Share/Save 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 Legendary folkie Tom Paxton gets the Brennan Coffee House’s fall lineup into gear with a performance tonight (7:30 pm), while The Alex Meixner Band [...]
As the founder of the Abaton Book Company, a 14-year-old publishing house and record label she runs out of her Lincoln Park area home with her husband, Lauri Bortz is always jumping off with new projects. At the moment, she is directing and producing scripted audio dramas, in the manner of classic radio serials from the 1930s, through an imprint dubbed Abaton Radio Theater.
In the late 1960s, two up-and-coming SoHo art dealers named Louis K. and Susan P. Meisel began a concerted effort to study, collect and interpret Photorealism. Forty years later, Louis and Susan have amassed one of the greatest collections of Photorealism in the world, and some of it will soon be on display in Jersey City, thanks to the Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation and Mana Contemporary, the huge new art center near Journal Square.
Share/SaveFor 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 It’s that time again: JC Fridays invades Jersey City today, and there are scores of great art and music events all over town. The best [...]
Share/SaveLike so many others who have called this area home for years, Vincent Zambrano has a 9/11 story. The Jersey City-based artist was underneath the World Trade Center on a subway train just a few minutes before the first plane hit, and once he got to work, he had a clear view of the smoldering [...]
Photographer Sandra Swieder had admired and shot the Twin Towers for years. She had seen them from homes in New York and New Jersey, from scattered job sites, and from within, when she worked briefly as a waitress at Windows on the World. From the age of 14, when she would take the PATH into Manhattan to explore and spend time with her friends, the towers were always there. Until, one day, they weren’t.
Share/SaveCharles 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 [...]
As we approach the 10-year anniversary, art exhibitions dedicated to exploring the event, its aftermath and its ramifications are being unveiled in gallery spaces all over the metro area. New Jersey City University (NJCU) this week opened its wide-ranging group show commemorating the anniversary, AFTERWARDS and FORWARD.
Share/SaveFor 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 Some outdoor options if the rain cooperates: P.R.I.M.E. plays a free concert at the MLK Hub this evening (6 pm), and the Historic Paulus Hook [...]
Share/SaveArt House Productions and Cassieopia are looking for artists to submit work for the 2011 Artists’ Studio Tour around the theme “OLD SKOOL” (what inspires you?): This theme is meant to express the connection between old school art/artists and how they have impacted the new generation of artists, like you. What has been your source [...]
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