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Visual Arts

Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson by her work
Arts & Entertainment

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.

1 month ago

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a play space with LEGOS
Arts & Entertainment

Final Days for ‘The Art of the Brick’: LEGO masterpieces conclude at the Franklin Institute this Sunday

Among 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.

1 month ago

Drexel University
Arts & Entertainment

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.

2 months ago

A sculpture in the exhibit
Arts & Entertainment

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.

2 months ago

t-shirts on stakes throughout the outside of the Meetinghouse
Community

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.

2 months ago

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Hundreds of organizations and individuals marched through West Philadelphia as part of the 24th annual Peoplehood Parade on Nov. 9, 2024. (Emily Neil/WHYY)
Community

‘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.

2 months ago

A fish swims through the vault of Ravenhill Chapel
Education

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.

2 months ago

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Filmmaker Steve McQueen's ''Static,'' a 7-minute helicopter shot of the Statue of Liberty filmed in 2009 when it reopened for the first time since the 9/11 attacks, occupies the Grand Staircase of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Let’s be still: Philly Art Museum shows political art with the volume turned down

“What Times Are These?” is an antidote for election exhaustion.

2 months ago

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Gallery co-founder Chris Hammes demonstrates a puppet duck spinning on a motorized hook by Ollie Goss. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Big 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.”

2 months ago

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Renée Mussai, who curated ''Mickaline Thomas: All About Love,'' gives a tour of the exhibit at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Mickalene Thomas’ homecoming at the Barnes is ‘All About Love’

The internationally recognized artist from Camden has her first solo exhibition in the Philadelphia region.

2 months ago

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Rowan University
Arts & Entertainment

After 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.

2 months ago

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a fabric shows a pattern of hands, circles and plus signs
Arts & Entertainment

A 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.

2 months ago

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American Indian Zitkala-Ša also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin was once an Indian boarding school teacher in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. She became an American Indian civil rights activist in Washington D.C. And is credited with helping indigenous people get the right to vote and American citizenship. She was also an artist and wrote the first American Indian opera but died before its New York City premiere. Born on the Yankton Sioux Tribe reservation in South Dakota she is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Money

Meet the activist who fought for American Indians’ voting rights — her face may be on your next quarter made in Philly

Once 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.

2 months ago

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The
Arts & Entertainment

Philly’s first permanent mural about voting is all about hope

“Legacy in Bloom” in West Philadelphia is for future generations to celebrate civic engagement.

2 months ago

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two pieces side by side
Arts & Entertainment

Two 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.

2 months ago

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