Fluxus, Shakespeare, and Wendel White's Schools for the Colored

This Week's Episode

Photographs show us worlds that we might otherwise never see. Streaming and broadcast this week on your public television station, award-winning photographer Edwin Torres' portraits of his family in the South Bronx and Puerto Rico.

Also on this week's episode, Princeton University Art Museum exhibition explores how, in 1945, America’s most popular magazine, Life, used photographs to reveal the atrocities of the Holocaust to an unbelieving public.

Plus, photographer Deb Willis on her book and breakthrough exhibition, Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present. Plus, photographer Wendel White’s series: Schools for the Colored.

NJ PBS

Thurs, 8/7 @ 11:30 pm

Sat, 8/9 @ 7:30 pm

WNET Thirteen

Sun, 8/10 @ 11:30 am

ALL ARTS

Mon, 8/11 @ 10:30 am & 3:30 pm

Wed, 8/13 @ 10 am & 3 pm

Photographer Edwin Torres / Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled (Man and Mirror) from Kitchen Table Series, Courtesy of the Artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, NY / © LIFE Picture Collection / Wendel White, Cape May, NJ

Find out where (and how) to watch!

Exploring Art History

The 2013 exhibition New Jersey as Non-Site at the Princeton University Art Museum explored how the state became a hot bed of experimental art in the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s. The exhibition was curated by Kelly Baum, who had rare access to the letters and other documents of sculptor George Segal, which were left to the university.

State of the Arts was there as Fluxus artist and Rutgers University professor emeritus Geoffrey Hendricks presided over a special recreation of his 1969 happening The Sky is the Limit. Also included were little-known photographs by Segal, New Jersey-based site works by Earthworks artist Robert Smithson, and more. Watch here.

On the Blog

In case you missed it, State of the Arts has been nominated for four New York Emmys! Read here.

Happening Now

This marks the sixth year of the Back Deck concert series at the Morris Museum—check out their calendar of events!

Our related story: Dan Levinson at the Morris Museum.

Grounds For Sculpture presents Clifford Ward: I’ll Make Me A World, showcasing over a decade of his work!

Our related story: Clifford Ward.

The Wellmont Theater, JAZZ HOUSE KiDS, and the New Jersey Hall of Fame present the Wellmont Arts Plaza Outdoor Concert Series with a summer calendar of events.

Our related story: JAZZ HOUSE KiDS.

Check out the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's 2025 season!

Highlights

Nimbus Dance joins forces with the full New Jersey Symphony for a reimagined Firebird, bringing Stravinsky’s classic into the present day. Set to his iconic score, this powerful performance blends mythological storytelling with modern themes of family, trauma, and loss.

Our 2025 story: Rekindling the Firebird.

Take a walk down the Scott and Hella McVay Poetry Trail in Princeton. The McVays lead the walk and readings and explain the inspiration for establishing a nature trail with poems from around the world punctuating its mile-long route.

Our 2018 story: The Scott and Hella McVay Poetry Trail.