Arts & CultureA Puerto Rican artist is shutting down Market Street in response to America 250 this weekend. Here’s why."Vamonos Pa’l Monte" is a performance that starts at City Hall, stops at Independence Mall and Cruz Playground, before its finale in the Puerto Rican neighborhood of Norris Square.Rosa Cartagena Yannick Nézet-Séguin creates new conducting mentorship program with RolexPeter Dobrin Philadelphia Ballet’s three takes on speed and extremes make for an exhilarating programEllen Dunkel Grappling with past, present, and the patriarchy — sometimes in the nude: ‘Liberation’ at Philadelphia Theatre CompanyJulia M. Klein Amid tense U.S.-China relations, Philadelphia Orchestra is making its way back to China and South KoreaPeter Dobrin AdvertisementThe Pennsylvania Horticultural Society announces the 2027 Flower Show theme and ticket pricesIn celebration of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's 200th anniversary, the theme for the 2027 Flower Show is Iconic.Earl Hopkins There would be no U.S. Navy without PhiladelphiaThe decision to create the Continental Navy and Marines was part of an offensive strategy that helped the colonists win the Revolutionary War. It was taken in Independence Hall.Elizabeth Wellington In about-face, the Atwater Kent Collection won’t be going to Drexel University‘Philadelphia’s attic’ was slated for a handover to Drexel in 2022. Now, the City and Drexel are hammering out a new deal that will keep the collection in the hands of the City.Peter Dobrin Chuck Berry made music for everyone. He would have been 100 this month.In modern culture, segmentation and micro targeting are the names of the game, but rock's founding father achieved success by crafting songs that could appeal across race and generational lines.Jim Cullen, Made By History The Philadelphia Museum of Art owns work by an enslaved potter. His family wants it back.The inclusion of Dave the Potter's "Storage Jar" in a Semiquincentennial exhibition is a nod toward equity. Is that enough?Elizabeth Wellington Art we loved this week: A DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince golden oldie, the perfect fall soundtrack, and moreOur music choices reveal that fall is making us pensive, while big museum shows like Brooklyn Museum's Iris van Herpen show are calling us back into the galleries.Peter Dobrin, Earl Hopkins, and Bedatri D. Choudhury Point Breeze’s Keith Haring mural is designated as a historical placeThe Philadelphia Historical Commission unanimously voted to add "We the Youth" mural to the city's Register of Historic Places. Not everyone is pleased.Earl Hopkins The first Marcel Duchamp retrospective in 50 years opens at the Philadelphia Museum of ArtThe show arrives from MoMA, with additional pieces that are only on display at the PMA. The Philadelphia museum holds the largest collection of the artist's delightfully eccentric work.Rosa Cartagena Philadelphia Ballet opened its season with a quartet of patriotic pieces. It was impossible not to smile by the end of it.It’s a patriotic program but one that feels more period piece than political, set in the theater where John Philip Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever” had its premiere in 1897.Ellen Dunkel After Pulitzer- and Tony-winning success, the Wilma Theater goes big with streaming“This is in no means trying to replace live theater,” said the theater's artistic director Lindsay Smiling, but a way to reach a wider audience.Rosa Cartagena A ‘firstival’ to honor the Delaware Valley’s Lenape people "As hard as they tried to wipe us out, they couldn't," said Holly Wilson, a citizen of the Delaware Nation, whose work is featured in the Penn Museum's Native North America Gallery.Elizabeth Wellington In its 35th year, Philadelphia Film Festival is set to be its biggest edition everThe lineup will feature film festival favorite films from Jesse Eisenberg, Ava DuVernay, and other master filmmakers. Early badge sales point to the festival's largest audience.Earl Hopkins How First Unitarian Church became a Philly punk institutionDan DeLuca, Lauren Schneiderman, Erin Reynolds, and Gabe Coffey There’s a lot of love for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Where’s the rescue?No white knight appears to be coming to the rescue, and that's probably because there is no carefully constructed plan of saving the museum.Peter Dobrin A new series based on DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince’s early life in West Philadelphia is in the works The show, a coproduction between Westbrook Studios and the Malar Group, will tell the story of the rap duo's early years. Elizabeth Wellington See more storiesAdvertisement
