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Najee Spencer-Young poses in front of her mural portrait by artist Amy Sherald. Spencer-Young is a participant in the Mural Arts’ Achieving Independence Center classes. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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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.

6 years ago

Empire from the series Starman Visits / Imperio de la serie Visitas Starman, 2009. Ewan Atkinson (born 1975).
Photograph mounted on light box, 13 × 17 × 3 inches (Courtesy of the artist. © Ewan Atkinson)
Arts & Entertainment

‘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.

6 years ago

In this Wednesday, June 12, 2019 photo, workmen hang a Federal Era flag as part of the new exhibit 'A New Constellation: A Collection of Historic 13-Star Flags,' at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Arts & Entertainment

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.

6 years ago

Lauren Otis (left), executive director of Artworks, and Joseph Kuzemka, director of Art All Night in Trenton, are preparing for the arts festival. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

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.

6 years ago

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The sculpture “One Way” by Chakaia Booker is the first work by an African American artist to be installed at the Delaware Art Museum’s outdoor Copeland Sculpture Garden. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Delaware 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.

6 years ago

The Chinese Lantern Festival at Franklin Square. (Emily Cohen for WHYY)
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Arts & Entertainment

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.

6 years ago

In an untitled photograph from the Gum in the Landscape series, ca. 1975, Hannah Wilke places a chewing gum sculpture on a tree branch. (Hannah Wilke Collection & Archive, Los Angeles/© Scharlatt, Licensed by VAGA at ARS, NY)
Arts & Entertainment

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.

6 years ago

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A visitor admires impressionist portraits at “The Impressionist’s Eye” exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Under 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.

6 years ago

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A visitor to the Franklin Institute's Marvel Comics exhibit poses for a photo with a life-size Spider-Man figure. The exhibit promises to be a crowd pleaser, with a quarter million visitors expected through the summer. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Marvel 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.

6 years ago

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Arts & Entertainment

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.

6 years ago

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Margaret McGriff (center), widow of jazz organist Jimmy McGriff, shares her trove of papers from her husband's career with Jack McCarthy and Suzanne Cloud of the Philadelphia Jazz Project. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Knocking 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.

6 years ago

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Sara's father's embroidered undershirt is one of many intimate objects and stories passed down through the generations. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Airing 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.

6 years ago

After selling his art fair empire in 2015, Rick Friedman is back in business, bringing his concept of upscale regional luxury fine art fairs to the 23rd Street Armory in Philadelphia.
Arts & Entertainment

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.

6 years ago

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Arts & Entertainment

The 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.

6 years ago

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Philadelphia singer-songwriter Birdie Busch at her home studio in Germantown. Busch wrote eight original songs inspired by the art of women in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and will perform them Friday night at the museum. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Women 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.

6 years ago

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