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Studio 2

Haunted Local History, Composer James Newton Howard, New Tubman Statue

It's Studio 2 spooky season. Author Jennifer Green talks about 'Dark History of Penn's Woods II' and music and film composer James Newton Howard spills his creative guts.

Air Date: October 31, 2023 12:00 pm

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The hands of Alvin Pettit's Harriet Tubman statue are folded in prayer, or perhaps clenched. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Design for Philly’s new Harriet Tubman statue unveiled

The statue shows the fierce abolitionist and former slave as a reverent warrior for liberation.

2 years ago

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Andrew Jeffries and Stacey Holder stand on a lift, chiseling pieces from a mural on a building.
Arts & Entertainment

Isaiah Zagar’s iconic Painted Bride mosaic in Philadelphia’s Old City neighborhood is coming down

The 7,000-square-foot tile mosaic wrapping the former performance venue had been in legal limbo for five years.

2 years ago

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Laurel Hill Cemetery mechanic Ed Bernstein checks under the hood of the 1947 Pontiac Superior hearse, FYNLRYD
Arts & Entertainment

Laurel Hill Cemetery has a hot rod hearse with the previous owner still inside

FYNLRYD has found its forever home parked just inside the gates of Laurel Hill East.

2 years ago

Pieces from ''Spiral Q:The Parade'' exhibit on display at Grounds For Sculpture, a 42-acre sculpture park just outside Trenton, N.J.(Tennyson Donyéa/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

‘For the people by the people’: A New Jersey art exhibit at Grounds For Sculpture is a form of peaceful protest

Some of the Spiral Q exhibit’s signature pieces take stances on urgent social issues, including calls to defund police and immigration enforcement agencies.

2 years ago

James Claiborne poses in front of the gallery at the Barnes Foundation where William Edmondson's sculptures are displayed.
Arts & Entertainment

‘Sublime’ folk sculptures by William Edmondson at the Barnes Foundation

Eight decades after his landmark exhibition at MOMA, William Edmondson’s “Monumental Vision” gets refreshed at the Barnes.

2 years ago

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A sculpture made of steel rods forming a sphere is in the foreground. Behind it are trees, the river, and a pathway.
Arts & Entertainment

Contemporary art ‘reanimates’ historic sculpture garden on the Schuylkill River

Maren Hassinger’s “Steel Bodies” reanimates a vision of American history at the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial along the Schuylkill River.

2 years ago

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A close-up of a painted paper maché fantastical creature.
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

A new era begins for Eyes Gallery as it reopens on South Street

The Philadelphia gem, more than a half-century old, inaugurates its new location this weekend.

2 years ago

A flower display has a blue gown as its centerpiece.
Education
Billy Penn

W.B. Saul students win gold at Philadelphia Flower Show for ‘electric blue’ prom-inspired exhibit

Horticulture is a major at the magnet high school, which maintains a 130-acre campus in Roxborough.

2 years ago

File photo: Philadelphia Museum of Arts is opening a new department for African and African Diasporic art.  (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Arts & Entertainment

Philadelphia Museum of Art creates a new department for Black and African art

A gift of 300 pieces of African art will seed the new Brind Center for African and African Diasporic Art.

2 years ago

A view of the National Constitution Center.
Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment

Presidents Day celebrations, ‘Disney 100’ exhibit, Talisk, and Ice Fest in this week’s ‘Things To Do’

Feb. 16 - Feb. 19: Black dance tribute in Del., “Disney 100” exhibit in Philly, and “The Wild Party” in South Jersey are among weekend event highlights.

2 years ago

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Paintings are hung in a gallery.
Arts & Entertainment

Philly artist Alex Da Corte explodes into ‘The Street’

The Philly artist’s immersive installation at UArts taps into anxieties born out of the pandemic era.

2 years ago

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A figure holding a man baby gazes towards another sculpted figure.
Arts & Entertainment

Art that stares back: Life-size figures reflect cultural identities at the Clay Studio

The Clay Studio in Philadelphia asked 12 artists to make work that reflects how they feel about their position in the world right now.

2 years ago

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The Rocky statue on a sunny day.
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

Making the Rocky statue into ‘a destination for the world’

Is it a movie prop or is it art?

2 years ago

A close-up of a butter sculpture of a calf.
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

PA Farm Show butter sculpture: 1,000 lbs. and all the stats you could possibly want to know

For the 2023 edition, sculptors carved a multi-generational scene of a dairy farming family, with a keystone backdrop showing a bucolic farm.

2 years ago

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