September 10th, 2010 – “Below, Above and Beyond” – John Hawaka Solo Exhibition

Exhibition duration: September 10 – September 30, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, September 10 @ 7:00pm

I only had two goals this summer: to find a job and to volunteer at my newly constructed local library. It is now the middle of August and I can confirm that the job hunt went…terrible. However, I’m not completely upset by this since I achieved my second goal, which became one of my summer highlights.
For three weeks in July, Monday through Wednesday, I worked on art-related activities with children and adults at the Plainsboro Public Library. The events I volunteered for were “A-Team Mondays”, “Artful Conversations”, and building the …

I was able to make it to Mason Gross’s MFA Thesis Exhibition about two weeks ago. Having never been to a Mason Gross exhibit before, I had no idea what to expect as I walked up to the School of the Arts; I can tell you the transition from noisy New Brunswick street to silent art exhibit was equally as enthralling as the transition from 53rd street to the Museum of Modern Art.

Upcoming Events:

March 26, (Friday) – 7pm-11pm – POLLIFAX at Alfa
March 27, (Saturday) – 2pm-4pm – “The Contemporary Relevance of the Renaissance Palette” – a lecture by Michael Price
April 2, (Friday) – 7:30pm-10:30pm – Vesselin Kourtev – solo exhibition
April 9, (Friday) – 7:30pm-10:30pm – “Uptown”, a Novel – Book promotion and signing

March 26th, 2010 – “Another Sunny Day” – POLLIFAX at Alfa

Currator: Julianna Ritter
Doors open at 7pm – …

While on a recent trip to Berlin, Germany, Ali Riaz took the time to catalog examples of the prolific graffiti and street art on display there. No photo’s have been doctored in any way. Enjoy.

Last time I set up my noise manifesto of sorts and now is the time to get to the good stuff – my experiences at shows as a noise musician. Usually when I did noise at a show it was part of an improvised jam or if I did ambient music and at the end I would climax with a lot of noise followed by silence – real rock n’ roll. It wasn’t until later in my freshman year that I decided to do an entire set by doing noise, …

Ahh the breeze coming in through the window hitting me gently in the face, the sun staring down with a bandit smile, the sugar cane fields to my left, the imposing Andes mountains to my right with a couple of cows ruminating on the bloody grass where they stand, a lonely highway that seems to lead nowhere, and a soulful voice in the background that cries: “excuse me while I kiss the sky”. The reminiscence of the many times after school that I would drive south right past my house …

Correspondence from an American Poet Abroad:

This past Sunday, the 21st of June, while party goers and pagans alike were celebrating the summer solstice at Stonehenge, there was a different kind of celebration in Paris- where I am living- a celebration of music. Sunday was the day of “la fête de la musique,” an annual tradition which began nearly 30 years ago.

By the Johnsonville Press Editorial Staff
Andrew Darlow knew he wanted to be a photographer since high school when he spent time living in Japan.  Being away from home, he quickly found that taking pictures of places, people and things (most notably every meal his host-mother prepared) was the ideal way to convey the experience of living in a far-away place.

A Historical and Literary Analysis of LSD and the Dialectic of Mainstream and Oppositionary Cultures in the 1960’s

Lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD, is a potent psychotropic drug that was first isolated by the late chemist Albert Hofmann in 1938 while he was working as a researcher in the Sandoz pharmaceuticals firm in Basel, Switzerland (Jordans). Since its synthesis, LSD has been used in a variety of scientific experiments, ranging from psychiatric research on the mental state of schizophrenic patients