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A lonely man is sitting de- too many analyses where the only or “beauty” or (heaven help spondent in a seedy hotel room. mode is the declarative one and us) “truth.” When John Keats Outside the window, the marquee the analyst presents no alternative wrote, “Beauty is truth, truth is blinking in rhythm to the bass perspectives on the piece. beauty,” he not only gave “a notes, while the slightly less reg- i now turn ashen with rage at profound truth” to millions of ular patter of light rain hits the a certain expression that seems English majors to discuss in panes. This reflects the deep feel- to crop up in musical analyses: class and about which to write ing of isolation that Gershwin felt “a profound truth.” How the dick- essays but a phrase that has at the time he composed this short ens a piece of music can be true or no meaning whatsoever in masterpiece. But more than that, false—profoundly or otherwise—is any objective sense. Yes, we it reflects the loneliness of modern a matter for philosophers and se- “sort of” know what he meant; man in general and therefore ex- manticists: the former of which but is that kind of knowledge enough to start a war or estab- presses a profound truth. use words with little or no actual Quince And if you buy that, I have a meaning and the latter of which lish a cult or even engage in a bridge in Brooklyn I can sell you point out why they have little or no debate about its “meaning”? Profile: cheap! meaning. The first time I ran up The key words in that “analysis” For example, the words “Empire against a narrator solemnly Betsy Jacaruso are the first two: “To me.” I have State Building” or “Arch of Tri- stating that a single chord (See Center) brought to my writing all the bag- umph” will conjure up in the mind in some modern bit of music gage of my past life. I am seldom a very specific object that occupies (which I found grating at best) in a hotel room—more motels than space and can be perceived by at expressed “a profound truth,” I re- i will go into more detail about hotels on my budget—and I never least three of the five senses. The member groaning and nearly giv- this recording in my next essay. really enjoy being in one. Nothing word “dog” might conjure up a spe- ing up on the entire 7-DVD series In the meanwhile, I must admit to in it is mine; it is impersonal. Usu- cific dog or a sort of fuzzy image of that was titled “Leaving Home: Or- feeling a little better about my con- ally, I am with my wife, but in the a four-footed mammal with canine chestral Music in the 20th Centu- cept of the Gershwin work. Maybe past I have spent some time alone characteristics. Seeing a specific ry.”* It was more than a groan that it does express a truth, shallow or in such rooms and feeling lonely is dog will conjure up the word “dog,” greeted that same phrase on a CD profound, that is yet to be deter- easy to do unless one has the re- “chien,” “Hund,” or whatever, de- in which a well known personality mined. sources (and personality) to find pending on the language that is first conducts and then analyzes a No matter what, it should be a some congenial company. wired into one’s brain. 69-minute symphony. During the lot of fun de-punditing the pundits so it should not be surprising A politician uses “country” with analysis, he claims towards the end in these essays about musical anal- that the opening notes in the bass an even fuzzier referent. “He is of the disc that the entire work has ysis. of the “Second Prelude” (which are serving his country” is a good ex- expressed “a profound truth” about *The narrator is conductor Si- a homage to Chopin, by the way) ample. Is the “country” the moun- man’s despair and eventual salva- mon Rattle. The set is on ArtHaus should conjure up those particular tains and the prairies between the tion. DVDs. images. Couple that with what I oceans white with foam on the east ef know about Gershwin being a city and west, and Mexico and Cana- person, never married, loving to da on the north and south? Does play in front of large crowds, but it include the animal life in those CSS Publications, Inc. 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Letters A traditionalist with a “twist”, Mr. To the Publisher: Rein’s thoughtful renderings of the Let me thank you again for the won- human figure have been admired and derful opportunity to place an ad in studied by the many artists and stu- ART TIMES [April 2009]. It looked dents who have frequented the BAC good, and I’ve already seen a slight Open Session classes that Sam moni- bump in visits to my web site. tored for many years. Sam’s positive artist community and online gallery You’re doing a wonderful job with influence on his fellow artists in the ART TIMES. I hope it continues to Hudson Valley is immeasurable and Calling All Artists… have a long, productive life — in spite it’s been an honor to have his unique www.soleyne.com of our current hard times. work included in many BAC exhi- Best wishes. bitions. Sam’s vibrant palette and Susan Moberg | 516-477-6432 | [email protected] | www.soleyne.com Beth Kurtz, NYC, NY thoughtful subject matter of serene The Soleyne Gallery has been modeled after the finest art and high figure studies, simple still-life and craft galleries. Within this one venue, world class artisans will be To the Publisher: tranquil landscapes create works showcased from across every medium from the classic to the cutting Almighty knew what he was doing that are simultaneously subtle and edge. when he called you to the creation colorfully magnificent at the same of ART TIMES. In 25 years, you not time. only succeeded in producing a great Your article expressed your ad- We are working diligently to create an online venue composed of ex- paper to read but also a source of miration of this accomplished artist ceptional, hand-chosen artists whose works one would expect to find valuable information, exchange, beautifully. 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So, con- regarding the quality and presentation of the artworks, as well as the gratulations to the Silver Anniversa- To the Editor: professionalism of the selling artists. ry and “Long Live ART TIMES. What a thrill and great honor to see Olga Spencer, PhD my poem in print in the January/ Soleyne, by definition means, “…a rare find, a treasure.” If you Southport, CT February 2009 issue. Thank you so believe that your artistry meets this standard, we welcome you to view much… our website, www.Soleyne.com, and submit your Artist’s Application. To the Editor: it’s always wonderful to read about Thank you so much for your wonder- various local exhibitions, artists and We look forward to seeing your work. ful cover story featuring “Life”, artist writers. I especially liked the article Sam Rein’s Solo Exhibition at Pough- about Clive Barnes [“Memories of Finally… an exclusive, upscale marketplace for the professional art- keepsie’s Barrett Art Center, which Clive Barnes” by Francine Trevens]. ist. Hobbyists need not apply. appeared in the January/February Thank you again for the confidence [2009] issue of ART TIMES. Your and thanks for your consideration. favorable description of Mr. Rein’s Gilda Kreuter (516) 543-5068 • [email protected] • www.Soleyne.com unique talent and versatility was ab- Brick, NJ solutely “right on”. Continued on Page 18 May 2009 ART TIMES page 3 Speak Out Reports of newspapers’ death By JOSEPH P. GRIFFITH As someone who was recently laid off, for the second time in less are not exaggerated than a decade, from a company in curacy. Piling onto the media is a wrongdoing, unjust wars and evil take the place of every profession. a dying industry (newspapers), I’ve popular bloodsport; it’s kill-the-mes- presidencies. Would that we had had Looking over her slinky gown and al- been extremely worried about three senger time. Whatever happened to their like to stand up to government most indecent figure, Dressler says, things: 1) my personal situation, 2) reasoned discourse, polite disagree- for the last eight years, and it’s ter- “Oh, my dear, that’s something you the industry and 3) the nation. ment, debate aimed at reaching a rifying to contemplate a future where need never worry about.” My situation, as a 50-plus worker solution or at least a consensus, that legacy has vanished. “Ignorance For newspaper workers, the threat in a culture and society that adore instead of diatribe and personal at- is strength,” wrote George Orwell. is not automation, but outsourcing. youth and pride themselves on kick- tacks for their own sake and to gain In a recent interview with Brit- Just as the U.S. manufacturing base ing older citizens to the curb, is only laughs at the expense of others? ain’s Guardian newspaper, writer has disappeared, with workers in one of millions of sad stories, so for- All those bloggers chortling with David Simon, a former crime report- Third-World countries performing get me. Newspapers are closing, lay- schadenfreude over the perhaps pre- er for the Baltimore Sun and creator tasks that used to be done here, local ing off staff and abandoning print maturely reported death of newspa- of the TV show “The Wire,” expressed news is being outsourced to places for the Web. Much has been made pers don’t understand the eventual fear for the future of newspapers and like India. The Pasadena Now Web of the industry’s woes, some of them cost to society. Profit drives the- in honest government. site has pioneered outsourced jour- self-created, but newspapers will dustry, and only the strong will sur- “Oh, to be a state or local official nalism, webcamming video of mu- sort them out somehow. They have vive. With fewer newspapers, the in America over the next 10 to 15 nicipal meetings and other local to, because as Stephen Colbert has survivors will be free to report the years, before somebody figures out news to India, where reporters write said, if newspapers die, where will truth, or whatever they want – or not. the business model,” said Simon, “To the stories and upload them to the they print the obituary? Journalism today often resembles a gambol freely across the wastelands website. They get paid $10 per 1,000 It’s really the country I’m most circus sideshow, but people seem to of an American city, as a local politi- words, which is basically a raise for concerned about. forget that John Peter Zenger, Alex- cian! It’s got to be one of the great them. Design and other functions The so-called democratization of ander Hamilton, Sinclair Lewis, H.L. dreams in the history of American are also outsourced, and it’s catch- media, fueled by the Internet, has Mencken, Jacob Riis, Edward R. Mur- corruption.” ing on with some papers around the engendered “citizen journalism.” The row, Woodward and Bernstein and Automation has long been a threat country. There are 8 million stories newspaper, a mainstay of communi- others like them not only informed for many American workers. I’m re- in the Naked City, and they’re now cation for a couple of hundred years, and enlightened but also, on many minded of Marie Dressler’s smirking being reported by people in another is rapidly giving way to the Internet occasions, saved the republic. They remark to Jean Harlow at the end of country. This is the future, and the and the blog, in which opinion and reported on, and sometimes helped “Dinner At Eight,” after Harlow has future is now. Or, as USC journalism hearsay replace research and ac- stop, governmental and corporate said that machinery will someday professor Bryce Nelson told the As- 7.375" sociated Press: “Nobody in their right mind would trust the reporting of people Pierro Gallery of South Orange and 1978 Maplewood Art Center Present who not only don’t know the institu- tions but aren’t even there to witness the events and nuances … this is a truly sad picture of what American journalism could become.” South Orange & Maplewood So what is to be done? Time is run- ning out, if it hasn’t already. While newspapers figure out the right busi-

