66 stories by "Anndee Hochman"
The Ministry of Awe, a wild, self-guided experience from Philly artist Meg Saligman and dozens of local creators, has taken over a Frank Furness bank in Old City. Anndee Hochman reviews.
A Bryn Mawr-based theater company proves that with patience, flexibility, and innovation, disabled artists of all ages can take to the stage, enjoying community, careers, and creativity. Ann…
When Anndee Hochman met Isaiah Zagar, he told her how art can heal. A few years later, grieving her father, she took Zagar's lessons into her own hands.
The anthology for students participating in the annual nationwide Poetry Out Loud program now excludes poems by Langston Hughes and many others. Anndee Hochman looks closer.
An October forum for scientists, scholars, artists, and city leaders explored new insights into just how much murals affect our everyday lives. Anndee Hochman was there.
With Clay As Care, The Clay Studio welcomes four very different ceramic artists to explore the ways attention to art and the work of our hands can heal, empower, and connect us. Anndee Hochm…
Amy Sherald's American Sublime was supposed to open in DC this month, but she withdrew it rather than face censorship. Meanwhile, Philadelphians can see Sherald right at home. Anndee Hochman…
Anndee Hochman grew up reading Judy Blume, unaware of how controversial her books were. Today, after raising her own daughter, she knows what book-ban proponents do not: reading is a fundame…
In a unique program at Bartram's Garden, including an Andalusian-inspired dinner, composer/performer Daniel de Jesús honored Federico GarcÃa Lorca with voice and music. Anndee Hochman …
Northwest Philly essayist Wendy A. Horwitz explores empiricism and transcendence, skepticism and ritual, moments and generations in her new collection, Milkweed and Honey Cake. Anndee Hochma…
Aviva Perlo's book brings real solutions, perspectives, research, and personal experiences to light for those forging new lives after real trauma. Anndee Hochman reviews.
The Trump administration is clawing back hundreds of thousands of dollars of NEA grants already promised to arts groups around the country. These cuts are hitting hard in Philly, but artists…
Ensemble Arts Philly, which runs venues including Marian Anderson Hall and the Academy of Music, is increasing its welcome to patrons who are often excluded, including Deaf and autistic folk…
A new exhibition at the Museum for Art in Wood brings Wisconsin illustrator and woodworker Katie Hudnall to Philly for a delightful, mind-bending show. Anndee Hochman reviews.
Essayist Anndee Hochman challenges those of us who may need a break from the news with this quiz about our current federal government.
David Y. Block, a blind journalist and filmmaker, has been telling other people's stories through his documentaries for years. But as he tells Anndee Hochman, now he's learning to turn that …
The story of artist Isaiah Zagar's remarkable decade-long mural project from the 90s and how the Philadelphia Magic Gardens is working to preserve the masterwork that was nearly completely d…
Anndee Hochman has spent years protesting for human rights. This year, some people are discouraged. A friend told her it doesn't make a difference. So Anndee shares the reasons she isn't goi…
With this exhibition at the Museum for Art in Wood, turned-wood figures by artist Mark Sfirri explore likeness and difference, ancestry and environment, asking how family takes root. Anndee …
Food writer and editor Margaret Eby's new cookbook lays out creative plans for when your energy may be running low. Anndee Hochman previews.
Wherever
There Is Light, a new exhibition combining portraits, self-portraits,
landscape, and collage, starts a new conversation about imprisonment, identity,
and justice with cameras in the…
By the time she started grade school, Anndee Hochman was known as the girl who learned
to read when she was three"and whose talent landed her (literally) in the lap of iconic actor James Ear…
When Anndee Hochman was 13, a teacher told her she couldn't sing. Decades later, a basement Broadway singalong in Manhattan's West Village taught her something new.
A new
ensemble exhibit featuring 15 InLiquid Gallery members poses plenty of worthwhile
questions along with its nudes, but something is missing from the show's
promise to honor humanity's i…
A new exhibition by woodworker and interdisciplinary artist Gina Siepel at the Museum for Art in Wood asks what happens when we regard trees as "you" rather than "it". Anndee Hochman reviews.
