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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)
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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.

7 years ago

Equality Labs, an organization of Delit people (
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Asian Arts Initiative showcases art striving to cast out caste system

The Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia is exhibiting work by a group of Dalit, once known as “untouchables,” to protest that social hierarchy.

7 years ago

Laylah Amatullah Barrayn has been traveling to Senegal since 1999 to take pictures of the Baye Fall, a Sufi sect of Islam.
Her images are on view at the African American Museum in Philadelphia in the exhibit,
Arts & Entertainment

Two visions of African spirituality at the African American Museum

A photojournalist and a fine-art photographer collaborate on a dual exhibition of the Baye Fall of Senegal and the indigenous deities of Sierra Leone.

7 years ago

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Members of the artists' collective Space 1026 Maximillian Lawrence (left) and John Armstrong, stand in the new space they purchased on North Broad Street, a former hairdresser's shop. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)
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In a Philadelphia first, artist collective becomes property owner

Space 1026, being forced out of its current location, becomes the first artist collective in Philadelphia to buy a building.

7 years ago

A 2017 photo of a West Collection opening (Provided)
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First glimpse of contemporary art museum coming to Fishtown

Blueprints show a new tower rising on an empty lot next to existing warehouse buildings. Plans show retail, an outdoor cafe, and a bar or restaurant space.

7 years ago

Artist Willis Humphrey. better known as NOMO, speaks at the dedication of his mural,
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The Philly art community rallies for children of prominent muralist who died in November

Willis ‘Nomo’ Humphrey, 44, was a prominent Philadelphia muralist. An auction to raise money for his kids is this weekend.

7 years ago

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A film featuring the residents of Whitman, Alabama, reciting Walt Whitman's
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In ‘Whitman, Alabama,’ the bard from Long Island goes down South

The series of short films bring Walt Whitman’s poetry to Alabama where regular folks recite lines from ‘Song of Myself.’

7 years ago

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A French portrait from an unknown photographer from 1860. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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‘Birth of photography’ on display at the Barnes Foundation

In 1840, photography was both the runt of the fine art world and its greatest threat.

7 years ago

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The Why
Arts & Entertainment

Staying power: What a photographer’s retrospective says about the AIDS crisis

At 70, photographer David Lebe is having his first retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He didn't think he'd live to see it.

Air Date: February 18, 2019

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The Walnut-Locust subway station has become a gallery for 30 local artists who participated in
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An anti-advertising campaign of artwork takes over Philadelphia subway station

Thirty Philadelphia artists submitted work that has replaced all advertising in the Walnut-Locust Station.

7 years ago

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David Lebe's
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Life, then death. Then life again. 50 years of pictures by David Lebe

The Philadelphia Museum of Art has the first major retrospective of David Lebe’s experimental photography, tracing his life as a gay man for a half-century.

7 years ago

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In the middle of the Institute of Contemporary Art exhibit,
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Jumping on the bland wagon at Institute of Contemporary Art

“Mundane Futures” assembles African-American art and artifacts as it imagines a radically banal tomorrow. The exhibit continues through March 31 at Penn.

7 years ago

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Lifestyle

Sensory-friendly museum days in Philly

The US Constitution Center joins a group of Philadelphia museums that offer programs for people with sensory sensitivities

7 years ago

A collage shows figures in different historical scenes.
Arts & Entertainment

Philly native writes first biography of collagist Romare Bearden, 30 years after his death

The life of artist Romare Bearden, best known for his collage work, is chronicled by Philadelphia native Mary Schmidt Campbell.

7 years ago

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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

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