INSIDE: Raleigh on Film; Bethune on Theatre; Behrens on Music; Seckel on Culture & Travel; Hendler on the Long Island Art Scene; Lille on Dance; Reviews: “Degas & Music” at The Hyde Collection; “Art & The River” at the Samuel Dorsky Museum; Speak Out: Donald A. Windsor on Art & Craft; Mark Callaghan on pleasures & dangers of mimesis; New Art Books; Short Fiction & Poetry; Extensive Calendar of Events…and more! ART TIMES Vol. 26 No. 2 September/October 2009 Travel and Culture Québec & Montréal By Cornelia Seckel Raymond and I had been thinking exhibition, thus engaging an even from what I can tell about going to Montréal and Québec larger population to come and view the it is limited to an City for several years and with all show. open studio tour of the other traveling and working for I have been speaking with Bev work — this year, ART TIMES a “vacation” wasn’t top Saunders of bjsartworks Framing work inspired by the of the list. So when we got a call from Gallery Studio at the Shirt Factory Hyde Collection’s Montréal Tourism about a visit to in Glens Falls for over a year and it Summer of Degas the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, was a pleasure to meet and see her and Music and takes I jumped at the chance not only to see excellent pastels as well as the work place August 1st & Montréal but also to visit Québec City. of the four other artists in her gallery/ 2nd — not unusual According to my mother I had been to frame shop before she gave me a tour for a group of creative Montréal as a 3-year-old and for about of the ‘factory’. We visited several people. For more three minutes I cried in frustration at of the over 40 studios that house information: http:// not being able to understand the other artists, craftspeople, photographers, www.shirtfactorygf. children then quickly adjusted and filmmakers, dance studios, the com began communicating as all children Adirondack Pastel Society (Bev We arrived do through play. was the co-founder), a co-op gallery in Québec City So off to Canada, stopping in and other art-related businesses. and stayed at the Glens Falls for a visit to The Hyde Classes are offered here for dance, delightful Hôtel Collection and the Shirt Factory. pottery, music, and art. Speaking with Le Priori www. Raymond has a review of the exhibit a few of the tenants, they spoke highly hotellepriori.com, at the Hyde collection, “Degas and of the atmosphere of working while just blocks from Music”, so I will only make a few having other creative people around to the St Lawrence comments. As the exhibit is about socialize with. I was able to meet Dave River. Outside of Degas and his relationship with music Francis, PSA, and see his excellent our window we could there was a small area blocked off pastels; Russell Serrianne and his see the watermarks where a slide show with images of the intricate sculptures made of wild grape (in rippled design painting and the information about the tendrils; Kirs Moss’s very different dark brick) of the St musicians that influenced the painting fabric art; and Adela Tavares’ large Lawrence tidewater were projected on a screen while portrait paintings. This was a working from 1600, 1700 and then 1800. Our first One of many Murals relating the history of Québec City to be found in Old Québec evening we explored the area around our hotel where many galleries, fine shops, part in the first expedition to go up restaurants and hotels were located. the St. Lawrence; and then thought Nearby were souvenir shops, more of establishing the future colony in restaurants, and many other stores Trois-Rivières (south of Québec City). with the work of local artists and Finally, during a new mission for the craftspeople. As we were within the purpose of establishing a residential walled city (Old Québec) there were base along the river, Champlain chose many historic murals, plaques and the detroit of Kebec (Québec) where he stories in the area. The St. Lawrence built his first house in July 1608. The River played a fundamental role in the St-Lawrence River is one of the most history of Canada and Québec. From important rivers in North America. Its the 17th century, the establishment source is the Great Lakes leading out of the fur trade marked a turning to a vast estuary and the Gulf of St. point in North America’s history. In Lawrence to finally empty itself into 1603 Samuel de Champlain took Continued on Page 10
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both. The focus and themes of "Last theater world. His last career was as my statement noting that "Raymond Letters Tango" were quite another matter and the director of the theater program at Steiner speaks for me." I have some profoundly psychological. No one talks Colgate University. His heart always To the Publisher: pieces in a London gallery now and about Brando's nudity any more; they belonged to musical theater and to in- Thanks for all the updated info on ART the catalogue includes a statement do talk about the subject of the film. novation in the theater and to Brecht TIMES. I really love your newspaper that was done in a big rush to meet We have come a long way. Although it and Beckett. — it is a vital source of art information a deadline but makes no sense to me. is valuable to remember the context of maybe we should all look at our- for me, especially for the local events One reason I'd like to be well-known is the times and how both innovative and selves naked. and arts opportunities. I always look that someone else wlll write the state- subversive Oh! Calcutta! was in 1969. I hope you do not take my comments forward to getting the newest issue. ment. Jacques Levy was a PhD. in Psychol- amiss. One always hopes that art en- Thanks. Thank you for all your provocative ogy. His career before Off Broadway genders real conversation. Michael X. Rose articles and particularly the one on the (and later Broadway) was at the Men- Claudia Can- Levy Bruynswick, NY artist's statement. ninger Foundation. He left the field for 478 West Broadway #2A Sylvia Mendel the theater. I could say he never looked New York, New York 10012 To the Editor: NYC, NY back but that would not be true. He I read [Robert W. Bethune’s] "thoughts (Editors Note: Robert W. Bethune wrote extensively about nudity and its on Stage Nudity" in the May issue of has addressed Ms Can-Levy’s re- effect on actors and acting, and its place "Art Times" during class at the Art marks in his current theatre piece in drama. Oh! Calcutta! required an Keep in Mind that there are Students League we were all drawing in this issue.) intelligent and skilled director; it was additional Calendar listings nudes. I was struck by that irony and not easy for actors to take everything also by the fact that the very day I read To the Editor: and resources on our website off and appear naked before the world. your piece I had made a reservation Many months ago I read your article at www.arttimesjournal.com There were terrific actors whose work to attend the 40th year reunion of the on artists' statements. I've felt self- should not be denigrated; talk about cast of Oh! Calcutta! My late husband conscious and egotistical talking about emotionally naked! Jacques Levy, directed and conceived myself in the way that seems neces- oh! Calcutta! was ground breaking Art …………3, 5, 12, 13, 15 the production which was devised by sary for competitions and some shows for many reasons and should not be ca- Ken Tynan. The contributors were: — absurd! But since they are expected Art Book Review ………16 sually dismissed. I must say your piece Samuel Beckett, Jules Feiffer, Dan I complied – always uncomfortably. The Calendar of Events ……4 was perplexing to me. I wonder how the Greenberg, John Lennon, Jacques only helpful guideline was the length remarkable people I have known who Classifieds ……………22 Levy, Leonard Melfi, Robert Benton required by each juried competition, contributed to it would feel. I am eager Culturally Speaking……6 and David Newman, Edna O'Brien, show or catalogue. Requirement of a to see them in June. I am certain there Dance …………………9 Sam Shepard, Ken Tynan and Sher- 100-word statement for one submission will be much to talk about. I regret that man Yellen. Beyond nudity there were — as someone said of impending death, Editorial ……………2, 3, 5 Jacques will not be there. very interesting people who wrote the "mightily focuses the mind." Fiction …………………23 If you do not know Jacques Levy's more recently I've discovered that skits — and really I think people did Film ……………………21
work I can only say that he was, at a Contents pay attention. It wasn't just stripping the positive aspect of these statements crucial time in the theater, an inno- Letters……………………2 that kept the play running for years. is the journey they've forced me to vator and an iconoclast. He won two much was written about Oh! Cal- make. With each work in each show Music……………………17 Obies, worked with Joe Chaikin and cutta!: Look Magazine, Time Magazine, I've come closer to the reasons for why Opportunities …………20 the Open Theater directed early by The New York Times, etc., etc. It was I make art. I've also come closer to Peeks & Piques! ………2 Sam Sheppard, later wrote with Roger discussed on Johnny Carson. In large accepting the unknowns in what I do. McGuinn and had a platinum record Poets’ Niche ……………20, 21 part the discussion did center around So, when viewers ask — and you know with Bob Dylan. The music in Oh! Speak Out………………3, 5 nudity but became involved in far they do ask that question, "What does Calcutta! was really good. He wrote more than some people taking off their it mean?" I can give the hackneyed Theatre …………………19 the lyrics to "Fame, The Musical". He clothes. It was an entertainment about answer – what does it mean to you? In Travel and Culture ……1 was and still is much respected in the sex and erotica and our attitudes about two shows I posted your article next to Sept/Oct 2009 ART TIMES page 3 Speak Out Faking it in Shenzhen: By MARK CALLAGHAN In China everythi ng is produced the pleasures and dangers of mimesis on an industrial scale, even art. In the city of Shenzhen, just north of Hong pink-skinned grinning portraits were Kong, thousands of factories make more compelling than the selection counterfeit clothing, cheap electri- of Van Goghs primarily because the cal goods, and Monets by the million. freshness of the paint – that undeni- Yes, that’s Monets. Or Van Goghs, able newness – was not a detraction Rembrandts, Leonardos, or Michelan- from authenticity. Minjun’s work is, gelos, if you prefer. In fact, just name after all, fresh and new. Last sum- it; it can be painted; it can be copied mer, in Sotheby’s London gallery, I stroke-by-stroke, gesture-by-gesture saw the original paintings with an es- to form a remarkable mimesis. Chi- timated price of £600,000 ($980,000). na’s premier manufacturing hub has Jia’s versions can be purchased from 800 art dealers, producing 5 million $37 and if you want the precise scale pictures a year, which accounts for of the original that will be a mere $72. 60% of the world’s oil paintings. 85% Most disturbingly, the difference be- of these images are fakes, or ‘repli- tween the original and the mass-pro- cas’, as the artists refer to them. The duced copy is unidentifiable, perhaps artists are mostly fine art graduates, even to the artist himself. making a decent living from their rep- Shenzhen’s prolific fakery has lication skills and enjoying a previ- roused complaints from artists and ously unthinkable prosperity. Some their estates. In response, the gov- paintings are pathetic attempts to ernment introduced intellectual prop- than real (hyper-real) and we may but if fame is the pre-requisite for a mirror the original; others, however, erty rites preventing galleries from come to prefer it. In Shenzhen’s case, purchase of this kind, then perhaps are of startling museum quality, rais- selling copies of works by any living the Shanzhais are creating the illu- Dafen Oil Painting Village will attain ing issues of authenticity, intellectual painter. Clearly this has not been en- sion of authenticity but it is a shared its own fame – or infamy – given time. property rites, the concept of hyper- forced with any conviction. According fantasy between artist and buyer. It is plausible that Dafen’s increasing reality, and whether the value of the to Jia, the Piracy Squad pays a visit No one believes a genuine Van Gogh notoriety could create its own brand; a replica should be re-assessed. Either “once a month or so” and has confis- is available here; the strength of the symbol of inferiority to some, a stamp way, through this indefatigable repro- cated paintings that violate the rules, icon protects it. No one could claim of quality to others, but a brand all duction, art is being mined from what including some Yue Minjun’s. She with sincerity that their Van Gogh is the same. happened only once. is coy on the subject, smiling when the Van Gogh. The danger, then, is Whilst browsing the galleries, one after breast-stroking through I suggest that a freshly painted Yue not concerning the old masters per has to wonder if the original works are Shenzhen’s polluted air, Dafen Oil Minjun can be executed before the say, but rather contemporary art- not being devalued by this production Painting Village appears like a sanc- Piracy Police have even returned to ists. Though Yue Minjun’s valuations line? In terms of monetary value per- tuary. A giant hand raises an impres- Shenzhen’s overwhelming smog. remain impressive, the more savvy haps not. But can one really look at sive paintbrush to the sky; a replica “Does it affect the sale of the origi- Dafen painter could target the work Van Gogh’s Sunflowers as an artwork Venus de Milo guards the car park. nal?” Jia asks defensively. Judging of artists on the cusp of international anymore? Surely the official range of Dafen is not about taste, then, it is from Yue Minjun’s valuations it would fame rather than those already reach- merchandise, from bags to umbrel- about business; it is about servicing seem not. I do, however, wonder about ing for the pinnacle. Speculations on las, mouse-mats to coffee cups, has