“From the seminar “The Six-Hour Art Major,” this fun, fact-filled talk tells you how to approach a piece of art, and helps you understand what you’re looking at. Features a slide presentation of over 80 artworks as illustrations.”
411 Note: I’m sure the lecture might be interesting to some, but I subscribe to a very different theory. I either like it or I don’t. And frankly I don’t need anyone to tell me what to think when looking at anything!
Mother’s Day event this weekend at Ganache Cafe in Hoboken
Ganache Cafe at 15th & Washington is hosting a “Crystals and Curls by Irene” Jewelry Sale for Mother’s Day this weekend.
On Friday & Saturday, May 11th & 12th – from 10am to 5pm, peruse fabulous handmade pieces with semi-precious stones, Swarovski, freshwater pearls, sterling and other one of a kind necklaces, earring and bracelets!
Of course, the girls at Ganache will have Mother’s day cookies, cupcakes, cake pops and chocolates available too. For more information, call (201)792-2003.
Gallery 1200 presents Baseball: Paintings by Paul Lempa
On Saturday, May 5, 2012, just a block from the site of one of the first officially recorded baseball games, Gallery 1200 proudly presents the baseball paintings of renowned artist Paul Lempa. In the spirit of that early game held at Hoboken’s Elysian Fields in 1846, the show will celebrate America’s pastime with more than 20 paintings chronicling some of the sport’s greatest players and events.
Brief Visual History of Baseball
“The show will feature vintage and current baseball paintings of players like Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron and Ichiro Suzuki,” Lempa explained. “I want this show to capture a brief visual history of the game, from its gritty origins at Elysian Fields, to the carefully manicured grass of present day Fenway Park.”
Paul Lempa is an award-winning American artist whose works have been exhibited in major national and international publications, institutions, art galleries, and museums. The June 2011 Beckett Monthly, an esteemed Sports Collectors publication, named Lempa one of the “TOP 12 Sports Artists to Collect”. Several of his paintings have hung in the National Art Museum of Sport, and his Ted Williams painting will be exhibited at The Sports Museum, in the Boston Garden starting summer 2012.
Gallery director and curator Laura Renee Meyerson explained, “Appealing to Sports fans and art lovers alike this exhibition will stimulate an exciting energy from the community.”
This exhibit will run through June 23rd. Gallery hours are Thursday and Friday 4-9pm, Saturday 2-9pm, and Sunday 11am-4pm. Gallery 1200 is sponsored by the Mason Family Civic League. www.Gallery1200.org
The Puzzle Project in Hoboken could make Guinness Book!
The Puzzle Project consists of thousands of 24 X 24 artistic puzzle pieces assembled together into a three dimensional installation. Currently there are 4,000 pieces created in over 20 states and ten countries. It is a simple fascinating way to tell your story or make a statement through art or just the written word.
In the Fall of 2012, The Monroe Center for the Arts(720 Monroe St.) will host an installation of more than 5,000 puzzle pieces. This colossal exhibition could make the Guinness Book of World Records. The start of this project can currently be viewed in the Monroe Center lobby.
Puzzle Art Creating Workshop – Sunday, April 29th
This Sunday, April 29th, from 3pm to 5pm – there’s a Puzzle Art Creating Workshop at the Monroe Center (Studio C-304).
All you need is $10 and your creativity. Student discount $5 per puzzle piece. There will be live music, and art supplies will be provided.
Participants can bring personal items to affix on their puzzle pieces. Finished pieces will be permanently exhibited at The Monroe Center
If you’d like to be involved with this “global” project or want more information – contact Godfrey Pereira at (201)795-500 x200.
Reminder: This is the last weekend for The Pavilion, one of the most positively reviewed productions ever at Mile Square Theatre!
Hoboken’s Mile Square Theater presents: The Pavilion
Opening up this week at the Mile Square Theater at the Monroe Center(720 Monroe St.) is a Pulitzer Prize winning play called The Pavilion. Starts this Thursday, April 12th – and runs through April 29th.
