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ART TIMES Vol. 29 No. 5 Spring 2013 (March/April/May) “A State of Art: Maine’s Influence on African-American Artists” Included artwork was part of a traveling exhibit titled "Evolution: Five Decades of Printmaking" that toured the country October 29-January 17, 2009 American artists established creative There is probably no art school in roots throughout New England, Maine that has had as profound effect including Joshua Johnston, Robert on artists of color as the Skowhegan Scott Duncanson, Edward Mitch- School of Painting and Sculpture. ell Bannister, Edmonia Lewis and Located in the town of Skowhegan (its Henry Ossawa Tanner, who worked named derived from the local Native under much more difficult circum- American word Skowhegan, which stances than their white counter- means “watching place for fish”, the parts, lacking receptive academies, falls of the nearby Kennebec River museums and patrons, as well as having been a favorite for salmon), social and economic opportunities. the school, since 1946, has sustained There is considerable evidence that summer residency programs where many black artists lived and worked race posed no barrier to learning and in Maine, regardless of hardships creativity and African Americans over many decades. For example, in have played a prominent role in its the 1920s painter Palmer Hayden history and development. attended a summer art colony in It was part of the mandate of Boothbay Harbor, offering to work Willard Cummings, a New Eng- as a cook in exchange for art lessons. land portrait painter and one of the Hayden had grown up in Widewater, school’s founders to reach out to Spirits Watching, 1986 David C. Driskell (c) Virginia, where he drew pictures black students and bring them to By Leigh Donaldson of boats plying the Potomac River. Skowhegan. To do so, he approached Howard University and between “Even during the most difficult mother. Later, he was sold during Maine’s landscape also inspired him 1947 and 1974, almost 30 of its stu- periods of African-American history, the 1830s to Portuguese slave trad- and he painted several marinescapes, dents attended Skowhegan, most the natural world held potential to be ers in Zanzibar and transported to one of which, The Schooner, won receiving full scholarships. Indeed, a source of refuge, sustenance and un- Rio de Janeiro on the American brig, him the William E. Harmon Founda- the list of African-Americans who compromised beauty”, writes editor, Porpoise, captained by Cyrus Libby tion’s first award for Distinguished have attended the school as students Camille T. Dungy, in “Black Nature: of Scarborough. Ultimately arriving Achievement Among Negroes lead- (called participants), visiting artists Four Centuries of African-American to Maine, Pedro (meaning “to run ing to his art study in Paris and his and artists in residence is expansive: Nature Poetry”. Though Dungy was away” in his native tongue) was ad- becoming a leading artists during Romare Beardon, Elizabeth Catlett, primarily referring to how black po- opted by the Parris family of Virgil D. the Harlem Renaissance. His love Gregory Coates, David Driskell, ets were influenced by their physical Parris, then the state’s US Marshal. of ocean vistas and nautical subjects Mel Edwards, David Hammons, bell environment, the same can be said of During his life there, he produced led to a series of paintings he created hooks, Jacob Lawrence, Glen Ligon, visual artists of color. an autobiographical work of art in on a trip to Brittany, a rugged pen- Whitfield Lovell, Lorraine O’Grady, Maine may not be the first place pencil, ink and watercolor on cotton insula of northwest France that may Howardena Pindell, Adrian Piper, that comes to mind when thinking linen, depicting his progression from have reminded him of Maine. Of his Martin Puryear, Alison Saar, Betye of African-American artists. Names captivity to his life as a free man. This sojourn in Maine, he once remarked, Saar, Nari Ward, Carrie Mae Weems, such as Winslow Homer, Edward provocative piece, now preserved by “That was a real turning point for and Fred Wilson, among many oth- Hopper, John Marin, Rockwell Kent the Society for the Preservation of me…I began to realize things and make connections about everything.” ers. No doubt, in appreciation of the and the Wyeth family are more com- New England Antiquities, depicts an Continued on Page 3 monly viewed as prominent in Maine emotional continuum from slavery to art culture. Yet, despite having a freedom: troops marching into Rio de black population of less than two Janeiro, the US frigate Raritan sail- CSS Publications, Inc. Support the Arts; PO Box 730 percent, the Pine Tree State has been ing north, a view of the gold dome of Enrich your Life a spiritual home for artists for many Boston’s State House on Beacon Hill Mt. 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ART TIMES Commentary and Resource for the Fine & Performing Arts ALTHOUGH THEY ARE displayed By now, most artists are familiar with gave in) their sketch books were so ART TIMES (ISSN 0891-9070) is published quar- now and then —usually tucked inside my work and know that I am not ‘in enlightening, giving obvious clues to terly by CSS Publications, Inc and distributed a vitrine that features memorabilia the business’ of publishing “tell-alls” their finished work. Gilot’s was par- along the Northeast Corridor primarily through- out the Metropolitan & Hudson Valley Regions, — at a retrospective of some noted that can mean-spiritedly embarrass ticularly interesting in that her tiny Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Jersey. artist, the humble “sketch book” is people and titillate others. Most now books were not only full of drawings, Copies are also available by mail to subscribers but also poems, and comments in and arts organizations throughout the US and more often than not overlooked, ne- know that I am indeed probing — abroad. Copyright © 2013, CSS Publications, Inc. glected, passed over as insignificant but only to uncover the source(s) of what little margins were available; ART TIMES online can be viewed at: arttimesjour- in an artist’s life and work. True, they their creative spirit/output (as I note Angeloch’s less ‘chatty’, but full of nal.com and has a pdf of the current print issue annotations as to color and what the (with images in color), as well as archived critiques, are usually dog-eared, travel-worn, above, many artists — rightly so — reviews, art essays, theatre, film, music, dance es- and pocket-sized, but, at least for are unable or unwilling to translate finished product might or ought to says from 2001. Each month the site is updated with me, sketch books rank very high as their work into words). I say “rightly look like ‘compositionally’ (not sure new essays, videos, advertising and resources. Call for visitor statistics as they change daily. offering some of the most revealing so” since (I’ve found) the glibber they that’s a word) thus, often side-by-side insights I can ever get while I sit in are, the less are they genuine art- sketches of the same scene. Another Publisher: Cornelia Seckel some artist’s studio trying to garner ists. And, I say “genuine” because that stands out in my memory was Editor: Raymond J. Steiner enough material for a Profile— and there are a great many talented (and the sketch book / journal of Elizabeth Contributing Writers: Henry P. Raleigh Robert W. Bethune besides, I learn so much about art! 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I just had a chance to pick up the Cheers, WORLD-WIDE SHIPPING & FRAMING CONTACT: paper...thank you so much! The Betsy Jacaruso PABLO PICASSO publicity is terrific andI appreciate it. Betsy Jacaruso Studio & Gallery FEMME A LA COLLERETTE It’s great the way you pulled the im- Estate Lithograph, 16-A Rhinebeck, NY Spring 2013 ART TIMES page 3 Speak Out “A State of Art: Maine’s Influence By Leigh Donaldson Continued from Page 1 on African-American Artists” welcoming of black artists, Jacob Lawrence’s widow, Gwendolyn, estab- be said that the house was actually Park in the 1940s and has lished a fellowship in her husband’s built and designed out of visions of since resided on the island name and donated the bulk of his these towering trees that are now so village of Islesford, Maine. extensive collection of art books to the personal to him to the extent that he Born during the Great school’s library. In the 1990s Camille has given them a human dimension. Depression, he took free and Bill Cosby endowed a fellowship In “ David Driskell: Search of the art classes funded through specifically for African-American art- Creative Truth”, a video produced, the federal government’s ists, which has, to date, helped more directed by Richard Kane, sponsored Works Progress Admin- than 20 students. by the Union of Maine Visual Artists istration. After attending Skowhegan’s 300-acre campus re- as part of the Maine Masters Project, the Cooper Union School mains unassuming. A small sign along the painter, a Georgia native, recalls of Art & Engineering, he old White Schoolhouse Road leads to- his upbringing as poor in the western served in a US Army black ward hills and pine forest, close to the Appalachian region of North Carolina battalion where he saw former mill town from which the school and the viewer can easily imagine action during the invasion took its name. At first sight, with its that he is as proud of his gardens and of Normandy on Omaha rustic 19th century wooden buildings nature as he is of his paintings. “The Beach. Later, he would and studios, it resembles the chicken Maine pine has been a source in my earn a degree in philoso- farm it once was rather than art school, work since I came here…It’s not just phy at Columbia Univer- according to New York Times reporter the greens or what I discern as the sity and pursue painting Scott Southerland. Most importantly, blue. I have invented color.” Indeed, in southern France on a the school has maintained its original his thesis in graduate school at Catho- GI Bill going on to receive vision, that is, a school governed by art- lic University of America was about a Fulbright fellowship to ists for artists, a place that encourages the pine tree as a symbol of eternity, study in Germany. From creative expression free from market- how anything that is evergreen, in par- 1974 to 1988, he chaired The Haystack Book David C. Driskell place expectations, popular critics and ticular cedar and pines, has been used the art department at academia. as a representation of everlasting life. Dartmouth College. tor is a long-time Portland, Maine From the beginning, Skowhegan While he was teaching at a south- Despite, or perhaps because of his resident. Born in Georgia, he is largely emphasized skill over theory and pro- ern college in the South, driskell worldly success, Bryan has stated self-taught, but trained at the Institute moted keeping an open mind about turned away from painting people that his Skowhegan experience in of Atlanta. According to his website, he particular and being a resident and has exhibited his paintings and sculp- active member of Maine’s increasingly ture at galleries and museums such as diverse artistic community, is one of the Seattle Art Museum, Bates College the most profound influences on his in Maine and at the Meridian Inter- art. “Skowhegan reinforced my belief national Center. He is also founding that what matters most is what you do director and vice-president of Maine now and that art is about seeking out Freedom Trails, Inc. and created the meaning in life beyond negative things distinctive plinth-style markers that like war,” the artist expressed to me in identify significant sites related to the a 2008 telephone interview. “Nobody abolitionist movement and Under- puts obstacles in your way when you ground Railroad activity throughout pick up a paint brush.” the city of Portland, Maine. He also In this vein, Bryan appears to designed the US postage commemora- have little patience for the notion of tive stamps for Kwanzaa in both 2004 so-called ‘black art’, seeing its pursuit and 2011. essentially as a “waste of creative en- Describing Minter’s art, ethnic ergy”. Again, his work is more often in- studies professor and historian, Eliza- formed by the natural world. In a 2005 beth Harding writes: “This is the work interview about the publication of his of the guardian, the interpreter, the Deer Isle David C. Driskell children’s book, “Beautiful Blackbird” one-who-watches-at-the-gate. Giving with the Maine Sunday Telegram, us back the ground we grew out of…the artistic styles. Co-founder and painter because the racially charged struggles Bryan stated: “I was raised in New fertile place…source of our sweetness Henry Varnum Poor wrote in one of were so ugly to him. This creative crisis York City, but I’ve always known I was and struggle…All Africa in diaspora… the school’s earliest bulletins: “Paint- apparently occurred after he painted a country boy at heart. I used to go to stony cities and the pushed rhythm of ing in America is now a very fluid and “Behold Thy Son” in 1956, based on the park and try to find a place where the fields. Oceans. Winds. Our new experimental and rapidly changing the Emmett Till killing. According to I could see no buildings.” world routes. Our new world wisdom. period…But, in whatever direction Driskell, it was part of his process of Many artists of color past and Our strength. Our salt.” painting swings, it always returns to emotionally navigating through the present who have studied, lived and For all the visual artists who have reality as the one vital, original and difficulty of the Civil Rights Move- worked in Maine echo much of this lived and worked in the state of Maine, creative source.” ment; the crises in Alabama during the sentiment that being an artist trumps there is clearly a sense that the place David Driskell, whose career as an 1950s, the Klan coming to campuses, being African-American, that natural itself has afforded them a full range internationally recognized art teacher, the cross burnings. Driskell recalls beauty is essential to their craft. of feelings, concepts and emotions, curator, historian, collector and writer how these horrific events affected him “The most powerful introspective including race identity and heritage, spans more than 47 years, was a 1953 at the time and how he said to himself: times of my life have been at Skow- that shapes their craft. For any artist, student participant at Skowhegan. “I can’t paint people any more. They’re hegan and in Maine”, stated Alison nature can be a refuge, and escape, During the summer, the first thing you not symbols of beauty any more…I’m Saar, daughter of the renowned Afri- but, perhaps, most importantly, a notice when you drive up toward his going to nature…the trees, they’re so can-American artist Betye Saar and staring point. studio in Falmouth, Maine, is a quar- forgiving, they’re so loving, they’re so art conservationist Richard Saar. The ter acre of thriving corn, potatoes, to- caring. And, so, I started painting all (Leigh Donaldson’s writing has younger Saar often returns to the state matoes, beans, collard greens, cucum- these trees and they became part and appeared in print and online pub- and reflects on how her experience bers, alongside brilliant flower beds. parcel of what I did.” lications such as the The Montreal there has deepened her awareness of Referring to his series of paintings Not only has Maine captured the Review, American Legacy Maga- the power of the elements. “There’s that he created during his first sum- imagination of black artists through- zine, American Songwriter Maga- something about the quality of the air, mer in Falmouth, called “The Pines out the world, but has a notable zine, Portland Monthly Magazine, the northern lights — it’s magical”, of Falmouth”, he states: “I was taken homegrown community of artists of Maine Food & Lifestyle Magazine, said Saar whose background in Afri- with the beauty of the landscape, what color, including illustrator and author and “Maine’s Visible Black His- can, Latin-American and Caribbean I call the romance of the pines, the way Ashley Bryan, now 89, who came to tory” (Tilbury House Publishers). art is noticeably imprinted within her they flow and move in and out, when Skowhegan in its inaugural year. A re- His book about the antebellum own work, lending a unique sense of the wind blows; they create their own cipient of honors including the Coretta African-American Press in the both spiritual and cultural diversity. kind of lively world.” He designed his Scott King Book Award, Bryan first Northeast will be published by Daniel Minter, an award-winning house in the early 1960s to look up witnessed Maine’s Little Cranberry McFarland & Co. Publishers in children’s book author and illustra- at the trees from his windows. It can Island on a trip to Acadia National 2014.) ef Spring 2013 ART TIMES page 4

