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• Philadelphia Theatre Company finds “reasons to be pretty”

  
  
  

  By Carrie Chapter, Philadelphia Theatre Company

  Last month, we lived in the kingdom of playwright Neil LaBute here in Philadelphia. The final play in LaBute’s Beauty Plays trilogy, the purposely lower-cased reasons to be pretty closed the 2011-2012 PTC season in a triumphant Philadelphia premiere. In a celebrated [...]

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• Random Acts of Culture™ hits the Aspen Ideas Festival

  
  
  

  Random Acts of Culture™ arrived with a bang at the 2012 Aspen Ideas Festival as musician Wu Tong surprised the Making Cities Sing panel audience with a traditional flute performance.

  Why Does Knight Foundation Fund Random Acts of Culture™? Knight Foundation, like its founders [...]

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• The Circus Comes to City Hall

  
  
  

  By Josh Dubin, Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy City of Philadelphia

  Image courtesy of Amanda Brandt for the City of Philadelphia

  It’s 5:30pm on a Wednesday in the Philadelphia. The City Hall Courtyard, a key pedestrian corridor and public transit access point in the heart of [...]

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• Hard truths: debating the art categories primitive, folk and outsider

  
  
  

  In the art world classification is paramount. Art historians, critics and curators spend much of their time seeking to contextualize art — to define art and subsequently artists by shared characteristics. Hence we have the categorization of art by time period, geographical region and personal style; and [...]

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• North Philly abstractions in “Dirty Pretty Things”

  
  
  

  In Gallery 102 of the Crane Arts Building, artist Fabian Lopez has organized a group exhibit called “Dirty Pretty Things,” which includes eight artists working in the vein of abstraction. As the curator, Lopez selected artists he knew that lived in [...]

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• Discover Same Stage at “Discover Art! Family Festival”

  
  
  

  Next Friday, July 27th from 4-8 p.m., experience the inspirational power of art for free at “Discover Art! Family Festival” at the Little Haiti Cultural Center.  The 2nd annual Family Festival will feature art and music created by local artists.

  The Daniel Lewis Miami Dance Sampler at [...]

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