Elisabeth Smolarz
Photographer Elisabeth Smolarz’s "The Encyclopedia of Things" is a portrait of the tiny New Jersey town on the Hudson ...
Willie The Lion
Between 1920 and 1940, few pianists achieved the mythological status of Willie "The Lion" Smith. Along with James P. Johnson ...
Peters Valley (2004)
Peters Valley, nestled in the bucolic Delaware Water Gap in northwest New Jersey, is a center for learning about ...
Toshiko Takaezu: In the Stars
Towards the end of her life, artist Toshiko Takaezu (1922-2011) created a series of majestic, closed, ceramic forms - ...
Crossroads
Crossroads Theatre Company was founded in 1978 by Ricardo Khan and L. Kenneth Richardson, two recent Rutgers grads, when ...
AIDS in the Arts
This is a State of the Arts feature from 1989, the early days of the series. AIDS was killing thousands ...
Bernarda Bryson Shahn
Artist Bernarda Bryson Shahn (1903-2004) was an illustrator, print maker, journalist, and author. She was married to artist Ben Shahn, ...
Hannibal Lokumbe
Composer and jazz trumpeter Hannibal Lokumbe sees it as his mission to create dramatic musical works that explore and ...
Bucky Pizzarelli Tribute
Legendary jazz guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli died in April 2020 at the age of 94 from complications related to the coronavirus. ...
The Dryden Ensemble
The Dryden Ensemble, based in Princeton, New Jersey, uses instruments of the 17th and 18th centuries to perform music ...
Artist Kang
Taiwanese artist Kang Muxiang exhibits his huge biomorphic works made from retired elevator steel cables at Grounds for Sculpture ...
George Segal: American Still Life
He'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
The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) opened in 1997 in downtown Newark. It was a dream project that ...
The Dalai Lama
In 1990, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of the Tibetan people in exile, visited the Newark ...
Marian McPartland
Marian McPartland was a musician, composer, and the host of Piano Jazz on NPR from 1978 to 2011. When State ...
Art for the Homebound
New Jersey’s Folk Life Centers are piloting a first-of-its-kind program that sends artists into the homes of people unable ...
Francesca Maximé
Former broadcast news anchor Francesca Marguerite Maximé won the 2020 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award from the Poetry Center at ...
Nimbus Dance
Nimbus Dance premiered new work at NJPAC. "Falling Sky" was choreographed by Samuel Pott to music by experimental composer ...