Photo by Chris Sembrot via Uwishunu Update from Mural Arts: The mural is called Lotus Diamond. Work on the mural began on Monday morning, and it will be completed by Friday afternoon, Aug. 8. This is the first of two scheduled…

theinspirationroom.com The bottled beverage company Honest Tea is conducting its fifth annual “National Honesty Index” in all 50 states to determine “how honest people are when no one is looking.” Somewhere in the city on Monday, Aug. 4, the company…

$15  |  36 miles/40 min. away  |  Grounds for Sculpture, 18 Fairgrounds Rd., Hamilton, N.J., 609-586-0616, groundsforsculpture.org. We’ve already seen Marilyn Monroe’s underwear when she put her buns in the breeze over that subway grate in The Seven Year Itch. Maybe that’s why her 26-foot-tall…

Mikala Jamison, playing it cool while panicking internally. Today, in a nondescript lot in Kensington flanked by towering buildings — some abandoned and graffiti-ed, some not — I took a nearly two-hour lesson in trapeze instructed by the good people…

Neal Santos R. Brent Byrne, who considers himself the “champion” of the work of Philly artist Leonard Nelson. Neal Santos COLOR WAR: R. Brent Byrne sits in front of Leonard Nelson’s 1982 painting, BRIGHT IS THE DAY inside his Leonard…

At Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Del. last week, I met up with two of the musicians from Australian group Boy & Bear, David Hosking and David Symes. The group is huge back home, but have begun to amass fans…

Pennmuseum on Instagram For 13 weeks this summer, beginning today, five Philly museums (the PMA, the Barnes, Penn Museum, PAFA, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society) will share a photo of an object from their respective art collections which connect to each week’s…

City Paper had the chance to meet with a couple of artists on the lineup of this past weekend’s Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Del. Self-proclaimed “tropical grit-pop” duo Ghost Beach, out of New York City, discussed their sound, the…

The third annual Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Del. has come and gone once again, leaving the humble state capital buzzing in the afterglow of 100-plus ground-shaking performances and 80,000 attendees, most of them on drugs, all of them filthy…