1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (612+ words) Walk north on 10th Street towards the Chinatown Friendship Gate and you might notice a red-white-and-blue circular mural on the brick wall between the sushi burrito and frozen ice cream spots. The mural – featuring a buffalo and bald eagle staring at…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (578+ words) Connecting Cultures Through The Eye’s Gallery The Eye’s Gallery has been curating Indian and Latin American folk art, jewelry, and handmade gifts, drawing visitors from across Philadelphia and beyond. Tucked in along Philadelphia’s South Street, the Eye’s Gallery has been…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (650+ words) For over a decade, Danny Simmons has been using the power of art to empower his adopted city through Rush Arts Philadelphia in the Logan neighborhood. Heartbreakingly, his time working in Philly has ended. Simmons has died at age 72, his…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (541+ words) “As an arts organization, it’s about pushing the limits, right?” said Rachel Zimmerman, founder and executive director of InLiquid. “And how do you engage people in a meaningful way?… We have the space, so why not challenge people’s expectations?” Walking…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (626+ words) In addition to getting us from point A to B, Philly’s subway stations serve as canvases to a world of graffiti, stickers and wheatpastes. While typically illegal, SEPTA’s flagship hub, Suburban Station, is now embracing that street art status. “We’re…...

3+ mon, 7+ hour ago   (665+ words) West Philadelphia is a patchwork of distinct micro-neighborhoods, but Garden Court holds a quiet, resonant frequency all its own. Engulfed by towering old-growth trees and stately early 20th-century brick facades—stretching from 45th to 52nd streets, with Locust Avenue to the north…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago   (351+ words) A densely packed commercial canopy, an environment engineered for momentum and scale — Center City West doesn’t announce itself, it simply begins. West of Broad Street, east of the Schuylkill, between Market and Walnut, Center City West reveals itself slowly, the…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago   (482+ words) The first visible sign of the Chinatown Stitch park has arrived in the form of a modular wood-and-red-metal shelter — one of several intended to eventually grace the highway cap park. However, it is currently parked in the 11th Street Chinatown Community…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (988+ words) Danny Simmons is more than an artist, he’s a cultural architect. An abstract-expressionist painter, Simmons is also a published author, poet, and philanthropist. Also, he’s the older brother of Def Jam founder Russell Simmons and Run-DMC co-founder Joseph “Rev. Run…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (462+ words) Soccer fever is taking over Philadelphia ahead of the FIFA World Cup, and not just at the Linc and Lemon Hill. On Wednesday, students and neighbors of Pan American Academy Charter School in Kensington began painting a soccer-themed mural that…...