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Imperfect Gallery co-founders and curators, husband and wife, Renny Molenaar (right) and Rocio Cabello.
Imperfect Gallery’s fall show returns with community spirit
Imperfect Gallery’s 11th annual “WTF” Germantown show is back with yet another diverse art exhibit. more
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Lesnick is seen with the current exhibit of her work at Cerulean Arts Gallery and Studio, 1355 Ridge Ave. in the city's Spring Garden section, which will continue through Oct. 8. Photo by Tina Rocha
Finding passion in a pivot from scholar to artist
Alice Lesnick, who lives in Erdenheim, took a different path. She spent most of her life as an academic and did not begin painting until age 50. more
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Woodmere kicks off new season of Tuesday night movies
The Chestnut Hill Film Group is kicking off its new fall season with a double-feature Sept. 26 presentation of two Kay Francis movies. more
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“How Johnetta Taught Us to Pray II,” LaToya Hobbs
‘Shifting Time,’ Black artists interpret historic change
In a time of death and unrest amid a brutal pandemic, Tim McFarlane wondered if his art was enough. more
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Movie–goers enjoy a night out at the movies on the grounds of the Water Tower Recreation Center in 2017.
Summer movies al fresco under the stars
There was a time when drive-in movies were all the rage. There are still some options in this region, including at the Water Tower. more
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Anshika Lal (left) and Caprice Jackson, of nonprofit workshop Tiny WPA, install the Rain Poetry exhibit at Vernon Park. Some of the haiku, written by elementary students, will be permanently visible. Others will be revealed only when they get wet.
Rain-activated poetry in Vernon Park
A series of invisible, rain-activated haiku poems, written by elementary schoolchildren in Germantown, can be seen through August. more
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SCH graduate Hirmand Azimi, who came to Philadelphia from Afghanistan, told us he came up with the idea for the art exhibit “to help these kids who have lost their parents to war.”
Teen's art exhibit highlights nonprofit for Afghanistan
At 17, Hirmand Azimi fled violence in Afghanistan, an ordeal that has informed his life in Philadelphia, and also fueled his activism. more
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Artist Tom Judd
Layers of material, layers of meaning
A new exhibit by Germantown-based artist Tom Judd is designed to create a contemplative setting for “growing ideas.” more
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“Devil’s Pool Bathers #9,” 2021, by Sarah Kaufman.
Woodmere exhibition celebrates the art of connection
The Woodmere Art Museum’s Annual Juried Exhibition, now in its 81st year, is back once again. more
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“Evening Stroll,” by Susannah Thomer
Art, friendship and mustangs: The Wyndmoor connection
Susannah Thomer and Joe Borrelli, both in their 70s, have admired one another for more than 50 years. Now her work is being shown at his gallery. more
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The sculpture of artist Susan Taylor-Brubaker will be among the art featured at the Allens Lane Art Center’s Spring Fling.
Fine art and craft sale at Allen’s Lane
Faculty and students at Allens Lane Art Center are currently sponsoring a “Spring Fling” fine art and craft sale. more
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Kay Francis stars with Herbert Marshall in “Trouble in Paradise.”
Honoring an actress who deserves to be remembered
At the peak of her career in the mid-1930s, Kay Francis was one of the most popular, well-respected, and highest-paid actresses in Hollywood. more
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Flannery Cronin, whose fine stained glass art will be on display at Matines Café starting April 27.
Stunning stained glass objects at Hill's French cafe
Matines Café, the charming authentic French café that opened last November at 89 Bethlehem Pike, is featuring glass art created by Flannery Cronin. more
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“Orb," by Carole Sivin, was made from stoneware, oxides and glazes.
Retrospective of Hill legend's artwork at Allens Lane
Allens Lane Art Center will present the first retrospective exhibition of a true Chestnut Hill artistic legend, the late Carole Sivin (1936-2020). more
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As part of a group exhibition in 2017, Rose created an installation called “Still Life,” which shows a sequence in which a worker skins a sheep. Viewers could walk back and forth along the model and discover the scene folding and unfolding before their eyes, as if in motion.
Whimsical work by Chestnut Hill artist Dan Rose on display
Dan Rose's offbeat, often whimsical work is on display in an exhibit at City Arts Salon, 5838 Germantown Ave. , continuing through April 22. more
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“To be held,” from Haskins’ “Quarantine” series, was painted in 2020.
Allens Lane exhibit: bold, candid and uncompromising
Dara Haskins, a Germantown artist whose solo exhibit opens this week at Allens Lane Art Center, is as bold, candid and uncompromising as her colorful work.  more
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Dan Ravasio, who nurtured his artistic talent for years while working jobs in a varied career, will exhibit his artwork at Art in the Storefront gallery in Ambler beginning March 17.
From a job in a factory to a destiny in art
Dan Ravasio, of Chestnut Hill, grew up in a Western Pennsylvania coal mining and steelworker town that wasn’t noted for nurturing a young man’s artistic side. more
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Dmitri Wang Fomich perches atop "Bronze Llama in Technicolor" by local sculptor Christopher Ward.
Gallery on the Avenue opens a colorful spring show
There is a fresh burst of color at Gallery on the Avenue, with a spring exhibit that includes Christopher Ward's life-sized psychedelic llama, and more. more
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Gustave Courbet's landscape, depicting the source of the Lison River in France, was discovered in a storage box at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine in 2016. It was so darkened that only a few letters of the artist's signature were visible.
Forgotten painting by a 19th-century French rebel is discovered at Penn
The landscape, painted more than 150 years ago by the radical French realist Gustave Courbet, was found in a basement during renovations. more
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