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Arts & Entertainment

For Delaware artist Robert Straight, inspiration begins with the canvas itself

Have you ever looked at a blank canvas? Really looked at it? Those tiny little threads, woven together, it's that pattern gives Robert Straight his inspiration.

8 years ago

Frank Rizzo's statue  on the plaza of the Municipal Services Building stands at the center of controversy. Recently this afro pick with a black power symbol was added.(Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Urban Planning

Stay or go? Philadelphia sounds off on the Rizzo statue controversy

Ask Philadelphians for opinions on the Frank Rizzo statue, and you’ll get some serious attitude. The city recently invited citizens ...

8 years ago

Police stand guard at the Frank Rizzo statue on the grounds of the Municipal Services Building. (Emma Lee/WHYY, file)
Community

3,000 suggestions later, Rizzo statue’s future still in limbo

The chance to have your say about what Philadelphia should do with the statue of former Mayor Frank Rizzo is over. But it will be ...

8 years ago

 Terry Williamson, president of the Philadelphia Vietnam War Veterans Memorial Fund. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Architect of Philadelphia’s Vietnam memorial talks about why he served and why he protested

This story is part of a WHYY series examining how ...

8 years ago

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Community

Sculpture marks Delaware company’s escape from 87th floor on 9/11 [video]

A company that had offices in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, reveals a sculpture at its Delaware headquarters in honor of 9/11 ...

8 years ago

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Arts & Entertainment

A long-dead Pa. governor’s trip across town: Stolen Beaver bust recovered in FDR Park

The stolen bronze bust of a Civil War-era military commander was discovered Friday morning, abandoned beneath an Interstate 95 ...

8 years ago

 Mayor Jim Kenney wil formally ask the Philadelphia Art Commission to weigh in on whether to remove the 9-foot statue of former Mayor Frank Rizzo from the steps of the Municipal Services Building.(Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Community

Kenney administration will ask Philly Art Commission to review Rizzo statue location

Philadelphia’s mayor has promised a review of whether to move the Frank Rizzo statue that has again inspired controversy following ...

8 years ago

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Community

Kenney says he’s listening to all sides on whether Rizzo statue should go

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney said he’s listening to all sides on whether the statue of former mayor Frank Rizzo should be moved or ...

8 years ago

Ed and Kathleen Nader sit in their living room with a statue of St. Pantaleone that has been in Ed's family for four generations. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Missing Saint Pantaleon statue found in South Philly

This Thursday is the feast day of Saint Pantaleon, a third-century physician from the region that is now Turkey, who is known as the patr ...

8 years ago

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Workmen escort the statue onto 15th Street. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Urban Planning

Reconditioned LOVE sculpture will return when JFK Plaza reopens

Robert Indiana’s LOVE statue is one of Philadelphia’s most photographed sculptures. It is also the most frequently van ...

8 years ago

Red Grooms' 'Philadelphia Cornucopia' was created for the city's tricentennial in 1982. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Speak Easy
Arts & Entertainment

A ‘Philadelphia Cornucopia’ diminished but still impossible to ignore

In honor of the Democratic National Convention, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts this summer is hosting too many Washingtons to coun ...

9 years ago

 Alexander Milne Calder is shown with the head of his statue of William Penn, now atop Philadelphia City Hall. Calder won a competition to make 'William Penn' in 1874 and completed all his City Hall work by 1893. (Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
Arts & Entertainment

Generations of Alexander Calder art a trinity of blessings for Philadelphia

Three generations of men named Alexander Calder have graced Philadelphia with their remarkable creativity, yet most locals pay them no ...

11 years ago

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