Uniting through Music

This Week's Broadcasts

This week on #StateoftheArtsNJ, meet Fort Lee’s Ara Dinkjian, one of the world's most sought-after players of the oud. His band The Secret Trio is made up of Armenian, Macedonian and Turkish musicians with a mission of pursuing peace through music.

Also on this week's episode, Angela Davis was a lightning rod for both the left and the right in the early 1970s. The Zimmerli Art Museum explored her visual and political legacy through rare archival material and the work of artists from the '70s to today. And, a profile of American Repertory Ballet’s artistic director Ethan Stiefel, one of the most celebrated dancers and choreographers in the world.

NJ PBS

Thurs, 8/1 @ 11:30 pm

Sat, 8/3 @ 7:30 pm

WNET Thirteen

Sun, 8/4 @ 11:30 am

ALL ARTS

Mon, 8/5 @ 10:30 am & 3:30 pm

Wed, 8/7 @ 10 am & 3 pm

Celebrating Musical Theater

This month, a special musical theater review from our archives.

Earlier this month, former State of the Arts host & producer Amber Edwards wrote about her 2007 national PBS documentary, Words and Music by Jerry Herman, now available to watch for the first time in years. Leading up to that film, Amber produced a 6 1/2 minute story for State of the Arts, Jerry Herman: Gray Eminence, which we're featuring this week. In it, Jerry Herman demonstrates how to bring out the pathos in one of his songs during a rehearsal, and describes pivotal moments from his career.

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Thurs, Aug 8 at 7 pm at Provost Square Place in Jersey City, join the New Jersey Symphony Chamber Players for a free concert featuring Daniel Bernard Roumain, their Resident Artistic Catalyst from 2021–2024.

Our related story: DBR and NJ Symphony

Photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier currently has an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. See Monuments of Solidarity through Sept 7.

Our related story: LaToya Ruby Frazier

Don't miss Discovering Grant Castner: The Lost Archive of a New Jersey Photographer until September at the NJ State Museum in Trenton!

Pictured: Grant Castner with safety bicycle, Trenton, 1894 | Gift of Robert R. Jones in Memory of William R. Paquin | NJ State Museum

Our related story: Grant Castner

See Bony Ramirez's Cattleya at the Newark Museum of Art through March. His new paintings and assemblages use his trademark surrealism to probe the legacies of colonialism and tourism in the Caribbean.

Our related story: Bony Ramirez

Catch up on some of the best of State of the Arts

You can see The Sister Chapel, a historic feminist artwork featured on State of the Arts, as it is a permanent installation in Rowan University's art gallery.

Our 2016 story: The Sister Chapel

"We still have a lot to learn from nature." Artist Jim Toia collaborates with mushrooms, woodpeckers, and jellyfish.

Our 2015 story: Jim Toia

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Pictured: Mark Morris Dance Group

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