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Christian McBride performs at George Wein's Carefusion Newport Jazz 55 in Newport, R.I. on Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009.
Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment

Artists at home in Philly and Jersey, Christian McBride’s ‘New Jawn,’ Low Cut Connie, and ‘Boo at the Zoo’ in this week’s ‘Things to Do’

Oct. 14 - Oct. 17: Things to do in Pa., Del., and N.J.

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Pool Room 11th & Walnut, an oil on canvas painting by Wilmington's Edward Loper Jr., is in the exhibit. (Del. Art Museum)
Arts & Entertainment

50 years after shunning Black artists, Delaware Art Museum looks to atone for its ‘institutional racism’

Artist and educator Percy Ricks was rejected by Delaware Art Museum in a 1971 effort to showcase Black artists. The museum is making amends 50 years later.

4 years ago

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Katherine Cambareri, a graduate with a masters degree in public health from Jefferson College of Population Health, stands with her photographs of clothes worn by survivors of sexual violence at her exhibit at Eakins Lounge at Jefferson Alumni Hall on October 6, 2021. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

‘Well, What Were You Wearing’ exhibit illustrates stories of sexual assault survivors

The exhibit at Jefferson works to counter the misconception that a person's wardrobe choices imply consent.

4 years ago

Alvin Tull is a Lead Muralist and Lead Teaching Artist with the Mural Arts Program in Philadelphia. He worked with artist Lauren Cat West to create the Lovely Day mural, which covers 200 columns at the SEPTA concourse between City Hall and Walnut Streets
Arts & Entertainment

Mural Arts paid homeless artists to paint 200 columns underneath Broad Street

Two hundred concrete columns in the subway concourse were painted by homeless artists, as part of Mural Arts Philadelphia’s social service program.

4 years ago

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Artist's rendering of the new place space in FDR Park
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Philly is getting ‘mega’ swings and climbable bird houses overlooking a lagoon at FDR Park

A lush three-acre play space with a waterfront view along with an expansive cafe are coming to South Philadelphia’s Frank Delano Roosevelt Park in 2023.

4 years ago

Chris Stapleton performs at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival on Friday, May 3, 2019, in New Orleans
Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment

Delco Arts week, Amblerfest, rockin’ with ‘Beehive,’ history redux in Germantown, and more in this week’s ‘Things to Do’

Sep. 30 - Oct. 3: Things to do in Pa., Del., and N.J.

4 years ago

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Mural Arts’ executive director, Jane Golden (left), with mural models Tazmere Stephens (second from left) and Jourdyn Wood (second from right) and artist Kah Tangi, celebrate the dedication of We Are Universal to Philadelphia’s trans community
Arts & Entertainment

Philadelphia’s first trans mural kicks of Mural Arts Month

Mural Arts Philadelphia’s dedication of the mural highlighting trans and gender non-conforming people kicks off Mural Arts Month.

4 years ago

Suzanne Valadon: Model, Painter, Rebel, opens September 26, 2021, at the Barnes Museum in Philadelphia. Valadon, 1865-1938, was born into poverty in France, was self-taught and became a renowned artist by the time of her death
Arts & Entertainment

100 years after her heyday, Suzanne Valadon gets her first major U.S. exhibition

Valadon was a model for the impressionists of Paris, then became one. 100 years later, the Barnes premieres the first major U.S. exhibit of her work

4 years ago

A lifetime retrospective of the work of Jasper Johns, organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, is being presented simultaneously at both institutions. Visitors who attend the exhibition at one venue will get half-price admission to the other
Arts & Entertainment

Look again: Phila Art Museum and Whitney double up on Jasper Johns

The Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum in New York collaborate on the largest exhibition of the iconic American artist.

4 years ago

Hank Willis Thomas's ''All Power to All People'' stands 28 feet tall and weighs 24,000lbs. It is installed in Eakins Oval as part of the Monumental Tour, made up of four large sculptures installed in celebrated public places
PlanPhilly
Arts & Entertainment

Traveling ‘Monumental Tour’ brings art to four iconic Philly spots

The pieces that make up the “Monumental Tour” have rotated through New York City, Atlanta, Chicago, and other cities.

4 years ago

More than 100 objects dating from the early 1700s are displayed in the Library Company of Philadelphia's exhibit, ''Imperfect History,'' which examines the role of graphic arts in preserving and distorting history. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

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.

4 years ago

Bentrice Jusu
Courts & Law

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.

4 years ago

After being closed for 18 months for the pandemic, the Steel River Playhouse will welcome audiences back into it main stage auditorium during Arts Montco Week, for a series of three one-man performances
Arts & Entertainment

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.

4 years ago

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Velvet McNeil (Cherri Gregg / WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Black woman photographer captures 9/11 from ‘Blocks Away’

Photographer Velvet McNeil describes being at ground zero to document the day the twin towers fell.

4 years ago

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The exterior of Ubuntu Fine Art Gallery in Germantown; A painting inside the gallery
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

Germantown’s new Black-owned photography gallery aims to be a portal away from the trauma of everyday life

Ubuntu is more than a name for Steven CW Taylor’s spot — it’s an ethos.

4 years ago

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