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Visual Arts

Living Coral is the Pantone Color Institute's color of the year for 2019. The vibrant hue represents
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Lifestyle

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

Listen 1:50
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
PlanPhilly
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

Listen 5:45
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

Edmond de Belamy, created using artificial intelligence, will be auctioned at Christie's on Thursday. (Christie's Images)
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

A.I. produced ‘portrait’ will go up for auction at Christie’s

A new portrait that is vaguely reminiscent of something painted by an old master is headed to Christie's New York auction block later this week

7 years ago

Jane Irish (left) and Mary Henderson of Tiger Strikes Asteroid galleries hang their first show at the Crane Arts Building. (Emma Lee/WHYY, file)
Arts & Entertainment

Philly artists join others in archiving their creative process

Artists contribute to New York library's public archive of 'process work,' the throw-away sketches made in pursuit of the final work.

7 years ago

Arts & Entertainment

Nearly forgotten French impressionist regains her moment in Philadelphia exhibit

Berthe Morisot - a founding artist of French impressionism who was nearly forgotten - is coming back at the Barnes Foundation.

7 years ago

Philadelphia Orchestra’s two-week Barnes/Stokowski Festival explores the contentious relationship between art collector Albert Barnes (left) and conductor Leopold Stokowski (right). (Library of Congress)
Arts & Entertainment

Forever ‘frenemies’: Barnes and Stokowksi

The Philadelphia Orchestra is bringing together strange bedfellows.

7 years ago

The National Museum of American Jewish History looks at the life of Rube Goldberg. (Courtesy of the National Museum of American Jewish History)
Arts & Entertainment

It’s complicated: Life and work of Rube Goldberg at Philly’s Jewish Museum

Exhibit on life and work of Rube Goldberg opens at National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia.

7 years ago

Suzanne Bocanegra's elaborate ballet costumes are part of her exhibit
Arts & Entertainment

Artist’s take on women in trouble on display at Philly Fabric Workshop and Museum

In her largest solo show, Suzanne Bocanegra takes over the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia with four installations about women in trouble.

7 years ago

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