the hotels of Macau, the casinos of reproduction prints and whether the next rising star could therefore al- altered our response to this particu- Las Vegas, and the fantasies of those Shenzhen’s multiple replications are ter the dynamics of the contemporary lar masterpiece by the sheer inculca- wishing to own a masterpiece. With affecting a long-standing legitimate art market, with Shenzhen being the tion of commercial reproductions. Its sales doubling since 2005, Dafen Oil business? Bear in mind that a Dafen hypocenter for that flux. cultic value has increased at the det- Painting Village is a commercial suc- painting can be viewed on-line, con- Wei Xue Mei is the owner of Hen- riment of its original conception. It cess, if a questionable moral one. firmed by e-mail, and dispatched with gyixuan Painting, a shop that like so may possess what Walter Benjamin The ethical dilemma is present at expediency. There is no need to visit many in Shenzhen is modest in size described as ‘an aura’, whilst losing every turn. Diligent art graduates China and wade through Shenzhen’s but impressive in output. Outside the its aesthetic meaning to the majority work fourteen-hour days using kara- furry air to select a masterpiece. In shop a wall of eclectic images exem- of viewers. A resurrected Van Gogh, oke brush techniques to create fakes, fact, the majority of visitors are local plify the customer’s range of interests enacting a Christ-in-the-Temple show or in Cantonese – Shanzhais. Sadly, to the province of Guangdong rather and the artist’s subsequent ability to of despondency, is more likely to rav- these works also illustrate the artist’s than buyers from abroad. “Wouldn’t meet those demands. Be it photo-re- age the high-priced souvenir products pedantry, their role in China’s head- it be more satisfying to produce and alism, twee landscapes, or ubiquitous than the accurate reproductions of la- long rush for riches where original- sell your own work?” I ask. Jia imme- images of Mao Zedong, Wei and her boring artists. However, in terms of ity is secondary. The artist needs to diately points to her original pictures fellow graduate Qiang, can paint, fakery, the old masters occupy a safe- make a living; their customers need that hang alongside the Yue Minjun package, and deliver, your request ty zone. The artists of Shenzhen may an affordable Van Gogh and a tactile copies. Familiar with the question, within seven days. With average pric- produce their Sunflowers atom by one at that. Graduates of non-artis- she is quick on the draw. “If I sold only es of just $34, business is good, and atom but the provenance of a master- tic fields generally produce the lesser my paintings I would have no living. I for a brief moment a move away from piece will be the undeniable – and ul- fakes but they still sell; there is still a would make no money. I am like Van replication can be observed – at least timately invaluable – difference. The living to be made, even if your trade is Gogh! Nobody will buy my pictures to some extent. I cannot resist the challenge to the contemporary artist in meretricious art. until I die!” Barack Obama portrait that hangs is distinctly different though. The Jia Jun Pen is the owner of the Wandering around this McDonald’s just beneath the Mao Zedong on the sangfroid of Shenzhen’s production Guang Sheng Oil Painting Gallery. of the art world, I am mindful of theo- outer wall. “That is our most popular”, line may threaten the contemporary This is her fifth year in Dafen, and retical debates concerning the ‘copy’. confirms Wei. “We sell Obama to ev- art market in ways yet to be realized. despite the credit crunch, business From Plato to Walter Benjamin, the eryone: Americans, British, Chinese, The Yue Minjun fakes were not the from American and UK customers copy has played a notable role in art and Germans too.” It is an original of equivalent of knock-off Gucci watches continues to thrive. Her paintings theory; derided by some, respected sorts, taken from a photograph with with their mechanical faults and their are mostly Monets and Van Goghs, by others, but never ignored. It has the suggestion of Lady Liberty behind. cheap materials. In the right hands, displayed in an outer corridor like an been the subject of huge controversy, Inside the shop, Qiang is close to com- paint is paint, and the result can be alfresco Musee d’Orsay. Van Gogh re- with infamous simulations duping pleting Ingres’ The Grand Odalisque indistinguishable. Why pay six-figure mains Jia’s “number one best seller”. the experts, and in the case of Han – a request from an American client. sums for something that can be pur- So the artist who famously sold just Van Meergeren, a series of would-be Using just a postcard image to copy chased – with no discernable differ- one picture in his lifetime (The Red Vermeer’s that swindled the Nazi’s. from, it is eerily close to the master- ence – for a fraction of the cost? And Vineyard, notably absent in Dafen) is It also links art to the philosophic piece. The replication is startling and if someone wants to believe that a reproduced with painstaking accuracy concept of hyper-reality, that dysto- causes me to consider the talent of the picture is an original work of art, like on an industrial scale. When I enquire pian world of author Philip K. Dick graduates and whether original work an artistic placebo effect, is that really about Van Gogh’s rival in this posthu- where authenticity and the counter- should not be pursued instead? “We such a bad thing? mous corridor for deceased rejects, her feit become indistinguishable. As the have tried” confirms Wei, “but they response is surprising. “That’s Yue post-modernists maintain, sometimes (Mark Callaghan lives in Shepshed, don’t sell. People want what is already Leicestershire, England © 2009) Minjun, the Beijing artist”. Minjun’s the fake is so real, it becomes realer famous”. The evidence supports this, ef Sept/Oct 2009 ART TIMES page 4 Because our Calendar of Events is prepared a month in advance dates, times and events are subject to change. Please call ahead IN CELEBRATION Red Eft Gallery, 159 Sullivan St., Wurtsboro, NY (845) 888-2519 (thru Calendar to insure accuracy. 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Wicks Fine Art Gallery, 468 B’way, 2nd Floor, WALKER EVANS: Carbon & Silver Fenimore Art Museum, Lake Road, Route 80, Cooper- Saratoga Springs, NY (518) 573-8017 Opening Reception 6:30-10pm (thru Sep 10) Saratoga stown, NY (888) 547-1450 charge (thru Oct 12) Oswego AMERICAN YOUTH Fovea, 143 Main St., Beacon, NY (845) 765-2199 (thru Nov 9) Dutchess WILL KEFAUVER: Autumn Walks Teatown Lake Reservation, 1600 Spring Valley Rd., ARLENE HORTON: Paintings of Cats New Century Artist Gallery, 530 W. 25th St, Suite Ossining, NY (914) 762-9212 (thru Oct 31) Westchester 406, NYC (212) 367-7072 (thru Sep 26) www.arlenehorton.com NYC WILLIAM ROPP: Children galerie bmg, 12 Tannery Brook Rd., Woodstock (845) 679-0027 ARTE LATIONO EXHIBITION Smithtown Township Arts Council, Mills Pond House, 660 (thru Sep 7) Ulster Continued on Page 8 Rte 25A, St. James (631) 862-6575 (thru Sep 23) www.stacarts.org Suffolk BERENICE ABBOTT’S CHANGING NEW YORK Crossroads Gallery, New York State Museum, Madison Avenue, Albany, NY (518) 486-3696 (thru Oct 4) Albany BUDDY (Bert) GLASSBERG: A Group Exhibit Tribute The Bean Runner Gallery, 201 S. 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Advertise in the Metropolitan NY region for Country Prices!! ART TIMES (845) 246-6944 Sept/Oct 2009 ART TIMES page 7 established artists to display and sell of regional youth; Radio by Writ- their work. Artists must be chosen by ers and the production of audio and the organization of which they are a video programs of established and member in order to participate. I was emerging poets and writers who have intrigued with Michael P. Nolte’s participated in the BHP/WT programs sculptures called Extreme Recycling and home for the New York State Lit- — old tools that have been worked into erary Web Site and Map, developed identifiable little critters. The pastels and administered by Bright Center in of Diane Richards were equal to partnership with the New York State many of the pastels I see each year at Council on the Arts. This site (www. the Pastel Society of America (com- nyslittree.org) has every library, liter- ing up, incidentally, in September at ary group, book store, small press, the National Arts Club, NYC). living and deceased writers, literary Raymond was asked to give a magazines and literary organizations reading from his novel The Mountain in New York State. The site, visited by at Word Thursday at the Bright Hill over 40,000 visitors a month, is liter- Center in Treadwell, NY, a bi-month- ally the Gateway to Literary New York ly program with invited guests and and there is a Literary Map of New an open mike. The other invited guest York State distributed throughout was Melanie Maria Goodreaux the state and available from Bright A scene from Puccini's “Gianni Schicchi” at the Altamura Summer Music Festival, of NYC, a poet, playwright, actress, Hill Press. Their new location is a Roundtop, NY held exhibitions wherever space was tion for the festival) gave a sampling available in Kent. In that year the As- of Puccini’s arias and his one act sociation acquired a two-story colonial opera, Gianni Schicchi. The singers house on South Main Street (Route 7) performed in this relatively informal where they have done considerable setting (some in jeans, others in for- renovating to create the intimate gal- mal wear) and Leonard Altamura, lery spaces on both the main and top co-founder, gave commentary about floors that are in full use today. The the opera and aria we were about to President’s Show was hanging and hear. Maestro Anton Coppola has been I was pleased to see so much fine work. the musical consultant, juror, conduc- The top prize— The Dines Carlsen tor and principal teacher of the “En- Medal of Merit for Best In Show, counter with the Masters” program went to Scott Bricher for his oil designed by Carmella Altamura. In painting "Slant Six". Congratulations 1987 the Altamuras founded Inter- to all the winners and participants. Cities Performing Arts, Inc in order I was pleased to see the world to bring opportunities for aspiring premier of Take Dance Company’s young musicians and other artists Footsteps in the Snow at the Dance and for the past 20 years has held the Theater Workshop in NYC. The International Voice Competition. dancers are so exuberant and playful On October 31, a world-premiere of Bertha Rogers and Cornelia Seckel in the Literary Workshop, Bright Hill Center, as they move with music – running, Edgar — now renamed La Coupe et Treadwell, NY director and a delight to meet. She writer’s dream. A home built in the read some of her poems, many of life mid 1800’s, there is an area for read- in New Orleans and the aftermath of ings, a kitchen with floor to ceiling Katrina. It must be well over 10 years books that are on sale, 2 rooms for that I have been receiving information overnight guests, office space, and the from founder and director Bertha newest addition is the 1,500 sq. ft. Rogers about Bright Hill Press so I Library, built in 2004 and filled with was particularly pleased to go with books (including a large collection of Raymond and learn more about the Art Books) donated to the Center as organization. Bertha Rogers relocated well as Literary Journals from the to Treadwell from NYC (free lance past 30 years all awaiting cataloging work could be done from anywhere!) — so if you are interested give them a and missed the gathering of writers call. The gardens are quite elaborate: and readings she had been attending. a Shakespearean herb garden, a secret Thus began Word Thursdays founded garden amongst the flowers, trees and in 1992 and housed in Bertha’s home bushes. Treadwell is on the outskirts up until a few years ago — it is all about of Oneonta and a beautiful part of the Literature: preserving, encouraging, state to visit and learn more about this and nurturing. Bright Hill Literary Literary Garden. Center is a place where Literature Early in August I was invited to lives and writers come from around Kent Art Association in Kent, Con- Tracy Baisden, Suzanne VanWagenen, Jamie Barthel at the launching of Lotus Fine the country to take part. Bright Hill necticut to give a talk about Getting Art Design, Woodstock, NY — as they celebrate the addition of interior design service publishes fine poetry and prose and the Attention of the Media / or How to the established gallery which also features Jaime’s painted glass. has Poetry Chapbook and full- to Get Your Work Noticed. Alexis length Poetry Book Competitions. Lynch, President of this 86 year-old flying and leaping across the stage. Les Lèvres and conducted by Anton Guidelines are available on their web- organization, while introducing me The house was nearly filled and see- Coppola will take place in NYC at the site www.brighthillpress.org. There is expressed appreciation for my work ing the performance with one of our Kaye Playhouse. Cappuccino and a Word and Image Gallery (words for artists. There was a good-sized dance writers, Francine L. Trevens deserts followed the performance of are part of the images) and while we group who listened attentively as I (See Dance in June ’09 issue of ART the delightful Gianni Schicci a light were there, New Yorker Cartoons & spoke about press releases, web sites, TIMES), was a particular treat. comedy with some excellent music Graphic Novels by David Borchart do’s & don’t’s in dealing with the press Founder and soprano Carmella including “O mi babbino cara”. The were on view and, coming up, Aimee etc. The Kent Art Association was Altamura welcomed her guests (as season at Roundtop lasts just a month Lee’s work will be on view. There are founded in 1923 by nine artists who she calls us) to the Tribute to Puc- so mark your calendars to check the also Speaking the Words Festivals knew each other when they lived in cini held at the Altamura Summer schedule for the 2010 Season. and Tours featuring more than 400 New York before moving to Kent; six Music Festival (www.altocanto.org) Remember that our next issue is writers; Writing and the Visual were National Academicians. At in Roundtop, NY. Tucked into the November/December. Calendar and Arts programs that serve hundreds first, the nine held an annual show in foothills of the Catskill Mountains, Opportunity listings are due by Oc- of children and adults in the Word which only their work was exhibited. this annual festival brought listeners tober 12; Advertising reservations by Thursdays Literary Workshops, Later, more artists were accepted and richness beyond what anyone expected October 15. Let us know how you like for Kids and Adults housed in what others were invited to be associates. By — unless you are at one of the world’s the new website www.arttimesjour- was the garage; Sponsorship of the 1935, there was a formalized member- top Opera Houses. Conductor Anton nal.com and look for the upcoming Share the words High-School ship and Association's By-Laws were Coppola, two piano accompanists, a forum to make comments about events Poetry Competitions for hundreds established. Up until 1956, the KAA dozen opera singers (all had to audi- & exhibits you’ve attended. ef Sept/Oct 2009 ART TIMES page 8
