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Max Budnick & Francesca Reyes: "Your House & Mine"
by Tris McCall
published 2025-10-15

How many animals are nesting in your vicinity? I don't mean pets, necessarily, although you might have a few of those at your feet. I mean plushies, statuettes, depictions of critters, sketches and drawings of fauna charismatic and humble. Though we live in the city, many of us dwell by choice in private bestiaries. Even as we put up walls to keep the outdoors at bay, we invite representations of the feral world into our sanctuary.




 

JCAST 2025 - The 36th Annual Jersey City Art & Studio Tour

by Tris McCall
published 2025-10-08

I don't know how apocryphal it was, but I used to hear the informal designations all the time. Newark, I was told, was the place to get a kilo. Hence its nickname: Brick City. If you had a beef, you might take it up in infamous Illtown, properly known as East Orange. But people didn't fight in Jersey City. This town was considered gang truce territory, and this was the secret meaning behind our not-so-secret handle. Our nickname was Chilltown. We even had a Chilltown Magazine. I wrote for it.



"ICU/USA"

by Tris McCall
published 2025-10-01

You're on edge. Why wouldn't you be? Masked police are rounding up people on the streets of American cities. Those detained are shipped to private detention centers that exist in a blank zone beyond judicial oversight or regional supervision. This weekend, The Guardian described a CoreCivic prison in the California desert as hell on earth: crowded, unsanitary conditions, dirty water, torture, unconscious inmates denied medication. Shirsho Dashgupta of the Miami Herald reported that more than two-thirds of the men incarcerated in Alligator Alcatraz cannot presently be accounted for. Shortly after delivering a speech that echoed Joseph Goebbels's rhetoric, Stephen Miller celebrated NSPM-7, a White House directive that criminalizes dissent and empowers federal investigators to lay a dragnet and start the engine. In this febrile environment the President has announced his intention to send the army — the United States armed forces — to Portland, Oregon, treating it as a rebellious province that needs to be subdued.



Jersey Arts TV: Unveiling the Facets of Art and Creativity at SOPAC

by Gina Marie Rodriguez & Dave Tavani, JerseyArts.com
published 2025-09-25

Unveiled25 is an exhibition that marks the fourth collaboration with the SOMA Studio Tour and features work by nearly 70 artists from South Orange and Maplewood.



"All of Our Friends and Them"

by Tris McCall
published 2025-09-24

"You'll never have friends like you did when you were young," sang Blake Sennett of Rilo Kiley* on "Greetings in Braille." A nostalgic sentiment for sure, but chances are, you know what he's getting at. Friendships among young people conflate identification and desire in a manner that reasonable grownups cannot manage. They are irresponsible, and flammable, and wonderful, even if they don't always last long.





Arcadio, O'Connor & Suarez: "The Cheese and the Worms"

by Tris McCall
published 2025-09-17

There's a monster on Sussex Street. It's a scarecrow, or a statue of one, anyway: big, sinewy, bug-eyed and irate, and almost tall enough to reach the second story of a residential building. This beast rises from the patio of a Paulus Hook brownstone and stares out at the block with a combination of menace and proprietary pride. From now until early November and possibly well beyond that, this will be his neighborhood. He's an early-blooming example of our favorite harvest species. He's a Halloween decoration.



Nathalie Kalbach: "If These Walls Could Talk"

by Tris McCall
published 2025-09-10

Around the corner from where I'm sitting, there’s a row house on a residential block. To a motorist blowing by, it probably looks unremarkable. It always catches my eye, though.



Monmouth University presents "Georgia O’Keeffe: the Brightness of Light" and Q&A with the Filmmakers

(WEST LONG BRANCH, NJ) -- Monmouth University's Center for the Arts presents a screening of Georgia O'Keeffe: the Brightness of Light on Tuesday, October 14, 2025 at 7:00pm in the Pollak Theatre. This is a 2-hour documentary exploring the life and art of the most important woman artist of the 20th century – the "Mother of Modernism." Following the screening, Producer Ellen Casey Wagner and Director Paul Wagner will host a discussion to share insights into the making of the documentary and answer audience questions.



Leandro Comrie: "A Quiet Odyssey"

by Tris McCall
published 2025-09-03

What gives Leandro Comrie's "King" the right to rule? Is it his raiment, decorated with scores of curlicues of white and royal purple paint, signifying motion and activity and cinched savagely at the waist? Is it his arms, long enough to touch his ankles, formidable and thick, draped at his sides in a gesture of ease and preternatural balance? How about the magenta halo behind his head, bright and electric, suggestive of sanctification in some other world? Or could it be the face, with its crown of wavy hair, full lips and slanted white eyebrows, and lower jaw squared against all adversaries. He looks confident and ready. But the crimson dot he stands on and surveys is barely big enough to contain his boat-like shoes.



Erasure Gallery: A Project by Curious Matter

by Tris McCall
published 2025-08-27

I never felt the need to formally come out. It struck me as a redundant thing to do. Nobody in my life has ever treated me as if I was straight. In school, friends, crushes, teachers, coaches, and the many acquaintances who felt the need to assess my masculinity in pungent language all assured me that I was gay all day. I gave the unfriendlier characters points for creativity, linguistic invention, and persistence, even as I was running away from them.


 

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