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Ivonne Pinto-García with the Philadelphia Folklore Project teaches a Calavera (sugar skull) making workshop at the Free Library in Center City on October on October 26, 2021. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community

What Día de los Muertos sugar skulls mean to one Mexican artist in Philly

Ivonne Pinto-García embraces Día de los Muertos and its traditions as a way to honor her ancestors and share that pride with her Philadelphia community.

5 years ago

Listen 1:54
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

New roots: Black musicians and advocates are forging coalitions outside the system

5 years ago

Benjamin L. Bynum Sr. (The Philadelphia Tribune)
Community
The Philadelphia Tribune

Benjamin L. Bynum Sr., Philly jazz and blues scene legend, dies at 98

Benjamin L. Bynum Sr. was a longtime Philadelphia entrepreneur and patriarch of a family associated with popular restaurants and jazz and blues venues in the city.

5 years ago

Elvis Costello and Jim Lauderdale, left, perform during at the Americana Honors & Awards show Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn.
Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment

Philadelphia Film Festival, Elvis Costello, H.E.R, Afro-art redux at Delaware Art Museum, and more in this week’s ‘Things To Do’

Despite the positive strides made in the battle against COVID, uncertainty and varying mandates ...

5 years ago

Listen 4:33
Structures with bright colors and bold geometric designs is the signature style of London-based artist Morag Myerscough
Arts & Entertainment

A ‘Magical Fantasy’ appears in the Navy Yard

The public art installation by British artist Morag Myerscough is meant to draw attention to the Navy Yard as a future place to live.

5 years ago

In this 2015 file photo, Carol Cole is comfortably settled into her spacious well-lit studio at 915 Art Building on Spring Garden Street. One of the original artists to occupy the space, she had been there since 1981, and was one of the many artist forced out of the buidling in 2015 due to the fire. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Philly artists are opening their studios to the public for the first time since COVID

When the Philadelphia Open Studios Tour kicks off this weekend, one of its largest and most popular stops will reopen to visitors for the first time in six years.

5 years ago

Christian McBride performs at George Wein's Carefusion Newport Jazz 55 in Newport, R.I. on Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009.
Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment

Artists at home in Philly and Jersey, Christian McBride’s ‘New Jawn,’ Low Cut Connie, and ‘Boo at the Zoo’ in this week’s ‘Things to Do’

Oct. 14 - Oct. 17: Things to do in Pa., Del., and N.J.

5 years ago

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Pool Room 11th & Walnut, an oil on canvas painting by Wilmington's Edward Loper Jr., is in the exhibit. (Del. Art Museum)
Arts & Entertainment

50 years after shunning Black artists, Delaware Art Museum looks to atone for its ‘institutional racism’

Artist and educator Percy Ricks was rejected by Delaware Art Museum in a 1971 effort to showcase Black artists. The museum is making amends 50 years later.

5 years ago

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Katherine Cambareri, a graduate with a masters degree in public health from Jefferson College of Population Health, stands with her photographs of clothes worn by survivors of sexual violence at her exhibit at Eakins Lounge at Jefferson Alumni Hall on October 6, 2021. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

‘Well, What Were You Wearing’ exhibit illustrates stories of sexual assault survivors

The exhibit at Jefferson works to counter the misconception that a person's wardrobe choices imply consent.

5 years ago

Alvin Tull is a Lead Muralist and Lead Teaching Artist with the Mural Arts Program in Philadelphia. He worked with artist Lauren Cat West to create the Lovely Day mural, which covers 200 columns at the SEPTA concourse between City Hall and Walnut Streets
Arts & Entertainment

Mural Arts paid homeless artists to paint 200 columns underneath Broad Street

Two hundred concrete columns in the subway concourse were painted by homeless artists, as part of Mural Arts Philadelphia’s social service program.

5 years ago

Listen 1:41
Artist's rendering of the new place space in FDR Park
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Philly is getting ‘mega’ swings and climbable bird houses overlooking a lagoon at FDR Park

A lush three-acre play space with a waterfront view along with an expansive cafe are coming to South Philadelphia’s Frank Delano Roosevelt Park in 2023.

5 years ago

Chris Stapleton performs at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival on Friday, May 3, 2019, in New Orleans
Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment

Delco Arts week, Amblerfest, rockin’ with ‘Beehive,’ history redux in Germantown, and more in this week’s ‘Things to Do’

Sep. 30 - Oct. 3: Things to do in Pa., Del., and N.J.

5 years ago

Listen 4:42
Mural Arts’ executive director, Jane Golden (left), with mural models Tazmere Stephens (second from left) and Jourdyn Wood (second from right) and artist Kah Tangi, celebrate the dedication of We Are Universal to Philadelphia’s trans community
Arts & Entertainment

Philadelphia’s first trans mural kicks of Mural Arts Month

Mural Arts Philadelphia’s dedication of the mural highlighting trans and gender non-conforming people kicks off Mural Arts Month.

5 years ago

Suzanne Valadon: Model, Painter, Rebel, opens September 26, 2021, at the Barnes Museum in Philadelphia. Valadon, 1865-1938, was born into poverty in France, was self-taught and became a renowned artist by the time of her death
Arts & Entertainment

100 years after her heyday, Suzanne Valadon gets her first major U.S. exhibition

Valadon was a model for the impressionists of Paris, then became one. 100 years later, the Barnes premieres the first major U.S. exhibit of her work

5 years ago

A lifetime retrospective of the work of Jasper Johns, organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, is being presented simultaneously at both institutions. Visitors who attend the exhibition at one venue will get half-price admission to the other
Arts & Entertainment

Look again: Phila Art Museum and Whitney double up on Jasper Johns

The Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum in New York collaborate on the largest exhibition of the iconic American artist.

5 years ago

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