Posts Tagged ‘visual arts’

Thursday Morning News Roundup

By • Nov 10th, 2011 • Category: Blog, News

Election Results Delayed: Vote totals for Tuesday’s Jersey City special election have been stuck at 95.05 percent of precincts reporting since Tuesday night, and the complete count will stay unknown until at least Monday. Two voting-machine cartridges are still in the machines themselves, and they can’t be retrieved without a court order, Hudson County Clerk [...]



New Downtown Jersey City Cafe Celebrates with Ribbon-Cutting This Weekend

By • Nov 4th, 2011 • Category: Blog, Food

The newest addition to Downtown Jersey City’s cafe scene, Steam Cafe, has been opened for a few weeks now on Newark Avenue between Monmouth and 3rd Streets. While many new food businesses have had trouble on that particular stretch over the past few years (the corner spot most recently home to Rue Viet has, for [...]



This Weekend’s Best Bets

By • Nov 4th, 2011 • Category: Arts, Blog

For full listings, check out the Cultural Calendar. Want your event listed on our calendar? You can submit it yourself — just click here and follow the simple instructions. TODAY Last week we caught up with Paul Sorvino, who tonight marks a return to the opera stage with a solo concert at the Loew’s ($75-$125, [...]



Jersey City Artists Highlighted in Two Shows at the Hoboken Artists’ Studio Tour

By • Nov 2nd, 2011 • Category: Arts, Featured

Several Jersey City-based artists are featured in two exhibitions as part of the Hoboken Artists’ Studio Tour, which starts today. The event, now in its 31st year, is a four-day festival with open studios, gallery exhibitions, site-specific installations and live music. When the festival began in 1981, just ten artists participated. Today, the tour features [...]



Fables on Acid: Jon Rappleye’s “Land of Promise” Is the Must-See Show of Fall

By • Nov 1st, 2011 • Category: Arts, Featured

At first glance, local artist Jon Rappleye’s complex menageries of exotic and everyday animals can strike the viewer as flamboyant, saccharine, even playful. On repeated viewings, his work reveals an artist whose devotion to portraying the natural world borders on the religious.



This Weekend’s Best Bets

By • Oct 14th, 2011 • Category: Arts, Blog

For full listings, check out the Cultural Calendar. Want your event listed on our calendar? You can submit it yourself — just click here and follow the simple instructions. TODAY The Golden Door International Film festival launched last night with a gala opening and screenings of Rohit Gupta’s Another Day Another Life and Sam Borowski’s [...]



Jersey City Medical Center Looks to Buy Jersey City Museum Building From Bank & Re-open the Shuttered Arts Institution

By • Oct 14th, 2011 • Category: Arts, Featured, News

The medical center wants to purchase the foreclosed building to use its second and third floors for office space, according to hospital CEO Joseph Scott. All of the art in storage would remain there, he says. The museum and Caroline L. Guarini Theater would reopen to the public in some capacity, though the details have yet to be worked out.



As 58 Gallery Faces Another Court Date, Orlando Reyes Says its Days in Jersey City May be Numbered

By • Oct 7th, 2011 • Category: Arts, Featured

Orlando Reyes of 58 Gallery says he is closer than ever to ceasing to operate the art space as we know it. Asked by the city once again to file extensive paperwork so the gallery can operate legally, Reyes — echoing comments he made to JCI last summer — says he’s had enough and that [...]



This Weekend’s Best Bets

By • Oct 7th, 2011 • Category: Arts, Blog

For full listings, check out the Cultural Calendar. Want your event listed on our calendar? You can submit it yourself — just click here and follow the simple instructions. TODAY 58 Gallery hosts an opening reception for its annual group exhibition tonight; the show features work by a few handfuls of talented artists: Beau Stanton, [...]



MORE PHOTOS: 2011 Jersey City Artists Studio Tour

By • Oct 5th, 2011 • Category: Arts, Blog

In addition to the photos we posted Monday, we now have dozens more photos taken around Jersey City during this weekend’s Artists Studio Tour. Enjoy! All photos by Catherine Hecht

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