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Boys Go To Jupiter’s seventh single, “Virginia”, is not your typical pop song. On a quest to find the perfect closer for their live show, BGTJ struck gold with this genre-bending-folk-disco-ghost-story. Exemplary of the band’s signature storytelling style, Virginia tells a cautionary tale of ambition and fame that has quickly become an undeniable fan favorite. Intricately arranged and brilliantly performed, the track sparkles with swirling seventies strings and haunting vocals. This sweeping, cinematic music video puts Virginia’s story front and center– in all its grotesque, melancholy glory.

In 1916, twenty-year-old Marion Wong wrote and directed The Curse of Quon Gwon, the earliest example of an Asian American film. What initially appears to be a story about a Chinese family cursed for allowing Western influence through the door, proves to be an illuminating examination of cultural diaspora years ahead of its time.Sandwiched between two global pandemics, this documentary follows the Wong family descendents as they secure The Curse of Quon Gwon its place in film history and new revelations rise to the surface.

In the USSR, they rebelled against the regime by making fun of official state propaganda. In Cold War-Era New York, they were crowned Soviet Pop Artists, and entered every major museum collection in the West. Now, decades after the collapse of both the Soviet Union and their friendship, the dissident artist duo Komar and Melamid reflects on the artists’ unlikely takedown of an empire, as Russian totalitarianism rages once again.

Tthis collaborative, crowdsourced performance of John Cage's 4’33” features professionals, amateurs and even digital avatars from around the world putting their own spin on Cage’s infamous composition.

When Jamie Diamond bought a discarded German family photo album from 1938, she did not expect to make art with it. But upon bringing a child into Trump's America, she began to notice uncanny parallels, and set out to recreate the original snapshots with her own son, collapsing space and time, merging pixels with the grain.

The electrifying new exhibition "I'll Make Me a World" presents a decade of Clifford Ward's work envisioning a Black future that reclaims and reinterprets the symbolism and history of the past. We meet up with the artist in his studio where he prepares for a retrospective at Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, NJ and at the opening of hte exhbition's "prologue" at Artworks in Trenton.