Continued from Page 4 SHARON VAIRAMIDES: Watercolor, Botanicals Duck Pond Gallery, Esopus Library, 128 Canal St., Port Ewen, NJ ()338-5580 Opening Reception 5-8pm (thru Sep 26) Ulster Calendar TOM PRICE & JODY SPERLING: Dance Frances Daly Fergusson Dance Theater Kenyon Thursday, September 3 Hall, Vassar College, 124 Raymond Ave., Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 437-7468 8pm Dutchess LINDA DOMANOSKI solo show; ANCIENT SHIPS (thru Dec 27) Karpeles Manuscript WASHINGTON SQUARE OUTDOOR ART EXHIBIT Washington Square Outdoor Art Library Museum, 94 Broadway, Newburgh, NY (845) 569-4997 thru Oct 1) Orange Exhibit, Wash. Sq. E. & Univ. Pl. (212) 982-6255 (thru Sep 13) www.wsoae.org NYC SHARON KLASS: Exhibit Piermont Fine Arts Gallery, 218 Ash St., Piermont Landing, Sunday, September 6 Piermont, NY (845) 398-1907 (thru Sept 20) Rockland 1ST ANNUAL SUFFERN MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL Downtown Suffern, NY 11am-Mid- Friday, September 4 night Rockland ASSIDUITY: Group Show Albany Center Gallery, 39 Columbia St., Albany, NY (518) 462- 2nd ART STUDIO VIEWS 09: Tour Throughout Rhinebeck, NY and environs 11-5pm www. 4775 Opening Reception 5-9pm (thru Oct 18) Albany artsnortherndutchess.org/asv Dutchess KAREN ANN SULLIVAN: Beauty from Down Under Kimberlin Nature Education Ctr, At 36th ANNUAL ART SHOW Denise Morris Presents, Olde Mistick Village, Mystic, CT (203) Audubon Green, 613 Riversville Rd., Greenwich, CT (203) 869-5272 (thru Oct 28) CT 874-5672 10-7pm www.meettheartistsandartisans.com CT OPEN STUDIO TOUR The Betsy Jacaruso Studio & Gallery, The Chocolate Factory, 54 7th ANNUAL WOODSTOCK FINE ART AUCTION Woodstock Artists Assoc Museum, Elizabeth St., Red Hook, NY (845) 758-9244 11-5pm (thru Sep 5) Dutchess (WAAM), 28 Tinker St., Woodstock (845) 679-2940 1 PM www.woodstockart.org Ulster SALUTE TO GREAT LADIES OF SWING Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, 661 AIMEE LEE: Prints and Artist’s Books Word & Image Gallery, Bright Hill Center, 94 Route 308, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3080 8pm charge Dutchess Church St, Treadwell, NY (607) 829-5055 3-5pm (thru Sept 25) Delaware Saturday, September 5 DOROTHY LANGSEDER Exhibit Aroma Thyme Bistro, 165 Canal St., Ellenville, NY (845) 647-3000 Opening Reception 1-3pm (thru Sep 30) Ulster 1ST ANNUAL SUFFERN MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL Downtown Suffern, NY 10-2pm (thru Sep 6) Rockland FARM FAIR 2009! / COUNTRY HILLBILLY The West Kortright Center, 49 West Kortright Church Rd., East Meredith, NY (607) 278-5454 2:30-7pm charge Delaware 1st SATURDAY GALLERY STROLL Galleries in Kingston, NY Ulster WASHINGTON SQUARE OUTDOOR ART EXHIBIT Washington Square Outdoor Art 2nd ART STUDIO VIEWS 09: Tour Throughout Rhinebeck, NY and environs 11-5pm (thru Exhibit, Wash. Sq. E. & Univ. Pl. (212) 982-6255 (thru Sep 13) www.wsoae.org NYC Sep 6) www.artsnortherndutchess.org/asv Dutchess 36th ANNUAL ART SHOW Denise Morris Presents, Olde Mistick Village, Mystic, CT (203) Monday, September 7 874-5672 10-7pm www.meettheartistsandartisans.com CT 36th ANNUAL ART SHOW Denise Morris Presents, Olde Mistick Village, Mystic, CT (203) ART TRAIL GUIDED HIKES Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Temple Israel, 218 Spring 874-5672 10-7pm www.meettheartistsandartisans.com CT St., Catskill, NY (518) 943-7465 9am Greene WASHINGTON SQUARE OUTDOOR ART EXHIBIT Washington Square Outdoor Art BRIDGES AND THE SPAN OF TIME G.A.S Visual Art and Performance Space, North Main Exhibit, Wash. Sq. E. & Univ. Pl. (212) 982-6255 (thru Sep 13) www.wsoae.org NYC Gallery, 196 N. Main Street, Poughkeepsie 845-486-4592 Opening Reception 2-9pm and at Tuesday, September 8 Salvation Art Gallery, 214 Main St., Poughkeepsie, NY Opening Reception 2-9pm (thru Oct COLLECTING STORIES: The Davies Collection OSilas Gallery at Concordia College-NY, 31) Dutchess 171 White Plains Rd., Bronxville, NY (917) 337-9300 x2173 (thru Oct 16) Westchester CARRIE JACOBSON & GEORGE HAYES: plein air works / CARMEN SANTO Solo DOROTHY DIERKS HOURIHAN The Pen and Brush, 16 E. 10th St., NYC (212) 475-3669 Show Wallkill River School, 232 Ward St., (17k), Montgomery, NY (845) 457-ARTS Opening (thru Sep 20) www.penandbrush.org NYC Reception 5-7pm (thru Sep 30) Orange EMILY BUCHANAN & TITUS WELLIVER: Landscapes Tremaine Gallery, Hotchkiss COLLABORATIVE CONCEPTS FARM PROJECT 2009 Historic Farm, 853 Old Albany School, 11 Interlaken Rd., Lakeville, CT (860) 435-3663 (thru Oct 18) www.hotchkiss.org/ Post Rd, Garrison, NY (845) 528-1797 Opening Reception 2-6pm (thru Oct 31) Putnam AboutHotchkiss/TremainGallery.asp Litchfield,CT CORINNE THOMAS: “Appearances” Mamaroneck Artists Guild, 126 Larchmont Ave., GARY T. ERBE: 40 Year Retrospective The Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Rd., Larchmont, NY (914) 834-1117 Opening Reception 5-7pm (thru Sep 19) Westchester Boca Raton, FL (561) 392-2500 (thru Nov 8) FL DAVID KIEHM: Taking Flight Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main St., Cooperstown, NY NANCY R. FAIRCHILD Pleiades Gallery, 530 West 25th St., 4th Fl. NYC (646) 230-0056 (607) 547-9777 (thru Oct 2) www.cooperstownart.com Otsego (thru Oct 3) www.pleiadesgallery.com NYC GREAT PRETENDERS: A group exhibit of Art Fakery Carrie Haddad Gallery, 622 War- PASTEL SOCIETY OF AMERICA'S 37th ANNUAL EXHIBITION for "Pastels Only" ren St., Hudson, NY 518.828.7655 Opening Reception 6-8pm (thru Oct 11) Columbia National Arts Club Galleries, 15 Gramercy Park South, NYC (212) 533-6931 (thru Sept 27) MULGREW MILLER TRIO Windham Chamber Music Festival, Windham Performing Arts www.pastelsocietyofamerica.org NYC Center, Main & Church Sts., Windham, NY (518) 734-3868 8 pm charge Albany Wednesday, September 9 OPEN STUDIO TOUR The Betsy Jacaruso Studio & Gallery, The Chocolate Factory, 54 MERAV EZER & ADI SHNIDERMAN: Blueprint-spaces between spaces PGartventure Elizabeth St., Red Hook, NY (845) 758-9244 11-5pm Dutchess Gallery, 2130A Boston Post Rd., Larchmont, NY (914) 834-5100 Opening Reception 6-8pm PAINT BOX EXCURSIONS The Mountain Top Gallery, 5348 Main St., Windham, NY (518) (thru Sep 23) Westchester 734-3104 Opening Reception: 4-6pm (thru Nov 15) www.greenarts.org Greene MIX MASTERS: A Group Exhibit of Recent Works in Combined Media National Arts RONDOUT MEETS HUDSON, ART MEETS HISTORY; EVA VAN RIJN: Badlands & Club, Gregg Galleries, 15 Gramercy Park South, NYC (212) 475-3424 Opening Reception 6-8pm Other Good Places to Paint; KINGSTON SCULPTURE BIENNIAL Art Society of Kings- (thru Sept 26) www.go.to/mixmasters NYC ton (ASK), 97 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 338-0331 (thru Sep 29) Ulster Continued on Page 14
2nd Annual World's Smallest American Watercolor Society rd Stretched Canvas Painting Competition Please Support our 143 Annual International Exhibit First Prize: $500 Advertisers; Call For Entries They Support US April 6 - May 2, 2010 What Can You do on a 1 by 2? Slide or Digital entries postmarked: Nov.16, 2009 Salmagundi Galleries, NYC All aqua-media on paper — no collage (Actual Size) Awards totaling $40,000 cash & Medal Awards For prospectus send SASE to: American Watercolor Society, Inc. 47 Fifth Ave., NY, NY 10003 1" x 2" Stretched Canvas or: www.americanwatercolorsociety.org Call for Entries December 4 to January 10, 2010 Awards Judge- Del-Bourree Bach Hudson from Bear Mt., oil on panel, 12"x19" For more information and a Prospectus Phyllis Tarlow Visit www.hudsonvalleygallery.com or send a Beauty of the Northeast Stamped Self-Addressed Envelope (SASE) to oil landscapes Sept. 22 - Oct. 10, 2009 Reception: Sat. Sept. 26 3-5pm Artist also present Sun. Oct. 4 2-5pm
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Tall, a bit pudgy, with full jowls, he came to St. Petersburg at age music (which he really wanted bulging eyes, a pince nez and dark eighteen and eventually co-founded to write himself), chose only the hair relieved by a streak of white (as a magazine, The World of Art, which best conductors (Ansermat, Bee- it turned out, his hair was white and introduced new European art to Rus- cham, etc.), approved every de- he dyed all but the streak), Sergei Di- sia. He also took Russian art, music sign, tried his best to influence aghilev possessed an intuition – some and opera to western Europe. At the the choreography and chose ev- term it a genius – for discovering the urging of the painter Alexander Ben- ery cast. His only interest was talent in others and combining these ois, who had invited him into a circle the effect he wished to create. diverse talents in the works produced of young artists and intellectuals, he For the first performance of his by the Diaghilev Ballets Russes. As brought the Russian ballet to Paris company in Paris he had the en- a result, he was possibly the great- in the summer of 1909, thereby inau- tire theater refurbished and, re- est individual influence on the arts gurating an organization, The Bal- portedly, stipulated that the first in the 20th century. In celebration of lets Russes (eventually The Ballets ring was to be “papered” with the the centennial of the founding of the Russes de Monte Carlo) that is still most beautiful and fashionable company, the New York Public Li- influencing the arts. Today almost women in the city. brary for the Performing Arts at Lin- every ballet company with a 20th cen- His now famous command to coln Center mounted the exhibition tury repertoire contains at least one Jean Cocteau, “Astonish me!,” “Diaghilev’s Theater of Marvels: The Diaghilev ballet. could almost be called his credo. Ballets Russes and Its Aftermath,” When the works that he conceived, He wanted to transform the bal- which will be on through September bullied and coaxed out of the partici- let into something that would 12. pants were successful, such as Pet- shock as well as please because This period saw the emergence rouchka (Fokine/Stravinsky/Benois), he truly believed that art could of many new ideas regarding the the result was a complete synthesis change society. He sought out the world and the human beings who of the arts – the ideal alluded to in avant-garde that often became ancient Greece mainstream, but could also fail. and preached His production of Fireworks with by Wagner. For music by Prokofiev and décor by some, The Rite of Ballo, had no dancers in it! Spring, with its The Ballets Russes employed multi-rhythmic only five choreographers – Mi- score by Stravin- chel Fokine, Vaslav Nijinsky, Le- Felia Doubrovska Gift of Mme. Doubrovska, sky that the mu- onide Massine, Bronislava Nijin- 1980. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New sicians distained ska and George Balanchine. But York Public Library for the Performing Arts and originally re- what productions!: Les Sylphides fused to play, the (Fokine/Chopin/Benois), the first to combine his talents with those of modern/archaic abstract ballet; The Afternoon of Satie, Cocteau and Massine, the re- choreography by a Faun (Nijinsky/Debussy/Bakst), sult was Parade, which gave Picasso Nijinsky that the which scandalized with its eroticism; more exposure than he had had up to dancers hated and Ode (Massine/ Nabokov/ Tchelitchev that time. the primitive Rus- and Charbonnier), in which dancers The exhibition at the Performing sian décor by Ro- moved between and manipulated Arts Library includes photographs, erich, is the em- white cords lit by colored projections letters, programs, music scores, cos- blematic work of and film sequences; Le Train Bleu tumes, costume designs and a rich modernism. At its (Nijinska/Milhaud/curtain, Picasso offering of videotapes of ballets that premiere in 1913 /set , Laurens/costumes, Chanel), are still performed as well as some it caused riots in where chic denizens of society ath- rarely seen historic films. There are the theater – a letically frolicked through their foi- drawings by Jean Cocteau, a por- reaction that de- bles; and Prodigal Son (Balanchine/ trait head of Fokine by Isamu Nogu- lighted Diaghilev, Prokofiev;/Roualt). They were all ex- chi, Fokine’s guest book with many Left to right: Igor Stravinsky, Natalia Gontcharova, Sergei amples of what could happen when Diaghilev, and Léon Bakst Courtesy, Jerome Robbins Dance who, supposedly, drawings among the signatures and Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts suggested that Diaghilev was completely successful a wonderful contemporary drawing they immediately in his efforts by David Levine entitled “Diaghi- occupied it – Fauvism, Symbol- repeat the performance. The dancers he courted, hired lev Imagines Merce Cunningham.” ism, Cubism, Surrealism, Futur- He once wrote that he himself had and often fought with included Ni- There are many items that refer to ism, Constructivism, Dadaism. This no talent, save that of a maecenae jinsky, Pavlova, Bolm, Karsavina the “aftermath” in the title, includ- new energy also produced different [patron], but with money, which he and