Posts Tagged ‘art’

Sunday Morning Blog Roundup

By Shane Smith • Mar 15th, 2009 • Category: Blog

- Irene Borngraeber puts two cents in on how the businesses that participate in JC Fridays handle the art displayed during the events. “JC Fridays is not about art,” she concludes. Someone from Art House Productions responds in the comments: hopefully this conversation will continue and make JC Fridays even better.
- Ian Sacs of Planetizen [...]



Saturday Morning News Roundup

By Jon Whiten • Feb 14th, 2009 • Category: Blog

- HudCo officials expect the county’s number of homeless people to increase with the recession continuing and unemployment rising. For more, read JCI’s reports on the annual homeless count and rising unemployment in Jersey City.
- Businessman Joshua Levitt has officially announced his challenge to incumbent Ward E Councilman Steven Fulop in the May election. [...]



Financial Advice for Artists at JC Museum

By Jon Whiten • Jan 8th, 2009 • Category: Arts, Featured

“Money is a four-letter word in the art world, it’s taboo,” says Jersey City Museum program coordinator and artist Brendan Carroll. “Why discuss what I do not have? I’d rather eat ice cream and go to the movies.”



Friday Morning News Roundup

By Jon Whiten • Dec 12th, 2008 • Category: Blog

We read the JJ so you don’t have to:
The Journal is again pretty light on substance today, with a lot of crime and fire reporting. Here are the exceptions:
- The front page story is a crime story with a ridiculous headline — “FUMES, THEN FURY.” A still-undetermined “airborne chemical irritant” detected yesterday at Snyder High [...]



Day Job: Ermis Atzemoglou

By Jon Whiten • Feb 22nd, 2007 • Category: Arts

Jersey City’s Ermis Atzemoglou is a jack-of-all-trades when it comes to visual arts — the School of Visual Arts grad and native of Greece creates everything from surreal paintings to gritty comics. His work has been displayed around Jersey City at LITM and White Star Bar.
Day job: Mainly freelance art-handling, but I have also worked [...]



Update: WHYGTS? Takes Manhattan

By Jon Whiten • Dec 22nd, 2006 • Category: Blog

When we were speaking with the What Have You Got to Say? 2006 curatorial team this summer, one thing they mentioned was the desire to have WHYGTS? be more than a singular art show, but rather to be a format, something that could be reproduced in other venues.

(Read the original story here)
It looks like that [...]



What Have You Got to Say? Returns to JC

By Jon Whiten • Sep 6th, 2006 • Category: Arts, Featured, Politics

written with Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg

I’m no art expert. But when asked to think of why I’m angry about what’s been going on in our country, images pop into my head.
Photos of torture from Abu Ghraib and the desperation from Katrina captured and deepened my disgust more than anything I simply read.
And so, while image control has [...]