Comic strip fans of all generations will have the unique opportunity to check out the history of the genre at the Ellenville Public Library and Museum and meet our own hometown cartoonist at the opening reception on Saturday, August 3.
Aug. 3: The scope and density of this one-day affair defies easy description. It is full of exhibits; serious talks by serious artists; five hours of world-class international dance in and around barn; live music with a hip, global, and Bacchanalian bias; and general pageantry executed at the visual and conceptual level one would expect from an artist’s colony.
For its fifth annual Celebration of the Arts, to be held on Saturday, Aug. 3, the nonprofit group Midtown Arts District (MAD) is doing something different: an all-day series of interactive workshops — an expo of the arts, if you will — at the Kingston Center of SUNY Ulster, located in the former Sophie Finn elementary school at 94 Mary’s Ave.
Saturday, Aug. 3: The popular earthy Boston-area college rock band known for, among other things, beating the crap out of bongos, has just released a record that is not only largely electronic, but exquisitely so.
Fort Worth native Peter More is a polymath of roots rock, ultra-competent, fluent in regional dialects and sensitive to sound of the eras, observationally astute and emotionally anchored. He rocks, grooves, swoons, waltzes and whispers with the kind of offhand authority that his genre reveres. He can even turn a tune with a wonderfully rustic Samba or Afro-Cuban flair.
Michael Lang tossed in the towel on his Woodstock 50 dream on July 31 after a tumultuous week in which he was turned down for permits at Vernon Downs Racetrack & Casino in central New York, announced a move to the 52-year old Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland, halfway between Baltimore and Washington, D.C, then said the festival would be free, and finally saw most of the engaged artists pull out.
In the seven years since Sevan Melikyan opened Wired Gallery in High Falls, he’s become known in these parts as
July 26-Aug.4: An allegorical tale about the destruction of a dictatorship by a woman, with a libretto by Hans Müller-Einigen inspired by an Expressionist mystery play by Hans Kaltneker, The Miracle of Heliane is set in an unnamed totalitarian state where an intricate erotic triangle develops among a ruthless despot, the Ruler; his beautiful wife Heliane, with whom he has yet to consummate his marriage; and a young, messianic Stranger.
Aug. 2-4: This year’s Festival will host internationally acclaimed performers and composers in a series of open-air summer concerts at seven venues conveniently within walking distance.
On view through August: Ever since she was a child, when she would go on summer road trips with her family, Mary Anne Erickson has been photographing roadside attractions and collecting souvenirs and memorabilia from the motels, restaurants and mom-andpop tourist sites she visited.