A Puerto Rican artist is shutting down Market Street in response to America 250 this weekend. Here’s why."Vamonos Pa’l Monte" is a performance that starts at City Hall, stops at Independence Mall and Cruz Playground, before its finale in the Puerto Rican neighborhood of Norris Square.Rosa Cartagena
A Puerto Rican artist is shutting down Market Street in response to America 250 this weekend. Here’s why."Vamonos Pa’l Monte" is a performance that starts at City Hall, stops at Independence Mall and Cruz Playground, before its finale in the Puerto Rican neighborhood of Norris Square.Rosa Cartagena
Grappling with past, present, and the patriarchy — sometimes in the nude: ‘Liberation’ at Philadelphia Theatre CompanyJulia M. Klein
Grappling with past, present, and the patriarchy — sometimes in the nude: ‘Liberation’ at Philadelphia Theatre CompanyJulia M. Klein
Amid tense U.S.-China relations, Philadelphia Orchestra is making its way back to China and South KoreaPeter Dobrin
Amid tense U.S.-China relations, Philadelphia Orchestra is making its way back to China and South KoreaPeter Dobrin
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society announces the 2027 Flower Show theme and ticket pricesIn celebration of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's 200th anniversary, the theme for the 2027 Flower Show is Iconic.Earl Hopkins
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society announces the 2027 Flower Show theme and ticket pricesIn celebration of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's 200th anniversary, the theme for the 2027 Flower Show is Iconic.Earl Hopkins
There would be no U.S. Navy without PhiladelphiaThe decision to create the Continental Navy and Marines was part of an offensive strategy that helped the colonists win the Revolutionary War. It was taken in Independence Hall.Elizabeth Wellington
There would be no U.S. Navy without PhiladelphiaThe decision to create the Continental Navy and Marines was part of an offensive strategy that helped the colonists win the Revolutionary War. It was taken in Independence Hall.Elizabeth Wellington
In about-face, the Atwater Kent Collection won’t be going to Drexel University‘Philadelphia’s attic’ was slated for a handover to Drexel in 2022. Now, the City and Drexel are hammering out a new deal that will keep the collection in the hands of the City.Peter Dobrin
In about-face, the Atwater Kent Collection won’t be going to Drexel University‘Philadelphia’s attic’ was slated for a handover to Drexel in 2022. Now, the City and Drexel are hammering out a new deal that will keep the collection in the hands of the City.Peter Dobrin
Chuck Berry made music for everyone. He would have been 100 this month.In modern culture, segmentation and micro targeting are the names of the game, but rock's founding father achieved success by crafting songs that could appeal across race and generational lines.Jim Cullen, Made By History
Chuck Berry made music for everyone. He would have been 100 this month.In modern culture, segmentation and micro targeting are the names of the game, but rock's founding father achieved success by crafting songs that could appeal across race and generational lines.Jim Cullen, Made By History
The Philadelphia Museum of Art owns work by an enslaved potter. His family wants it back.The inclusion of Dave the Potter's "Storage Jar" in a Semiquincentennial exhibition is a nod toward equity. Is that enough?Elizabeth Wellington
The Philadelphia Museum of Art owns work by an enslaved potter. His family wants it back.The inclusion of Dave the Potter's "Storage Jar" in a Semiquincentennial exhibition is a nod toward equity. Is that enough?Elizabeth Wellington
Art we loved this week: A DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince golden oldie, the perfect fall soundtrack, and moreOur music choices reveal that fall is making us pensive, while big museum shows like Brooklyn Museum's Iris van Herpen show are calling us back into the galleries.Peter Dobrin, Earl Hopkins, and Bedatri D. Choudhury
Art we loved this week: A DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince golden oldie, the perfect fall soundtrack, and moreOur music choices reveal that fall is making us pensive, while big museum shows like Brooklyn Museum's Iris van Herpen show are calling us back into the galleries.Peter Dobrin, Earl Hopkins, and Bedatri D. Choudhury
