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.
Inspiration by mastication
Thursday, April 12: A former tenant lawyer in Greater Boston’s Latino community, Espada is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He is also the author of more than 20 books as a poet, editor, essayist and translator.
Friday-Saturday, April 13-14: Mount Tremper will play host to Grill’n and Chill’n in the Catskills, at which top pitmasters, celebrity chefs, distillers and outdoor guides will display their skills. Cast-iron and Dutch-oven demos with sampling, jerky-making, open-pit cooking and bourbon-tasting are just a few of the culinary experiences that attendees will be able to enjoy, while contributing to a great cause.
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.”
Philip Roth’s alternate history that imagines Charles Lindbergh winning the 1940 presidential election and allying with Nazi Germany is the choice for this year’s community read.
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.
Opening on April 7: The iconic art of Peter Max defined the psychedelic experience of the 1960s, or at least the broad commercial expression and perception of it.
Turn Out the Lights, the sixth book by Saugertiesian Laura Lonshein Ludwig, promises to contain “a new wave of movies that are as good as the classics of the Gold and Silver Age” on its jacket.