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www.nrm.org Stockbridge, MA 413.298.41oo open daily May 2009 ART TIMES page 5 Dance A Contented Choreographer Who Has Arrived and an Up-and-Coming One By Francine L. Trevens Despite the concept of cre- ative people being tormented by demons, always struggling with an image they cannot quite capture, an idea that never comes fully alive, there are exceptions to the rule. One such exception is none other than Mark Morris who recently choreo- graphed L’isola disabitata (Desert Island) which, as a Gotham Cham- ber Opera presentation, had its New York City stage premiere at the Ger- ald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College in February, in honor of the bicentennial of the death of its com- poser, Joseph Haydn. Another choreographer, half his age, who set off in a different dance The Mark Morris Dancers in Romeo and Juliet On Motifs of Shakespeare (photo by Gene Schiavone) direction is Joe Barros. Though both the recent run, and along with oth- new choreographic task – say L’isola this incredible need to create and are from the West Coast, their back- ers on the creative team, is hoping disabitata for Mr. Morris, does he share it with others. I never thought grounds and the dance fields they to move the work to Broadway. “The begin with the music, a preconceived ’I want to be a director‘…or ‘I want entered are worlds apart. Mr. Morris piece grows a little bit each time and image, the strengths of the dancers to be a choreographer’…or ‘I want to has his own dance company, Mark it was exciting to see the show finally for whom he is choreographing, the produce on Broadway’... eventually... Morris Dance Group. Mr. Barros come to life.” mood of the piece, or what? Mr. Mor- it all just fell into place. I acted, I his own theatre company, New York Mr. Barros, while happy is far ris replied “L’Isola is not a dance, it sang, I danced and then I began to Theatre Barn. from content. His ambition is still is an opera. I found the singers to be make things happen. From those unusually well prepared and willing. small projects in my living room and It was a delight. the school yard came larger projects. ‘In every piece I work on I begin The first show I really produced was with the music. My job is fuelled by William Finn’s Falsettos. I was in music. That’s why I choreograph and high school.” that’s why I am involved in opera” how many of us have reached our Asked a similar question about ultimate creative goal by our middle choreographing, Mr. Barros rejoined, years? Mr. Morris’s response to my “It all begins with storytelling. Af- question about a dream he would ter living with the music and text still hope to achieve was, “World for some time, I begin my prep work peace comes to mind. Other than with research and experimentation. that, I’m doing what I love and what It’s best to have great storytellers, I want.” but I have worked with actors who he formed the Mark Morris have various levels of dance train- Dance Group in 1980, and has since ing. I arrive in rehearsal with my created more than 120 works for the concept (in collaboration with the company. He is very pleased with other members of the creative team) “The Mark Morris Dance Center, our and it evolves from there.” home in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, was i was aware Mark Morris had opened in September, 2001. It is the Leandra Ramm, Daniele Ryan, Carina Scott, Lauren Kampf, Aimee L. Corley, and wanted to be a choreographer since most wonderful place imaginable: Gabriele Vissar washing the clothes and scrubbing the floors in the opening number, he was a kid in Seattle. He is a My company, a flourishing school, "Welcome to Hell’s Kitchen " lucky, as well as contented man, for community classes, a real destina- The entertaining Hell’s Kitchen flaming, and his “ultimate dream is how many of us grow up to be what tion.” Musical, which Joe choreographed to be doing what I’m doing now as a we dreamt of as kids? His dream Barros said his biggest challenge at Hudson Guild in Manhattan director, choreographer and produc- then was “To make up dances.” to date was, “My theatre company: closed in March. He’d worked on this er on an even grander level.” Joe Barros, who grew up in Pacifi- New York Theatre Barn, a non- through its earliest incarnations to When asked how they started on a ca, California, recalls “I always had Continued on Page 7

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Saturday, June 6th 10am— 5pm The Lark Street Business Improvement District is seeking applications for this year's Art on Lark: Albany's Arts Festival. Areas of interest include: Arts & Crafts, Music, Performance (non-music), Fashion Designer, Teaching-Artists

Information and applications can be found at www.larkstreet.org or email [email protected] May 2009 ART TIMES page 6

Continued from Page 4 INSPIRED BY ASIA: Works by New York City Students Asia Society, 725 Park Ave., NYC (212) 327-9271 (thru May 31) www.asiasociety.org NYC Calendar Friday, May 1 JUDITH WELLER & HANS WITSCHI: Class Show Art Students League, The Eliza- “1909”: Exhibition Wilderstein Historic Site, 330 Morton Rd., Rhinebeck, NY (845) beth V. Sullivan Gallery, Vytlacil Campus, 241 Kings Highway, Sparkhill, NY (212) 247- 876-4818 (thru October) www.wildersein.org Dutchess 4510 Opening Reception: 5-7pm (thru May 27) artstudentsleague.org Rockland 1st FRIDAY IN ALBANY Lark Street and Central Ave District art exhibit openings KARLEEN DORN: Watercolor East Fishkill Community Library, 348 Route 376, 5-7pm Albany Hopewell Junction, NY (845) 226-2145 Opening Reception 7pm www.eastfishkillli- 2009 ANNUAL MEMBERS SHOW Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Kleinert/James Art brary.org Dutchess Ctr., 34 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2079 Opening Reception 5-7pm (thru Jun KATHY ANDERSON: Solo Exhibit National Arts Club Gregg Gallery, 15 Gramercy 7) www.woodstockguild.org Ulster Park South, NYC (212) 475-3424 Opening Reception April 21 6-8pm (thru May 2) www. 2009 BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS Exhibit Opalka Gallery at Sage Colleges, 140 kathyandersonstudio.com NYC New Scotland Ave., Albany, NY (518) 292-7742 Opening Reception 5-9pm (thru Jul LANDMARKS OF NY and CAMILO JOSE VERGARA: Harlem 1970-2009 The 24) Albany New York Historical Society 170 Central Park West at West 77th Street, NYC (212) 30th SEASON Woodstock Chamber Orchestra, Bard College, Olin Hall, Annandale-on- 873-3400 (thru Jul 12) NYC Hudson, NY (845) 246-7045 charge Dutchess MEMBERS THEME SHOW Garrison Art Center Gallery, 23 Garrison’s Landing, NY 3rd ANNUAL SMALL WORKS SHOW “The Perfect Ten” Catskill Artists Gallery, (845) 424-3960 Opening Reception 6-8pm (thru May 10) Putnam 38 So. Main St., Liberty, NY (845) 292-0310 (thru May 17) Greene MULTI-MEDIA BY NATALIE MINEWSKI LaBella Bistro, 194 Main St., New Paltz, 400th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF MANHATTAN Salmagundi Club, NY 845-255-2633 (thru May 29) www.labellapizzabistro.com Ulster Fraunces Tavern Museum, 54 Pearl Street, NYC (212) 968-1776 (thru Jul 31) www. NANCY COHEN: Perspectives on Salinity: River from Within Katonah Museum salmagundi.org NYC of Art, Route 22 at Jay St., Katonah, NY (914) 232-9555 (thru Jun 29) Westchester AMERICAN AUTHORS IN THE 19th CENTURY (thru Aug 31) and THE ART OF PLUGGED: An Alumni Invitational Exhibition Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore Col- ROBERT SCULLY (thru May 31) Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, 94 Broad- lege, 815 N B’way, Saratoga Springs, NY (518) 580-5049 (thru Jun 20) Saratoga way, Newburgh, NY (845) 569-4997 (thru Aug 31) www.karpeles.com Orange QUADRAVIEW: Group Show Bertoni Gallery, 1392 Kings Highway, Sugar Loaf, NY AMERICAN MASTER’S: Exhibition & Sale Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Ave., NYC (845) 469-0993 (thru Jun 21) Orange (212) 255-7740 (thru May 7) www.salmagundi.org www.salmagundi.org NYC RANI CARSON: Entwined Roots Prince Street Gallery, 530 West 25th St., NYC (646) AT THIS MOMENT, SHE…Group Show Pierro Gallery, Village Hall, 101 South Or- 230-0246 (thru May 16) www.rastafari-inspiration.com NYC ange Ave., South Orange, NJ (973) 378-7754 (thru May 10) Essex ROBIN MCALLISTER, VERONICA SWAIN, SHARON ZWICK exhibit The White AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL DREAMING Hopper House Art Center, 82 N. Broad- Silo Farm & Winery, Rt. 37 E, Sherman, CT (860) 355-0271 Opening Reception 1-3pm way, Nyack, NY (845) 358-0774 (thru Jun 8) Rockland (thru May 10 weekends only) Fairfield BENJAMIN HODDER Exhibit Romaine Brooks Gallery, 332 Hudson Ave., Albany, RUTH EDWY, Paintings and ALEX KVETON, Sculptures The Union Mills Gal- NY 12210 (518) 462-6138 x 15 (thru May 31)) www.romainebrooksgallery.30art.com lery, 361 Main Street, Catskill, NY (518) 303-4514 (thru June 14) Greene Albany SPRING BREAK: Group Show Grenning Gallery, 90 Main St., Sag Harbor, NY 631- CENTRAL NY WATERCOLOR SOCIETY EXHIBIT The Arkell Museum, 2 Erie 725-8469 (thru May 17) Suffolk Blvd., Canajohari, NY (518) 673-2314 (thru May 29) www.arkellmuseum.org Mont- SPRING JURIED SHOW The Gallery at the Kent Art Association, 21 South St. (RT 7), gomery Kent, CT (860) 927-3989 (thru May 25) www.kentart.com Litchfield,CT CLARKSTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS and ST. AUGUSTINE’S SCHOOL STUDENT WORKS Muroff Kotler Gallery, Stone Ridge Campus, SUNY Ulster (845) ARTWORK New City Library, 220 North Main St., New City, NY (845) 634-4997 x139 687-5113 (thru May 20) Ulster (thru May 30) Rockland THREAD THRICE Pomona Cultural Center, 584 Rte. 306, Pomona, NY (845) 362- E-CYCLORAMA Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Rd., 8062 (thru May 30) Rockland Purchase, NY (914) 251-6100 (thru Sep 13) Westchester Tiffany LaPlache: Life in Motion: Paintings by Uniondale Public Library, eba’S 36th ANNIVERSARY SPRING SALON CONCERT Maude Baum and Com- Uniondale, NY (516) 489-2220 Reception May 17 2-4 pm (thru May 31) Nassau pany Dance Theatre, 351 Hudson Ave., Albany, NY 518-465-9916 7pm charge Albany TOM GARDNER- HERE AND THERE: Exhibit West End Gallery, 12 West Market FEMINIST VIDEO ARTISTS Brooklyn Museum, 1st Floor, 200 Eastern Pkwy., Brook- St., Corning, NY (607) 936-2011 Opening Reception 5-7 pm (thru June 5) www.west- lyn, NY (718) 638-5000 (thru Jan 2010) www.brooklynmuseum.org NYC endgallery.net Steuben GAZEN GALLERY Grand Opening Gazen Gallery, 6423 Montgomery Street, Rhine- WORKS IN CLAY / HUDSON RIVER PAINTINGS The Outside In Piermont, 249 beck, NY (845) 876-4278 Ribbon Cutting at 4pm www.GazenGallery.com Dutchess Ferdon Ave., Piermont, NY (845) 398-0706 (thru Jun 6) Rockland GLENN DICTEROW: Violinist Eastman Music Center, Hotchkiss School, 11 Inter- YOUNG PLAYWRITES FESTIVAL Bardavon Opera House, 35 Market St., Pough- laken Rd., Lakeville, CT (860) 435-3663 7pm charge Litchfield,CT keepsie, NY (845) 473-5288 7pm charge Dutchess Continued on Page 8