Danilova. Among other compos- ing Eugene Berman’s designs for the leaders whose vision galvanized the felt he could obtain, that would suf- ers in his circle were Ravel, Richard 1944 Balanchine ballet Danses Con- century; Diaghilev stands above all. fice. He found talent in others before Strauss, Poulenc, Auric, Dukelsky, certantes. There are also some 19th The twenty years during which The anyone else recognized it, even in Rieti and Sauguet. Stravinsky, who century dance prints and programs Ballets Russes existed (1909-1929) members of the corps de ballet. Pos- was part of so many collaborations, and designs relating to simultaneous witnessed more collaboration and sessing a keen intelligence, he was received his very first commission companies such as the Ballets Sue- the encouragement of more artists to the mastermind through whom the from Diaghilev – to orchestrate a dois and Gertrude Hoffman’s Ballets compose, choreograph, design or just various artistic values were filtered. piece. His pool of artists started with Russes . The latter presented pirated “create” than in any other previous His enthusiasms and passion for all Benois and Bakst, whose designs for Diaghilev productions. or perhaps subsequent time. In 1905 art, plus his ability to charm and Scheherazade affected not only the But the most fun is to be had by Diaghilev wrote, “We are witnesses manipulate friends, financial sup- clothes of women in Paris and Lon- sitting in front of the six screens of the greatest moments of summing porters and producers, also attracted don, but home furnishings as well. that show excerpts of many of the up in our history in the name of a a large and fashionable audience in Added to them were Gontcharova, Diaghilev ballets (the sound is heard new unknown culture, which will be Europe and, in 1916, in America. Larionov, Derain, Matisse, Braque, through earphones). Among the “old- created by us and will also sweep us Diaghilev was meticulous in his Utrillo, de Chirico and Laurencin. In ies” is Pavlova dancing in a 1915 film, away.” attention to detail: he oversaw the 1917, when Diaghilev asked Picasso Spessivtseva dancing Giselle, So- kolova in Massine’s Good Humored Check out our new & evolving website at www.arttimesjournal.com Ladies and a BBC documentary with Karsavina introducing Les Sylphides. Send us an email with your comments and thoughts about All four were Diaghilev ballerinas. cultural events you have attended ef Sept/Oct 2009 ART TIMES page 10
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By Cornelia Seckel Frenette, our guide for an overview of the Atlantic. It is approximately 1000 Québec. kilometers long. The river serves as Sharon, a native of the Upper the frontier between Canada and the Peninsula of Michigan, relocated to USA for approximately 200 kilometers. Canada over 30 years ago and gave In Canada, the navigation route runs us an excellent overview. 96% of the along its entire length, forming the people in Québec City use French famous St. Lawrence Seaway that allows as their first language and nearly the Great Lakes to have an opening for everyone understands English as it ships of commerce and pleasure. In is taught in school and now as early fact I remember my Dad talking about as the 1st grade. We learned that canoeing and going through the many UNESCO proclaimed Québec City a locks of the St. Lawrence. I can’t possibly World Heritage site, the only such relate the history of Canada’s rulers and city in North America and named so the wars with France, England and the because it is a Walled City (which still US, so go online and you’ll find lots of remains) and that it is the heart of history links. French Culture in North America. It
Rue du Trèsor in Québec, where Artists and Craftspeople show and sell their work
no matter where you are in trees, farmland and rolling hills. Much Québec City you can see Le Chateau of the produce for restaurants and the Frontenac built in 1907 and along the markets in Québec City comes from boardwalk just outside the hotel were their fields and orchards. Here we many street musicians. On over to the stopped at two different artisans’ shops Parliament where we saw Québec’s and saw paintings, jewelry, sculpture, best 400th birthday gift: the Tourny and crafts by area artists and artisans. Fountain from La Maison Simons There were many more suggestions (a family-owned department store, est. of museums, historic sites, walking 1840 with 7 stores in Québec). It was tours, than we could ever do in 2 restored and imported from France days — therefore we will just have to where it had been in the Bordeaux’s return. We did get to some, including allees de tourney and named after a walk down Artisans Street (rue du Aubert Tourny, a man remembered for Trésor) where artists and craftspeople his contributions to beautify Bordeaux. sell, and sometimes demonstrate Now it beautifies Québec City. their work; a ferry ride across the St. There are window boxes overflowing Lawrence gave us a beautiful view of with flowers from most every window. the city skyline; a ride up the funicular Sharon said that after winters of 10 brought us to the Chateau and another Raymond J. Steiner and Bev Saunders at her Framing Gallery Studio at the feet (on the average) of snow, everyone view across the river; a trip to the Shirt Factory in Glens Falls, NY loves flowers. The feeling of the city market where we could taste the local at breakfast we were greeted warmly is the 3rd oldest city in North America: is so very European and Québec City fruits, cheeses and wines; and just by Richard Séguin of the Québec St. Augustine, Florida — the oldest, was like Paris and (I said) “but without wandering the old streets looking at City Tourism office. We learned about and Santa Fe, NM are both older by the attitude”. Now, however, with the the varied architecture was a delight. the Summer Festival, Canada’s just a few years. As Sharon drove us friendliness training and kiosks in In the evening we went to The biggest outdoor artistic event that had through the three major parts of the Paris, that stereotype might finally be Image Mill, a forty-minute visual and more than 300 performances ranging city, each with a distinct character, she put to rest. There is a lot of civic pride audio production projected onto the from the traditional to the cutting edge elaborated on what we were seeing. and strong sense of history even outside Bunge grain silo “projection screen” of music: opera, rock, blues, electric Abraham’s Field, the site of the Battle of the old (walled) environ. A number of which is over 600 meters wide and 30 Reggae, acrobats, comedy, theater — between the English and French, is years ago the revitalization of the Port meters tall. Robert Lepage and Ex all in 11 days at four main locations as now Soccer Field and a place where area rejuvenated the neighborhood, Machina —the creators of the Québec well as many street venues. Last year many concerts are held. The general bringing jobs, restoring housing, and City Project through the use of there were nearly 500,000 attendees attitude in Québec City is to re-use, so building new museums. cutting-edge technology — transported and it generated over sixty million rather than taking down an abandoned Before returning us to the hotel, us through four centuries of Québec Canadian dollars — quite a boost to church it becomes a library or concert Sharon took us out of the city to the City history in four movements: the Québec City economy. We missed hall; battlefields become soccer fields. Montmorency Falls (2 ½ times taller waterways (recounting the days of Placido Domingo but I wasn’t sorry There were many street musicians and than Niagara Falls but not as wide) Québec’s discovery and exploration), to miss Sting and Indochine. Richard apparently they need to audition to get where we rode the funicular to the road building (the period in which the also gave us a tough choice between a permit and then they can only play top. Pictures of the falls in winter are land was cleared, then developed), rail seeing some street performances by for 2 hours in the same place. They breathtaking and it is a destination expansion (the years of industrialization Cirque du Soleil or The Image have a system amongst themselves for for ice climbers. We headed across to and railway construction), and air Mill before introducing us to Sharon rotating to different locations. L’île d’Orléans, an island about the travel (the era of balloons, airplanes, size of Manhattan but covered with and communications). We just stood franklin alexander 3&.&.#&3&% 4FQUFNCFS0DUPCFS 0QFOJOH3FDFQUJPO Orange County 4BUVSEBZ 4FQUFNCFS 1. Art Federation’s 46th Annual Juried Art Exhibit October 9th –November 29th st 81 Grand National Exhibition Award presentation reception Painting Graphics Sculpture Sunday, October 25th, 4-7pm Ritz Theater, 111 Broadway Tuesday, November 3rd — Friday, November 13th (photo ID must be presented) Newburgh, NY • Hrs: 9am to 5pm daily Awards Presentation and Annual Meeting a a a a Sunday, November 8th 2 - 5pm September 21st is the deadline for entry in the exhibit for artists interested in participating. Contact Sarah McHugh for a Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Avenue, New York City prospectus or more information: 845-987- Open Daily from 1-5pm 8748 or email : [email protected] snail mail: OCAF: Sarah E. McHugh XXXXPPETUPDLTDIPPMPGBSUPSH PO Box 17, Bellvale, NY 10912 Sept/Oct 2009 ART TIMES page 11 along with tens of thousands of people way they could go West (other than by and watched the phenomena with our boat). Montréal boasts the 2nd largest mouths open as images crossed over Botanical Garden in the world (first is the silos taking us through the history Kew Gardens in England). Montréal of Québec City. (Mount Real) has two mountains and after two days we drove south they can be seen from every point to Montréal, and arriving in late (as no building can be taller than the afternoon, we had a light dinner and Royal Mountain) where hiking trails stayed at our most luxurious Hotel and picnic areas are in abundance. Sofitel (www.sofitelMontréal.com). We saw many joggers in this area and Montréal is an island located in the the most elegant of homes for embassy Saint Lawrence River. Approximately personnel, actors, and politicians. As 31 miles long, 10 miles in width, with we continued the tour we passed the a 230-meter mountain occupying its Hotel Dieu, a hospital still in operation center, it was originally inhabited by the founded in 1642 by Jeanne Mance. Iroquois who had lived in Québec for at lunch, Tanya Churchmuch, thousands of years. In 1535, an explorer from Montréal Tourism, spoke with from France, Jacques Cartier, was us about Montréal and how this city among the first Europeans to set foot is very much an incubator for the on the island. He and his men climbed arts as well as for technology. CGI is up the mountain to place a cross and a large company doing visual effects claim the land in the name of France. for film; there are also many young Cartier named the mountain “Mont- bands, architects, designers, and film Montmorency Falls, Montréal, Canada Royal”. Despite being conquered by the technicians. There are two cultures in British, French Montréalers continued Québec: the French-speaking Québecois and street festivals and in 1984, at age “Expanding Horizons” at The to flourish and exist as the majority and the English-speaking, each 24, he landed a contract from the Québec Montréal Museum of Fine Arts (see living on the island over the subsequent with theatre, music, literature, films government to stage a street show review at www.arttimesjournal.com), for Québec’s 375th Anniversary I got a tour of the rest of the museum Celebration. Laliberté’s vision was to with Sylvie Deslauriers the head of create a circus with neither a ring nor PR at the museum and a delightful, animals, believing that the lack of both bright and engaging person. As we of these things draws the audience toured the museum’s galleries we more into the performance. Montréal is spoke about publicity, the need to bring a city of young people as there are four in new audiences and how much of that universities (two French, two English) is done through extensive educational and McGill has over 30,000 students programming for all ages, and of course — many there for the outstanding the many paintings, sculptures and programs in medicine research and law. objets d’art that drew our attention. Concordia University is the best fine This is a private museum and has some arts school in Canada, offering degrees of everything and much of it excellent. in performance arts, dance, textile, Known for their universal collection, theatre, photography, and journalism. they have an extensive compilation The low tuition and the fine programs of works of Decorative Arts and offered, make it particularly attractive Design, Ancient Cultures, European for US students. Art, Canadian Art, Mediterranean In Canada there are many small Archaeology, Contemporary Art, breweries and a few wineries. Molson totaling over 33,000 objects. Take a Beer came from England and has look online www.mmfa.qc.ca to learn been brewed since 1786. Strawberries, more about this museum. raspberries, blueberries were all in montréal is a large city with many A Street Musician in Old Québec season and delicious. A visit to the museums, galleries, art centers and decades. English, Scots and Irish and, according to the tourism folks, Atwater Market and I was in heaven ethnic neighborhoods. Certainly two settlers intermarried with the French. Montréal is the creative capital of the — I tasted many different foods and days was not enough time to get more The focus of the French was religion country. Montréal is a city of festivals: bought some things for our return drive than an overview. It is an easy drive — and conversion; the English to develop Jazz, Comedy, Electronic, Gay, Reggae back to NY. remember to bring your passport and business. and, of course, Cirque du Soleil: Bike systems seems to be an excellent don’t try and bring back fruits, plants In the morning we were met by Cirque 