“Peter returns to Pine City, Minnesota for his 20-year high school reunion, yearning to win back Kari, his teenage love. The two-act drama is cleverly presented with just three actors: the long ago lovers, Peter and Kari, and a narrator who populates the stage with an assortment of friends and classmates whose appearances explore the event that drove the couple apart and enrich the story with humor and perspective on the universal passage of time. The play takes its name from the reunion’s setting, an events venue that is slated for demolition at midnight.”
Directed by Chris O’Connor, The Pavilion stars Greg Jackson, Dena Tyler, and Matthew Lawler.See video teaser and more info below!
The Pavilion
When Mile Square Theatre in Hoboken mounts the Pulitzer-nominated play The Pavilion in April, audience members will be in on a little theatrical history. When the play had its world debut in 2000, Chris O’Connor, the theatre company’s founder and artistic director, originated the lead role. But it is not sentimentality that brings it to the local stage, but the play’s universal acclaim as “an Our Town for our time,” and one of the most popular modern plays coast to coast. The Pavilion runs Thursday through Sunday, starting April 12th through April 29th at Monroe Theatrespace, 720 Monroe in Hoboken. Tickets are available online or before each performance. Adults, $30; seniors. The April 19 performance is a special “Pay What You Will” admission.
“Wright’s perceptive, gently witty writing… makes this familiar situation fresh and thoroughly involving.”
– Philadelphia Inquirer
The Pavilion by Craig Wright has a simple premise: a man returns to his 20-year high school reunion yearning to win back his teenage love. The two act drama is cleverly presented with just three actors: the long ago lovers, Peter and Kari, and a narrator who populates the stage with an assortment of friends and classmates whose appearances explore the event that drove the couple apart and enrich the story with humor and perspective on the universal passage of time. The production takes its name from the reunion’s setting, an events venue that is slated for demolition.
“The Pavilion is certainly very dear to my heart,” says O’Connor, who now directs his own version of the play. “It has a universal theme about the choices we make, the inevitable highs and lows of life and the questions that linger about what could have been. Who amongst us doesn’t wonder about the road not taken?”
MST Associate Artistic Director Matt Lawler leads the cast as the Narrator. The versatile actor is familiar to the company’s followers for his turns in many MST productions, most notably as Alan in last season’s hit God of Carnage. Playing Kari is Dena Tyler, most recently seen on NBC’s 30 Rock as Rob Riggle’s acerbic ex-wife, Stephanie. She has performed in a succession of plays at 59E59th, The Actors Studio, EST, The Women’s Project, The 42nd Street WorkShop, and regionally at GEVA Theatre. In the role of Peter is Greg Jackson, fresh from his title role in Timon of Athens at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. He was also the sole male understudy in the Broadway transfer of The 39 Steps. Jackson is known to New York City theater fans for winning Most Outstanding Overall Production in the 2005 NYC International Fringe Festival with the biker-babe-boobfest Go-Go Kitty, Go!, co-written with his creative partner Erin Quinn Purcell.
Showtimes for The Pavilion
8pm Show: April 12th, 13th, 14th – 19th, 20th, 21st – 26th, 27th and 28th
3pm Matinee: April 14th, 15th – 21st, 22nd – 28th and 29th
New: Industry Standard – Underground House Music in Hoboken
Hoboken resident Marcus Robson, and other area DJ’s in the Underground House / EDM scene have formed a collective called “Industry Standard,” and have a gig at Carpe Diem(14th & Grand) this Friday.
See below to see what Marcus has to say about it!
Underground Night in Hoboken at Carpe Diem
“We are a small group of keen local music enthusiasts who have had many knock backs from bar owners over the years when we have tried to do something similar.
Joe Jones at Carpe Diem has been fantastic supporting what we are trying to do, and the venue is great for creating an intimate, underground atmosphere.
We are doing our second night at Carpe Diem this Friday. Come and check it out!”
Here’s a sample of the kind of music they might play:
