Art & Design 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
Art & Design 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
Art & Design 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
Art & Design 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
Art & Design Philly Beer History is on Tap at the Neon Museum The Philadelphia Neon Museum gets drunk on breweriana with new exhibition
Art & Design 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
Art & Design 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
Art & Design 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
