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By Nicole Plett    Renowned American sculptor George Segal welcomes us into his world through the viewfinder of his favorite Leica camera. In a lovely exhibition design touch, a playful portrait of Segal, nested in the booth of a Freehold diner, welcomes the visitor to the show, “George Segal: Sculptor as Photographer.” On view in…

By Keith Loria Special Writer     It was back in 1967 that 30-year-old freelance photographer Baron Wolman made what may be one of the best deals ever made in the publishing industry. Jann Wenner was in the process of creating Rolling Stone magazine and he wanted Wolman to come on board as the magazine’s chief…

Feminist masked avengers re-invent the ‘F’ word By Ilene Dube I’m standing in the galleries of the Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries in New Brunswick, talking to a creature with a brown hairy face, a leathery snout and fierce fangs. As she speaks she’s continuously poking a finger into her mouth. She’s not…

Old Barracks Museum pays tribute to African-American soldiers By Stephanie Vaccaro IF men die at war and their story goes untold, our collective memory is incomplete. For Black History Month, the Old Barracks Museum, in partnership with the Trenton Historical Society, will tell some of these stories about the contribution of black soldiers over the…

Artists in ‘Nobody’s Property’ demonstrate how the political and poetic can be one and the same By Ilene Dube ENTERING the galleries of Princeton University Art Museum, one is greeted at first by familiar sights: Monet’s “Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge” and Toulouse Lautrec’s “The Sacred Grove” — both landscapes in the traditional sense.    Nobody’s…

As Abraham Lincoln interpreter, Christian Johnson succeeds by thinking like the 16th president By Adam Grybowski ABRAHAM Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on the first day of 1863. More than 100 years later, when the National Archives put the famous document on display, Lincoln again appeared alongside it, in a sense.    A Lincoln interpreter named…

‘Mechanic to Millionaire’ tells the story of inventor and philanthropist Peter Cooper By Ilene Dube AS students walk alongside the seated statue of Peter Cooper in New York’s Cooper Square — right across the street from Cooper Union — few have an inkling as to the accomplishments of the school’s founder. But in 1883, when…

Singer-songwriter Tracy Grammer kicks off Concerts at the Crossing with an acoustical evening By Megan Sullivan    AS a kid in southern California, Tracy Grammer felt like a big fish in a small pond. Growing up in a musical family, she fondly remembers how her father would break out his slide or electric guitar, play Beatles,…

Bordentown’s former black private school is reborn in film By Anthony Stoeckert GO ahead and try to learn about the Bordentown School. No books about it are for sale on Amazon, and none can be found in the Burlington County Library System database, which includes a Bordentown branch. There are no Web sites devoted to…