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Living on Earth is an environmental news and information program. Each week host Steve Curwood guides the listener through a mix of news, features, interviews and commentary on a broad range of ecological issues.

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Dancers leap in the air against a colorful backdrop.
Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment

Alvin Ailey, Philly Home + Garden Show, Bierfest, and the Harlem Globetrotters in this week’s ‘Things To Do’

Feb. 23 - Feb. 26: The Brit Pack in Del., Bierfest in Philly, and “Unfinished Women” in South Jersey are among weekend event highlights.

3 years ago

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The exterior of the Painted Bride building
Community

Painted Bride saga: Key numbers in the protracted Old City preservation battle

The Old City art center with the Isaiah Zagar mural is now slated to be demolished, after neighbors blocked a unique apartment building.

3 years ago

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is sending Thomas Eakins’ ''Sailing'' (1875) to the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City to settle its Super Bowl wager. (Courtesy of The Philadelphia Museum of Art)
Arts & Entertainment

Philly Art Museum to send Eakins painting to Kansas City for Super Bowl wager

For the Eagles’ loss to the Chiefs, the Philadelphia Museum of Art will send Thomas Eakins’ “Sailing” (1875) to the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City.

3 years ago

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Gustave Courbet's landscape, depicting the source of the Lison River in France, was discovered in a storage box at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine in 2016. It was so darkened that only a few letters of the artist's signature were visible, (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Forgotten painting by a 19th-century French rebel is discovered at Penn

Gustave Courbet’s “The Source of the Lison” was lost in a forgotten box for over a century. Now it’s the centerpiece of an exhibition at Arthur Ross.

4 years ago

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File - In 2022 The Cherry Street Pier  hosted ''Freshwater,'' a sculptural fountain by Jean Shin that uses Delaware River water and living freshwater mussels. Other sculptural elements were made from recycled plastic and shells collected from the Delaware. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

New leadership at Philadelphia Contemporary, to help the arts nonprofit better ‘reflect the diversity’ of the city

Harry Philbrick, who in 2016 founded Philadelphia Contemporary using arts to connect communities, is stepping down.

4 years ago

Animators used this jointed wooden puppet as a reference model when creating ''Pinocchio'' in 1940. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

Disney takes over the Franklin Institute with 100 years of movies, music, and ‘magic’

Six things to look for at the world premiere of the entertainment company’s centennial exhibition.

4 years ago

A view of the National Constitution Center.
Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment

Presidents Day celebrations, ‘Disney 100’ exhibit, Talisk, and Ice Fest in this week’s ‘Things To Do’

Feb. 16 - Feb. 19: Black dance tribute in Del., “Disney 100” exhibit in Philly, and “The Wild Party” in South Jersey are among weekend event highlights.

4 years ago

Listen 6:21
A painting of a tree and a millhouse.
Arts & Entertainment

Wyeth paintings never before exhibited are now on view at the Brandywine

The Brandywine Museum features paintings from the private family collection of 7,000 paintings by Andrew Wyeth. Many have never been seen.

4 years ago

A mural shows a bald eagle grabbing Chiefs player Mahomes while coach Andy Reid is caught in the wings.
Arts & Entertainment

New Eagles mural finished just in time for Super Bowl LVII

Philadelphia muralist Meg Saligman is taking up the paintbrush once again for the Eagles, after her 2018 Super Bowl mural went viral.

4 years ago

Philadelphia Eagles' Jalen Hurts looks to pass during the first half of an NFL football game against the Tennessee Titans, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022, in Philadelphia
Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment

Valentine’s Day events, Super Bowl Sunday, and Boyz II Men in this week’s ‘Things To Do’

Carl Thomas and Case in Del., V-Day, and Super Bowl Sunday in Philly, plus "The Color Purple" in South Jersey are among weekend event highlights.

4 years ago

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The fronts of the buildings of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo.
Arts & Entertainment

Philly and Kansas City make an artful Super Bowl wager

The Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art of Kansas City have each bet a work of art, on loan, on the outcome of the game.

4 years ago

Wanda Sykes smiles in a portrait.
Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment

Celebrating Black History Month, Wanda Sykes, Freeze Fest, and the Philadelphia Ballet’s ‘Forward Motion’ in this week’s ‘Things To Do’

Feb. 2 - Feb. 5: African culture celebrated in Del., Wanda Sykes in Philly, and TruTV’s “Impractical Jokers” in South Jersey are among weekend event highlights.

4 years ago

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A row of screens are displayed in a gallery.
Arts & Entertainment

‘Bo Bardi-mania’: British artist Isaac Julien returns to Philly ‘entangled’ in a Brazilian architect

The British video artist returns to Philly with his second installation in a year, about the Brazilian modernist who transformed São Paulo.

4 years ago

Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, Michelle Yeoh and James Hong in Everything Everywhere All at Once
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

5 takeaways from the Oscar nominations

War movies are big, first-time acting nominees had a great morning, and inclusion at the Oscars is still an uphill battle.

4 years ago

The theme for the 2023 Philadelphia Flower Show is ''Garden Electric.''
Arts & Entertainment

Flower Show to light up Convention Center with ‘Garden Electric’

A preview of the Flower Show’s return to the Convention Center highlighted multi-media projections and sound in “The Garden Electric.”

4 years ago

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