April 12, 2024 by Beth Heinly

April 10, 2024 by Roberta

‘Futures without Guns’ at University City Science Center, Betsy Casañas at Taller Puertorriqueño, plus Penn State Bobbleheads, the earthquake and Opportunity

A couple of great exhibitions having opening receptions April 18 – mark your calendars! Also, who doesn’t love a bobblehead?

April 10, 2024 by Pete Sparber

Reggie Browne, finance leader, art collector and patron, thinks globally and locally about supporting the arts

Pete Sparber has a sit down with finance ‘market maker,’ Reggie Browne, and finds that the PAFA Trustee and Board Chair of Creative Capital has opinions on many global issues relating to art and humanity. and suggestions for the art scene. What fuels him is to make an impact.

April 9, 2024 by Ryan deRoche

‘The Zoo Story,’ sixty-five years old, shows its age in a new production at Plays and Players

Ryan deRoche opens Philly Theatre Week with a review of Plays and Players performance of Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story. The play reflects on themes of financial class, sexuality, and mental health.

April 6, 2024 by Oli Knowles

Socialist Grocery March 2024

April 3, 2024 by Roberta

Colored Girls Museum joins Historic Germantown, Fabric Workshop and Museum April 1 Oops, Golden Sunrise Mummers invitation to make costumes, plus Opportunities!

Hello! The News today focuses on a couple Philadelphia museums and includes two great opportunities, one from Blah Blah Gallery and one from the Association for Public Art and the Parkway Council.

April 3, 2024 by guest writer

Theodore A. Harris brings Nina Simone, Rembrandt and The Curtis Institute together in book and exhibit

In this guest essay by Chris Funkhouser, the writer tells us of Theodore A. Harris’s ‘Road to Damascus’ encounter with a commissioned painted copy of a 1662 Rembrandt work, “The Sampling Officials of the Amsterdam Draper’s Guild” at The Curtis Institute. Harris had been working on a series called “Thesentür/The Thinker.”

March 28, 2024 by Blaise Tobia and Virginia Maksymowicz

Artomatic Art Fair, for artists, by artists, 25 years strong, in Washington, D.C.

Our contributors Blaise Tobia and Virginia Maksymowicz traveled to Washington to the art fair Artomatic, to speak at a panel on the CETA program (federal artists’ employment program in the 1970s), which they participated in.