Peter Crimmins

Arts+Culture reporter for WHYY

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If you’ve ever wanted to run away and join the circus, Cherry Street Pier can give you a taste this weekend.

With the loss of Germantown's Circadium school, a new festival aims to establish Philly as a hub for contemporary circus.

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As Philly celebrates the country’s 250th birthday, exhibitions are making the case for the city's central role in establishing American botany as a pillar of nation-building.

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A billboard has been erected along I-95 northbound in Philadelphia promoting positive body imagery and a new book.

It was paid for with spoils from a legal fight against artificial intelligence.

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Yiddish is experiencing a grassroots revival in West Philadelphia.

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Born into slavery, Cyrus Bustill became an entrepreneur, a patriot and one of the founders of a thriving Black Philadelphia.

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Philadelphia museums are pooling their resources — and telling bigger stories together.

“Bodies and Souls,” by PAFA and the Woodmere Museum, highlights a rare moment of partnership among Philly institutions.

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Anandibai Joshee, who came to Philly in 1883, became the first Indian woman to earn her medical degree in the city.

Now her story is being memorialized in songs.

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Three Philly-area museums are collaborating on a retrospective of artist Syd Carpenter.

The Woodmere, Maguire and Berman museums each take on different aspects of the sculptor’s five-decade career.

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Chester County has the only military hospital built during the Revolutionary War.

While George Washington’s army waged war against Britain, Yellow Springs Hospital fought a deadlier enemy: contagious disease.

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With more than 15,000 interviews in the books, WHYY's "Fresh Air" is turning 50 years old.

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UArts’ Anderson Hall has been sold to become a mixed-use development.

Thunderbird Salvage is trying to rescue everything left behind.

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Selections of Live Aid — the massive 1985 concert held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London and the old JFK Stadium in South Philly — will be re-created in Philadelphia this weekend.

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The revolutionary moment that gave birth to the United States 250 years ago had many stories.

Philly-area historical organizations aim to bring tens of thousands of them to life.

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Laurel Raczka, the longtime leader of the Painted Bride Art Center, is stepping down after 26 years with the arts organization.

Raczka said she will stay on until her successor is identified, likely within the next six months.

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Drill dance troupe Maci Lago Universe is competing for a national championship while changing lives back at home.

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Tucked into Philly’s largest tract of wild forest, “TERRA” explores ecofeminism and the disruptive forces of gravity.

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After catching fire in 2018, a Cape May church associated with the Underground Railroad is now a theater space.

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"Giovanni's Room," the revered gay literature classic by James Baldwin, was always held tightly by the author and his heirs.

Now in previews at Germantown's Sedgwick Theater is the first production sanctioned by his estate.

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After 22 years of covering every nook and cranny of Philadelphia’s gallery scene, TheArtBlog is closing down.

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Arts organizations in Philadelphia and elsewhere scramble to cope with an abrupt cancellation of promised federal funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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