Arts & Culture

Mapping the city through poems, one neighborhood at a time

One year on the job, the Barnes’ director has turned museum going into a communal experience

All Star #14: Henry Ossawa Tanner

All Star #9: Julian Francis Abele

Interactive theater company Just Act uses the audience as “spect-actors” to address social problems

The first black woman in America to open a comic book store storms on to the scene

All Star #4: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

An exhibit explores a shared history of activism among blacks and whites—and points to a possible future

Legendary concert promoter Larry Magid on his friend, David Bowie

The city’s outgoing Poet Laureate on the poem of Philadelphia