Admission to the exhibit is free; but if you need an additional incentive to pay a visit to the Vassar campus, you might also want to check out this year’s annual Krieger Lecture, coming up on Feb. 9. “An Evening with Zadie Smith” will feature the highly influential, award-winning British author reading from recent works, which include the acclaimed novel “Swing Time.”
“I was a red diaper baby,” says Charley Rosen. “My parents passed out pamphlets at subway stations and had their friends over to yell and scream about Trotsky and that. So the book has been in my mind for a long time.”
A reading will be held at the Golden Notebook on Saturday, January 28
“Hudson Valley Writers Resist: Louder Together for Free Expression” will bring a collective of writers and musicians to the Bearsville Theater in Woodstock on Sunday, January 15 – the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., a few days before the inauguration – to celebrate the power of words, compassion, equal rights, free speech, social justice and environmental issues.
The bedrock of the Ridge creates growing conditions for its trees that inspired Scarlett. “In those hundreds of hours hiking the Gunks, I became awed at how life perseveres despite formidable handicaps, how it adapts to adversity and how it succeeds in astonishing ways.”
There is a great story line here — from Pickett’s ambitious ascension through cloying, hard-earned stardom to the tragedies brought on by bad decisions and personal failings to a bottom-hitting denouement.
Nora Scarlett, a serious studio photographer whose portfolio includes work as an assistant to the great Irving Penn and several major advertising agency assignments, is now based in New Paltz. While on a hike in the Shawangunks more than a decade ago, she writes, “I was captivated by a tree that appeared to be kissing a boulder.” That was the inspiration for Scarlett’s first serious departure from studio work: a series of large-format photos that she called “Trunks of the Gunks.”
Two gastro-literary events this Saturday at the Golden Notebook.
Vly-Atwood, known hereabouts as “the Vly,” was a hamlet where people attended school and church, and gathered for social congress. Named from the Middle Dutch word vley or valeye, meaning valley or swamp, the Vly is actually situated in an upland area of the Town of Marbletown, above the buried aqueduct that takes water from the Ashokan Reservoir to New York City, and the Esopus Creek, which flows through a narrow canyon below.
Renato After Alba proceeds in fits and starts, unlike Renato, The Painter, allowing what plot twists there are, and final rising to something life-affirming and almost ethereal, to come about with the naturalness of life’s small elements of life that capture the painter’s attention as he returns to the world, and eventually the art that shaped his life before his partner’s passing.