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It is both accurate and misleading to tell you that Brooke Lanier paints pictures of boats. The Philadelphia artist's vessels are never freighted with the fish-story romanticism of classic portraits of tall ships. Nor does she give us the cosmic collisions between surf, sky, and sailor's muscle that we find in the canvases of J.M.W. Turner and other seafaring impressionists. Instead her boats float somewhere beyond the undertow of high drama. They're awfully big, and they're not entirely decommissioned, but it's also not clear if they're moving. Instead, Lanier treats old ships much in the way that an urban explorer treats old factories: as the site of surprise, juxtapositions, and personal and occasionally inscrutable encounters with maritime history. Close observation, her paintings imply, might be all the care and refurbishment they need.
Jersey City needs more exhibition space for large works. On this everyone agrees. There is only so much that can be smushed into SMUSH, or cast into the twin rooms at Deep Space, or snuck into the front room at Curious Matter. We want to encourage our artists to think big. Big thinking requires a capacious setting. With no museum to call ours, we're often forced to park large objects in outdoor spaces. It's probably that the size and plenitude of the wall murals created by JCMAP is a reaction to our lack of giant galleries. Anybody who wants to work at great scale in this town is practically forced to take to the streets.
(PRINCETON, NJ) -- Princeton Makes, a Princeton-based artist cooperative, will host an Art Making Open House on Sunday, November 30, 2025 from 2:00pm to 5:00pm at the new Princeton Makes store in the Princeton Shopping Center. The new store is located between Princeton Nassau Pediatrics and Rita's.
If you're an artist disgusted by the parlous state of civil society, you've got four moves on the table. All four come with perils. You can do as Jersey City creators have done and meet aggression and unpleasantness with a smile and a bouquet of flowers. You'll be modeling a nobler way of being, but you'll probably be called a bringer of a plate of cookies to a knife fight. You can give into his despair and indulge in acts of escapism, but you'll win no badges of courage that way. You might resolve to exaggerate and satirize the threat and court the risk that his audience will miss the point and think you've capitulated to your adversaries.
New York City's glittering landmarks—Times Square, Broadway, Fifth Avenue—have been photographed endlessly. Yet for artist Xiomaro, the true essence of the city lives in its unguarded moments. After surviving cancer and leaving behind a successful law career, he turned to photography to reconnect with life. His book, Street Photography of New York City: Street Haunting in the Big Apple (America Through Time, an imprint of Sutton Publishing), transforms the familiar streets of Manhattan into a vivid study of humanity's resilience, humor, and mystery.
(PARAMUS, NJ) -- Gallery Bergen, the visual arts presentation space of Bergen Community College, in collaboration with the Guatemalan solidarity organization, Grupo Cajolá in North America, presents Telas de Solidaridad/Threads of Solidarity: Connections to Guatemala. The exhibit is on display from December 11th through February 5, 2026.
(PRINCETON, NJ) -- Jordan Eagles: Centrifuge traces Eagles's exploration of the visual power of blood and its use as an artistic medium and metaphor across sculpture, installation, photography, and video. Throughout his career, Eagles has worked with blood as a medium for exploring the human life cycle. Over the past decade, he has created a compelling body of work using human blood—voluntarily donated by individuals from the LGBTQI+ community—to inspire dialogue about the effects of identity-based policies for blood donation and thus about wider questions of identity and personhood. The exhibition will be on view at the Princeton University Art Museum's ArtatBainbridge gallery from November 22, 2025, to March 15, 2026.
(FREEHOLD, NJ) -- Monmouth County Clerk Christine Giordano Hanlon has announced the winners of the Monmouth County Clerk's annual High School Photography Contest for 2025. The theme of this year's contest was "Revolutionary Monmouth County," challenging students to capture of Monmouth County's many historical sites relevant to the era of the American Revolution.
(PRINCETON, NJ) -- Award winning artist Adriana Groza will hold the Ribbon Cutting and Grand Opening of the Adriana Groza Art Gallery & Studio (38 Spring Street) in Princeton on Tuesday, November 25, 2025 from 5:25pm to 7:25pm.
(ATLANTIC CITY, NJ) -- Atlantic City Arts Foundation unveiled 'The Ministry of ARTeriors' at 2601 Pacific Avenue with three days of opening weekend receptions. This marks the 11th installment of ARTeriors, an immersive pop-up art installation that highlights the power of art to transform vacant commercial spaces in transition. The Ministry of ARTeriors is open now for free gallery hours on Fridays and Saturdays through December 13, 2025 for the public to experience and explore.
