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Councilmember Rue Landau and Creative Philadelphia present Transcending Uncertainty: Art Endures at Home in Philadelphia
Honoring the UArts community with a new exhibition at City Hall
City Councilmember Rue Landau and Creative Philadelphia teamed up to honor the UArts community with a special exhibition, free to view at City Hall through January 25, 2025. An Nichols visits.
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The Museum for Art in Wood presents La Famiglia
Family trees
With this exhibition at the Museum for Art in Wood, turned-wood figures by artist Mark Sfirri explore likeness and difference, ancestry and environment, asking how family takes root. Anndee Hochman reviews.
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The Fabric Workshop and Museum presents Soft/Cover
Celebrating 50 years of FWM Artists-in-Residence
The Fabric Workshop and Museum marks 50 years of its Artists-in-Residence program with this survey of intriguing multi-media works from the 1970s to the present. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.
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Building Ghosts: Past Lives and Lost Places in a Changing City, by Molly Lester and Michael Bixler
Revealing Philadelphia’s almost-invisible past
Building Ghosts, an absorbing new book from Temple University Press, grasps a history that we barely know with essays and photos capturing the remnants of Philly’s lost and demolished buildings. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.
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The Big Story: The Oral History of Philadelphia TV News, by David Grzybowski
A new book takes you inside the TV coverage of Philly’s biggest stories
From Papal visits to sports championships to a blizzard that never was, a new book takes us inside 50 juicy, surprising years of Philly TV news in the words of Jim Gardner, Larry Kane, and lots more. Stephen Silver reviews.
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Final Cut, by Charles Burns
A Philadelphia graphic novelist at the top of his game
Charles Burns, the cult-favorite Philly-based cartoonist behind Black Hole, is back with the graphic novel Final Cut, a new work the artist seems born to create. Kiran Pandey reviews.
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The House of Barnes: The Man, the Collection, the Controversy, by Neil L. Rudenstine
Still braving Barnes bias
As a trustee emeritus of the Barnes Foundation, author Neil L. Rudenstine is clearly biased, but his book offers interesting details about the collection of Albert Barnes and how his fraught legacy was slowly dismantled. Emily B. Schilling reviews.
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Chris Davis presents One-Man Nutcracker 2024
Still working on his pirouettes
Prolific Philly solo artist (and budding mid-life ballerino) Chris Davis is back with One-Man-Nutcracker, a deeply personal glimpse at the famous ballet as well as the yearning to dance that can strike at any age. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
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Dolce Suono presents Great Arrangements
Variations beyond Bach
Great Arrangements by Dolce Suono made for a compelling afternoon of chamber music, featuring arrangements of well-known and less-well-known works that differed from the composer’s original vision. Gail Obenreder reviews.
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PHILADANCO! presents Our Voices, Our Choices … This Is Us!
Another emotionally powerful performance
PHILADANCO! honored director Lee Daniels, an alum of the company’s classes, at a program showcasing four Black women choreographers, including company favorites as well as rising star Martha Nichols. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
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