One of this season’s most exciting art exhibitions is “Power and Politics” at the Ann Street Gallery in Newburgh. It includes paintings, assemblages, sculpture and prints. The strength of the exhibit is a testament to the curatorial talents and vision of Virginia Walsh, who has served as the gallery’s director and curator since its inception in 2006.
Hopefully, next week won’t birth a racist paradise or nuclear war or any more references to Anthony Weiner ever again in modern times (let that be the last one). In case that doesn’t work for you, I do have plenty of good news about upcoming rock ‘n’ roll concerts to whet your appetite for life anew and help you face the days ahead.
Narine’s life’s work can be summed up as demystifying the exotic and making the faraway local.
Headliner singer Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr. is best known for his version of songs of the classic crooners, and especially Frank Sinatra. The $25-a-ticket event, a benefit for the high school’s choir and for a local drug awareness program, will be held November 19.
Founder and lead singer of the Hothouse Flowers to perform in Red Hook, Kingston, Woodstock & Gardiner
The two-month exhibit at Woodstock’s Center for Photography kicks off with a reception Saturday at 6 p.m.
Film review of “Certain Women,” whose characters know what they want, but are too “nice” to go for it. Kelly Reichardt, who teaches at Bard College when she isn’t off shooting a film, says that the stories she tells onscreen are “all about getting from point A to point B, about someone going from stuck to unstuck.”
Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison’s “nature photography” is like none other you’ve seen.
Capitol Steps and Andy Borowitz offer pre- and post-election satire at Bardavon
Chocolate vendors, a skateboard race, a Chocolate Wars dessert-making competition, the Chocolate Olympics at the Red Hook Public library and a theatrical performance at the Chocolate Factory. A horse-drawn haywagon will take folks to and from the village to the Factory at no charge.