uwishunu.com Just days before Philly’s Equality Forum (May 1-4), some bad news for the LGBTcommunity. Giovanni’s Room, 345 S. 12th St., announced in a press release today that it will close on Saturday, May 17. Giovanni’s room is the oldest…

Philly home portrait by Instagram photographer @itsmekp Search for the tag #phillyhomeportrait on Instagram, and it’ll turn up 1,135 posts (at least this morning). The photos are similarly striking — simple but usually very colorful snapshots of the façades and…

“Almost Paradise,” David Graham, faculty/alumni, 1976, photography, $500. Through Tuesday, April 15, you can browse the Art Unleashed exhibition at UArts, featuring artwork in various forms created by alumni, faculty and students. We checked out the (packed) preview party on…

Wikimedia Commons Free art? We were as thrilled as you are, cartoon guy. (Sticker vandalism in Arizona.) Here’s something that perked me up when I went through my inbox this week — Philadelphians can see a complete performance of Giuseppe…

The unaging Julia Louis-Dreyfus poses au naturel on the most recent cover of Rolling Stone, with the U.S. Constitution inked across her back. We get it, she plays the vice president on HBO, yadda yadda … problem being, it’s signed “John…

FringeArts Revlock (right) and Bindler get scrappy. What sticks with me most from The Dance Apocalypse, nearly 20 hours later, is the moment when Nicole Bindler unzipped the top portion of her jumpsuit, fell to her knees, grabbed a barely…

Wikimedia Commons The Philly art scene is certainly no stranger to abstract, conceptual, nontraditional, even bizarre work. But for those artists who work in the realm of realist, humanist work — that is, hyper realistic portraits of actual people —…

facebook.com/der.vorfuhreffekt You heard it here first: you can officially pizza-bomb your friends (or, we suppose, a lactose intolerant enemy?) in the name of supporting the arts. What a time to be alive. The Der Vorführeffekt Theatre company (its creator, Donna…

Neal Santos Neal Santos L-R: Aaron Levy, co-founder and executive director of Slought,Ronald Weingrad, Emily Brewton Schilling and Patricia Weingrad at the Brewton exhibit. Photo courtesy of Emily Brewton Schilling. James Brewton in Silkeborg, Denmark, in 1962. He poses with…