(Photo by Ethan Lofton)

Women’s Woodstock Cycling Grand Prix this Sunday

Martin Ernst Bruhn didn’t see any obstacles when he started dreaming up the Women’s Woodstock Cycling Grand Prix (WWCGP), which kicks off at 8 a.m. this Mothers’ Day Sunday, May 12 at the…

Albert Bierstadt, Autumn in the Conway Meadow Looking toward Mount Washington, 1858 Oil on canvas, 19 x28 inches, Courtesy Estate of the Price Family.

Albert Bierstadt show opens this Sunday at Cedar Grove in Catskill

Think of the grandeur of landscape painting, and odds are that most will close their eyes and imagine one of the dramatically lit Western scenery epics of the German-born-and-trained latter Hudson River School…

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TAP Craft Beer & Fine Food festival at Hunter

Remember when good beer was anything slightly brown or red in color, and exotic referred to anything made beyond the big brands, or in Germany? How ancient such days seem now – especially…

(Photo by Julie O'Connor)

Old Dutch Church hosts Mendelssohn Club on Saturday

Great choral singing is a heartening thing. It recreates the idea of a community with harmony and added melodies. It reaches for the idea of perfection, and mimics the heavenly in its unself-conscious…

Steven P. Bradford, Dead Man Shoes, 2007 at the Dorsky Museum.

“Fields of Vision” faculty exhibition at Dorsky Museum

In the interim after Dorsky Museum curator Brian Wallace moved on and before current curator Daniel Belasco was hired, SUNY-New Paltz commissioned temporary curators to keep up its top-shelf exhibitions at one of…

Jack, Addie, Roonie by Robin Schwartz at Center for Photography in Woodstock.

“Photography Now” in Woodstock

How does art document, as well as enliven? When did it leave the realm of the decorative, the display of beauty as an adjunct to spirit-raising and spirit-assessment, to become so much more:…

Three Graces

Polly Law makes artful use of what’s at hand

Polly Law’s studio is perched above Uptown Kingston, filled with light and a treasure trove of stuff, from buttons and miniature faux gears to feathers and flotsam from the Hudson River and other…

Louis C. K.

Louis C. K. to perform at Civic Center

Do you know Louis C. K.? Star of Louie, the award-winning FX Network hit and stand-up comedian who writes, directs and stars in his mini-movies about what some might call “loser life,” and…

Konrad Cramer Landscape, 1919, Oil (WAAM Permanent Collection, gift of Anna B. Nusbaum)

Brouhaha descending a staircase

It’s hard, at first, to think of art causing the sort of stir that the International Exhibition of Modern Art at the New York Armory on Lexington Avenue and East 25th Street in…

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Comic Carmen Lynch in Rosendale this Saturday

This Saturday, March 9, New York comedian Carmen Lynch will be performing at Market Market in Rosendale, which is building a reputation as a cool place to catch rising musical talent, and now…

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