2009. It seems as if there is one way to limit town traffic. Everyone or vegetables. It is with appreciation Regina Larose, our tour guide for festival right after another throughout likes it but the cab drivers. You get a to Montréal Tourism www.tourisme- an overview of Montréal. Regina the year. The World’s Fair of 1967 24-hour permit and pick up a bike, ride Montréal.org and with Québec City drove us through the city, the old part made Montréal an International it to your destination, leave the bike Tourism www.Québecregion.com for with cobbled stone streets, the park City. There is an excellent support till you are ready to go somewhere else, making our trip such a pleasure. designed by Frederick Law Olmsted system in place for grants to creative get a different bike and go on your way. on our website: www.arttimes (designer of Central Park, NYC), and organizations from the local province Cost is very inexpensive. Seems like an journal.com you will find additional as she pointed out the highlights she and from the national support for the excellent idea. Streets have bike lanes. information about Montréal provided delighted us with stories about who individual. Cirque du Soleil is a prime Later that afternoon while by the Tourism Board. stayed at different hotels and movies example. Guy Laliberté, founder and Raymond was looking at the exhibit ef that were filmed here. Montréal is a CEO of Cirque du Soleil, left home city of 1.5 million in a country with 33 at age 18 to hitchhike across Europe, million people— less than the state working as a street performer and of California — with many different met many other sidewalk showmen peoples and therefore broken into along major tourist attractions. He different areas including: Chinese, lived hand-to-mouth, and learned the Greek, Jewish, Italian, Spanish, and art of fire-breathing and stilt-walking, Portuguese. In much earlier times, working for small change to pay basic nd people who arrived by boat through the supplies. Laliberté became interested 2 Annual Woodstock Arts Fair St Lawrence Seaway couldn’t go much with the lifestyle and he perceived it as at Woodstock Jewish Congregation, 1682 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock further than Montréal because of the a perfect art form. Upon his return to co-sponsored by ART TIMES, a literary journal and resource for all the arts rapids. As of 1876, the train was the Montréal, he began organizing parties A Call for All Artists and Fine Craftspeople An opportunity to market your art in an informal setting prior to the holidays. CEDARWOOD CENTER $35 fee; no commissions taken. FOR THE ARTS Event date: Sunday, November 29, 2009, 10am — 4pm Four Fowler Street, Port Jervis, NY APPLICATION DEADLINE: September 15, 2009. Tel 845.856.2307 NOTIFICATION of acceptance: October 15, 2009. This is a juried show. Application available at: www.wjcshul.org or email: [email protected] WWW.CEDARWOODCENTER.COM All communication will be via email Applications to be sent to: Woodstock Jewish Congregation FINE ART, ANTIQUES, CRAFTS, CLASSES 1682 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock, NY 12498 845-679-2218 Sept/Oct 2009 ART TIMES page 12 Art Degas at The Hyde Collection Review Photos courtesy of the Hyde Collection By RAYMOND J. STEINER so carefully inculcated by his family IT’S BEEN TOLD that Jean-Au- never left him — as this exhibition* guste-Dominique Ingres, Degas’ ad- so clearly shows. “Degas & Music” mired mentor, sternly exhorted him consists of some 30 works from their to “Draw, draw, draw!” A humorously own and on loan from some seven- ironic parallel, an old New York City teen other institutional collections joke, goes like this: A woman goes up — oils, watercolors, gouaches, pas- to a cabbie and asks, “Can you tell tels, chalks, charcoals, graphite, pen me how to get to Carnegie Hall?” to and inks, lithographs, prints (helio- which he replies, “Practice, practice, types) — even three bronzes — that practice!” If the anecdotes are com- show the intimate relationship be- pared casually in light-hearted in- tween music and art that Degas so tent, the comparison, nevertheless, regularly revealed. Curated by Jill is apt. If Degas took Ingres’ admoni- DeVonyar and Richard Kendall, the tion to “draw, draw, draw” to heart, show is a carefully crafted merging becoming famed for his skilled drafts- that showcases what they term an manship, he did not — though he did “ecstasy of sense”, in effect the sub- try his hand at the violin and piano tle way in which artforms — in this — take his music-loving family’s ad- case, music and painting — ‘speak’ vice to “practice, practice, practice” to us on ancient levels of communi- seriously enough to make his mark cation that predates our use of ver- as an accomplished musician. bal and written means by thousands If, however, Degas chose to be an of years. Following an earlier exhibi- Edgar Degas, French (1834-1917), Violinist and Young Woman, ca. 1871, artist rather than a musician (surely tion, “Degas and the Dance” (2002), oil on canvas, 18 1/4 x 22 in. our gain), the nurturing love of music and in the context of a Season of Degas — a major effort undertaken venue should take place. by forty different arts and commu- deVonyar and Kendall have cho- nity organizations presenting some sen well. Though the oils are excel- seventy different programs in five lent, for me, since he so evidently took separate nearby counties — it is Ingres’ direction to heart, the trip to hoped that the experience of viewing Glens Falls to see Degas’ drawings “Degas & Music” will prove to bring of musicians, singers, and dancers “spiritual respite in troubled times”. was well worth the time. But there It does. is more. In addition to Degas’ work, In spite of the serendipitous na- are several vitrines that hold books, ture of my opening anecdotes, there mementoes and other paraphernalia, are more serious parallels that went which certainly enhance the exhibit, into the mounting of this exhibit, and even a darkened sitting room in the most important being that The which visitors can relax and listen Hyde’s founder, Charlotte Hyde, was to the music that inspired the artist. responsible for introducing a strong Do not miss this rare opportunity to musical presence in her community have your soul inundated in this de- and, in particular, a venue for world- lightful “ecstasy of sense.” class performances in her own home. *“Degas & Music” (thru Oct 18): Indeed, the groundwork for put- The Hyde Collection, 161 Warren ting together “Degas & Music” was St. Glens Falls, NY 518-792-1761. A thrashed out in The Hyde’s Music catalogue of the same name is avail- Room, still an integral feature of The able (see our New Art Books col- Edgar Degas, French (1834-1917), Dancer on the Stage, ca. 1877-80, Hyde Collection. Fitting then, that umn for full details). www.hydecol- oil on canvas, 36 x 46.5 in. this exhibition of this artist in this lection.org ef
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MADE IN NEW YORK “The Art of Wood” Fine Cra� Invitational MS & Planetariummonetarium “Taking Flight” Dutch Recent Works by David Kiehm Sept. 5 - Oct. 2, 2009 Serge Onnen, detail of A new generation of Dutch video and installation artists 2ECEPTION &RIDAY 3EPT TH PM HVCCA Opens Sep. 13, 2009 Gallery Hours: Daily 11-4; Sunday 1-4. Closed Tuesday. Reception 4-7 pm 22 Main St. | 607-547-9777 HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART www.cooperstownart.com 1701 Main Street Peekskill NY 10566 | 914.788.0100 | www.hvcca.org Sept/Oct 2009 ART TIMES page 13 Art “Art & the River” at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art Review Photos courtesy of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
By RAYMOND J. STEINER fect for the 400th Quadricentennial GIVEN THE CHANCE to see this Celebration of the Hudson River and show* a second time — I’d breezed its environs. Although the work of through it when it was still at The some thirty artists are represented, New York Historical Society where it Asher B. Durand appears to be the was concurrently being shown at the ‘star’ of the exhibition — his “Beacon exhibit “Drawn by New York”, an ex- Hills on the Hudson River, Opposite hibition I reviewed in our November Newburgh — Painted on the Spot” 2008 Issue — I was pleased at this immediately confronting the viewer viewing to give it more of my time. I upon entering the galleries — with am not able to easily divide my atten- seven of his works dominating the tion when planning to write about an walls throughout the several galler- art exhibition, so when both shows ies that house the show…and one can came upstate — “Drawn to New York” hardly fault the happy circumstance presently at The Frances Lehman since this Greenwich Village native Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, seemed ever in his element while where it will be on view through visiting river and forest and moun- November 1 — I took advantage of tain in our region. Indeed, the show the opportunity to focus on this im- in its totality might not have found portant exhibition. Some 45 works a more appropriate venue than right Robert Havell, View of Hudson River from Tarrytown Heights, ca. 1842 — all from the collection of The New here in Ulster County, since many of York Historical Society — make up our local visitors will readily recog- Sara J. Pasti notes in her Foreword that demanded my close attention the show, all featuring the Hudson nize so many of the locations these to the accompanying catalogue, “The was “Hastings-on-Hudson” (1860) as Valley/Catskill Region and thus per- painters captured on canvas. As paintings remind us that the Hudson did William Hart’s “On the Esopus, River Valley landscape that we live Meadow Groves” (ca. 1857-8); finally, in today looks nearly as pristine as it I suggest you not miss the dramatic did two hundred years ago” — when sky of Robert Havell’s “View of Hud- a good many of the paintings, in fact, son River from Tarrytown Heights” were painted. Though all who visit (ca. 1842) or Thomas Hiram Hotch- the show will find their ‘favorites’, kiss’ “Tree Study, Catskill Clove, I’d like to point out several that cap- N.Y.” (1858). Whether weekend day- tured my attention for a closer scru- tripper, historian, nature-lover or tiny: Albert Bierstadt almost always landscape painter, this is a show you overwhelms the senses, and his “Au- ought not miss…it will surely fill you tumn Woods, Oneida County, New with pleasure. York State” (1886) surely does not *“Art & the River” (thru Dec 13): disappoint; Jasper Francis Cropsey’s Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, delicate rendition of the little island SUNY at New Paltz, NY (845) 257- in the middle distance of “Green- 3245. A catalogue is available. A wood Lake, New Jersey” (1871) is a concurrent exhibit, “Panorama of gem, as is the dark, moody feeling the Hudson River” by Greg Miller, of John William Casilear’s “Land- is also on view. Jasper Francis Cropsey’s Greenwood Lake, New Jersey (1871) scape” (1852); another of Durand’s ef
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ALLIED ARTISTS OF AMERICA th ONLINE 96 Annual Open Exhibition NewYorkArtists.net November 13 – December 1, 2009 The Number One $23,000 in cash and medals Website for OPEN TO ALL ARTISTS: New York Artists Watermedia, Pastel, Graphics, Sculpture Top Rankings on all Major Search Engines SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Sept. 14 Artists: List Your Website Slide and Jpeg entries accepted for Only $25.00 For prospectus send SASE to: Rhoda Yanow 6 month promotional (limited time) offer 19 Springtown Road, White House Station, NJ 08889 Or visit our website: www.alliedartistsofamerica.org Contact: Gloria Rabinowitz 718-465-5111 [email protected] Sept/Oct 2009 ART TIMES page 15 Art Review Angst, Politics, & Art Appreciation engaging. What child would not love the work. This would not By Ginger Lee Hendler the images of popcorn, Dick Tracy look- be easy. I recently had a conversation alikes and the Statue of Liberty in bold As I mentioned ear- with a friend about whether or not primary colors? This art is positive, lier, art for me is very having some background about artists and with the current trend of negativ- visceral and predomi- and their process enhances apprecia- ity in art we can all use a dose of Bur- nantly sensory, and as tion of their work. Does it help to know ton Morris’ work. I walked through the that van Gogh struggled with mental After doing my initial walk-through, quaint space I felt as illness in order to fall in love with “A I was finally ready to meet the art- though I had arrived Starry Night”? Is it necessary to know ist. Burton Morris was charming and at an amusement park who inspired Jackson Pollock and what excited at the prospect of discussing fun- house. Hanging his personal angst was before one can his work and telling his story. Who he sculptures glared at me fully appreciate his drip paintings? was, how he began the work, and why as they weaved through And do we feel differently about “Guer- he chose the subject were all essential the gold brocade drapes nica” when we research the political to this. He developed a connection with in the front room. Wher- leanings of Picasso? Does it add greater comic books at the age of three after ever I looked I was held meaning if we study the purpose and breaking his femur bone. He began captive by bold, colorful the process of the artist? to draw while bedridden. Initially in- images. Walls and floors My friend argued that, as an art spired by the work of Albrecht Dürer, were filled with daz- historian, she felt strongly that know- Morris tried to emulate the fine pen zling, glittery surfaces ing about the history and the process is and ink work of this classical artist’s and three-dimensional essential when viewing art. Although I etchings, using rapidograph pens for sculptures. Dynamic en- agree on some level, I am strongly in- his tight drawings. Later he was in- ergy emanated through- fluenced by my senses, and my experi- fluenced by the work of Andy Warhol, out the room from every ence with art is mostly visceral. I may Tom Wesselman, Roy