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Since 2018, The Apologues has helped families cope with the loss of loved ones to gun violence through original portraiture. The organization was honored at Philadelphia City Hall with official citations. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Philly City Council honors artists helping families cope with gun violence

The Apologues connects artists with families who have lost loved ones to gun violence. City Council’s president is honoring that work.

5 months ago

The artists of the Baltimore-based Painted Screen Society created a group of paintiings for the ''Art From the Yard'' exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art. The society is dedicated to documenting and preserving the city's tradition of painting mesh screens, which dates back to the early 1900s. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

‘Do whatever you want’: Philly’s Institute of Contemporary Art brings the freedom of the yard into the gallery

An exhibition of yard art at Penn ties urban artists to a mostly Southern creative vernacular.

6 months ago

Listen 1:10
Imani Roach
Arts & Entertainment

All things African art: Philadelphia Museum of Art plans to build a home for diasporic works

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is bringing African art to Philly. The plan is for the art to stay permanently.

6 months ago

Garden plaza wall of The Noble apartments
Arts & Entertainment

An artist is using sprinklers to paint the walls of a massive Spring Garden apartment complex

Doug Hoekzema, also known as HOXXOH, shoots color using off-the-shelf lawn care equipment.

6 months ago

Listen 1:15
People view
Arts & Entertainment

Make room for cartoons among America’s founding documents

Did political cartoons contribute to American nation-building? This exhibition at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania shows how.

6 months ago

The Supreme Court of the United States, 2019.
(Creative Commons Zero, Public Domain Dedication, Quercusvirginiana)
Studio 2
Politics & Policy

Supreme Court decision time, art behind bars, the SS United States

As SCOTUS justices get ready for summer break, we'll talk about the latest court decisions and preview coming rulings involving presidential immunity, the January 6 and more.

Air Date: June 26, 2024 12:00 pm

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Video projection part of the art exhibit
Arts & Entertainment

The last picture show: After a century of exhibitions, the Philadelphia Art Alliance hosts what might be its final art show

The former mansion will close with the rest of the University of the Arts.

6 months ago

Listen 1:52
Terra Hall on South Broad Street.
Education

Here’s what could happen to UArts’ $61 million endowment and its historic campus

UArts is still responsible for ensuring its endowment is spent the way donors intended. Regulators will control the transition of both buildings and the money.

7 months ago

Listen 0:54
Sid Sachs packs up beneath a painting of Christine Wetherill Stevenson
Arts & Entertainment

After the fall: Philly arts programs search for a way out of the collapse of UArts

UArts was home to a handful of organizations with various levels of independence. After the dramatic closure, who will survive?

7 months ago

Listen 1:37
African heritage dancers perform at Philadelphia's Odunde Festival.
Arts & Entertainment

Odunde, art festivals and Pride events this weekend in Philly

The Odunde Festival, Art for the Cash Poor and West Philly Porchfest are some of the things happening this weekend.

7 months ago

University of the Arts (Billy Penn/file)
Education

University of the Arts president resigns as questions swirl over abrupt closure

Four days after announcing the school would shut down imminently, and during a constantly evolving crisis, Kerry Walk stepped down.

7 months ago

Listen 0:59
Jill Scott returned to her Alma mater for an unveiling of a mural featuring her, and young scholars from Girls' High, on May 30, 2024. (Amanda Fitzpatrick/WHYY)
Community

An emotional Jill Scott couldn’t hold back tears as she caught a glimpse of the new mural set to feature her at her alma mater

On "Jill Scott Day," the Grammy Award winner was honored with the unveiling of a 900-square-foot mural that will go up on the school's facade.

7 months ago

People walk the sidewalk off North American Street
Arts & Entertainment

Forman Arts Initiative acquires a city block in Kensington for an arts campus

The future art incubator hub at the 2200 block of North American Street will be designed with community input.

7 months ago

Listen 1:24
''Little Girl in a Blue Armchair
Arts & Entertainment

Philadelphia Museum of Art shows how Mary Cassatt got the work done

A major retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art shows how the Philly-raised impressionist focused on women’s work.

7 months ago

Listen 1:16
Philadelphia Superintendent Dr. Tony Watlington (left); retired teacher Joyce Abbott (center-left); painter Ivben Taqiy (center-right); and Andrew Hamilton School principal Torrence Rothmiller (right), in front of Taqiy’s portrait of Abbott, her mother and former student Quinta Brunson, who created the show
Community

Joyce Abbott, inspiration for ABC’s hit TV show, honored with portrait at Hamilton Elementary, where she taught

“Abbott Elementary" creator Quinta Brunson studied under Joyce Abbott in the sixth grade. Abbott has now been honored with a portrait and a renamed administrative office.

7 months ago

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