
Sculpture
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
Listen 50:16Design for Philly’s new Harriet Tubman statue unveiled
The statue shows the fierce abolitionist and former slave as a reverent warrior for liberation.
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Listen 1:12Isaiah 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.
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Listen 1:27Laurel 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.
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Some of the Spiral Q exhibit’s signature pieces take stances on urgent social issues, including calls to defund police and immigration enforcement agencies.
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‘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.
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Listen 1:17Contemporary 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.
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Listen 1:27A 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Listen 6:21Philly 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.
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Listen 1:21Art 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.
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Listen 1:21Making the Rocky statue into ‘a destination for the world’
Is it a movie prop or is it art?
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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.
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