Visual Arts
Pockets of Light uses trash to highlight nature along the Delaware River Waterfront
Artist Julie Woodard carved flowers out of reclaimed plastic waste to draw attention to the Delaware River Waterfront’s natural environment.
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Christina Cultural Arts Center plans to expand services by building a second facility, doubling early childhood and affordable arts education programs.
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Tours now go beyond the visual at Isaiah Zagar’s glittery museum.
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Whole lot of love in Prevention Point’s new Love Lot in Kensington
A vacant lot in Kensington has been transformed into an art environment to assist Prevention Point’s harm reduction programs.
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Philly exhibit highlights how art can move the needle in public perception of climate change
A recent study shows fine art can more effectively communicate climate change than data visualization.
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July 13 - July 16: Blobfest in the Philly ‘burbs, Matchbox 20 in N.J., and the Wilmington Street Food Festival are among the weekend’s highlights.
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Listen 5:04Art rugs put artificial intelligence underfoot in Philly exhibit
The Paradigm Gallery in Old City features rugs fabricated by Tuft the World, but designed by a robot.
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The former chef of bygone Vetri hot spot Amis is popping up at Osteria — with food, and also art
Expect paintings of goats, sharks, and other animals Brad Spence has cooked. “There’s gonna be a judgment day,” he joked.
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Art All Night canceled in Trenton, again
The popular 24-hour art festival has been hit by a series of tragedies and snags since 2018. Organizers are determined to keep it going.
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Pictures from Philadelphia’s former history museum emerge at PAFA
“Seeing Philadelphia” is the first public exhibition of the city’s historical archive since the collection was acquired by Drexel University.
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Philly’s gay archival records go outside for ‘And Into The Streets’
An art exhibition in Louis Kahn Park features photos of Philly gay life circa the 1980s and ‘90s.
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Listen 1:25A phone in Philly’s Rail Park lets you speak to the dead
An old-fashioned rotary telephone, wired to nothing, encourages people to speak to their loved ones as a form of grief therapy.
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Listen 1:24A mythology for North Philly appears on construction fencing
The Village of Arts and Humanities developed a tarot deck that will inform the construction of a new art gallery.
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Listen 1:33‘Sublime’ folk sculptures by William Edmondson at the Barnes Foundation
Eight decades after his landmark exhibition at MOMA, William Edmondson’s “Monumental Vision” gets refreshed at the Barnes.
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Listen 1:17Philly artist wins $100K craft prize for her work remembering Black ancestors
Adebunmi Gbadebo makes work from materials sourced directly from her enslaved ancestors.
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