Lichtenstein, angle. I have always often be intellectually stimulated by and Keith Haring. He was always been inspired by the un- conceptual art, but mostly I am drawn looking for symbols that represented conventionality of the to color and energy. In the two exhib- American culture: the coffee cup sym- work, and I wanted to Pop-arazzi B, by Burton Morris 2006, Acrylic on canvas, 60x48" its that I review here, I take both sides bolizing the Starbucks revolution, slot just stand there breath- Courtesy of Burton Morris Studios under consideration. Sometimes as I machines for the gaming industry, and ing it all in. This, of of the first visionary painters. Picasso walk through a museum or gallery I the popcorn box as the icon for the Hol- course, was my visceral reaction. As and Kandinsky were supporters of find myself listening to the conversa- lywood era. In his artist’s statement he the reviewer I would have to move be- Outsider Art in the belief that formal tions around me, and will often revisit says, “My artwork celebrates beauty yond the intuitive and delve into the academic training corrupted artists, a painting if I hear an interesting com- and life while projecting an optimistic five W’s of journalism. Reason and re- while self-taught artists were less en- ment by a total stranger. On occasion I sense of high energy and style.” Mor- search would have to merge with the cumbered by rules. Many of the artists have heard docents give fascinating de- ris feels that “when people are under sensory and subjective. in this exhibit have some degree of for- tails about the personal, political, and great stress art has the ability to lift us Each piece in the show holds its mal training, yet their images project a professional struggles that artists en- out. I defy anyone to leave this exhibit own vision and appeal, some with child-like naiveté and rawness, which counter. I always find it illuminating. without smiling.” greater dynamism and others with is characteristic of the genre. Some of On the other hand, it doesn’t necessar- He told me that he chooses to “paint quieter more reflective interest. Most the work was reminiscent of Jean Mi- ily enhance my enjoyment of a work. objects and icons” and wants “to chal- were integrated with found objects and chel Basquiat, the artist who became They may say that “The Last Supper” lenge the way we view everyday ideas all have an unschooled primitive fla- embraced by the art world in the 80s is the epitome of classical art, but that in our modern day culture by repre- vor. “Mommy, Daddy & Me”, a work by and died of a heroin overdose at the age doesn’t make it my favorite. senting the common object, reducing it Candyce Brokaw, a self-taught vision- of 27. On my recent visit to the Emily to a common graphic form, and adding ary artist consists of six square can- I have no conclusion to the initial Lowe Gallery at the Hofstra University an energetic and colorful twist.” Had vases pieced together in a puzzle-like question posed above. Should we even Museum, I walked into the inaugural I not spoken to the artist and read the composition juxtaposing the features of need to concern ourselves with such in- exhibit of the newly renovated space expository text I would have left the ex- the three figures. The family is broken, tellectual constructs when viewing art? with the intention of inconspicuously hibit whistling a happy tune, but with yet integrated at the same time. The Art has a way of elevating us to a higher reviewing Burton Morris’ show, “Pop”. no deeper understanding of the artist baby appears to be securely held and is level and breathing life into our souls. Burton Morris had flown in from LA or his purpose. The flatness of the sur- centrally placed. The figurative work is We become enriched by the experience. for the opening, and he came up to me face may be characteristic of the graph- a moving narrative held together with Suffice it to say, that the appreciation and introduced himself. I politely re- ic nature of Pop Art, but the subtext is bold brush strokes of color. In order to of art remains a very personal process. quested that we meet after I had had far from flat and is imbued with mean- connect with her work it was not neces- Please partake of your own art appre- a chance to view the work alone and ing. I left with a richer understanding sary to know that she is the founder of ciation experiments by visiting the gal- take some notes. A reviewer’s work is in addition to my strong visceral reac- The Survivors Art Foundation, a non- leries, museums, and outdoor fairs that best done with minimal distraction, tion. profit organization dedicated to encour- are currently available throughout our so choosing an opening reception is This is Poptimism in its fullest ex- age healing through the arts. beautiful island. almost certainly a conflict, yet I had pression. And it’s for EVERYONE. Rondi Casey’s work adorns the *”The 4th Annual Outsider Art in scheduled enough quiet time prior to *”Burton Morris: Pop!” (thru front room of the gallery. Her figures the Hamptons” (thru Sep 8): Gal- the opening. I also wanted to get the Sep 27): Emily Lowe Gallery, Hof- fly through the air and are reminiscent erie BelAge, 8 Moniebogue Lane, initial impression of the work without stra University Museum, 112 Hof- of characters in children’s fairy tales, Westhampton Beach, NY, (631)288- hearing any of the artist’s background, stra University, Hempstead, NY akin to those by the Brothers Grimm. 5082 www.galeriebelage.com) and certainly more so after my recent 11549-1120 ( 516-463-5672) www. After reading her bio, and gaining in- A Look Ahead: conversation with aforementioned art hofstra.edu/museum sight into her inspiration, my initial The Long Island Museum Presents historian friend. I was putting myself visceral response was not altered. The “Long Island Masterworks on Paper” in the midst of a sociological experi- My next jaunt was out to West- work of both women stands on its own. Drawings by Robert White, Watercol- ment. hampton Beach. I had heard about the Although I’ve been a fan of Outsider ors by George Constant, Prints from As I wandered around the room, I Annual Outsider Art in the Hamptons, Art for many years, my visit to Galerie the Screen Print Workshop July 25-Oc- took in the electric charge emanating but always had scheduling issues. I BelAge became an opportunity to ex- tober 25, 2009 from the paintings. I noticed that there was thrilled at the prospect of finally pand my understanding of the purpose This summer the Long Island Muse- were no gradations of color, no shading, attending the 4th Annual Outsider Art and process underlying the work. The um will unite the three genres of work, and no visible brushstrokes. Morris’ in the Hamptons. The exhibit, which term was coined in 1972 by art critic spanning seven decades, into one color- images are not subtle. There is noth- is taking place at Galerie BelAge in Robert Cardinal as a synonym for Art ful and informative exhibition. In con- ing quiet about them. They jump out at Moniebogue Manor on Moniebogue Brut (Raw Art-rough art). The French junction with the show, the museum you, literally pop off the walls. Initially, Lane, consists of over 100 paintings, artist, Jean Dubuffet first used that invites amateur and professional art- I was taken by the vibrancy of the color sculptures, multi-media and video term to define art created outside the ists to enter its juried art competition, and the strong images of American pop works done by over 40 trained and boundaries of official culture. Much Works on Paper. Prizes will be awarded culture that embraced each wall. Sev- self-taught artists. I have been a lover Outsider Art illustrates extreme men- to the top four artists submitting works eral pieces are three-dimensional, with of Outsider Art for many years and al- tal states, unconventional ideas, or on paper. silk-screened pop-outs adding to the ready had some prior knowledge, but I elaborate fantasy worlds. Visionary The Long Island Museum, 1200 dynamism. Perhaps I would bring the was determined not to let any of this Art and Survivor Art are also included Route 25A Stony Brook, NY 11790 (631) family back for another look. My young influence me as I reviewed the exhibit. in this genre. It is thought that Hi- 751-0066 www.longislandmuseum.org grandchildren would definitely find it I wanted to be an innocent as I perused eronymus Bosch may have been one ef Sept/Oct 2009 ART TIMES page 16
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David Rankin, Morning Bath, 1994 (Sarus crane) Watercolor and gouache on Crescent board Sept/Oct 2009 ART TIMES page 17 Music Hear the Song, Read the Book By FRANK BEHRENS I have on my shelves several very the refrain: roses, blue, rainbow, dew, large and heavy tomes with titles me, through, gladness, sadness, you. that contain the “Complete Lyrics” of Skip to the 1950 “Call Me Madam” to some well-known lyricist. Sometimes I find a stanza with these end rhymes: think, paraphrasing Robert Louis Ste- princess, guy, day, princess, guy, pay, venson, “what can be the use of them another, bring, another, sing, window, is more than I can see.” As the years sang, say, today. This only seems to pass, I do indeed find several uses for show little improvement in his rhym- them, each one helping me to under- ing skills over the years. stand better the development of the However from the same show we American popular song and musical. get these: analyzing, surprising, nice, By definition, a “popular” song is patter, matter, twice, shoulder, older, written for “the people.” That is to glove, take, ache, love. The “weak” say, not for a small elite audience rhymes make things a lot more inter- but for most of the public whose lives esting, as does the a-a-b-c-c-b-d-d-e-f- need a little or a whole lot of reas- f-e scheme. surance that their thoughts, hopes, yes, I know it is unfair to pull out fears, points of view, are shared by three of the more than 3,000 lyrics most of the population. Hearing them Berlin wrote. But my point is that expressed in rhymes to a memorable reading his lyrics is not nearly as melody bucks one up, lets him know rewarding as reading those of Noel (or at least think) that he is not alone. Coward, Cole Porter, and Larry Hart. In his book “Word Crazy: Broadway His songs seldom “tell a story,” an ex- Lyricists from Cohan to Sondheim” ception being “Cohen owes me nine- complete score.) in the Coriolanus” to get a rhyme for (Praeger, 1991), Thomas S. Hischak ty-seven dollars” from 1915. Berlin’s now and then, Gilbert would set “heinous.” points out that the music is so inte- specialty was to express an emotion in up a challenge to himself by necessi- Again, a good actor could render grated with the words in many songs the simplest terms tating rhymes for such unrhymable many Porter lyrics as straight poems that “it is a disservice to the lyricist Like many of Gilbert’s lyrics, much words as “executioner.” Those famil- with no recourse to the music at all, to have his words sitting there on the written by those three can stand alone iar with “The Mikado” will recall his except of course for the natural meter page naked without benefit of the mu- as pure poetry, a claim that cannot be solutions: ablutioner, diminutioner, of the verses. So a book of Porter lyr- sic.” Be that as it may, but I feel that made for most of Berlin’s. Cole Porter’s so you shun her. Porter posed a great- ics is something of a Golden Treasury some naked lyrics can stand without “The tale of the oyster” from his “Fifty er challenge in having to make a long of Sophisticated Poetry. shame on their own. Million Frenchmen” can be read as a list of things that rhyme with (to give Mention should be made of Ogden In “The Complete Lyrics of Irving party piece and bring down the house one example for now) “can-can.” Nash, whose poems are remarkable Berlin” (Knopf, 2001), we see for the if read well, with its wonderful punch His solution was to finish each end- but whose lyrics for such shows as most part seemingly ingenuous lyr- line, which I’ll not reveal here. (You phrase in the first refrain with the “One Touch of Venus,” “Two’s Com- ics, using mostly “strong” rhymes. can find it on pp. 87-88 of the Knopf word “can” while having the penulti- pany” and “The Littlest Review” are Picking at random, I see in his 1912 “The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter” mate syllable rhyme with it. The first little quoted out of context. Perhaps “When I lost you” the end rhymes of or hear it on the New World CD of the few results run thus: Dapper Dan can, “Poems are like liquor but lyrics fade Irish Callahan can, Afghanistan can. quicker”! In the second refrain, he gives us the In the next essays, I would like to The New Rochelle Art Association following: swell can, Ravel can; cus- peek into the lyrics of Larry Hart (of todian can, Republican can; Cézanne whom I have already written much), 94th Annual Juried Exhibition Sept. 12 - Oct. 24 can, Sudan can, Aga Kahn can, cara- Ira Gershwin, and Noel Coward. Un- New Rochelle Public Library, Lawton Street, New Rochelle van can. til then, perhaps some of my readers Opening Reception October 4, 5:15-7pm That is, of course, nothing com- could submit their favorite lyrics from Receiving: Sat., September 12, 10am -1pm; Sculpture 10am - 12 noon pared with his use of titles in “Brush Broadway, Hollywood, or Tin Pan Al- Minimum $2500 cash and art related awards up your Shakespeare, in which he now ley—songs that can stand naked with- For Prospectus send SASE to and then cheats as in “kick her right out the outer garb of melody. NRAA, 30 Oakdale Avenue, New Rochelle, NY 10801 or go to nraaonline.org ef
