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Visual Arts

Children observed the 3D art pieces and create some works of their own during the PECO Free First Sunday Family Day on Mar. 5, 2023 at the Barnes Foundation
Education

Barnes Foundation challenges Philly students to explore connections between math and art

Winning schools were announced Sunday after students were challenged to turn famous works of art into 3D installations.

4 years ago

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Life sized blooms that look like something out of a Dr. Seuss novel stand tall along the promenade at the 2023 Philadelphia Flower Show in the Pa. Convention Center
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

The Philadelphia Flower Show returns indoors for a show that’s out of this world

After two years in FDR Park, the exhibition is back at the Convention Center with a new spark.

4 years ago

Lebohang Kganye looks at her patchwork cloth re-creation of a black and white photo of her great-grandmother
Arts & Entertainment

2 South African artists converse across the apartheid timeline at the Barnes

The Barnes Foundation hosts work by two artists: one making work since apartheid, the other growing up in post-apartheid South Africa.

4 years ago

A woman looks at several blocks hanging in the air in the art exhibit.
Arts & Entertainment

Museum for Art in Wood introduces Philly to the Islamic mashrabiya screen

The traditional wood screens made in ornately geometric patterns for Islamic palaces and mosques are given the modern art treatment.

4 years ago

Candidates for mayor of Philadelphia raise their hands when asked who has a TikTok account. The question came during a forum on the performing arts and cultural economy at the Kimmel Center. The candidates are (from left) Jeff Brown, Jimmy DeLeon, Allan Domb, Derek Green, Helen Gym, David Oh, Cherelle Parker, Maria Quiñones Sánchez, and Rebecca Rhynhart. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Mayoral candidates discuss Philly arts sector at Kimmel Center forum

A mayoral forum at the Kimmel Center asked nine candidates about how to fund and leverage the arts to address city problems.

4 years ago

Andrew Hamilton students in 2019, working on the Shira Walinsky mural to brighten their gym
Education
Billy Penn

A real art project at Quinta Brunson’s former school in West Philly mirrors the ‘Abbott Elementary’ Mural Arts episode

In 2019, the gym at Alexander Hamilton was enlivened with a painting done by students alongside a local muralist.

4 years ago

A woman speaks into a microphone onstage. Mural Arts logos are visible behind her.
Arts & Entertainment

‘Abbott Elementary’ will give Mural Arts Philadelphia a moment in the spotlight

This week’s episode of the sitcom set in Philly is based on Quinta Brunson’s childhood memory of creating a mural at school.

4 years ago

File photo: Philadelphia Museum of Arts is opening a new department for African and African Diasporic art.  (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Arts & Entertainment

Philadelphia Museum of Art creates a new department for Black and African art

A gift of 300 pieces of African art will seed the new Brind Center for African and African Diasporic Art.

4 years ago

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.

4 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.

4 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.

4 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

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