Arts & Entertainment

Annual Critter Sale at the Brandywine River Museum December 1 & 2      WHAT:   Whimsical and decorative, critters are tree ornaments and tabletop decorations made from natural materials, including dried flowers, pine cones, seeds, pods and berries. Crafted by hand, critters are environmentally friendly, distinctive and artistic-the ideal gift! Choose from over 9,000 critters-all made by our talented volunteers.  Prices range from $5 to…

  Double Portrait: Paula Scher and Seymour Chwast, Graphic Designers December 2, 2012 - April 14, 2013 With a shared sensibility and approach to design, graphic designer Paula Scher and illustrator Seymour Chwast have transformed their fields of practice. Celebrating the achievements of this remarkably creative couple, whose work is being shown together for the first time, this exhibition includes images in a wide range…

Visions of Sugarplums Kennett Symphony’s Annual Family Holiday Concert! Saturday, December 1, 2012 • 8:00 pm Kennett High School Auditorium, Kennett Square, PA The Kennett Symphony, under the direction of Maestra Mary Woodmansee Green, presents “Visions of Sugarplums” at Kennett High School Auditorium on Saturday, December 1, 2012, at 8 p.m The Kennett Symphony’s annual holiday concert is a family tradition in Chester County. This…

Shipwreck! Winslow Homer and "The Life Line" Exhibition Extended Now through December 31, 2012 Prom: Photographs by Mary Ellen Mark closes this Sunday October 28. Between 2006 and 2009, American photographer Mary Ellen Mark visited thirteen high school proms to create portraits of attendees with a 20-by-24-inch Polaroid Land Camera. Only five such cameras exist, and they make extraordinary and unique large-format prints. Mark used…

Local artist Robert Stack doesn’t put a label on his style of painting. “It’s sort of whatever I see, different things I like, [things] that just sort of hit me a certain way,” Stack said during the opening of Defining Light, his new exhibit at the Chadds Ford Gallery running through Oct. 28. The exhibit captures those things he‘s seen from the greater Chadds Ford…

Visitors to Longwood Gardens this summer increased by 51 percent when compared to last year. According to Paul Redman, Longwood’s director, good weather and the Munro light show contributed to the successful summer. Longwood Gardens admitted its one-millionth visitor last week. Halsey Spruance, Director of Delaware Museum of Natural History, said that good weather isn’t necessarily good for an indoor venue when people want to…