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Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Fresh Air Weekend collects the best segments from the week's programs and crafts them together for great weekend listening.
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Fresh Air Weekend

Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Fresh Air Weekend collects the best segments from the week's programs and crafts them together for great weekend listening.

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Visual Arts

In an untitled photograph from the Gum in the Landscape series, ca. 1975, Hannah Wilke places a chewing gum sculpture on a tree branch. (Hannah Wilke Collection & Archive, Los Angeles/© Scharlatt, Licensed by VAGA at ARS, NY)
Arts & Entertainment

Unknown photos by feminist artist Hannah Wilke debut at Temple University

A series of unknown images by the 1970s radical feminist artist are on view at the Tyler School of Art’s Temple Contemporary gallery.

7 years ago

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A visitor admires impressionist portraits at “The Impressionist’s Eye” exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Under renovations, the Philadelphia Art Museum gives its impressionists a fresh look

While the museum is undergoing extensive renovations to its galleries, it is reconsidering its works by Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh and Cassatt.

7 years ago

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A visitor to the Franklin Institute's Marvel Comics exhibit poses for a photo with a life-size Spider-Man figure. The exhibit promises to be a crowd pleaser, with a quarter million visitors expected through the summer. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Marvel universe brings all its superheroes to the Franklin Institute

The superhero exhibit traces 80 years of comics and movies. Visitors can also learn about the process of making comics, including drawing, inking, coloring, and layout.

7 years ago

Melinda Steffy's
Arts & Entertainment

Imparting the patterns of history and disaster repeating on Ruination Day

A Philadelphia artist takes cues from Gillian Welch and folk ballads to paint historic repetition.

7 years ago

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Margaret McGriff (center), widow of jazz organist Jimmy McGriff, shares her trove of papers from her husband's career with Jack McCarthy and Suzanne Cloud of the Philadelphia Jazz Project. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Knocking on doors in search of Philadelphia’s jazz history

A pair of historians are hunting for artifacts for an archive of Philadelphia’s jazz history. They’re holding a scanning party to digitize bits of music history.

7 years ago

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Sara's father's embroidered undershirt is one of many intimate objects and stories passed down through the generations. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Airing the cleaned, pressed, and folded laundry of the American experience

The wardrobe of Maira Kalman’s mother tells the story of a 20th century American Jewish experience. You can take a peek inside.

7 years ago

After selling his art fair empire in 2015, Rick Friedman is back in business, bringing his concept of upscale regional luxury fine art fairs to the 23rd Street Armory in Philadelphia.
Arts & Entertainment

Philly no longer an ‘antiques town’: City gets its first shot at contemporary art fair

High-end art fairs have become the backbone of the global contemporary art market. Now, a producer is trying it out on Philly.

7 years ago

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Arts & Entertainment

The plain white Confederate flag of truce and surrender inspires exhibit in Philly

The white dishcloth that ended the Civil War has been recreated in monumental size at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia.

7 years ago

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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)
Arts & Entertainment

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 (
Arts & Entertainment

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)
Arts & Entertainment

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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Urban Planning
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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,
Arts & Entertainment

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
Arts & Entertainment

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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