INSIDE: Raleigh on Film; Bethune on Theatre; Doyle on Art & Addiction; Seckel's "Cultural Scene" & "An Afternoon with Susan Vreeland; Steiner on Kids & Art; Herman on Eurovision; Lille on Dance; Liu 'Speaks Out" on Steiner's "hypocrisy"; New Art Books; Short Fiction & Poetry; Extensive Calendar of Cultural Events…and more ART TIMES Vol. 31 No. 1 Summer 2014 (June/July/August) Elizabeth Okie Paxton and The Breakfast Tray: The Modernity of a New Woman Artist By Rena Tobey Pick any period of art history, this interior like a still-life composi- be post-coital. Who and only a handful of artists will tion to be arranged, but then throws are the lovers who be remembered. Piecing together it into disarray. enjoyed this bed? the history of women artists injects At first, the scene seems decep- Where have they an additional layer of complexity— tively simple. Dappled morning light gone, apparently in women were not encouraged to be a enters a bedroom, highlighting the a hurry? Why is professional artist for most of history. silver service of a breakfast tray the tray set only for The United States has proven to be perched on a chair by an unmade one? Was the lover no exception, and yet women have bed. Light glistens off the discarded expected? Did one earned a living as artists from its colo- black pumps. It bounces off the or two people enjoy nial days. Resurrecting the career of polished, turned knee and spindles this breakfast in an artist like Elizabeth Okie Paxton of the Windsor-backed chair. Deep bed? Who prepared (1877-1971) is especially challenging shadows—under the shoes, along the the tray—is it the because only a few of her paintings chair rails, under the bed—suggest result of the work of are in public collections. Further, her the low level of the rising sun. A a servant, another archived correspondence centers on newspaper has been tossed away. A unseen participant her role in managing her husband’s dressing gown is ready to slink off the in this narrative? career. William McGregor Paxton bed, as the lace-trimmed sheets and Part of the joy of (1869-1941) was the beneficiary, like pillow, still marked with the warm the painting is the other male artists before, during, and impression of a head, all jumble and stories it evokes and since his time. He benefited from an tumble toward the floor. indeed demands. art-savvy wife who supported his ca- This movement prevents the scene A painting like reer, using her energy in the bet that from being a posed still life. Someone The Breakfast Tray his offered the more secure future. has tossed another garment over the makes us want to The Breakfast Tray, from about footboard. Is it a man’s robe? His know the artist. 1910, allows us to get to know an trousers? The two pillows kiss in bed. The collection of artist almost lost to memory and as The starched cloth napkin has been letters that remain arguably her most provocative work, jammed up against the seat back document business distinguishes Okie Paxton as a mod- of the chair. The succulent grape- transactions about ern artist. Drawing on her apparent fruit and abandoned roll are clearly her artist-husband’s knowledge of art trends, this painting defined, but the silver pieces meld work, giving us little Elizabeth Okie Paxton. n.d. incorporates in both subtle and more together, blurring certainty. The personal informa- In the William McGregor Paxton Papers, 1886-1971, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. overt ways the issues of her day, while samovar appears too small in relation tion about her ex- demonstrating her mastery of tanta- to the grapefruit, which overwhelms cept that she was Continued on Page 15 lizing narrative. In a literal way, Okie the matching porcelain mug and jug. Paxton links the “old” century with The chair is shorter than the door- the “new” as a transitional figure, knob, creating a sense of vertigo from Each Month visit arttimesjournal.com who also had a very modern tempera- the disproportion. Relative sizes are ment. Likewise, The Breakfast Tray difficult to assess, so either the room for new essays, videos, offers an intelligent nod to art of the is gigantic or the chair is child-sized. past, conveys the ambiguities of its The details do not matter as much as calendar & opportunity listings period, and anticipates what modern the immersion in the feeling of being and contemporary American art will in that languorous bed. The painting become. is at once photographic, impression- The painting invites us into a CSS Publications, Inc. Support the Arts; istic, and wholly modern. PO Box 730 world—feminine, messy, sensual, The tight zoom in on the scene cre- Enrich your Life Mt. Marion, NY 12456-0730 and believable. 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ART-LITERATURE-DANCE-MUSIC-EXHIBITIONS-THEATRE-FILM-ART-LITERATURE-DANCE-MUSIC Summer 2014 ART TIMES page 2 Peeks and Piques! ART TIMES Commentary and Resource for the Fine & Performing Arts AGE, A GROWING list of ail- propensity for drawing was discour- High School) for both high school ART TIMES (ISSN 0891-9070) is published quar- ments, and a mercenary and mean- aged by nuns at the Parochial school and college level students as well as a terly by CSS Publications, Inc and distributed ingless artworld have all conspired I attended – along with heavy doses Summer Art Adventure Program for along the Northeast Corridor primarily through- out the Metropolitan & Hudson Valley Regions, to limit the range of my comings and of “learn a trade” from my parents kids aged 7-12. My neighbor Althea Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Jersey. goings to art venues for the past sev- when they caught me copying from Meneses (an artist herself) tells me Copies are also available by mail to subscribers and arts organizations throughout the US and eral years — I was simply left cold the comic strips of the time) school that even her two girls, Jade and abroad. Copyright © 2014, CSS Publications, Inc. by so much of what I saw, that giving and art — especially teens and art — Anya, aged 7 and 8 (1st & 2nd Grade, ART TIMES online can be viewed at: arttimesjour- up on ART TIMES had crossed my intrigued me and it soon became clear respectively) in Saugerties’ Mount nal.com and has a pdf of the current print issue (with images in color), as well as archived critiques, mind more than once. But then what? to me that the idea had been — and Marion Elementary School, have reviews, art essays, theatre, film, music, dance es- Who’d hire an 81-year old scribbler was — very much alive and thriving. art lessons! says from the past 13+ years. Each month the site who can barely get around anymore? Art is encouraged, taught, and also And, it’s not only schools that is updated with new essays, videos, advertising and resources. Call for visitor statistics as they Thus, my almost daily mantra — un- ‘honored’ at times. are promoting ‘teenart’! Fall for change daily. til recently! I should have had some inkling Art, an art-exhibiting organization Publisher: Cornelia Seckel I was roused from my morose mus- when I think about it (instead of of The Jewish Federation of Ul- Editor: Raymond J. Steiner ings a few weeks ago by a call from batting my head — and sensibilities ster County, has recently begun Contributing Writers: my niece Kathy King informing me — against what I see as an over- out-reaching to local High School Henry P. Raleigh Robert W. Bethune Ina Cole Dawn Lille that her daughter Kaitlyn (“Kate”, whelming sea of ‘stuff’ blotting out seniors to participation in exhibiting Leslie Herman Emily Mure my grandniece)) had a piece of her “art” — a term, incidentally, that can teacher-chosen works (two pieces) in Subscription Rates: artwork chosen to represent her High no longer boast a definition anymore). their annual Fall for Art exhibitions. USA: $18 /1 year $34 /2years Foreign: $35 /1 year $45 /2 years School (Onteora School District in In fact, Arthur Danto (among others) A chance to be among some of the fin- Contact for Print and Online Advertising Rates: upstate New York) at an art associa- has already informed us that “art is est area artists who are yearly ‘juried’ CSS Publications, Inc., PO Box 730, Mt. Marion, tion/gallery/museum (the venerable, dead.” Period. So I’ve been burying in! This year, twelve (12) schools have NY, 12456. Phone/ Fax (845) 246-6944; nearly 100-year-old Woodstock Art myself in my study for, lo, these many agreed to participate, and 3 students email: [email protected] Web site: arttimesjournal.com Association Museum (WAAM)) months and just turning the whole already chosen to show this Fall. Advertising reservations are due: Feb 15 Spring student exhibition in nearby Wood- thing off. But, as I said, I should have And further: LeAp (Learning (Mar/Apr/May) May 15 for Summer (Jun/Jul/Aug); stock. Although I attempted several had the inkling and remembered through an Expanded Arts Pro- Aug 15 for Fall (Sep/Oct/Nov); Nov 15 for Winter (Dec/Jan/Feb). Items for inclusion in the Calendar times to go and see it, I did get to see Kamryn Delmonte, a 15-year-old gram) of New York City, in coopera- must be uploaded to www.arttimesjournal.com/ the photos that my partner, Cornelia who visited me just about two years tion with NYC Parks & Recreation, submitevent.html and Opportunities listings must Seckel, took of the show, as well as a ago. Kamryn, the daughter of my has invited students from the Bronx, be submitted by email/ fax or mail by the 18th of the preceding publication month. Email for guidelines. list of the 27 student-participants. As phlebotomist Rebecca Delmonte, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Guest articles on the arts are also considered but far as I could tell, the exhibit seemed used to have her drawings tacked up Staten Island to participate in a must be preceded by a written Query. Our “Speak Out” section is a forum for reader’s relevant opin- to be colorful, displaying a variety of in Rebecca’s ‘booth’ at the Lab where city-wide first-of-its-kind exhibition ions on art-related matters; viewpoints expressed mediums — from graphics, paintings she periodically drew my blood. I themed “A View from the Lunchroom: in the “Speak Out” section are not to be construed and mosaics to ceramics — and ‘pro- remember the quality of the drafts- Students Bringing Issues to the Ta- as positions held by the publisher, editor or staff of this publication. Queries, Mss. without SASE fessionally’ hung. manship (draftwomanship ?) of the ble” that “kicked-off” at Union Square included will not be acknowledged. We do not accept Masterpieces? Probably not to drawings and telling her Mom about Park on May 20th. Envisioned by electronic submissions. Sample copy: 9x12 SASE. the world. To the students and their it. When I asked how old her daughter Alexandra Leff, Director of LeAp’s ART TIMES welcomes your letters and comments. Nothing in this publication may be reproduced parents? Perhaps. But whether or was, she said, “Thirteen.” Wow! Two Public Art Program, the exhibi- without written permission of the publisher. not they would go down in history years later, she visited me and gifted tion is meant to encourage teens to as such, they were good — and obvi- me with a drawing which still hangs address such social issues as racism, ously presentable otherwise they in my study. Kamryn, I had learned drug addiction, teen pregnancy, reli- Letters would not have been chosen by their later, earned a scholarship while at- gious intolerance, and bullying. To the Publisher: teachers and given the valuable “wall tending high school for a year’s study Finally, I should keep in mind such I meant to thank you for choosing my space” of WAAM. In addition to the at the Woodstock School of Art, individual artists such as my friend painting of McSorley’s Bar for your fact that my grandniece was part of another venerable Woodstock art es- Susan Hope Fogel (among who award at last year’s Hudson Valley it, what piqued my interest was the tablishment that I have since learned knows how many?) who offers private Art Association show. It was my first fact that it was a student exhibition. have scholarship programs (funded art lessons to youngsters (and pres- time entering--I’d done a website for For a kid who never had art/music by the Thompson Family Founda- ently doing just that to her students the first time, and needed an exhibi- classes in my school-years (even the tion and initiated by the Saugerties over in Cape Cod. tion history. It was a nice venue and Bravo! to all these parents, teach- a well-juried show, I thought. ers, and organizations (and many And thank you for the exhibition list- others I’ve failed to mention, I am sure) for promoting creativity in kids. ing calls you publish online--I’m going CONTACT: to share them with my painter friends o Out of it all will surely be a welcome here in Boston. GALLERY return to the neglected concept of ‘fine Best wishes, AUCTIONS art’. Who knows — maybe it will stir me from my solitary meditations? Carol Monacelli RView entire inventory of over 5000 Artists at ROGALLERY.COM Boston, MA PAINTINGS • PRINTS • PHOTOS • SCULPTURE Raymond J. Steiner (Publishers Note: Although we offer WORLD-WIDE SHIPPING & FRAMING ef the Art Times Award to many arts organizations, it is not we who make ART BUYERS & CONSIGNMENTS ALEXANDER CALDER Start your Collection Today Art ……………1, 3, 15, 19 the choices, but judges chosen by the Dice Gouache Painting on Paper, 1974 organizations that do the choosing.) The Greatest Selection of Artworks Online! Art Book Review ……18 Calendar of Events ……4 The following letters were all in re- Classifieds ……………22 sponse to my being honored by the Westchester Business Journal (see Culturally Speaking…12 more in my Culturally Speaking Dance …………………9 column) Editorial ……………2, 3 Cornelia Fiction ……………21, 23 To the Publisher: Film …………………11 Awesome Cornelia! You deserve this Letters ………………2 wonderful acknowledgement! Music…………………7 Cheers! Opportunities …………20 Althea Meneses Contents Saugerties, NY Peeks & Piques! ………2 To the Publisher: Poets’ Niche ……………20 NICE! Congrats you social media Speak Out………………3 maven you! Theatre …………………16 Jacquie Wolf Special Report…………5 Saugerties, NY Continued on Page 16 Summer 2014 ART TIMES page 3 Speak Out Creativity By MARIE LIU While reading the Spring 2014 phasis added] to my attention very true (and it will prove itself), faith in rial world. This is the performance, issue of Art Times, I was struck by a sharply and I believe calls for us all it overtakes fear and one has power. painting, book, etc. that will allow contradiction that was revealed in to examine and reevaluate our ideas By teaching an awareness of the you to show your idea fully formed several articles. “Looking at Art” at- about creating art (exclusivity) and simple stages that move an idea to to others. tempts to demystify art and encour- how our perception of such ideas fruition (creative process) we would Once this product is out there, its age its importance and usefulness to relates to the current situation (less be mining the invaluable resource of own entity, one will enter the stage of a wider audience; while statements interest in art). Firstly, can we expect the mind far better than teaching to EVALUATION, by yourself and oth- within the “Profile” piece perpetuate more interest from a population that the test. By knowing the steps to be ers. Judgment and critique may lead a common belief (what I consider a is discouraged by statements that played out, we can be more confident to further refinement and the process misconception) about creativity and convince us that certain chosen few in our ability to learn new things, cre- may begin again or it is deemed to its exclusive and elusive nature. are endowed with talent - the rest ate and thereby aspire to reach new have had the desired result (in which The “Profile” article presents the are so called “would-by artists’ [sic]. goals. All this potential begins with a case more ideas tend to stem from it following quotes by Mr. Steiner about Secondly, I believe that such state- new understanding of creativity and and the process begins again). creativity. “Truth is, we have not yet ments are untrue, dangerous and to why we are not incorporating this This pattern is revealed not only uncovered or ‘explained’ creativity or dispel them is in everyone’s interest process into the educational system in the making of art but throughout its inner springs. Humans, some hu- (except the chosen few). seems crazy to me. The greatest re- all fields of endeavor: science, math, mans, seem to possess creativity but As an artist who also teaches it, I source we have to evolve society and physics, medical - you name it. Wher- neither they nor the ‘scientists’ seem have seen that the surest way to grow answer our tough problems is the ever discoveries are happening there to be able to explain it - and since an art appreciator is by learning and mind and its capacity to create and is this pattern. And further, we all it’s so elusive, why jeopardize it by engaging in making art. Learning discover and invent. use this process every day in figuring speaking about it? Maybe the spring the techniques and concepts enriches Study of the creative process and out things that we didn’t know be- might dry up.” And “Serious artists the students [sic] experience of art, mapping its stages is not new, but fore, like preparing your own taxes, have long known that this inner, without which the experience is thin admittedly insufficient. I have been fixing things, solving a problem, etc. inspired - ‘divine’ if you will - light with either ‘liking’ or ‘not liking’ a researching it myself for two decades In micro and macro ways this process that lies at the bottom of creativity piece of art (not very fulfilling). An precisely because it seemed fickle is at work all the time - in nature, is utterly erratic, elusive, indefin- argument no doubt for more art is and elusive. Wanting to be a serious physics, our lives. This is why it able, volatile, temperamental - even public schools. artist, yet not ‘born with it’ left me needs to be taught and understood untrustworthy at times. They also I have met plenty of people that with two choices. Either give up a to be an organic process that comes know that instructors can only teach dream of being artists, but are dis- dream or find some way to harness naturally to all, if we don’t listen to would-be artists the mechanics... couraged because they are humbled the