Activists: VDER plan a death star to solar in New York
A new state plan that often pays solar panel owners less for excess electricity should be dumped, activists say.
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Head of steam: Harris Diamant retrospective in High Falls
Opening Saturday, September 1: Diamant’s Steampunk sensibility reflects a fascination with 19th-century mechanics, scientific charts and the aesthetic mysticism of the Odd Fellows and ancient Egyptians.
Mary Frank looks at the world without blinking
Mary Frank describes the subject matter of her latest body of her work, much of it exhibited at a new show at Elena Zang Gallery titled “Refuge,” as about “evolution and de-evolution. For me, everything is about returning to origins.”
Linda Weintraub’s eye for activism
“Since new vanguards emerge in quick succession, my career choice has allowed me to track several generations of art pioneers.”
Army Corps of Engineers mulls massive plan to protect NYC from storm surges
It’s being presented as vital to protect New York Harbor from the expected increasing intensity of storms in an age of worsening climate change. But according to local environmentalists, the Army Corps of Engineers’ plan to build a system of off-shore barriers and land-based dykes would have adverse effects on the Hudson River’s ecology.
A Woodstock parking lot becomes an art installation
Artist Jesse Lee Wilson and two assistants created The River, wheeling chalk dust over nearly an acre of parking lot in Woodstock. Wilson based his piece on a single line copied from a topographical map of Kaaterskill Falls, a site that inspired the Hudson River School of landscape painters.
T Space gallery and trails in Rhinebeck now open to the public on Sundays
T Space has showcased the work of such art-world heavyweights as Martin Puryear, Richard Artschwager, Ai Weiwei and Carolee Schneemann.
The big plans of Barry Benepe
One of the founders of NYC’s wildly successful Greenmarket (as well as the one in Saugerties), the architect/urban planner sowed the seeds of a green revolution.
Frohawks & funk
Lee Patterson runs Kingston’s Master Cuts Barbershop by day, Room Service band by night.
Reviving the Colonial Revivalist
William B. Rhoads’ new book & exhibition about Charles S. Keefe puts the Kingston architect back on the historical map. The Friends of Historic Kingston will offer a self-guided driving tour of 15 Keefe buildings, so you can check out Keefe’s architecture for yourself.