A pastor’s double life unearthed
As the minister of Ulster County’s Rochester, Wawarsing and Clove classis of the Dutch Reformed Church from 1814 to 1826, Dr. James Murphy was a popular, influential religious leader. Successful in attracting large,…
Staats Fasoldt’s delightful twist to the brain
Staats Fasoldt’s watercolor paintings of streets and houses, the Gunks, waterfalls, barnyards and other aspects of the local scene are miracles of simplicity. With a few deft strokes, he captures the essence of…
Matthew Finck’s multitude of gigs
Many a professional jazz musician has traded in the rat race of Manhattan for the peaceful environs of the Hudson Valley: a decades-long migration that has endowed the region with an unusual concentration…
“Serious Laughs: Art/Politics/Humor” Festival throughout Kingston
Midtown Kingston and the Broadway corridor, with its scruffy barbershops, check-cashing emporiums and storefront churches, has been the subject of countless planning studies for an image-improving update, but maybe what it really needs…
Interview with Rhinebeck artist/writer and Dinotopia creator James Gurney
James Gurney’s exquisite paintings have brought to life ancient and fantastic worlds, including the Earth populated by dinosaurs in his famous Dinotopia series of illustrated books. Dinotopia won fans not only for its…
Jeff Jacobson’s The Last Roll at Center for Photography
In the 1970s, Jeff Jacobson gave up practicing law with the American Civil Liberties Union to become a photographer and subsequently enjoyed a successful career as a photojournalist. He published his pictures –…
Owen King reads from his new novel in New Paltz on Friday
Owen King, author of the highly acclaimed and award-winning We’re All in This Together: A Novella and Stories, has just published his first novel, Double Feature, about a student filmmaker and his tumultuous…
Salute to a sailor in Kingston at Boitson’s
Boitson’s, the Uptown Kingston eatery on North Front Street, owes its existence to an exceedingly rare stroke of good fortune: an inheritance from a Brooklyn landlord, a retired Ukrainian-American sailor who befriended his…
Collage degrees
Cut and Paste,” the regional juried art exhibition that opened at SUNY-Ulster’s Muroff-Kotler Visual Arts Gallery last week, is bright, bold and jazzy, a rich syncopation of shapes, color, texture and conceptual approaches….
Sharon Core paints with a lens
At first glance, Sharon Core’s meticulous, softly lit still-lifes of fruits, vegetables, meat and plants could be mistaken for paintings. Inspired, and in some cases directly based on the early-19th-century still-life paintings of…
