The Journal of Art and Reviews (JAR) is a blog which features creative content by young people participating in ArtsConnection Teen Programs. With content for teens by teens, we hope to create an online space that inspires, empowers, and enlightens youth by sharing information, highlighting artists, and creating an online community in the realm of arts and culture.

Shadows: A Study

 During a semester of “things not being what they seem,” the first movie Film TRaC watched and critiqued was…

Girls and Cats

The Metropolitan Museum of Art displays a small collection of Balthus’s paintings of cats and pre-pubescent girls, closing on…

Falling for Dance

In the center of Central Park, with the Belvedere Castle in the background lays the iconic Delacorte Theater, home…

On Avocados and Mountains

Ken Price’s sculpture exhibition entitled Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a breathtaking collection…

Start Spreading the News

The upbeat Disney music flowing out of the doors of the iconic Nederlander Theater was the start to a…

The Bronx Revisited

What comes to your mind when you think of the Bronx?  Maybe it’s the New York Yankees or the…

California Dreamin’

TRaC learns about the history of the Bronx Museum building. The Bronx Museum, intriguingly designed from the outside as…