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Community
Billy Penn

In three new ‘First 100 Days’ posters, Philly artists lay out policies for Biden and Harris

The Mural Arts project was a bigger success than its creators imagined.

2 days ago

Visitors wear masks at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in October. The museum's director says the Met is considering selling art to pay for operating expenses. (John Minchillo/AP)
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Arts & Entertainment

The Met considers selling its art to stave off financial shortfall

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is considering selling its artwork to cover operational costs as it falls short of $150 million in revenue.

2 days ago

The creators say the sticker has even spread beyond Philadelphia INSTAGRAM / @ANTIFLOWERSHOWMOVEMENT
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Billy Penn

The ‘Anti Flower Show Movement’ and the black-and-white photo sticker all over Philly streets

Who’s behind the viral image, and are they trolling for a reason?

6 days ago

Camae Ayewa and Rasheedah Phillips
Arts & Entertainment

Black Quantum Futurism receives the Knight Foundation’s new art and technology fellowship

The Knight Foundation has launched a $50,000 art and technology fellowship. Its first class includes a Philly duo making science fiction a reality.

1 week ago

Danielle Brief and Jonah Adams stand next to a mural in South Philly
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A very Philly engagement story: Couple plans identical proposals with murals

They both wanted to pop the question. This South Philly couple decided to say it with street art — unbeknownst to each other.

2 weeks ago

Anne Ishii, executive director of the Asian Arts Initiative, holds a poster designed by Philadelphia poet and musician, Moor Mother, for the Unity at the Initiative exhibit
Arts & Entertainment

Skate park installation and printmaking exhibition bring queer and trans artists together

The Asian Arts Initiative now has a ‘skate room,’ wheat-pasted with original posters by Philadelphia artists of color who identify as queer and/or trans.

2 weeks ago

Philadelphia artist Leroy Johnson
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Billy Penn

‘Love In Isolation’ portrait series celebrates the beauty of Black Philadelphia creators

Grounded by the pandemic, the world-famous fashion designer behind Ikiré Jones went searching for inspiration at home.

3 weeks ago

Gilbert Lewis portrait painting of model Anthony Rullo
Arts & Entertainment

Gilbert Lewis remembered as artist, mentor to Philly’s gay ’80s

“Only Tony” features 25 portraits that Gilbert Lewis painted of a single model during the height of the AIDS epidemic.

3 weeks ago

A detail of artist Ebony G. Patterson's mixed media work
Arts & Entertainment

PAFA invites women to take up space in new feminist exhibition

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts has reopened in a big way, with big art on big walls that take your breath away with their sheer size.

4 weeks ago

Tchin, an internationally showcased jewelry maker who lives in New Jersey, speaks with visitors at the We Are the Seeds festival (Angela Gervasi for WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Native American artists offer hope and craft in online workshops

We Are The Seeds, based in Philadelphia, is asking Native American artists from around the country to teach digital workshops open to the public.

4 weeks ago

Mural in West Philadelphia by Paris Stancel and Dave McShane
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Eyes on the Street

Philly needs to protect public art — and the artists that make it too

Philadelphia stands to lose more than murals if the city, employers, and cultural institutions don’t do more to support the artists that create them.

4 weeks ago

Artist Jonathan Lyndon Chase
Arts & Entertainment

Queer and Black at the laundromat: Jonathan Lyndon Chase at the Fabric Workshop and Museum

Big Wash explores the laundromat as a site of queer domestic life where the private meets the public, and the idea of cleaning as both ritual and meditation.

1 month ago

Mural in Philly
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

New Philly mural shouts out Black and queer organizers’ role in getting Biden elected

“We Did That” is up near the Pennsylvania Convention Center, at the spot that felt like the center of the universe during ballot counting.

1 month ago

Tiff Urquhart and her new wheatpaste of late LGBTQ activist Gloria Casarez
Community
Billy Penn

Down the block from the whitewashed mural, a colorful new Gloria Casarez tribute

Queer artist Tiff Urquhart eased her pain by installing a wheatpaste of the LGBTQ icon.

1 month ago

A vote 2020 mural in Philadelphia on South Street
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Philly has 3,600 murals and few ways to protect them

If the owner of a wall wants to get rid of the mural on it, there isn’t much the artist or community can do. Jane Golden wants to change that.

2 months ago

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