After years of hosting their annual holiday art and craft fair at the New Paltz Middle School, followed by a two-year run on the SUNY New Paltz campus, Unison Arts Center is bringing the fair home this year, holding the 28th annual holiday Craft, Art and Design Fair at their 68 Mountain Rest Road headquarters in New Paltz over the weekend of Saturday and Sunday, December 1-2 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.
Artist Mary Anna Goetz and her gallerist husband Jim Cox met in her native Oklahoma, a state that’s long haunted their lives with its pure Americana and reflection of deep national mysteries. This past summer, the couple headed west for an exploratory field trip of genealogical and wider historical research, painting, and mindful rumination about what’s gone into creating our current country.
Friday-Sunday, Nov. 30- Dec. 2: The Ulster Ballet Company decided to buck the Nutcracker trend 24 years ago and offer audiences an alternative, bringing to life in dance a timeless tale of how greed can stunt the human spirit.
Ever so quietly, a fairly new Woodstock gallery — Collective — has been gaining audience and buzz around town through enterprising exhibitions and events, and a keen sense of purpose that fits the shifting ethos of our times like a glove.
4 by Ives runs for two more weekends at Woodstock’s Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Road. Performance dates are: Fridays and Saturdays November 23, 24, 30, and December 1 at 8 p.m.; Sundays November 25, and December 2 at 1:30 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 24: I am not here to tell their story, but rather to argue that in some ways, the Monkees may have achieved rock’s ultimate band authenticity and its most genuinely subversive narrative.
Saturday, Nov. 24: Evening features Jesse Royal, Kabaka Pyramid and Bread Doe, as well as DJ Sterling with an after-show set.
First port of call for Sinterklaas: Kingston takes the place of Spain | Adventure Lab, Peter Rabbit puppet theater and great crafts at Olana.
“People would say, ‘Why do you have five portraits by Eugene Speicher?’ Little did they know I had 20!”
Sunday, Nov. 25: The man who has accounted for over 350,000,000 YouTube views is also one of the few comedians to have sold out Madison Square Garden in New York and the Staples Center in Los Angeles.