process. I began to recognize a the voices (sometimes our own) that Artists are truly born, not made.” by the notion that ‘you have to be born pattern emerge and have tried to stop the process from unfolding. Can Although I agree with the divine and with it’. What a waste of unexplored refine it thru continued study of the you see the difference it could make magical quality of creativity, I also potential. Inclusion is the key to subject. on so many levels, in art and civiliza- defend that it can be taught, fostered engagement, exclusion breeds con- The pattern is as follows (although tion, and why we need to change the and developed. tempt. Perhaps in ages past, when far too brief a description, I will keep dialogue about creativity to reach Meanwhile, “ Looking at Art” monolithic religious and political short for the purpose of this letter). a new understanding that allows it discusses the long standing problem, structures dominated society and An idea comes. Often as a result of [sic] magic to work for us all the time. which is a lack of interest in fine art dictated that the few will interpret an event, a need, desire, challenge, (Marie Liu—www.mliuart.com— (the list goes on) and sometimes by the larger population and how to (from on high) for the populace, such lives in Milford PA.) ef remedy that. “...the simple fact is ideas of creative exclusivity was [sic] (but not often) an idea comes out of that art - its making, its creators, its accepted. But clearly the modern age the blue (our popular myth about (Editor’s Note: “Hypocrisy” is a new enjoyment - is an unexplored territo- is anxious for a more democratic and inspiration). Let’s think of INSPIRA- characterization of an ever-growing ry for a great part of our population”. inclusive idea of our own potential. TION as anything that gets the ball list that has defined my artwriting It would seem that these two The creative process can be taught rolling. Don’t wait around for a bolt over the past 35-years. Ah well, live ideas would tend to work against and learned. Once aware it is lib- of lightning to strike, you get your and learn. On the upside, however, each other. Seeing them presented erating. No longer at the mercy of ideas from all around you and from we must be thankful for Liu’s simple alongside, within the same publica- the elusive muse, fear of failure or a variety of situations. “modern age…democratic and in- tion, brought this hypocrisy [em- ineptness. Once it is proven to be Next (if you want to bring this idea clusive” formula — Inspiration, to fruition) you will enter a stage of Saturation, Incubation, Elaboration, SATURATION. This period is one of Evaluation=Illumination — for eluci- research, thinking, gathering, sketch- dating a problem that has been plagu- ing, pulling in details that will inform ing artists, philosophers, psycholo- american masters: rockwell & Hopper and help to flesh out our idea. The gists, aestheticians, scientists (and more ingredients that go into the slow me) since Cennino Cennini’s little this summer cooker (our mind/brain) the better. book on painting, Il libro dell’arte, At a certain point this period ex- was written ca. late 14th/early 15th hausts itself, whether a solution or Century. It has always been that satisfactory result is reached or not. first step, however, “inspiration”, i.e. A release from this gathering phase “creativity” and the knotty problem of is a critical step. We now enter the its source and why it is so unequally INCUBATION stage. Let yourself distributed throughout the world that take a break, forget about it, do has occupied thinkers for, lo, these something else. This allows time for many centuries. And yet, after only the stew to cook. The right brain will “two decades” of Liu’s “researching” continue its job - to reformulate the the “creative process” she has wrapped ingredients in nonlinear ways that it up for all of us — simply call it “the the left brain is not capable of. first step” — how lucky must be her This rest will invariably lead to students! Finally, it might have been an unexpected and sudden ILLUMI- well for Liu to note that the “hypo- NATION, a moment of clarity and critical” quotes she serves up are from resolve that carries with it a sense of two separate essays; the first, about sureness. This eureka moment is be- “Looking at art” which is, as I noted, lieved to be something that comes out a common human skill, and, second, of the blue - but quite the contrary. about “Creating art” — and I mean The work of gathering and releasing “art”, not just spreading paint over ), (1906‑1910). Watercolor, brush and ink, and graphite pencil on paper. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of American Art,York; Whitney New pencil on paper. brush and ink, graphite Watercolor, ), (1906‑1910). Entrance ( A Theater Hopper (1882‑1967). Edward Museum of American Art © Whitney Museum of American Art. Whitney Digital Image by licensed of Josephine N. Hopper, © Heirs Josephine N. Hopper Bequest 70.1378 have [sic] led you to this moment surfaces or gluing things together — Edward HoppEr as Illustrator resolution [sic]. which is a gift (that Liu, most assuredly ELABORATION is simply rolling possesses) far from universal and most up your sleeves and making it. Bring- often decided by history — and not by nrm.org 413.298.4100 Stockbridge, MA open year-round ing if from your mind to the mate- “modern age, democratic” fiat.) Summer 2014 ART TIMES page 4

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(thru June dre Leber, Meredith Rosier Woodstock Jewish Congregation 1682 Glasco 25) www.guildofcreativeart.org Turnpike (off Rt. 212) Woodstock NY 845-679-2218 Opening Reception 12-2pm free All the Raj: Frederic Church and Lockwood de Forest- (thru June 29) www.wjcshul.org Painting, Decorating and Collecting at Olana The Olana Part- The Artist’s Journey Mamaroneck Artists Guild 126 Larchmont Avenue nership and Olana State Historic Site Evelyn and Maurice Sharp Gallery 5720 State Larchmont NY 914-834-1117 Opening reception 2 - 5 pm. free (thru June 21) www. 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Yamaoka Kearney, Tony Robinson, and friends Samuel Dorsky Museum of Atlantic Gallery 548 W 28th Street New York NY 212-219-3183 Opening reception Art SUNY New Paltz, 1 Hawk Drive New Paltz NY 8452573844 2pm free www. 4:30-8:30 PM. Second reception: June 21, 1:30-4:30 PM free (thru Jun 28) www. newpaltz.edu/museum atlanticgallery.org RHCAN: Landscape Interpretations: Past, Present and Possible Red Hook Summer Colors: Paintings by Susan Pascales and Anya Roz Community Arts Network Gallery 7516 N. Broadway Red Hook NY free (thru Jun 22) Rolling River Cafe Gallery 25 Cooley Road Parksville NY 845-747-4123 free (thru Rural Genius: the work of three local inventors and their influence on Aug 31) www.rollingriver.net Continued on Page 6 Summer 2014 ART TIMES page 5 Special Report An afternoon with Susan Vreeland By Cornelia Seckel Several years ago I read Susan Vree- appearing several pages before or (arts) newspaper. Eventu- land’s The Passion of Artemesia, Girl after the article. So, as much as I was ally she could devote herself in Hyacinth Blue, The Forest Lover taken with Susan’s work and surely entirely to writing. Her char- and then more recently listened couldn’t refuse advertising I had to acters become part of her and to Clara and Mr. Tiffany and Lun- consider whether to write about her. while talking about Lisette's cheon of the Boating Party. I was en- It definitely wasn’t the promise of List she tears up about the chanted with Clara and Mr. Tiffany an ad — a "quid-pro-quo" — that led “hunger to bless and hunger (not that I didn’t thoroughly enjoy me to wanting to write about Susan, to hurt” as portrayed by her and learn from her other books), a it was wanting to know more about characters. Her books are her historical novel that told the story of the woman. children. Clara Driscoll, director of the Tiffa- Susan was coming to NYC to meet I asked her if she ever ny Studios' Women's Glass Cutting with her editor regarding publicity painted and she said that she Department, in New York City. She for her new book Lisette's List (pub- had worked in clay but found designed and directed the designs of lished by Random House and avail- it was too difficult to manage lamps, mosaics, windows, and oth- able August 26, 2014). We decided clay work and writing. Clay er decorative objects for close to 20 to meet at the Salmagundi Club in is not forgiving, she said, it years. The novel is also about Louis NYC, much better than a Barnes and dries up. Her first love is writ- Comfort Tiffany, the plight of women Nobel or a coffee shop. The American ing although she did say that artists in the late 19th century the Watercolor Society’s 147th Annual she would like to be in a place emerging of the NYC we see today- Show was hanging in the newly re- where there was a painting the subways, the parks, the tene- furbished Grand Gallery. Susan had workshop, just fall into it. ments and immigrants, museums never been to the club and loved Susan and her husband were and much more. This is my preferred Susan Vreeland heading off to Europe. They way to learn about history. In Clara watercolors. It was a perfect place