
Visual Arts
North Philly teen inspires six-story mural by artist who painted Michelle Obama’s portrait
Najee Spencer-Young cried when she heard that Amy Sherald had painted her portrait on the side of Center City building.
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‘Relational Undercurrents’ showcases Caribbean works at Delaware Art Museum
The interactive and multimedia exhibition “Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago” opens Saturday at the Delaware Art Museum.
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Rare 13-star flags going on display at Revolution museum
Dozens of rare 13-star American flags never before exhibited will be on display at the Museum of the American Revolution.
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Trenton pulls together as Art All Night returns with tighter security
Trenton’s Art All Night festival returns this weekend one year after a mass shooting, but it will no longer be open for 24 hours straight.
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Listen 4:48Delaware Art Museum works to diversify its collection
Two-thirds of the Delaware Art Museum’s purchases in 2018 were created by women or artists of color. It’s part of an museum initiative to better reflect the community.
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Behind the scenes of Philadelphia’s Chinese Lantern Festival
At the beginning of April, 30 artists from Tianyu Arts and Culture traveled from China to Philadelphia to create the attractions for this year’s Chinese Lantern Festival.
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Unknown photos by feminist artist Hannah Wilke debut at Temple University
A series of unknown images by the 1970s radical feminist artist are on view at the Tyler School of Art’s Temple Contemporary gallery.
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Listen 2:09Under renovations, the Philadelphia Art Museum gives its impressionists a fresh look
While the museum is undergoing extensive renovations to its galleries, it is reconsidering its works by Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh and Cassatt.
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Listen 1:57Marvel universe brings all its superheroes to the Franklin Institute
The superhero exhibit traces 80 years of comics and movies. Visitors can also learn about the process of making comics, including drawing, inking, coloring, and layout.
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Imparting the patterns of history and disaster repeating on Ruination Day
A Philadelphia artist takes cues from Gillian Welch and folk ballads to paint historic repetition.
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Listen 3:34Knocking on doors in search of Philadelphia’s jazz history
A pair of historians are hunting for artifacts for an archive of Philadelphia’s jazz history. They’re holding a scanning party to digitize bits of music history.
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Listen 2:37Airing the cleaned, pressed, and folded laundry of the American experience
The wardrobe of Maira Kalman’s mother tells the story of a 20th century American Jewish experience. You can take a peek inside.
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Philly no longer an ‘antiques town’: City gets its first shot at contemporary art fair
High-end art fairs have become the backbone of the global contemporary art market. Now, a producer is trying it out on Philly.
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Listen 2:00The plain white Confederate flag of truce and surrender inspires exhibit in Philly
The white dishcloth that ended the Civil War has been recreated in monumental size at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia.
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Listen 2:03Women artists celebrated in song at Philly Museum of Art
Birdie Busch will perform a suite of songs based on female artists in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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