Woodstock Artists Association & Museum’s recalcitrant members voice concerns
For decades, WAAM member meetings have alternated between dull and uncontentious and fiery emotionality. But they’ve always been open to press coverage. Until last weekend.
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Guild’s Pageant of Inconceivables at Kleinert
One could hardly ask for a better exhibit title than the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild’s Pageant of Inconceivables, a collection of ceramic works “that operate/act as inner portraits rather than solely functional objects” according to curators Portia Munson and Katherine Umsted, opening at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts on Saturday, June 9.
James Cox’s Collector’s Auction runs from ancient to eclectic
Sunday, June 10: Among the two hundred plus pieces being auctioned off Sunday are treasures from several key local collections built up over the last half century and longer, including that of the late Sam Klein, which included a Milton Avery drawing as well as hosts of other renowned local artists, and all the local heirs of Edison’s pal George Meister, which collection includes a Babe Ruth-signed photo of a Phoenicia baseball team, as well as one of the Edison Company’s first light bulbs, which still works.
Belleayre Resort opponents lose in court again
The state’s Appellate Division upheld a local ruling that would allow the construction of the long-planned Catskills resort.
Weber lectures at WAAM on Woodstock Art Colony 1900-1930
Bruce Weber’s Woodstock Art Colony: The Nascent Years 1900-1930 four part lecture series, which will run the first Saturday of each month into September, seeks to demonstrate not only the importance of art in Woodstock’s history, but also the town’s effect on American and world art, via a close look at the scene and the many personable characters who came together here a century ago.
Ed Sanders’ investigative poetry takes on RFK’s final years
Sanders said he chose to write in verse because that had been his original intention with his book on the Manson Family, which was then transformed to prose paragraphs by his typists. After all, it was his own 1975 manifesto that called for poets to again become historians, “as they were in ancient times.”
Linda Montano’s ‘Art/Life Instructions’
Sunday, May 27: Linda Mary Montano: 14 Years of Living Art, a new “220-page portable book/archive” charts the Saugerties’ native’s influential endurance performance art from 1984 to 1998 via the groundbreaking feminist artist’s journal writings, tantric tales, essays and interviews, instructions and “Art/Life instructions.”
Front-porch worlds: Pondering our retreat to back yards and patios
The front porch is a place where the private and public realms intermingle, a microcosm of Republican government. Perhaps the decline of the front porch has exacerbated the fracture of community and social isolation.
Woodstock School of Art wants to keep art non-toxic
Some of the chemicals used in marking art for decades aren’t good for your health.
Geezer Corps takes on a delicate mission: Moving a beloved Woodstock mural
A few days before he and fellow Geezer Corps members Lorin Rose and Jim Hanson were set to release Paul Wesley Arndt’s 32 foot six inch long canvas painting from the Bank of America wall it has made beautiful for decades, town historian Richard Heppner had a slight note of apprehension in his voice.