Visual Arts
Lorene Cary makes stage debut with ‘My General Tubman’
Using real details of Tubman’s life, Cary turns her story into a time-traveling play at the Arden Theatre.
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Listen 2:22Feeling artsy? Here’s how making art helps your brain
A lot of my free time is spent doodling. I'm a journalist on NPR's science desk by day. But all the time in between, I am an artist — specifically, a cartoonist.
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A Philly photographer explains how she captures the beauty of SEPTA and its riders
Philly photographer Shasta Bady shares her thoughts on SEPTA, the people who ride it and her new exhibit at Suburban Station.
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Chasing ‘Butter and Salmon’: Elusive street artists are like Philly’s own Banksy
The group (or person?) creates visual art, music and social commentary.
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Philly Loves Bowie opens with exhibition of fan and fine art
An international roster of 47 artists submitted work to the National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia to honor the late David Bowie.
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Listen 1:34‘Parade of Spirits’ exhibits the shadows of holiday season
The 2019 march celebrated Krampus and folk traditions in Philadelphia with elaborate costumes and noisemakers.
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Virtual reality meets industry reality at Philly universities
Drexel and University of the Arts each open virtual reality studios, for art and industry
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Native American comic artists tell story of 1763 massacre of Conestoga tribe in Lancaster, Pa.
“Ghost River,” commissioned by the Library Company of Philadelphia, tells the story of the 1763 slaughter of Conestoga from the perspective of the tribe.
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Costumes from Netflix’s ‘The Crown’ boost attendance at Winterthur Museum
Winterthur Museum is the only place in North America you can see award-winning costumes from Netflix’s "The Crown."
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‘Forbidden Art’ from concentration camps opens at National Liberty Museum
Ahead of the 75th anniversary of liberating the German concentration camps, the Philly museum displays art created in secret by prisoners.
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Listen 4:41Weaving redevelopment at the Navy Yard
Industrial artists Numen/For Use spin a cocoon of suspended tunnels inside an unused warehouse.
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Capturing your life, stitch by stitch: The art to wear movement on display at Philly art museum
“Off the Wall” shows 50 years of artists making work for the body.
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Survivors’ tales part of the art in Superstorm Sandy exhibit
The "Just Beachy After Sandy" exhibit at Monmouth University in New Jersey is on display through early December.
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Art Museum exhibits designs for both utopian and dystopian futures
The Philadelphia Museum of Art’s “Design for Different Futures” is “frenemies” with technology.
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Neon monument to Philly’s Indigenous history glows again
After it was vandalized and damaged while on display during Monument Lab, Duane Linklater’s “In Perpetuity” was relit for Indigenous People’s Day.
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