
Visual Arts
An Israeli muralist has been selected for Philly’s Holocaust Memorial Plaza
Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson, based in Berlin, will design a Holocaust mural for a prominent intersection on the Parkway.
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Listen 1:14Among the collection are Philly-themed pieces, like a life-sized Liberty Bell with a crack filled in with rainbow bricks and a statue of Benjamin Franklin.
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Arts and culture leaders to gather at first-ever Cultural Dynamics Summit at Drexel University
The day-long event, hosted by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, will explore the intersections of culture and politics in the city.
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Exhibition of Black figures at the Philly Art Museum is right on time
“The Time Is Always Now” features Black contemporary artists reimagining Black bodies.
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Local groups honor gun violence victims in Philly and its suburbs
Local groups remembered the hundreds of people killed as a result of gun violence in Philadelphia and in its surrounding counties.
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Listen 1:00‘This is a moment to dream’: 24th annual Peoplehood Parade marches through West Philly
“Bringing people together through arts and cultural practices is as old as humanity,” organizer Jennifer Turnbull said.
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Jefferson University researchers are illuminating a chapel to research the healing power of light
Bitmapped video projections in Ravenhill Chapel are experiments in the healing powers of light.
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Listen 1:49Let’s be still: Philly Art Museum shows political art with the volume turned down
“What Times Are These?” is an antidote for election exhaustion.
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Listen 1:06Big Ramp gallery scratches at politicized pet memes in ‘The Sublime Is Meow’
More than 40 Philly artists contributed work to an exhibition at Big Ramp in Kensington honoring the pets of so-called “childless cat ladies.”
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Listen 1:08Mickalene Thomas’ homecoming at the Barnes is ‘All About Love’
The internationally recognized artist from Camden has her first solo exhibition in the Philadelphia region.
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Listen 1:41After the UArts collapse, Pig Iron Theatre finds a new home at Rowan University
The Pig Iron School for devised theater will remain in Philadelphia while becoming part of New Jersey’s Rowan University.
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Listen 1:13A digital archive of Philly artists with disabilities finds physical form at the Painted Bride
Created by a collective of artists and activists, the Undue Burden archive catalogs the creative lives of disabled, neurodivergent and chronically ill Philadelphians.
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Listen 1:23Once a teacher at the Carlisle Indian Industrial boarding school, she left to expose the abuses there and fought for American Indian voting rights in the early 1900s.
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Listen 1:04Philly’s first permanent mural about voting is all about hope
“Legacy in Bloom” in West Philadelphia is for future generations to celebrate civic engagement.
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Listen 1:05Two rural museums outside Philadelphia partner to present the work of Wharton Esherick
The Brandywine and Wharton Esherick museums — both tucked into the woods 30 miles apart — exhibit the work of the master craftsman, together.
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