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Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Terry Gross hosts this multi-award-winning daily interview and features program.

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Alex is an emergency room nurse treating COVID-19 patients in the Greater Philadelphia Area. (Kyle Cassidy)
The Why
Arts & Entertainment

A camera, a mask and 2020’s most enduring image

Philadelphia photographer Kyle Cassidy captured images of essential workers for his series Between Us and Catastrophe.

Air Date: December 7, 2020

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The scarecrow is pictured here. The golden glow from the windows references the yellow brick road.
Arts & Entertainment

‘And your little dog, too!’: Moore College’s dark vision of Oz, America

Artist Jonathan Santoro uses the Wizard of Oz as a jumping-off point to explore the sinister side of suburbia in the street windows of the Galleries at Moore.

5 years ago

Cover image of Radha Blank. Illustrated by Makeba Rainey based on a photo by Caydie McCumber
Arts & Entertainment

BlackStar Festival launches new magazine celebrating Black, Indigenous filmmakers of color

The influential indie film festival in Philadelphia saw a need for critical writing about Black, brown, and Indigenous visual culture.

5 years ago

Natalie Flor Negron creates a mural titled “Ancient Roots” for the Philadelphia Chalk Festival outside the Philadelphia Brewing Company in Kensington. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community

With colorful chalk, creating art, community and business opportunity

The vision was for the Fishtown-East Kensington event to be a win for businesses, artists, and the neighborhoods during the pandemic.

5 years ago

A photo montage created by Clayton Campbell
Arts & Entertainment

‘Paranoia starts to creep in’: Artists describe the pandemic’s emotional toll

The Slought Foundation in Philadelphia put out an open call for artwork reflecting the psychological effects of pandemic life.

5 years ago

Brick House, a sixteen-foot statue of a Black woman's head atop a domed pedestal.
Arts & Entertainment

A new ‘gateway’ sculpture: UPenn installs Black woman monument

“Brick House” by Simone Leigh draws attention to the importance of Black women in art and culture.

5 years ago

John Schlesinger holds a still life painting, broken and repaired, up to the light at the Cherry Street Pier. The work produces the desired effect when lit from behind. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

‘Things should be a little messed up’: Cherry Street Pier taken over by installation of neon, demolition art

For his show “After the Fall,” installation artist John Schlesinger wrapped neon tubing around concrete debris and reclaimed chicken wire windows.

5 years ago

District Attorney Larry Krasner views 'Redaction,' a mural of portraits by Titus Kaphar and Reginald Dwayne Betts in the gallery of the African American Museum of Philadelphia
Arts & Entertainment

‘Rendering Justice’ at African American Museum features formerly incarcerated artists

“Rendering Justice,” at the African American Museum of Philadelphia, features artists making work about reentering society.

5 years ago

‘Libertad (Freedom)’ by Justin Favela (Mark Henninger/Imagic Digital)
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

6 GIFs that let you experience the fantastic outdoor art at the tip of South Philadelphia

The Navy Yard installation by Group X is up till the day before Election Day.

5 years ago

A mailbox decorated with orange flowers
Arts & Entertainment

Mailing your ballot in Philly? Follow the flowers

A get out the vote campaign dresses up postal boxes in Philadelphia with large-scale flower arrangements.

5 years ago

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Art students led by Marcy Morris display drawings with a
Arts & Entertainment

Camden IDEA center offers kids an arts oasis during the pandemic

The pandemic delayed, but did not stop, the IDEA center in Camden from offering young people ways to create art.

5 years ago

Ana Mosquera
Arts & Entertainment

Cherry Street Pier opens its largest public art exhibition since pandemic began

An exhibition of artwork by recent MFA graduates experiments with sound, video, performance, and sculpture to engage the public during a pandemic.

5 years ago

D’nae Harrison works on her pop-up
Arts & Entertainment

Murals sprout in LOVE Park urging Philadelphians to vote

The artists of “To the Polls” use hot-button words and images to make their case for the importance of voting.

5 years ago

James “Yaya” Hough, first-ever artist-in-residence at the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, cuts a ribbon with DA Larry Krasner (left), Mural Arts' Jane Golden, (third from left), Michael “Smokey” Wilson, (third from right) and boxing champion Bernard Hopkins (right). (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

Philly DA’s resident artist hopes new exhibition pushes social justice forward

After being sentenced to a life term as a teen, James Hough practiced painting while incarcerated and contributed to over 50 murals in Philadelphia.

5 years ago

Elijah Pierce at the Barnes
Arts & Entertainment

Black folk artist Elijah Pierce is Barnes Foundation’s first new show during pandemic

A show of over 100 works takes a fresh look at the mid-century Black folk artist.

5 years ago

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