A new exhibition at the Zimmerli exploring the preponderance of noses and overcoats in 20th century lithographs, available for viewing between March 12th and April 10th.

Thursday, April 8, 2010
This spring, Philadelphia is hosting Philagrafika 2010, a city-wide festival in about 80 museums and galleries throughout the city and region, celebrating the printed image through the work of 300 internationally acclaimed artists* from around the world.  The theme of the festival is “The Graphic Unconscious.”        Featured artists include Americans Eric Avery, Enrique Chagoya, Kiki Smith, Swoon, and many others, as well as numerous artists from around the world, including Christiane Baumgartner (Germany), Orit Hofshi (Israel), Pepon Osorio (Puerto …

The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers features the latest body of work by the New York-based, Moroccan-born artist Lalla Essaydi in Les Femmes du Maroc from January 30 to June 6, 2010. Seventeen large-format color photographs will portray Moroccan women in tableaux based on famous examples of 19th-century European and American Orientalist paintings and covered in Arabic calligraphic script. A selection of Orientalist works from the museum’s extensive collections of European graphic art will also be on display to provide a cultural context for Essaydi’s work.

Opening Reception: March 12th, 7:30-10:30pm
Exhibition Duration: March 12th – April 2nd
Open Studio: March 27th, 2-4pm
Curator: Michiko Mull
Alfa Art Gallery is very pleased to present the recent works of New York-based British artist Michael Price in “The Immortal Spirit of Nature” on view from March 12th – April 2nd, 2010. After twenty years of strenuous research and experimentation, Michael Price has been able to revive the long-lost pigmentation processes of the Renaissance masters.

Rob Drucker is the kind of guy who would participate in the Great International Fall Album Listening Weekend, a weekend organized by fans of the prolific and seminal post-punk band The Fall during which one listens to all twenty-seven (!) of their albums. With a schedule of the events posted on his refrigerator, Drucker is ready to have a great weekend. Another thing to make that weekend great is the release of his band Silent Way’s first full length LP and accompanying CD-R.

Although small, finger foods make a great impression at parties where you want to showcase wine or cocktails. The convenience of the recipes below is that they can all be made ahead, modified to suit your taste (or the contents of your refrigerator), and the recipes can be doubled without hurting the prep time too much. Personally, I like appetizers because of their informal nature and easy clean up too.

The well known New Brunswick favorite Hansel & Griddle recently opened a new location at 112 Church Street, just off George Street. This location tries to cater more towards business professionals while still maintaining its close proximity to Rutgers’ campus. Their Church Street location still attracts students with its simple and overstuffed meals.
Hansel & Griddle offers omelets in wraps, crisps, burgers, sandwiches, salads, soups, and smoothies. Most of the egg wraps can be made without meat and there is a vegetarian section on the menu. There are always six to …

Exhibition Duration: February 18 – March 12, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 18, 7pm
LIVE Music By: Bern and the Brights, The Orange Drop
Suggested Admission: $5 at the door
Curator: Michiko Mull
Alfa Art Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of “God Bless”, the solo exhibition of new work by Robert Mermet on view from February 18th – March 12th, 2010. Employing a range of brand names, cultural symbols, and political figures, Mermet reveals the false illusions of American icons through the appropriation, deconstruction, and reconstruction of their contexts. Often juxtaposing satirical …

Have you never played a first-person shooter on a console before?  Did you play Counter Strike instead of Halo?  Do you log onto Modern Warfare 2 only to want to scream and curse and break your TV in frustration?  Are you the one going 3-20 in Team Deathmatches, dragging your whole team down?  Until about a few weeks ago, this was an almost daily occurrence for me.
I first joined the Call of Duty online sensation late in the lifespan of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare at the nagging advice …

Crave no more

Crave to die

Crave it all

Let it be (anywhere, everywhere)

These are the opening lines to Jeffrey Cobbold’s exciting debut album as a solo artist, “Crave No More,” which was released last Friday on his website where the complete album can be downloaded for free until February 5th, 2010.