Art House Productions, one of Jersey City’s preeminent performing and visual arts organizations, is launching a fundraising campaign June 2, 2023, to raise $500,000 for capital and operating expenditures as it prepares to formally open its new space at 345 Marin Blvd. “The reopening of Art House Productions and our new home marks an exciting […]
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Benedict Cumberbatch Films Scenes for Netflix Series in Downtown Jersey City
On the corner of Wayne Street and Jersey Avenue, a pound of coffee is $1.69 and a dozen eggs are 80 cents this morning. At least that’s what the signs say in the new corner grocery store occupying what was, until a few days ago, the restaurant Kitchen Step. The 1980s pricing goes nicely with […]
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The Downtown Art Crawl, Step by Step and Studio by Studio
Crawling implies slow and deliberate movement. Babies crawl, caterpillars crawl, traffic crawls when you’re stuck in a jam. The designers of the Downtown Art Crawl — the same people behind Art Fair 14C and the upcoming October Jersey City Art Week — are believers in careful appraisal. They don’t want you blazing through their event. […]
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Alone in Deep Space, Clarence Rich Takes on the Ancients
It is arguable that Clarence Rich is the best known visual artist in Jersey City, even if most of the people who’ve seen and appreciated his work wouldn’t recognize his name. In a town of hundreds of muralists and spray-paint taggers of middling quality and questionable imagination, he’s the real deal — a street artist […]