Search Results:
When: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - Monday, December 1, 2008
Where: Morris Museum
The Morris Museum’s recent $15 million expansion was designed especially to host the first-ever exhibit from the Murtogh D. Guinness Collection, which includes hundreds of rare mechanical musical instruments and automata from the late 1500s to the early twentieth century (such as this 1908 Reginaphone disc musical box and phonograph).
moreWhen: Thursday, March 27, 2008 - Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Where: New Jersey Historical Society
This Smithsonian traveling exhibition traces the visual appeal of vegetable gardens across centuries, continents, and cultures.
moreWhen: Friday, April 18, 2008 - Monday, September 15, 2008
Where: Unshredded Nostalgia
With maps, deeds, photographs, postcards, posters, stock certificates, and more.
moreWhen: Friday, May 9, 2008 - Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Where: Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center
Featuring the glass works of Sisir Sahana and paintings and sculptures by Narendra Amin.
Call 800-998-4552 or visit wheatonarts.org for more information.
moreWhen: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Where: Liberty Hall
The exhibit features Mrs. Lucinetta Halsted Kean, known affectionately to family and friends as Lucy, the longest reigning matriarch of Liberty Hall. From 1900 to 1912, Lucy was one of Washington's most powerful hostesses entertaining politicians, captains of industry and military leaders in the home she shared with her son, U.S. Senator John Kean.
moreWhen: Saturday, May 24, 2008 - Saturday, October 4, 2008
Where: Golden Nugget Antique Market
Running every Saturday through September, The Green Market will feature locally and regionally grown produce, flowers, plants, prepared foods, and many other handcrafted products. Call 609-397-0811 or visit gnmarket.com for more information.
moreWhen: Friday, May 30, 2008 - Sunday, September 14, 2008
Where: Liberty Science Center
Why do we tremble and sweat when we're scared? This hands-on exhibit lets visitors experience fear in a safe environment—and discover the science behind the emotions. Visit lsc.org for more information.
moreWhen: Sunday, June 1, 2008 - Sunday, January 11, 2009
Where: Morven Museum and Garden
In celebration of the 225th anniversary of the historic gathering of Congress in Princeton, Morven Museum & Garden presents a special exhibition to assist its visitors in Picturing Princeton 1783. More than 100 paintings, documents, and artifacts are on view, including portraits of George and Martha Washington, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and other leading figures of the day, including the painting at left, Washington at Nassau Hall by Charles Peale Polk lent by the Atwater Kent Museum. Docent-led tours begin at 15 minutes past the hour. Special opening reception June 1. Call 609-924-8144, ext. 106 or visit www.morven.org for more information.
Admission: $5 adults; $4 seniors/students, and includes an illustrated exhibition brochure. Free parking.
moreWhen: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - Sunday, November 23, 2008
Where: Morris Museum
Black Cinema: The Vintage Years documents the turbulent history of the African-American film industry and its struggle for equality in the twentieth century. The exhibit features more than 50 original screen-printed and stone-lithographed posters for so-called race pictures, which paralleled Hollywood productions but were produced by black-owned film companies with black directors and actors.
moreWhen: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Where: Johnson Park, Hackensack
Fresh produce, plants, Amish baked goods, pickles, specialty breads, and more. For more information call 201-489-3700.
moreWhen: Friday, June 27, 2008 - Sunday, October 19, 2008
Where: Cape May Mid Atlantic Center For the Arts
The 1915 Otis Townsend residence at 115 Reading Ave. is Cape May’s outstanding example of the Craftsman style, which incorporates clean lines and natural materials. Discover this charming home with fabulous structural details that has been restored to its original glory and made over by some of the region’s top designers and suppliers. Sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts and South Jersey House & Home magazine.
moreWhen: Saturday, June 28, 2008 - Saturday, September 27, 2008
Where: Branch Brook Park
Fresh produce, cut flowers, nutrition and wellness information, health screenings, live music and a variety of special activity each week at this popular Community Market. Saturdays.