18th Annual Pawling Arts & Crafts Festival 2009 Exhibitors Invited A juried event Outdoors and Under Tents on Charles Colman Blvd. in the Village of Pawling sponsored by the Pawling Chamber of Commerce Saturday, September 19, 10am - 4pm APPLICATION DEADLINE: AUGUST 3RD (Early Bird Discount Deadline: June 1st) For Application Requests: Vanessa Muro, Event Chair cell: 914-906-7666 • email: [email protected] SASE to: Pawling Chamber of Commerce North I-95 Exit 37 South I-95 Exit 39A • (203) 874-5672 P.O. Box 19 Pawling, NY 12564 www.meetheartistsandartisans.com • [email protected]

In Our Gallery May 28 — June 28 Pastel Society of America 63rd Annual Sculpture Exhibition Juried by Ellen J. Landis Contemporary Expressions a Group Photography Exhibition Juried by Daile Kaplan

Calls for Entry for Women Artists

• 2009 Fall Brush Exhibition October Afternoon Elizabeth Mowry Works on Canvas, Works on Paper, Mixed Media Juried by Margaret Kelly Trombly, ~~ Call for Entries ~~

The Forbes Collections 37th Annual Open Juried Exhibition at the National Arts Club, New York City. • Upstairs/Downstairs September 8 to 27, 2009. An Exhibition of Fine Craft as Art & Open to soft pastel painters only. Over $20,000 in awards. Fine Craft Boutique Juried by Stacy C. Entry fee: $25. - 1 slide ; $35.- 2 slides; $45. - 3 slides Hollander, the American Folk Art Museum Post marked Deadline for slides July 1, 2008. For prospectuses. Prospectus –SASE (# 10) to Pastel Society of America, Visit: www.penandbrush.org 15 Gramercy Park South, New York City, NY 10003. Pen and Brush Or www.pastelsocietyofamerica.org. 16 E. 10th St. Info: 212-533-6931 • [email protected] New York, NY 10003 Workshop Questions? [email protected] or 212-475-3669. May 17 & 18, 2009 Frank Federico ~ Landscapes May 2009 ART TIMES page 7 A Contented Choreographer Who Has Arrived Continued on Page 5 and an Up-and-Coming One By Francine L. Trevens profit theatre company dedicated to Group Therapy and Like You Like the investigation, development and It. Also through my company, I am advancement of new works. The producing a new musical called Hey, company is two years old and I am You Know What Movie Would Make very pleased with the way things are a Good Musical? It parodies the cur- going thus far.” Mr. Barros believes, rent state of the Broadway musical.” “Everything is a learning experience. This amused me, because I found My biggest mistakes have taught me Hell’s Kitchen Musical virtually a the most.” parody of sixties musicals, which is mr. Morris feels his biggest pro- the era in which it was set. There fessional challenge was the years were shades of Guys and Dolls, from 1988-1991 spent in Brussels. Sweet Charity and West Side Sto- “Quite difficult and enormously ry. Joe’s dances were very true to valuable.” He sums them up now. the era. While they were basically Among the works created during simple, given the fact that many of his tenure as Director of Dance at his dancers were NOT dancers, they the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in were none the less surprisingly ex- Brussels, the national opera house of citing and varied. The number ”He’s Belgium, were three evening-length a Ten” sung and danced by two older members of the cast was a show stop- dances: The Hard Nut; L’Allegro, il The sensational Omar Edwards tapping up a storm, with Chris Farha as Penseroso ed il Moderato; and Dido Charlie Blue Eyes, the strippers, Alex Perone as Frankie Da Nose and per as the two men danced on knees and Aeneas. Morris is noted for his Michael Briatico as Vito. The song is "Just 2 Avenues from Broadway" and hands and buttocks across the musicality and has been described as stage. “undeviating in his devotion to mu- of Arts and Sciences and the Ameri- I find very fine dances are underap- “My most vivid influence was the sic.” can Philosophical Society. In 2007, preciated. Even a bad dance is a lot movie The Wizard of Oz” said Mr. he has won much acclaim and he received the Samuel H. Scripps/ of work.” Barros. “It had all of the elements many awards, including eight hon- American Dance Festival lifetime Joe Barros has worked with a of a great story and was told well. orary doctorates to date. In 2006, achievement award. At the top of his number of theater people, some danc- I think it’s the reason I ultimately Morris received the New York City game in the classical world of dance, ers some not. He assisted Graziella chose a career in the theatre, or that Department of Cultural Affairs Mark Morris has created seven Danielle on one play, and worked a career in the theatre chose me! My Mayor’s Award for Arts & Culture works for the San Francisco Ballet with Tovah Feldshue. His risks are fourth/fifth grade teacher Mr. Free- and a WQXR Gramophone Special since 1994 and received commissions with untried material. Awards have man taught me to always exceed ex- Recognition Award. Morris is a from American Ballet Theatre, and yet to come for him. pectations.” member of the American Academy the Boston Ballet, among others. What's next for each of them? he certainly exceeded mine, when He founded, in 1990, with Mickail The company performs Mark I went to Hell’s Kitchen Musical on Baryshnikov, the White Oak Dance Morris’s Romeo & Juliet, On Motifs closing night, and thus I predict that Project. of Shakespeare at Lincoln Center’s in another 25 years he may be as he is fortunate in working with Rose Theater May 14 - 17. prominent in the theatrical field in many top names in dance including For Joe, “May is the second an- which he handles so many phases, Lar Lubovitch, Hannah Kahn, Lau- niversary of my company and I will as Mr. Morris is in ballet and opera. ra Dean and Eliot Feld, and feeling be producing an evening called Un- ef he has never staged a work which titled 3D which will explore the was not up to his standards, saying, process, product and perspective of Visit our website: www.arttimes- “If a dance is not up to my standards three musical theatre writing teams journal.com to read previously pub- I won’t show it publicly. 