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09/26/2026

Happy Celestial Birthday to artist, writer, singer-songwriter, playwright, and children's book author, Shel Silverstein

September 25, 1930–May 10, 1999

❝To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something.❞

09/26/2026

Mark Rothko

September 25, 1903–February 25, 1970

❝I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions—tragedy, ecstasy, doom...❞

09/23/2026

On Kawara's Date Painting - Sept. 23, 1975

09/22/2026

Katie Bennett’s hybrid memoir intertwines her artistic coming-of-age with the story of Joan Vollmer and her murder by Beat author William Burroughs.

09/21/2026

French tightrope walker Tatiana-Mosio Bongonga has stunned thousands with a daring high-wire performance in Loos-en-Gohelle, northern France.

Bongonga crossed a 400-metre tightrope stretched between two of Europe’s tallest slag heaps, walking nearly 100 metres above the ground without a safety tether. During the breathtaking performance, she performed splits, hung upside down and even danced on the wire.

09/21/2026

Langston Hughes Saw Democracy As Something We Owe One Another

"Hughes understood democracy as a way of living, one rooted in dignity, community, and the responsibility people have toward one another."

In My America: Langston Hughes on Democracy, Randal Maurice Jelks argues that Hughes understood democracy as a way of living.

09/21/2026

A rare Keith Haring mural in Point Breeze is one step away from becoming a city landmark — and making a bit of Philadelphia history.

The Point Breeze artwork remains where Haring painted it with students in 1987, making it his only surviving outdoor mural in the city.

09/20/2026

Early Bowie music available to stream for first time

Previously unheard material from the start of the artist's career has been released for the first time.