22 February 2009 | Philly Skyline
Of all the skyline images in Philadelphia, perhaps the one that hangs on the second floor of the Rosenbach Museum is most achingly familiar — and not because the tallest building is a slick, bulky glass tower that rises above a wide plaza.
19 September 2008 | Philly Skyline
“He was quite a contradictory fellow,” says Sam Katz, explaining his new-found fascination with William Penn. “We tend to think of him as the grandfather of religious freedom, which he was, but he was also the largest private landholder in the world.”
15 November 2007 | Context
In Flow, the National Book Award-nominated author Beth Kephart gives the Schuylkill a voice, a memory, a melancholic sensibility. She has given us a finely-tuned and moving work of art, an exquisite book of loss and wanting.