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Visual Arts

The mural ''Lay-lah Lay-lah'' rises in eight columns up the side of an office building adjacent to the Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza in Philadelphia.
Arts & Entertainment

A new Holocaust mural on the Parkway tells a story of displacement in 28 languages

“Lay-lah Lay-lah,” by artist Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson, uses ancient texts to connect the historic atrocity to a range of communities and underscore a shared humanity.

2 weeks ago

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Temporary art studio residency
Arts & Entertainment

How Delaware’s ‘King of Transit’ turned a lifelong love of buses into an art exhibit

Geraldo Gonzalez’s exhibit showcases 11 art pieces that capture the charm, history and culture of public transportation.

2 weeks ago

''Uplift Justice'' by Shepard Fairey, a mural featuring a woman's face and her hands held up below her chin, is painted on the side of a Center City office building on Arch Street
Arts & Entertainment

A new mural by Shepard Fairey about the ideals of American liberty appears in Philly

Just in time for the nation’s 250th birthday celebration next year, Fairey’s work replaces a 112-foot mural of a classically Greco-Roman sculpture.

2 weeks ago

LOOK HERE's curators
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

‘A really pivotal moment’: 6 neurodivergent artists highlighted in a sensory-dense, striking exhibition

The show, LOOK HERE, at Haverford’s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, blends accessibility, inclusion and unique perspectives.

3 weeks ago

sculptures inside Calder Gardens
Arts & Entertainment

Major new art attraction for the work of Alexander Calder opens in Philadelphia on Sunday

The $100 million Calder Gardens, on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, reinvents what a museum is supposed to do.

3 weeks ago

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Joel Mesler stands beside his 2023 screenprint, ''Candy Land
Arts & Entertainment

More than a T-shirt: Philadelphia Museum of Art showcases the pinnacle of fine art screenprinting

The PMA is now the repository of everything Brand X has done and will do. “Innovation in Screenprinting” is the first of several exhibitions.

3 weeks ago

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The logo of the Philadelphia Eagles created in an Etch-A-Sketch
Billy Penn
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

Etch-y, not edgy, art: Teacher uses a toy from his childhood to show his love for all things Philadelphia

John Obringer uses an Etch A Sketch to draw Philly sports logos, the LOVE sign and the Philly skyline. Others are buying his artwork.

4 weeks ago

Dana Erhet posing for a photo inside the museum
Arts & Entertainment

Native flora and fauna in the spotlight at the New Jersey State Museum’s ‘Ecosystems at Risk’

The exhibition highlights the state’s natural habitats and efforts to protect them.

4 weeks ago

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Rows of cars parked at a drive-in theater in Pennsylvania
Arts & Entertainment

How romance and a road trip led to the purchase of the world’s oldest drive-in theater

Matt McClanahan and Lauren McChesney bought Shankweiler’s Drive-In in Oreland, Pennsylvania, in 2022 after learning the property might be sold to developers.

1 month ago

Sarah Bailey shops through clothes
Community

Functional yet stylish: People with chronic conditions call for inclusivity in fashion industry

Advocates are calling on the fashion industry to consider clothing that provides access to medical devices, have adaptable waistbands or are made of breathable fabrics.

1 month ago

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Students listen to a speaker in the museum
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

Philadelphia Art Museum brings back free busing program as it plans big educational center renovation

The PMA’s learning and engagement center aims to build lifelong learners who return to the museum and own the space.

1 month ago

actors onstage at the Wilma Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Report: Less than half of Philadelphia theaters have had audience numbers return to prepandemic levels

On the eve of Philly Fringe Fest, the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance surveys the behaviors of theatergoers.

1 month ago

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Jane Golden poses in front of her first murals
Arts & Entertainment

Jane Golden to step down from Mural Arts Philadelphia

Golden will stay on through 2026 to see 15 major projects to completion in time for the nation’s semiquincentennial.

1 month ago

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Nicolo Gentile touches up his ''Bar None'' installation at Maja Park
Arts & Entertainment

Police barricades are transformed into protest art on the Parkway, highlighting Philadelphia’s history of activism

The Association for Public Art’s “Bar None” by Nicolo Gentile reflects on the history of the Parkway as a crucial site of public assembly.

2 months ago

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Practice sculptures by University of the Arts students
Arts & Entertainment

Art by the pound: Thousands of abandoned artworks are being salvaged from Philadelphia’s University of the Arts

UArts’ Anderson Hall has been sold to become a mixed-use development. Thunderbird Salvage is trying to rescue everything left behind.

2 months ago

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