Philip Roth’s Newark
"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
We 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
This award-winning 2001 PBS documentary tells the story of the socially engaged, 20th Century American artist Ben Shahn (1898-1969). During ...
Philemona Williamson, Artist
Renowned 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
Hoboken 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
The Princeton Symphony Orchestra, with conductor Sameer Patel, performs the world premiere of William Harvey's violin concerto, with the composer ...
The Montclair Art Museum’s George Inness Gallery
19th century visionary landscape painter George Inness was one of the foremost artists of his generation. Some of his greatest ...
The Chivalrous Crickets
The Chivalrous Crickets bring together backgrounds in Early European music, Appalachian folk tunes, opera, Irish, Scottish, and English music, creating ...
LIFE and Death
In 1945, one of America's most popular magazines, LIFE, tried to persuade an unbelieving public that the atrocities of the ...
Philip Pearlstein
Philip 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
Lewis Tanner Moore has spent a lifetime collecting works by Black artists. An exhibition at the Arts Council of Princeton ...
Alice Childress, Rediscovered
Plays 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
Renowned violin virtuoso Stefan Jackiw has a long and warm relationship with conductor Jed Gaylin and the Bay Atlantic Symphony. ...
Alexandre Arrechea at ArtYard
A founding member of the Cuban Collective, Los Carpinteros, international artist Alexandre Arrechea creates a new exhibition at ArtYard in ...
Xiomáro Captures Morristown
Xiomáro photographs Morristown National Historical Park, home to important Revolutionary War sites including Washington’s headquarters and Jockey Hollow, where troops ...
“Possessing Harriet” at the East Lynne Theater Company
The East Lynne Theater Co. in Cape May presents Kyle Bass’s Possessing Harriet, about a young woman's flight to freedom ...
Victor Davson: Lessons from the Trees
For 30 years, Victor Davson ran Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, helping establish under-represented artists and promoting ...
Samara Joy: Reverence for Tradition
Jazz vocalist Samara Joy is in her early 20s, but her deeply moving take on the standards brings to mind ...
Roberto Lugo: The Village Potter
Roberto Lugo discovered the art of pottery in his early 20s. It led him to college and a wildly successful ...