to meet. It was much more of a meet- travel as often as she can and Mr. Tiffany I learned about munity reads. Teaching and sharing ing and learning about a new friend so that she can be in a place to “see making stained glass windows and her experiences is very important than it was an interview. Although it, smell it, to take it into herself”. I lamps— creating the design, choos- to Susan and she offers half hour not a painter, Susan’s passion is asked if she had a pencil and pad with ing the glass, making the frame and speaker phone chats to book discus- art and she feels that it stems from her and gave her a mechanical pencil the final production. Reading Susan sion groups of ten or more which an experience with her step great- that would serve her if she was able to Vreeland’s books about artists is have read one of her books. Her grandfather, the painter Herbert do some sketching. She surely takes not only good reading but intensive website (susanvreeland.com) is a Henry Smithers. She recalls vividly notes as she travels— ideas, people, courses in art history, art technique great resource. Not only are there that she was just 9 years old, loved conversations, locations all “grist for and the lives of artists. discussions for each of her works, a to watch him paint as he worked the mill”. There are many experi- Susan and I began an email cor- bio, a listing of past and upcoming in the backyard of their home in ences and artists’ lives that don’t respondence after her publicist, Bar- events, access to her newsletter and Southern California. One day while make it into a full novel but show up bara Braun, a woman I knew from essay Susan has about writing which she was watching him he took her as short stories as in her book Life my local art scene, mentioned ART I have quoted below. TIMES to her and that I was quite hand in his hand that was holding a Studies or as part of a book. Susan’s watercolor brush. She said “He filled research is extensive and one piece taken with Clara and Mr. Tiffany. “Emily Carr, the Canadian painter the brush with color and brought it of information leads her to the next I knew Barbara was a book agent and subject of my book, The For- to the paper making a stroke- see- and the next. The research she has but at the time, I don’t think I knew est Lover, wrote this reminder to ing how color could blend without a done for any one of her books could she was Susan’s agent. So I was sur- herself in her journal: "You yourself line, like crayons she said. She felt be doctoral dissertations. prised to get an email from Susan are nothing, only a channel for the the electricity — creativity and was Susan is mostly attracted to who wanted to advertise her new pouring through of that which is hooked” and a calla lily was formed. women’s stories although several book Lisette's List in ART TIMES, something, which is all. Your job There is a passage in Luncheon of the of her books are about male artists feeling that our readers were surely is to keep that channel clear and Boating Party when Renoir places and she is focused mostly around her readers. Those of you who have clean and pure so that which passes Alphonsine’s hand in his as he adds the early 1900’s. When I asked how been reading ART TIMES for any through may be unobstructed, un- paint to the canvas. Alphonsine’s Clara and Mr. Tiffany came about length of time know of our very strong sullied, undiluted, and thus show response in the book mirrors Susan’s she said that it was 2007 and she policy of separating advertising and forth its clear purity and intention." editorial— a line not often drawn when she was a child. was in NY promoting Luncheon of the Susan continues “Similarly, the by publications e.g.: a full page ad Susan taught school for 30 years Boating Party. While in New York, more I lose any willful egotism or of an artist’s show and an interview and wrote about artists for a local she went to the New York Historical Society and there was the exhibit A a hurried frame of mind and give New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll myself the gifts of solitude and time and the Tiffany Girls. As she walked so that I may listen with an open, through the galleries she wondered humble heart, the more likely I am Call for Entries if it could be a novel. It would be a to recognize good material, fresh New York novel and her main char- ideas, felicitous phrasing, from Allied Artists of America acter would be Clara Driscoll, head of what the universe is offering. Henry Celebrates their Women's Glass Cutting Department. James advises writers to try to be a She would write about the early his- person upon whom nothing is lost. 100th Anniversary tory of NYC, the tenderloin, central To me, that cultivation of receptivity park, women in the workplace, life of is based on knowing that we don't 2014 Annual National Exhibition single men and women in boarding create the thoughts that come to us. September 4 — September 16, 2014 houses, social mores, immigrants, We select them. This is in line with NY society and much more. what Ralph Waldo Emerson tells th Exhibition reception September 14 , 2014 The idea for all her works is spe- us: "All writing comes by the grace Exhibition now at the Salmagundi Club Galleries N.Y.C. cifically about love. It must be that of God." ” the artists’ work speaks to her and Open to all artists that the artist’s life offers something This is important advice for all of Oil, Watermedia, Pastel, Graphics, Mixed Media, and Sculpture of substance that has universal im- us, and a lesson in living our lives. $24,000 in awards in cash and medals. JPEG entries accepted portance. Then it is worthy of her Spending the afternoon with Susan was just excellent! Juried by Louis Zona of Butler Institute effort and getting this story out to the world. Submission deadline July 26th, 2014 Susan is often asked to lecture at (Note: a short video of Susan talking about her work can be For prospectus send SASE to Rhoda Yanow organizations, book clubs, museums, found on www.youtube.com/user/ 18 Springtown Road, White House Station, N.J. 08889 or download at universities and schools, book fairs and festivals, writers conferences, arttimes) www.alliedartistsofamerica.org teachers conferences, libraries and library support groups, and com- ef Summer 2014 ART TIMES page 6 Calendar Continued from Page 4 Friday, June 6 Approaching Landscape Buster Levi Gallery 121 Main Street Cold Spring NY 845-548-5987 Opening Reception 6-8pm; Poetry Reading: Saturday, June 28th 5pm free (thru June 29) busterlevigallery.com Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Annual Members’ Ex- hibition 2014 Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Ave., NYC (212) 255-7740 Reception & Awards 6-8pm (thru June 6) clwac.org Time Frames Marking Time Westbeth Gallery 55 Bethune Street New York NY 212-989-4650 Artists Reception 6-9pm free (thru June 15) http://westbeth.org/ wordpress/westbeth-gallery-time-frames-marking-time-may-24-June-15-2014/ Saturday, June 7 Annual Summer Group Show Longyear gallery Upstairs in the Commons 785 Main Street Margaretville NY 845-586-3270 Opening Reception 3-6pm free (thru June 30) www.longyeargallery.org BALLETNEXT at Kaatsbaan Kaatsbaan International Dance Center 120 Broad- way Tivoli NY 845-757-5106 7:30 PM charge http://www.kaatsbaan.org N.A.W.A @ Mezza National Association of Women Artists Cafe Mezzaluna 626 Rte. 212 Saugerties NY 845-246-5306 Opening Reception 4-6pm (thru July 26) Raymond J. Steiner, Patrick D. Milbourn and William P. Duffy: Deeply Rooted M Gallery 350 Main Street Catskill, NY 518-943-0380 Opening Reception 6-8pm free (thru July 6) www.mgallery-online.com “Shelfies by Jim Fawcett” The Storefront Gallery 93 Broadway Kingston NY 845-338-8473 opening reception 5-8pm free (thru June 28) http://www.TheStore- frontGallery.com Stars & Stripes Forever The Bardavon Mid-Hudson Performing Arts Group Bardavon Opera House 35 Market Street Poughkeepsie NY 845-802-3703 2:00 & 6:30 p.m. charge [email protected] Studio Montclair Presents Viewpoints 2014 Studio Montclair Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art 591 Broad Street Newark NJ 973-744-1818 Opening Reception 6-9pm free (thru Jun 28) www.studiomontclair.org Hilda Green Demsky: “Taking Time for Reflection” Paintings in Parks Harrison Council for the Arts Harrison Public Library 2 Bruce Avenue Harrison NY 914-835-0324 Opening Reception 2-4pm free (thru Jun 27) www.harrisonpl.org Topographies: Mapping History & Time Topographies: Mapping History & Time The Betsy Jacaruso Studio & Gallery 43-2 East Market Street Rhinebeck NY 845-516-4435 Opening Reception 6-8 pm free (thru July 7) www.betsyjacarusoartist.com Sunday, June 8 BALLETNEXT at Kaatsbaan Kaatsbaan International Dance Center 120 Broad- way Tivoli NY 845-757-5106 2:30 PM charge http://www.kaatsbaan.org Gallery opening: Michael Gold---”Keepers” Unison Arts Center 68 Mt. Rest Road New Paltz NY 845-255-1559 Opening reception 4-6pm free (thru June 29) www.unisonarts.org Hudson River Fest On the riverfront in Cornwall on Hudson, 845-534-4200 June 7 — July 7 12-4 pm rain or shine www.cornwall-on-hudson.org Knanishu and Keeler Art Exhibit Ruth Keeler Memorial Library 276 Reception Saturday, June 7, 6-8 pm Titicus Rd North Salem NY 914-669-5161 12-5pm free www.northsalemlibrary.org/ New York artists: JoAnne Lobotsky & Kate Katomski Move and Groove 5K National Museum of Dance, 99 South Broadway, Sara- toga Springs, NY, 12866 99 South Broadway, , NY, 12866 Saratoga Springs NY work that embodies the order & disorder of the industrial landscape. 518-584-2225 10am charge dancemuseum.org Betsy Jacaruso Studio & Gallery SOME THINGS FROM THE PAST ll The Bronxville Library 201 PondfieldR oad 43-2 East Market St., Rhinebeck, NY 12572 • Hrs: Thurs-Sat 11-6; Sun 11-4 Bronxville NY 914-337-7680 meet the artist 2-4pm free (thru June 30) westches- terlibraries.com betsyjacarusoartist.com WILLIAM CHAIKEN AND SCULPTOR MARILYN FRIEDMAN Primal Im- ages - Pigment & Clay, Pomona Cultural Center, 584 Route 306, Pomona New York, 845-362-8062/ 354-0545 Reception: 5-8pm (thru July 27) Continued on Page 8

