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It is perhaps no surprise that American art begins with the founding of the American republic and in the fertile intellectual hubbub of Philadelphia. Led by such visionaries as Gil...

As one of the largest, most powerful American cities during the 18th century, it's little surprise that Philadelphia became a center of science, research, and medical innovation. F...

South Philadelphia—particularly the Italian Market neighborhood—has a rich and complex culture owing to the many immigrant populations who have made it home over the past 150 years...

Founded in the 17th century by William Penn as a haven for persecuted Quakers, Philadelphia quickly became the most important city in America. By the dawn of the revolution it was ...

Few people in history have enjoyed such a symbiotic relationship with their city as Benjamin Franklin with Philadelphia. Inventor, scientist, businessman, manager, politician, phil...

Philadelphia has more public art than any other city in the world outside of Paris. How did this come to be? From the tallest statue atop any building in the nation, to murals and ...

Constructed in the wake of the great Centennial Exposition of 1876, the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) rises on a manmade hill above the city, at the end of a great Parisian-styl...