Visual Arts
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.
19 hours ago
Listen 0:54After 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?
2 days ago
Listen 1:37Odunde, 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.
1 week ago
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.
1 week ago
Listen 0:59On "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.
2 weeks ago
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.
2 weeks ago
Listen 1:24Philadelphia 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.
3 weeks ago
Listen 1:16“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.
3 weeks ago
Leveling up: University of Delaware graduates its first class of gaming majors
Game studies program students chose from three different concentrations: game design and development; game industry and sport management; and games, culture and society.
3 weeks ago
Listen 1:50Thwarting the revolution: Mercer Museum explains historic outlawry of the Doan Gang
Was Bucks County’s Doan Gang a band of libertarian heroes or revolutionary traitors? Discuss at the Mercer Museum.
4 weeks ago
Listen 1:39On Saturday, attendees of all ages enjoyed panel discussions, workshops and a comic book marketplace at Temple University’s Student and Faculty Center.
4 weeks ago
MOVE exhibit aims to showcase who the members of the Black liberation group ‘were as people’
“MOVE: The Old Days” tells the history of the organization through an exhibit on display this weekend at the Paul Robeson House and Museum.
4 weeks ago
Listen 1:07The center explores the biological basis of aesthetic experiences. It added an artist-in-residence position in 2019.
1 month ago
Listen 5:55A rose by another name: A fantasy about in-utero cannibalism comes to Philly’s Fabric Workshop
The immersive, interactive installation “Rose Garden” is a genderqueer fantasy of in-utero cannibalism.
1 month ago
A well-preserved painting from 1857 by Thomas Waterman Wood shows another side of Black life and is now on display at the Winterthur Museum.
1 month ago
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