Point Breeze’s Keith Haring mural is designated as a historical placeThe Philadelphia Historical Commission unanimously voted to add "We the Youth" mural to the city's Register of Historic Places. Not everyone is pleased.Earl Hopkins
Point Breeze’s Keith Haring mural is designated as a historical placeThe Philadelphia Historical Commission unanimously voted to add "We the Youth" mural to the city's Register of Historic Places. Not everyone is pleased.Earl Hopkins
The first Marcel Duchamp retrospective in 50 years opens at the Philadelphia Museum of ArtThe show arrives from MoMA, with additional pieces that are only on display at the PMA. The Philadelphia museum holds the largest collection of the artist's delightfully eccentric work.Rosa Cartagena
The first Marcel Duchamp retrospective in 50 years opens at the Philadelphia Museum of ArtThe show arrives from MoMA, with additional pieces that are only on display at the PMA. The Philadelphia museum holds the largest collection of the artist's delightfully eccentric work.Rosa Cartagena
Philadelphia Ballet opened its season with a quartet of patriotic pieces. It was impossible not to smile by the end of it.It’s a patriotic program but one that feels more period piece than political, set in the theater where John Philip Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever” had its premiere in 1897.Ellen Dunkel
Philadelphia Ballet opened its season with a quartet of patriotic pieces. It was impossible not to smile by the end of it.It’s a patriotic program but one that feels more period piece than political, set in the theater where John Philip Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever” had its premiere in 1897.Ellen Dunkel
After Pulitzer- and Tony-winning success, the Wilma Theater goes big with streaming“This is in no means trying to replace live theater,” said the theater's artistic director Lindsay Smiling, but a way to reach a wider audience.Rosa Cartagena
After Pulitzer- and Tony-winning success, the Wilma Theater goes big with streaming“This is in no means trying to replace live theater,” said the theater's artistic director Lindsay Smiling, but a way to reach a wider audience.Rosa Cartagena
A ‘firstival’ to honor the Delaware Valley’s Lenape people "As hard as they tried to wipe us out, they couldn't," said Holly Wilson, a citizen of the Delaware Nation, whose work is featured in the Penn Museum's Native North America Gallery.Elizabeth Wellington
A ‘firstival’ to honor the Delaware Valley’s Lenape people "As hard as they tried to wipe us out, they couldn't," said Holly Wilson, a citizen of the Delaware Nation, whose work is featured in the Penn Museum's Native North America Gallery.Elizabeth Wellington
In its 35th year, Philadelphia Film Festival is set to be its biggest edition everThe lineup will feature film festival favorite films from Jesse Eisenberg, Ava DuVernay, and other master filmmakers. Early badge sales point to the festival's largest audience.Earl Hopkins
In its 35th year, Philadelphia Film Festival is set to be its biggest edition everThe lineup will feature film festival favorite films from Jesse Eisenberg, Ava DuVernay, and other master filmmakers. Early badge sales point to the festival's largest audience.Earl Hopkins
How First Unitarian Church became a Philly punk institutionDan DeLuca, Lauren Schneiderman, Erin Reynolds, and Gabe Coffey
How First Unitarian Church became a Philly punk institutionDan DeLuca, Lauren Schneiderman, Erin Reynolds, and Gabe Coffey
There’s a lot of love for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Where’s the rescue?No white knight appears to be coming to the rescue, and that's probably because there is no carefully constructed plan of saving the museum.Peter Dobrin
There’s a lot of love for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Where’s the rescue?No white knight appears to be coming to the rescue, and that's probably because there is no carefully constructed plan of saving the museum.Peter Dobrin
A new series based on DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince’s early life in West Philadelphia is in the works The show, a coproduction between Westbrook Studios and the Malar Group, will tell the story of the rap duo's early years. Elizabeth Wellington
A new series based on DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince’s early life in West Philadelphia is in the works The show, a coproduction between Westbrook Studios and the Malar Group, will tell the story of the rap duo's early years. Elizabeth Wellington
