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Celebrate America's freedom at the birthplace of our nation! Get ready for a weekend filled with patriotic festivities, fireworks, and free days at Philadelphia museums that your kids will love. Kids ...
Philadelphia is a huge city with so much to offer that likely you won’t be able to hit it all even with a week visit. Chances ...
As one of her final acts as director, Paula Marincola brought the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage into a partnership with ...
Paula Marincola, the long-serving executive director of the center, also announced that she will be stepping down.
A Spurs media employee interrupted a trade-related question posed to Harrison Barnes, who reportedly could be traded for ...
More than a million people have visited The Barnes Foundation since the art museum moved to Philadelphia from a suburb in May 2012. That's almost three times the number of ...
“The Battle of the Bathers” Barnes Foundation, through September 15, 2025 Dr. Albert C. Barnes, whose collection forms the basis of the Barnes Foundation, purchased The Large Bathers in 1933.
When he felt that a hail of profanity and slurs didn’t suffice, Albert C. Barnes signed letters to perceived foes with his dog’s name, Fidèle. That tic and the enmity behind it became famous ...
Upon the family’s move to South Philadelphia’s notorious Neck in the early 1880s, Barnes adopted the rough habits of his neighborhood, which had been described by the city’s health ...
The original Barnes Foundation building in Lower Merion, which the foundation left in 2012 to move to the Parkway in Philadelphia, is now exhibiting art again. St. Joseph’s University has completed ...