Kingston’s Vanderlyn was the first American artist to study in France, on Aaron Burr’s dime, and the first American artist to show in the Paris Salon — his self portrait.
“Traveling through Woodstock, Saugerties, and Phoenicia, there is no beating the location of this bicycle race.”
Nina Doyle, the Woodstock School of Art’s new executive director, says her management philosophy is simple: to listen and learn.
Katie Epstein’s first memory of her grandparents’ pharmacy and deli, now Hurley Ridge Market, was when she was three. “I was surprised as anyone to find out we were selling to Hannford’s,” she said this week of the announcement she got alongside everyone else at the market on Friday, April 21. “It’s definitely very sad to see this all changing.”
Dave Szish and Scott Wolfson’s story starts in fire and ends in water, with stops in Margaretville and Olive as it saunters towards the Woodstock Farm Festival’s Wednesdays opening May 31.
The new exhibit up at the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum through the month, Abstract Evocative, holds a hundred years of art history on its many surfaces.
After a quick and successful fundraising effort, the arts organization, celebrating its 40th year, bought a building on Glasco Turnpike in which it could house its annual artists-in-residence. And not just any building, but the former home of artist Henry Mattson, built in 1824 and once home to the artist Frank Swift Chase, as well.
An agreement here could be a huge revenue boost for Ulster County.
This year, the town is throwing itself into International Sculpture Day— not just on the official day of April 24, but all month.
“The Quarry Fox: And Other Critters of the Wild Catskills” is an amazing work, as much a clarion call announcing a quietly strong new voice in nonfiction writing and reflection as a key work about this unique region we call home.