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Continued from Page 6 THE GREAT TULIP SCANDAL Art Society of Kingston (ASK), 97 Broadway, Kings- ton, NY (845) 338-0331 Opening Reception 5-8pm (thru May 10) Ulster Calendar Saturday, May 2 THE TAGHKANIC CHORALE’S SPRING CONCERT Valhalla United Methodist 1st SATURDAY GALLERY STROLL Galleries in Kingston, NY Ulster Church, 200 Columbus Ave., Valhalla, NY (914) 962) 4344 8pm charge http://taghkanic- 30th SEASON Woodstock Chamber Orchestra, Pointe of Praise, 243 Hurley Rd., Kings- chorale.ontimeonline.com Westchester ton, NY (845) 246-7045 8pm charge www.wco-online.com Ulster TODD SAMARA: Oils Duck Pond Gallery, Esopus Library, 128 Canal St., Port Ewen, ALAN BLAGDEN: Paintings Tremaine Gallery, Hotchkiss School, 11 Interlaken Rd., NJ ()338-5580 Opening Reception: 5-8pm (thru May 30) Ulster Lakeville, CT (860) 435-3663 Reception 4-6pm (thru Jun 14) www.hotchkiss.org/Abou- UPPER HUDSON RIVER WATERCOLOR SOCIETY: Color of Spring bjsartworks tHotchkiss/TremainGallery.asp Litchfield,CT Framing Gallery Studio, 71 Lawrence St., Suite 208, The Shirt Factory, Glens Falls, NY ALEXANDER ABAYEV, Violinist and COMPOSERS OF THE FUTURE West- (518) 793-9350 Opening Reception 4-6pm (thru Jun 12) www.bjsartworks.com Warren chester Chamber Orchestra, Iona College, Christopher J. Murphy Auditorium, cor of Summit and North Aves, New Rochelle, NY (914) 654-4926 8pm charge www.westches- Sunday, May 3 terchamberorchestra.org Westchester 30th SEASON Woodstock Chamber Orchestra, Bearsville Theatre Rte 212, Bearsville, ANNUAL SPRING OPEN HOUSE The Shirt Factory, cor of Lawrence and Cooper NY (845) 246-7045 3pm charge www.wco-online.com Ulster Sts., Glens Falls, NY 10-5pm Warren BLOOMS: Group Show Rockefeller State Park Preserve Visitor Center, Rt. 117, 1 ART & CRAFT SHOW & SALE Rosehill Music Center, Rosehill Shopping center, Co- mile east of Rt. 9, Sleepy Hollow, NY (914) 631-1470 x 11 Opening Reception 1-3:30 pm lumbus Avenue, Thornwood (914) 747- 2585 4pm- 9pm Sunday May 3rd 11am- 4pm (thru May 31) Westchester www.rosehillmusic.net Westchester “BYE BYE BIRDIE” Lycian Centre for Performing Arts, Kings Hwy., Sugar Loaf, NY BARRY DeBAUN / PHILIP LEKKI / BARBARA DE BAUN: Grand Opening Seven (845) 469-2287 5pm charge kingstheatrecompany.org Rockland 21 Gallery, seven 21 media center, B’way, Kinston, NY (845) 331-1435 Opening Recep- BYRDSONG COMMUNITY CHORUS Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Kleinert/James tion 5-8 pm Ulster Art Ctr., 34 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2079 4 PM www.woodstockguild.org BI-ANNUAL MEMBERS’ SHOW North Country Arts Center, City Hall Gallery, 2nd Ulster fl. City Hall Ridge Street, Glens Falls (thru May 30)Albany CORINNE BARTON & Others: Group Show Cedarwood Center for the Arts, 4 Fowl- CHRIS SMITHER Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Kleinert/James Art Ctr., 34 Tinker St., er St., Port Jervis, NY (845) 856-2307 Opening Reception 2-5pm (thru Jun 2) www. Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2079 charge www.woodstockguild.org Ulster cedarwoodcenter.com Orange CONSTANCE HORTON Landscapes Columbia Greene Community College, Arts GAGA ARTS FESTIVAL 2009 GAGA Arts Center, 55 West Railroad Ave., Garnerv- Center Kaaterskill Gallery, 4400 Rte. 23, Hudson (518) 634-2286 (thru Jun 30) Co- ille, NY (845) 947-7108 11am-6pm Open Studios, film, dance, music, food www.gaga- lumbia artscenter.org Rockland DAVE CHANNON: Food For Thought- Art Installation Stone Barns Center for GRADUATE ART SHOW AT ESTHER MASSRY GALLERY Massry Center for the Food & Agriculture 630 Bedford Rd., Tarrytown, NY 914-366-6200 1 pm Westchester Arts, College of Saint Rose, 1002 Madison Ave., Albany NY (518) 454-5102 Opening Reception 2-5 PM (thru May 8) Albany eba’S 36th ANNIVERSARY SPRING SALON CONCERT Maude Baum and Com- pany Dance Theatre, 351 Hudson Ave., Albany, NY 518-465-9916 7pm charge www. HAITI MARYCARE The Bean Runner Gallery, 201 S. Division St., Peekskill, NY (914) Albany 737-1701 Opening Reception 2-6pm Westchester GAGA ARTS FESTIVAL 2009 GAGA Arts Center, 55 West Railroad Ave., Garnerville, HELEN SHALFI Exhibit Finkelstein Memorial Lib., Fielding Room, 24 Chestnut St. NY (845) 947-7108 11am-6pm Open Studios, film, dance, music, food www.gagaartscen- & Rte. 59, Spring Valley, NY (845) 352-5700 x 244 Opening Reception 2-4pm (thru May) ter.org Rockland Rockland GREG MARTIN: Solo Show / HUDSON RIVER Group Show Tivoli Artists’ Co-op, INSPIRIT: a dance company Kaatsbaan International Dance Ctr., 120 Broadway, 60 Broadway, Tivoli, NY, (845) 757-2667 (thru May 24) ` Dutchess Tivoli, NY (845) 757-5107 2:30 pm www.kaatsbaan.org Dutchess INSPIRIT: a dance company Kaatsbaan International Dance Ctr., 120 Broadway, JAROMIR FUNKE AND THE AMATEUR AVANT-GARDE: Exhibit National Gal- Tivoli, NY (845) 757-5107 7:30 pm www.kaatsbaan.org Dutchess lery of Art, East Bldg, 4th St. at Constitution. Ave. NW, Wash., DC (202) 842-6353 (thru Aug 9) WDC JOYCE KANYUK Exhibition Piermont Fine Arts Gallery, 218 Ash St., Piermont Landing, Piermont, NY (845) 398-1907 Opening Reception 2-5pm (thru May 17) www. JOYCE KANYUK Exhibition Piermont Fine Arts Gallery, 218 Ash St., Piermont joycekanyuk.com Rockland Landing, Piermont, NY (845) 398-1907 Opening Reception 2-5pm (thru May 17) www. joycekanyuk.com Rockland KATHY RUTTENBERG: Tonight, Tomorrow & Forever Clay Art Center, 40 Beech St., Port Chester (914) 937-2047 Opening Reception 6-8pm (thru May 23) Westchester JUDITH CHENG, TRACY JACKNOW, JUNE LANIGAN, AND JUDY THUSS Mu- ral Gallery, Frank W. Cyr Center, West Main St., Stamford, NY Opening Reception 2-4 KEIRA BOERTZEL-SMITH Exhibit Studio Montclair Block Gallery, Clark House, PM (thru June 30) Delaware Montclair State University, 108 Orange Rd., Montclair, NJ (973) 744-1818 Opening Re- ception: 4-7pm (thru May 31) NJ KAREN J.F, COOPER watercolors The Oakroom Artist’s Gallery, First Unitarian Church, 1221 Wendell Ave., Schenectady, NY Opening Reception: 12-3:pm (thru May MARGUERITE BRIDE: Seasons of the Berkshires watercolors Gallery at the 31) Schenectady Goldsmith, 152 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA 01230 (413) 528- 0013 Artist’s Re- ception May 16 6-8pm (thru May 31) Berkshire, MA MARY SABBATINO: WORKING WITH ARTISTS USING ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS / EXHIBITIONS: ORIGINS (thru Jul 26) and KAREN SARGSYAN MARLIN ART STUDIOS Gala Art Exhibit & Auction St. John’s Church, 365 Straw- (thru May 24) Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (HVCCA), 1701 Main Street, town Rd, New City, NY (845) 634-3601 6pm Preview; 7pm Auction charge Rockland Peekskill, NY (914) 788-0100 4-6pm www.hvcca.org www.hvcca.org Westchester NEW JERSEY WATERCOLOR SOCIETY ANNUAL SHOW: Exhibit Guild of Cre- STUDIO TOUR OF WINTER RESIDENTS Islip Art Museum, Carriage House, 50 ative Art, 620 Broad St., Shrewsbury, NJ (732) 741-1441 Opening Reception May 3 3-5 Irish Lane, East Islip, NY (631) 224-5402 2-4pm Suffolk pm (thru May 27) www.guildofcreativeart.org NJ THE TAGHKANIC CHORALE’S SPRING CONCERT Trinity Episcopal Church, 7 OVER HILL AND DALE: Exhibit Maplebrook School, Rte 22, Amenia, NY (845) 373- South Highland Ave., Ossining, NY (914) 962) 4344 4pm charge http://taghkaniccho- 8557 x 246/256 Opening Reception 5-8pm (thru Jun 7) Dutchess rale.ontimeonline.com Westchester RIVER VIEWS OF THE HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL Thomas Cole National Historic WERNER CITTERIO: FINALMENTE- Oils and Watercolors Exhibit Valley Cot- Site, Temple Israel, 218 Spring St., Catskill, NY (518) 943-7465 Opening Reception with tage Library, 110 Route 303, Valley Cottage, NY (845) 268-7700 Opening Reception: speaker John K. Howat at 2pm (thru Oct) Greene 1-3pm (thru May 31) Rockland STANLEY BIELEN & CAEY GOLDBERG: Still Lifes The Harrison Gallery, 39 Continued on Page 12 Spring St., Williamstown, MA (413) 458-1700 Opening Reception 5-7pm (thru May 27) MA

