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Visual Arts

Andrew Jeffries and Stacey Holder stand on a lift, chiseling pieces from a mural on a building.
Arts & Entertainment

Isaiah Zagar’s iconic Painted Bride mosaic in Philadelphia’s Old City neighborhood is coming down

The 7,000-square-foot tile mosaic wrapping the former performance venue had been in legal limbo for five years.

3 years ago

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Chrisma Tucker, a 17-year-old student at Revolution School, explains her collage reflecting on the majority white, two-parent households in her neighborhood during a collaborative art project at the University of the Arts on Oct. 10, 2023
Education

Philly high schoolers and college students team up for a ZIP code art project

The students worked together to create a collage based on how their location and background influenced their life.

3 years ago

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A detail from “In the home with twelve children were born and raised, where they ate and slept and laughed and loved and grew quite old” by Sophie Blackall, from her book “Farmhouse” (2022). The artist created a large paper cutout dollhouse, and over the course of the story she switched out objects to show the house slowly deteriorating over time. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Brandywine Museum displays the ‘rainbow of America’ in children’s books

Displaying the “rainbow of America,” the museum in Chadds Ford is exhibiting stories of nature and family through diverse cultural lenses.

3 years ago

Photos of Palestinians displayed on a wall
Arts & Entertainment

20 years of Palestinian life in the West Bank on view at InLiquid gallery

The Kensington art gallery features the photography project documenting 20 years of life against the Israeli barrier wall.

3 years ago

Shawn Halladay, one of the finalists in the U.S.A Mullet Championships.
Arts & Entertainment
WPSU

Northern Pa. man is a finalist in national mullet championship to support veterans

This week is the final round in a nationwide contest for an iconic hairstyle. Shawn Halladay, one of the 25 finalists, is from Gifford in McKean County near Bradford.

3 years ago

art installation on the wall
Arts & Entertainment

SEPTA reopens its underground oculus, for daydreaming

“Philly Daydreaming” is a systemwide art installation profiling SEPTA drivers and riders. The centerpiece is an underground “spaceship.”

3 years ago

You can now pick up an
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Billy Penn

Sly Stallone asked, and now official Rocky merch is being sold at the Rocky steps for the first time in four decades

Sylvester Stallone reached out to the mayor and partnered with the Philadelphia Visitor Center to open a Sly Shop in front of the Art Museum.

3 years ago

Hezekiah Walker sings with a group onstage
Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment

OURFest, DesignPhiladelphia, fall festivals, John Mayer, Jerry Seinfeld, Gospel Celebration, and Revolutionary Germantown in this week’s ‘Things To Do’

Oct. 5 - 8: OURfest in Philly, Collingswood Book Festival in N.J., and Malcolm Jenkins book-signing in Delaware are among the weekend’s highlights.

3 years ago

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Art installation visible in windows of the train station
Arts & Entertainment

Amtrak’s 30th Street Station now glows like the cathedral it wants to be

A new public art initiative “Art at Amtrak” brings site-specific installations into rail stations along the Northeast Corridor.

3 years ago

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A view of the Kimmel Center on Broad Street
Arts & Entertainment

A Philadelphia story 30 years in the making: Avenue of the Arts marks three decades with week-long celebration

The area just south of City Hall was transformed as a hub for people who sought cultural programs 30 years ago.

3 years ago

Cesar Viveros poses for a photo in front of a mural and installation at the Delaware Art Museum
Arts & Entertainment

Empowering voices: Philadelphia artist bridging communities and culture through art in Wilmington

Cesar Viveros is transforming Wilmington through murals and workshops that celebrate Latino culture and foster unity and appreciation.

3 years ago

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Artworks from the Barkley L. Hendricks exhibition are displayed on Monday, Sept. 18, 2023 at The Frick Madison in New York. Hendricks, who died in 2017, is the first artist of color to have a solo exhibit at the Frick. ''Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick'' is open now through Jan. 7, 2024.
Arts & Entertainment

Pioneering Black portraitist Barkley L. Hendricks is first artist of color to get solo show at Frick

Born in Philadelphia, Hendricks studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later attended Yale’s school of art.

3 years ago

File photo: Artist Roberto Lugo, who created the mural, ''The Talented Mr. Trotter: You Can Be Anything'' reads a poem about the hardships of growing up in Kensington and the importance of arts education. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

‘Transforming the art form of ceramics’: Philly artist Roberto Lugo wins $250,000 Heinz Award

The Heinz Award, with its quarter-million dollar purse, was given to the Philly artist who makes ceramics depicting urban life.

3 years ago

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Cesar Viveros stands on a performance stage he helped dreate at the Cesar Andreu Iglesias Garden in Kensington.
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

From Tejería to Philadelphia, how muralist César Viveros found a life of art

The native of Veracruz has created more than 40 works for Mural Arts, plus numerous fresco paintings, sculptures, mosaics, and altars.

3 years ago

Patrick McGrath Muñiz poses for a photo. His paintings are visible behind him.
Arts & Entertainment

‘Colonial to neo-Colonial’: Puerto Rican artist’s Baroque style tells modern-day stories of climate change and identity

By using religious altar pieces and tarot imagery, Patrick McGrath Muñiz tackles themes of colonialism, identity, and climate.

3 years ago

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