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Objects designed for birth, fertility and parenthood have long been neglected by institutions. A new book and exhibition series aims to change that.

Writer and design historian Amber Winick rolls the dice at her house in Croton- on-Hudson, leaning into whims of chance to curate an ever-changing home environment.

Beyond the immortalized battlefields, museums of science and historic collections, Pennsylvania also is home to an amazing array of weird and wacky sites and attractions. Here’s a look at 23 of those special places, including a few right here in our own backyard. Castle Halloween, Altoona Decades of Halloween and

Tulepo Press, 2021 Hailed by his contemporaries as a visionary poet, G.C. Waldrep aptly presents an intimate study of the literal, physical, and spiritual act and implications of seeing. His seventh book, The Earliest Witnesses (Tupelo Press, 2021), bridges the divide between the sacred and the profane, as he locates the former in the everyday landscape and language of the latter. His speaker tours a mattress factory museum, countless architectural ruins, and cathedrals.; he alludes to the Bib...

Mary Grace Legg makes her living as a videographer with mad creative and technical skills, but we also call her a storyteller, a documentarian, a performer, a writer, a farmer, a mail artist and an enthusiast for the rare and unusual. More than anything, Legg has an eye for hidden treasures — for the quality Ralph Waldo Emerson was getting at when he said, ”A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to a particular angle; then it sho...

The artist, who has spina bifida, also recently wrote the memoir "Golem Girl" and her subjects range from frank self-portraits to people with or without disabilities.

The Mütter Museum is offering visitors a chance to see medical specimens and oddities that have never been seen by the public. "Unseen" gives a look into the museum's fascinating storage areas. The new photography exhibit opens Friday, Feb. 5. Admission to the museum is $20 for adults.

South Philly Review The Mutter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia will reopen to the public on Friday, Jan. 15. Located at 19 S. 22nd Street, the Mutter Museum will resume normal hours, Thursdays through Mondays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Capacity will be limited to 25 people in the building at one time and all staff and visitors will be required to wear masks and social distance. The museum will remain closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The Mütter Museum displays collections o...