Photographs can reveal aspects of the world that we might otherwise never see.
This week on an all-new State of the Arts, Edwin Torres is an award-winning young photographer, journalist, and Deputy Digital Director for Governor Phil Murphy. His photos of his family in the South Bronx and Puerto Rico were in an exhibition at Artworks in Trenton. Photographer Deb Willis discusses her book and breakthrough exhibition, Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present, now at the NJ State Museum. A Princeton University Art Museum exhibition explores how in 1945 Life Magazine used photographs to persuade an unbelieving public that the atrocities of the Holocaust really had taken place. Plus, photographer Wendel White’s series Schools for the Colored.
Sat, 3/26 @ 7:30 pm
Wed, 3/30 @ 8:30 pm
Thurs, 3/31 @ 11:30 pm
Sun, 3/27 @ 11:30 am
Mon, 3/28 @ 10:30 am & 3:30 pm
Wed, 3/30 @ 10 am & 3 pm
Images:
1. Photographer Edwin Torres
2. Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled (Man and Mirror) from Kitchen Table Series, Courtesy of the Artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, NY
3. © LIFE Picture Collection
4. Wendel White, Cape May, NJ from his Schools for the Colored
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All month long we're featuring women artists with ties to New Jersey.
Pictured here is Another Way Through by Nancy Cohen.
Jersey City artist Nancy Cohen works with homemade paper pulp and pigment to make works that reflect on climate change and pollution.
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Gallery Henoch in NYC presents an exhibition of works by NJ legend Mel Leipzig, up through April 2!
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It's time for the 2022 Stages Festival, featuring events throughout March, April, and May! This state-wide festival features over 80 free and low-cost theatre events, with both virtual and in-person options.
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Pictured: Detail of Sacred Landscape of Pieter Bruegel by Georgii Senchenko
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Willie Cole's Beauties series is included in ArtYard's Invisible exhibition, along with work by eleven other artists, up through April 10 in Frenchtown. Photo by Jennifer Roberts
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On this week's new episode, we go behind-the-scenes with Wendel to learn more about the creation of his series, including visiting a school in Woodbury, NJ that he photographed, accompanied by a former student. The Harrison Township Historical Society presents Schools for the Colored, an exhibition of works by photographer Wendel A. White, through May 22 with a reception and book signing on Sun, April 3 at the Old Town Hall Museum in Mullica Hill.
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Catch up on some of the best of State of the Arts
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Marian McPartland was a musician, composer, and the host of Piano Jazz on NPR from 1978 to 2011. In 1995, McPartland appeared as a guest on State of the Arts, improvising on the piano and talking to then-host Amber Edwards about her life and career.
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"We still have a lot to learn from nature." Artist Jim Toia collaborates with mushrooms, woodpeckers, and jellyfish.
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“Aeolian. Gratis. Great thunderer, half-ton infant of miracles / Torn free of charge from the universe by my mother’s will.” So begins “The Green Piano,” a poem by former US Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky in which great classical themes entwine with tales from his childhood in Long Branch.
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