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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.

6 years ago

Butter and Salmon album cover; Butter and Salmon sidewalk artYOUTUBE / TWITTER
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Billy Penn

Chasing ‘Butter and Salmon’: Elusive street artists are like Philly’s own Banksy

The group (or person?) creates visual art, music and social commentary.

6 years ago

Bowie inspired art by school children is and will hang above a creative corner where visitors can create their own Bowie artworks. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

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.

6 years ago

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Graydon Dunkelberger studied abroad in Austria where he learned about Krampus. His was was hand carved in Austria. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Arts & Entertainment

‘Parade of Spirits’ exhibits the shadows of holiday season

The 2019 march celebrated Krampus and folk traditions in Philadelphia with elaborate costumes and noisemakers.

6 years ago

Nick Jushchyshyn, Program Director of Virtual Reality; Immersive Media at Drexel University, watches a dance performance using a virtual reality headset at the school's new Immersive Research Lab. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Education

Virtual reality meets industry reality at Philly universities

Drexel and University of the Arts each open virtual reality studios, for art and industry

6 years ago

In this illustration, angry settlers approach a Conestoga village, where they murder all the inhabitants. (Weshoyot Alvitre)
Arts & Entertainment

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.

6 years ago

Costumes portraying Queen Elizabeth’s coronation garments are on display at Winterthur Museum in Delaware. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

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."

6 years ago

A Day Off, by Włodzimierz Siwierski, Auschwitz 1941 (Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum)
Arts & Entertainment

‘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.

6 years ago

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Industrial artists Numen/For Use spin a cocoon of suspended tunnels inside an unused warehouse. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Weaving redevelopment at the Navy Yard

Industrial artists Numen/For Use spin a cocoon of suspended tunnels inside an unused warehouse.

6 years ago

Crustaceans and Venomous Marine Life Converging on Hair Tide by Jamie Summers at the Off the Wall: American Art to Wear Exhibit. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

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.

6 years ago

This Oct. 21, 2019 photo shows Karen Bright, a professor at Monmouth University, with a Superstorm Sandy-themed art exhibit she and another professor created in West Long Branch, N.J. Personal stories of people who survived Superstorm Sandy are an integral part of a new art exhibit remembering the deadly storm and the devastation it caused. (Wayne Parry/AP Photo)
Community

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.

6 years ago

The ZXX typeface designed by Sang Mun can’t be ready by artificial intelligence but can be read by humans. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Art Museum exhibits designs for both utopian and dystopian futures

The Philadelphia Museum of Art’s “Design for Different Futures” is “frenemies” with technology.

6 years ago

'In Perpetuity' by Duane Linklater, at Penn Treaty Park.  (Steve Weinik/Monument Lab)
PlanPhilly
Community

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.

6 years ago

The Lightbox Film Center. (Courtesy of Lightbox Film Center)
Arts & Entertainment

Lightbox Film Center finds new home at UArts

Philly’s only year-round art cinema is forced to move out of International House. It was snapped up by the University of the Arts.

6 years ago

Bradford Young and Elissa Blount Moorhead stand in the Girard College chapel with their video installation, 'Back and Song.' (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

At Girard College, ‘Back and Song’ showcases forgotten history of African healing arts

Philadelphia Contemporary commissioned Bradford Young and Elissa Blount Moorehead to make visual poetry out of traditional African wellness practices.

6 years ago

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