From The Editors at Broad + Liberty <[email protected]>
Subject How Philly’s Creative Circles Stay Separate
Date September 17, 2024 4:00 PM
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Op-ed by Thom Nickels | B+L Featured Columnist

Thom Nickels: Who is an artist?
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"The different arts communities in Philadelphia — theater, painting, poetry and literature — are like individual fish bowls arranged along the top of a wall. Each community is its own enclave or kingdom. Actors hang with other actors, visual artists keep company with other visual artists, and poets and writers generally keep to their own circles unless they have to jump bowls and write about actors or the visual artists.

This arrangement is confining, parochial, and limiting. It’s also a Philadelphia thing because, at least according to a poet friend of mine, the various arts communities in New York behave in a different fashion: they mix and mingle freely with one another..."
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** About Thom Nickels:
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Thom Nickels is a Philadelphia-based journalist/columnist and the 2005 recipient of the AIA Lewis Mumford Award for Architectural Journalism. He writes for City Journal, New York, and Frontpage Magazine. Thom Nickels is the author of fifteen books, including “Literary Philadelphia ([link removed]) ” and ”From Mother Divine to the Corner Swami: Religious Cults in Philadelphia ([link removed]) .” His latest is “Death in Philadelphia: The Murder of Kimberly Ernest ([link removed]) .” He is currently at work on “The Last Romanian Princess and Her World Legacy,” about the life of Princess Ileana of Romania.

We at Broad + Liberty ([link removed]) are proud to present Thom's writings, and to provide readers across our region, state and beyond, with insightful, original investigative reports, and thought-leadership, on education, crime, business and government.

Read more columns ar www.broadandliberty.com — updated daily and as news breaks.

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