Charles Chamot’s first Chamot Gallery, housed in the former arts nerve center at 111 1st Street, was closed shortly before all the tenants were forced out and the building was razed. Now the gallery’s second incarnation — a 650-square-foot ground floor exhibition space in Bergen Hill — has met a similar fate and closed, at [...]
Head west on Grand Street from Downtown Jersey City and about a mile after the Brownstone Diner, past the dividing line of the highway, you’ll come to a great hulking building next to a towing service. Nondescript, minus its address, 660, written large in black paint, the building’s exterior gives no clues to what’s inside.
It is time for Jersey City to say goodbye to Alex “Lex” Leonard and his 1,400 square foot Downtown gallery and exhibition space. Leonard, who has been a stalwart force in Jersey City’s art scene for more than a decade, is shutting the doors to his gallery to pursue new projects across the river in New York City. We recently caught up with him to discuss his gallery, the state of the art scene in Jersey City and his future plans.
- ‘I am So Scared Right Now’: “I stand before you facing the most terrifying moment of my life,” former deputy mayor and Healy campaign treasurer said before a federal judge sentenced her to three years in prison yesterday. The Ledger has more. “It is a sad image: a 75-year-old woman expressing terror and begging [...]
- City Workers Bracing for Layoffs: The city’s business administrator told union presidents Wednesday that layoffs will take place in the coming months. A city spokeswoman says no formal plan is in place yet, and the layoffs will most likely happen in the next fiscal year, which begins on July 1. One union leaders says [...]
McCall’s new “broadly autobiographical” album takes us all over New Jersey, from the Delaware Water Gap to the Staples at Newport Center. “Many of these songs were written at a time when I didn’t exactly feel welcome in my own hometown,” he says. “Since I have always had a near-religious loyalty to the place where I’m from, you could look at Let The Night Fall as a chronicle of a crisis of faith.”
- Hudson County’s unemployment rate has skyrocketed in the last two years, from 5 percent in September 2007 to 6.7 percent one year later to 11.6 percent in September 2009. It is now higher than both the state and national averages. Jersey City’s 12 percent unemployment rate is not the highest in the county; that [...]
When the Chamot Gallery opens for business next week in a glossy 650-square-foot street-level space in the recently renovated Library Hall Lofts building on Grand Street, it will be the first high-end professional art gallery in Jersey City’s Bergen Hill neighborhood. But its proprietor, Charles Chamot, is hardly a newcomer to the local arts scene.
Editor’s note: Due to miscommunication within the L. Harvey Smith campaign, he was unable to get back to us on his arts and culture plans by our deadline. After the story was published on Friday, we heard from the campaign and Smith soon thereafter answered our questions. Since our goal with this series is to [...]
The arts are often a forgotten issue in municipal elections, but this year in Jersey City, the concerns of the art world shouldn’t go unnoticed. In recent conversations with JCI, three of the five mayoral candidates outlined what they envision when it comes to the city’s arts and cultural scene.
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