Demos to be featured at Woodstock/New Paltz Art & Crafts Fair
Even an institution as long-established (32 years) and consistently well-attended as the Woodstock/New Paltz Art & Crafts Fair needs to keep thinking up ways to reach new audiences. Up-and-coming generations may not yet…
Ludwig Day in New Paltz this Saturday
A celebration to honor the life of New Paltz resident Ludwig Montesa will take place this Saturday, May 25 with music and art performances scheduled throughout the day at various local venues. Montesa,…
Robert Hite show opens in High Falls
The sharecropper shacks that dotted the flat agricultural landscape of Tidewater Virginia in Robert Hite’s youth, and the metal-roofed sheds that he saw on his travels throughout Latin America, providing shelter for the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The fossil photographs of Art Murphy
For most people, “local history” means names and events dating back at best a century or two. But for Art Murphy, a fine art photographer who lives on a winding, wooded road in…
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…
