Arts

With so many tricky social situations, it can be tough to maintain proper decorum. Here are two experts from opposite ends of the earth (one goes to Drexel and one goes to Penn) to give you their advice on everything from dating to dinner parties.
November 11, 2010 at 3:56 am

MUSIC Friday, Nov. 12: Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti and Os Mutantes with Old King Cole the Younger, the Trocadero, $17–19 Ariel Pink has been making music for years, recording over 500 lo–fi tracks in his bedroom by using his mouth and even his armpits as percussive instruments.
November 4, 2010 at 3:04 am

The art collection of the Barnes Foundation (over 2500 works by artistic luminaries like Matisse, Picasso, and Renoir) is slated to move from the ‘burbs to Philadelphia in about a year.
November 4, 2010 at 2:59 am

Sculptor Robert Engman is perhaps best known for “Triune,” a trifold Moebius strip that stands majestically outside City Hall, but his sculpture “Quadrature #1” is one of the most inspiring works I have ever encountered in this city.
November 4, 2010 at 2:58 am

Materials: 1 very sharp and sturdy X–Acto knife 1 pair of scissors 1 straight edge 1 high contrast image Tape Contact paper in any color or texture Directions: 1.
November 4, 2010 at 2:55 am

Friday, Oct. 29 — Jedi Mind Tricks with Freeway and Reef the Lost Cause, The Trocadero, $20-22 Philly natives Jedi Mind Tricks aren’t nearly as nerdy as their name would imply.
October 27, 2010 at 11:26 pm

Nothing is strange about Mark Cohen’s Strange Evidence at the PMA. Rather, Cohen presents the ordinary and often mundane to the fraction of the PMA crowd that visits the Perelman Building: a lone newspaper, kids playing, old women bundled in scarves in both black and white and color photographs.
October 27, 2010 at 11:15 pm

When Emily Steinberg graduated from the Graduate School of Fine Arts in 1992, having earned a BA, BFA and MFA from Penn, she admittedly had no idea what to make of her degree.
October 21, 2010 at 2:38 am

MUSIC Friday, October 22: Rusko, with Dirty South Joe & Flufftronix, the Trocadero, $15–19.50 The dirty basslines of dubstep have taken America by storm over the past year.
October 21, 2010 at 2:35 am

The stark white walls and freshly polished wooden floors of Proximity Gallery in Philadelphia’s Fishtown hardly live up to the eeriness that the show’s title, “Hallowed Halloween,” suggests.
October 21, 2010 at 2:32 am

Newly rechristened in honor of the late Anne d’Harnoncourt, the PMA’s sculpture garden adds additions to its urban sanctuary.
October 14, 2010 at 6:26 pm

The “YOUR MOVE” public art piece, sprawled over the plaza of the Municipal Services Building at 1401 J.F.K.
October 14, 2010 at 3:15 am

MUSIC Friday 10/15: Blonde Redhead with Pantha du Prince, Electric Factory, $20 Japanese and Italian exports Blonde Redhead have been channeling the soul of 80's shoegaze for years with their dreamy guitar riffs and melancholic trilingual whispers.
October 14, 2010 at 3:12 am

Newly rechristened in honor of the late Anne d’Harnoncourt, the PMA’s sculpture garden adds additions to its urban sanctuary.
October 14, 2010 at 3:05 am

Now — October 10: Iron , presented by Theatre Exile at Studio X, $25. Think your mother is bad?
September 30, 2010 at 3:57 am

Half of the team behind Art Star — a gallery-cum-boutique that showcases some of the most innovative contemporary art around - Erin Waxman gives Street a tour of this city's vibrant arts Street: What’s your favorite piece of public art in the city?
September 30, 2010 at 3:52 am

This month’s art party is more than just an excuse to pilfer cups of wine from Second Street galleries.
September 30, 2010 at 3:43 am

ARTS Now — October 12: Judith Leiber: The Art of the Handbag, The Galleries at Moore College of Art and Design, Free These days if you catch someone carrying a Judith Leiber bag they are most likely a mother, a grandmother, or a gin-swilling Connecticut yuppie.
September 23, 2010 at 6:27 am

Sure, you ain't no Banksy, but Arts has your back. This week, we show you how to DIY Materials: • One roll .003” acetate drafting film (available at Blick and other art supply stores) • An Exacto knife • A can of spray paint (we used Montana) • A computer with a graphics editing program (if you don’t have one, download Gimp.
September 23, 2010 at 6:16 am

A little over a year ago, Penn alum Abdi Farah (‘09) was napping in Fisher Fine Arts. But since winning the first season of Bravo’s reality art competition, Work of Art, he’s become a household name, scored a solo show at the Brooklyn Museum and pocketed a cool hundred grand.
September 16, 2010 at 3:19 am