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nrm.org • Stockbridge, ma • 413.298.4100 • open daily Spring 2013 ART TIMES page 5 Art Art Criticism By raymond j. steiner of words, which, in turn, brought us ‘art’ and, by and large, were con- “art” of art criticism, how many had OVER THE YEARS, I have given “artwriters” such as Cennino Cen- sidered ‘artisans’ — banausos, the ever read a Haiku poem. Quite a few talks on a subject I called “The Art nini, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Leon Battista Greeks called them — and ranked raised their hands but when I asked of Art Criticism” — at The National Alberti, Pietro Aretino (often given in class among barbers, cooks, and how many could read Japanese, all Arts Club in NYC, the Bruce Mu- the ‘distinction’ of being the first art smiths. Once ‘artists’ were considered hands went down. “So,” I said, “then seum in Connecticut, the Woodstock critic), and Georgio Vasari, (usually a cut above the ‘artisans’ (especially no one here has ever actually read School of Art in Woodstock, NY, The called the first art historian). in the Renaissance) and the “experts” a Haiku poem — only a translation Heimatmuseum Charlottenburg in It wouldn’t be long before the came on the scene to cash in, things of one.” They got it. Another related Berlin, Germany, for example — my “Enlightenment” unleashed rigorous became even more bewildering to the example: Back when I was teaching primary reason to de-mystify and to and logical German thinkers such layman. As noted above, art is itself High School English, I showed my emphasize that criticism is an “art” as Johann Joachim Winckelmann, a language, and reading someone’s students an unusual object — a little and by no means a “science”. I believe Jakob Burckhardt, Gotthold Ephraim words about art does not mean you are high-class tool for picking up a sugar it is high time to deflate some of the Lessing, Immanuel Kant and Georg ‘reading’ the art — a task not without lump — let them handle it and then importance that has been attached Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel who, in turn, its inherent difficulty. I once asked asked them to write a description of to the role of “art critic” — not that laid the groundwork for a plethora the artist Will Barnet how, in mod- it. I then gave their descriptions to a the cognoscenti hadn’t held critics of “experts” (or ‘middlemen’) such ern times, art critics came to be held second class and asked them to draw suspect for a long, long time. Pliny as historians, curators, museum in such high esteem. He pondered a picture of what was being described. tells us that as far back as 400 B.C. directors, dealers, gallery owners, moment and said, “One word is worth Needless to say, I got 35 different Zeuxis wrote: “Criticism comes easier and art teachers — not to mention a thousand pictures”. When I asked pictures, none of which resembled than craftsmanship.” Imagine that! all and sundry who chose to become him about turning the old adage on the little sugar-picker-upper. And 400 B.C.! They were onto us way back “artwriters”. Not a great deal of time its head, he explained, “An artist can one final word: The late Ted Denyer, then! The list of critic criticizers is would pass before what was consid- have a thousand pictures in his stu- friend and artist, once explained to me long indeed, and I’ll just name a few ered “art” was largely determined dio, but until some ‘critic’ with some that when a person walks into a mu- here. Disraeli said, “You know who by writers rather than artists. One ‘clout’ writes about that artist, those seum, or gallery, and are ‘stopped’ by the critics are? The men who have rather ‘famous’ middleman was the pictures will in all likelihood remain in a particular work of art, he or she will failed in literature and art”; Lord By- Frenchman Denis Diderot who made the studio”. It was Barnet’s conviction usually walk up to it for a closer look. ron wrote, “A man must serve his time his ‘name’ by assessing artists around that after WWI & II, the American “When they note, for example, that, to every trade / save censure — critics (his) world for wealthy patrons. He public became much more literate, ‘Oh, that’s a boat in a harbor, some are all ready-made”; Victor Hugo de- played a major role, for example, in learning how to read words but not seagulls above, some people walking scribed critics as “fungus at the foot of forming Catherine the Great’s art necessarily how to read art. Hence, along the shore’ they have begun to oaks”; Brendan Behan suggested that collection housed now in the Hermit- the art “critic”. I guess not enough of look at the picture but have stopped “critics are like eunuchs — they might age at St. Petersburg. Like much them read Kant who pointed out that looking at the art”. As I note above, know all the technical details of how of ‘royalty’, Catherine knew little it took two different “heads” not only ‘reading’ art is not without its pitfalls! it’s done — but can’t do it themselves”. about ‘art’ and ‘artists’ — hence the to produce but also to understand both The simple truth is, it is not only Perhaps most sobering, however, is ‘middleman’. Like her father Peter products. He differentiated the two abstractions that are non-definable Jean Sibelius’s observation that “no the Great (who knew only enough “mind sets” as being either a “judging” (as Socrates so deftly pointed out), statue has ever been put up of a critic” to instruct his middlemen, “Don’t or a “productive” faculty — and that it but so also are “tangibles”, objective while, on a humorous note, Mark buy bad pictures!”), Catherine knew is a very rare person who is equipped words, difficult to pin down. Ask an Twain once wrote to a friend, “Tomor- nothing about art but she did know to perform both. audience to think of “house” or “dog”, row night I appear for the first time that owning it represented ‘culture’ But, what exactly, does it mean for example and for even one of them before a Boston audience — 4,000 crit- — and she bought entire collections to “read” art? One might say that we to have an image in mind that is a ics!” (OK, I can’t resist one final dig at by the wagonload, totally unaware can “read” the ceiling of the Sistine carbon copy of your image is —well my colleagues and me: John Osborne of both artists and individual pieces Chapel (without knowing how to — nearly beyond possible. Let’s face wrote that “Asking a working writer — to prove how ‘cultured’ she was. “read” Italian) or Rembrandt’s “Hun- it — words are tricky; and, in my [or artist] what he thinks about critics Unfortunately, many such ‘experts’ dred Guilder” print (without knowing estimation, of all of mankind’s ‘in- is like asking a lamppost what it feels who catered to the rich, were them- how to “read” Dutch) — both, glaring ventions’ of communication, namely about dogs”). selves equally ignorant. Money and examples of the pitfalls of confusing music, images, and words, words are Let’s begin with a tiny bit of his- power — and ignorance — still reign words with images. They are simply the worst means of all — music goes tory: Consider first, that art “criti- today and many a venal art “critic” not the same and “translating” one directly to the ‘gut’, art through the cism” did not come upon the scene in happily plays the “expert” middleman into the other fraught with problems. eyes, mind and ‘gut’, while words — the Western world until thousands to their moneyed and muddle-headed Likewise, “reading” an expert’s words well who knows just how exactly they and thousands of years after the patrons. about Mozart, is a far, far cry from lis- work in true communication? (Think Pleistocene Age — that pre-historic Meanwhile, back in the caves tening to his music —for, like art, mu- of the U.N.; politicians; salespeople time when cave ‘paintings’ seem to (which by this time had been trans- sic is in and of itself a ‘language’ with — and so on, and so on). To some, have been ‘created’. Image-making, formed into private and guild work- its own unique ‘vocabulary’ and set words can only take us further afield. in fact, was a ‘language’ long before shops, studios, ateliers, and the like), of ‘rules’. Furthermore, even trans- For instance, Martin Buber, the Ha- it morphed into picto-grams and, many artists were still turning out lating words into words is often well sidic philosopher/author, explains in finally, into the written or spoken ‘stuff’ unaware and uninterested in nigh impossible and subject to similar his book I and Thou just how words, word — however, by the time we got to what the wordsmiths were saying distortions, misinterpretations, and “labels”, can lead us away from the Italian Renaissance, we’d pretty about their handiwork. In fact, most nonsense. I once asked my audience “truth”. His example: a mother is much fallen in love with our invention ‘artists’ had no idea about creating while delivering my spiel on the Continued on Page 11

National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic 59th National Juried Exhibition at the Salmagundi Club, 47 5th Avenue, NYC May 6th ­— May 24th awards Fri. May 24, 7pm Juried by CD • Entry deadline March 30th. Featuring the ROBERT SANSTROM PRIZE-Gold Medal and $5000. Over $15,000 in prize money and medals. Jury of Selection: Chuck Berk, Robert Dunn, Charles McVicker, Sue Wall & D. Wels • Juror of Awards: Burton Silverman • Entry fee: Non-members, $20. For prospectus: send SASE to: D. Wels, Corr. Secy., 1710 1st Ave., #245, New York, NY 10128 or visit NationalSocietyofPaintersinCaseinandAcrylic.com Spring 2013 ART TIMES page 6 Continued from Page 4

