Conan O'Brien, The Tonight Show host who was just in the news a few weeks ago, has been barred from using Newark Airport after he insulted the city in a joke on his show. "The Tonight Show" host made a crack about New Jersey's largest city last week and the mayor was not pleased and he's broadcasting his opposition to O'Brien's comment on YouTube.

Members of greater Newark’s cultural, philanthropic and civic communities have been invited to a workshop-luncheon at The Newark Museum during which they will create individual “beaded prayers” — sealed packets containing personal wishes, hopes, dreams and prayers — to be added to the international collaborative artwork Beaded Blessings.

Bug-Mania 3, an "insect-acular" day of family fun and science education is on tap at The Newark Museum, Saturday, June 14, from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

The Newark Museum and WBGO-Jazz 88 will offer free master classes for aspiring jazz musicians, age 13 and older, on June 19 with saxophonist David Murray and July 17 with percussionist Bobby Sanabria, following their performances at The Museum’s Jazz in the Garden Summer Concert Series performances. The free classes are supported, in part, by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).

The Newark Museum celebrates the 60th Anniversary of Israel statehood with the acclaimed international exhibition WOMEN’S TALES: Four Leading Israeli Jewelers. Running through June 25, the Museum provides the final opportunity to view the exhibition in the United States. Following Newark, the exhibition moves to Europe before completing its tour at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, during 2009-2010.

With the press of a button, a picture is taken. In an instant, now becomes then. In the decades preceding the advent of Polaroids and digital photography, picture-taking was a thrilling and nerve-racking event.

Southern Ghana is home to sub-Saharan Africa's most dynamic and enduring glass bead-making tradition. For over 400 years, Ghanaian bead artists have been producing powder-glass beads Woman Dressed for Dipo Ceremonyfrom recycled glass to meet local demands of fashion and customary practice.

Nearly 200 photographic images from the 1920s through the 1960s – the golden age of snapshot photography – are featured in an imaginative exhibition entitled Now is Then: Snapshots from the Maresca Collection to be open at The Newark Museum through May 11, 2008.

The Newark Museum is mounting a unique exhibition exploring the phenomenon of the snapshot and wants to include your favorite snapshots in it.

On January 30, 2008, The Newark Museum will open the first museum exhibition to focus on glass beads from Ghana, the most dynamic and enduring bead-making tradition in sub-Saharan Africa. For over four hundred years, Ghanaian artists have been producing beads from imported recycled glass to meet local demands of fashion and customary practice.

The trappings and trimmings of a traditional Victorian holiday are re-created in the 1885 Ballantine House, a restored National Historic Landmark. The historically accurate installation, complete with period menus, annually offers the opportunity to step back in time to learn about nineteenth-century life and traditions, it will run through January 6, 2008.