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RALEIGH IT IS OFTEN said, generally in a ca- for cultural expression that bestows. out culture and follow how sual manner and as if everyone knows Later, in 1965, another bunch of film has traced out the this as well as their own names, that learned film lovers formed the Amer- changes that have societies express themselves through ican Film Institute which took on the taken place over the arts. An American poet once put task of rummaging through a hun- a period of time this another way saying a culture dred years of American films, over right up to the gets from its arts exactly what it de- 40,000 mind you, to identify those present. As a serves, although it’s true he didn’t that are the greatest of all the film father who has like what was going at the time. Of arts. You can bet there’s a lot of cul- survived five course, we don’t believe a culture’s tural expression lurking there. teenage years, art is anything like a newsreel record i’m sure you’re asking at this and my own of itself. After all, a society naturally point, “OK, so what’s being ex- was none too wants to put the best face on its ex- pressed, wise guy?” For that answer, pretty, I can pression—a little high-minded ideal- rather a clue to the answer (look, any tell you, there ism, something flattering, dress it up discussion about ‘expression’ can be is a slice of our as art and there it is for the future to pretty hairy, even for the best of us). society I do study and admire. We don’t imagine So with nothing else to do I decided know some- for one moment the ancient Greeks it would be worth a shot to look over thing about. really looked like their sculptures what Oscar and AFI have been up to. Up until the nor that Italian ladies of the Renais- Surely we can come to some insights 1930’s there sance were built along pyramidal into how the newest of the arts is a c t u a l l y lines. You see, all this art was nicely handling our thirst for expression. weren’t any made and certainly told you some- The first problem we run into films bout thing about a society that would take is that best picture Oscars and the t e e n a g e r s . the trouble to knock out things that top twenty-five of AFI’s picks rarely Either they weren’t designed to kill you and had agree. I don’t know if the people in hadn’t been invented no practical use. Well, that’s what both camps argue a good deal when yet or nobody noticed made them expressive. the selections are made or just ig- they were around. To- Thinking about this a German nore each other in a pet. It does wards the end of the de- Philosopher once figured that each seem strange though so let’s stick cade they quite suddenly stage in social evolution found a me- with the handful of films they do appeared in film. They were, dium that best suited its expressive agree on, namely: “One Flew Over for the most part, small adults needs — sculpture had its heyday, the Cuckoo’s Nest”, “All About Eve”, who sang and danced and said painting had a good run, next up was “Bridge on the River Kwai”, “Casa- ‘Golly’ and ‘Gee Whiz’ and we architecture, but I think he missed blanca”, “Gone With the Wind”, and could be proud of them. The Dead the boat on that one. Film wasn’t “Schindler’s List”. Now where does End Kids were an exception but they tween teens and adults is indistin- around in his time; if it had been this leave us? — five war films, a film were isolated social cases and, in any guishable; we see in this film that I’m sure he would have added it to about a nut house, one on nasty busi- event, they never cursed. A startling the two have melded splendidly and the progression despite claims film ness in the theater, another on even change occurred in the filmic expres- points the way, I venture to say, to wasn’t a genuine art. You see, for a nastier business in labor unions, sion of teens with “Blackboard Jun- the next phase of our social develop- long time film was considered little and one on organized crime. Is this gle” and “Rebel Without a Cause”, ment — a uniform level of mental- more than a cheap trick. A few in random spread of subjects what we both in 1995. Annette Funicello and ity that no twelve year old need feel the beginning thought it might be an are all about; what does this mean Sandra Dee and a swarm of Beach inferior to. And this, you see, is the art if anyone could make the sound you ask? Well, you just have to find films tried hard to thwart this direc- expressive role of the artistic avant- and the pictures match up and avoid what is in common to these films, tion and failed. Film expressions of garde, to show us what our future is unnerving tendency of early film to deconstruct a bit, I always say, and the teen evolution was unstoppable to be. explode into flame. Still, there pio- see what comes up. And, I’m sorry and has wound up in our time with Well, I think we’ve learned some- neers were largely laughed at and to say it isn’t very comforting as such seminal works as “Porky’s”, thing about the subtle ways that film nothing really got done until in 1927 anyone can quickly tell. Perhaps a “Superbad”, Juno”, “Pineapple Ex- art gives expression to what we are. when the Academy of Motion Picture different approach to the expression press” culminating in my estimation, That may be disappointing, I know, Arts and Sciences was founded. It issue would be more helpful. Isn’t it with the recent 2008 avant-garde but to support our conclusions let me was clear then that anything with possible that the expressive function “The Nottie and the Hottie” star- leave you with this quote in EW from the words ‘arts’ and ‘sciences’ (note of film is to reveal how we grow as ring the iconic Paris Hilton, a film a major film distributor commenting the plurals) in its title was serious a society, expressing us not in the that Oscar and AFI will pay serious on the box office hits of this past year: stuff, all right, and when the Acad- topics but in the natural evolution consideration. Here is expressed “America is still depressed, which is emy began awarding Oscars for the towards newer states of being? the full maturity of the teenage why comedies and superhero movies best picture, films became officially Let us limit ourselves in this en- culture, its influence and shaping do so well.” And you can see why, an art bearing all the responsibility gaging study to just one segment of of our society. The difference be- too. As the poet said, we get what we deserve. ef

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All humans, of course, have For years Rome’s eminent heart a creative spark — some believe, in surgeon, Pier did not discover his fact, that to be human, to be homo artistic side until well after his sapient, is also to be homo aesthe- one-thousandth heart operation, an ticus, since the evidence of stone epiphany precipitated by strange markings and carvings appear to be images appearing on his notepad concurrent with the earliest traces as he idly doodled while sitting in of humankind. But it is equally his office at the Catholic University obvious that not all of us develop Hospital. Today, no longer working that spark. Indeed, some even go as a surgeon, he is world-renowned so far as to flatly deny possessing as an artist. I attended an opening such a thing — “I can’t even draw a of his at the Palazzo Venezia last straight line!” is a common-enough year to which over 3,000 people plaint. Well, none of us can, though came from around the world. Con- it was claimed that Giotto could versely, Heinrich J. Jarczyk, al- draw a perfect circle. Be that as it though he came to art early in life may, the salient point here is that, during his youth in Silesia, had his Betsy Jacaruso Outside Her Studio / Gallery career as an etcher/painter held up although we may all possess that years. What is important is what step — a giant one, granted, but for many years by World War II. He spark of creativity, not all of us ac- Betsy Jacaruso has done with those only the beginning of realizing one’s worked as a research scientist un- knowledge it or develop it — and childhood experiences — and this, artistic potential. Once the desire/ til his retirement — at which time some, perhaps the majority, even as we might expect in an artist, need to bring up those hidden trea- he turned his attention to his early resist or deny it. has been accomplished sures grows into necessity, the task in my thirty-plus years of pro- through her painting. of finding proper imagery in which filing visual artists — and, Betsy Even the most cursory to share it with the world is imma- Jacaruso is no exception — a re- comparison, for exam- nent — and here it is that the true current theme seemed to be that ple, between “Trapped”, artist is separated from the rest of “something set them off” in answer a forbidding image of a us for it is the expression (i.e. draw- to my question as to “why” one glowing, angelic little ing the “straight line”) that provides pursues an artistic career when, blonde girl held on the both direction and urgency. The by most accounts, it is universally lap and ‘embraced’ in non-artist simply ignores or shouts given such short shrift in a mate- the arms of a shadowy down the urge to create — the true rialistic world. It was almost al- and sinister man with artist becomes committed. Betsy ways stated that some thing, some barely discernible fea- Jacaruso was absolutely commit- person, some event, “flipped the tures and many of her ted. switch”, so to speak, and it was this color-drenched florals And she has indeed come a long that put them on the path of pursu- and nature-study paint- way — not only from that time I ing a career in art. The beginning ings of today, loudly pro- first saw her work in the student is often couched in terms of its be- claim the dramatic shift show that her teacher, noted wa- ing some kind of ‘epiphany’, a kind in her aesthetic focus. tercolorist Linda Novick, held at of ‘aha!’ that opened the door to in- Wild Roses Being driven inward in Company Hill Gallery in Kingston, ner urgings and secrets that lurked the face of negative cir- New York, over a dozen years ago, beneath the surface of day-to-day love of art. Today, he also is known cumstances might have permanent- but from a past that threatened existence. For most, it was a pleas- both in Europe and America as a ly destroyed the psyche of a lesser to devour her. The coerced inward ing discovery, one that they fondly master draftsman and painter. Un- person — but in the case of Betsy journey into herself proved to be not recalled and often found excitement like either Breccia or Jarczyk, the Jacaruso, the experience turned a only an escape from being ‘trapped’, in repeating — though not so for American artist Paul Cadmus was frightened little girl into the inner but a clear path beneath the surfac- Betsy Jacaruso. an early and steady evolver into full magic of another, a more creative es of things, a slowly-widening av- Also for most, the initial impe- artistic maturity (calling his adoles- and beautiful world — a world that enue into that bright, spiritual core tus comes early in life — but, again, cent forays into artistic expression transformed her into a world-class that comprises our creative fount. If not always. My Roman friend, his “DeKooning Period”), but expe- painter. Betsy Jacaruso discovered her aes- Pier Augusto Breccia, for example, riencing no significant still, tapping into that inner thetic resources, she also discovered hiatus in his artistic spring of creativity is only the first a world where the hidden essence of flow throughout his ca- reer. For Betsy Jacaruso, the ‘awakening’ came early; however, un- like so many who have found pleasure in the memory, for her the be- ginning was shrouded in darkness. Like many early experiences in our lives, those days have been buried in the in- tervening years of liv- ing and growing — and this, perhaps, is as it should be. But, for Jac- aruso, they could not be entirely sublimated until she could rid her- self of the lingering Anemones III memories of those early In the Cove May 2009 ART TIMES page 11

