COLUMNS | FEATURES | EVENT PREVIEWS featured eventsBy Laurie Granieri, JerseyArts.com originally published: 12/09/2022  When Newark’s New Jersey Performing Arts Center opens its doors on Dec. 17 for the annual Kwanzaa Festival and Marketplace, the gathering will mark a kind of homecoming.  The free event, at the heart of NJPAC’s community programming for more…

Google Arts & Culture is the latest Android app to introduce a homescreen widget. This one celebrates the birthdays of famous artists by showcasing their artwork. Since the launch of Android 12 and Material You, Google has been steadily ramping up the availability of widgets in its many apps. Today, we have an ever growing…

Oakland, CA – Applications are now being accepted for the City of Oakland’s 2022-2023 Cultural Funding Program grants supporting organization programs and individual artist projects. Applicants must be Oakland-based and all activities must be presented in Oakland between January 1, 2023 and August 31, 2023. Interested nonprofit organizations and artists may access the grant guidelines…

Good morning, and welcome to the U-T Arts & Culture Newsletter. I’m David L. Coddon, and here’s your guide to all things essential in San Diego’s arts and culture this week. Television’s late-night talk shows need a shot of estrogen. Who better to deliver it than Chelsea Handler? No disrespect to Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon…

From queering Bollywood film-posters and colour-field embroidery to ‘living pictures’ and the Kochi-Muziris Biennale – our editors on what they’re looking forward to this month TextaQueen, Kali ka Choti Behen, 2022, india ink marker, watercolour and coloured pencil on cotton paper, 53 × 38 cm. Courtesy the artist TextaQueen4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney,…

Your browser does not support the audio element. The Portland sign on Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall lights up an empty street Saturday, April 18, 2020, in Portland, Ore. Gospel Christmas with the Oregon Symphony is happening Saturday Dec. 10 and Sunday Dec. 11. Bradley W. Parks / OPB THANKS TO OUR SPONSOR: The holidays are…

Philadelphia’s arts and culture sector will receive an unexpected influx of $21.3 million from City Council’s midyear budget transfer, approved on Thursday. As part of an overall $275 million distribution, most of which will go to the city’s pension fund, the bill will give allotments of money ranging from $50,000 to $3 million to more…