Calendar Sunday, March 3 Benjamin Luxon An Afternoon Lecture Close Encounters With Music Lenox Club Lenox MA 800-843-0778 2-4pm charge www.cewm.org Arlene Boehm “Viewpoints & Vistas:Contemporary Realism in Still Life and Landscape” Columbia County Council on the Arts Upstairs Gallery at American Glory BBQ & Restaurant 342 Warren Street Hudson NY 518-671-6213 Opening Reception 4-6pm free (thru Apr 14) www.artscolumbia.org Eyesights 2013 Juried Photography Exhibit Reception Guild of Creative Art 620 Broad Street Shrewsbury NJ 732-741-1441 3-5pm free guildofcreativeart.org Nacre in Concert Nacre Dance Company The Spa Little Theater 19 Roosevelt Dr Saratoga Springs NY 518-435-0510 2pm charge www.nacredance.com Rick and Donna Nestler in Concert Delaware Valley Arts Alliance Krause Recital Hall, Delaware Arts Center 37 Main Street Narrowsburg NY 845-252-7576 2 pm charge www.ArtsAllianceSite.org SCNY SPRING AUCTION Salmagundi Club 47 Fifth Ave., NYC (212) 255-7740 2pm following 11-3pm Brunch www.salmagundi.org Toby Michaels & Mary Elizabeth Peterson: The Space Between: New and Recent Works Art/Place Gallery @ FairfieldT heatre Company 70 Sanford St Fairfield CT 202-292-8323 Opening: 3-5 pm free (thru Mar 30) www.artplace.org Youth Art Month Harrison Council for the Arts Harrison Public Library 2 Bruce Avenue Harrison NY 914-315-1922 Opening Reception 1-3pm free (thru Mar 31) www.harrisonpl.org Monday, March 4 Robert Huntoon: abstract and other paintings Finkelstein Memorial Library 24 Chestnut St Spring Valley NY 845-352-5700 free (thru Apr 30) finkel- steinlibrary.org Tuesday, March 5 landscape painter Margaret Grimes a retrospective exhibition featuring a body of work spanning more than 40 years WCSU School of Visual & Performing Arts Gallery at Higgins Hall 181 White St Danbury CT 203-837-8403 Art slide lecture w/ Grimes at 11 am free (thru Mar 14) www.wcsu.edu/newsevents/ Grimesretrospectiveexhibition.asp Ben Venezio Photography Les Malamut Art Gallery 1980 Morris Ave Union NJ 908-851-5450 free (thru Apr 27) LesMalamutArtGallery.wordpress.com FAR & NEAR HORIZONS: a group exhibit of paintings New Century Art- ists Gallery 530 W.25th At., Suite 406, NYC (212) 367-7072 (thru Mar 23) www. newcenturyartists.org Wednesday, March 6 Harriet FeBland - “Homage” - Solo Exhibition National Association of Women Artists, Inc. N.A.W.A. Gallery 80 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1405 New York NY 212-675-1616 free (thru Apr 2) www.thenawa.org th Thursday, March 7 85 Grand National Exhibition “Glorious Food” Fine Art Exhibition and Reception Blue Hill Art and Cultural Center Blue Hill Plaza 1 Blue Hill Plaza Pearl River NY 845-359-1584 Online Exhibit Reception 5:30-8pm free (thru May 31) www.bluehillplaza.com Painting, Graphics, Sculpture, Friday, March 8 An Artistic Discovery Cooperstown Art Association 22 Main Street Coo- Watermedia & Mixed Media perstown NY 607-547-9777 Opening Reception 5-7pm free (thru Mar 29) www. cooperstownart.com October 5 — December 30, 2013 Bob Wright Mezzaluna Writers’ Night Mezzaluna Mezzaluna Route 212 Saugerties NY 845-246-5306 7pm donate www.cafemezzaluna.com americanartistsprofessionalleague.org SCNY SPRING AUCTION Salmagundi Club 47 Fifth Ave., NYC (212) 255-7740 8pm www.salmagundi.org email: [email protected] WCSU JAZZ ORCHESTRA, ENSEMBLE AND FRANKENSAX CONCERT WCSU Department of Music Ives Concert Hall, White Hall 181 White Street Danbury CT 203-837-8350 8 pm donate www.wcsu.edu/music/concerts.asp Continued on Page 8 For new essays & more go to: arttimesjournal.com Spring 2013 ART TIMES page 7 Dance The Equus Projects: OnSite NYC Without Horses By Dawn Lille on objects and settled on apples from ing spatial intent The Equus Projects is a modern Migliorelli Farms. This resulted in a to your partner and dance company based in New York celebration of the harvest by 18 danc- how to have a move- City. It aims to integrate the artistry ers (the company was augmented by ment conversation. of dance with that of horsemanship and students from the Alvin Ailey Dance The emphasis in re- was last written about in these pages School) and 300 apples. They built hearsals is that of in December, 2005. The news is that three separate apple mandalas in three movement in three- this season they began OnSite NYC, a performances. dimensional space. 12-part series of site-specific works for The skills engaged were mirroring, There is also what urban landscapes with just humans eye/hand coordination and logging, the group calls the and no horses. or performing an exact duplication of Alpha Plan, in which Conceived 15 years ago by JoAnna what the leader is doing. There could one dancer func- Mendl Shaw, its director, the company also be a conscious decision to change. tions as the alpha has performed in the context of inten- The rule for the mandalas themselves or leader, directing sive residencies in, among other places, was that they had to be exactly bilat- the others to part- Montana, Washington, Virginia, Texas eral. ner or copy him/her and Connecticut. The motivation During the first presentation Jo- without any verbal behind this new endeavor is that the seph, a young boy of about nine, stood clues. This role can company, known for its large-scale staring for a few minutes and then be reassigned at any performance pieces for dancers and walked into the midst of the dancers given moment and is horses, is almost never seen in New and started to mimic one. When he always up for nego- York City because the cost of bringing came back and looked at the huge pile tiation. in and caring for the horses is prohibi- of apples Shaw told him to find a space The question of tive. Shaw’s desire to create visibility and build his own design, using as who is the leader and in a city where no one else is taking many as he wished. For the second per- whom the follower is the same approach to creating dance, formance the dancers told him to make different with horses plus the fact that she is not interested a round mandala and for the third than with humans. in performance in a theater, led to her they build theirs around his. Joseph’s The horse is not aware of the process in which it is in- OnSite NYC Event: Union Square, Migliorelli Farm Apples volved and can break (Photographer, Alexandria Johnson) the line of communi- guest dancers. They used clear glass cation in a second. Hence one of the milk bottles to create a tree and its skills the dancers learn in rehearsal is branches on the pavement of the long how to calmly and creatively react to rectangular pedestrian plaza. With a sudden change or interruption while their heads covered in red woolen caps, still following the given script at that they engaged in interludes of short du- moment in time. The audience at each ets, trios and solos, gradually building performance is handed a brief explana- momentum and height with the inclu- tion of what is taking place and is often sion of the park benches. asked to try and identify the leader. Tudor City Greens is on the south In the Financial District the four green of Tudor City and part of the company members, Tal Adler, Carlye early exploration was a lengthy con- Eckert, Jessica Martin and Rebecca versation with the gardener. Often the Morin, wore business attire and be- dancers are asked to create a particular gan by walking with the pedestrians character for a piece. In this case each and then going into their dance. Here of the women will focus on one thing: they used a quartet partnering form Rebecca the pseudo Gothic arch; Jes- in which one person is the leader OnSite NYC Event: Ligne Roset (Photographer, Nir Arieli) sica the different plants and Carlye the who is asking to be lifted. They made image of a secret garden. This event use of unison and improvisation at proposal for twelve different sites with mother remained out of sight and al- will be mostly dance and will take place the same time. The leader always a different work created for each. lowed the whole process to unfold. May 10. changed and the result looked totally The first, in September was Union Company rehearsals are for the Shaw is interested in observing choreographed, but was not. The skills Square, the second, in October was the skills needed for a particular site, but the reaction of the audience to what involved leadership, physical listen- Financial District. The November site, all stress the importance of physical is presented as a process-taking place ing, different kinds of touching and a Tudor City Greens, had to be postponed listening, which is akin to body aware- as they watch it, not a spectacle. She concentration on what they wanted the due to Sandy. The fourth, on December ness of another human being. For wants it to be an immersive experience audience to do. 10 took place in Dag Hammarskjold Union Square they experienced seeing in which they look, are curious and Plaza and the fifth, in January, at the realize this is an event in real time. store Ligne Roset in Soho. She enjoys seeing how an audience After many visits and an explora- gradually develops, or, in the case of tion of the site, a movement score, or Wall Street, how the dancers failed to rule structure, is prepared with the attract many pedestrians or tourists – participation of the dancers. These either because they were accustomed scores, in all of which the dancers are to strange events or because they were engaged in real time on the spot deci- baffled. sion making, are rigorous and exact. To work with horses one needs They call for a set of skills that are or learns concentrated looking and related to that particular site, with the physical listening habits, patience and place dictating the approach, e.g. its compassion. These skills are, or should history, appearance, how pedestrians be, components of everyday life and move through or around it. human interaction, of government and Because there is also improvisa- of international affairs. Maybe in work- tion involved within this carefully ing without their equine partners the orchestrated score, every performance dancers of the Equus Projects, through (there is always more than one at each their concentration on and response to site) is different, with the unexpected each other, can entice their audiences regarded as magical and worked into to stop for a moment and think about the scene. It is important that there is OnSite NYC Event: Union Square, Migliorelli Farm Apples what is taking place. What better way no pretense in the dancers’ execution (Photographer, Maegan Keller) for art to make a contribution? Check- and that the reality of the situation is a movement before mirroring it, the On Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, out their website: www.dancingwith- visible to the viewer. horses.org. The original plan for Union Square choices involved in making a mandala under a warm, gray, misty drizzle, was to navigate the area on market (they settled on exact placement of the with the United Nations to the east, days, but somehow they began to focus apples), how to be a leader by indicat- the company was augmented by many ef Spring 2013 ART TIMES page 8

Continued from Page 6 Calendar Saturday, March 9 Booked 10 The Book Arts Roundtable The Baird Center 5 Mead St S.Orange The Newington-Cropsey Foundation presents: NJ 973-378-7755 Opening Reception 1-4pm free (thru Mar 30) www.bookartsround- table.com Brett Phares and Richard Cutrona: Capital-bias / The Beacon Room: Simon Draper and Marnie Hillsley bau Gallery 506 Main Street Beacon NY 845-440-7584 Opening Reception 6-9pm free (thru Apr 7) www. Birds in Art : 2012 baugallery.com Elegy group exhibition Theo Ganz Studio 149 Main Street Beacon NY 917- an exhibition featuring over 40 works in oil, 318-2239 Opening Reception 6 to 8 pm. free (thru Apr 7) www.theoganzstudio.com watercolor, and sculpture EV(e)OLUTION III National Association of Women Artists, Inc. Riverside Public Library 127 Amsterdam Avenue New York NY 212-675-1616 Reception 2-4pm free (thru Mar 30) www.thenawa.org FAR & NEAR HORIZONS: a group exhibit of paintings New Century Artists Gallery 530 W.25th At., Suite 406, NYC (212) 367-7072 Opening Reception 3-6 (thru Mar 23) www.newcenturyartists.org Jeanie Ritter, Sheila Benedis, Jane Petruska, Carol Gromer Four Artists/Four Visions: Mamaroneck Artists Guild 126 Larchmont Avenue Larchmont NY 914-834-1117 Reception 3-5 pm free (thru Mar 30) www.mama- roneckartistsguild.org ISTVAN BANYAI: Stranger in a Strange Land Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Route 183 Stockbridge MA 413-298-4100 charge (thru May 5) www.nrm.org Liz Ehrlichman: Requiem - collages inspired by Brahms’ Deutsches Requiem bj spoke gallery 299 Main Street Huntington NY 631-549-5106 Opening March 11 - May 3, 2013, Reception 2-5 pm free (thru Mar 29) www.bjspokegallery.com poetry reading Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catkills 320 weekdays from 1pm till 5pm Sawkill Rd. Kingston NY 845-331-2884 7-9 pm charge www.uucckingston.org no appointment necessary. Reiki & Lunch Gomen-Kudasai & the HVCR Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop Rite Aid Plaza, 232 Main St. New Paltz NY 845-255-8811 12-3pm donate GKnoodles.com Birds in Art was organized and generously lent to the Foundation Sullivan Renaissance Annual Conference, Local Market & Expo Sullivan Renaissance 1 Cablevision Drive Liberty NY 845-295-2445 free www.sul- by the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum of Wausau, WI. livanrenaissance.org www.lywam.org Symposium on Malian Art, Artists, and Politics The Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz 1 Hawk Drive New Paltz Ulster 8452573844 1-4pm www.newpaltz.edu/ Newington-Cropsey Foundation musuem Continued on Page 10 25 Cropsey Lane Hastings-on-Hudson, NY (914) 478-7990 CALL FOR ENTRIES www.newingtoncropsey.com The Putnam Arts Council, Mahopac, NY

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A truly inspirational, intensive and informative workshop for painters of all levels of experience. This workshop offers Keeler's unique instruction This artist painting plein air along the Tiber River in Rome. in representational painting for artists working in oil, pastel or acrylic. During the sojourn we will visit museums in Florence, Rome, Pisa, Luca, Orvieto and other towns to augment the immersion in Italian art and culture. Free Brochure available. Call or write to address below for complete details. Class size is limited, and registration by April 1 required. Instructional DVD's - Get a head start on your learning with these excellent videos. Each single set DVD offers 1 3/4 hours of detailed instruction- the 4 DVD Nude is 5 1/2 hours of comprehensive instruction. “The Luminous Landscape” $48.50 • “The Solstice Nude” 4 disc set $68.50 “The Pastel Portrait ¾from Life” $48.50 • “Painting the Portrait in Oil” $48.50

To order, send a check payable to Brian Keeler for the amount above plus Brian Keeler • PO Box 397 • Wyalusing, PA 18853 $4.00 shipping and PA residents add 6% sales tax. 570-746-1187 • [email protected] • www.briankeeler.com Spring 2013 ART TIMES page 9 Art Essay Bridge Art Serves As Bridge By Joan Vos MacDonald When is a bridge not a bridge? The answer according to one nonprofit To Community organization is: when it’s an exhibi- tion space for emerging art. A timely raleigh Green, who recently example is a Kingston bridge that has moved to the area, initially promoted been transformed into a canvas for two the idea for the Kingston initiative. local artists. The marketing and branding expert ArtBridge, a New York City-based learned of ArtBridge while living in nonprofit organization, is best known New York City and saw the Greenkill for transforming disused urban spaces Bridge as the perfect site to bring the into large-scale canvases for emerg- initiative north, while celebrating lo- ing artists. Through billboard-sized cal talent. public art installations, exhibitions in “Kingston’s creative community is its gallery, and educational program- tremendous,” said Green. “It’s an as- ming, the nonprofit looks for innova- set that should be showcased as much tive ways to create opportunities for as possible to bring positive attention artists — and to connect the public to to this wonderful town and region.” their art. Although the organization was the organization is the brainchild expanding to a new location, it was of Rodney Durso, an adjunct professor important that the focus remain on lo- at the School of Design Strategies, cal artists and that the work be judged Parsons School of Design. He came by local panelists. up with the idea when the building he “Local panelists know what is hap- lived in was covered in construction pening in art in the community and what fits into the community,” said scaffolding for almost three years. Artbridge: Kingston, a curated public art installation in Kingston, NY McKenna. “If someone came from New “I would look at the scaffolding ev- featuring original works by emerging Hudson Valley artists York City, they might have other ideas ery day and think, there’s a big blank For Gui, what is unique about pub- tersection, is not a place where people canvas,” said Durso. “There must be about what artwork would fit. But the community it’s based in has to agree lic artwork is that it catches viewers linger, or a destination; its a place you something more productive I could do who are not necessarily expecting to pass through, and so I began think- with the space.” with it and get involved; it’s a com- munity effort.” encounter art in their day. ing about where that road might be As a painter, with a background in “On the street, people are usu- leading, metaphorically and/or physi- graphic design, the scaffolding seemed Area artists were invited to submit their work. While no particular style ally overwhelmed with advertise- cally. Just past the city of Kingston, like a great opportunity for artists to ments and billboards. it’s satisfy- in the not-so-far-off distance are the have their work shown in a new way. or medium of art was ruled out, the winning pieces would have to enhance ing to make something that has Catskills. Past that? The open road, “Sidewalk bridging and scaffolding no agenda except to be enjoyed.” so to speak. I wanted to offer the pos- exists everywhere in cities,” said Dur- the space and be visually pleasing. “Some pieces we have considered russell’s digital composite of old sibility that that road might be leading so. “There are so many possibilities.” vintage postcards situates drivers someplace mysterious, exciting, full of And Durso also knew there were border on sculpture. Material, fabric, that’s fine as long as it can be photo- traveling west on an infinitely expan- adventure.” many emerging artists eager for gal- sive alternate road. It alludes to the the artists’ work will be photo- lery space. He decided that such urban graphed,” said Durso. “As far as con- tent, theme or narrative, landscapes adventure and mythology of westward graphed and printed on vinyl or a simi- vistas might supply such exhibition travel that the artist says she hopes lar material and will not be attached to space, so he approached his building’s or portraits don’t work in such spaces as well as abstract can. We didn’t want will inspire “feelings of possibility and but hung from the bridge. In the fall, owner with the idea of using the scaf- hopefulness” in those who pass by. the exhibition material will be taken folding to showcase new work. The to do anything political, no nudity or obscenity. We’re not looking to make As a painter and writer, most of down and made into tote bags. owner agreed and a bridge was created Russell’s ideas come out of language. the exhibit unveiling is timed for between available space and emerging a statement other than to get work for emerging artists up in a large scale.” “A few years back I started work- the Kingston’s St. Patrick’s Day pa- art. ing on a video project that involves rade, on Sunday, March 10. On March it was important to Durso that the final selection was made in February. Having narrowed down lip-synching to found audio interviews 15, beginning at 7 p.m., ArtBridge artists chosen for such projects were from the 50s, 60s and 70s. Around the invites exhibiting artists and area unrepresented artists, early in their the submissions to ten finalists, two Ulster-County artists were ultimately same time I began using found im- residents to celebrate the exhibit at career, who had not had gallery expo- ages, mostly vintage postcards, in my Seven21 Media Center. There, origi- sure. The result of his efforts can be chosen, Emily Gui of Rosendale and Lomontville-based multimedia artist, work, drawing on them, painting on nal works by the ten finalists will be on described as a win-win situation. The them, making some kind of interven- display and for sale, along with limited artists enjoy unprecedented exposure Adie Russell. gui’s selected work, “Moon Phases,” tion. The connection between the two edition exhibition posters featuring and the art brightens the urban land- projects has to do with recontextualiz- Gui and Adie Russell’s selected works. scape. employs the cyanotype, a pre-digital camera-less photography technique, ing, trying to bring together temporal guests will also have the opportu- After its first five successful years spaces: the historical moment of the nity to bid on one-of-a-kind tote bags in New York City, the organization to depict the universally recognized symbol of the moon and suggest the audio recording/found image and the made from the exhibition material. was open to expansion. When branch- moment inhabited by myself, and the Proceeds from all sales will go to Art- ing out, several locations were con- passage of time. As a painter and printmaker, Gui en- viewer, in the present. I try to make Bridge and the participating artists, sidered, including Chicago and San work that is an active viewing experi- to make it possible for them to con- Francisco, even cities in Italy, but the joys working in cyanotype because she can easily make prints with objects, ence, rather than a passive one, where tinue their work. city chosen was Kingston, New York. there’s something puzzling or stimu- “It’s an all around re-use project,” Partnering with the City of Kingston, negatives or drawings on almost all types of paper and fabric. lating that may not easily be reconciled said McKenna. “We reuse the spaces the organization invited Mid-Hudson in the mind of the viewer — an experi- and will re-use the art. Valley-based artists to submit works “It can be printed in a UV light box, or outside in the sun,” said Gui. “It’s ence that isn’t closed or finite.” Picasso said that, “Art is a lie that for a large-scale, public exhibition Providing art that can be seen makes us realize truth, at least the on the Greenkill Avenue Bridge. a really fun, experimental process. I also love the cyan blue color it creates.” in a public context requires putting truth that is given us to understand.” Why Kingston? yourself in the place of the potential So the next time you pass a bridge, “Kingston seemed like a good idea While working on this piece, she kept a public audience in mind. viewer. know that it is potentially more than as it’s an arts community,” said Kath- “I don’t think you can have the a bridge, but a possible art venue. leen McKenna, vice president of the “I wanted to make work that could be absorbed by any viewer, since the mindset that you’re talking to an art- For questions about ArtBridge: Arts Society of Kingston, a painter, interested audience,” said Russell. “So Kingston or selected artists, contact and one of the judges of the competi- bridge is a communal, public space,” said Gui. “An image of the moon is the first thingI wanted to think about Director, Jordana Zeldin at: jordana@ tion. “ One reason that Kingston has was, what does that location need? art-bridge.org or Raleigh Green at become an artists’ community is that unusual in this way: It’s universal and nostalgic and can be appreciated What would be most helpful there? [email protected]. there’s room to grow. It has spaces There are many people who drive that are affordable. Artists are a tribe by anyone, but often exceptionally Joan Vos MacDonald writes about up and down Broadway everyday, or an eclectic range of subjects for of people that do not care about class. personal. I think there is a simplicity who live in that neighborhood and newspapers, blogs and maga- They love to go to places that are on the about it that makes it open to any walk there; what do they want to see? zines. fringe. That allow them to do whatever interpretation. I also wanted to make work that fit the unique shape of the It seems to me that that particular they want. Artists love that kind of section of Broadway, that kind of in- ef space.” bridge.” Spring 2013 ART TIMES page 10