sought-after artist and teacher. As passionate in her teaching as she is in her painting, I asked her how she passed along her secrets of finding one’s way into the elusive inner self to her students. “I see myself only as a ‘facilitator’,” she replied. “They must find their own inner sources.” ‘They’ obviously do, since her popularity as a teacher continues to grow. I experienced some of this at first hand — both her relationship with her students and her standing in the arts community — at an open- ing of her Annual Students Show in April. To begin with, I have attended a great many art receptions in New York State’s Hudson Valley and few that I can recall were so well-attend- ed as was her student show. The easy give-and-take — along with After the Storm the real affection that freely flowed might choose as exemplars) — and from student to teacher in the face even in an untitled, tonal black and watercolor sketch of a sun-filled of a public event, showed the genu- white watercolor! Tucked away in garden outside a home surrounded ine solidarity that exists between a back room of her studio where by purple hills in the Italian land- Betsy Jacaruso and her students, she took me to browse through a scape, will deepen in intensity and a fact borne out on the walls of her sketchbook or two, we uncovered a complexity as she delves under the Anemones in Yellow studio (The Betsy Jacaruso Studio few more such drawings and paint- surface in foreign climes — as she & Gallery, an airy, light-filled space nature was revealed to her. If such ings as “Trapped” — and, though has done here in the landscapes in a building called ‘The Chocolate beauty could reside in the darkest bubbly and pert by nature, it is ob- of her home in the Hudson Valley. Factory’ located in Red Hook, New of places, what might she not find in vious that the pain is still revealed And, as she continues to uncover the York), since one could easily trace the world around her? She discov- in her eyes as just how influential a teacher she ered that it was not merely what we she is confront- is. Many of her students indeed saw — or even what we might expe- ed by memories seemed to be discovering their own rience — but the underlying nature of those early inner resources. Where she — and of the phenomenal world — what years — but the her art — comes from, makes her a German aestheticians called das glorious profu- seriously determined artist/teacher; ding an sich (“the thing in itself”) sion of color- ful florals and landscapes in the front room bespeak just how far Betsy Jacaruso has come in her ar- tistic journey. Today, her paintings gar- ner awards, Purple Clematis honors, exhibi- secrets of a setting sun, a pastoral tions and patrons across the Unit- vista, or a single anemone bloom, so ed States — a reputation that will shall she continue to show us all the surely soon extend abroad as her magic of being. painting excursions to such places A full résumé and more of Betsy as Tuscany and Burgundy expand Jacaruso’s work and can be found and continue. Souvenirs of her trav- at www.betsyjacarusostudio.com els such as “Villa Toscana”, a large ef

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— that we ought to uncover — for it what she has discovered in the pro- is here that the wonder and beauty cess, transforms her into a buoyant, of our world begins. positive, and caring human being Once her foot was placed firmly that invites genuine emulation. on the path of aesthetic discovery — Betsy Jacaruso’s space —both and this took years of perfecting her inner and outer — today allows for draftsmanship while closely observ- little evidence of ‘phantoms’, but ing nature both here and abroad rather a world exposed to full light — she could now turn to passing — light that is both natural and on that gift to others. Once she saw spiritual — for there is no more fit- what her painting was doing for her, ting description than ‘spiritual’ for she opened her first workshop in many of her paintings. This is espe- — what could be more appropriate? cially evident in her current series — a garden center in Rhinebeck, of glowing anemones (“Anemones New York, called the “Phantom in Yellow”, “Anemones III”, to name Gardener”. From this tentative leap but a couple) though there is as into the public arena, Betsy Jacaru- much light and magic in such land- so has blossomed (a word perhaps scapes as “In the Cove” or “Olana” also appropriate here) into both a (among a great many others you Betsy Jacaruso Inside Her Studio / Gallery May 2009 ART TIMES page 12

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By Cornelia Seckel year to see the work of these fine I went to see the New York The- painters —there is a painting lesson atre Ballet perform at Kaatsbaan in each picture. I was able to get to International Dance Center in the opening reception this year and Tivoli, NY where the company had was pleased to be able to put faces spent a week in residency. The pro- to so many familiar names. There gram was a celebration of the 100th were over 1000 entries and only 10% birthday of Agnes de Mille. I try to were accepted. According to the new get to Kaatsbaan when I can and the Executive Director Janine Le Seur, performance I chose just worked well it is harder and harder for the Jury into my schedule and I didn’t realize of Selection and the Jury of Awards that it was the same company that to make their decisions. The AWS Dawn Lille had written about that Gold Medal of Honor went to Pat appeared on the front page of the Holscher of Washington, NC; Sil- April issue until I got my program. ver Medal of Honor went to Mary Diana Byer, founder and artistic Carlton of Suquamish, WA; Bronze director, was thrilled as were the Medal of Honor to Woon Lam Ng dancers when we met at the recep- of Singapore and the Mary Bryan tion following the absolutely delight- Memorial Medal went to Alice ful performances of some of the origi- Warshaw of Lawrenceville, NJ. (L to R) Dale Myers (Pres. 1993-2002), , Jim McFadden, current President, nal dances from Brigadoon, Carousel There were many more cash awards Janet Walsh (Pres 2002-2008) at the Opening Reception at the Salmagundi Club, NYC of the American Watercolor Society's 142nd International Exhibition by pastel artist Marlene Wieden- i crossed the Hudson and head- baum at Carrie Haddad Gallery. ed to Catskill to see the premiere I have always admired Marlene’s of the “Thomas Cole: Painting the work and these luscious and famil- American Landscape”, a beautiful iar landscapes were dynamite. It is film that clearly reminded everyone hard to see how the fine detail she in the audience why we live in the gets is done with pastel — but that’s region. The film explored Cole’s ap- why she is a signature member of the proach to landscape painting, focus- Pastel Society of America. Also on ing on the hikes he took for pictur- view was work by Thomas Locker esque views. (One of the programs and Jeff Briggs. Carrie has built a coming up at the site is hikes to some

