On Thursday, May 2nd, was the opening reception and annual exhibition celebrating the final thesis work of graduating fine arts students. The theme “Starting Point”, “Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another”.This event is always exciting as it gives the public the chance to see the work of emerging artists. The artist [...]
Continue reading...2. May 2013
Soy Fuego debuted at Solo(s) Project House at 972 Broad Street on Saturday, April 13, from 7 pm to 11 pm. International street artist LNY worked with Mexico City based filmmaker Jonathan Ostos Yaber to create Soy Fuego (I’m Fire), a video juxtaposing footage by Ostos and the paintings of LNY. They worked for 12 [...]
Continue reading...1. May 2013
The North American Tree Climbing Championship (NATCC), competitors come from throughout the continent wide competitive championship event. The Masters’ Challenge was held on Sunday at Branch Brook Park, an Olmsted historic Park in Newark, New Jersey. This annual event provides a competitive but educational opportunity for working arborists in North America to demonstrate and exchange [...]
Continue reading...30. April 2013
The NJIT-Rutgers Theatre Program presented Tartuffe from Wednesday, April 24 to Sunday, April 28 in Bradley Hall Theatre at Rutgers-Newark. The hilarious production featured NJIT and Rutgers-Newark students, many who are studying theater. The play, written in 1664, is one of the sexier ones of its time, and the 80s twist they put on it [...]
Continue reading...24. April 2013
On Thursday, April 25, former heavyweight champion of theworld, Mike Tyson, will bring his riveting one-man show to NJPAC. Directed by Academy Award nominated filmmaker Spike Lee and written by Tyson’s wife, Kiki Tyson, “Mike Tyson: The Undisputed Truth” is an autobiographical production during which Tyson gets to tell his story in his own words. [...]
Continue reading...23. April 2013
Two weeks ago, Seeing Double opened at Mighty Tanaka in Brooklyn. The joint show featuring work by photographer, Ellen Stagg and vinyl artist, Hiroshi Kumagai blurs the line between viewer and voyeur aiming for the audience to form their own opinions about art vs. smut. No stranger to Brick City, Hiroshi Kumagai has been part [...]
Continue reading...19. April 2013
This is part two of a two-part series. Make sure to read part one here, Urban Foraging for Food Under the Cherry Blossoms. As part of their spring exhibition S’Long As It’s Yours (February 23 – May 31, 2013), Gallery Aferro invited several artists to create performances and interactive events. One of these artists, Moira [...]
Continue reading...17. April 2013
The Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience presented its annual Spring Dance Symposium at Rutgers-Newark on Wednesday, March 27. Move-Meant: A Symposium on Contemporary Dance was performed by Danse4Nia Repertory Ensemble. Danse4Nia is a Philadelphia-based multicultural, contemporary modern dance company which aspires to use dance to foster personal, cultural, and social change. Danse4Nia [...]
Continue reading...16. April 2013
Students at South Street Elementary have officially turned collecting trash into an art form! After collecting over 5,000 bottle caps in our area with the help of parents, local store owners and individuals, the students successfully arranged the caps into a conservationist’s dream: an 8 by 12-foot rendition of Vincent van Gogh’s masterpiece, Starry Night. The work, which [...]
Continue reading...15. April 2013
On Saturday April 13th, world-renowned Contemporary Artist Willie Cole returned home to Newark at the new Prospect Street Firestation Gallery in the Ironbound section of Newark. Presented by Sumei Multidisciplinary Arts Center, the Firestation is becoming the Ironbound premier destination for art. The new installation by Willie Cole, entitled “FROM WATER TO LIGHT”, redefines recycling [...]
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13. May 2013
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