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Continued from Page 14 Landing, Piermont, NY (845) 365-6411 (thru Oct 4) Rockland FACULTY ART EXHIBIT Art Center of Northern New Jersey, 250 Center St., New Milford, Calendar NJ (201) 599-2992 Reception 7-9PM (thru Sep 29) www.artcenter-nnj.org Bergen, NJ Sunday, September 13 GEORGIA O’KEEFFE: Abstraction Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Ave., 59th ANNUAL SIDEWALK ART SHOW Art Society of Old Greenwich, Sound Beach Ave., NYC (212) 570-3633 (thru Jan 17) NYC Old Greenwich, CT (203) 637-9949 9-5pm www.sidewalkartshow.com Fairfield,CT JOE GOODWIN Solo Show Ferrin Gallery, 69 Church St., Lenox, MA (413) 637-4414 Open- A CAVALCADE OF SONG Hudson Lyric Opera, Trinity United Methodist Church, 47 E. Main ing Reception 6-8pm (thru Nov 14) MA St., Stony Point, NY (845) 709-2273 3pm charge www.hudsonlyricopera.org Rockland RICHARD BENNETTE EXHIBIT Upstream Gallery, 26B Main St., Dobbs Ferry, NY (914) BRITISH SUBJECTS: Identity and Self-Fashioning 1967-2009 Neuberger Museum of 674-8548 (thru Oct 11) Westchester Art, Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Rd., Purchase, NY (914) 251-6100 (thru Dec 13) Westchester Friday, September 18 DOUBLE DUTCH Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (HVCCA), 1701 Main Street, KANDINSKY / GABRIELE MUNTER & VASILY KANDINSKY: A Life in Photographs Peekskill, NY (914) 788-0100 Opening Reception 4-7pm charge (thru Jul 26, 2010) www.hvcca. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Ave., NYC (212) 423-3500 charge (thru Jan 13) NYC org Westchester THE HOLLOW An Agatha Christie Mystery Albany Civic Theater 235 Second Avenue FROM BROADWAY TO HOLLYWOOD Somers Library, Rte 139, Somers, NY (914) 232- Albany, NY (518)462-1297 (thru Oct 4) Albany 7159 3pm Westchester THIRD FRIDAY OPEN MIKE Hudson Valley Writers' Center, Philipse Manor Railroad GALLERY MEMBERS’ FALL SHOW Upstream Gallery, 26B Main St., Dobbs Ferry, NY Station, 300 Riverside Dr., Sleepy Hollow, NY (914) 332-5953 8pm charge www.writerscenter. (914) 674-8548 Opening Reception 2-5pm (thru Oct 11) Westchester org Westchester HOWARD MEYER: Staged Reading Hudson Valley Writers' Center, Philipse Manor TIPI OF THE GREAT PLAINS Brooklyn Museum, 1st Floor, 200 Eastern Pkwy., Brooklyn, Railroad Station, 300 Riverside Dr., Sleepy Hollow, NY (914) 332-5953 4:30pm charge www. NY (718) 638-5000 (thru Jan 10) NYC writerscenter.org Westchester Saturday, September 19 JESSICA MILLER: Landscapes & Portraits Flat Iron Gallery, 105 S. Division St., Peek- 3rd Saturday: Catskill Poughkeepsie, Rhinebeck Arts throughout the town Greene skill, NY (914) 734-1894 Opening Reception 2-5pm (thru Sep 27) Westchester DONALD AXLEROAD: Prints and Paintings Blue Door Gallery, 13 Riverdale Ave., Yon- NUMISMATIC EXHIBIT Belskie Museum of Art & Science, 280 High St., Closter, NJ (201) kers, NY (914) 375-5100 (thru Oct 24) Westchester 768-0286 (thru Nov 8) NJ EMILY BUCHANAN & TITUS WELLIVER: Landscapes Tremaine Gallery, Hotchkiss PASTEL SOCIETY OF AMERICA'S 37th ANNUAL EXHIBITION for "Pastels Only" School, 11 Interlaken Rd., Lakeville, CT (860) 435-3663 Opening Reception 4-6pm (thru Oct National Arts Club Galleries, 15 Gramercy Park South, NYC (212) 533-6931 Awards Ceremony 18) www.hotchkiss.org/AboutHotchkiss/TremainGallery.asp Litchfield,CT (thru Sept 27) www.pastelsocietyofamerica.org NYC FLETCHER MARTIN (1904-1979) Exhibition Fletcher Gallery, 40 Mill Hill Rd., Woodstock, SEPTEMBER NEW EXHIBITS Silvermine Galleries, 1037 Silvermine Rd., New Canaan, CT NY (845) 679-4411 Opening Reception 5-7pm (thru Oct 11) www.fletchergallery.comUlster (203) 966-9700 x 20 Reception 4-6pm (thru Oct 1) www.silvermineart.org Fairfield,CT FRAN SHALOM, DOUGLAS CULHANE, ERIN WALRATH, GRACE BAKST WAPNER, SING WE ENCHANTED New City Library, 220 North Main St., New City, NY (845) 634- PETER McCAFFREY, BARRY BARTLETT John Davis Gallery, 36-1/2 Warren St., Hudson, 4997 x139 2PM Rockland NY (518) 828-5907 Opening Reception 6-8pm (thru Oct 11) Columbia WASHINGTON SQUARE OUTDOOR ART EXHIBIT Washington Square Outdoor Art GREG MILLER: THE HUDSON RIVER: A Great American Treasure; PHILIPPINE Exhibit, Wash. Sq. E. & Univ. Pl. (212) 982-6255 (thru Sep 13) www.wsoae.org NYC HOEGEN & CAROLIEN STIKKER: Riverbank Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Monday, September 14 Paltz, 1 Hawk Dr., New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3844 Reception: 4-6PM (thru Nov 29) Ulster AUDUBON ARTISTS 67th ANNUAL JURIED EXHIBIT Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Ave., GROUP SHOW The Arts Upstairs, Phoeniciarts, 60 Main St., Phoenicia, NY (845) 688-2142 NYC (212) 255-7740 (thru Oct 3) www.salmagundi.org NYC Opening Reception 6-10pm (thru Oct 11) Ulster Tuesday, September 15 ISBA: CHORDS, CHILI & CHARACTERS The West Kortright Center, 49 West Kortright Church Rd., East Meredith, NY (607) 278-5454 7pm charge Delaware P.A. JACKSON: Mixed Media New Century Artist Gallery, 530 W. 25th St, Suite 406, NYC (212) 367-7072 (thru Sep 26) NYC P.A. JACKSON: Mixed Media New Century Artist Gallery, 530 W. 25th St, Suite 406, NYC (212) 367-7072 Opening Reception 3-6pm (thru Sep 26) NYC RAEFORD DWYER WCC Center for the Arts, 27 North Division St., Peekskill, NY (914) 606-7300 Opening Reception 5:30-7pm thru Oct 10) www.sunywcc.edu Westchester REVOLUTIONARY WAR Exhibit Van Wyck Homestead Museum, Rt. 9 & I84, Fishkill, NY 10-4pm (thru Oct 4) Dutchess UNCHARTED: Group Show University Art Museum, University at Albany, 1400 Washing- ton Ave., Albany, NY (518) 442-4038 Opening Reception 5-7pm (thru Dec 13) Albany Sunday, September 20 Wednesday, September 16 GRACE KNOWLTON The Outside In Piermont, 249 Ferdon Ave., Piermont, NY (845) 398- 0706 Opening Reception 2-5pm (thru Nov 1) Rockland JERRY WRAY: Pioneer Artist of the South National Association of Women Artists (NAWA) Gallery, 80 Fifth Avenue(@ 14th St.), Suite 1405, New York, NY (212) 675-1616 NORMAN ROCKWELL Nassau County Museum of Art, One Museum Drive, Roslyn Harbor, Artist's Reception: 6-8pm (thru Oct 20) nawanet.org NYC NY (516) 484-9337 charge (thru Jan 3) Nassau ROBERT SCULLY, LORING GANTNER, GAIL PEARSON & JEAN GORE: Group Thursday, September 17 Show Government Center, Pine Bush, NY (845) 744-2075 Opening Reception 2-4pm (thru CATHERINE WAGNER MINNERY Piermont Flywheel Gallery, 223 Ash St., Piermont Oct 31) Orange Continued on Page 24
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We might have the film, but umn about nudity on stage a couple and Clive Barnes’ position doesn’t re- without hearing about the centerfold. we certainly would not have the of months ago, and got a very full and ally address it either. My point is this: The centerfold gets top billing every cultural event, the world-wide furor, well-written reply from Claudia Carr nudity obscures content. In revealing time. the multi-national censorship, the Levy, the widow of Jacques Levy, who skin, we cover much. Nudity obscures content. permanent place in the collective directed the original production (See Consider, for example, Playboy. A very fine actress I know did one consciousness. The bottom line is that her Letter to the Editor on Page 2). We all read it for the articles, right? of the roles in Killer Joe in which the what the broad popular conscious- Her basic point is that Oh, Cal- Of course right! And in fact, some character is forced at gunpoint by ness knows about that film is that cutta! should not be lightly dismissed. very famous people have written very her brutal attacker to strip. And she Brando gets naked. The film gets Her point is undoubtedly well taken. good stuff for Playboy over the years; did the moment and did it completely buried under the perception. A great many very talented and high- so much so that a good defense of the and did it well, and in the context of Nudity obscures content. ly successful people worked on it in magazine could probably be built on the play it’s an important thing. And Please don’t get me wrong. I’m not all sorts of ways. Her spirited defense that foundation. Yet mention Play- that’s pretty much the only moment trying to shut down nudity on stage. of the show is well thought through boy to anybody who’s ever heard of that got talked about, both among The Puritans can go be Puritans on and well substantiated. Of course, the the magazine and there can be little theater people and among the audi- their own without any help from me. show is far from universally admired. doubt that what pops into the mind ence in general. If you heard about My point is that using nudity in the Clive Barnes’ well-known review is a is the centerfold, not the prose. Or anything else in connection with the theater—to say nothing of other me- pretty good statement for the oppos- put it this way: you hear the fine production, you heard about it along dia—is like applying oils to a paint- ing camp. writing that has appeared over the with that moment, not without hear- ing otherwise done in watercolor. It ing about that moment. That moment covers everything, which is certainly of skin got top billing every time. an ironic phenomenon. You use it, if Nudity obscures content. you must, greatly at your peril. It can, On View in the Galleries Ms. Levy takes me greatly to and probably will, distort and color task for my other passing reference, everything you do. It is the Sorcerer’s • September 8th - 20th www. to Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Apprentice of esthetics, and woe be- Fifty Years of Painting Paris. I think by now you can see tide you if you are not magus enough A Retrospective of Work by art- where I’m going with that. We could to master it. Step boldly if you must, Dorothy DIERKS Hourihan times- have had the psychology of the story but know well that greater magi than without the skin—but without the you have failed!) ef • September 24th - October 18th 2009 Fall Brush Exhibition journal. Curated by Margaret Kelly Trombly com See our website for additional calendar • October 29 - November 22nd listings, resources and essays. 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PUNCTUATED AUTUMN LEAVES ~ Call to Fine Artists ~ The world is getting old, Autumn leaves, Putnam Arts Council’s things fall so fast little brown fingers, we cannot catch them. curling at th the bottom of a tree, 47 Annual Juried Fine Arts Exhibit Everything needs fixing, At the Lodge, 100 rte 312, Brewster, NY in a tall bonfire even humility. their ashes keep Downdraft of flames looking at me. October 17 – November 6, 2009 ~ Cash Awards that would rather rise. Submissions due by Saturday 10/10, 4pm Dots of light across Autumn leaves a sinking hillside. fall and burn, Jurors: Neil Watson, Exec. Director the empty tree of Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY Tonight, there is a new moon- keeps looking down. sliver, I burned all Rae Smith, professional artist (pastels & oil) closing parenthesis and instructor at Katonah Art Center, Katonah, NY its poetry. in the sky —Marion Schoeberlein Prospectus available @ www.putnamartscouncil.com or call 845.278.0230 —Jean Hollander Hopewell, NJ Elmhurst, IL Sept/Oct 2009 ART TIMES page 21 Film Little Known but Memorable Movie Scenes
By HENRY P. RALEIGH May Wong in the 1929 British film discordant, tuneless squawks from THERE ARE, OF course, those movie ‘Piccadilly’. Miss Wong was a popular the bugle that are impossible to re- scenes we cherish as classic moments actress in American and European member. This astonishing perfor- and usually these bear a spoken line films from the ‘30s through the next mance anticipates the final scene or two that forever fixes them in several decades. In ‘Piccadilly’ we are in ‘White Heat’ of 1949 where memory. To hear the line is to con- treated to a close shot of Miss Wong’s James Cagney stands on a burn- jure up the scene: Gable’s “ I don’t face, her head resting on her bare, ing gas tank shouting, “top of give a damn” from ‘Gone With the upraised arm. As the scene opens the world”, to his deceased Wind’, Eastwood’s “Make My Day” we can see a fly on her arm at lower mother. You see, we remem- from ‘Dirty Harry’; “Play it Sam” from right. At first sight, this might be ber that one, all right. ‘Casablanca — you know the ones. taken for a spot on the film but then, There are many splendid But there are too many scenes de- leisurely, the fly walks up her arm, yet unheralded acting per- serving of lasting tribute that, prob- stops now and then, zigzags a bit, formances, some barely ably because they are accompanied then continues on to disappear in the noticed, cruelly passed by no catchy lines, are ignored, the shadows. Miss Wong doesn’t bat an by. Just look care- acting tour de force unsung, for many eye, she steadily maintains through- fully at the back- of the actors their names unknown. out the fly’s journey her signature ground actors in Let me offer you a few of these forgot- look of cool seductiveness. How many any restaurant ten scenes, the first from the Italian- actors are capable of such concentra- scene. No, not made ‘Ulysses’ in 1954 and starring tion? Could you hold a pose while a the one in ‘When Kirk Douglas. It begins with the fall bug is crawling up the underside of Harry Met Sal- of Troy and we can see a long wall of your arm, I ask you? Miss Wong knew ly’, when Rob crenellated battlements, each open- well that British films in those days Reiner’s mother ing showing a Trojan, spear poised, lacked the budget that would permit says, “I’ll have am reminded of the truly great act- ready to hurl down on the invading re-shooting scenes. Trooper to the what she has”, where again a spoken ing scene that is never forgotten by Greeks. At the very far right of the end, she wasn’t going to let the stu- line keeps it in memory, but those legions of nameless actors and bit screen and as the spears are loosed dio down. Someone reading this will standard scenes, featured actors up players. It is an inspirational story the actor at the end chucks his spear be quick to point out that a close-up close, bit players far to the rear yet that some will say is no more than straight into the wall before him, the of Falconetti in the 1928 ‘Passion of in focus. Seated at a table seemingly an urban legend, a tale for the gull- spear bounding into his face. The Joan of Arc’ also features a fly buzz- eating, conversing. Imagine how dif- ible — still, it persists though sel- film editors let it stand not in care- ing about the face of an actress. I say ficult this must be, each wishing the dom openly acknowledged. You may lessness but, as I like to think, in that’s a much different challenge. camera