After the performance of A. de Mille Celebration at Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli, NY, Dancers from New York Theatre Ballet's production of "Judgement of Paris" taking the same pose as appeared on the front page of April's ART TIMES and Dawn Lille's piece about this company. (L to R) Diana Byer, Melissa Sadler and Elena Zahlmann and Oklahoma as well as a number and in all totaled $40,000. Artists of de Mille’s most popular ballets. I are juried to be part of the traveling remember meeting Agnes de Mille show that will go to Texas, Alabama, at the Gold Medal Award Dinner Tennessee, Virginia, Florida and in her honor at the National Arts Springfield, MA. Take a look at their Club. Her response to the award website for details on the show and was “It’s about time”— and then she traveling schedule: www.american- elaborated how she felt Dance was watercolorsociety.com the least supported and acknowl- The Quadricentennial Cele- Deborah Davis Fine Art, Hudson, NY with John Jackson sculptures in foreground edged of the arts. brations have begun up and down i gave myself some extra time the Hudson River and in my area, fine reputation as an art dealer who of those spots to see not only what and stopped to see the exhibit at the kick-off party was a preview of since 1991 has featured contempo- Cole did but work by contemporary Tivoli Artists Co-op in Tivoli what the rest of 2009 has to offer: rary artists of the Hudson Valley artists). The audience of the com- (www.tivoliartistsco-op.com) where I Restaurants with specialty dinners and now, since Thanksgiving, has a munity theater was nearly full and saw “Works on Paper”, a group show for $16.09, Art shows; Tours, Perfor- 2nd gallery (photography) in Hudson. this beautifully done documentary curated by Karl Volk. Their next mances, Festivals and generally all See more at http://www.carriehad- was extremely well received. Accord- group show is “Henry Hudson/Hud- the usual events and more geared dadgallery.com i continued down ing to Elizabeth Jacks, Executive son River” and Greg Martin has a to mark the 400 years of Dutch His- Warren Street stopping at most of Director of the Thomas Cole His- solo show. The Tivoli Artists Co-op is tory. Learn more at www.Hudson- the galleries that were open, includ- toric Site: “The film, which was laid an organization of visual artists and River400.org ing the Hudson Opera House to out in our strategic plan, is designed performers who have come together The opening reception of Betsy see work by Myron Polenberg; to both introduce Cole to a novice to present their work to the public Jacaruso’s Students’ Exhibit was Deborah Davis Fine Art — who visitor and also bring new insights in group and solo exhibits. During quite an event. I would guess several has a very large and deep space with into Cole’s creative process for even the year, there are prose and poetry hundred people came to see the work, a group showing of landscapes in the the most knowledgeable art history readings, art classes & workshops, cheer on exhibiting friends and fam- front gallery, a solo show (Barbara scholar.” Funded by the National and performances by local musical ily, and to support the efforts Betsey Green in May) in the middle gallery Endowment for the Humanities, talent. makes with her students and studio. and miscellaneous work in the back the film was directed byEric Taylor The American Watercolor So- See Raymond’s profile of Betsy in gallery; and on to Albert Shahinian and Jaime Bernanke. Mr. Taylor ciety held their 142nd Internation- this issue. Gallery who has a group of excellent has written, produced and directed al Exhibition at the Salmagundi I went to Hudson most specifically painters showing in his Hudson Gal- prime-time television documentary Club in NYC. What an excellent ex- (something draws me to an area then lery. Gary Fifer was featured while programs for CBS, NBC and PBS. hibit. It is no wonder why busloads I explore as much as I have time for) I was there and a major show of Yale Mr. Bernanke is a writer and pro- of artists from the region go each to see “Sacred Ground”, an exhibit Epstein’s work will be up in May. ducer of documentary films. The film May 2009 ART TIMES page 15 will be shown at the site’s visitors Calcagno (1913-1993). He studied environment will center beginning on May 2. with Mark Rothko and Ad Rein- stimulate visitors After seeing the film I visited sev- hardt and his abstract watercolors to think outside the eral of the galleries in Catskill, NY. and gouaches are intriguing, the status quo - develop Union Mills is a complex of build- kind of work one can spend a long new ideas while ings undergoing renovation. In the time exploring. Tom & Di-Anne are motivating the ex- creek-side warehouse 25 loft apart- undertaking the challenge of getting pression of the indi- ments are being created and in the his work back out into the world and vidual artist or art Main Street buildings, Andrea what a labor of love, no matter how lover.” www.gazen- Cunliffe is inviting artists to show well known the artist. gallery.com their work and musicians to enjoy Roos Arts is a new contemporary some news to the great acoustics and will host art space located on Main Street in pass along: The Top Book Signings, Dance, Photography, Rosendale, NY. The inaugural ex- 10 places for artists, Theatre, Installations and more. hibit is a group show titled, “Meet & as named by www. This will continue until the building Cake”. Director Carrie Schapker businessweek.com is sold. While at the gallery I saw said that they are excited to become had Los Angeles, fabulous sculptures by Alex Kveton a part of this wonderful community CA at the top of the and large colorful paintings by Ruth of creative artists, and hope to pres- list followed by San- Edwy. www.unionmillsgallery.com ent many more readings, perfor- ta Fe, NM; Carson • Patrick Milbourn (critiqued by mances, artist talks and exhibitions. City, NV; New York RJS in the June 2006 issue of ART For more information www.roosarts. City, NY; Kingston, TIMES — and still available to view com. NY; Oxnard-Thou- on our website) continues to show Another new venture is the Ga- sand Oaks, Ventu- ra, CA; Nashville, Andrea Cunliffe, gallery director and Alex Kveton, sculptor TN; Boulder, CO; at Union Mills Gallery in Catskill, NY San Francisco, CA that she was obviously giving cen- and lastly Nassau-Suffolk Counties, ter stage to her parents, the source NY. Looks like ART TIMES is cer- of her own inspiration. On the way tainly in 3 out of the 10 places. back from Newburgh, Raymond ArtsWAVE (Arts in Wawarsing then stopped in at the Mark Gru- and the Village of Ellenville, NY) ber Gallery in New Paltz, NY, to is one community’s answer to the see “Telling Tales”, a group show reduced funds and support for arts. that featured Carolou Kristofik, This group has created exhibition Marie-Louise McHugh and Kar- space, a community events calendar, en O’Neil. Mark Gruber has shown an artists’ resource directory and has consistent good-taste in the choice of a large building available for rent for his exhibited artists and this time art related activities. A good idea for was no exception. Kristofik — fea- other communities to note. Learn tured in our pages in April 1999 — is more at www.ellenvilleny.org (click always commanding, her still lifes ArtsWave). simply arresting. O’Neil, with her Raymond went to see the Silver- warm view of nature, has once again man Family Show — Elijah Sil- proven why she is a perennial favor- verman (father), Ruth Silverman ite throughout the Hudson Valley. (Mother) and Susan (daughter) Patrick Milbourn and Alyson Milbourn McHugh was new for him, her work — at the Karpeles Manuscript Li- in front of one of Patrick's paintings at M Gallery in Catskill, NY of corn and clowns (the images that brary Museum in Newburgh, NY. hung in his mind) a bit wistful and his work at M Gallery and is donat- zen Gallery on Montgomery Street He was happy to revisit the work of shivery with an underlying energy ing a portion of proceeds from paint- in Rhinebeck, NY. Owner Joel this talented family of artists since that hovered beneath the paint. ings sold during this show to the Weisbrod told me that their goal he had met and included them all in That’s it for this month. We will Thomas Cole House. Patrick does is to provide an opportunity for ev- his book, The Art Students League of have 1 more single month issue powerful, often misty landscapes ery home, business, and institution New York: A History over ten years (marking the end of our 25th year) at Gallery 42 in Catskill: see his to begin or add to a collection of art ago. He was especially pleased to and will begin publishing every other work at http://www.mgallery-online. that includes photography, paint- see a large body of work by Ruth, month with the Jul/Aug issue. Our com • At Gallery 42, I met Tom & ing, sculpture, and other art medi- the ‘romantic’ in the family, a wall website continues to grow and surely Di-Anne Gibson and they gave me ums; their focus is on contemporary of self- and family portraits by Eli- will have additional essays, calendar a tour of their lovely historic home - modern - and abstract art, featur- jah, the ‘serious’ artist, and a rather and opportunity listings. which also houses a good collection ing Rhinebeck and Hudson Valley modest (five works) of Susan’s, who of work by Tom’s uncle Lawrence artists. They hope “that the gallery has inherited a bit of both, showing ef