Continued from Page 8 Monday, March 11 Calendar BIRDS IN ART: 2012 Newington-Cropsey Foundation 25 Cropsey Lane, Hastings- Sunday, March 10 on-Hudson, NY (914) 478-7990 Mon-Fri 1-5pm; closed holidays (thru May 3) new- Bridal Gown Kimono Exhibition Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop Rite Aid ingtoncropsey.com Plaza, 232 Main Street New Paltz NY 845-255-8811 Opening Reception 3-5PM free ESYO’s Youth and Repertory Percussion Ensembles - Festival of Contem- (thru May 6) GKnoodles.com porary Music University at Albany PAC 1400 Wash. Ave. Albany NY 7pm charge Annual Members’ Exhibition 2013 Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art WCSU Percussion Ensemble WCSU Department of Music Ives Concert Club Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Ave., NYC (212) 255-7740 (thru Mar 28) clwac.org Hall, White Hall 181 White Street Danbury CT 203-837-8350 8 pm donate www. Creative Expressions: Student Salon Hofstra University Museum Emily wcsu.edu/music/concerts.asp Lowe Gallery Hempstead Turnpike Hempstead NY 516-463-5672 3pm free www. Wednesday, March 13 hofstra.edu/Community/museum/museum_calendar.html Harriet FeBland - “Homage” - Solo Exhibition National Association of FACE it Rockland Center for the Arts 27 South Greenbush Road West Nyack NY Women Artists, Inc. N.A.W.A. Gallery 80 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1405 New York NY 845-358-0877 Opening reception 2-5pm donate (thru Mar 14) www.rocklandart- 212-675-1616 Reception 5-7pm free (thru Apr 2) www.thenawa.org center.org Thursday, March 14 Johanna Goodman: Cut UP and Julia Forrest: Illusion Series Rockland Center for the Arts 27 South Greenbush Rd West Nyack NY 845-358-0877 RUTH BAUER NEUSTADTER: Mixed-Media- new work Piermont Fine Arts (thru April 14) Opening reception 2-5pm (thru Apr 14) www.rocklandartcenter.org Gallery 218 Ash Street, Piermont, NY (845) 398-1907 Opening Reception 1-6pm, artist will be present during the entire show. free (thru Mar 31) ruthbauerneus- Ken and Julie: Ken DeAngelis and Julie Ziavras acoustic duo Delaware tadter.com Valley Arts Alliance Krause Recital Hall, Delaware Arts Center 37 Main Street Narrowsburg NY 845-252-7576 2 p.m. charge www.ArtsAllianceSite.org Friday, March 15 Annual Member Show I The Gallery at Kent Art Association 21 S. Main ESYO’s String Ensemble and Repertory Jazz Ensemble Niskayuna High Street Kent CT 860-927-3989 free (thru Apr 14) www.kentart.org School 1626 Balltown Rd. Niskayuna NY 7:30pm charge Mariya Bukhina, soprano: The Silver Age of Jewish Music Friends of the “Portraits” 11th Annual Portrait Show Juried by Jeanette Martone Harrison Public Library Harrison Public Library 2 Bruce Avenue Harrison NY 914- Huntington Arts Council Main Street Petite Gallery 213 Main Street Huntington NY 835-0324 3-4pm free www.harrisonpl.org 631-271-8423 Opening reception 6-8pm free (thru Apr 22) www.huntingtonarts.org Maruri & Jones Guitar & Cello Concert Saugerties Pro Musica Saugerties Saturday, March 16 United Methodist Church corner Washington Avenue & Post Street Village of Sau- Harlequin New Windsor Art Gallery 2314 State Rt.32 New Windsor NY 845- gerties NY 845-679-5733 3 p.m. charge www.saugertiespromusica.org 534-3349 free Opening Reception March 16, 2013 3-7PM www.1800arts.com REDSHIFT Chamber Ensemble GraceMusic Grace Church, Nyack 130 First Annual Member Show I The Gallery at Kent Art Association 21 S. Main Street Avenue Nyack NY 845-358-1297 4pm charge www.gracemusic.info Kent CT 860-927-3989 Opening Reception 1-5pm free (thru Apr 14) www.kentart.org The Salon Series sponsored and presented by Delaware Valley Arts Al- LYDIA STRAWBRIDGE: The Art Behind the Harlequin New Windsor Art liance presents Ken and Julie: Ken DeAngelis & Julie Ziavras Acous- Gallery 2314 State Rt.32. New Windsor, NY (845) 534-3349 Opening Reception tic Folk Duo concert Fundraiser for the Delaware Valley Opera Delaware 3:30-7pm (thru Apr 6) 1800arts.com Valley Arts Alliance Krause Recital Hall, Delaware Arts Center, 37 Main Street Paul Robeson starring Floyd Patterson, Jr Unison Art Center Narrowsburg NY 845-252-7576 2:00-3:30 pm donate www.ArtsAllianceSite.org Parker Theater, SUNY New Paltz 1 Hawk Drive New Paltz NY 845-255-1559 8-10pm Yonkers Philharmonic Gala Concert-Beethoven 9th FAOS Performing charge www.unisonarts.org Continued on Page 14 Arts Center at SUNY 735 Anderson Hill Road Harrison NY 914-631-6674 3:00pm free www.yonkersphilharmonic.org Be part of THE resource for ALL THE ARTS. Go to: arttimesjournal.com for more and Advertise in print and online [email protected] new calendar listings that include classes, workshops, lectures and films Salmagundi Club Center for American Art since 1871

February 25 - March 28 Atelier 4th Annual Sylvia Maria Glesmann Floral Members' Exhibit Renée ~~ ~~ ~~ fine framing March 10 - 28 The Chocolate Factory Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Exhibit 54 Elizabeth Street ~~ ~~ ~~ Red Hook, New York 12571 March 11 - March 28 Special exhibit of works Tuesday through Saturday 10 ~ 6 or by appointment by Sylvia Maria Glesmann Renée Burgevin, owner, CPF ~~ ~~ ~~ [email protected] Sunday, March 24 Palm Sunday Brunch, 11-3pm 845. 758 .1004 ~~ ~~ ~~ April 2 - 21 American Watercolor Society Exhibit C A L L F O R A R T I S T S: ~~ ~~ ~~ NATIONAL ART Sunday, April 14 COMPETITION Spring Brunch, 11am - 3pm ~~ ~~ ~~ THEME: H 2 O April 23 - May 2 EAST END ARTS GALLERY, LI, NY SCNY Collectors’ & Artists’ Exhibit & Sale Guest Jurors: Bruce Helander & ~~ ~~ ~~ Peter Marcelle Sunday, May 12 Bruce Helander is a Renowned Art Mother’s Day Brunch, 11am - 3pm Critic, White House Fellow for the NEA, ~~ ~~ ~~ Internationally-Known Artist & Author May 5 - 24 National Society of Painters in Casein & Acrylic Peter Marcelle is the Director, Gerald Peters Gallery, in New York, NY & Owner, ~~ ~~ ~~ Peter Marcelle Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY May 6 - 14 The Salmagundi Club Show AWARDS ~~ ~~ ~~ Week stay in East End Arts’ Artist Residence May 26 - June 14 near Hamptons Museums & Galleries Coast Guard Art Program (COGAP ) Exhibit PLUS $1,000 Cash AND Inclusion in Peter ~~ ~~ ~~ Marcelle Gallery group show Saturday 9pm - Sunday, 6am June 8 & 9 HOW TO ENTER All Night Draw-A-Thon Online Entry Submission Deadline: April 17, 2013 $45 up to 5 JPEGs. 47 Fifth Avenue, NYC Late Entry: April 20, 2013, add’l $15. 212-255-7740 Prospectus and More Information: Please visit www.salmagundi.org WWW.EASTENDARTS.ORG Spring 2013 ART TIMES page 11 from the Oxford University Press that artist deserves a relatively knowl- Art promised to look at art history — and edgeable viewer — one, for instance, Continued from Page 5Art Criticism I quote here — “from a fresh perspec- that takes Goethe’s words to heart tive”. Some prominent ‘modern’ art rather than a critic’s. By raymond j. steiner speaking about their art? Herbert critic “experts”, in fact, have declared How do you know a ‘good’ critic walking down a street and pushing a George Wells warned that “An art- art “dead”, even bestowing the title from the venal one that might have stroller with her child in it when they ist who theorizes about his work is “genius” on such “pop artists” as Andy one or more of his own dogs in the come upon a tree. The child is inter- no longer artist but critic” while a Warhol for bringing us to the point of fight? Like most of us, even crit- acting with the physical experience of number of people have pointed out not being able to distinguish between ics have to look out after their own seeing a “tree” for the first time, when that “if artists made good critics, a box of Brillo or a picture of a box of interests. Henry James might be a his mother says, “That’s a tree”. Now there wouldn’t be any bad artists”. Brillo! So, how can you coherently guide as to whose opinions are worth that the child has a “label” for the Every serious artist I’ve ever known, and believably critique something following: “To criticize is to appreci- phenomenon, it no longer has to in- has judiciously been silent on the that will not stand still long enough to ate, to appropriate, to take intellec- teract with it — the “tree” is no longer subject of their art; it is the glib ones even determine its broadest outlines? tual possession, to establish in fine a “thou” but an “it”. In time, the child I am suspicious of — and there are a At bottom, all a ‘critic’ can do is a relationship with the criticized might even learn that it is a “maple great many — too many — out there give his/her opinion about a work of thing and to make it one’s own…It is tree” — another word, another label, roiling the waters and the only thing art. I was once asked at a party if I art that makes life, makes interest, which further separates it from the unmistakable about their statements had seen the (then) current Whitney makes importance…and I know of phenomenon, making it unnecessary is that they are less in the business Biennial. “No,” I answered. “Why no substitute whatever for the force of ever again having to “deal” with it of making art and more in the busi- not?” he asked. “It usually takes me and beauty of its presence.” Yeah… as a co-existing living thing. ness of making money. Over the years longer to look at a Daumier print my kind of guy — and I can only hope As I note above, think of the U.N. I’ve been writing for art times, than it does three floors of a Whitney that I don’t stray too far off his well- Each person has a “label” identifying I’ve often railed against the absurdly Biennial,” I said. “Wow!” he blurted. marked path. him/her as a “Palestinian”, “Rus- ridiculous “artist’s statement” re- “That’s pretty opinionated.” “Well,” I I hope I’ve enlarged your thoughts sian”, “Israeli”, and so on. Once we quested by galleries and/or exhibition parried, “That’s like saying a judge about critics a little bit. We need not learn the “label” we no longer have venues to display during an exhibi- is ‘judgmental’ or that a trial lawyer think of them as either “fungus at to deal with them as a “human”, as a tion. Damn! Don’t they know that the is ‘argumentative’”. Of course, I’m the foot of oaks” or as having inner “Thou”, as an existing phenomenon artist’s “statement” is already framed opinionated — that’s what critics do. secrets about how we should look at we ought to experience and get to and hanging on every wall, in every At least that’s what they ought to do. or evaluate art. As long as you keep in know and understand. They are “its”. room, of the exhibition space? What A ‘good’ (knowledgeable) critic might mind that we are not infallibly wise or My “father”, my “sister”, my “boss”, else — what words — need be said? have some solid opinions to offer and incredibly stupid, you should be able my “student”, a “Democrat”, a “holy And, if words are needed, doesn’t that might even inform his readers. He/ to steer a reasonable course through man”, a “guest”, and so on, and so on. imply that the art has failed to stand she might even urge you to go and most of today’s artwriting. It all boils How then can we truly “see” a work of on its own? My friend Rick Pantell, see a certain artist, view a particular down to the fact that a critic can only “art”, experience it on our own terms, master print-maker and teacher at exhibition, because in his/her opinion tell you why he/she likes (or hates) a by reading someone’s words about it? the Art Students League of New York, it’ll be worth your while — but they particular work of art — but not tell­ Watching a person in a museum with once remarked: “If they invite a poet will always have their biases. This es- you what to like or hate. headphones, “seeing” the art in front to speak, do they ask him/her to first say, for instance, offers no more than Remember: your parents gave of them through the use of their ears draw a picture?” my opinions on the subject and, if you you picture books before they gave rather than their eyes, continually So…enough; you get it. look closely enough (as you ought to you reading primers — at least since puts me off. “Note the splash of red It’s not that all art critics intend to do), you’ll also detect my biases, which we’ve become homo erectus, we have in Corot’s painting — his usual ‘trade- mislead or that they purposefully or are largely derived from my Liberal long known how to look at images. mark’ or ‘signature’, if you will, that maliciously often go over — or under Arts (known nowadays as “dead white So…go and be duped no more. ef you will find in almost every one of his — the top (although I do suspect some men’s”) teachings, education and col- works”, they hear the “expert” saying. exaggeration at times and, all too lege degrees. So, for ever after, the visitor will seek often, some relatively literate gobble- Of course, some opinions are more out — and see — that “splash of red” dygook — but then, both critics and valuable than others — when you BLACK in a Corot and simply stop looking, artists are equally guilty of that). His- have that pain in your chest, I ad- studying, experiencing, the work as torically, their role as “middlemen” vise you take the opinion of a doctor a whole, excitedly awaiting the mo- between artists and viewers has been rather than, say, that of a plumber. ment when the “knowledge” can be largely foisted upon them by a world In all probability, the doctor has more passed on, proudly showing everyone that has never properly understood & knowledge and experience in the WHITE that they, also, are an “expert” with a “art” — with the jury, in fact, still out matter. Which “expert” opinion you A Juried Exhibition label, a word. It’s like the old “How to on just what “art” is. Not even the “ex- choose to accept is your choice and will make gold out of water” gag: Pour wa- perts” are in agreement here — I am only reflect your level of knowledge May 18 -July 6, 2013 ter into an aluminum pot, set it over a (or was formerly) a member of such and understanding. But, as I warn flame until it boils, but doN OT think organizations as the International above, no critic can ‘explain’ or ‘judge’ Peik Larsen, Juror of ‘hippopotamus’ during any part of Association of Art Critics (AICA), the art — or ‘translate’ it into words. Submission Deadline March 29 the process”. Yeah, right. Now try it; American Society for Aesthetics, etc. Goethe once wisely pointed out that try to erase “hippos” from your mind and my head still spins after each new “genuine works of art carry their own Prospectus Available while “making gold” and “red” while journal gives me more “definitions” to aesthetic theory implicit within them looking at a Corot. consider. Not long ago, I received a and suggest the standards according Well then, how about artists set of books for review — a set of five to which they are to be judged.” A good

