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T PFARR’s madaboutyou at Ann Street Gallery in Newburgh
Body of work

“Human Form” exhibition on view now at Newburgh’s Ann Street Gallery


Humanity has always been fascinated with itself. We have mummified and sculpted our bodies, imagined them morphing into other animal forms. We’ve stretched our limits to create sports and the beaut...

October 20, 2011 12:00 PM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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The man who put the cat in Catskills

Exhibition of new works by Milton Glaser opens this Saturday at Woodstock Artists’ Association & Museum


Milton Glaser changed the way we see. Although not exhibited, collected or written about the way so many of our most renowned artists get lauded, his effects are everywhere, and his images can be s...

October 14, 2011 12:00 PM | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Links in her chain

SUNY-Ulster’s 2011 artist-in-residence Linda Montano performs this Thursday on Stone Ridge campus


Linda Montano, of the shoe-selling Saugerties family, has been a major force in the world of performance art since the early 1970s, when she followed sculpture studies, a stint as a nun and an MFA ...

October 13, 2011 12:00 PM | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Arts a-flutter at butterfly art show


Cornell Street Studios are all about the soaring aspects of enthusiasm, the beauty of collective culture and transformation. Their massive group-show art openings, which next alight this Saturday, ...

October 06, 2011 12:00 PM | 1 1 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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The Lighthouse Keeper and His Companion by Polly M. Law, sponsored by the Saugerties Area Chamber of Commerce, can be seen on the corner of Main and Market streets in Saugerties. (Photo by Will Dendis)
Shedding light

Lighthouse artworks to be auctioned for charity in Saugerties next Saturday


The 32 artist-created lighthouses lining the streets of Saugerties will soon find their way into people’s homes. “Shine on Saugerties,” which began with the installation of the miniature beacons in...

September 29, 2011 12:00 PM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dave Hebb’s Dry Dock, 2010
Strength through beauty

Photographers Dave Hebb, Charise Isis & Tanya Marcuse lecture this Saturday at Dorsky Museum at SUNY-New Paltz


You could hardly ask for three more disparate photographers to represent our area than those speaking at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art this Saturday, September 24 in support of this year’s full-t...

September 22, 2011 12:09 PM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Gary Ampel
Après le deluge

New show by local artists opens this Saturday at Arts Upstairs in Phoenicia


Poor Phoenicia! What a year the Princess of the Central Catskills has had, with four floods muddying its Main Street, its main Bridge Street bridge out of commission because of Irene and a host of ...

September 15, 2011 12:42 PM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jane Byrd Whitehead’s Collected Foxglove
Cool & collected

HVVACC member organizations get joint spotlight at Dorsky Museum exhibit opening next Saturday


“Linking Collections, Building Connections: Work from the Hudson Valley Visual Art Collections Consortium,” a rich new multi-institutional exhibit that has been up at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Ar...

September 08, 2011 01:09 PM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Ella Fitzgerald at the Three Deuces by William Gottlieb (1917-2006); silver gelatin print, 1948 (framed); Dimensions [13”x10”
Bid you welcome

WAAM hosts ninth annual Woodstock Fine Art Auction this Sunday


What makes for a great art auction? Several items, if you ask both veteran auctioneers and the collectors who frequent these increasingly common events in our region. And the ninth annual Woodstock...

September 01, 2011 08:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Alicia Mikles’ If you please
Amphibian underwear

Works by Alicia Mikles at KMoCA among many Kingston art openings this weekend


“I often think my seamstress ancestors would be slightly scandalized by my efforts,” says artist Alicia Mikles of her sewn forms – part lingerie, part amphibian fantasy – that will be part of the t...

September 01, 2011 08:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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