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Kaatsbaan Teases Spring Season Highlights The 153-acre Kaatsbaan Cultural Park in Tivoli will kick off its outdoor spring festival in May. The more than 20 presentations scheduled to hit Kaatsbaan s two outdoor stages include performances by the American Ballet Theatre, the Mark Morris Dance Group, Yannick Lebrun from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; Maria Kowroski, Ask la Cour, and Gonzalo Garcia from the New York City Ballet; pianist Hunter Noack, punk legend Patti Smith; and many more. The multi-disciplinary festival will also feature dance performances, concerts, and panel discussions with poets, authors, and world-renowned culinary artists.
Gospel Music History Series Goes Live
Last Updated: 02/04/2021 3:22 pm Three Pan Goddesses, a painting by Jennifer Coates, will be exhibited at LABspace in Hillsdale as part of the group show The Magic Garden, which runs February 20- April 11. Welcome once again to Chronogram s ongoing overview of area arts-related news during these politically wrought and pandemically plagued times. This month, as we anticipate brighter, safer days, we can take solace in the fact that creativity in the Hudson Valley region is non-stop, always finding new ways to survive and thrive. Peter Aaron
Prepare to Step Aside After 48 years of managing beloved independent movie theater Upstate Films, the business s founders, Steve and DeDe Leiber, who established the enterprise with board president Susan Goldman, have chosen to cede control of the operation to someone else. It was just one of those moments in the making, says Steve about the decision. We ve been ru
Nick Cave’s Truth Be Told installed on the façade of The School in Kinderhook, New York Photo: Courtesy of Nick Cave and Jack Shainman Gallery
The moment of truth arrived in the Hudson Valley village of Kinderhook, New York on Tuesday night, when the zoning appeals board officially acknowledged that Nick Cave’s Truth Be Told installation is art, not an illegal sign a fact already recognised by the art world. The board unanimously agreed that the work, consisting of black vinyl letters measuring 21 feet high and some 160 feet across, placed on the façade of Jack Shainman Gallery’s upstate outpost The School in October and meant to inspire dialogue about racial justice in the wake of the policing killing of George Floyd, is “a political message in art” and not regulatable by village code. They also advised the local board to work with the gallerist Jack Shainman to avoid future conflicts.