Petroglyphs from Dreamland
“My process of painting is very much an additive search for the final painting. The paintings are not conceptual in nature; rather, the process of painting reveals the painting,” writes the artist whose latest…
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…
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…
Globetrotting Woodstock photographer John Huba
John Huba’s photographs capture a world that seems almost impossibly exotic right now to my color-starved, winter-weary eyes: a quartet of zebras crossing in formation on an African plain; a spiky-spined iguana blinking…
The Luminist canvases of Kevin Cook
Quintessentially rugged American landscapes under luminous skies, suffused with poetic light and imbued with drama: The Hudson River School of painting that flourished in the 19th century immortalized the region in which we…
Matt Bua’s places to come in out of the rain
Matt Bua – the Catskill creative force who built the two-story wooden cat alongside one of his adopted village’s main entrance roads, has a new book on imaginary architecture receiving kudos, and is…
Mimlitsch-Gray, DeJohnette & Goss named USA Fellows
The cool thing about the big national awards that just descend on people – like the MacArthur Foundation’s half-million-dollar so-called “genius” awards – is the way in which they describe what’s best about…
The many lives of Adolfas Mekas
In his book of short stories Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, neuroscientist David Eagleman imagines three deaths. The first death is when the body ceases to function: the second death is when…
Bob Draffen retrospective
I hadn’t seen Bob Draffen in close to 20 years when I ran into his wife Ann at a show in High Falls of works by the late Jan Sawka. Draffen, Sawka and…
Guggenheim commissions Will Cotton to create set
Since we were children, many of us have treasured the holiday traditions of Manhattan: the performance of The Nutcracker by the New York City Ballet, the Rockettes’ Holiday Spectacular, the decorated tree in…
