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Roberta Fallon poses for a photo
Arts & Entertainment

TheArtBlog, Philadelphia’s go-to site for local arts, to shut down after 22 years

What started as a passion project against disappearing arts coverage turned into one of Philly’s most regular and reliable art news portals.

1 day ago

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Leigh Goldenberg standing in the Wilma Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Philly theaters reel from sudden loss of NEA funding

Arts organizations in Philadelphia and elsewhere scramble to cope with an abrupt cancellation of promised federal funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.

6 days ago

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Mural on display at Mural Arts in Philadelphia
Arts & Entertainment

Mural Arts’ after-school programming prepares students, heals communities

Founded in 1984, Mural Arts Philadelphia has created more than 4,000 murals. The nonprofit organization also helps kids hone their artistic and social skills after school.

1 week ago

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A diorama depicting the death of Crispus Attucks at exhibit
Arts & Entertainment

Mythical ‘Afric-American Picture Gallery’ turns into reality in new exhibit at Delaware’s Winterthur Museum

An 1859 fantasy of Black material culture is manifested as a “funhouse” of art and cultural criticism at Winterthur.

1 week ago

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Orysia Hewka
Arts & Entertainment

Glencairn Museum spotlights a sacred Ukrainian tradition

Glencairn Museum is celebrating the rushnyk, a sacred Ukrainian tradition cherished by many Ukrainian Americans in the Greater Philadelphia region.

2 weeks ago

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Arts & Entertainment

Explore your place in the universe inside ‘Super/Natural’ at Doylestown’s Michener Museum

Stained-glass artist Judith Schaechter built a cathedral for a congregation of one inside the Michener Art Museum.

3 weeks ago

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Easter Bunny (Linvilla Orchard)
Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment

Easter Celebrations, Mary J. Blige and The Lights Festival in this week’s ‘Things To Do’

April 17- 20: “Stompin’ at the Savoy” in Del., opening day at Philly’s Franklin Square and Melissa Etheridge in South Jersey are among the highlights.

4 weeks ago

peacock topiary
Arts & Entertainment

Peacocks and giraffes and snails, Oh my! Philly zoo installs plant-based sculptures of giant animals

The five “ZOOtopiaries” drive home the connections between plants and animals.

4 weeks ago

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A woman weaves designs with palm fronds in Philadelphia's Italian market.
Community

Philadelphia family carries on palm-weaving tradition in the Italian Market

Victoria Ciliberti is a third-generation “palm lady” sharing her craft in the Italian Market ahead of Palm Sunday.

1 month ago

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A visitors look at two posters, one reading UNITED we are strong UNITED we will win and This is Nazi brutality
Arts & Entertainment

‘BOOM’: Philly Art Museum explodes with 1940s art and design

“BOOM” examines a lesser-acknowledged decade for creative innovation.

1 month ago

an image of a man pointing
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

A queer art exhibition in Kensington redefines masculinity through photos and soft lighting

“In the Soft Light” at the Crane Arts building celebrates male bodies through the artwork of four gay artists spanning generations.

1 month ago

Philadelphia Chief Cultural Officer Val Gay
Arts & Entertainment

Philly leaders want to know: What do you want the city’s arts to look like?

A series of a dozen town hall-style planning sessions by Creative Philadelphia will inform the city’s first comprehensive cultural report.

1 month ago

2 artists painting facing each other , with a crowd circled around them
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

Artists face off in live painting competition at Arts Battle Philadelphia

Talented artists race against the clock in a high-energy, 20-minute live painting competition.

1 month ago

Studio 2
Arts & Entertainment

Best of Philly tourism: Off-the-beaten-path edition

We rounded up the coolest spots in Delaware, New Jersey, Philadelphia and the suburbs for food and drink, outdoor activities, attractions worth the cost and free things to do.

Air Date: April 3, 2025 12:00 pm

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People admiring photographs at an exhibition
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

Philly Photo Day returns and you can become an exhibition-worthy photographer

Between April 7 and 13, anyone in Philadelphia has the chance to show off their photography chops and submit a unique image to be printed and hung in a gallery.

1 month ago

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