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The Painted Bride building was denied historic designation, opening the door to a sale of the iconic Old City building. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Arts & Entertainment

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

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A $1 million gift will help the Delaware Art Museum waive admission on Sundays. (Courtesy of Delaware Art Museum)
Arts & Entertainment

$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.

7 years ago

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2018 year in photos: Sweet, sorrowful, triumphal and tragic

From the Eagles' Superbowl victory to the opioid crisis, WHYY photographers bring 2018 into focus.

7 years ago

Hank Willis Thomas' Afro pick sculpture,
Arts & Entertainment

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.

7 years ago

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Spirits march through Northern Liberties for the 2018 Parade of Spirits.
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Arts & Entertainment

Krampus brings dark winter magic to Northern Liberties

New traditions blend with old in Northern Liberties' Parade of Spirits.

7 years ago

Artists from Space 1026, (from left) Jacqueline Quinn, Rachel Gordon and Miriam Singer, prepare for the collective's final auction at 1026 Arch Street in Chinatown. A steep rent increase has driven them to seek space elsewhere.
Arts & Entertainment

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.

7 years ago

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Living Coral is the Pantone Color Institute's color of the year for 2019. The vibrant hue represents
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A royal hue: ‘Living Coral’ crowned color of the year for 2019

You can also call it by its official Pantone code, 16-1546.

7 years ago

The Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania is looking at its collection with fresh eyes. The gallery's “Citizen Salon,” is a crowdsourced exhibit, curated and commented upon by members of the public.
Arts & Entertainment

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.

7 years ago

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Peruvian artist Kukulio Velarde is exhibiting her paintings at Taller Puertorriqueño in North Philadelphia.
Arts & Entertainment

‘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.

7 years ago

An image shows the paintings stolen from the Netherlands' Kunsthal museum in 2012 — including Picasso's Tête d'Arlequin at bottom right. Two Dutch citizens claim to have found the missing Picasso work, Romanian prosecutors said on Sunday. (Daniel Mihailescu/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

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.

7 years ago

Arts & Entertainment

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."

7 years ago

Luz Fontanez, mother to graffiti legend Eliu
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Community
PlanPhilly

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,”

7 years ago

Arts & Entertainment

Philadelphia craft events giving rise to art as activism

CraftNOW, a series of events built around the Philadelphia Craft Show, presents artists as activists.

7 years ago

Anne Ishii is the executive director of Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia. (Jennifer Lynn/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Asian Arts Initiative leader shaping cultural, civic identity in Philly

Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn speaks with Anne Ishii about her new role as executive director of Asian Arts Initiative.

7 years ago

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After independent analysis, the museum said on Monday that five of its famed Dead Sea Scrolls fragments were fake. They will be pulled from their exhibit, and other fragments will undergo further study. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

Museum of the Bible says 5 of the Dead Sea Scrolls fragments are fake

The museum will replace the five fragments in the display with three other fragments that will receive further study.

7 years ago

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