Armando Rascon

"Border Xicanography", a multi-media installation at the Newark Museum, is Mexican-American artist Armando Rascon's highly personal response to the experience of growing up on the border between the United States and Mexico. Using audio, video, still photography, and a collection of ceremonial and commonplace objects, he creates a space that allows the viewer to experience the world of the undocumented border crosser on the eve of his uncertain fate.

"On the Edge of Your Seat" at the Montclair Museum explores how fine artists depicted--and reacted to--popular entertainment from the 1890s to 1930. Vaudeville and movies provided a rich source for painters, photographers, and sculptors who wanted to make art about what it meant to be modern.

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Everett Shinn
Dancer in White Before the Footlights, 1910
The Butler Institute of American Art

Leila Josefowicz

Concert violinist Leila Josefowicz returns to New Jersey in early January for a series of concerts with the NJSO. She'll play the John Adams "Violin Concerto". Leila is 25 now and has been performing publically for over 20 years. In our State of the Arts story, she discusses her transition from prodigy to concert artist, the impact of motherhood on her life and career, and the pivotal role the John Adams "Violin Concerto" has played in her development as an artist.