This is an excerpt of a 1988 State of the Arts, special about feminism in the arts that aired on ...
The Trenton Circus Squad
Mae Kellert2023-10-26T10:24:04-04:00The Trenton Circus Squad features jugglers, unicyclists, aerialists, and clowns—a mix of inner-city youth and kids from the surrounding suburbs ...
Art of the Pine Barrens: Heather Palecek’s Solargraphy
Mae Kellert2023-10-26T10:21:27-04:00Heather Palecek’s solargraphs are taken with simple pinhole box cameras, often made with Altoids tins. She mounts them in trees ...
Komar and Melamid: A Two Party System
Mae Kellert2023-10-26T10:19:07-04:00In the USSR, they rebelled against the regime through satire and parody. In New York, they were crowned Soviet Pop ...
Unfinished Women
Mae Kellert2023-09-14T10:22:08-04:00The Camden Repertory Theater produced an immersive production of Aishah Rahman’s rarely produced underground classic Unfinished Women Cry In No ...
Philip Roth’s Newark
Mae Kellert2023-09-14T10:18:07-04:00"Philip Roth Unbound" was a three-day festival at NJPAC in March 2023 that celebrated the great novelist with readings by ...
DBR and NJ Symphony
Mae Kellert2023-09-14T10:10:40-04:00We profile Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR), the New Jersey Symphony's Resident Artistic Catalyst, and the debut performance of his new ...
Ben Shahn: Passion for Justice
Mae Kellert2023-05-26T11:21:45-04:00This award-winning 2001 PBS documentary tells the story of the socially engaged, 20th Century American artist Ben Shahn (1898-1969). During ...
Philemona Williamson, Artist
Mae Kellert2023-03-30T12:47:59-04:00Renowned figurative artist Philemona Williamson’s studio is in East Orange. For years, the artist didn't talk about her unusual New ...
Quarter Rican at Mile Square Theatre
Mae Kellert2023-04-01T09:13:17-04:00Hoboken serves as both the setting and the inspiration for Quarter Rican, a fast-talking new hip hop musical by performer ...
Seven Decisions of Gandhi by William Harvey
Mae Kellert2023-03-30T12:35:11-04:00The Princeton Symphony Orchestra, with conductor Sameer Patel, performs the world premiere of William Harvey's violin concerto, with the composer ...
Layqa
Mae Kellert2023-02-16T14:58:14-05:00To celebrate the opening of a new terminal, Newark Airport teamed up with Public Art Fund and the Port Authority ...
The Montclair Art Museum’s George Inness Gallery
Mae Kellert2023-02-16T10:45:50-05:0019th century visionary landscape painter George Inness was one of the foremost artists of his generation. Some of his greatest ...
The Chivalrous Crickets
Mae Kellert2023-02-16T10:37:09-05:00The Chivalrous Crickets bring together backgrounds in Early European music, Appalachian folk tunes, opera, Irish, Scottish, and English music, creating ...
LIFE and Death
Mae Kellert2023-01-27T10:07:25-05:00In 1945, one of America's most popular magazines, LIFE, tried to persuade an unbelieving public that the atrocities of the ...
Philip Pearlstein
Mae Kellert2022-12-19T12:43:23-05:00Philip Pearlstein was an American master, an artist who reinvented figure painting during a time when Abstract Expressionism ruled the ...
James Wilson Edwards and a Circle of Black Artists
Mae Kellert2022-12-08T11:55:32-05:00Lewis Tanner Moore has spent a lifetime collecting works by Black artists. An exhibition at the Arts Council of Princeton ...
Alice Childress, Rediscovered
Mae Kellert2022-12-08T11:51:41-05:00Plays by Alice Childress are suddenly relevant and being performed on Broadway and beyond. In 1957, she was on the ...
Britten’s Violin Concerto: The Bay Atlantic Symphony with Stefan Jackiw
Mae Kellert2022-12-08T11:47:29-05:00Renowned violin virtuoso Stefan Jackiw has a long and warm relationship with conductor Jed Gaylin and the Bay Atlantic Symphony. ...
Alexandre Arrechea at ArtYard
Mae Kellert2022-10-20T11:56:21-04:00A founding member of the Cuban Collective, Los Carpinteros, international artist Alexandre Arrechea creates a new exhibition at ArtYard in ...