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Manhattan 570-491-2393 / Tri-State Chamber of Video Artists: Soho20 Chelsea Gallery, 477, Wurtsboro, NY 12790. (845) 733- Arts International “Celebrate HerStory Commerce 845-856-2307 and Cedar- 511 W. 25th St. #606, NY, NY 212-367- 1848 Seeks entries for exhibit w/theme 2009” Online exhibition, Jun 10 - Sept 10, wood 845-856-2307 Seeks participants 8994 Seeks entries for “Boxing Gloves “Humble Nature” Jul 4 thru Aug 9. Re- 2009. 40+ winners, cash awards, several for 11th Annual Arts Walk July 18 2009. and Bustiers” exhibition Jul 21-Aug 15. quest prospectus by phone or downloaded service awards. Jurors: Renee Phillips Call 845-856-2307 for info fees. Download entry forms from website. from website. [email protected] www. and Janice Sands. All artists, men and www.soho20gallery.com/New/Juried09. waagallery.org Deadline May 14 Artists, All Media: Cooperstown Art women, all styles. Seeking a broad range html Deadline May 15. I Association, 22 Main Street, Cooper- of interpretations of “HerStory” theme. f you have an opportunity to list, Artists, All Media: The Art Center of stown, NY 13326. 74th NATIONAL All media including painting, drawing, email: [email protected] Northern New Jersey, 250 Center St., JURIED EXHIBITION July 18-Aug 28. sculpture, photography, prints, work on or write: ART TIMES PO Box 730, New Milford 07646. Seeking entries for JUROR: Albert Handell. All media. Pos- paper, mixed media and fine crafts. No Mt. Marion, NY 12456. Please follow 18th National Juried Show. SASE Attn: sible $3500 in prizes. Catalog. Prospec- video. Contact Renee Phillips, Direc- above format and include deadline “ACNNJ=NJS ‘09” or download from tus: available online or send #10 SASE tor at [email protected] or and contact phone number. web site. www.artcenter-nnj.org. Dead- ATTN: National Exhibition. www.coo- 212.472.1660. Submissions on CDs or perstownart.com Slide and CD deadline: electronic files. $35 for up to 3 entries, AFTERTHOUGHT May 15, 2009 $5 each additional entry. www.man- Poets’ Niche In latethought, maybe Craftspeople: Dutchess Community hattanarts.com/Gallery/HerStory2009/ AboutHerStory.htm Postmark deadline: almost there it’s so: College Foundation Seeking crafters for We were first made of clay. 38th Annual Holiday Craft Fair, Nov. 28 May 17, 2009. as i watch the cars hurling by & Nov 29. For more information call Di- Artists: Mt. St Mary College, 330 Pow- from the backseat in Nobody goes ane Pollard (845) 431-8403 or visit web- ell Ave., Newburgh, NY 12550 (845) 569 the last stretch before the tunnel through seventy years site. www.sunydutchess.edu/Alumni/ 3337. Seeks entries for 34th Annual Art- that for them has just ended without thinking this way foundationevents/annualCraftFair ists on the Campus Show & Sale June 7 it strikes me that life isn’t much when mud squeezes up from the Artists: G.A.S. Visual Art & Performance (rain date Jun 14). Website for registra- more than this — a series of flashing garden Space, 196 Main St., Poughkeepsie, NY tion form. [email protected]. lights as we wait to go under. between the dear toes. www.artistsoncampus.org. (845) 486-4592 Seeks UFO related work —Chris Michalski —Jean Esteve Norwood, OH Waldport, OR May 2009 ART TIMES page 17 Fiction Parallel Universe, pro tem A three act Alaskan Greek tragi-comic fable By Gene McCormick base emotions. And think about it; is lifetime ago and maybe further be- chicken wire on the outskirts of the Act I the image of a painting to be catego- yond that and isn’t it just ironic how village of Scammon Bay along the It seems only through the fiction rized as fact or as fiction? If the art things start out one way and wind shore of the Bering Sea. Unharmed of movies that strangers can meet ro- of writing is so categorized, why not up another? It’s funny, but not funny except for minor scrapes, they had mantically in art galleries, the event painting?” funny. This bump was the fault of apparently wrapped themselves to- usually occurring within the first She winced inwardly but accepted neither he nor she but it caused im- gether in a facing position and then five minutes, utilized as a writer or the yak with grace while also remain- pact; with a great degree of melan- somehow rolled down the Tuluksak director’s mechanism to help set a ing ramrod straight and moving only choly they could by all means agree Slide, a precipitous natural glacier in- tony plot or establish mood develop- her eyes in his direction while nod- on that too and could only nod in cline approximately ten stories high ment. In real life people don’t meet— ding her head imperceptibly once in unison that the greatest loss is that and the length of a soccer field. They do they?--for the first time and stand accord, and then she said “Your point of the unwritten blank page, the came within five feet of rolling into side by side, eyes straight ahead, is as graphic as any painting on the virtual Great American Novel that the sea. According to Scammon Bay voices hushed much as they would be wall, and as astute as cubism.” could have been played out, the loss deputy ranger James Tallpole, the in the research department of a uni- So sometimes magic among of what could never be actually being couple, identified as Jack McGregor versity library—and god knows what strangers does happen, quite evi- a tantalizingly greater devastation and Jill Arnberg of Wainwright, New do you do with your hands?--discuss- dently to this man and woman who than the erasure of what already has Jersey, would have drowned had the ing colors and images and emotions uncovered in one another hidden been. The irony denied them every- tide been in. nailed to a wall while subterranean and private personal restoratives thing even though they agreed that Neither Mr. McGregor nor Ms. passion begins to gurgle and roil. of mutual interests and beliefs of to successfully cope in a continuum Arnberg were seriously injured, al- There can be exceptions. such intensity that she gave him her chances must naturally be taken, though both seemed disoriented by Standing ramrod straight, he phone number, just as in the movies, but hey, understanding is neither an the stunt. McGregor, a performance sensed her presence to his right, as he walked her to her car in mid- obligation nor a given. So worldly. artist who recently appeared in An- looking at the same series of paint- evening when the gallery closed, chorage performing his signature Act II. ings, and he remained motionless holding the door for her just as he “Where Is Diogenes When You Are moving only his eyes to her direction would have done before he had for- “I feel like Tom,” he said. “You Finally Ready For The Truth?” role, as he introduced himself. “I find my- gotten or given up on a lot of things know, the cat in the Tom and Jerry suffered bruises to his face and a self assessing the visual arts as I do including god knows any semblance cartoons. I feel like I have been chas- broken nose while Ms. Arnberg was high fashion, or even personal style, of manners. Several days later they ing this Jerry creature full bore and unhurt. which of course also has both a vi- met by chance—unplanned, but just got whammed in the face with “I don’t know how they were able sual and sensual appeal to the eye.” then can anything be random?; it’s a cast-iron frying pan. My brain is to wrap themselves so tightly into (She replied “Ummm.”) “For ex- said there are no accidents—again flattened, my body is reverberating. a chicken wire coil,” said Tallpole, ample”—he intuited her interest and in a public place and were able to I am flat on my back.” “but they were fortunate that things continued—“you see to the left the communicate as though through “I’m cold,” she said. didn’t end much worse. One or two fresh, vibrant essentially primal ab- a telepathic extension of their ini- He moved to put an arm around more rolls and it could have been in- stract watercolors of Pierre Glatone tial meeting, words entering one her. finity.” which remind me of nothing less than another’s awareness as forcefully as “No,” she said. “Inside. I’m cold McGregor, who initially tried to the taunt and audacity of an attrac- if ingested through a blacksmith’s inside.” prevent paramedics from removing tive young lady wearing a mid-thigh bellows, thoughts concurrently and The movie rolled on and the plot the chicken wire, would only say that skirt going up a steep flight of stairs harmoniously playing the same continued to develop, interpreta- they had traveled a long, steep and followed by a roving pack of bulg- notes. One would explain, the other tively as unreal and moot as the pur- bumpy road but were at a destina- ing-eyed Eastern European mongrel would agree and heighten and un- pose of the art gallery at which they tion where they belonged, while Ms. midget gypsies, er, little people. By derscore the thought as though with met, temporarily in the forefront of Arnberg declined comment, claiming contrast, the early muted figurative a mystical yellow highlighter. They consciousness with visions that are client-patient privilege. oils of Domenico Dante, to your right, had become a rare thing: a merger nothing more than…visions. It would The couple, which gave no rea- bring to mind a horizontal vision of a without fear, a seamless meld. Ful- soon reach a surprising crescendo. son for their actions, were cited by black silk teddy and muted, partially fillment loomed and the next day Scammon Bay police for trespassing exposed black silk lace underwear.” when a phone call suggesting dinner Act III. and disorderly conduct. They were He paused to let her absorb the obser- was transacted they stamped an im- New Jersey couple bound in released on their own recognizance vations. “And yet—now you can see primatur on the relationship. It was chicken from Bethel Memorial Hospital fol- this, can’t you?— Dante’s later work nearly unworldly. wire survives harrowing descent lowing ER treatment. is to me as coarse as a fire engine-red But there was an unresolved mis- down glacier incline --Jonny Moonson, Staff Writer thong. To my eye, the abstractions take lurking with the same purpose- Bethel Times-Herald that work best, that bludgeon you ful sinister consequence as the razor Bethel, AK.--A New Jersey couple (Gene McCormick resides in with the heaviest emotional wallop, poised at Van Gogh’s ear, a flawed was discovered early Saturday morn- Wayne, IL). are those that play upon our most judgment made by one of them a ing bound together and wrapped in ef

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Continued from Page 12 SPRING ART EXHIBIT Arts on the Lake, Lake Carmel Cultural Center, 640 Route 52, Kent Lakes, NY (845) 228-2685 1-5pm (thru May 25) www.artsonthelake.org www. Calendar Saturday, May 16 artsonthelake.org Putnam 3rd Saturday CATSKILL, POUGHKEEPSIE, RHINEBECK Arts throughout town THE CHAPPAQUA ORCHESTRA Horace Greeley High School, 70 Roaring Brook Greene Rd., Chappaqua, NY 914-921-4642 3pm charge Westchester ANNUAL SPRING EXHIBIT Wet Paints Studio Group, BAFFA Art Gallery 47 Gil- WCO CHAMBER SPECIALS: Nine Player Ensemble Woodstock Chamber Orches- lette Ave., Sayville (631) 589-7343 10-4pm Suffolk tra, Holy Cross Church, 30 Pine Grove Ave., Kingston, NY (845) 246-7045 3pm charge ART IN THE LOFT SPRING 2009 Millbrook Winery, 26 Wing Rd., Millbrook, NY www.wco-online.com Ulster (845) 677-8383 Opening Reception: 4:30-6:30 (thru Jun 28) Dutchess Monday, May 18 ART SHOW AND POETRY: Fundraiser for the Land Trust of Danbury & The BEAUX ARTS SHOW Women’s Civic Club of Katonah, Katonah Village Library, 26 Richter Association for the Arts Richter Assoc. for the Arts, 100 Aunt Hack Rd., Dan- Bedford Rd., Katonah, NY (914) 232-4482 (thru May 23) Westchester bury, CT (203) 730-8479 1-5pm: open mic sign-up 2:45; reading 3-5pm Fairfield,CT Tuesday, May 19 ARTIST ON LOCATION Garrison Art Center Gallery, 23 Garrison’s Landing, NY Prince Street Gallery, 530 (845) 424-3960 Preview at 3pm; Live auction at 5pm Silent auction will continue until KATHARINE COSENZA BUTLER: Coastal Reflections West 25th St., NYC (646) 230-0246 (thru Jun 13) www.kbwatercolors.com NYC May 24 Putnam CLAYTON BUCHANAN AND MARY MUGELE SEALFON: Capture the Light Wednesday, May 20 Orange County Art Federation, Kurt Seligmann studio, 23 White Oak Drive, Sugarloaf 9TH ANNUAL STUDENT EXHIBIT: Northern Valley Regional HS Demarest (845) 987- 8748 Opening Reception 5-7 pm (thru Jun 6) Orange Belskie Museum of Art & Science, 280 High St., Closter, NJ (201) 768-0286 (thru May ELISA PRITZKER “Project Fresh Green” Exhibit The Mill Street Loft, 455 Maple 31) NJ St., Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-7477 Opening Reception 6-8pm www.millstreetloft. LINDA STEIN, SCULPTURE National Association of Women Artists (NAWA) Gal- org Dutchess lery, 80 Fifth Avenue(@ 14th St.), Suite 1405, New York, NY (212) 675-1616 Artist’s GRACE BAKST WAPNER at work Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Kleinert/James Art Reception 4-7pm (thru Jun 19) www.nawanet.org NYC Ctr., 34 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2079 Opening Reception 5-7pm (thru Jun SPRING ART EXHIBIT Arts on the Lake, Lake Carmel Cultural Center, 640 Route 21) Ulster 52, Kent Lakes, NY (845) 228-2685 7-9pm (thru May 25) www.artsonthelake.org www. MARCEL & BEYOND THE SUN: Jazz Concert Eastern Greenwich Civic Ctr., 90 artsonthelake.org Putnam Harding Rd., Old Greenwich, CT (203) 912-8293 7:30pm (doors open 6) charge CT Thursday, May 21 SPRING ART EXHIBIT Arts on the Lake, Lake Carmel Cultural Center, 640 Route BI-ANNUAL MEMBERS’ SHOW North Country Arts Center, City Hall Gallery, 2nd 52, Kent Lakes, NY (845) 228-2685 Opening Reception 1-5pm (thru May 25) www.art- fl. 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