Call for Printmakers Juried Show Open to Non-Members Audubon Artists American Color Print Society (ACPS) Call for Entries th 75 Year- A Celebration Open Juried Competition The historic Plastic Club, Philadelphia $1,000+ Awards. Exhibition Nov 2-26 Altamura Center for the arts October 26 — November 7 Juror will evaluate submissions. Final Season at the Salmagundi Club, NYC Deadline: Sept 19 non-members must submit SASE 404 Winter Clove Road Over $20,000 in cash Awards $20 entry fee payable to ACPS; Round Top, NY Medals, & Merchandise CD, 2 jpgs. digital files for jurying; max. print sizes 36" 518-622-0070 • 201-863-8724 Submit: Art Brener, Box 576, Haddonfield, NJ. 08033 Saturday, August 23, 3pm Medium Categories: Prospectus available: www.americancolorprintsociety.org Immortal Scenes In Opera Aquamedia, Collage & Mixed Media, Graphics, From Mozart To Verdi, w/winners from the Oil /Acrylics, Pastels, Sculpture Altamura/Caruso 2013 Int'l Voice Competition To Obtain Prospectus Saturday, August 30, 3pm www.audubonartists.org 43rd Annual Holiday Craft Fair Piano & Song Virtuosi Lorenzo Di Bella and Cristina Altamura or S.A.S.E. to Classical Hits & Nostalgic Moments In Song Raymond Olivere, The Versailles Nov. 29 & 30, 2014 August 28, 29, 5 -7pm 1530 Locust St; Apt. 13C 10 am to 4 pm 400 Years Of Opera Development Philadelphia, PA 19102 Juried Show w/ singers from The Altamura Summer Institute Digital CD Entry Deadline Sat., Sept. 6 Hand-Crafted Items Only Seminar & Performance, Donation, $10 Awards Jurors to be announced For an application or more information go to Refreshments From Hartmann's Bakery www.sunydutchess.edu/craftfair w/ The Best Cappuccino this side of the Big Pond Tickets: $35 Gen.; $3O Srs.; 10% Discount Roger Rossi, (rogerhrossi@ gmail.com) For Groups of 10 or more or Vincent Nardone, President Poughkeepsie, NY • ([email protected]) • 732-903-7468 [email protected] • www.altocanto.org Summer 2014 ART TIMES page 7 Music Eurovision: Not Just Another Song Contest By LESLIE R. HERMAN This is exciting stuff! The Eurovi- Have you heard the song ‘Rise sion Song Contest is camp and kooky, Like a Phoenix’ (written and com- but it is not just another glitzy music posed by Charly Mason, Joey Patulka, contest.... it’s a political hotbed, with Ali Zuckowski, Julian Maas)? I won’t clear trends that reflect political go- go on about the fact that it has been ings on over the years. And amazingly, my latest ear worm – it is very catchy, all the while, the majority of folks and hopes are pinned on it being the in the USA were content watching next Bond movie theme tune. Johnny Carson, Dallas, Saturday It is the song that won the 2014 Night Live.... Eurovision Song Contest for Austria, While preparing this piece I came sung by bearded lady Conchita Wurst. across a few American-based blog Conchita Wurst’s victory in this song sites and webcast sites reporting on contest, which has been running for the contest pre-show, webcasting 59 years, is headline news in Europe. from the contest live, and blogging the You can hear it on Spotify: results, indicating some US-rooted in- https://play.spotify.com/ terest -- enough to cause me to wonder, album/4aPLSEfXmX1wx6gdWi282p from a chicken and egg perspective: Why, until now, have I not been Could America’s prior lack of inter- Conchita Wurst, winner of the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest compelled to share my intrigue of the est be due to its insularity or to lack of Photo Credit: Milenko Bedzic (ORF) Eurovision Song Contest with my fel- access or both, and if so, which came low Americans? first? When did Americans become Writing in The Observer in Janu- ‘Viewers in member countries of The Eurovision Song Contest has less introspective and more interested ary 2011, Alex Krotowski observed: the Eurovision Broadcasting Union been a pan-European annual event in events from outside of the US? Have ‘The web’s effect on news reporting (which includes most European coun- since 1956. It has been a launch pad Americans broadened their spectrum is considered the most clear evidence tries as well as countries in North for the mega careers of the likes of to include cultural events and activi- that this is a revolutionary technology: Africa and the Middle East) then vote ABBA as well as a significant platform ties other than American-dominated news editors – and in some cases, the to determine a winner, except rather for others. Sweden took the prize for ones because they are being given governments that they observe – are than award points based on things the very first time in 1974 whenA BBA easy access to them? Or is a genuine no longer the gatekeepers to informa- like creativity or talent, they will won with ‘Waterloo’; Bucks Fizz won interest driving them to seek more tion.... If knowledge is power, the web sometimes — in a much-debated proc- for the UK in 1981 with ‘Making information about them – which is is the greatest tool in the history of the ess called bloc voting — just vote for your Mind Up’, and Celine Dion sang now easier than ever before? world’. neighboring countries (or, in the case for Switzerland in 1988. Now, in 2014 I can search the web We are a vast and vastly diverse of Russia, for the Eastern European Domenico Modugno, singing for and see that the Delegation of the nation, and I would not like to go on countries they brutally oppressed for Italy, came in third with ‘Volare’ in European Union to the United States record saying the American public has decades.’ 1958; Julio Iglesias sang for Spain in held a Eurovision Song Contest party opened its eyes to events other than Bringing it swiftly to the present 1970; and Olivia Newton John rep- in Washington DC, and brought the American-led ones simply because day, Lucy Westcott (thewire.com), resented the UK and came in fourth contest in Copenhagen, Denmark they are now right in front of them states: ‘Beneath the annual extrava- with ‘Long Live Love’ in 1974 the this year not just into our living but, taking a mainstream view, if it’s ganza of sequins and lights, the Euro- year ABBA took first prize. rooms via live feeds but into our back placed right in front of us, the chances vision Song Contest is an undeniably In all my 30-plus years of watching yards for garden parties! http://www. are we will eat it. political event, from the strategic the spectacle that is the Eurovision euintheus.org/event/. And until more Case in point: I started talking voting to using the competition as a Song Contest, I never considered it indie web outlets like The Wire.com about Skype when it first came out in way to boost a country’s image on the was something Americans would came on the scene, there was not much 2004. My words literally fell on deaf continent.’ want to hear about. My instincts did goss to be had in the US about this itty ears. I remember marvelling about ‘This year, turmoil in Ukraine and not tell me to, so I didn’t. And only now bitty little European contest, which this futuristic free-to-use phone sys- Russia’s anti-gay propaganda laws am I wondering why. My guess is be- now attracts 100 million viewers. tem and the conversation whooshing further politicised an event already cause Americans don’t participate and http://www.thewire.com/entertain- right past, me in full swing, over to known for its combination of bombas- there is nothing remotely American ment/2014/05/an-americans-guide- something quite banal in comparison. tic enthusiasm and subtle lessons in about it that Americans would have for-watching-the-2014-eurovision- Oddly, even the word free did not raise international relations.’ no interest in it. But after this year’s finale/362016/ an eyebrow! I suppose I should not And tying it up with a bow (or with, show, aired live from Copenhagen on The internet has provided a global have been so surprised: Skype was should I say, a boo), Tom Phillips (buz- 10 May, I felt very compelled to share. platform for anyone and everyone to founded by Niklas Zennström and Ja- zfeed.com): ‘Russia was booed repeat- Before moving to Europe I had have their say and has played a huge nus Friis and developed in Estonia in edly by the audience. From the first set never heard of the Eurovision Song role in bringing world news and events August 2003. AT&T opened up its 3G of votes - when Azerbaijan gave them Contest. I moved to the UK in 1984, into the mainstream of our daily lives calling network to allow internet call- maximum points - the audience made the year the contest was held in wherever we are. The effect the web ing apps like Skype in October 2009, clear their disapproval of Russia. Jerusalem. According to the official has had on the major players of news and Skype was acquired by Microsoft ‘This continued throughout the website www.eurovision.tv, ‘the 24th and events coverage has been seismic. for $8.5 billion in October 2012. Skype show; any time the Russian act, Eurovision Song Contest was held out- This seems especially true in the is now a global brand, a mainstream 17-year-old twins the Tolmachevy side the geographical area of Europe US where, it was not until the late activity, and a word on everyone’s lips. Sisters, was awarded a significant for the first time. Jerusalem played 90s that the major television networks Referencing some of the websites number of points, large sections of the the proud host of the annual European and print media outlets became real that my search revealed, the Eu- audience booed and heckled. event. The Israeli capital...was this and constant players online. Prior rovision Song Contest ‘started as a ‘And, in the end, the contest was year’s host city that welcomed 19 dif- to that, it seemed that mainstream pan-European competition for light won by Austrian drag queen Conchita ferent delegations. Turkey withdrew television and radio network news music, presumably an effort to unite Wurst, whose acceptance speech dedi- from the contest because it took place fed the population mostly local and a continent devastated by World War cated the win to ‘peace and freedom’. in Israel and many Arab countries put national-centric news, and that the II,’ states James Montgomery (mtv. Wurst’s presence in the competition some pressure on Turkey not to go to rest of world’s news got covered with com), giving a succinct overview of had led one Russian lawmaker to call Jerusalem.... a series of one-liners. The US populous the Eurovision’s history and how it for a boycott of Eurovision, on the ‘Israel won for the second time in had to rely on their own resourceful- works. He continues: ‘the contest has grounds that it was a ‘pan-European a row [the host city is determined by ness to gather any real insight and slowly morphed into a way for Euro- gay pride parade.’ the previous year’s winner] with the information about world affairs. nations to trump one another with As the bearded lady, Conchita song ‘Hallelujah’ which became a The most profound change came in a series of vapid (and increasingly Wurst (aka Thomas Neuwirth) rings Europe-wide hit. Spain was the last around 2007 when social media start- bizarre) pop songs. Every competing remarkable changes in the socio-polit- country to cast its votes. At that mo- ed taking the lead in breaking news. country submits a tune, which seem ical landscape in not just Europe but ment Spain was in the lead with one That was a serious challenge to the to fall into one of three categories — the world, and as the Eurovision Song point ahead of Israel, but the Span- control and power the broadcasters formulaic, vaguely nationalistic pop; Contest heads towards its Diamond ish 10 points gave Israel its second had over how news was disseminated. batsh – crazy Euro trance; or vaguely Jubilee edition in 2015, I wonder how victory. It was later rumoured Spain It really woke the networks up with homoerotic, leather-clad metal — then many Americans will be watching had deliberately given its points to a play ball or get out of the ballpark performs said song during a marathon next year? Israel because they didn’t want to win message. live event. ef themselves.’ Summer 2014 ART TIMES page 8

Continued from Page 6 Claraval Spinning Plate Gallery 5821 Baum Blvd PittsburghContinued PA 412-877-7394 from Page 1 Calendar Opening Reception 7-10pm free (thru Jun 30) www.richardclaraval.com Monday, June 9 Nightmares and Dreamscapes Artspace Patchogue 20 Terry St Patchogue National Society of Painters in Casein & Acrylic 60th Annual NY Reception 5-8pm. free (thru June 14) artspacepatchogue.org Exhibit Salmagundi Club 47 Fifth Ave., NYC (212) 255-7740 (thru June 20) Spring Fine Art & Crafts at Brookdale Park Rose Squared Productions, Rockland Past and Present: A Chronicling of Time Blue Hill Art Inc. Brookdale Park 473 Watchung Avenue Montclair NJ 908-874-5247 Rain or shine & Cultural Center Blue Hill Plaza 1 Blue Hill Plaza Pearl River NY free (thru Nov 7) free www.rosesquared.com www.bluehillartandculturalcenter.com Suzanne Benton’s Studio and Art Showcase opening CT Commission Tuesday, June 10 on Culture and Tourism Suzanne Benton’s Studio and Art Showcase 22 Donnelly Museum Mile Festival The Jewish Museum 1109 Fifth Avenue New York NY Drive Ridgefield CT 203-438-4650 1-4pm free www.suzannemasks.com 212-423-3200 6-9 pm free thejewishmuseum.org Three Solos: Carla Goldberg in Gallery 1, Dakin Roy in The Thursday, June 12 Beacon Room, Manfred Holtcamp in The Windows Beacon Artist Union (bau Gallery) 506 Main Street Beacon NY 845-222-0177 free Opening Reception “All Things Cazenovia” Stone Quarry Hill Art Park 3883 Stone Quarry Road Second Saturday June 14th 6-9 p.m. Gallery hours Sat. & Sun. 12-6 www.baugallery. Cazenovia NY 315-655-3196 Opening Reception 6-8pm donate (thru July 27) www. com stonequarryhillartpark.org/events_exhibits.htm Sunday, June 15 ANGELA WASHKO | PLAYING A GIRL Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art 1701 Main Street Peekskill NY 914-788-0100 Opening Reception 6-8pm charge 2014 Philadanco Benefit Art Exhibition The Philadelphia Sketch Club (thru July 27) www.hvcca.org 235 Camac St (between 12th & 13th and Locust & Spruce) Philadelphia PA 215-545- 9298 Opening Reception 1 - 5pm free (thru June 28) www.SketchClub.org Anna Held Audette: Requiem for the Industrial Age Housatonic Museum of Art Burt Chernow Galleries 900 Lafayette Blvd. Bridgeport CT 203-332- Antonin Dvorak - A Bohemian Idyll Close Encounters With Music Ozawa 5052 Opening Reception 5 - 7pm free (thru July 25) www.HousatonicMuseum.org Hall, Tanglewood 297 West St Lenox MA 800-843-0778 2pm charge www.cewm.org/ greatbarrington.html#6 Second Nature: Beauty in the Ordinary transFORM Gallery 20 Jones St New Rochelle NY Opening Reception 6 - 9pm free (thru Aug 30) Artist Exhibition Walk and Talk, “From Paintings in Proust” PMW Gallery 530 Roxbury Road Stamford CT 203-322-5427 Noon free www.pmwgal- Friday, June 13 lery.com Recent Work by Martin Poole and Showcasing Treacy Ziegler Beacon Sloop Club Annual Strawberry Festival Riverfront Park, West End Gallery 12 West Market St. Corning NY 607-936-2011 Opening Reception Flynn Drive Beacon, NY 845-463-4660 12-5pm free www.beaconsloopclub.org 5-7:30pm free (thru July 18) Gallery talk with Martin Poole Saturday June 14 1-2p www.westendgallery.net From Paintings in Proust Walk & Talk PMW Gallery 530 Roxbury Road Stamford CT 203-322-5427 12-2pm free www.pmwgallery.com “Summer Shorts” with Mohonk Mountain Stage Company Unison Arts Center 68 Mt. Rest Road New Paltz NY 845-255-1559 charge (thru June 22) www. Hudson Valley BachFest Chamber Concert Hudson Valley Society for unisonarts.org Music Cornwall Presbyterian Church 222 Hudson St (rte 218) Cornwall on Hudson NY 845-220-8049 3:30 pm donate www.hudsonvalleysocietyformusic.org Saturday, June 14 Music in the Mansion featuring Copland House Lyndhurst Lynd- Cultural Arts Day ArtsWestchester Hammond Museum 28 Deveau Rd. hurst Mansion 635 South Broadway Tarrytown NY 914-631-4481 4:00 pm charge www. North Salem NY 914-669-5033 1-4pm charge www.hammondmuseum.org lyndhurst.org FRANZ HEIGEMEIR: solo exhibit Woodstock Artists Association & Museum 28 SCULPTURE EXPO 2014: Large-scale sculpture in the Village of Red Hook Tinker St. Woodstock, NY 845-679-2940 Opening Reception 4-6 free (thru July 23) and “Off the Wall” 3-D Assemblage Show. Red Hook Community Arts Network www.woodstockart.org Village of Red Hook, Dutchess County, NY along Route 9 Red Hook NY 845-758-6575 Hudson Valley BachFest Choral Concert Hudson Valley Society for free (thru Nov 21) www.rhcan.com Music Christ Episcopal Church 30 Carroll St Poughkeepsie NY 845-220-8049 2 pm: Spring Fine Art & Crafts at Brookdale Park Rose Squared Produc- Young Performers; 7:30 pm: Choral Concert donate www.hudsonvalleysocietyformusic. tions, Inc. Brookdale Park 473 Watchung Avenue Montclair NJ 908-874-5247 Rain or org shine free www.rosesquared.com June Paint-Out at Fine Line Art Gallery Fine Line Art Gallery 319 Main “Somatou” ceramics by Tomoko Abe ArtsWestchester Hammond Museum Street South Woodbury CT 203-266-0110 11 AM - 4 PM free www.finelineartgallery- 28 Deveau Rd North Salem NY 914-669-5033 charge (thru Aug 6) www.hammondmu- connecticut.com seum.org Larry Kagan: Lying Shadows The Hyde Collection 161 Warren Street Glens Thursday, June 19 Falls NY 518-792-1761 www.hydecollection.org Rockland Past and Present: A Chronicling of Time Blue Hill Art Lana Yu: “LIGHT, DARK..IN,OUT” mixed media works Flat Iron Gallery 105 So. & Cultural Center Blue Hill Plaza 1 Blue Hill Plaza Pearl River NY Artists’ Reception Division St. Peekskill NY 914-734-1894 Opening Reception 1-5 pm free www.flatiron. 