Photographer 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 Schultz2025-06-26T17:51:38-04:00This is a State of the Arts feature from 1989, the early days of the series. AIDS was killing ...
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 ...
Artist Kang
Eric Schultz2020-09-21T21:05:43-04:00Taiwanese artist Kang Muxiang exhibits his huge biomorphic works made from retired elevator steel cables at Grounds for Sculpture ...
Giselle
Eric Schultz2025-12-18T07:11:16-05:00The American Repertory Ballet stages the romantic masterwork Giselle, a ballet beloved by dancers for its emphasis on both ...
George Segal: American Still Life
Eric Schultz2021-06-14T12:00:15-04:00He's one of New Jersey's most celebrated 20th Century artists, with a deeply personal approach to sculpture. George Segal ...
New Stage for a City
Eric Schultz2020-09-22T13:54:20-04:00The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) opened in 1997 in downtown Newark. It was a dream project that ...
The Dalai Lama
Eric Schultz2020-09-22T13:57:25-04:00In 1990, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of the Tibetan people in exile, visited the Newark ...
Marian McPartland
Eric Schultz2020-09-22T13:57:54-04:00Marian McPartland was a musician, composer, and the host of Piano Jazz on NPR from 1978 to 2011. When State ...
Art for the Homebound
Eric Schultz2020-09-22T13:58:31-04:00New Jersey’s Folk Life Centers are piloting a first-of-its-kind program that sends artists into the homes of people unable ...
Francesca Maximé
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T13:59:26-04:00Former broadcast news anchor Francesca Marguerite Maximé won the 2020 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award from the Poetry Center at ...
Nimbus Dance
Eric Schultz2023-09-14T16:06:19-04:00Nimbus Dance premiered new work at NJPAC. "Falling Sky" was choreographed by Samuel Pott to music by experimental composer ...
Paul Prestopino, Banjo
Eric Schultz2020-09-22T14:00:04-04:00Paul Prestopino gave State of the Arts a special mini-concert of one of his own compositions, "Weymann's March." Paul ...