might turn to them to be seen recall the scene in the film in which admiration for this anonymous actor The fly didn’t land on her face and to good advantage, knowing how slim Cagney shoots a hostage in the trunk who refused to quit. For you see, pro- set off on a carefree wandering which the chances of movie fame still dog- of a sedan. I’d like to point out to you fessional that he was, so dedicated might certainly have begun a squint- gedly chewing at whatever it is that that we never see the hostage released to this craft, that despite what must ing and twitching. Ms. Falconetti did is supposed to serve as food, striving from that trunk. Now you’ll probably have been a painful blow to his face, manage to pay no heed to the fly, I’ll bravely to look engaged in casual din- say the director simply stopped the he struggled yet to hurl his spear off, give her that. ner conversation. What do they talk camera, had the actor hop out and albeit a second or so later than his My favorite scene, and I may have about at such times? Are the words then continued the filming having comrades. How long did he struggle, mentioned this elsewhere, is in the sad, hopeless, cynical? Are the actors Cagney riddle an empty trunk with did he succeed, did his spear wobble 1939 ‘Gunga Din’. Here, Sam Jaffe, instructed to mouth only nonsense real bullets. That may be, but as the over quite alone? We don’t know, for clad only in turban and diapers, to prevent lip readers from eaves- story goes, the actor refused to exit the scene ends short of such a dra- stands shakily atop a slippery dome dropping? We never know. If hidden the trunk, claiming that for the in- matic finish. blowing a bugle to warn off approach- microphones could secretly pick up tegrity of the film, for the artistic For sheer acting fortitude, for the ing British troops. He has no lines what these actors talk about, I bet an necessity of retaining the brutal au- most extraordinary focus on a role to speak that might be enshrined entire film could be built around it. thenticity, and unwilling to abandon it’s hard to beat a scene with Anna in movie history, nothing but a few Having brought up ‘White Heat’ I this one last chance of acting star- dom, he would remain there until the (WON’T EVER) TELL ON YOU end — and he did. ef insides crawl under your Poets’ Niche talented fingertips, pray to die before you get too close, find my heart THE PASS go away, memories of him Scanty panties one place I’ve visited too no more than a thong, many times no, I’ve got Get Published! I imagine, to wake up and scream again an original keeps your secrets blind hands find the water and the book of your art! sacred. 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For ex- “Quiet,” he said. “I think I have a along a slope leading from the plains the word ‘died’ very slowly, very phoneti- ample, the American military likes to use surprise for you!” He took me by the arm of Attica I could see, even through the cally. the words collateral damage in place of and, pushing others aside, pulled me haze, a column of smoke spiraling up, There was a pause in the drilling civilian casualties, so that the tragedy of closer to the source of all the excitement. dark and foul. noise that was coming from down the innocents being maimed or killed, during He turned to his grandson. “Stratos, get “The Albanians,” said an older man, street. Neither men at the table seemed an air attack for instance, would be less the camera from the car.” seated at one of the other tables in the to notice. felt.” The grandson picked up a table The young man, without a word, left outdoor cafe. “That’s right, grandfather. There napkin and absent-mindedly began immediately. “What makes you think it was an was a dead dog.” The younger man sat up massaging the lenses of his sunglasses. By now the Athenian police had Albanian,” replied his young companion. even closer and removed his sunglasses. The ponderable expression on his face cordoned off the work area. The young “For all we know the blaze could have His dark eyes, somewhat similar to those implied however, that only now, for the laborers were milling around smoking been set by one of our own. You know, of the man across from him, narrowed first time, did he discern something de- cigarettes, their jackhammers lying some slick Athenian setting fire to a with indignation. “Why? A man was praved in what he just said. silently beside them. The conversation vacant strip of land so that he then can killed, and you’re asking about the death “So,” the older man said, shaking his taking place between the engineer and turn around, buy it dirt cheap and build of a dog?” head, “so you want to be kind to a dog by the representative from the antiquities his villa.” “Men die. Dogs don’t” saying that it died instead of saying what department became more discernible as I had heard about the mysterious fires “What?” really may have happened to it? Does a silence, the type which portends all popping up around Athens that summer. “I said men die, dogs don’t.” that go for cars and their batteries too? sorts of vexatious implications, envel- Some Greeks blamed the flare-ups on The younger man chuckled. “ The dog And humans as well? It amazes me what oped everyone else. the influx of poor Albanian immigrants was dead. Dead. Do you understand? sometimes passes for sanity these days. “What are they?” The construction who had recently been streaming into Just like the human corpse the police Too much distortion. Too much playing crew foreman spoke English. His accent, Greece. Others opined that it was the found. Dead. Fini. Kaput.” around with words just to make them German. dry weather and arid winds coming up The older man reached over across sound more or less humane depending “Human remains. You’ve unearthed from North Africa. Even before I had left the table and slid a cigarette out from on the occasion or the situation. Boy, you an ancient cemetery,” the university Chicago, there had been rumors within his grandson’s shirt pocket. He tore off should go into politics or the diplomatic official said climbing back up from the the Greek community that the rash of the filter. “Give me a light.” corps.” excavation area. 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I turned to look, think- — maybe he was an anthropologist or Greeks themselves putting the torch to all other living things...” and the old man ing it to be an ambulance or even a archaeologist — did not hesitate. “Two the country of my ancestors was some- was very deliberate with his pronuncia- fire engine on it’s way to an accident and a half thousand years. Probably a thing I had managed to repress during tion “...all other living things, pso-fee-sa- or another fire. What I finally spotted mass burial site. We’ll have to stop all my visit. But the sight of the smoke bil- ne. Say it. Pso-fee-sa-ne.” though was a blinking blue light set atop operations” lowing towards Mt. Hymettus and the The young man began to mutter a speeding white van with the words The crowd surged closer to the opened conversation now ripening at the next something then paused. An image, sud- University of Athens, Department of An- pit, increasing the pressure on the inter- table brought the whole festering idea denly fixed in his imagination, seemed tiquities scrolled along the door panel. It locked arms of the local police who were back into focus. I put the post cards and to distract him. seemed headed toward the site where the struggling defiantly to maintain their my pen down on the table and ordered A siren began to whine somewhere construction workers had been digging. positions. another coffee. The tour bus for Sounion off in the distance. Down the street, the When they saw the van speed by, the “I have a deadline to meet.” The en- wasn’t going to leave for an hour. I had clanging from a single pneumatic drill other cafe patrons — foreigners mostly gineer removed his white hard hat and time. Despite the contaminated air started up again, then stopped. There — jumped from their chairs and darted wiped his brow. — and the sound of jackhammers drill- were three or four more short bursts, toward a crowd which was beginning to “You will have to wait until the proper ing into the earth for a new subway a few then silence. gather around the workmen. The com- governmental authorities decide what to blocks away — it was still cool and placid “English. Ha!” the grandfather went bined spectacle of the roaring university do,” said the university official. enough to be outdoors. on. “Everything dies in English. People vehicle rushing as if to an emergency and “How many times do we have to go “What do you know! You may be my die. Cars die. Engine batteries die. Frogs people sprinting from the cafe caught me through this? Do you Greeks want the grandson, but you’re still a pup. Don’t die. Phones go dead. Electrical wires. off guard. I, along with the waiter, who damn metro built or not!” The German let your American college education Fires die out. Dead duck. Dead weight.” was casually strolling around the tables reached for his cell phone. go to your head, Stratos! You’ve been The old man flipped the cigarette butt picking up his tips, were the only ones “You will have to wait.” away too long, and now you’re going to into the gutter. left. Then I noticed the old man from the “What do you think, my friend?” The old tell me what’s going on in Greece? How “What are you talking about?” next table walking toward all the com- man’s face was beaming with the wonder long have you been back? A week?” The “Don’t you see, Stratos... the English motion too. And, as if he knew I had just and wild abandonment of a prophet who, old man sipped some coffee, then took a language can sometimes warp our per- laid my eyes upon him, he stopped dead to his own surprise, was now convinced swipe at his mustache. The intensity in ception and sense of humanity. To die in his tracks. He turned in my direction, that he had actually caused this historic his voice seemed at odds with the tran- is to release the soul. Only humans are and waving his Panama hat in the air, revelation to take place solely for my quil motion of his fingers as he toyed with capable of such freedom, such miracles. beckoned me to join him. benefit. “Well ? ” a noose of amber worry beads. All other things can’t possibly die, they I felt embarrassed, like I had just The crowd had grown impatient. Ev- The younger man, his sunglasses are soulless. They...they... they expire. been caught eavesdropping. Surely, the erything was in motion. The old man’s perched up and back into his wavy hair, That’s different. Human beings and old man, even though he gave no indica- grip on my arm began to slip as people lit a cigarette. Lounging further back dogs, different, very different. Now say tion, must have been aware of my pres- lunged ahead. “What do you think?” He into his chair, he struck a pose like a film it. Pso-fee-sa-ne.” ence during his conversation with his shouted again, his eyebrows arched over director deep in contemplation. “C’mon grandfather, you’re making a grandson. But why hadn’t he made an globe-like eyes. “...One minute drinking “Sit up! My hearing is not that big deal out of nothing.” issue of it? Why hadn’t he tried lowering coffee, and the next thing you know, good.” “Say it!” his voice or turning his back to me since around the street corner, ancient Greek The grandson sat up. He irrever- The grandson scrutinized the old I was within hearing distance? And now citizens from the age of Pericles are being ently flipped his sunglasses back down man like one might gaze upon a carica- he’s gesturing to me as if he forgot me? resurrected from the dead. Ha!” over his eyes. “Greeks burning Greeks... ture in a wax museum — with off-color As if I too were an accomplice to what- I tried to hold on to the old man. Why, and their dogs too, just for a few acres of speculation. “O.K., psi-fee-sa-ne. How’s ever drama was taking place? I checked I don’t know. But the crowd swallowed choice land. Not good.” that?” my watch again. The bus for Sounion him up as it made its final surge toward “What are you talking a about? “Not psi-fee-sa-ne. What, are you was due in fifteen minutes. I still had the barricades surrounding the freshly ‘Greeks burning Greeks’,” the older man saying that now dogs should be entitled time, at least enough to see what all the disinterred ruins. I wanted to say some- asked. “Someone who’s spent the last to vote? It’s pso-fee-sa-ne. Pso. Pso. commotion was about, and perhaps, to thing, but my tongue wouldn’t budge. seven years in one of the most murderous Understand? Jesus and Mother Mary, introduce myself to the old one and his “Welcome ... to the glories of Athens!” countries in the world is now going to tell you’ve forgotten too much of your native grandson who now, having taken him I heard him bellow out from somewhere me about crime here in Athens?” tongue, boy. Mess around with language by the arm, was leading him into the deep within the pandemonium. “What I’m talking about is the news and you mess around with your mind.” madhouse forming around the white van Left behind for a moment, I tried to on the radio. Firefighters found the crisp “Pso-fee-sa-ne.” with the winking blue light. collect my thoughts. Again, I tried to remains of a man yesterday, just north “That’s better.” I finally caught up to the old man and speak, now, if only to myself. Then I of here, on some abandoned property The grandson went on. “ Maybe its his grandson. I greeted him in Greek, remembered the bus. Sounion. Too late. recently burned to the ground. A dog just that the English language likes to explaining that I was a Greek-American Surely the motor coach is probably way died too.” use euphemisms sometimes, but…” just visiting and that I was not intention- past Salamis by now. “An isolated incident.” The old man “What did you say?” ally eavesdropping on him back at the signaled the waiter for more ice water. “Euphemism. It is a milder, gentler cafe. But he looked at me as if who I (Leonard Costopoulos lives in Or- “It’s the Albanians, I tell you. 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