5:30-8:00pm free (thru Nov 7) www.bluehillartandculturalcenter.com qpg.com Friday, June 20 Mythological Gestures: Charcoal Drawings by Richard Bethpage Federal Credit Union Global Explorations: ‘Meta- morphosis: Initiation rites of Papua New Guinea and West Africa’ Hofstra University Museum, Emily Lowe Gallery Hempstead Turnpike, Hofstra University Hempstead NY 2-3pm charge Knanishu/ Keeler Ruth Keeler Memorial Library 276 Titicus Rd, North Salem, NY 10560 North Salem NY 914-669-5161 Opening reception 12-5pm free www.facebook.com/crystalkeelerart National Society of Painters in Casein & Acrylic 60th Annual Exhibit Salmagundi Club 47 Fifth Ave., NYC (212) 255-7740 Awards presentation 7pm (thru June 20) Continued on Page 8 Summer 2014 ART TIMES page 9 Dance The Paul Taylor Dance Company At 60. Wow! By Dawn Lille Paul Taylor, regarded by creatures in a purgatory occupied by many as the greatest living American individuals who nevertheless seem choreographer, is 83 years old. His to comprise a group. This is quiet company of 16 outstanding dancers is suffering. The way Taylor uses the 60 years old and during a three-week torso and the flexibility of the back diamond jubilee season at Lincoln is amazing. Center (March 12-30) it danced 23 In honor of the anniversary it was of the 140 dances he has created in decided to present a one-time only his lifetime. But the numbers have performance of From Sea to Shining no relationship to the sheer physical Sea (1965, John Herbert McDowell) joy emanating from the stage night featuring former Taylor dancers. It after night. is interesting to note that, just as Why the particular works pre- many of his dances either create a sented, many never seen by today’s community or look at one through his audiences, were chosen, is unknown. unique lens, so dancers who perform But what a variety! Taylor’s move- with Taylor remain with the company ment creations, perhaps more than for many years and are a community any other choreographer’s, are filled of only 136. with passion. They also reveal the There was an open invitation to power that lies within the body and alumni, the only requirement being Paul Taylor Dance Company: Sean Mahoney, Orion Duckstein, the rapture that can explode from that they were able to attend a five James Samson in Sunset (Photo Paul B. Goode) that body in performance. -hour rehearsal on the Friday prior and was danced magnificently. In dance pioneers. They will also choose His works appeal to and are in the to the Sunday performance, and 47 form it is almost a conversation with works by contemporary choreogra- repertory of both ballet and modern participated. Some admitted after- the music. In this instance it was phers. One can only suspect that Mr. dance companies worldwide because ward that they were a bit skeptical also one between the audience, who Taylor has made this momentous de- seemed to send back the vibrations cision because he wants this group to that came from the stage, and the per- continue and he is weary of creating. formers. The first notes of J.S. Bach’s Certainly the two works receiving music were greeted with audible their New York premieres, To Make sighs of familiarity; it was as though Crops Grow and American Dreamer, the theater was filled with bodies that and the world premiere, Marathon were dancing as well. Cadenza, are not among the best or This work, plus Arden Court even near the top of his works. To (1981) and Mercuric Tidings (1982) Make Crops Grow (Ferde Grofe), a may be among the greatest modern modern version of an ancient several dance works of the 20th century. Ar- ritual, has various stock characters den Court, with its 6 men and 3 wom- (newlyweds, children, an old husband en, was originally created for an all with a young wife) pulling chances male cast, and its lush Baroque score from a box to determine who is to be by William Boyce, supports the male the sacrificial victim. There is little virtuosity. This is especially evident dancing and reminders of his own and when the bare chested men enter on a other’s works. long diagonal and when they execute Marathon Caadenza (Raymond their soaring open body jumps. There Scott), about the different dances is a riveting adagio section for them performed at the near inhuman Paul Taylor Dance Company: Aileen Roehl, Eran Bugge, Jeffrey Smith. Michelle and the many male/female duets are dance marathons of the 30’s, includes Fleet, Robert Kleinendorst, Jamie Rae Walker in Esplanade stunning. In one, his movements are Taylor’s wonderful use of social dance Photo by Paul B. Goode quick and hers sustained, but they as embodied by various types. But it still communicate. It is sheer plea- seemed to end mid-way and one bit he uses the body in such a variety about being able to create a polished sure to watch this radiant dance. recalled Fancy Free. of ways – but always with strength. piece, but, aided by the 8 current In many ways Mercuric Tidings, to American Dreamer uses the songs The Taylor dancer possesses an open company members who danced with excerpts from Franz Schubert’s Sym- of Stephan Foster, as sung by Thomas instrument, capable of tremendous them, they did. phonies Nos. 1 and 2, is Taylor’s most Hampson, music that is more or less bursts of speed, and a momentum From Sea to Shining Sea is more beautiful work. Its 13 performers imbedded in the American conscious- that creates the most amazing in- a moving pageant of living pictures seem like never ending waves of danc- ness. And, in true Taylor fashion, it teractions in space. Often, even his than a full out dance piece. But in ers sweeping the stage as individuals makes some sardonic observations happiest dances have a darker side. its knowledgeable satire of what the and groups, creating patterns of lines on many things, among them confor- There is a reflection of humanity in program note calls “a collage of im- and circles that expand in all direc- mity. The audience liked this often his work, as well as an exploration of ages from the American heritage” tions. Sometimes there is a single playful work, but it is a small piece. the potent force humans are capable it reveals the humor (with its often figure against a backdrop of moving What old dances and which new of exhibiting. underlying sense of pathos and social figures; a duet versus a sextet; two choreographers will be chosen for the Sunset (1983, Edward Elgar), criticism) and characterizations that different duets simultaneously – and expanded repertory is an unknown, about youth and war, leaves me in are part of Taylor’s oeuvre. There is lots of trios. The typical breathtaking viewed with trepidation by some. But tears each time I see it. Fibers (1961, Super Mouse, a flapper, Iwo Jima, Taylor speed that is so often light and there will still be the small Taylor 2 Arnold Schoenberg) was new to many. Uncle Sam, the Pilgrims arriving in a feathery also contributes to a dance company, which feeds into the larger No one really knows what it is about, ship with a human prow, a tap dancer that expresses the ecstasy of moving. one, the school and the superlative but the set of a tall tree designed by and Betsy Ross, among images that This is the Taylor company’s last body of work with which this amazing Rouben Ter-Arutunian looks like it are not necessarily in chronological season in its present state. It will choreographer has gifted us. Taylor is made of different colored electronic order. be transformed into Paul Taylor’s recognizes the inevitability of change wires. The masked men in decorated By following this work with Es- American Modern Dance Company and he has earned the right to step skivvies and bands around their planade (1975) these alumni, who and will become a repertory company, back a bit. limbs and chest and the women in still have a presence and were able adding works of American modern ef white (including their faces) could be to make moving on stage look like aliens. But somehow the piece seems the dance Taylor intended it to be, to be about the things that connect us. seemed to be saying, “Look at those to The four dancers move very quickly, whom we’ve passed the torch.” Did you miss the deadline for this issue? exploring the entire stage and each This work of near genius construc- You can still include a calendar item, opportunity listing, other. tion, based as it is on pedestrian move- Dante Variations (2004), to what ments (walks, runs, skips, jumps), is announcement or publicize your business for a small fee. can only be described as “eerie” music able to convey joy and sadness, soli- ARTTIMES Online: www.arttimesjournal.com by Gyorgy Ligeti, features writhing tary loneliness and group strength, Summer 2014 ART TIMES page 10

