Upon returning to Jersey City, the NYC-based 3D art organization goes big Pianos become the teeth: Alberto Bursztyn's "Soar" Jersey City needs more exhibition space for large works. On this everyone agrees. There is only so much that can be smushed into SMUSH, or cast into the twin rooms at Deep Space, or snuck into the front room at Curious Matter. We want to encourage our artists to think big. Big thinking requires a capacious setting.  With no museum to call ours, we’re of

On war, Vladimir Putin, the marketplace, “Madame Butterfly,” and other torments It's a mistake: Alex Garikovich's Russian "Idol," central panel If you’re an artist disgusted by the parlous state of civil society, you’ve got four moves on the table. All four come with perils. You can do as Jersey City creators have done and meet aggression and unpleasantness with a smile and a bouquet of flowers . You’ll be modeling a nobler way of being, but you’ll probably be called a bringe

A trip to the wilderness in our backyard — and in our hearts. Nothing but flowers: Kazakova's rhododendrons Artists have been rebelling against the frame for a long time. Painters put borders around their pictures and are immediately filled with an overwhelming urge to shatter them. Never mind that it is the artist herself who imposes the limits. Her images push hard against the lines that confine them anyway. Sometimes the pot boils over and the work spills over the frame an