In this 2024 State of the Arts feature, we meet the internationally-renowned choreographer Mark Morris at the Mark Morris Dance ...
Reciting Women: Two Muslim Artists
Mae Kellert2024-02-22T18:46:45-05:00Two Muslim women come together for an exhibition of their art at Princeton University Art Museum’s Art@Bainbridge. Khalilah Sabree was ...
The Lost Archive of a NJ Photographer
Mae Kellert2024-02-22T09:33:29-05:00A newly discovered collection of glass-plate negatives focused on Trenton, New Jersey, and shot between 1890 and 1910, reveals a ...
Westphalia at Luna Stage
Mae Kellert2023-12-07T17:13:07-05:00As the experimental theatre scene struggles to recover post-COVID, Luna Stage in West Orange, New Jersey puts on Westphalia, an ...
Steven R. Carty, Basket Weaver
Mae Kellert2023-12-07T17:11:53-05:00Steven R. Carty is a second-generation basket weaver from Mount Holly, New Jersey, on the edge of the Pine Barrens. ...
Judith K. Brodsky: A Force in the Arts
Mae Kellert2023-12-07T13:27:09-05:00We meet the extraordinary artist, scholar, print maker and feminist pioneer, Judith Brodsky. An exhibition she organized in Philadelphia 50 ...
Feminism in the Arts
Mae Kellert2023-11-09T16:38:09-05:00This 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 ...