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Salvador Jiménez-Flores poses for a photo near his sculpture
Arts & Entertainment

‘Creative Freedom’ salon in Hamilton, N.J. to celebrate avant-garde artists like Marshall Allen, Salvador Jiménez-Flores

The July program at Grounds for Sculpture will bring together music, visual art and conversation to explore creative freedom with three acclaimed artists.

3 days ago

Banners created by artist Odili Donald Odita at Broad Street Love
Arts & Entertainment

A Philadelphia arts festival asks: ‘What Now’? as the U.S. approaches its 250th birthday

“What Now: 2026” features 34 original premieres in visual and performing arts to “interrogate” America ahead of its semiquincentennial.

5 days ago

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three self-portraits next to three other works on a wall
Arts & Entertainment

Historic Delaware museum marks America’s 250th with contemporary art that challenges America’s past

The Rockwood Museum pairs works by five regional artists with its historic collection to explore race, identity and who is included in “We the People.”

6 days ago

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Gretjen Clausing
Community

Gretjen Clausing, founder of PhillyCAM, has died

Clausing founded PhillyCAM in 2009 to put media production into the hands of all Philadelphians.

1 week ago

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Nilé Livingston helps students at Pan American Academy Charter School in Kensington paint a mural
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

Kensington students help paint World Cup mural celebrating soccer and the community’s deep Latino roots

Nilé Livingston’s mural design was first seen in digital form when Philly was vying to be a host city. Now it’s becoming a true Philly mural.

2 weeks ago

Andre Saunders, the winner of the Harriett Tubman statue caption contest
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

Philly asked, and you decided: Here’s the quote that will be on the Harriet Tubman statue

The civil rights icon will be featured on a statue at City Hall later this year – and one Philly artist’s quote will be inscribed on its base.

2 weeks ago

Martha McDonald watches herself on screen playing the armonica
Arts & Entertainment

‘Currents’ multimedia installations portray Schuylkill River in new art exhibit at Fairmount Water Works

The exhibit features multimedia installations created by 10 local artists that bring to life the once-obscure underground corridors of the water system.

3 weeks ago

Listen 1:22
A statue of professional golfer Forrest Fezler in Dilworth Park
Community
Billy Penn

Why Dilworth Park has a statue of a golfer wearing a real pair of shorts this week

It’s tied to this week’s PGA Championship in Delco and it’s a pretty deep cut — even for golf fans.

3 weeks ago

Elegyy Quilts on display at the Fabric Workshop exhibit
Arts & Entertainment

At Philly’s Fabric Workshop, Jesse Krimes turns incarcerated people’s memories into quilts

“Quilt Elegies” includes a prototype of Krimes’ fabric-based mural designed with people recently released from prison.

1 month ago

Listen 1:10
Various historical American documents are shown at a display at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Arts & Entertainment

In Philadelphia, a new exhibit shows American independence was not inevitable

The Historical Society of Pennsylvania traces colonists' fractured, decadeslong shift from loyalty to rebellion.

1 month ago

Listen 1:27
LGBTQ Heroes paint day at club Voyeur
Community
Billy Penn

Five queer Philadelphians are getting their due with a lush, floral mural in the heart of the Gayborhood

Artist Santiago Galeas talks honoring LGBTQ+ trailblazers through community outreach.

1 month ago

The National Liberty Museum exhibiting a collection of sports memorabilia
Arts & Entertainment

Philly’s Liberty Museum shows what the World Cup and the First Amendment have in common

“In the Arena” demonstrates how sports exemplify the U.S. Constitution’s Freedom of Assembly.

1 month ago

Listen 1:41
The marble floor of Hamilton Hall
Arts & Entertainment

Philadelphia’s Please Touch Museum has a new $4.2M marble floor. The old marble is making a comeback in Center City restaurants

It took 10 years for the children's museum to raise the money to replace its 19th-century marble floors.

1 month ago

Listen 1:49
Trombonist Brent White performs
Arts & Entertainment

Philadelphia budget 2026: Isaiah Thomas, Rue Landau want $6 million allocated for arts

With funding turbulence at the federal and state levels, elected officials are calling for the city to pick up some of the slack.

1 month ago

Listen 1:26
ROcky statue
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

‘Never in a million years.’ The Rocky statue’s long, unlikely road to acceptance inside the Art Museum

Rocky is headlining the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s new exhibition on monuments, after two decades of drawing millions of tourists to the outside of the building.

1 month ago

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