January 17, 2025
Tag: Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts
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Frank Furness, Philadelphian
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Walking into a building for the first time seldom prompts the question, who was the architect? Names like Wright, van der Rohe, Gropius, Pei and Fuller come to mind, but Furness? – not so much. Frank Furness isn’t well known beyond his home town of Philadelphia, but his forty year career brought over six-hundred homes,…
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October 26, 2023 6 Comments
Act IV in this series by Hy Mirampolski explores the way the after the Great War American audiences finally became comfortable with the engaged theatrical innovations that emanated from Europe and tells how Off-Broadway has lasted for years as an environment where innovation in theme, character and production has taken place.