From the October/November 2016 Issue
Maine’s Moody Vibe
There’s more to this artists’ destination than perfect blue skies and perfect blue seas. Although I grew up in New Jersey, I’ve been going to Maine since I was 10. […]
From the August/September 2016 Issue
Central Attraction
The Princeton University Art Museum has the intimacy of a small institution but some of the range befitting a much larger one. When Ben Franklin called New Jersey a keg […]
From the June/July 2016 Issue
Art (With an Explanation)
A visit to the Paul Robeson Galleries at Rutgers Newark. In an art world that can often seem hermetically sealed off from the rest of society, the Paul Robeson Galleries […]
From the April/May 2016 Issue
The Awkward Marriage of Museums & Contemporary Art
The long view vs. the art of the moment. On March 18, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened Met Breuer, its new branch of modern and contemporary art. The new […]
From the February/March 2016 Issue
Eva Cellini, Late-Life Surrealist
An artist taps into the unconscious, explores uncertainty. There’s always been a youthful spirit to surrealism. The embrace of the nonrational, the prankishness, the fascination with the minutiae of one’s […]
From the February/March 2016 Issue
Art, Seriously
Gallery owners offer advice on how to form an art collection. You’ve redone the house. The paint is dry, the furniture is in place and you’re looking at the new, […]