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Recent Member News
| Barnes sets prices for new location |
Once the hoopla of its grand opening has subsided in May, the Barnes Foundation will be open six days a week, Wednesday through Monday, from 9:30 in the morning until 6 at night. |
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| Please Touch Museum embarks on fundraising campaign |
The Please Touch Museum is launching a $30 million capital campaign for what it calls a “success and sustainability” fund. Laura H. Foster, the museum’s president and CEO of two years, said the fund will help it with new exhibits and programming. She said the timing seemed right for a capital campaign. |
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| Jiri Zizka, Wilma Theater cofounder, passes away |
The Wilma Theater posted a banner across its website late Wednesday to announce that Jiri Zizka - a cofounder of the modern Wilma on Broad Street and a major force in Philadelphia's evolution as a vibrant city for live theater - had died. |
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| Nézet-Séguin's fresh beginning |
The drumroll that greeted the announcement Wednesday of Yannick Nézet-Séguin's first full Philadelphia Orchestra concert season came with surprises that perhaps even music pundits didn't see coming. |
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| Letters: Cultural Alliance President Tom Kaiden applauds Zoe Strauss and Mural Arts |
The 54 billboards featuring the photography of Zoe Strauss and promoting her show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art are an inspiring public-arts project, and a welcome temporary addition to our city's streetscape. But it's not entirely clear why this welcome new addition should be seen as a contrast to our vital Mural Arts Program. |
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| Letters: Philadelphia council member Jannie L. Blackwell says editorial misrepresented her over Mural Arts Program |
I was distressed to read my words misrepresented and applied negatively to the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program on the editorial page: "[W]e can't help thinking that the city is, to riff on a phrase from Councilwoman Blackwell, a little 'muraled-out.' " |
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| Letters: THE CITY NEEDS ART IN ALL ITS FORMS |
In the past 27 years, we have helped to show the dramatic impact that public art can have on neighborhoods, and we have demonstrated that Philadelphians across class, race and ethnicity want both beauty and artistic stimulation in their communities. |
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| Philadelphia Orchestra negotiating split with pension fund |
After months of sparring in bankruptcy court, the Philadelphia Orchestra Association and the national musicians' pension plan from which the orchestra is withdrawing are negotiating the terms of their split. |
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| February 7th: Corbett to Announce Funding Priorities in Midst of $800 Million Deficit |
With another bleak budget on the horizon, it is imperative that arts and culture advocates be prepared. This February 7th, follow the Cultural Alliance’s coverage of Governor Corbett’s FY2012-13 budget address. It is time to get engaged. |
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| DN Editorial: Strauss' Very Public Art |
First, we wish more billboards were devoted to art and fewer to strictly commercial messages. We need more presence of art in our lives, and billboards are a great canvas for high-impact works; it's a perfect way to have art confront us where we live, rather than confined to the walls of museums and galleries. |
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