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Barbara Shermund (right) is pictured with her mother, Fredda Cool, who died in the flu epidemic of 1918. After that, Shermund left San Francisco to pursue a cartooning career in New York. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

The bad girl wins: An original New Yorker cartoonist gets her due at the Brandywine Museum

The Brandywine Museum’s exhibition of Barbara Shermund’s cartoons aligns with the New Yorker magazine’s 100th anniversary.

4 months ago

setups in the mall
Arts & Entertainment

Philly Flower Show offers a peek into a fashionably botanical future

In advance of the Philadelphia Flower Show, a pop-up display at King of Prussia Mall envisions a future where flowers rule all.

4 months ago

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a child painting
Community

Philly pilot program brings playful learning installations to affordable housing communities

The Live and Learn pilot program is installing playful learning spaces and activities at two affordable housing sites in North Philadelphia.

4 months ago

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a mural of a colorful Eagle
Billy Penn
Arts & Entertainment

New mural captures Eagles’ Super Bowl energy in South Philly

Local artist Tiff Urquhart and Mural Arts Philadelphia unveiled a bold, Eagles-inspired mural celebrating the city’s passion ahead of the Super Bowl.

4 months ago

Rue Landau looks at a work by Nijah Monique Blanton with Blanton
Arts & Entertainment

Survey of Philly artists shows worry over finding work, space and money

The survey by Councilmember Rue Landau was launched in the wake of the closing of the University of the Arts.

4 months ago

Listen 1:14
Texas A&M football player Sam Salz
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

Weitzman exhibit celebrates influential Jewish Americans in a challenging time

The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History offer recognition and education with “Humans of Judaism” exhibit.

5 months ago

Nina Gold making a doll-sized bed
Arts & Entertainment

A small stitch for womankind: Philly’s Betsy Ross House is sewing up her place in history

A bedding project for Mount Vernon is based on documents that tie George Washington to Betsy Ross.

5 months ago

Sarah Kaizar poses for a photo
Arts & Entertainment

A Philly artist created a climate news AI bot. The result is ‘a little sassy’

Sarah Kaizar’s AT Feed is an automated aggregate of current climate news and a critique of the future of information.

5 months ago

Listen 1:14
A rendering shows the Sunken Garden at Calder Gardens
Arts & Entertainment

Calder Gardens on schedule for September 2025 opening on the Parkway

The cultural center dedicated to the artist of aerial mobiles has hired its first leadership position, Director of Programs Juana Berrío.

5 months ago

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The exterior of Dorrance Hamilton Hall, with large pillars on the front
PlanPhilly
Courts & Law

Some UArts buildings sold out of bankruptcy. Here’s what’s left on the auction block in Philly

The old University of the Arts campus is up for sale, but the judge might not approve all for-profit developers bidding for a slice of it.

5 months ago

Listen 1:46
CCH Pounder speaks in front of an artwork
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

CCH Pounder talks about sharing her art collection and the importance of preserving Black art

The actress and art collector is sharing more than 40 pieces of her collection in an exhibit at the African American Museum in Philadelphia.

5 months ago

Iris Van Orden works on a quilt
Arts & Entertainment

5 quilts from Cut & Sew PHL in Mt. Airy chosen for QuiltCon national convention in Phoenix

The Philly-based quilt shop and sewing studio will be represented in February at the national quilting event.

5 months ago

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a watercolor depicts a person fishing, a waterfall and two buildngs
Arts & Entertainment

This painting found in a Glenside thrift store came out of Philly’s 19th-century Black cultural elite

A painting from a thrift store in Glenside is by William H. Dorsey, of Philadelphia’s elite Black society circa 1864.

5 months ago

Listen 1:53
Hazami Sayed's links
Arts & Entertainment

Al-Bustan exhibition links Lebanon to Philadelphia

Founding director Hazami Sayed makes musical chains that tie her Arabic heritage to her life in Philly.

6 months ago

Listen 1:24
Michael K. Wilson curated Shaheed Rucker's exhibit at the African American Museum in Philadelphia
Arts & Entertainment

Philly’s African American Museum eats its Wheaties in new pop art exhibition

Artist Shaheed Rucker puts Negro baseball leagues athletes on re-creations of the iconic cereal box.

6 months ago

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