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This Week's Broadcasts

To celebrate the opening of a new terminal, Newark Airport teamed up with Public Art Fund and the Port Authority on one of the largest public arts projects since the days of Roosevelt. Among the new works is a colossal mural from Newark-based Indigenous Ecuadorian artist Layqa Nuna Yawar. This feature has been nominated for a New York Emmy–read more here!

Also on this week's episode, the Chivalrous Crickets bring together Celtic, English, and American folk music. State of the Arts catches them in rehearsal at their home-base in Princeton Junction. Plus, much of 19th century visionary landscape painter George Inness’s greatest work was done in Montclair. The Inness Gallery at the Montclair Art Museum features the world’s largest collection of his work.

NJ PBS

Thurs, 9/26 @ 11:30 pm

Sat, 9/28 @ 7:30 pm

WNET Thirteen

Sun, 9/29 @ 11:30 am

ALL ARTS

Mon, 9/30 @ 10:30 am & 3:30 pm

Wed, 10/2 @ 10 am & 3 pm

National Piano Month

This month, we're sharing stories about pianists from our archives.

Concert pianist Vladimir Feltsman emigrated to the United States in 1987 after being silenced by the Soviet Union’s Ministry of Culture for eight years. He returned to Moscow in 1991 to perform a concert at the legendary Moscow Conservatory. State of the Arts producer Amber Edwards spent six days with a Soviet camera crew documenting Feltsman’s return during the turbulent months right before the Soviet Union collapsed.

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Happening Now

See painter Robert Beck's exhibition Here and Now, on view in Hopewell, NJ through Oct 6.

Our related story: Robert Beck

Bony Ramirez's Cattleya is at the Newark Museum of Art through March. His new paintings and assemblages use his trademark surrealism to probe the legacies of colonialism and tourism in the Caribbean. On Oct 12, visit the gallery as Bony Ramirez joins Elena C. Muñoz-Rodriguez, Assistant Curator, Latinx & Latin American Art in conversation.

Our related story: Bony Ramirez

Photographer Wendel White's new exhibition, Folding Time, is on view at Rowan University Art Gallery in Glassboro through Oct 26.

Our related stories: Wendel A. White, Manifest

Catch up on some of the best of State of the Arts

Woody Guthrie spent some of his last years at Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in Morris Plains. Photographer Phil Buehler documented the hospital, and tells the story of Guthrie’s time there.

Our 2014 story: Guthrie at Greystone

“Growing up in the inner-city of Trenton, my only escape from the negative images that plagued my community was through art.” – Will Kasso. Photo: Ira L. Black

Our 2017 story: Kasso's Journey

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