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The Curse of Batavia
A werewolf and a werepanther, fast-paced banter inspired by George Bernard Shaw, songs that alternate Gilbert and Sullivan with haunting Balkan dissonance — these are the ingredients of Katherine...
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Nick Della Penna — One stone at a time
(Photo by Dion Ogust) “If you’re not trained as an artist, there’s no right or wrong,” said sculptor Nick Della Penna, standing amidst the monumental yet whimsical structures of Rock Star Meadow in...
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Music: A handful at Maverick
We had a world record five classical Maverick Concerts since my last column a mere two weeks ago. The first, August 20, was the annual Chamber Orchestra Concert with Maverick’s music director Alexander...
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Tom Pacheco returns to Phoenicia for Labor Day concerts
Tom Pacheco In November, 1971, a man calling himself D.B. Cooper boarded a jetliner in Oregon, which he would exit at 10,000 feet in the air with a parachute, a bag stuffed with cash and a leap into...
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Woodstock Museum Film Festival returns
Still from Pin Up! The Woodstock Museum on Bach Road in Saugerties is a “living museum,” says co-founder Nathan Koenig, who along with Shelli Lipton created an environment there that celebrates the...
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In Town: Byrdcliffe’s Legacy
George Ault, Autumn Hillside. Watercolor on paper. From The Historic Woodstock Art Colony Collection of Arthur Anderson, part of the Byrdcliffe Guild’s Handmade In The 20th Century show opening...
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Race, Love, and Labor at CPW
Photograph by LaToya Ruby Frazier. When the current exhibit of the Center for Photography at Woodstock’s current artists-in-residence program, “Race, Love, and Labor,” first opened at the Samuel Dorsky...
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Summer Salon at WFG
Bombay Washday by Harriet Livathinos. Seven women artists of the Hudson Valley are featured in the Summer Salon Show at the Woodstock Framing Gallery on Mill Hill Road. A sense of summery brightness —...
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Art From The Ashes – (burned and saved)
Yale Epstein and salvaged artwork. Yale Epstein, whose retrospective-like From The Ashes – (burned and saved) exhibit in the solo gallery space at the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum runs...
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Moving the Water(S) at Kleinert
Ashokan Fugues by Margaret Cogswell. Moving The Water(S): Ashokan Fugues 2016, the world class multi-media installation by West Shokan/New York City-based artist Margaret Cogswell that’s been filling...
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Songs of healing at Phoenicia Voice Fest
At the 2013 Festival of the Voice. (photo by Dion Ogust) “If people were going to concerts more and bathing in art, there would be less mess in the world,” said Maria Todaro, the co-founder and...
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Cherry’s Patch to open at Playhouse
Ron Scott Stevens (photo by Dan Barton) The Woodstock Playhouse will delve into its only summer drama when it presents Cherry’s Patch for one weekend, with performances at 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 29 and...
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Pollock-Krasner officials honored by Byrdcliffe
Jackson Pollock Jackson Pollock ran off an eastern Long Island back road 60 years ago next month and died among gnarled trees. He was still making money from his drip paintings of several years earlier...
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Acts of Utopian art
Mark Robbins in front of the Arthur & Janet C. Ross Library at the American Academy in Rome. (photo by Gerardo Gaetani) In 1988, artist and architect Mark Robbins, while visiting Woodstock’s...
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Local Elders’ lives in song
Colette Ruoff Like a clearing in a forest, an unusual event on the weekend offers a step away from this year’s underbrush of police shootings, Brexit, missing State Department emails, impending threats...
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‘Comedy of Errors’ at Comeau
Members of the Bird-on-a-Cliff cast at the Comeau. (photo by Violet Snow) Before Orphan Black, before the Olsen twins, before The Patty Duke Show, Elizabethan audiences laughed their arses off at the...
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Review: ‘False Documents’ by Peter Lamborn Wilson
The cover of False Documents shows two commedia dell’arte characters — medieval Italian clowns — dancing audaciously above the surface of the moon. I was surprised to discover that this literally...
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Beppe Gambetta plays Ashokan
In these post-packaged years when people no longer buy media in piece goods but prefer electronic sources…a pretty decent sized audience still prefers good old hand made music on wooden instruments,...
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Strong start to Maverick season
(Photo by Dion Ogust) Maverick Concerts’ classical series got off to a rousing start with two strong quartets (not a typo!) On Sunday, June 26, the Escher Quartet started things off with a superlative...
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Mount Tremper Arts goes year round
Mount Tremper Arts (MTA) has announced a shift from its usual seven-week summer festival of weekly performances and artist residencies to an almost year-round schedule of monthly events and month-long...
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