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.

Pure Confidence

The first look at the stage shows colored lights dappled across in a dreamy way, a place of serenity….

Veron Reid @ The Stone

Vernon Reid is probably best known for his guitar work with Living Colour in the late 80’s, and specifically…

Living Outside The…

Monstah Black and The Sonic Leroy with Motion Sickness are not given enough credit. I’m surprised that his music…

Dancing Outside the Box

For the last five years, four outside-the-box choreographers have been invited to create a 30-minute piece for a group…

Ramblin’ Jack Elliott

Ramblin’ Jack Elliot divided his concert time at the Highline Ballroom into half folk music and half folk story….

Taking Over

Taking Over displays a brilliant mastery of the theater in a way that is new and fresh, almost raw,…

Reality Check @ The Met

Upon entering a relatively small room in the rather grand structure of the Met, one is struck by the…

A More Perfect Union

Vern Thiessen, one of Canada’s most produced playwrights, utilizes a never-before-seen setting for a theatrical romance: the library of…

STREB @ SLAM

The STREB at S.L.A.M. performance described in a single sentence would be: Circus meets the ballet goes to a…

Intervals @ The Guggenheim

Excuse me, you’ve lost your watch. Or you will, at any rate, misplace any sense of clockish orientation once…

Pericles, Prince of Tyre

When most people think of Shakespeare, they remember sitting in school reading tragedies like Hamlet and King Lear, or…