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Before he died in 2005, Philadelphia city planner Edmund Bacon donated hundreds of photos to the Fisher Fine Arts Library. The photos arrived without identification, so now the library is making the collection available to the public via Flickr hoping that crowdsourcing will provide the answers. (Fisher Fine Arts Library)
Arts & Entertainment

Hive mind: What’s in these Ed Bacon photos?

Five thousand pictures of Philly in the 1960s and '70s were donated to Penn, without descriptions. The university is asking the internet for help.

7 years ago

A lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas 1942
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Haverford exhibits the color of America, circa 1940

The first photo project to show the colors of America, circa 1940, was commissioned by the U.S. government but never exhibited until now.

7 years ago

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Artist Diane Burko poses in front of an unfinished work at her Center City studio.
Arts & Entertainment

Environmental artist rediscovers Jewish roots of activism

Artwork depicting melting glaciers and dying coral reefs is on exhibit in a Philadelphia synagogue. It centers on the concept of tikkun olam, Hebrew for “repair the world.”

7 years ago

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Kensington High School biology teacher Victoria Erickson (right) and her friend Megan Nardi, work on a mural on Kensington High School's ground floor.
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Volunteers paint 100 murals at Kensington High School for MLK Day

The goal was to brighten the atmosphere of the 102-year old school with 100 murals throughout the building.

7 years ago

Anisa Shafiq uses a slide projector to mark out a mural of Malala Yousafzai in a hallway of Kensington High School.
Community

1,000 volunteers will paint inspirational murals at Kensington High on MLK Day

At Kensington High, volunteers intend to paint 100 murals reflecting the ideals of Martin Luther King Jr. and other inspiring figures.

7 years ago

Photos printed on muslin create overlapping visual narratives in Carrie Mae Weems's work,
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Carrie Mae Weems exhibition opens in Allentown amid more contemporary push

In its ongoing push to be more contemporary, the Allentown Art Museum presents work by one of America’s most important art photographers.

7 years ago

Modern-day scientists who examined the 1,000 year-old remains of a middle-aged woman in Germany discovered the semi-precious stone in the tartar on her teeth. From that, they concluded the woman was an artist involved in creating illuminated manuscripts, a task usually associated with monks. The find is considered the most direct evidence yet of a woman taking part in the making of high-quality illuminated manuscripts, the lavishly illustrated religious and secular texts of the Middle Ages. (Christina Warinner/Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History/AP)
Science

Medieval woman’s hidden art career revealed by blue teeth

Scientists discover more evidence that suggest female artisans 1,000 years ago were not as rare as previously thought.

7 years ago

Artist Stephanie Shih remembers making pork-filled dumplings with her family and started her art project by sculpting six of them out of porcelain. She's now made 600. (Robert Bredvad/NPR)
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Shih, Chau, and Shen pair food art, Asian-American heritage

Three American women of Taiwanese descent are cooking up the dishes of their youth. Except they're not using food. They're using plaster, paint and porcelain.

7 years ago

Members of the Haddonfield Outdoor Sculpture Trust install
Arts & Entertainment

Haddonfield makes another leap into public art

The Haddonfield Outdoor Sculpture Trust is growing a public art exhibition on the streets of Haddonfield, New Jersey.

7 years ago

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