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.

2012 Whitney Biennial

There is a haunting melody that runs through the multiple works of sculpture, painting, installations and photography in the…

Painted Betty at Dixon Place

Have you noticed the absence of French-speaking cowboy salsa bars around New York? Me too, and fortunately the brave…

Painting Churches

Keen Company recently brought back Tina Howe’s beloved 1983 Painting Churches, a play about the dysfunctional, but lovable, Church…

I Am In A Basement

It’s a small room, but I have no complaints. You Are In An Open Field, playing at HERE in…

Eisa Davis at Symphony Space

Recently at Symphony Space, Eisa Davis literally lit up the stage with her golden dress and her shining personality,…

The Total Bent

“Ya know it’s funny how things seem one way, then you find out things ain’t the way they looked…

Wild About Painted Betty

On March 23rd I found myself walking down Chrystie Street, entering a hole in the wall known as Dixon Place….

Shinique Smith in the Raw

Dirty, dusty, dingy, deteriorating, decaying.  These are words which come to mind as one first views the building in…