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 ...
Paul Prestopino, Banjo
Paul Prestopino gave State of the Arts a special mini-concert of one of his own compositions, "Weymann's March." Paul ...
Xian Zhang’s Romeo & Juliet
Meet Xian Zhang, the conductor and music director of the New Jersey Symphony, as she conducts and discusses her ...
German Pitre
Meet Newark, NJ artist German Pitre during his six-month artist-in-residency at Express Newark. His path to becoming an artist ...
Greensboro Community Reading
The McCarter Theatre travels to Greensboro, North Carolina for a community reading of Emily Mann's 1996 play, Greensboro: A ...
Morristown Festival of Books
We visited the wildly popular Morristown Festival of Books, now in its seventh year. Seven thousand visitors of all ...
Martha Graham Dance
The Martha Graham Dance Company performed the iconic American classic Appalachian Spring at PEAK Performances at Montclair State University. ...
Jerry Herman: Gray Eminence
Jerry Herman (1931-2019) demonstrates how to bring out the pathos in one of his songs during a rehearsal, and describes ...
Dreaming of Utopia
Dreaming of Utopia: Roosevelt, New Jersey is an exhibit at Morven Museum & Garden in Princeton (Nov 15, 2019- ...
Photographer Phillip Buehler
"Mallrat to Snapchat" by photographer Phillip Buehler is a meditation on the end of mall culture. Focusing on the ...
Jeffrey Gaines
The all volunteer run Outpost in the Burbs has been putting on concerts with the top singer/songwriters in Montclair, New ...
Albert D. Horner
Photographer Albert D. Horner has made it his mission to capture the beauty of New Jersey's Pinelands, a preserved ...
Tallur L.N.
The international artist Tallur L.N. receives his first major exhibition in the United States at Grounds for Sculpture, in ...
Nam June Paik
Korean-American artist Nam June Paik (1932-2006) is generally considered the father of video art. As a key figure in the ...