Art
Jose Garces Is Aiming High with Volver
Tonight is the night that Jose Garces’s Volver debuts its ticketed dining at the Kimmel Center. The restaurant will immediately leap to number one in […]
First Major U.S. David Lynch Museum Exhibition Coming to PAFA
This fall the Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) will present what it’s calling the first major U.S. museum exhibition of the works of […]
Bar Volver Opens This Evening
The first-come-first serve part of Jose Garces’s Volver opens to the public tonight. Bar Volver is a champagne and caviar lounge that will feature a selection […]
Is There A Wegmans Coming To Center City?
And wait, before you say anything, go check out the legwork just done over on the Property blog. They’re trying to get to the bottom […]
Somebody Vandalized the “Dueling Tampons”
The Daily Pennsylvanian reported Sunday night: “The ‘Covenant’ statue at 38th and Locust, commonly known as the Dueling Tampons, was graffitied with what seemed to […]
First Friday Roundup: PAFA Blooms, Marks of Vanity, Failing Words and More
Our guide to what’s worth browsing during the year’s first First Friday of spring: Looking for other weekend events? We’re keeping a list of the […]
In the Kitchen at Volver
Last Thursday I checked out how menu testing was going over at Volver with Jose Garces, Natalie Maronski and the rest of the Volver team. […]
Philly Archdiocese to Auction 5 Eakins Portraits From Seminary Collection
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia is in spring-cleaning mode as it downsizes its St. Charles Borromeo Seminary on City Avenue, and among the items its clearing out are five portraits […]
Artist to Install Major Art Installation Along Philly-to-NYC Amtrak Route
A stretch of industrial waste and suburban blight navigated by passengers on SEPTA, NJ Transit or Amtrak’s Philly-to-NYC rail corridor is getting a makeover, thanks […]
Parke Place Progress Report
We were strolling up the Avenue of the Arts last week and decided to check in on the Parke Place townhouse development in the 1300 […]
Philadelphia Director Jonathan Demme Auctioning Massive Art Collection at Material Culture
Oscar-winning director of Philadelphia and The Silence of the Lambs Jonathan Demme has spent years amassing quite an impressive collection of Caribbean art — colorful gems by […]
Asian Arts Gives Elevator Music a Lift With “Really Good Elevator Music” Project
Of all the tortures, to put it lightly, of elevator-sharing (awkward eye contact, microscopic talk, the dreaded cougher), the music may be enemy number one. […]
The Whitney Taps Philly Curator for 2014 Biennial
Anthony Elms, artist and associate curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Philadelphia, is one of three outside-NYC curators the Whitney Museum of American Art […]
