Arts

View Rare Musical Instruments at The Morris Museum's Murtogh D. Guinness Collection

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).

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Feast Your Eyes: The unexpected beauty of vegetable gardens

When: 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.

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Memories of Ocean County

When: Friday, April 18, 2008 - Monday, September 15, 2008

Where: Unshredded Nostalgia

With maps, deeds, photographs, postcards, posters, stock certificates, and more.

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Tracing the Cultural Roots

When: 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.

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The Pleasure of Your Company: The Power and Politics of Victorian Dining

When: 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.

Shopping

Golden Nugget Green Market

When: 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.

Festival

Goosebumps! The Science of Fear at Liberty Science Center

When: 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.

Arts

Picturing Princeton 1783: The Nation's Capital

When: 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.

History

Morris Museum: Separate Ways - The African-American Film Industry

When: 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.

Shopping

Hackensack Farmers' Market

When: 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.

Benefits

Cape May’s Fourth Annual Designer Show House

When: 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.

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Branch Brook Park Farmers' & Community Market

When: 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.

Arts

52nd Annual National Juried Print Exhibition

When: 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.

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Lisa Dahl: No Place Like Home

When: 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.

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The House That Sprawl Built

When: 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.

History

Fresh from the Garden Fridays

When: 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.

History

Eats: Then & Now

When: 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).

Arts

In Suspension

When: 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.

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Court Ladies and Courtesans: Private Worlds in Old Japan

When: 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.

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The Lenox Legacy: America's Greatest Porcelain Maker, 1889-2005

When: 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.