Visual Arts
Daughter-in-law of famed artist Pablo Picasso visits Delaware school
Pablo Picasso died in 1973, but his paintings and legacy live on. His daughter-in-law recently visited with some Delaware school children to talk about his work.
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Talk of the town: Right after graduation, Philly artist lands New Yorker cover
Just weeks after graduating from UArts, Loveis Wise lands the cover of the New Yorker magazine.
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Photos document how history lives on in river town of Lumberville
'River Town Portraits' is a visual love poem to quaint Bucks County village.
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Listen 5:26PAFA acquires painting from Hudson River School that couldn’t sell at auction
PAFA acquires major Hudson River School painting from Berkshire Museum in Massachusetts.
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Delaware’s Oddporium is part museum, part store, and all a little odd
From skulls and bones to electroshock therapy equipment and a cycloptic pig — take a peek inside the Oddporium. Delaware's first and only shop for the peculiar and bizarre.
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Temple exhibit shares the secret life of dolls
The Temple Contemporary gallery now has a solo exhibition by artist Trenton Doyle Hancock, who invited the Philadelphia Doll Museum into his invented universe.
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Painting can be frightening, so one Delaware artist revels in touch of glass
Artist Deborah Johnson finds painting to be scary and intimidating, but when working with glass, she knows just what to do.
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I love you, I hate you: Renoir edition
Audiences love to hate art by Renoir. The Barnes Foundation offers a rebuttal.
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Listen 5:333 must-see new art exhibits this month: Our picks from ‘First Friday’ – Through May, 2018
First Friday doesn't necessarily mean "last chance." Here's our guide to new exhibitions you can catch all month long.
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A Super Bowl mural grows in Philly’s Northeast
The first public mural depicting the Eagles' Super Bowl win has been unveiled near the Northeast Philadelphia Airport.
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Listen 2:25Making movies animates long-term Children’s Hospital patients
Drexel University students are teaming up with young patients at CHOP to create animated films.
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Listen 2:02Violent, monumental work from N.Y. sculptor looms at two Philly museums
One of Ursula von Rydingsvard's works, “Bronze Bowl with Lace,” is a 20-foot bronze, cast in a cedar mold, that resembles a tornado.
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Delaware artist invites you to his ‘Vibe Realm’
By day, Michael Kalmbach is the founder and director of the Creative Vision Factory, in Wilmington. When he isn't working to help others through art, Kalmbach makes his own.
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Behind the scenes of the Chinese Lantern Festival
The steel-framed lanterns are created by 20 artisans from Tianyu Arts & Culture.
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NewsWorks Tonight, April 19, 2018
WHYY’s Joe Hernandez gives an update on the protests surrounding the arrest of two black men at a Philadelphia Starbucks. A Philad ...
Air Date: April 19, 2018
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