September 28 – 30: Handcrafts start at $5, paintings at $50. All purchases are 50% tax deductible. Sales directly support the livelihoods of literally hundreds of artists, and proceeds further benefit numerous programs in Chermaitre—a mountain village in Haiti unreachable by road.
Saturday, September 29: Featured events include open studios, readings and performances by Byrdcliffe’s artists-in-residence and a tour of White Pines, the beautiful 1902 Arts & Crafts home of Byrdcliffe’s founders.
Saturday, Sept. 29: Bid on contemporary and classic photographs by Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, Cornell Capa, Kenro Izu, Vivian Maier, Mary Ellen Mark, Weegee and more, as well as a portrait session with Elliott Landy.
Sunday, September 30: The New York City jazz guitarist Ben Monder was already the owner of a humming 30-plus-year career as leader and sideman when he was tapped by David Bowie to be one of the featured voices in the ensemble that made Bowie’s arrestingly strange final album, Blackstar. When Bowie taps, you fall down. He was the Miles Davis of rock — with feelers on every street corner looking for the first signs of fresh new things to borrow and glom upon.
Friday, September 28: “Doors & More” band Feast of Friends joins forces with the long-running New Paltz-born “Dead & More” Deadbeats for a night of experimental nostalgia and some of the most classic and transgressive rock ever committed to tape.
Michelle Mayans of Kid Scoop Media organized the following, which is two reviews of what would normally be thought of as a “grown-up restaurant” by Kingstonians Olivia Reeder, 14, and Charlie Grenadier, 12. It’s always interesting to get the perspectives of young people on stuff, as they’re far less inhibited and far more likely to point out things that might not occur to adults.
Sept. 28-30: From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, the 26 participating artists will either have their own studios open to the public, or be exhibiting their work collectively in pop-up galleries or other spaces on loan for the tour.
One of the Hudson Valley’s most prominent and powerful voices in the civil rights movement, the Rev. Dr. G. Modele Clarke, minister and leader at New Progressive Baptist Church, has written a new book, his second.
The buttons, designed by artist Mary Frank, display the word “Truth” emblazoned across the flaming torch of the Statue of Liberty, and Frank has sold enough of them to raise $10,000 for Planned Parenthood.
The second-best ice cream in New York State can be found, albeit with some difficulty, in an alleyway off Partition Street in Saugerties.