Arts
Drawing Bodies, Missing People
On being captured vs. being known in the art studio.
Bald Fear and Blue Erotica
Discovering myself and community at the Blue Man Group show.
Noah Davis Retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
A mediation on the beauty and collective suffering of the human experience.
(Resisting) Bodily Resolution
Blah Blah Gallery’s latest show Holding Pattern captures moments of play, memory, and bodily experience.
Why Are Performing Arts at Penn Dying? What Can You Do to Help?
In a post–COVID–19, pre–professional campus culture, theater seats remain empty.
When Museums Resist Modernization
The Wagner Free Institute of Science stands out as a beacon for curiosity, open access, and education for all.
The LOVE Statue: Love on Command
Laura Gao examines the history of Penn’s LOVE statue, from its controversial unveiling on College Green in 1999 to its role today as a focal point for protests, vigils, and student life.
What if These Worlds Were Within Us?
Old City’s latest art exhibition is playful, dreamy, and modernist, featuring Aitor Lajarin–Encina’s Flora, Fauna, and Furniture and we call the moon the people’s wife, in collaboration with Vox Populi.
Batman and the Business of Starting Over
Street Film & TV editor Henry Metz analyzes 2025’s comic sales charts, which reveal an industry built on relaunches, familiarity, and one unbeatable brand.
Sculptures Can Make People Cry
Josh Kline’s approach to political art is not what you’d expect.
The New Age of Superheroes
Marvel’s Ultimate and DC’s Absolute universes abandon superpowered fantasies for broken systems and the pursuit of meaning in a hopeless world.
I Hate the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Rebrand. You Should Too.
The PMA has PMO.
More Than Geometry
A Review of ‘Mobile Images’ by Mavis Pusey at the ICA Philadelphia
Melissa Broder on Obsessive Love and Mental Illness
One X account and three novels later, Melissa Broder tells Street that writing hasn’t solved her problems.
Local Theater: The New Third Space?
Philly playwright Shay Overstone builds a community of first–time actors with independent productions.
'Hung Liu: Happy and Gay'
What once fits a child's hand now fills a wall, but not without raising new questions.
Afternoons at the Prado With Goya’s ‘Black Paintings’
The paintings are dark, fascinating, twisted, and scarily real—we want to both turn away and look forever.
Refusing the American Dream in ‘The Emperor of Gladness’
The bestselling author has returned with another emotional epic.
Photography Sans Performance
Reclaiming memory through intentional photography and self–awareness
