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"Home Here"
by Tris McCall
published 2026-02-25

There is never a good time to learn that your town is facing a budget shortfall of a quarter billion dollars. But getting the bad news in the winter of 2026 is particularly dispiriting. Jersey City has very little latitude for error. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been operating on these streets. As we've seen our neighbors taken away in unmarked cars, we know we're looking at the possibility of a long, combative summer. Pushing back against a force as overwhelming as the federal government is going to require more than coordination and compassion. We're going to need resources. And the town, as JCAST curator Atim Oton warned us before Studio Tour 2025, is broke.




 

Middletown Arts Center presents "Meant to Be" group exhibition

(MIDDLETOWN, NJ) -- The Middletown Arts Center presents its February exhibition, Meant to Be, a group show exploring themes of connection and unity, featuring work by more than 25 artists across a wide range of media. Curated by Eleanor James and Jennifer Watson, the show will be on view February 2-27, 2026.



Art in the Atrium presents "Visual Voices"

(MORRISTOWN, NJ) -- Art in the Atrium, Inc. (ATA), a non-profit arts organization founded in Morris County that champions Black art excellence, returns with its fifth major exhibition at Mayo Performing Arts Center's Art Upstairs and Starlight Galleries. ATA presents "Visual Voices", on display from January 16 through March 2, 2026.



Glisson & Lanier: "Of Matter and Light"

by Tris McCall
published 2025-12-03

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.



5.7: Sculptors Guild

by Tris McCall
published 2025-11-26

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.





Garikovich & Black: "Scars on the Body of Freedom"

by Tris McCall
published 2025-11-19

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.



After Beating Cancer, a Former Attorney Photographs a City's Spirit

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.



Jersey Arts TV: New Building Marks New Life for the Princeton University Art Museum

by Gina Marie Rodriguez & Dave Tavani, JerseyArts.com
published 2025-11-13

The Princeton University Art Museum is excited to alert the public to their brand new building, where even the architecture and design of the space itself is breathtaking. Filled with beautiful commissions and curated galleries, it is free of charge and open for the public's enjoyment.



Tatyana Kazakova: "Afterland"

by Tris McCall
published 2025-11-12

Artists have been rebelling against the frame for a long time. Painters put borders around their pictures and are immediately filled with an overwhelming urge to shatter them. Never mind that it is the artist herself who imposes the limits. Her images push hard against the lines that confine them anyway. Sometimes the pot boils over and the work spills over the frame and into the white space beyond, or drips down the edges and on to the walls.



Monmouth University's Pollak Gallery presents Seen & Unseen, Charles Sills' Memorial Group Art Exhibit

(WEST LONG BRANCH, NJ) -- Monmouth University's Pollak Gallery presents Seen & Unseen, Charles Sills' Memorial Group Art Exhibit from November 1 through December 10, 2025. In illuminating what has been hidden—by history, by progress, or by the limits of perception—Seen & Unseen seeks to reclaim and reframe the narratives that shape our cultural and emotional landscapes.


 

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