Visual Arts
The Library Company looks back at its Imperfect History
“Imperfect Histories” revisits visual, racial, and gender bigotry going back hundreds of years, both intended and unintentional.
3 years ago
Trenton art project hopes to share the potential and the full story of residents lost to violence
The Potential Project will use public art and a mobile app to honor people lost to homicide in New Jersey’s capital city through the eyes of the people closest to them.
3 years ago
Montco launches its first county-wide Arts Week
Arts venues have a $100M impact on Montco’s economy. Arts Week highlights the large and small spots reopening from the pandemic.
3 years ago
Listen 1:30Black woman photographer captures 9/11 from ‘Blocks Away’
Photographer Velvet McNeil describes being at ground zero to document the day the twin towers fell.
3 years ago
Listen 5:54Ubuntu is more than a name for Steven CW Taylor’s spot — it’s an ethos.
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Soaring above an alley, ContraFuerte surprises and delights
Struggling to keep both themselves and a bridge upright, Miguel Horn’s ContraFuerte is open for your interpretation.
3 years ago
Pew Center grants $10.2 million for digital and diversity efforts
The annual Pew grants will distribute money toward arts institutions’ digital and diversity efforts.
3 years ago
At one of Philly’s oldest tattoo parlors, women are inking the art
Eddie’s in Chinatown has experienced a changing of the guard.
3 years ago
Fringe Festival turns 25, spawns its own mini-festival
Cannonball is a new artist-produced festival-within-the-festival, a critical sign of growth for the Philly Fringe.
3 years ago
Listen 1:42Swimming while Black: A new exhibit explores Black resilience at the pool
An exhibition inside the Fairmount Waterworks’ dilapidated underground pool explores the history of segregated swimming.
3 years ago
Philly Naked Bike Ride, Kings of Leon, tango at the forefront and more in this week’s ‘Things to Do’
Aug. 26 - Aug. 29: Things to do in Philadelphia, Del., and N.J.
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Listen 4:29Apartments on top, murals on bottom: Philly approves building plan, saves Painted Bride facade
The Zoning Board of Adjustment decision would allow construction of a 70-unit modernist apartment building in exchange for preserving the mural.
3 years ago
Salsa as self-care? Find joy in free dance lessons and a mural of salseros Saturday
A new mural from artist Andres Giraldo is coming to Kensington. “Salsa Shines Through” celebrates Philly’s salsa community and their resilience during the pandemic.
3 years ago
Philly’s fave Afrofuturists turned a Fairmount mansion into a time-travel portal
The Hatfield House in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park is the site of an Afrofuturist vision of time travel by the art duo Black Quantum Futurism
3 years ago
A digital mural allows visitors to ‘see, touch, feel’ Camden history, with hope it’ll draw tourists
With a digital mural, Camden wants to draw history buffs for USA’s 250th birthday.
3 years ago