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Host Stephen Dubner has surprising conversations that explore the riddles of everyday life and the weird wrinkles of human nature-from cheating and crime to parenting and sports. Dubner talks with Nobel laureates and provocateurs, social scientists and entrepreneurs - and his Freakonomics co-author Steve Levitt.

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Danielle Ruttenberg, co-owner of Remark Glass, opens an oven in her studio in the basement of the Bok Building in South Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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How to shape independent artisans into a business network

CraftNOW in Philly and the Creative Business Accelerator in Pittsburgh want to fashion thousands of individual makers into an economic sector.

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Billy Penn

Questlove gives Philly artists a boost with local billboard blast

Created with Mural Arts, the artwork is part of a promo campaign for the music documentary “Summer of Soul.”

5 years ago

Sherry Howard is an art collector and writer. She blogs about works she acquired at auctions and the stories of their artists at myauctionfinds.com. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Patience and a good eye: Building an art collection without breaking the bank

Sherry Howard has been combining small auctions and estate sales for years, and now has an impressive Black art collection. She explains how she did it.

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Acting Health Commissioner Dr. Cheryl Bettigole paints as Mayor Jim Kenney speaks with artist, Felix St. Fort, and Mural Arts executive director Jane Golden. (Kenny Cooper / WHYY)
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Painting a Parkway mural, to welcome Philly back and encourage vaccination

Artist Felix St. Fort designed the ‘Welcome Back, Philly’ ground mural as part of a ‘Vax Up Philly’ collaboration with the Health Department.

5 years ago

Co-founders Jay Ortiz (left) and Darnell Schoolfield (right) outside Art From the Heart Gallery in Philadelphia’s Brewerytown neighborhood. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Billy Penn

High school friends opened Philly’s first NFT art gallery in Brewerytown

Art From The Heart is taking cryptocurrency to the neighborhoods.

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Brendan and Bronwyn Bradley, have been participating in museum art classes for five years. (Kaamil Jones for WHYY)
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Philadelphia Museum of Art launches Art Kids program

Philadelphia Museum of Art launches Art Kids, a program to give children the opportunity to create art inspired by female artists.

5 years ago

'Maja' by Gerhard Marcks at Maja Park (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)
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Once considered ‘degenerate,’ Maja returns to the Parkway

A new park along the Ben Franklin Parkway is named after the sculpture by Gerhard Marcks, once considered “degenerate” by the Nazis.

5 years ago

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A robot portrait painter created a gallery of 'everyday geniuses'
Community

Local artists donate nearly 200 pieces of original artwork to people experiencing homelessness

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5 years ago

Michael Gardner and his daughter, Ava, at the Fabric Workshop
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Philadelphia Orchestra premieres new music for a 9-year-old’s fashion show

The Fabulous Philadelphians live up to their name as they premiere a new work for a 9-year-old’s fashion show.

5 years ago

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The oldest flag in the exhibit features 13 stars in a star pattern. It is one of the earliest American flags known to survive, made between 1800 and 1825, or possibly earlier. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Historic flags unfold national pride and struggle

An exhibition of flags and documents at the Museum of the American Revolution traces the national evolution on issues of race and religion.

5 years ago

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“Worn Stories” and the clothing that makes us

For many of us, the items in our closet hold meaning, memory, and stories within their seams. On this show, we explore those stories and ask what our clothing means to us.

Air Date: June 11, 2021

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Kelsey Craven, an 11th grader at West Philadelphia High School was featured in the school’s outdoor photo exhibit. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Selfies and stories: West Philly students push against isolation and tragedy with photo project

The teacher leading the project says it’s an opportunity for the school community to really see and hear each other again. "We’ve spent so much time apart."

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Museum of Illusions plans fall 2021 opening in Philly

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5 years ago

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Philly kids to color world’s largest drawing, made by a local artist

The Franklin Institute brings back Dyymond Whipper-Young’s record-breaking sketch so her students can color it in.

5 years ago

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