Shipwreck! Winslow Homer and “The Life Line” exhibit opens Sept. 22–Dec. 16, 2012 While living in a tiny fishing village in England in 1881-82, the American artist Winslow Homer was profoundly moved by the sight of a shipwreck that would focus his imagination on the power and peril of the sea. His art took on a new seriousness and drama, demonstrated in a major painting…
The Kennett Symphony will present Water Music: Titanic 100 Years on Saturday, Aug. 18, 7:30 p.m. (rain date August 19) in the Open Air Theatre of the Longwood Gardens under the direction of Maestra Mary Woodmansee Green. Celebrate music inspired by water: Handel’s Suite on the River Thames, a trip down the Beautiful Blue Danube à la Johann Strauss, Sir Henry Wood’s delightful “Fantasia on…
Guns, brothers, and booze mix explosively at premier of “Mr. Hart and Mr. Brown.” People’s Light and Theater Company might have been called People’s Light and Sound Company Wednesday, July 18 when the show opened. A Duesenberg arrives in a small town inNebraska. The era is the 1920s and prohibition. A larger-than-life Mr. Brown appears with picnic basket, a bottle of wine and phonograph record playing…
The Trustees of the Brandywine Conservancy announced the appointment of Thomas Padon as the next director of the Brandywine River Museum. Padon, who will take up the post on September 1, 2012, will be the Museum's third director since its founding in 1971. The Brandywine River Museum has an international reputation for its collections of American art and illustration, including works by N.C., Andrew and…
An invitation might read: Welcome to The Gates of Hell. The Rodin Museum’s reopening July 13 reveals the largest collection of the French sculptor’s work outside of Paris. Timothy Rub, Director and Chief Executive of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, read a letter of congratulations to the Rodin Museum from its sister museum Musée Rodin in Paris. The renovation represents more than three years of…
The cure for Stephanie Kirk was to become an artist. In the pharmaceutical industry, Kirk excelled in starting new programs from scratch. Her “tolerance for chaos” was high enough to survive while she structured a solution to a problem. Twelve years ago, though, Kirk fled from the corporate cubicle and started to figure out the next step in her life. Part of the process included…
Spring Quartet is an exhibit featuring new works by four established artists who have a long connection with the Chadds Ford Gallery.
A Celebration of the Arrival of Spring - An Exhibit of New Artwork by: Richard Bollinger, Nancy Cunningham, Paul Scarborough and J.M. Standish