LANDSCAPE AND MOOD with Christie Scheele, March 9-10

The 12th annual: ABSTRACTION & LARGE SCALE DRAWING with Meredith Rosier March 16-17 Haitian Art SOLARPLATE with Kate McGloughlin, March 18-20

COLOR & ENERGY Auction & Sale with Karen O’Neil, March 23-24 MONOTYPE with Kate McGloughlin, April 8-10

Vassar College, COLLAGE Poughkeepsie, NY with Robert Ohnigian, April 9-11 845 679 2388 [email protected] http://thehaitiproject.org woodstockschoolofart.org April 5, 6, & 7, 2013 845.797.2123 Spring 2013 ART TIMES page 12 Culturally Speaking By Cornelia Seckel As we begin this new quarterly on Plexiglass – painting in reverse and print schedule I want to remind you as she doesn’t know how it will turn to go online to arttimesjournal.com for out but knows, like life, that she can’t new essays, editorials, videos, links to control it. See her work at saraconca. advertisers and the updated calendar com and opportunity listings. Follow us on I just wanted to remind you that twitter.com/arttimesjournal and the Albany State Museum is hosting facebook.com/arttimesjournal so Eugene Ludins: An American Fan- you don’t miss new postings. Soon, tasist, which opened Feb 16 and runs readers will be able to email links to through May12. This exhibit, which blogs and videos for the new arttime- incidentally includes two prints from sonline blog. Look for that announce- the ART TIMES Art Collection, ment on facebook, twitter or by email explores the life and work of Eugene (send me your email if you don’t think Ludins, a noted Woodstock, New York I have it). painter of realist and fantastical land- I managed to get around quite a bit scapes, provocative political allegories, and explored places I haven’t been to and insightful portraits. Raymond J. in a while. Steiner, in our March 2012 issue, re- I remember going to plays in the viewed this exhibit curated by Susana 1990s when the earlier version of Leval, when it was at the Samuel The Center for Performing Arts in Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY Marlene Ferrell Parillo in front of her wall hanging Dream City at the Flat Iron Gallery, Peekskill, NY are animals or small people worked presentation of exhibitions and inter- into the design. Many of the sculptures disciplinary programs that enrich an are narrative and Marlene calls them understanding of contemporary art, “story pots” vessels that tell a story its contexts, and its relationship to so- often about her life, her feelings and cial issues. HVCCA operates a 12,000 family. She uses various symbols from square-foot exhibition space and is different cultures to add underlying the primary sponsor of the Peekskill meanings to her work. For the past few Project, an annual, city-wide exhibi- years Marlene has been using sculp- tion of site-specific artwork.I n addition ture pieces with fabric and included in to exhibitions, HVCCA has an Artist- the show is a large and quite beautiful in-Residence program, an Education and engaging wall hanging “Dream and Public outreach program and pres- City” telling many stories with fabric ents unique, interdisciplinary projects, and her handmade ceramic pieces. events and collaborations. Currently This piece was first shown at theO hio HVCCA main gallery has Peekskill Craft Museum in Columbus, Ohio. Project V: The New Hudson River Wendie Garber, Director of the Flat School thru July 28th and The Power Iron Gallery that she began in 1995, of Place thru April 28, an exhibit has had over 100 artists showing in by members of the Peekskill Art- the 4 exhibit rooms. The artists and ist Club. For more about the center: fine craftspeople that she represents HVCC.org are excellent, varied and reasonably Barrett House in Poughkeepsie Michael Frohnhoefer (R) as John Merrick and Deborah Coconis as Mrs. Kendal priced. Make a visit to Peekskill where is the home of the Dutchess County during the production of The Elephant Man at The Center for Performing Arts you can visit numerous galleries and Art Association established over 75 in Rhinebeck, NY studios (8 other artists are in the same years ago with this mission: to foster Rhinebeck was still shuffling around New Paltz —the review is accessible building as the Flat Iron gallery) as and perpetuate an appreciation of the different venues for their productions. online by searching our site or looking well as hear some fine music at the visual arts in Dutchess County. This In 1994 they acquired land and the at the art reviews. BeanRunner Café, and fine crafts original mission continues to guide the shows were in a tent until 1997 when In Peekskill, NY I was very pleased at the Coop. For more about the arts association today. They offer exhibits, the building was finally completed. art classes, lectures and demonstra- This barn structure enables year- tions focused on the visual arts. Twice round productions and the community yearly they have national shows, juried has benefited from them ever since. As by curators from well-known muse- well as full-theatre productions, there ums. In April there is the annual High are concerts and specialty shows; and School Show with submitted entries a full a range of programs, classes and from students of all area high schools. workshops for all ages and interests. The show I saw was “Celebration of Beginning this coming Fall, The Center Color”. There were 62 artists from a will be bringing their shows to schools. wide geographic range —many never I saw a production of “Elephant Man” having been to the Barrett House. by Bernard Pomerance, directed by The opening was packed and the work Lisa Lynds. This play is based on the exciting. For more see: barrettart- life of Joseph Merrick, who lived dur- center.org ing the Victorian era and was known Kingston, NY is a buzzing arts for his extreme deformity. Merrick was community and I was pleased to see excellently performed by Michael J. several exhibits. Julie Hedrick is an Frohnhoefer. Coming up is “Spring artist whose work I have been seeing Awakening”, a show about teenage for many years. Mostly I have seen her angst, and runs from Mar.1 - 17. More very large abstract atmospheric paint- information at: centerforperformin- ings often shown at the Nohra Haime garts.org/ Gallery in NYC. The show “Rome” Sara Conca showed her “acrylic at R&F Encaustic (rfpaints.com — Sara Conca standing by one of her acrylic on acrylic paintings on acrylic” paintings (and a few oils) at Oriole9 Gallery, Woodstock, NY the people who make the very finest at the Oriole9 gallery in Woodstock, encaustic paints) will be up through NY. Generally, her work is acrylic and to see Marlene Ferrell Parillo’s in Peekskill and Marlene’s work view: March 23 and features new work and mixed media filled with great move- 7th show of ceramic and mixed media flatiron.qpg.com. little frescoes. I am totally engaged ment and color. She often uses 18k sculptures at the Flat Iron Gallery. The Hudson Valley Center for when I enter her paintings. At first gold, liking it particularly because it Marlene is incorporating fabric in Contemporary Art is also in Peek- it doesn’t seem like much is going on changes in the light. At Oriole9 she many of her sculptures. The sculp- skill and was founded by the Marc and then there I am seeing all sorts also showed a series of small Plexiglas tures are fanciful, some functional, and Livia Straus family. The Center of images, movements, textures and works. Sara said that she likes working colorful and whimsical. Often there is dedicated to the development and stories. You can see more of her work Spring 2013 ART TIMES page 13 at: juliehedrick.com. Joan Monas- Best Original Score, Best Chore- tero’s exhibit of Boxes and Other ography and Best Orchestrations Artifacts was at The Storefront Gal- and the Grammy for Best Musical lery in Kingston, NY. Joan wrote that Show Album) is now available to be her work as an artist is to be curious performed off Broadway. In the Heights and amazed. The boxes are part of a is a story of a neighborhood, the people group of 40 8” squares of mixed medium who live and work there — their loves, while the drawings reflect her visits to frustrations, heartaches and the influ- the ocean. ences of the world outside the neighbor- The Woodstock School of Art has hood. The music was fabulous: from been offering classes and workshops ballads to rap; the dance ranging from over their 40+ year history. The WSA ballet to break dancing. This show will holds classes throughout the year, surely be done by thousands of schools summer and winter, in air-conditioned and community groups especially as or radiant heated studios, newly reno- there are so many opportunities for solo vated but retaining the rugged country performances. The audience, a mixture charm of the original stone and timber of age groups had great energy —cheer- buildings. An average of more than ing and whistling after duets and solos. four hundred students from the United The excitement was palpable at the States and countries abroad currently curtain. What highly talented cast, enroll in any given year. The schedule excellent dancers, actors, fabulous includes daily classes in drawing, voices and a great story line that reso- painting, composition, sculpture and Julie Hedricks (L) speaking with one of her collectors about the new paintings nates beyond the “hood”. The book was that are on view at R&F Encaustics in Kingsotn, NY printmaking, with workshops in spe- written by Quiara Alegria Hudes, cialized techniques under the guidance terbynum.com. In the Towbin Wing contemporary artist to note. Take a original choreography reproduced by of experts in their respective fields.T he “Embracing the New: Modernism’s look at her website: lindamontano. Morgan Marcell and John Fanelli current exhibition, on view until March impact on Woodstock Artist” high- com for a greater understanding of her was the Director/ Producer. Standing 16, is Student Exhibition 1 and has lights the influence of Europe’s avant- work. Linda’s “Chicken” drawings Ovation Studios is the Producer. over 100 paintings grouped by instruc- garde on Woodstock artists in the were on view in the gallery as well Don’t forget to check arttimesjour- tors. It is exciting to see this new work, period surrounding the 1913 Armory as landscapes in oil by Bernie Reit- nal.com for new essays, videos, cal- especially that of established artists Show. This will be on view thru May 5. meyer. For more who are stretching into new styles. See To learn more about this important art about this gallery about signing up for a class at: wood- institution: woodstockart.org ihgallery.com stockschoolofart.org Imogen Holloway Gallery in I had the great There are 4 shows at the Wood- Saugerties, NY, hosted Linda Mon- pleasure to see “in stock Artists Association Museum tano and Paul McMahon in a perfor- the Heights” at that opened Feb 9 and run thru March mance piece. Sitting in the window of the Westches- ter Broadway Theatre and it was quite a mo- mentous evening. There was a trib- ute to Lin-Manu- el Miranda who conceived of the play (when he was just 19) and wrote the music and lyr- ics. Many of the Broadway cast members as well as Lin-Manuel were at the open- Joan Monastero by one of her Box Constructions ing night celebra- at the Storefront Gallery, Kingston, NY tion with several of the original cast members in the WBT endar and opportunity listings. Send production. Miranda spoke with the me your email so I can let you know audience before the show and said how directly about the arttimesonline excited he was that his play (winner blog that will carry readers’ videos, of 2008 Tony Award Best Musical, links to blogs and more. ef View of some of the installations that are part of Peekskill Project V from the balcony at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY 3 in Woodstock, NY. “The Active the gallery, Paul played and sang his Members’ Recent Works” was ju- fine music and Linda, dressed as Paul, ried by Carrie Haddad. Gertrude lip-synced his music. Paul McMahon is Abramson received the Harriet an accomplished musician who writes Tannin Award and Ron Denitto love songs specifically designed to heal. received an Honorable Mention. Visit: PaulMcMahon.com for more In the Founders Gallery, Betsy about Paul. Linda Mary Montano is Jacaruso juried the “Small Works” a seminal figure in contemporary exhibit. The Juror’s Choice Award feminist performance art. Attempting went to Nanette Shapiro with Kate to dissolve the boundaries between McGloughlin, Franz Heigemeir art and life, Montano continues to and Reidunn Fraas receiving Hon- actively explore her art/ life through orable Mention. Peter Bynum had shared experience, role adoption, and the solo exhibit and showed acrylic intricate life altering ceremonies, some painting on sheets of tempered glass. of which last for seven or more years. The bottom sheet was backlit and Montano has been performing as oth- each successive sheet with colorful ers (Persona Practice) since 1975, paintings of organic images created a most recently as Mother Theresa of very exciting and, for me, quite unique Calcutta. Her influence is wide rang- art. His most previous exhibit was at ing - she has been featured at museums the Museum of Arts and Design in including The New Museum in New NY and can still be viewed until April York, MOCA San Francisco and the 2013. You can see Peter’s work at pe- ICA in London. This is an important The cast of In The Heights courtesy Westchester Broadway Theater (Photos by John Vecchiolla) Spring 2013 ART TIMES page 14 Continued from Page 10 Theatre The Dream Cast & Calendar Sunday, March 17 Beethoven Piano Concert Eastchester Arts Council & NY Council for the Humanities Eastchester Library Auditorium 11 Oakridge Rd. Eastchester NY the Dream Production 914-793-5055 2 PM free www.eastchesterartscouncil.com Classical Piano Performance/Beethoven concert. Reception & Refresh- By Robert W. Bethune ments Eastchester Arts Council & NY Council for the Humanities Eastchester Recently I noticed an an- of design match the level of talent? Public Library Auditorium 11 Oakridge Road Eastchester NY 914-793-5055 2 PM nouncement that Ian McKellen and Even more fundamentally, will the free www.eastchesterartscouncil.com Patrick Stewart plan to revive the play live up to the load? Fluid Reformations: Smith, Gaffer, Potter Islip Art Museum 50 2009 production of Waiting For Go- Some plays, oddly enough, get bet- Irish Lane East Islip NY 631-224-5402 charge (thru May 26) islipartmuseum.org dot. This definitely comes under the ter service when actors who are not Matters of the HeART Greenburgh Arts and Culture Committee Greenburgh heading of “dream casts.” It’s hard to Town Hall 177 Hillside Ave Greenburgh NY 914-682-1574 Opening reception 2-4 pm. stars perform them. When “what are Music by Mary Crescenzo Trio free (thru May 2) www.greenburghartsandculture.org imagine any other pair of actors one these actors doing with this play?” would rather go see do Godot, or any The Leslie Pintchik Jazz Trio Delaware Valley Arts Alliance Krause overshadows “what is this play trying Recital Hall, Delaware Arts Center 37 Main Street Narrowsburg NY 845-252-7576 other play for that matter. to say to me?” bad things can happen. 2 p.m. charge www.ArtsAllianceSite.org There have been quite a number That’s especially true in ensemble Unplugged Acoustic Open Mic Unison Arts Center Unison Arts Center 68 of other “dream cast” productions, pieces, where seamless meshing of Mt. Rest Road New Paltz NY 845-255-1559 Sign up: 3:30; Runs 4-6pm charge www. going back to the Richard Burton performances is both necessary and unisonarts.org Hamlet and beyond. Theater history ideal—say, Chekhov. It’s important Wednesday, March 20 buffs will remember tours in the 19th in plays that are less familiar—say, Toby Michaels & Mary Elizabeth Peterson: The Space Between: century in which a pair of famous ac- Lessing. It’s important in plays of New and Recent Works Artists Talk Art/Place Gallery @ FairfieldT heatre Com- tors would alternate roles in one or ideas, where the play of thought is pany 70 Sanford Street Fairfield CT 202-292-8323 Artists Talk 12-1:30 pm free (thru another play by Shakespeare. I’d be key—say, Shaw. If a group of high- Mar 30) www.artplace.org willing to bet that if we had ancient powered actors take the play by Friday, March 22 Athenian theatrical announcements storm, we get high-powered perfor- In the Limelight West End Gallery 12 West Market Street Corning NY 607- to peruse—now, what a treat that mances and miss the play altogether. 936-2011 Opening Reception 5-7:30pm. Music by AMA fluteT rio. free (thru Apr 26) www.westendgallery.net would be!—we’d find similar an- Fortunately, some high-powered nouncements. Florence Hurewitz: The Female Form: WVFA Gallery 65 Main St. actors are also very sensitive stu- Suite 300 Warwick NY 845-981-7300 Closing Reception 5-7pm free (thru Mar 22) However, there are no guarantees. dents of drama, and know how to put www.warwickfa.com/events Ever. first things first. I definitely think Saturday, March 23 Just as an All-Star team in foot- of Stewart and McKellen in that Crawford and Roggeman Look| Art Gallery 988 South Lake Boulevard ball, or basketball, or baseball some- category. Stewart has a strong stage Mahopac NY 845-276-5090 Opening Reception 6-8pm free (thru Apr 14) www.loo- times fizzles, sputters, and falls apart presence; you always know you’re kartgallery.com on the field, a dream cast can be a watching him, unlike Alec Guinness. Sean Sculley--Guest Curator The Riverside Galleries Garrison Art Center squib on stage. It’s all about theatri- McKellen is less so, but nonetheless 23 Garrison’s Landing Garrison NY 845-424-3960 Opening reception 6 to 8pm free cal fundamentals, regardless of the puts his own stamp on the work. How- (thru May 5) http://www.garrisonartcenter.org/ cast you have. Will all those high- ever, both of them do know how to Simone Dinnerstein/ Tiff Merritt Concert ClaverackLanding powered talents be on the same page? stay on the weather side of ego. This Club Helsinki 405 Columbia Street Hudson NY 518-828-7513 8 pm charge www. Will the director create an approach ClaverackLanding.org dream cast should work out. to the play that works? Will the level ef Ellen Cibula Paintings: Symmetries Delaware Valley Arts Alliance Alliance Gallery - Delaware Arts Center 37 Main Street Narrowsburg NY 845-252-7576 Open- ing reception 2-4pm free (thru Apr 13) www.ArtsAllianceSite.org Sunday, March 24 Colorado String Quartet in Concert Saugerties Pro Musica Sau- gerties United Methodist Church corner Washington Avenue & Post Street Village of Saugerties NY 845-679-5733 3 p.m. charge Jay Ungar and Molly Mason in Concert Newburgh Chamber Music St. George’s Church 105 Grand Street Newburgh NY 845-562-1861 3:00pm charge www.newburghchambermusic.org Little Sparrow in Concert Delaware Valley Arts Alliance Krause Recital Hall, Delaware Arts Center 37 Main Street Narrowsburg NY 845-252-7576 charge www.ArtsAllianceSite.org PALM SUNDAY BRUNCH Salmagundi Club 47 Fifth Ave., NYC (212) 255-7740 11am-3pm Continued on Page 16 See what we are doing at ART TIMES & Follow us on MIXED MEDIA ARTIST Ruth Bauer Neustadter Twitter; Like us at Facebook at the Piermont Fine Arts Gallery March 14 - 31, Opening Reception: Thurs. March 14th from 1 to 6pm Artist will be present during the entire show.

