Wetizman museum
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

10 things to know about the new OY/YO sculpture outside Philly’s Jewish museum

It creates an instantly iconic selfie spot on Independence Mall.

2 months ago

The sculpture at the new Philadelphia police headquarters centers on Black history, abolitionists (Peter Crimmins / WHYY)
Community

New Philadelphia police headquarters sculpture recasts city seal with focus on Black history, abolitionists

The design for the sculpture commissioned for the new Philly police headquarters was altered following the 2020 protest over the killing of George Floyd.

3 months ago

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Dan Szatkowski, North Augusta, S.C, poses with his newly purchased garden gnome during a practice round for the Masters golf tournament on Tuesday, April 5, 2022, in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Arts & Entertainment

At Masters, some come to see golfers, others to see gnomes

The Masters has gone gnome-mad. Yes. Gnomes.

3 months ago

A statue of Harriet Tubman is unveiled on the North Apron of City Hall
Community

Philly plans permanent statue honoring Harriet Tubman

The newly commissioned permanent statue will be larger than the temporary Tubman statue currently at City Hall.

4 months ago

A rendering of the new Clay Studio on North American Street in Kensington, expected to open in Spring 2022. (DIGSAU Architects)
Arts & Entertainment

Clay Studio nearing its $14.5 million move to Kensington

The ceramics center will vacate its Old City home of 41 years for a $14.5 million custom-designed building for artists and community members.

5 months ago

A statue of Harriet Tubman is unveiled on the North Apron of City Hall
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Harriet Tubman statue arrives in Philadelphia in time for her 200th birthday

The nine-foot-tall sculpture will reside on the apron of City Hall until the end of March when the city will celebrate the anniversary of her birth in March of 1822.

6 months ago

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''Journey to Freedom,'' by Wesley Wofford. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Sculpture of Harriet Tubman coming to City Hall

Wesley Wofford’s “Journey to Freedom” will be temporarily installed outside City Hall during the city’s 10-week celebration of Tubman’s bicentennial.

6 months ago

Eric Pryor smiles for a photo
Education

PAFA names its first Black president for a time of significant transition

Eric Pryor, current president of Harlem School of the Arts, will lead PAFA through the school’s transition from the COVID-19 pandemic.

7 months ago

Leslie Kaufman, curator or Voices and Visions, a sculpture show at Cherry Street Pier in Philadelphia, stands by a piece that was damaged in flooding the last week of October, 2021
Arts & Entertainment

Delaware River takes a bite out of a waterfront art exhibit

A show of contemporary sculpture on Cherry Street Pier hit by flooding on opening night.

8 months ago

Pool Room 11th & Walnut, an oil on canvas painting by Wilmington's Edward Loper Jr., is in the exhibit. (Del. Art Museum)
Arts & Entertainment

50 years after shunning Black artists, Delaware Art Museum looks to atone for its ‘institutional racism’

Artist and educator Percy Ricks was rejected by Delaware Art Museum in a 1971 effort to showcase Black artists. The museum is making amends 50 years later.

9 months ago

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