2+2; Free Museums; Boycott WNET Begathon

Statue at entrance to CoAD building.

2+2. Today's fotos are from my trip to the spare "2+2" art exhibition that closed last Monday at the College of Architecture and Design gallery on the campus of NJIT. The concept of the show was explained on a flyer thus:

The exhibit, "2+2", is the result of two curators, David Smith and Matthew Gosser, wanting to work together on a project. The premise of the exhibit was for each ruator to select two artists who also work closely with another artist. These artists could be siblings, lovers, or studio-mates who influence each other's individual artwork in subtle or not-so-subtle ways. Two works of art from each artist were selected to be in the exhibit. The artists included in the exhibit are: Andrew Baron + Suzanne Kammin, Evonne M. David + Emma Wilcox, Peter Owen + Alison Owen and Andrew Demirjian + Dahlia Elsayed.

I think the curator David Smith is perhaps better known as DC Smith, a co-founder of Index Art Center. I think.

Paired paintings, Some Heavy Indulgences by Dahlia Elsayed.

Free Museums. (a) The first weekend of the month has rolled around again, which means that holders of Bank of America debit or credit cards can get free admission to 150 museums around the country, including 7 in NJ, 2 of them in Newark.

NEW JERSEY

Cherry Hill
Garden State Discovery Museum

Jersey City
Liberty Science Center

Millville
WheatonArts and Cultural Center

Montclair
Montclair Art Museum

Group of paintings by Suzanne Kammin (Solitude — Spring — Visitors — Sounds — Winter Animals). My camera had a lot of trouble with the lite in this show. It seemed pretty brite to the naked eye, but too dim for my camera.

Morristown
Morris Museum

Newark
Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art
Newark Museum

Oceanville
The Noyes Museum of Art
of Richard Stockton College

The "Museums on Us" website has links to the various participating institutions. There are also participants in NYC and Philly.
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(b) Members of the Newark Museum and Liberty Science Center get free reciprocal admission to the other institution on Sunday, December 11th. I have yet to get to LSC, but I don't know if there is free parking anywhere near it. And I don't know if it is intended for children, or for adults as well.

Detail, Single File, From The American Heritage Series, by Evonne Davis. I didn't realize when I took this picture that another hanging block of wood in the window area in front of the venetian blinds at the right was also part of this work, so this is a "detail" rather than complete view.

Support NJ Public Broadcasters, Not WNET! Channel 13, Newark's stolen TV station, is running another of its disgusting begathons, offering some of the worst programming in the history of television in the process. WNET also runs commercials before and after programs, which it pretends are mere announcements from corporate supporters but are plainly commercials. So not only do you have to put up with commercials from channel 13, but you also have to put up with being attacked every few weeks by demands that you send them money! No. Don't do it. Don't send them a dime.

Chalk listing, Lure of of the Local (repeat), by Emma Wilcox. The two-column list appears to be anagrams, but of what, I do not know. To the right is "Retort re: Carpetbagger", but that phrase cannot be the original of the anagrams, because there are no G's in the list and no S's in "Carpetbagger", so I didn't look further.

If you have money to donate to PBS stations at present, please do not reward WNET for having stolen not just WNET itself, which is assigned to Newark, but also the entire New Jersey Network from the State of New Jersey overall — which our vile (one-term?) Governor not just gave away but actually PAID them to take out of this State.

Newark needs a TV station of its own, but no one in City government seems to have thought to demand of the FCC that it compel the return of Newark's TV station to Newark, nor to sue in Federal Court to force channel 13 to return all of WNET's operations to Newark.

Painting Intersection 2, by Peter Owen.

We have one public station left in this area, WBGO jazz radio, which also does some public-affairs broadcasting, such as "Newark Today", a monthly call-in show with Mayor Booker. A podcast is available online.

Painting Intersection 1, by Peter Owen. I don't know what this is supposed to be, but it reminds me of the bus-ramp over Ninth Avenue to the Port Authority Bus Terminal, near where I used to live in Manhattan.

If New Jerseyans would support only NJ public stations, WNET might get the message that its rapacious behavior in stealing both WNET and the New Jersey Network, and then WNET's disgraceful ignorement of Newark, its city of license, and NJ more generally, is offensive, and channel 13 has a moral, and possibly even legal obligation to devote far more time to Newark in particular and New Jersey in general than it does. So if you are inclined to support public broadcasting in our area, please support WBGO, not WNET. Keep NJ money in NJ — Garden State broadcasting needs NJ lettuce.

Painting It Also Spanned Seasons by Dahlia Elsayed. This foto didn't turn out right. In person, it appears to be a map of sorts, perhaps of parkland.