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THE 25th ANNUAL JAZZ CON- CERT Featuring Houston Person April 14 at 7:30pm

Neil Simon’s funniest play LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS May 30 to June 23, 2013 The artist will be exhibiting her newest body of work Thurs, Fri & Sat at 8pm, Sun at 3pm “Complexity and Simplicity” Piermont Fine Arts Gallery, 218 Ash Street, Piermont, NY For tickets call 914-277-8477 www.ruthbauerneustadter.com Or visit www.schoolhousetheater.org Spring 2013 ART TIMES page 15 Dance Off Stage Support for Dancers and More By Francine L. Trevens names of steps and how dances came We often say writers were born into being. He took dance classes to with ink in their blood and theater learn the names of the various moves people are stage struck. It appears and positions. that in the dance world there are He was teaching French in a school many non-dancers who commit where dance was part of physical themselves and their working lives education, rather than a department to dance. of its own. In his second year, he cho- Naturally there are the costume reographed a dance to a Stravinsky designers, set designers, lighting de- piece. It has been performed several signers, all of which are allied arts. In times. On stage, announcing a stu- addition to being a live stage event, dent showing of dance, Sygoda noticed dance often is depicted on film and Anna Sokolow in the audience and TV as well. asked her to stand up to take a bow. Frequently, however, creative Instead, this dance legend joined him people do not have the inclination, on stage. His face lit up like a child’s time or expertise for the business side in a candy store when he recalled the of dance. In 1976 Pentacle, (Dance thrill of that event. Works, Inc.) formed to assist small Pentacle, (Dance Works, Inc.) and mid-sized companies in these still helps many small companies, La Bayadère, as only The Bolshoi can do it; this is a photo of Svetlana Zakharova areas: booking and artist represen- particularly single choreographer as Nikia, Courtesy of the Bolshoi Ballet; (Photo by Damir Yusupov) tation, fiscal administration, grant companies with these business side preparation, graphic design services areas. No company needs to sign on services to a Chinese menu, where twelve dance pieces presented. The and individual consultations. for all Pentacle can do. They may companies pick out from column A two most memorable were Ssssssshal- It has since grown and its ongoing just want assistance with booking or B only what is needed by them. low, choreographed and danced by programs are Educational Program- venues, or handling the intricacies of He also referred to dance companies Riberto Villanueva, founder and Ex- ming, Movement Media (services, doing NYSCA grant requests or the by the Goldilocks concept, some too ecutive & Artistic Director of BalaSole strategies and opportunities for art- financial end of their company busi- large, some too small and some just and the other was Inside Looking Out ists to use media in their work), Culti- ness. Because in addition to being right for various services they offer. choreographed and danced by Sarah vating Leadership in Dance (adminis- an art, dance companies, like theater “It will be a long, slow change,” J. Ewing, an Australian dancer/ cho- trative internships program and Arts companies, are a business. They need Ivan said about his new position. “I reographer. Both had the passion and Management Paradigm including their grants, they need to keep their will be spending more free form time technique one needs in contemporary Back Office.) Pentacle now has of- books in order, they need assistance on my work and less business defined dance. fices in New York, Los Angeles and with finding venues, publicizing their responsibilities.” A case of re-creating the great Chicago, dealing with certain grant performances, etc. He talked about companies at- dances of yesteryear was brought request forms, handling program- Sygoda says what he’s liked most tempting to present the “original” forth in the film, “Passing theT orch.” ming, bookkeeping, doing promotions about his 37 years with Pentacle, was versions of various Graham, Limon It is a modern dance pastiche film and Sokolow dances. honoring Jose Limon and Anna So- “Graham was a revolutionary,” he kolow by showing footage of Limon noted, going on to say the re-creation brilliantly dancing a bull-fighting of her dances depends on the per- piece and then showing his Moor’s formance; not all are automatically Pavane, his elegant modern piece. wonderful. “Often they correctly have The next segment showed Sokolow the steps right but the spice is miss- choreographing a dance and the in- ing. Often ballet strength is missing.” tensity and uniqueness of her way of He feels he is a good audience working with her dancers, teaching member, like many adults who are them stillness and silence as well non-dancers but watch dance and see as movement. It concluded with her what it adds up to for them. He feels he disciple, Debra Zall working with can relate to how they average viewer ten dancers to marvelously recreate will react to a dance piece. Sokolow’s solo Kaddish, (selections He laughingly recalls a children’s of Sokolow performing were shown on dance company (presenting Aesop’s screen). Zall reconceived it as a dance Fables relating them to Egyptian for ten women (Kaddish requires 10 Goddesses, Mae West and other men to perform the rite in Jewish more modern tie-ins). Someone ran temples). to the dean of the school where it was The film was followed by a lively Eiko in "Hunger" (photo by Gregory Georges) performed claiming it was bestiality. discussion on the concept of passing Interestingly, the janitor was the only the torch to keep Limon and Sokolow of the company, setting up bookings, talking with artists and choreogra- one who understood the program. choreography alive and fresh. The graphic design services, individual phers. “Choreographers are smart This supported his theory that dance discussion was so absorbing that consultations and the like. and I get to talk to them,” was how is in the eye of the beholder. when the theater had to be vacated to Co-directors since they founded he summed it up. He will continue You can learn more about Pentacle allow for another screening, much of the company are Mara Greenberg and talking to choreographers in his new by checking it out on line. the audience went into a nearby room Ivan Sygoda. Hearing Mr. Sygoda was position with Pentacle. He will also * * * to continue the talk back. stepping down from that position this continue working closely with sev- The start of 2013 offered a host of Dance on film is also a part of pro- summer to take up the role of Found- eral dance groups, including Eiko inviting dance offerings. gramming at Dance Film Sundays, ing Director, I decided to find out more and Koma. Hearing that BalaSole Dance a series which started in June 2010 about him and his dedication to dance It was a slow growth for Pentacle, Company’s mission was to bridge the under the auspices of the Rosendale companies. with many cash-strapped moments. gap in the field of concert dance, and Theatre Collective. They are held on “I was never a dancer, only a fan,” He still recalls how excited they were promote balance in concert dance the 2nd Sunday of every month at he said early in the interview. to be able to get a second IBM Selectric where the public can experience a Rosendale Theatre. A film ofLA BAY- Mr. Sygoda fell in love with perfor- typewriter for their company. That dance concert filled with diversity, ADÈRE will be performed on March mance art at a Great Neck, New York sounds like the dark ages to young where dance artists can fully demon- 10 by the Bolshoi Ballet at Rosendale puppet show when he was a little boy. people today, but for those old enough strate their individual artistic poten- Theatre 408 Main St,. Rosendale N.Y. The moon rose just when they said it to remember the advances these IBM tial. Who could resist wanting to see Admission is $10 for adults and $6 for would: he felt it was magic. machines were over regular typewrit- their performance at Alvin Ailey early children 12 and under. He found further magic later in ers, it is a recognizable landmark. It this year? So classical or modern, dance is be- dance when he saw EXILES and is difficult for those born after 1975 to Eager for all this diversity from ing kept alive and well by enthusiastic realized dancers’ seemingly straight realize how different technology was ten choreographers in one evening, audiences, dedicated performers and lines were actually on diagonals back then, in its infancy. I booked my seats. Sadly, I found choreographers and support organi- and wanted to know more about the He compared Pentacle’s offer of more conformity than diversity in the zations such as Pentacle. ef Spring 2013 ART TIMES page 16

