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Animal-Humans, Living Appliances, and Exquisite Tortures: The Life and Art of Arnold Hendrickson
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Animal-Humans, Living Appliances, and Exquisite Tortures: The Life and Art of Arnold Hendrickson

Justin Duerr uncovers a forgotten artist with roots in Philadelphia’s 1960s counterculture

POOL Explores the History of Segregation in Aquatic Recreation
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POOL Explores the History of Segregation in Aquatic Recreation

A new exhibition at Fairmount Water Works dives into the civil rights struggle to swim as equals. Kimberly Haas has this review

Documenta ’76: How an Avant-Garde Art Sensation Almost Happened in Philadelphia
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Documenta ’76: How an Avant-Garde Art Sensation Almost Happened in Philadelphia

Ella Comberg explores the failed plan that would have brought an international contemporary art event to the city during the Bicentennial

National Public Art Audit Presents a Monumental Task for Inclusive Representation
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National Public Art Audit Presents a Monumental Task for Inclusive Representation

Amy Cohen takes a look at Monument Lab’s new National Monument Audit and finds more diversity in state historical markers here in Philadelphia

Philly Beer History is on Tap at the Neon Museum
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Philly Beer History is on Tap at the Neon Museum

The Philadelphia Neon Museum gets drunk on breweriana with new exhibition

NIMBYs, Zoning, and Much Ado About the Painted Bride Mural
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NIMBYs, Zoning, and Much Ado About the Painted Bride Mural

In Old City, Isaiah Zagar’s largest mosaic mural hangs in the balance as a neighborhood association contest a contemporary overbuild that would save the artwork

A Symbol of Survival and Hope Returns to the Parkway
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A Symbol of Survival and Hope Returns to the Parkway

After 30 years in storage, “Maja,” a Bauhaus sculpture that evaded destruction in Nazi Germany, graces Philadelphia’s grand boulevard again

Heroes of a Different Hue and the Birthplace of Black Comic Books
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Heroes of a Different Hue and the Birthplace of Black Comic Books

Keshler Thibert explores race, representation, and Philadelphia’s historic role in publishing African-American comic books


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