Art

Join us at the SW corner of 575 Manila Avenue, this Sunday at 5:30PM for a Hanukkah menorah lighting. The community is also invited to write positive messages, mitzvahs, and prayers on a new interactive mural.

Artist Kristin DeAngelis talked recently about why she closed her three-year-old art gallery in The Heights, 107 Bowers Gallery, and what she'd like to see in that space.

“The arts community has really moved into this area,” Mayor Turner said. “There are small-time artists, painters. If they get 15 by 10 feet of space, they can use it for a boutique. We could have food stores, a sandwich place.”

The non-profit organization Project for Empty Space recently leased 20,000 square feet in downtown Newark.

“While we live next to the arts capital of the world, if we don’t keep the arts alive here, what the future of this city will look like, a bedroom community for Wall Street?”

The City of Jersey City has transformed four shipping containers in a Bergen-Lafayette parking lot into storefronts for small businesses and artists, a “micro-entrepreneurial venture” that they’ve dubbed “Container Village.”

Those who want to find out about the young artists and stories behind the city’s longest mural – called “Heroes of the World” in the Greenville section of Jersey City – can attend a Jersey City Theater Center event tonight, Thursday, November 21.

The concert series will start on October 18 at Grace Church Van Vorst.

The New Jersey Performing Arts Center has big plans for the property surrounding the arts center itself, including a Main Street corridor, filled with restaurants and cultural assets like art galleries or music clubs.

The $172 million, 23-story New Brunswick Performing Arts Center complex, which includes office space and apartments for artists, opened on September 4.