Continued from Page 14 Inspiration Abounds - Paintings by Mitchell Saler and Katherine Gray; and photographer Justin Soudant The Wallkill River School and Calendar Thursday, March 28 Art Gallery 232 Ward Street (17K) Middletown NY 845-457-2787 Opening Reception Daniel van Benthuysen: The Rooftop Paintings Upstream Gallery 26b 5-7pm free (thru Apr 30) www.WallkillRiverSchool.com Main St. Dobbs, Ferry NY 914-674-8548 free (thru Apr 21) upstreamgallery.com/ “Patterns of Life” by Pat Lange and Carol Sanzalone The Artists’ SHIRLEY R. GLASSER: Paintings Etc. Upstream Gallery 26B Main Street Dobbs Gallery 18 Bridge Street Lambertville NJ 609-397-4588 Opening reception 4pm to Ferry NY 914-674-8548 free (thru Apr 21) www.upstreamgallery.com 7pm free (thru May 5) lambertvillearts.com April Ongoing: Requiem for Being: An Installation Wisdom House Retreat and Confer- ence Center Marie Louise Trichet Art Gallery 229 East Litchfield Rd Litchfield TC Apr 19-24 JULIUS CAESAR CENTERstage Productions CENTER for Perform- Reception/Opening; 3-5 PM donate (thru Sept 7) ing Arts at Rhinebeck 661 Route 308 Rhinebeck NY 845-876-3080 charge www. centerforperformingarts.org Artists Co-op Anniversary Show Tivoli Artists Gallery 60 Broadway Tivoli NY 845-757-2667 Opening Reception 6-8PM. free (thru Apr 28) www.tivol- Apr 26-May 5 “In The Heights” Trinity Players Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center iartistsgallery.com 12 Vassar Street Poughkeepsie NY 845-227-7855 charge www.trinityplayersny.org Tokyo String Quartet in Concert Friends of Music Concerts, Inc. Kusel Monday, April 1 Auditorium at Sleepy Hollow High School 210 North Broadway (Route 9) Sleepy FUTURE ART MASTERS EXHITION online Student Exhibit American Artists Hollow NY 914-861-5080 8pm charge www.friendsofmusicconcerts.org Professional League online exhibit (thru Jun 30) www.americanartistsprofessional- Sunday, April 7 league.org 12th ANNUAL HAITIAN ART SALE Vassar Haiti Project Vassar College Multi Tuesday, April 2 Purpose Room, 2nd fl of College Center, Poughkeepsie, NY 845-797-2123 www. AMERICAN WATERCOLOR SOCIETY 146th INTERNATIONAL EXHIBIT thehaitiproject.org Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Ave., NYC (212) 255-7740 (thru April 21) www.ameri- BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE Irish Music Documentary The Schoolhouse Theater canwatercolorsociety.org 3 Owens Road Croton Falls NY 914-277-8477 3pm www.schoolhousetheater.org Thursday, April 4 Daniel van Benthuysen: The Rooftop Paintings Upstream Gallery 26b WAAM (WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION MUSEUM) @ N.A.W.A. 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Cleopatra. www.centerforperformingarts.org upstreamgallery.com Cuts and Assemblages Gallery 66 NY 66 Main St. Cold Spring NY 845-809- Spirit of Jazz Benefit Concert Phelps Hospice Irvington Town Hall The- 5838 free Opening Reception: April 5th, 6-9 pm Regular Hours: Thurs - Sun 12-6 ater 85 Main St. Irvington NY 914-591-6602 3pm charge www.irvingtontheater.com pm www.gallery66ny.com Monday, April 8 Mimi George: Two Generations of Gouache and “Into the Light” Acrylic The Flower Day: Buddha’s Birthday Celebration Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Paintings Cooperstown Art Association 22 Main Street Cooperstown NY 607-547- Shop Rite Aid Plaza, 232 Main Street New Paltz NY 845-255-8811 all day, 11am- 9777 Opening Reception 5-7pm free (thru Apr 24) www.cooperstownart.com 9pm free GKnoodles.com Continued on Page 18 Saturday, April 6 12th ANNUAL HAITIAN ART SALE Vassar Haiti Project Vassar College Multi Purpose Room, 2nd fl of College Center, Poughkeepsie, NY 845-797-2123 www. 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New! Future Art Masters Exhibit FAME Online Student Exhibition College & Art Institutions • Art High Schools Ask your Teacher to obtain a Prospectus April 1 — June 30, 2013 www.americanartistsprofessionalleague.org [email protected] Spring 2013 ART TIMES page 17 Film The Case of the Mailbox Flag By HENRY P. RALEIGH I know you’ll wonder why I mail to be retrieved, replaced by the meat loaf and mashed potatoes, should take issue with such a seem- current delivery, if any. Opening and red cabbage stew, knickers, and ingly trivial matter. And I probably closing the box’s cover is included in Orphan Annie de-coder rings wouldn’t have had I not seen again, the carrier’s duty. When the entire although my appreciation was this time on cable, the 2002 film “Big service has been completed the car- rather dampened by the mail- Bad Love.” Here was the second of- rier pushes the flag down and is on box blunder. fense, the first having occurred in his (or her) way —job well done, too. It was the second viewing “A Christmas Story”, a film that This is the way it’s done and has of “Big Bad Love” that finally appeared in 1983 and has come up been since I was a boy in every resi- did it for me. I could no lon- every December since. I didn’t really dence I’ve ever occupied that relied ger restrain myself for at notice the problem in 1983; by the on a mailbox perched upon a stand. one of the opening scenes re-run in the following year there was It’s a tradition, I imagine, begun by is shown a mailman (it’s a no mistaking a serious flaw I could the pony express riders employing man without question) at- not easily overlook. The young actor, red bandanas or the like. You can tempting to stuff a deliv- Peter Billingsley, violated the funda- imagine then my disturbance at ery of manuscripts into mental rule of mailbox signaling: the seeing Mr. Billingsley removing his a rusty mailbox whose flag is in the upright position when mail and pushing the flag up — to flag is clearing sticking mail is to be picked up by the mail car- say nothing of the mailman’s distress straight up. I won’t go rier, down at all other times. It’s the when next making his rounds (the as far as to demand mailbox owner, you see, who raises film is a period piece, the mail carrier that this be brought to the flag indicating to the carrier that would surely be a man). Add to this national attention yet he (or she, of course, although I’ve that I had witnessed this mailbox fi- it cannot be denied yet to see women so employed — I’m asco every December for twenty-four that here is depicted sure they could if they cared to) will years. Yet I have to put this aside, a Federal Employ- find therein mail to be posted.I n sum, painful as it had become, in consid- ee, mind you, com- the mail carrier (of whatever gender) eration of the film’s authenticity in mitting what can knows the upright flag means there is all other respects right down to the only be called a misdemeanor. I don’t Don’t such things shake our faith in know who is responsible for these the integrity of the film? Something errors. Were they done out of care- should be done to see this does not lessness, indifference? Do we blame happen again, I can tell you. CALL FOR ENTRIES the writers, the director, the actors? ef ALLIED ARTISTS OF AMERICA Visit 100th Annual Open Exhibition arttimesjournal.com November 8 - November 17, 2013 to read previously published essays, new at The National Arts Club Galleries, NYC essays, videos & much more. Open to all artists Oil, Watermedia, Pastel, Graphics, Sculpture $24,000 awards in cash & medals JPEG entries accepted Annual Members Exhibition 2013 CLASSIC WOODSTOCK Deadline September 10. For prospectus March 10 — March 28, 2013 send SASE to: Rhoda Yanow, 19 Springtown Reception & Awards Friday, March 22nd, 6-8pm w/STUDIO Road, White House Station, NJ 08889 or at The Salmagundi Club website: www.alliedartistsofamerica.org 47 Fifth Avenue. NYC Mon. - Fri. 1-6; Sat. & Sun. 1-5pm • www.clwac.org

