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The Connection with Marty Moss-Coane

It’s easy to feel as if the world is falling apart. The Connection features wide-ranging conversations about the bonds that hold us together, the forces that drive us apart, the conflicts that keep us from exploring life’s possibilities and the qualities that make us unique and human.

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Blue Room (1970-73) by Catherine Jansen, at PAFA (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Hidden in plain sight: Philadelphia as the center of the American avant-garde

A new exhibition by the University of the Arts positions Philadelphia as the heart of the mid-century American avant-garde.

6 years ago

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Bowie inspired art by school children is and will hang above a creative corner where visitors can create their own Bowie artworks. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Philly Loves Bowie opens with exhibition of fan and fine art

An international roster of 47 artists submitted work to the National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia to honor the late David Bowie.

6 years ago

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(Danya Henninger/Billy Penn)
Community

Noodles thrown on Rizzo statue, which won’t be moved until 2022

A day after the controversial bronze likeness was defaced with a scrawl reading “FASCIST,” it was defaced again.

6 years ago

'That’s good news,' says 1210WPHT radio host Dom Giordano on Wednesday upon learning of the Kenney administration’s new schedule for removing the Frank Rizzo statue in Center City. Giordano spoke an event commemorating the 99th birthday of the former mayor, where supporters placed Italian bread loaves in the shape of the number 99 at the based of the statue. (Michael D'Onofrio/The Philadelphia Tribune)
Community
The Philadelphia Tribune

Timeline for Rizzo statue removal pushed back — again

The Kenney administration has readjusted the timeline for relocating the larger-than-life statue of Frank Rizzo yet again.

6 years ago

Stephen Talasnik's Endurance sits illuminated in the Delaware River boat basin ready for the opening of the FLOW exhibition. FLOW is a sculpture exhibit on the Delaware River in partnership with Philadelphia Sculptors and the Independence Seaport Museum. (Emily Cohen for WHYY)
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Arts & Entertainment

Philly native Stephen Talasnik brings his work home for Seaport’s floating art exhibit

An art exhibit floating on the Delaware opens at the Seaport Museum. Philly-born artist Stephen Talasnik returns after 34 years to contribute.

6 years ago

Smith Playground summer camp participants, and Boys and Girls Club members take the first photos in from of the “MVP” Ora Washington statue. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

‘It looks like me:’ New South Philly statue meant to inspire young women and girls

Philly commissioned ‘MVP’ as part of a public art program, and it’s the city’s first statue of an individual African-American girl.

6 years ago

Lucy The Elephant in 1895 stands at Atlantic Avenue and  Decatur Street, Margate City, N.J. (Library of Congress)
The Why
Community

Lucy The Elephant at 138: Standing the test of time

Lucy The Elephant, the 65-foot-tall Margate landmark, turns 138 Saturday. The country's oldest roadside attraction has withstood natural disasters and threats of demolition.

Air Date: July 17, 2019

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A museum patron pauses at the west entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art to look at
Arts & Entertainment

Two Philadelphia Art Museum sculptures are moving across town

Monumental sculptures at one of the entrances of the Philadelphia Museum of Art will be removed to make room for building renovations by Frank Gehry.

6 years ago

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The Association for Public Art (aPA) presents 'Sculpture Zoo in Logan Circle' on Saturday, June 22, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., with free, fun-filled activities (The Philadelphia Tribune)
Arts & Entertainment
The Philadelphia Tribune

‘Sculpture Zoo in Logan Circle’ brings public art to life

This weekend, the Swann Fountain will serve as inspiration as Philadelphia-based artists put on animal sculpture demonstrations for young artists.

6 years ago

Workman hoist the White Water sculpture off of its base to a flat bed truck.  White Water, a sculpture by Philadelphia artist Robinson Fredenthal is moved from the garden behind the Wells Fargo building in Old City to its new home at the Woodmere Art Museum in Chestnut Hill. (Jonathan Wilson for WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

How a massive Robinson Fredenthal sculpture moved to Chestnut Hill in the dead of night

The “White Water” sculpture had been in downtown Philadelphia for 40 years. It now lives on the front lawn of the Woodmere Museum.

7 years ago

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A visitor to the Philadelphia Museum of Art inspects the sculpture series,
Arts & Entertainment

Antony Gormley’s iron sculptures loom over Rocky steps at Art Museum

People running up the Rocky steps at the Philadelphia Museum of Art now face something new at the top – a wall of 10 cast-iron figures planted on the top step.

7 years ago

Arts & Entertainment

Iconic Manhattan sculpture finds a new home in Collegeville, Pa.

An icon of bustling Rockefeller Center in NYC, the sculpture "Cubed Curve" is now on the leafy campus of Ursinus College.

7 years ago

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Arts & Entertainment

Artist attempts to sum up the world in Philly exhibit

Rina Banerjee's first major retrospective at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is called "Make Me a Summary of the World."

7 years ago

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Arts & Entertainment

Philly artists recreate gigantic 1973 ‘Rube Goldberg’ orchestra

Now on display at the Pearlstein Gallery in Drexel University’s URBN Annex, “Zwei Mann Orchester” is a musical Rube Goldberg machine that delights with its symphonic absurdity

7 years ago

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Chris Taylor, president of the Clay Studio, and Vice President Jennifer Martin, are moving their studio out of Old City to a larger site on North American Street.
NewsWorks Tonight
Arts & Entertainment

‘Bursting at the seams,’ Clay Studio plans move from Old City to Kensington

A longtime arts anchor in Philadelphia's Old City neighborhood, the Clay Studio prepares to relocate.

8 years ago

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