“The flash is like crack to them:” Mark Peterson’s photos from presidential campaign in Beacon
“The flash is like crack to them. They really don’t care if a picture is flattering or not.” So observes veteran photojournalist Mark Peterson of the 2016 presidential hopefuls whom he has been…
New director of WAAM shows favorites in Woodstock exhibit
The Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM) has a new executive director, Janice La Motta, who came aboard last October. Trained at the Hartford Art School, La Motta was a curator at the…
Holograms, photographs & contemporary craft at Dorsky Museum in New Paltz
SUNY-New Paltz’s Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art has a lovely habit of opening three or four shows at once each February, making it a most rewarding cabin-fever-relief outing. Two of the shows spotlight…
The art of tea: How Ruby Silvious’ morning-cup creations went viral
Artist and graphic designer Ruby Silvious had already been experimenting with painting on recycled materials – pistachio shells and eggshells, to name two – when one day she eyed the remains of her…
Stellar photography show at Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson
Topping my birthday or Christmas-present wish list for 2016, or the year after: a coffee-table book of Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick’s eerie, evocative photos that meld vintage images with Surrealistic scenarios (or…
Kate Hamilton’s giant clothing art on view at SUNY-Ulster
A two-story-high, black-and-white-striped boatneck tee made of sailcloth and sized for a giant hangs from the ceiling in a corner of the Muroff-Kotler Visual Arts Gallery at SUNY-Ulster in Stone Ridge. The sleeves…
Hudson Valley Seed Library Pack Art Show opens this Saturday at KMOCA
The Kingston Museum of Contemporary Arts (KMoCA) will soon be filled with paintings and photographs depicting the state of small-ag farming and seed-saving efforts in the Hudson Valley. “The Art of Seed Stewardship:…
Of form and fauna
[wide\][portfolio_slideshow id=18099] Photos by Philip Monteleoni[/wide] Philip Monteleoni’s sculptural menagerie on view at Arts Society of Kingston Back in the ’70s when he did his first stone carvings of animals as a diversion…
Last call: Catch “River Crossings” at Olana & Thomas Cole historic sites
Back in May, the Hudson River School of painting went 21st-century and bicoastal with a landmark collaborative exhibition titled “River Crossings: Contemporary Art Comes Home,” jointly hosted by the Thomas Cole National Historic…
Claire Lambe’s library portraits, Lynne Friedman’s landscapes on view in Woodstock
Since the beginning of this year, Claire Lambe has embarked on an ambitious project: painting portraits in the Woodstock Library for anyone who signs up. Every Friday, she paints her subject in acrylic…
