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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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Sasha Suda smiles
Arts & Entertainment

Recently fired CEO of Philadelphia Art Museum sues over her ousting

Days after being terminated “for cause,” Sasha Suda described the museum board as “corrupt” and “dysfunctional.”

4 months ago

Arts & Entertainment

A look inside the ‘Dreamworld’ of surrealism at the Philadelphia Art Museum

The art movement originated in France in 1924 and quickly began influencing all forms of media across the globe.

5 months ago

An art piece by Jennifer Thoem
Arts & Entertainment

Philadelphia Art Museum’s 49th Contemporary Craft Show is this weekend

The show at the Pennsylvania Convention Center continues its tradition of connecting attendees directly to artists across mediums.

5 months ago

Sasha Suda with merchandise of new art museum logo
Arts & Entertainment

Philadelphia Art Museum fires CEO Sasha Suda

Sasha Suda was hired just three years ago from Ontario. A reason for her termination was not given.

5 months ago

a statue in front of Maguire Hall
Arts & Entertainment

An ‘exuberantly eclectic’ new building is set to open at Chestnut Hill’s Woodmere Museum

The new Maguire Hall is a 173-year-old industrialist’s mansion converted into a showcase of Philadelphia artists.

5 months ago

Listen 1:23
A dense display in the Princeton University Art Museum's American art gallery
Arts & Entertainment

Princeton University to reopen its newly rebuilt art museum

Designed by architect David Adjaye, Princeton’s new museum corrects the problematic old one.

5 months ago

Listen 1:20
Nancy Ireson, co-curator of ''Henri Rousseau: A Painter's Secrets''
Arts & Entertainment

The outsider who came in: Henri Rousseau retrospective opens at Philly’s Barnes Foundation

The celebrated French post-impressionist was dismissed during his lifetime as “naive,” but held many secrets.

5 months ago

Listen 1:19
Moki Cherry's colorful tapestry is juxtaposed with a video
Arts & Entertainment

Moki Cherry, matriarch of a musical family, gets the spotlight at Philadelphia’s Fabric Museum

Neneh Cherry visited the posthumous solo exhibition of her mother, Moki, at the Fabric Workshop and Museum.

5 months ago

Listen 1:46
Where does art end and AI start? The lines can be blurry sometimes.
Studio 2
Arts & Entertainment

Will AI kill human creativity?

The examples of AI art are pretty astounding, but if computers can make art, will we still value art made by people? And what are the limits to the algorithmic imagination?

Air Date: October 16, 2025 12:00 pm

Listen 45:41
Banner of new logo at Philadelphia Art Museum
Arts & Entertainment

The Philadelphia Museum of Art has changed its name and its brand

The PMA will now be the more colloquial Philadelphia Art Museum, reflecting an institute embracing its host city.

6 months ago

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The mural ''Lay-lah Lay-lah'' rises in eight columns up the side of an office building adjacent to the Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza in Philadelphia.
Arts & Entertainment

A new Holocaust mural on the Parkway tells a story of displacement in 28 languages

“Lay-lah Lay-lah,” by artist Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson, uses ancient texts to connect the historic atrocity to a range of communities and underscore a shared humanity.

6 months ago

Listen 1:22
Temporary art studio residency
Arts & Entertainment

How Delaware’s ‘King of Transit’ turned a lifelong love of buses into an art exhibit

Geraldo Gonzalez’s exhibit showcases 11 art pieces that capture the charm, history and culture of public transportation.

6 months ago

''Uplift Justice'' by Shepard Fairey, a mural featuring a woman's face and her hands held up below her chin, is painted on the side of a Center City office building on Arch Street
Arts & Entertainment

A new mural by Shepard Fairey about the ideals of American liberty appears in Philly

Just in time for the nation’s 250th birthday celebration next year, Fairey’s work replaces a 112-foot mural of a classically Greco-Roman sculpture.

6 months ago

LOOK HERE's curators
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

‘A really pivotal moment’: 6 neurodivergent artists highlighted in a sensory-dense, striking exhibition

The show, LOOK HERE, at Haverford’s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, blends accessibility, inclusion and unique perspectives.

6 months ago

sculptures inside Calder Gardens
Arts & Entertainment

Major new art attraction for the work of Alexander Calder opens in Philadelphia on Sunday

The $100 million Calder Gardens, on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, reinvents what a museum is supposed to do.

6 months ago

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