The Orchestra Now plays Beethoven at Bard
Saturday/Sunday, Feb. 8/9: The celebration concludes with one of the master’s most famous works, his heroic Symphony No. 3, “Eroica.”
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Trailblazing journalist Ruth Gruber’s photographs on view in New Paltz
Opening Saturday, Feb. 8: She accompanied a convoy of ships carrying nearly a thousand Holocaust refugees from Naples to New York, where they would live until the end of the war at an Army camp in Oswego.
Driver, Johansson square off brilliantly in Marriage Story
Best to keep your eyes on the two leads here, as they circle, retreat from and attack one another in the center of the bullring that is a disintegrating marriage. In fact, you’ll find it hard to look away.
Kaatsbaan hosts voguing lectures and Love Is Love Ball
Thursday/Friday, Feb. 13/14: The Kaatsbaan Cultural Park for Dance observes Valentine’s Day with a two-day extravaganza of voguing, scholarship and practice.
James Keepnews brings visionaries to the shores of the Hudson
James Keepnews of Elysium Furnace Works is one of the region’s most energetic and least discouraged advocates for some kinds of music that we can’t seem to agree on a name for.
Climate Action Film Fest comes to Upstate Films
Wednesday, Feb. 12 and Sunday, Feb. 16: It’s the first festival of its kind exclusively featuring storytelling around solutions, rather than simply the impacts of climate change.
For the Deadbeats, the music never stops
If your soul aches for the expansive freedom of noshing on falafel and twirling barefoot under the stars on a grassy field at a Dead show, you’re not alone. And you might want to check out the schedule of performances for Hudson Valley’s longtime popular Grateful Dead cover band, The Deadbeats.
Bierhal’s show highlights openings at WAAM
Otto Bierhals: A German-American Artist in Woodstock — curated by art historian Bruce Weber and set to fill WAAM’s Phoebe and Belmont Towbin Wing, with an opening 4 p.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, February 1 and running through May 10 — is the artist’s first solo show since 1938, featuring 40 works that span the German-born painter’s growth from a young art student through his years of modest critical and sales success, during which he and his artist wife Agnes lived in Northern New Jersey for most of each year, but spent over 20 summers in Woodstock, most of them in a home on Mill Hill Road where Mud Club bagel shope now exists.
Get set to celebrate Beethoven’s 250th birthday
Not content to be an heir or even the perfection of a tradition, middle-period Beethoven is associated with the Heroic impulse: the expansive, formal grandeur of art that really, really wants to matter. And of course, that bid worked out pretty well. Every symphonic composer thereafter had to answer directly to Beethoven’s nine in the same way that every rock band answers to the Beatles, even if the answer is no.
Yard Owl, Upstairs on 9 top Local Ingredient Chili Challenge in New Paltz
Sunday afternoon’s weather was cloudy, with temperatures in the 40s: not too cold to hang out outdoors for a few hours, but definitely chilly enough to spur appetites for warming samples of the spicy concoctions.