This 1991 State of the Arts feature about Jacob Lawrence includes an interview with the famous artist himself, then in ...
Leon Fleisher
Mae Kellert2020-09-21T20:40:34-04:00In the 1950s and early '60s Leon Fleisher was at the top of his field, making a spectacular Carnegie Hall ...
W. Carl Burger, artist
Mae Kellert2020-09-21T20:40:08-04:00The much loved New Jersey artist and teacher W. Carl Burger celebrates his 95th birthday in 2020, and the Morris ...
In Search of Alexander: Organist Alexander McCurdy
Mae Kellert2020-09-16T18:21:31-04:00The legendary organist and teacher Alexander McCurdy (1905-1983) is profiled by his grandson Eric Schultz on what would have been ...
Bette Blank, artist
Mae Kellert2020-09-16T17:42:53-04:00Bette Blank always painted, but became an artist full-time as a second career. Her first was in the field of ...
Dream Journey
Steven Wolock2020-07-29T12:47:59-04:00"Dream Journey" was conceived, performed, and edited by the choreographer and performer Yass Hakoshima, best known for his original approach ...
Mozart’s Piano
Steven Wolock2023-09-14T16:04:38-04:00In 2006, State of the Arts caught up with Russian ex-patriot concert pianist Vladimir Feltsman. He was preparing to play ...
Vladimir Feltsman
Steven Wolock2020-09-21T20:59:47-04:00Concert pianist Vladimir Feltsman emigrated to the United States in 1987 after being silenced by the Soviet Union's Ministry of ...
Nell Irvin Painter
Steven Wolock2020-09-21T21:00:18-04:00Nell Irvin Painter was a professor of American History at Princeton University for 20 years. Upon retiring, she enrolled in ...
Turnpike
Eric Schultz2020-09-21T20:26:49-04:00Narrated by Paul Sorvino, this 2005 documentary takes a figurative journey along the New Jersey Turnpike to explore the art, ...
Elisabeth Smolarz
Eric Schultz2020-09-21T21:01:10-04:00Photographer Elisabeth Smolarz’s "The Encyclopedia of Things" is a portrait of the tiny New Jersey town on the Hudson ...
Willie The Lion
Eric Schultz2020-07-13T14:09:49-04:00Between 1920 and 1940, few pianists achieved the mythological status of Willie "The Lion" Smith. Along with James P. Johnson ...
Peters Valley (2004)
Eric Schultz2020-09-21T21:02:01-04:00Peters Valley, nestled in the bucolic Delaware Water Gap in northwest New Jersey, is a center for learning about ...
Toshiko Takaezu: In the Stars
Eric Schultz2020-09-21T21:02:38-04:00Towards the end of her life, artist Toshiko Takaezu (1922-2011) created a series of majestic, closed, ceramic forms - ...
Crossroads
Eric Schultz2020-09-21T21:03:44-04:00Crossroads Theatre Company was founded in 1978 by Ricardo Khan and L. Kenneth Richardson, two recent Rutgers grads, when ...
AIDS in the Arts
Eric Schultz2020-09-21T20:31:10-04:00This is a State of the Arts feature from 1989, the early days of the series. AIDS was killing thousands ...
Bernarda Bryson Shahn
Eric Schultz2020-07-13T14:09:49-04:00Artist Bernarda Bryson Shahn (1903-2004) was an illustrator, print maker, journalist, and author. She was married to artist Ben Shahn, ...
Hannibal Lokumbe
Eric Schultz2023-09-14T16:05:36-04:00Composer and jazz trumpeter Hannibal Lokumbe sees it as his mission to create dramatic musical works that explore and ...
Bucky Pizzarelli Tribute
Eric Schultz2020-07-13T14:09:49-04:00Legendary jazz guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli died in April 2020 at the age of 94 from complications related to the coronavirus. ...
The Dryden Ensemble
Eric Schultz2020-09-21T21:04:26-04:00The Dryden Ensemble, based in Princeton, New Jersey, uses instruments of the 17th and 18th centuries to perform music ...