Saturday, April 7: By focusing on the relationships that took shape among faculty, students and artists unaffiliated with the college, “Golden Age” tells the story of a small-town scene that would produce art of a significance disproportionate to the town’s and the program’s size.
Saturday, April 7: After nearly 50 years in the music business, Bettye LaVette’s 2005 album I’ve Got My Own Hell to Raise introduced the legendary Detroit-raised R & B vocalist to a wider audience for the first time. It has been red carpets and Grammy nominations ever since.
Friday, April 6: Students from Marist, Bard, Vassar and SUNY-New Paltz come together to present “Kingdom Come: The West African Experience.” What began as the senior project of New Paltz Communications major Nathalie Mensah has blossomed into a much larger unifying initiative.
Friday, April 6: Alex Mazur’s band is fed by a player stream that the Dead itself has drawn from.
Opening on Saturday, April 7: Max’s interest in astronomy drove the development of the “spacy” imagery of his self-described “Cosmic ’60s” period, when his artwork in poster form became a staple of many a dorm-room wall. The pervasive influence of his signature style can be seen in such countercultural iconography of the era as the animation in the Beatles’ film Yellow Submarine.
Saturday, April 7: Opening of “ISDay: Saugerties” exhibition. Throughout April, Saugerties will join hundreds of artists, organizations and institutions in more than 20 countries in celebrating sculpture.
Saturday, April 7: Extraordinary piano music in the woods: The Olive Free Library’s Piano Plus Series continues to situate an incongruously high level of musical programming at the Little Library that Could in the middle of nowhere.
Thursday-Friday, April 12-13: Changing the approach to the presentation of an artist can change the viewer’s mind about who an artist is, says SUNY-New Paltz Art History professor Reva Wolf. “In the case of Warhol, there are certain ideas that we tend to associate with his work. For example, it embraces commerce; he uses repetition; he appropriates existing images; he is drawn to fame…those are probably the main, standard ideas that we associate with Warhol. But his work is extremely rich and has many other dimensions. And these can be brought out in different ways through how his work is exhibited.”
There’s something magical about a map, which lifts us high above a place, revealing a view we could never see from the ground — even though we may know the area well — and linking different localities. Landscape artist Christie Scheele harnesses map magic to deepen our perception of her work and our region in “Atlas/Hudson Valley,” a show that opened at Thompson Giroux Gallery in Chatham last weekend.
Sunday, April 15: The legendary hip hop collective, Grammy-winners, hitmakers and originators of conscious hip hop in the heart of the era of “gangsta” to play Colony.