Art
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Brandywine River Exhibit will Memorialize the Life of Frolic Weymouth
The unmistakable spirit of George A. “Frolic” Weymouth will fill the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Chadds Ford one more time when the essence of his creative and fun-loving personality is put on display to memorialize a life lived to the full. “The nickname ‘Frolic,’ given to him in childhood, perfectly embodied the joy…
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Photographer Steps Outside His ‘Black-and-White’ Box to Paint Chester in Color
Most of Justin Maxon’s photos are black-and-white, blurry, and hyperbolic, and many have been published in high-profile magazines likes Mother Jones, and the blogs of Time magazine and The New Yorker. Organizations like the Aaron Siskind Foundation and the Magnum Foundation have awarded Maxon funding to continue his work. However, when Maxon, who has been…
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Lansdowne at Center of Hunt for Secret Nazi Diary
Robert Wittman, the head of the FBI’s art-crime team in Philadelphia, has collaborated with Pulitzer Prizing-winning author and journalist David Kinney to write The Devil’s Diary – the story of the pair’s hunt for the missing diary of Alfred Rosenberg, a high-ranking Nazi, and the deadly epic story it illuminates. Interestingly, Wittman and Kinney’s odyssey…
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Art from Philadelphia Museum Coming to Lansdowne, Upper Darby
Lansdowne and Upper Darby residents will soon be discovering outdoor installations of masterpieces from the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the unlikeliest of places – right under their noses. With the support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Museum is launching the 2016 season of Inside Out, a major initiative that…

























