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Re-place Kahon:ios

by The Staff May 15, 2013

Brookfield Renewable Energy Company’s recent return of 100 acres of sacred land at Cohoes Falls to the Haudenosaunee, League of Iroquois, is celebrated in the new exhibit at the Foundry, Re-place Kahon:ios. A solo exhibit of ...

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Readers’ Poll: Arts

by The Staff March 13, 2013

Best Movie Theater 1. Spectrum 8 Theatres 2. Regal Colonie Center Cinema 13 3. Bow Tie Cinemas Movieland Your love for the Spectrum has only gotten stronger with age: The venerable arthouse won by more than 300 votes this ...

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Mavericks

by The Staff March 6, 2013

Beginning tomorrow (Friday), Albany’s Sorelle Gallery will showcase two artists who “stand apart from the norm,” Ann Larsen and Catherine Minnery. On her website, Larsen explains what she’s doing in her landscapes: “I want my viewers ...

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Art Opening at The Foundry

by Ann Morrow February 28, 2013

Last Friday (Feb. 22), art lovers checked out Paper, Plastic and Concrete, the new exhibit of works by Terry James Conrad, at an opening reception at The Foundry for Art Design + Culture (119 Remsen ...

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Spring Arts Preview

by The Staff February 28, 2013

Pop Music Bearsville Theatre 291 Tinker St., Woodstock, (845) 679-446. March 8: Adam Ezra Group. March 9: Booker T. March 10: Frack Action Benefit featuring Natalie Merchant, John Medeski, Marco Benevento, Tracy Bonham, Jack DeJohnette, Amy Helm, Bethany ...

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Eugene Ludins: An American Fantasist

by The Staff February 14, 2013

This exhibit, opening this weekend at the New York State Museum, shines a light on 20th-century Woodstock artist Eugene Ludins, a painter of “realist and fantastical landscapes, provocative political allegories, and insightful portraits.” Ludins was associated ...

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Some Assembly Required

by The Staff February 14, 2013

According to the exhibit notes, the Albany International Airport Gallery wants you to think of the tradition of making art via collage when you view their latest show, Some Assembly Required: “Today, access to a ...

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Why Hudson?

by The Staff October 17, 2012

House Beautiful How the historic Hudson Opera House paralleled—and propelled—the city’s cultural renaissance The arched entranceway on Warren Street opens into a “grand hall” large enough to hold art exhibits and small performances. Larger performances are held ...

Jerry’s Map

by The Staff October 4, 2012

Visual artist Jerry Gretzinger has been working on his map for 49 years. It began with a doodle, and became a cartographic project of unprecedented imagination. And, beginning today (Thursday), it will be on display ...

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The Eternal Return

by The Staff August 23, 2012

The Eternal Return: Portraits by Stephanie Rose will be the first solo museum exhibition by the acclaimed abstract painter. The show will include 23 portraits of “distinguished poets, novelists, art critics, filmmakers, photographers, performers, art ...

Albany Institute of History & Art

Best of Arts

by The Staff July 19, 2012

Best Arts Complex Proctors 432 State St., Schenectady Quality programming across genres in multiple venues, simultaneously: Proctors set a high standard for themselves, and meet it. Broadway shows, independent and classic cinema, internationally renowned pop, classical, soul, rock ...

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Output Graphics

by The Staff April 12, 2012

Thirty-five years: That’s the anniversary being celebrated in 2012 by one of Albany’s best-loved visual art institutions, Albany Center Gallery. Les Urbach’s downtown art outpost was nurtured not far from the gallery’s current location. And ...

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Paul Hamann: Photography

by The Staff March 29, 2012

Paul Hamann has been experimenting with various size cameras and a variety of photographic and printing formats for over 40 years. The self-taught lensman has sought “clarity and definition” in his pursuit of capturing images ...

John Davis Gallery

Contemplations and Conjectures: 12 Artists

by The Staff March 22, 2012

Contemplations and Conjectures: 12 Artists, the invitational exhibition of contemporary drawing that opened Friday at Skidmore College’s Schick Art Gallery, reflects the current broad definition of “drawing.” The exhibit notes point out that the works range ...

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The Museum Issue

by The Staff March 1, 2012

The Adirondack Museum Blue Mountain Lake might seem like it’s in the middle of nowhere, but what it’s really in the middle of—as in right smack in the middle of, geographically—is the Adirondack Park itself. So ...

Roominations

by The Staff February 22, 2012

Photographer Robert Gullie’s new show at the Clement Art Gallery will, according to the gallery notes, take us “on a tour of his collage and mixed media pieces through a series of rooms which are ...

Clement Art Gallery

Nancy Grossman: Tough Life Diary

by The Staff February 16, 2012

Nancy Grossman: Tough Life Diary The Tang Teaching Museum and Gallery is welcoming spring a little early this year with the opening, this weekend, of multiple exhibits. Nancy Grossman: Tough Life Diary draws from 50 years’ worth ...

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Irish American Heritage Museum

by The Staff January 12, 2012

The only museum of its kind in the country, the Irish American Heritage Museum spent its first quarter of a century being open only in the summer, at its seasonal site in a hamlet in ...

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Temple of Fancy: Pease’s Great Variety Store

by The Staff November 16, 2011

Men in hats, crinolines, cravats, tin toys, rainbow-whorled candy sticks: Things just aren’t as fancy today. But the Albany Institute of History & Art invites you to step back in time and through the doors ...

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Frame Story: The Narrative Within

by The Staff September 28, 2011

This month’s exhibit in the main gallery at the Saratoga County Arts Council investigates and honors sacrifice and work through photographs by Emma Dodge Hanson and Roy W. Stevens. Stevens’ images capture the “beauty and artistry ...

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Fall Arts Listings

by The Staff September 15, 2011

Pop Music Bearsville Theater 291 Tinker St., Woodstock, (845) 679-4406. Sept. 26: the Bruce Katz Band. Sept 30: Bearsville Session #4—Motown. Oct. 3: Kate Taylor. Oct. 10: Jay Collins and the Kings County Band. Oct. 14: Stephen Stills. ...

First in the Hearts of His Countrymen

by The Staff August 25, 2011

After leading a revolutionary army to victory, he retired to a farm. When his country’s first system of government failed, he could have heeded calls to become king; he settled for two terms as an ...

Albany Institute of History & Art

In Time

by The Staff August 3, 2011

The Spa City is in full summer swing, and Saratoga arts are no exception. Amid the bustle of hats and harness racing, the latest offering at the Arts Center Gallery examines “the loss and gain ...

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Inside View

by Liz O'Connell July 20, 2011

A View From the Backstretch, the new photography exhibit at the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, turns the tables on traditional racing photography. The exhibiting artists are racing’s backstretch ...

From the Collections

by The Staff July 14, 2011

Did you know that an 1836 survey of New York state’s animals, plants and geology was one of the origins of the New York State Museum? To celebrate the ensuing 175 years of cataloging and ...

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