The Delaware Art Museum presents In Conversation: Will Wilson
A new Indigenous archive
An important new exhibition of portraits by Diné photographer Will Wilson at the Delaware Art Museum is both strongly historic and strikingly contemporary. Gail Obenreder reviews.
Reviews
4 minute read
Exploring Philly Nature: A Guide for All Four Seasons, by Bernard S. Brown
The wild things are here
Philadelphians don’t have to leave the city—even its most urban corners—to enjoy a wealth of wildlife. Exploring Philly Nature, a new book by Bernard S. Brown, is an accessible and eye-opening guide. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.
Reviews
4 minute read
The BSR Podcast: RestART with BSR, episode 5, Intercultural Journeys
The arts are back! Learn about the return with Intercultural Journeys
BSR is excited to team with the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance's RestART Initiative on this special podcast episode about Intercultural Journeys.
Podcast
1 minute read
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Remembering home, history, and culture with Brandon Leung and Baisun
Scents that reconnect
Baisun Candle Company founder Brandon Leung finds inspiration in trips to Philadelphia’s H Mart and memories of Hong Kong summers. Dara McBride profiles.
Profiles
3 minute read
Winterthur Museum presents From Winterthur to the White House: Jacqueline Kennedy and Henry Francis du Pont
How the White House became an American museum
A new Winterthur exhibition revives the historic collaboration that turned the White House into the museum it is today, thanks to the vision of Jacqueline Kennedy and Henry Francis du Pont. Gail Obenreder reviews.
Reviews
4 minute read
Why a trip to Kentucky’s Creation Museum makes me worry about Pennsylvania’s future
Because the Bible says so
Nowadays, Kentucky’s Creation Museum is starting to feel awfully familiar to the Christian battleground looming in Pennsylvania, thanks to far-right politicians like Doug Mastriano. Rob Laymon considers.
Essays
5 minute read
The BSR Podcast: RestART with BSR, episode 4, Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers
The arts are back! Learn about the return with Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers
BSR is excited to team with the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance's RestART Initiative on this special podcast episode about Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers.
Podcast
1 minute read
These Are a Few of My Least Favorite Things, by Shannon Frost Greenstein
The sound of my anxieties
Philadelphia writer Shannon Frost Greenstein’s new poetry collection, These Are a Few of My Least Favorite Things, chronicles a 21st-century life in which terror is part of daily existence. C.M. Crockford reviews.
Reviews
3 minute read
Jayson Musson: His History of Art and the Philadelphia Wireman are worth exploring together
Art history as human history
Jayson Musson launches His History of Art at the Fabric Workshop and Museum while the anonymous Philadelphia Wireman’s work appears at Fleisher/Ollman Gallery. Emily Brewton Schilling suggests visiting both.
Features
6 minute read
A walk in the woods, with the wrens, makes me wonder: if things were simpler, when?
Where do house wrens go home?
A photo of a common bird gives flight to Kile Smith’s thoughts on technology and gratitude. Were things really simpler “back then”? What do we witness nowadays, and how?
Essays
5 minute read
As Pennsylvania moves to ban abortion, fight the rhetoric that threatens our rights
We need language and the law
Alaina Johns has found that even in pro-choice spaces, the rhetoric around abortion can be hard to separate from the facts. But we all need to sharpen these skills, especially as Pennsylvania legislators work to ban abortion here.
Editorials
6 minute read
School reunions in a pandemic make us wonder what could have been, but are we looking in the wrong direction?
The universe inside
A pair of school reunions this year, plus emerging from the shutdowns of the pandemic, restarted Michelle Chikaonda’s habit of wondering who she would be in an alternate universe. But this time, something is different.
Essays
5 minute read
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Uneven ‘Fences’
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Previews
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Celebration of storytelling traditions
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Previews
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The 2022 Philadelphia Women’s Theatre Festival
Art and wellness for the “Head and HeART”
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Previews
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The Weekly Roundup, July 20-26
‘Band Together’, ‘Get Pegged’, and more this week
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Previews
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Delaware Art Museum presents Indigenous Faces of Wilmington
Many faces, many stories
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Previews
3 minute read
Delaware Shakespeare presents The Tempest
Something rich and strange
Delaware Shakespeare celebrates its 20th year of the Bard in Rockwood Park with a strange and satisfying production of The Tempest. Gail Obenreder reviews.
Reviews
4 minute read
The Kimmel Cultural Campus presents the national tour of Aaron Sorkin’s To Kill a Mockingbird
Shockingly relevant
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Reviews
4 minute read
BalletX presents its 2022 Summer Series
Dancing from the heart
BalletX returns to the Wilma for world premieres by three star choreographers: New York City Ballet principal dancer Tiler Peck, TITOYAYA director Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, and Alvin Ailey resident choreographer Jamar Roberts. Melissa Strong reviews.
Reviews
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