Visual Arts
Shih, Chau, and Shen pair food art, Asian-American heritage
Three American women of Taiwanese descent are cooking up the dishes of their youth. Except they're not using food. They're using plaster, paint and porcelain.
6 years ago
Haddonfield makes another leap into public art
The Haddonfield Outdoor Sculpture Trust is growing a public art exhibition on the streets of Haddonfield, New Jersey.
6 years ago
Art without walls: The future of Philly’s alternative art spaces
Why the Painted Bride, a staple in Philadelphia's art community for nearly 50 years, is selling its iconic building in Old City to pursue a more nomadic vision.
Air Date: January 2, 2019
Listen 12:57$1 million gift extends free Sundays at Delaware Art Museum
The museum in Wilmington entices people to visit by waiving admission on Sundays and Thursday evenings. A corporate benefactor is helping make it possible.
6 years ago
2018 year in photos: Sweet, sorrowful, triumphal and tragic
From the Eagles' Superbowl victory to the opioid crisis, WHYY photographers bring 2018 into focus.
6 years ago
Black Power Afro pick sculpture takes root at Philadelphia museum
The piece engaged 80,000 passers-by who stopped specifically to look at the sculpture or ask about it over three months.
6 years ago
Listen 1:36Krampus brings dark winter magic to Northern Liberties
New traditions blend with old in Northern Liberties' Parade of Spirits.
6 years ago
Last hurrah: Space 1026 pulls out the stops for final Arch St. art auction
A landmark artists collective in Philadelphia — Space 1026 — is gearing up to move out of its building of 21 years. This weekend's art auction pulls out the stops.
6 years ago
Listen 2:06A royal hue: ‘Living Coral’ crowned color of the year for 2019
You can also call it by its official Pantone code, 16-1546.
6 years ago
UPenn opens crowd-curated art exhibition
The Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania opened the campus art collection to the internet; these are the ones upvoted to the top.
6 years ago
Listen 1:50‘Freedom is very intoxicating’ says artist behind ‘The Complicit Eye’
Kukuli Velarde — a Peruvian-born, Philadelphia-based artist — has a first major show in her adopted home town.
6 years ago
6 years after museum heist, missing Picasso possibly found in Romania
A painting by Pablo Picasso that was stolen from a Dutch museum six years ago may have resurfaced in Romania, prosecutors say.
6 years ago
Artist attempts to sum up the world in Philly exhibit
Rina Banerjee's first major retrospective at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is called "Make Me a Summary of the World."
6 years ago
New Hunting Park mural remembers Philly graffiti legend Karaz
Eliu Nazario aka Karaz, who died of brain cancer at the age of 51, is revered among fellow writers as the “king of the Wickeds,”
6 years ago
Philadelphia craft events giving rise to art as activism
CraftNOW, a series of events built around the Philadelphia Craft Show, presents artists as activists.
6 years ago