Taylor Swift at Long Pond, Aaron Dessner s Columbia County studio and residence. In September, Swift, Jack Antonoff, and Dessner assembled there to tape Folklore: The Long Pond Sessions, a documentary about the making of Swift s multiple-Grammy-nominated lockdown album. Welcome again to Mixed Media, wherein we showcase cultural news from within and around the Hudson Valley during these times of COVID-19. Although the impact of the virus has necessitated putting in-person events on hold, artists and arts organizations continue to make and present new work online and in other creative new ways. As we all anticipate the re-emergence of more in-person events, here is some of what has been going on recently in the regional arts community.
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
by Ethan Andrews
select Tobias Czudej holds his phone with images of âsaltwaterfarmâ in front of the destroyed sculpture.
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3 An early December wind storm not the last one, but the one before predictably broke tree limbs, knocked out power and so forth. It also toppled a monolithic sculpture of 5,264 plastic egg cartons built by Brooklyn-based artist Carlos Reyes in a Quonset hut on a back road in Searsport.
The piece, titled “saltwaterfarm,” was the centerpiece of the third iteration of Waldo, a nonprofit art residency and exhibition program founded by Tobias Czudej in 2018 as a vehicle for experimental exhibitions of new artworks.