“100 for 100” art benefit in Rhinebeck
Saturday, May 12: Beginning at 6:30, numbers will be drawn at random. When your number is called, you choose the artwork that you would like to take home.
Entertainment
Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad at Bearsville
Saturday, May 12: This band combines reggae grooves and gestures with an experimental jam-band aesthetic.
Yale curator Tim Barringer lectures on Thomas Cole in Catskill
Sunday, May 13: Barringer is co-curator of the exhibition “Picturesque and Sublime,” which opened at the Thomas Cole Site on May 1, as well as co-curator of “Thomas Cole’s Journey: Atlantic Crossings” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Local Connections Festival in Rosendale
May 11 to 17: Consisting of screenings of four documentary films and a movie-in-progress, a live tribute concert and a lecture-and-film-clips combo, all but one of the offerings are loosely united under the rubric of “art made in the Hudson Valley.”
Live reading of Nicholas Kahn & Richard Selesnick’s 100 Views of the Drowning World
Saturday, May 19: The artistic duo works in the fields of photography and installation art, specializing in fictitious histories set in the past or future or what Art + Design has described as “cautionary mythology.”
Women’s Studio Workshop to honor Annie O’Neill & Dani ReStack
Sunday, May 20: The Binnewater workshop is a nurturing space where thousands of women (and now men) have been able to show and share their art, and learn hands-on skills like papermaking, screenprinting, bookbinding and ceramics.
Tully wrings wry comedy from the dark underbelly of new motherhood
If you’ve been there, you’ll be grateful to see the postpartum ordeal depicted so grittily and grungily. The film still manages to qualify as a comedy, but without glossing anything over with unearned cuteness.
Tito Puente Jr. to perform at the Ritz in Newburgh
Saturday, May 12: Raised by the greatest and more than just a torchbearer of the family brand.
Erica’s Cancer Journey: One More MRI and I’ll Stick to the Fridge!
People say that it’s what’s on the inside that counts. In my cancer world, these MRIs are one way doctors actually “count” my insides.
Habitat for Artists: A place to work
British sculptor Simon Draper founded the Habitat for Artists movement just as the economy was collapsing in 2007/2008. Starting this week, on May 2 to be precise, its small studio built by a team of local creators returns to the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum for its third season of exciting and diverse community engagement projects set to continue through July 29.