John Medeski & Amy Helm headline benefit for High Meadow this Saturday
Paul and Sharyn Alexander are active members of the Woodstock community, where they’ve been putting their love for the town into a host of events over the years. Now they have a kid…
Artworks by Louis Rémy Mignot at Cedar Grove in Catskill
The new season’s underway up at Cedar Grove, the Thomas Cole home in Catskill that has become a treasure-trove of the Valley’s academic art world. More than just a museum of one celebrated…
Eleanor Roosevelt Knit-In in Hyde Park on May 6
Eleanor Roosevelt was a pip. Aristocratically elegant from the get-go, she was able not only to reimagine herself as a champion of the homey and vernacular, but also to inspire a revival of…
Briselli’s photo-paintings at Woodstock’s Galerie BMG
Galerie BMG in Woodstock is a special place. In addition to hosting one of the most redolent spots for a gallery in both Woodstock and the Hudson Valley, perched over a sylvan stream…
Site-specific: “Rokeby Show” at Tivoli Artists’ Co-op
The way Ania Aldrich puts it, the “Rokeby Show” opening at the Tivoli Artists’ Co-op on April 7 grew from her own observation that “It’s kind of lonely to have a solo exhibition…I…
Woodstock poster exhibit opens this Sunday at Museum at Bethel Woods
It’s rock poster time at the Museum at Bethel Woods, which opens a retrospective exhibit of the works of original Woodstock festival poster artists Edward Byrd and Arnold Skolnick this Sunday, April 1….
Such a doll: Bardavon hosts New Paltz Ballet Theatre’s Coppelia this Sunday
The New Paltz Ballet Theatre, which brings its annual production of Coppelia featuring principal dancers from the New York City Ballet to the Bardavon 1869 Opera House in Poughkeepsie this Sunday afternoon, March…
A force of nature: Works by the late Thomas Locker on view in New Paltz
Thomas Locker was so prolific that it felt like he could have an entire art-and-literature column dedicated solely to his work. A painter who worked in homage to the great sublime tradition of…
Bread & Puppet Theater to visit Hudson & Catskill
Some of the greatest cultural events that I’ve witnessed have come via Vermont’s Bread & Puppet Theater. Its Washerwomen Cantata, performed throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s, was a revelation of lyrical…
Occupy Catskill and the “Wall Street to Main Street” art extravaganza
As the world was still pondering a decade’s passage since 9/11 and our own region was assessing the damage from Irene, a small army of protesters descended on a small pocket-park in lower…