moreWhen: Wednesday, July 9, 2008 - Sunday, September 28, 2008
Where: Hunterdon Museum of Art
This yearly exhibition showcases two and three dimensional prints using traditional print media, computer, or experimental techniques by artists from across the United States. The 2008 juror is Kathleen Goncharov, Director of the Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.
moreWhen: Wednesday, July 9, 2008 - Sunday, September 7, 2008
Where: Hunterdon Museum of Art
This exhibition explores the icon of the suburban home. A series of small works combining domestic materials such as bed sheets and wallpaper with embroidered phrases subverts some familiar clichés about houses and homes. In an amusingly ominous video, LAWN, the very thing that defines suburbia exacts its revenge. Dahl has also created a site-specific mixed media installation called Sub-Prime.
moreWhen: Wednesday, July 9, 2008 - Sunday, September 7, 2008
Where: Hunterdon Museum of Art
This show looks at the suburban sub-division and its houses through the eyes of contemporary artists and includes painting, sculpture, photography and video. This exhibition is one of five exploring the impact of suburban sprawl. Other participating venues in the SPRAWL project are the Jersey City Museum, The Shore Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Arts Guild of Rahway and the Art Galleries at Ramapo College.
moreWhen: Friday, July 11, 2008 - Friday, September 26, 2008
Where: William Trent House
This growing season the William Trent-era kitchen garden will celebrate the diversity of the Trent household, through vegetables and herbs native to the various cultures present in the household during the early 18th century.
moreWhen: Sunday, July 13, 2008 - Sunday, March 15, 2009
Where: Morris County Historical Society
The Smithsonian’s traveling exhibit, Key Ingredients: America By Food, shows how regional traditions and international influences have shaped American cooking. The six host sites in New Jersey will hold Jersey-specific events and show Jersey photos, including a Good Humor truck in Morristown; picking blueberries in Woodbine; and duck hunters displaying their bounty in Tuckerton. The Historic Walnford district in Allentown hosts the exhibit through July 13, followed by Woodbine in Cape May (July 19–Aug 31); Tuckerton Seaport (Sept 6–Oct 19); Woodbury Library (Oct 25–Dec 7); Morris County Historical Society in Morristown (Dec 13–Jan 25); and the State Museum in Trenton (Jan 31–Mar 15).
moreWhen: Monday, July 21, 2008 - Friday, September 12, 2008
Where: Mason Gross Performing Arts Center
An exhibition that cuts across the boundaries that separate painting, sculpture and installation, “In Suspension” features each piece suspended in some fashion, thereby challenging the traditional use of the gallery space and forcing a more direct confrontation with the viewer. The exhibition will be amplified by several historical examples, including a classic work by Alexander Calder, as well as text, photos and appropriated pieces that reference works by Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, which hung from their studio ceilings at the beginning of the twentieth century. A public reception will be held Thursday, July 24 beginning at 4:30 p.m.
moreWhen: Friday, August 1, 2008 - Saturday, February 28, 2009
Where: Newark Museum
This exhibition celebrates the cultivation of feminine beauty in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan through luxurious costumes and textiles for dowries and weddings, charming imperial court dolls made for the Hina Matsuri festival, as well as colorful paintings, prints and period hand-tinted photographs of the supermodels of their day performing favored seasonal activities, such as viewing cherry blossoms or celebrating the New Year. Glittering cosmetic cases and a lacquered sake service are also featured.
moreWhen: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 - Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Where: Newark Museum
A small exhibition will look at highlights of the long history of Lenox China in New Jersey, from the beginnings in Trenton in 1889 to the closing of the last New Jersey factory in 2005. Drawn from the unmatched holdings of the Museum, the objects will range from the first pieces given to the Museum in 1911 by Walter Scott Lenox himself, to the most recent gift of the Lenox archives by the Brown-Forman corporation to three New Jersey institutions.
Visit newarkmuseum.org for more information.
more