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

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

From Prints To Trivets, Art Imitates Life Of Manhole Covers
Art & Design

From Prints To Trivets, Art Imitates Life Of Manhole Covers

Contributor Jonathan Schmalzbach talks with a designer and a printmaker about their obsession with manhole covers and public utility as creative muse

I’m Still Here: Saving The Work Of Robert Cornelius
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I’m Still Here: Saving The Work Of Robert Cornelius

In 1839, amateur chemist Robert Cornelius was experimenting with a new photographic process at his family’s store in Center City. That fateful year, in an alley off of Chestnut Street, he would give birth to the world’s first “selfie.” Meet the conservator who is working to preserve the elusive portfolio of one of history’s most influential photographers. Joe Brin has the story

Film Center At International House Set To Expand
Art & Design

Film Center At International House Set To Expand

After 40 years of screening independent films, the theater at International House expands programming and gets a new name. Joe Brin takes a look at Lightbox Film Center

Emma F-C’s Philadelphia Map: A Cut Above
Art & Design

Emma F-C’s Philadelphia Map: A Cut Above

Emma Fried-Cassorla’s blog has provided an open platform for Philly Love Notes for two years now. To mark the occasion, she’s meticulously cut a three-foot-by-three-foot map of the city out of paper by hand—and she’s giving it away for free

The Viaduct At The Heart Of Her Life And Art
Art & Design

The Viaduct At The Heart Of Her Life And Art

Perhaps no one is more responsible for the vision of transforming the Reading Viaduct into a civic space and park than the acclaimed painter Sarah McEneaney. Nathaniel Popkin talks with McEneaney at Locks Gallery, where the painter’s Viaduct-centered work comes together in “Trestletown”

A Row House And A Life Transformed
Art & Design

A Row House And A Life Transformed

In this second installment of “Behind the Facade,” Nicolas Esposito finds himself at the kitchen table of Pedro Ospina, a Kensington sculptor who barters and builds his way to contentment


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