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Elizabeth Strong-Cuevas Coincidence 2 silver Soon after John Hovannes’ death ics, the Universe. And I am drawn in the 70’s, I met Marcel Meylan, a to spiritual ideas, Yoga. In my French-Swiss sculptor who had made double profiles, I am trying to show enlargements for Zadkine. He had the underlying unity of minds. In been foreman of a jewelry shop and my negative spaces, I am showing had made an anti-magnetic watch spirit beyond matter, idea before during the last war. He put me on the material form. Somewhere, in a large scale with jeweler’s armatures sculpture showing the Buddha and for plaster pieces such as “Arch III”, his disciples, the disciples are shown the five “Heads” with moveable pro- in three-dimensional form while the files in stainless steel, “Obelisk”, and Buddha is represented only by the others. He had a teacher’s pride. He impression of his feet in the sand. My was never so happy as when he saw grandfather was a professor of phi- me on a scaffold, 7 feet up. He would losophy and psychology who believed say: “At last, Elizabeth, I have made in consciousness in the Universe. a sculptor of you.” He wrote a letter about the con- After Meylan returned to Swit- sciousness of the sun and the moon. zerland, having spent about eight Maybe we get ideas from our ances- years in New York City, I met an tors. I think that thought travels, amazing welder Michael Cain with symbolized by me in a series of eight whom I began fabricating large alu- sculptures that go by that name minum sculpture: “Running Heads”, “Thought Travels”. Nicola Tesla, like “Arches”, “Two Face Telescope”. I do the Hindus, believed that thought is not weld but I make the models and I a form of energy not yet measured. supervise the building of large-scale We may get thoughts and feelings pieces. I have never made an auto- from a distant past. Intuition and matic enlargement. I always extend feeling are all part of the inspiration measurements for any sculpture to make something. As Picasso said Elizabeth Strong-Cuevas Running Heads over five feet and I make forms lean when asked where he got his ideas; That phrase pretty well describes er John Hovannes, after a few inward, following intuitively classi- “It begins with an emotion.” In sum, my beginnings. months, took me aside. He said: cal Greek principles. my work refers to outward explora- When I first walked in to the Art “Now, a little more imagination, a Today I work with another sculp- tion and inner meditation. Students’ League in the early 60’s, I little more composition, you carve”. I tor Mark Briscoe who likes fabricat- I feel so lucky to have been given had a set of flashbacks, the earliest didn’t believe I could do it at first.U n- ing stainless steel: “Pillars”, “Galac- what I think is a mission to impart one when I was six years old. I said der his guidance, I bought a block of tic Lens”, “Look Twice”, etc. certain ideas. to myself: “If I wanted to, I could marble about a foot and a half square For the making of sculpture, it is To this day, I can say: “Oh, what make a watch.” I felt I had skill out of which I carved an Indian deity as if I had been given a red carpet. a delicious life!” My teachers have been outstanding, in my fingers. The second memory leaning against a tree. When I got (Elizabeth Strong-Cuevas is my helpers, exceptional. I have never that assailed me was being taken to the face, I lost nerve. Hovannes an internationally acclaimed had to turn anyone away. We have to a fortuneteller’s stall outdoors in pounded the table in the coffee shop sculptor whose pieces have been advanced together. It gives one great Lakewood, NJ where we were stay- and gave me marching orders: “You exhibited in Europe, the United pleasure. ing. Right now, I can see the bamboo carve that face”. Although I broke States, and South America. Her What inspires me, what are my stalks lining the stall. The woman the nose slightly, it was a feat that I website is sc-sculpture.com). themes? I like thinking about phys- telling fortunes looked at my palm managed. I lost my fears. ef Spring 2013 ART TIMES page 20 available online. Deadline May 15. www. for Juried art competition “Let’s Go to the Artists, All Media: The Art House Gallery, Opportunities cooperstownart.com Beach” (Long Island beaches only; Brooklyn, 182 North Main St., Manahawkin, NJ 08050 NY Artists, All Media: Cooperstown Art Queens included. Call or email for submis- (609) 978-4ART Seeks entries for “No Man Artists: Oil, Watermedia, Pastel, Graph- Association, 22 Main Street, Cooperstown, sion guidelines. Submit CD w/images and is an Island” exhibit Apr 20-May 26. Visit ics, Sculpture: Allied Artists of America. NY 13326. Regional Juried Exhibit May payment ($30 for up to 3 images). No returns website for details. Deadline: Mar 31. www. Seeks entries for 100th Annual National Ex- 3-May 31. Jurors: Kristen Henderson & w/o SASE. Deadline Jun 28. art@longisland- ArtHouseGallery.net hibition Nov 8 - Nov 17. 2013 at the National Alice Hurwitz Prospectus: available online museum.org www.longislandmuseum.org. Dramatists / Choreographers: Theater Arts Club, NYC. Jpeg entries accepted. For at or send #10 SASE ATTN: regional juries Artists, All Media: Mamaroneck Artists’ for the New City, 155 First Ave., corner prospectus visit website or send SASE to exhibit Deadline Apr 26 cooperstownart.com Guild, 126 Larchmont Ave. Larchmont, NY of E. Tenth St., NYC (East Village). Seeks Rhoda Yanow, 19 Springtown Rd., White Craftspeople: Dutchess Community Col- 10538 (914) 834-1117. Seeks work in all media submissions for “Dream Up Festival”, new House Station, NJ 08889. 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By Mary Burruss mixes traditional American junk and Latin music “This music is meant for dancing,” food with Asian foods to produce festivals around the laughed David Wax from the stage to dishes like Kung Pao Pastrami all world. New mutt bands the tightly packed multi-generational in the New York City area (fusion like The Lumineers crowd gathered in the cave of a is usually found in urban areas), have hit Alternative, performance space at The Southern, exemplify globalization generated Adult Contemporary, a club tucked just off the Downtown by technological accessibility. Great Pop charts reaching Mall in Charlottesville, Virginia. farm to table restaurants tend to be unprecedented cross- The band that he fronts, David Wax in more remote locals (because chefs genre popularity. Museum, was in between songs, need easy access to gardens and There has been a preparing to rock the house with livestock) like Trellis in Kirkland, revival of folk styles in “Yes, Maria, Yes” a lively marriage of Washington, Montagna at Little Nell popular music in the Traditional Mexican Music (Son) with in Aspen, Colorado and Tupelo Honey past decade, as seen elements of American Folk producing Cafe in Asheville, North Carolina. through bigger names in this particular baby, a strong Cajun Fashion is all over the map with an like Mumford and Sons, sound. As Wax chatted up the crowd, anything goes feel seemingly drawing The Avett Brothers and his primary collaborator, Suz Slezak from every era and mixing distinct more subtly, Adele. pulled a quijada (a donkey jawbone) regional wear with basics. Scottish In order to dissect from her collection of instruments plaids meet Asian influenced florals, “new folk” or “Mutt” then flashed a mischievous smile skirts are everywhere in length sounds, it is important towards the audience. and volume from short and tight to to explore more recent Based in Boston, David Wax flowing long ones as in Nina Ricci’s influences of these Museum is on the verge of breaking 2012 spring collection, pant styles bands and the bell curve big. They have been featured on go from high-wasted pleated blouson of musical trends. “Bob NPR and reviewed by prestigious to skin tight cigarette styles (Diane Dylan, Paul Simon, and publications like The Boston von Furstenberg’s pajama pants Gillian Welch are some Globe, The New Yorker. Time vs. Jason Wu’s baroque patterned of our influences,” notes Magazine described them as having, cigarette pants) and colors go the Slezak. Slezak who “virtuosic musical skill and virtuous entire spectrum from bright ’80’s -ish also plays keyboard, harmonies”, and are getting air play jewel tones to varying shades of nude. violin, accordion and on college and independent radio Even the current president of the guitar studied classical David Wax and Suz Slezak of David Wax Museum stations all over the United States. United States, Barak Obama, reflects and old time fiddle combine many kinds of folk and roots influences to But what is, perhaps, most intriguing this trend through his ethnicity. He is as a child growing up create a unique sound. (Photo by Todd Roeth) about them is how they exemplify the at once American and foreign having near Charlottesville, Virginia. She are using more electric instruments most recent incarnation of what I like been raised in the U. S. and abroad, a describes her more recent study of and experimenting with synthesized to call, “Mutt” music, music that is symbol of the American dream as a boy Irish music as an, “ incredible, rich sounds a personal exploration. There a mish- mash of genres baked into a from a family of limited means and a world of songs and I have just been is so much new territory to explore unique sound with each “Mutt” artist model of sophistication as warranted scraping the surface of it.” when you combine electric sound with perpetuating a thread that originates by his prestigious education and Wax used a year-long, post- acoustic instruments.” with some purebred musical form. eloquence. graduate fellowship from Harvard to toby Shippey who plays bongos “We certainly feel like we have roots What is good about mutts? Any study rural Mexican folk music where and cowbell with Salsa Celtica in Mexican son, old time, bluegrass animal breeder will tell you that mutts he began using the song structures describes the band’s musical and American folk and rock music,” are inherently better at survival and rhythms in combination with inspirations thusly, “All the folks who says Slezak in a recent telephone than purebreds. As with animals, English words to create a sort of play and have played with the band interview. “Like so many bands today mutt music has the same penchant hybrid sound. He and Slezak started have contributed to the melting pot we are drawing upon all these to for living longer. In the animal David Wax Museum in 2007, using which has created the band’s sound. create the blend that makes up our world purebreds tend to have health Mexican instruments as well as I have been influenced by every one sound.” problems due to in-breeding, mutts traditional American instruments from 70’s Colombian cumbia, to New As music writer and author, Caitlin with their mixed up genes, come out (guitar, fiddle, drums). Like Dylan, York 70’s salsa to Cuban son. Seeing Moran observes in her book, How stronger, more adaptable, smarter Wax’s vocals are drawn out and David Byrne playing in Glasgow with to be a Woman: “Pop is the cultural and sometimes more interesting. dominant to the instrumentation in his big band salsa group, I found bellwether of social change. Because Mutt music is similar to mutt animals the majority of his songs, from folk, that sound totally intoxicating.” of its immediacy, reach, and power in its greater likelihood of survival. blues and Anglo-European folk music. Several band members have traveled - no two-year turnover, like movies; “Music coming from lots of different The slow heartbeat rhythm of some of to Cuba to learn bata and rumba. not three-year writing process, like sources tends to have a longer life their work like in the song, “Wait for The conglomerate of musical styles the novel; no ten-year campaigning than something one dimensional. If Me”, speaks to the Welch influence that make up the Edinburgh music process, like politics - any thought or you are able to pull form genres you that specializes in dark slow songs. scene have also played a part. Bands feeling that begins to foment in the are passionate about and can speak to Paul Simon’s sound is most apparent like Mouthmusic, Shooglenifty and collective unconscious can be number you are able to pull from a wider fan in “Born with a Broken Heart” which Martyn Bennet who focused on Celtic one in the charts two months later. base,” says Rick Brewer Head of Radio reminds one of Simon’s “Cecelia” in sounds with Afro drum and base feels And as soon as a pop-idea gets out Promotions at ATO Records based in tone. But perhaps the most intriguing sparked the idea of melding Latin and there, it immediately triggers action New York City. The reason: when element of David Wax Museum’s Scottish folk music. and reaction in other artists, whose musical styles are mixed together, the sound is the use of the quijada, which Salsa Celtica is currently working responses are equally rapid- leading artists are able to attract fans from Wax picked up, in southern Vera Cruz, on their 5th album, which seems to be to an almost quantum overnight shift all the genres involved thus widening Mexico. “It is an instrument used in exploring some different roots. “One in the landscape.” their audience potential and the son jarocho music (a combination of the new things on the record will Mutt music is the forerunner of chance of survival. This is why artists of African, indigenous and Spanish be the fusion on Afro Latin and salsa stylistic trends that are formulating like, Shania Twain and Garth Brooks influences),” Slezak explains. T “ he sounds with Scots and Irish Gaelic in the early 21st century, which seems reached such high levels of success. sound comes from the rattling of the song,” says Shippey. “We have had the to mirror the increasing feel of a true They were established in one genre loose teeth in their sockets plus a stick pleasure of working with some great global village by the accessibility of then made “cross-over” recordings, that is rubbed along the teeth. One traditional singers in Julie Fowlis communication via the internet. All songs written in a style that draws story goes that the Africans who were and Megan Henderson and that has things seem to depict the extremes enough from another musical genre enslaved on the sugar plantations had produced some really strong tunes.” of global homogenization or the to land on another rating chart. Such played zebra jawbones in Africa. Then Whatever musical roots these celebration of individual identities. a maneuver introduces that artist when they arrived in Mexico, they bands are exploring they are In the culinary arts, Fusion (the to a new audience, which results in picked up donkey jawbones and used generating something distinctive and combination of cooking methods more sales of that artist’s recordings. them to make music.” The unique representative of the global exchange from different cultures) and Farm- Salsa Celtica is a Scottish musical combination of sounds generates of information and tradition that is to-Table (the use of what is available group famed for playing a fusion of what David Wax Museum refers to at once fusing and distinguishing locally) are forerunning culinary salsa music with traditional Scottish as, “Mexo-Americana” though the cultures. Hopefully, it will be fun to trends. Previously unheard of instruments, including elements music continues to metamorphose. go backwards in time and trace the culinary combinations like Miranda’s of folk and jazz. Because of their Says Slezak, “ Our latest album is threads of the multi-colored fabric of Latin-Italian, Vermillian’s Indian- mutt status, they play at both really a rock album which is really a their sounds to their purist forms. Latin and Mission Chinese which traditional Scottish music festivals new turn for us, a new direction. We ef Spring 2013 ART TIMES page 22

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There were ting you set me up on a date.” Their eyes met. gleamed a grandmotherly gleam. a few creepy ones but in general most Doctor Davenport went on rounds Six feet two inches stood up and Lindsay saw it and reaffirmed her passed inspection. The genders spoke at Bayhealth Medical Center. She re- moved toward her. He had thick, wavy position.” among themselves. Voices filled the alized her love life rested in her moth- brown hair, clear brown eyes, and fea- “No.” air with restrained excitement. Fold- er’s hands. A disturbing thought. She tures evocative of ancient Greek busts. “Well, if speed dating fails and you ing chairs ranged the room in a huge continued onward past the nurses’ Lindsay’s tongue thickened. won’t let me fix you up, try— square. station, down nearly empty halls. She “Hello,” he said, “I’m Doctor Booth “I’m not petitioning St. Rita, Mom.” The dating expert stood at the front concentrated on coming up with a way Gibson. 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I’m not giving up hands.” “I’m scheduled to observe Doctor enjoyed singledom ‘Men are more though” Lindsay’s position needed Beep beep beep. Beep beep beep. Osgood in two hours.” trouble than they’re worth.’ Et cetera, clarification otherwise her mother Doctor Davenport’s beeper alerted “Let me keep you company then,” et cetera, et cetera.” might foist some mother’s son off on her to an emergency. She hurried Lindsay said. “Tell me, are you inter- “Rena hadn’t made me an aunt her. An accountant or, heaven fore- back to the third floor. Mrs.H ammer- ested in sports, movies, or interna- before.” fend, a computer geek with bad taste smith was in cardiac arrest…. tional dining?” ‘Six months ago. There must be in clothes. The doctor’s lounge was Doctor (Annette Taylor lives in Ports- more to it.” “What happened?” Davenport’s next stop after stabiliz- mouth, VA.) ef Lindsay sighed, fixed her eyes “Bradford talked about himself onto those of her older mirror image. nonstop.” She touched pinkie with “I want someone who shares my in- index finger while recounting her Back Room Gallery tale of woe. “Wayne behaved like he terests. Someone right for me and for Veryal Zimmerman, Artist & Director whom I’m just right.” hadn’t seen a woman in twenty years. “Perfectly understandable, my Oscar ogled the waiters. Both sexes. Showing more than 30 artists' work own. All work and no play makes a Marlowe needed psychiatric help.” including: person lonely. No one’s life should be This time they lunched at Turkish Paintings, Linocut Prints, Photography, all work.” Delight. Both women had a serving of Sculptures, Unique Handmade Jewelry, Doctor Lindsay Davenport and plain rice pilaf. Mother ate gardener’s Handmade cards and much more. hope entered Mason’s Hall at 8:30 kebab with hers. Daughter ate beef Gallery also features: Vintage Decorated Crepe Designs from the Early 1900's CALL for ENTRIES Call for Entries and exhibitions with featured artists. FINE ARTS • FINE CRAFTS Regional Juried Exhibition Artists’ Reception 2nd Saturday 51st Annual Juried Show Juror: Christie Scheele of each month 6-8pm JUNE 1 & 2, 2013 April 6-27, 2013 . Deadline: April 2 For application (click apply) or information: Back Room Gallery www.WhitePlainsOutdoorArtsFestival.com www.askforarts.org . 845-338-0331 475 Main Street, Beacon, NY White Plains Outdoor Arts Festival Committee $20/2 pieces members . $ 35/2 pieces non-members P.O. Box PMB 441 • 333 Mamaroneck Ave. [email protected] • 845-838-1838 White Plains, NY 10605 • 866.210.7137 See Website for prospectus. Open: Th, Fr, Sa 12-6; Su 12-5pm 97 Broadway . Kingston, NY 12401 Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Inc.

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