Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild tour this Saturday
The nonprofit Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild is sponsoring a series of artist studio tours this spring and summer. The first event on Saturday, May 18 will bring visitors into the studio of painter Eva…
Howling at shadows with Cave Dogs in Kingston
Sensory experiences, by their very nature, are hard to put into words. And some things are harder to explain than others. Take a Cave Dogs performance, for example. The genre-busting Bloomington-based troupe of…
Inaugural Taste of Woodstock on May 22
The Woodstock Film Festival won’t be back in town until October, but in the meantime it’s gearing up for the 14th annual event this fall with a fundraising “Taste of Woodstock” on Wednesday,…
Bradford Graves Sculpture Park reopens this Saturday
There is no better backdrop for sculpture than the open air, in this writer’s humble opinion – especially when the works are made of natural materials like stone, as most of the 200…
Hudson River Maritime Museum opens with two new exhibits
The Hudson River Maritime Museum on the Rondout in Kingston has been “providing the portal to history along the Hudson” since 1980. The Museum was founded by a group of steamboat and tugboat…
Music, art & great food at Opus 40 to benefit Hungry for Music
Assemblage art – that arrangement of disparate objects into a unified visual statement – has been around now as an artform for about a century, dating back at least to Picasso’s early cubist…
Reformed Church of New Paltz hosts 10th annual Earth Day Fair
The thing about environmental issues is that they can lack a sense of immediacy. “It just doesn’t register sometimes,” says Jim O’Dowd, a member of the Caring for Creation committee, which is organizing…
Sing It for Your Sister Ana Dooley in Stone Ridge
Ana Dooley is an 11-year-old from Kingston who was diagnosed with a very rare cancer. She had a liver transplant in February, and her family is now facing numerous expenses related to Ana’s…
Hudson Valley History Reading Festival in Hyde Park
Every summer, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum presents a Roosevelt Reading Festival, featuring readings by authors who have written about the Roosevelt Era (this year’s event will be in July,…
Astrid Fitzgerald show at pop-up gallery in High Falls
Recently vacated storefronts in a business district are a sad reminder of our tough economy. The empty windows once filled with eye-catching merchandise now showcase an empty and barren room – one that…