Continued from Page 8 Calendar Sunday, June 29 Saturday, June 21 2014 Athenaeum of Philadelphia’s 200th Anniversary Art Exhibi- tion The Philadelphia Sketch Club and The Athenaeum of Philadelphia Walnut Artists-Du Jianq, Bibiana Huang Matheis, Zheng Xuewu, Wang Yong: Con- Street at 219 South 6th Street on the east side of Washington Square Philadelphia PA tempary Chinese Zen Meditations curated by Bibiana Huang Matheis/ Inhabited 215-925-2688 Opening Reception 2 - 5pm free (thru Aug 8) www.philaathenaeum.org • by Wennie Huang/ “Soumatou - Revolving Lanterns” ceramics by Tomoko Abe www.Sketch Club.org ArtsWestchester Hammond Museum 28 Deveau Rd North Salem NY 914-669-5033 Open- ing Reception 1-3pm charge (thru Sept 6) www.hammondmuseum.org Ron Mineo & Bruce Waldman: Nature of the Beast Westchester County - Art in the Park Ward Pound Ridge Reservation #6 Reservation Rd. Cross River NY Dance Theatre of Harlem Opening Reception with Arthur 914-864-7317 Opening Reception 2-5pm free (thru Sept 1) Mitchell National Museum of Dance 99 South Broadway Saratoga Springs NY 518- 584-2225 6:30pm free dancemuseum.org Monday, June 30 ‘In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening’-Music by Jim Wann and Ronstadt Generations Concert The Betsy Jacaruso Studio & Gallery 43-2 Chris Brashear The Olana Partnership Olana’s East Lawn 5720 State Route 9G East Market Street Rhinebeck NY 845-516-4435 7-9 pm donate www.betsyjacarusoartist. Hudson NY 7pm com MONUMENTAL FANTASIES Photography by Michael K. Yamaoka At- Tuesday, July 1 lantic Gallery 548 W 28th Street New York NY 212-219-3183 Second reception 1:30-4:30 Kent Art Association Annual Member Show II The Gallery at Kent Art PM free (thru Jun 28) www.atlanticgallery.org Association 21 S. Main Street Kent CT 860-927-3989 free (thru Jul 13) www.kentart.org New York Theatre Ballet at Kaatsbaan Kaatsbaan International Dance Thursday July 3 Center 120 Broadway Tivoli NY 845-757-5106 7:30 PM charge www.kaatsbaan.org Jan L. Davis Paintings: Flowers, Fish, Cats and Designs Piermont Flywheel Worlds of Wonder: Hudson Valley Artists 2014 Samuel Dorsky Museum Gallery 223 Ash Street Piermont Landing Piermont NY 845-365-6411 free (thru July 20) of Art SUNY New Paltz, 1 Hawk Drive New Paltz NY 845-257-3844 Opening Reception piermontflywheelgallery.com 5-7pm free (thru Nov 9) www.newpaltz.edu/museum/exhibitions/hva14.html Saturday, July 5 Sunday, June 22 Livingston Manor Artwalk 2014 Livingston Manor Chamber of Commerce New York Theatre Ballet at Kaatsbaan Kaatsbaan International Dance Main and Pearl Streets and Renaissance Park Livingston Manor NY 845-439-4325 10am- Center 120 Broadway Tivoli NY 845-757-5106 2:30 PM charge www.kaatsbaan.org 4pm free www.livingstonmanor.org Tuesday, June 24 Music at the Grazhda Music and Art Center of Greene County An American Master Artist’s Retrospect: Louis Bouché Passaic County Grazhda Concert Hall Ukraine Road (off Route 23A) Jewett NY 518-989-6479 8pm charge Cultural & Heritage Council Clifton Arts Center 900 Clifton Ave Clifton NJ 973-472- www.GrazhdaMusicandArt.org 5499 Opening reception 4-8pm donate (thru July 26) www.cliftonnj.org Wednesday, July 9 Beck Mass Moca Mass Moca 87 Marshall St North Adams MA 413-662-2111 8:30pm “Art Stories” by Alla Goldburt Harrison Council for the Arts Harrison Public charge http://www.massmoca.org/event_details.php?id=909 Library 2 Bruce Avenue Harrison NY 914-835-0324 Opening Reception 7-8:30pm free Thursday, June 26 (thru July 31) www.harrisonpl.org 18 WAYS OF LOOKING AT A TREE Longreach Arts James W. 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Panels,parties,celebrities,networki ng. charge (thru July 17) www.LongIslandFilm.com ASOG Member Juried Art Show The Art Society of Old Greenwich Greenwich Library -- Flinn Gallery 101 W Putnam Avenue Greenwich CT Opening Reception 6-8pm Friday, July 11 (thru July 17) www.artsocietyofoldgreenwich.com 79th Annual National Exhibit Cooperstown Art Association 22 Main Street Saturday, June 28 Cooperstown NY 607-547-9777 free (thru Aug 15) www.cooperstownart.com Big, Bright and Bold Mamaroneck Artists Guild 126 Larchmont Avenue Larch- Acting Out: Words That Connect Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary mont NY 914-834-1117 free (thru July 12) www.mamaroneckartistsguild.org Art 1701 Main Street Peekskill NY 914-788-0100 8-10pm charge www.hvcca.org Leslie Fuller; “Drawing, Ink on Paper” Valley Artisans Market’s “Small Buck Moon Arts Festival Fulton-Montgomery Community College 2805 State Gallery” 25 East Main Street (Rte. 372) Cambridge NY 518-677-2765 Opening Reception Hwy 67 Johnstown NY 518-736-7622 free www.fmcc.edu/ Facebook: Buck Moon Arts 3-5 pm free (thru July 22) Festival SCULPTURE EXPO 2014: Large-scale sculpture in the Village of Red Hook. Red “The Second Time Around” Coach House Players Coach House Players Hook Community Arts Network Village of Red Hook, Dutchess County, NY along Route Theater 12 Augusta St Kingston NY 845-331-2476 Fri & Sat at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2:00 p.m. charge (thru July 20) www.coachhouseplayers.org 9 Red Hook NY 845-758-6575 Opening Reception 5-7 free (thru Nov 21) www.rhcan.com Continued on Page 14

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Northwest Connecticut and Berkshire Nature Preserves & Gardens All are welcome, from seasoned painters to budding artists Saturdays, May through September, monthly, full season or single sessions www.NaturalArtJournal.com • (860) 542-3920 Summer 2014 ART TIMES page 11 Film All-Purpose Anxiety By HENRY P. RALEIGH There are still many of us us how to live in Manhattan and there is nothing now that doesn’t around who are survivors of the “Age be fashionably neurotic. The moves give you cause to run for the hills. of Anxiety”. That was back in the were always around to remind us And the filmmakers are performing 50’s. You know - radiation, the Cold how cool we were. yeoman service seeing they all get War, communists all over the place. The ‘80’s slowed things down a bit, covered. For avarice, corruption, Hollywood movies obligingly gave the decade starting off with “Where and chicanery in our financial and shape to our fears real or imagined the Buffalo Roam” and ending with political institutions there is “The in scary mutations, a sun too hot “Drugstore Cowboy” in ’89. The war Wolf of Wall Street” and “American (or too cold) roasting us (or freezing on drugs that officially began in 1970 Hustle”. Take a cinematic stroll us), invaders from space- why didn’t seem to be getting any where through the cultural wasteland of you couldn’t turn around without so movie studios, figuring if you despair, false hope and violence that bumping up against an enormous can’t beat them, join them, spent the ginger up “Nebraska” and “Out of bed bug or flesh eating cockroach ’90’s giving us “Naked Lunch”, “Bad the Furnace”. The warmth and joy of emitting jingly sounds. Some of Lieutenant”, “Basketball Diaries”, family gatherings? - “August: Osage us spent the age in home bomb “Trainspotting”, and “Boogie Nights”. County” will show you how that goes shelters, other sought shelter with So before you could say “Titanic” and nowadays. Think maybe the next psychoanalysts. The 1964 film “Fail sink beneath the waves we found generation will prove less mercenary Safe” pretty much summed up that ourselves in the Millennium along than yours has been? Well not if “The nervous decade. with more vampires and zombies Bling Thing” and “Spring Breakers” It was a relief for most of us when than you could shake a stick at - is any indication. But wait, won’t we managed to make it into the these the icons of what is the current love triumph over all as it always 60’s and the Age of Aquarius. We “Age (so-called) of Generalized had in the “Paradise- Love” and traded in the psychoanalytic for the Anxiety.” The new terms may seem “Before Midnight” and don’t forget Anxiety: an all-purpose neurosis to psychedelic- flair pants, headbands, a bit weak-kneed, suggesting we’re that poor guy in “Her”- even an affair fit everyone’s needs, adaptable to really big hair, sandals. “Bob&Carol too exhausted or spineless to tackle with his own software couldn’t work every situation in today’s hectic life. our fears head-on but consider the out for him. &Ted&Alice” in ’69 welcomed up ef into the ‘70’s, “Annie Hall” showing encompassing sweep here- I mean There you have it- Generalized

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For additional information ART CLASSES: Irene Feigen – (973) 994-1516 alliedartistsofamerica.org Adults, Teens and Children Vivian Olshen – (973) 992-1950 summer semester starts June 30 or email [email protected] Associate Members Fall semester starts Sept. 6 & 15 Arts Council of Livingston P.O. Box 339, Livingston, NJ 07039 Online Exhibition CLASSES IN: Ceramics Oils, Watermedia, Pastels, Jewelry Drawing Acrylics, Graphics, Sculptures Back Room Gallery Photography Veryal Zimmerman, Artist & Director Sculpture ~ ~ Showing more than 30 artists' work Painting and to honor including: Digital Arts the 100th Anniversary Paintings, Linocut Prints, Photography, Sculptures, Unique Handmade Jewelry, of the founding of • Summer Camps Handmade cards and much more. • Workshops WESTCHESTER Gallery also features: • Talks COMMUNITY ALLIED ARTISTS OF AMERICA COLLEGE Vintage Decorated Crepe Designs • Exhibitions from the Early 1900's and exhibitions with featured artists. View the presentation through Artists’ Reception 2nd Saturday the Allied website Convenient location: of each month 6-8pm alliedartistsofamerica.org White Plains, Westchester County Center For more info: 914-606-7500 Back Room Gallery 475 Main Street, Beacon, NY online until August 15, 2014 Email: [email protected] [email protected] • 845-838-1838 www.sunywcc.edu/arts Open: Th, Fr, Sa 12-6; Su 12-5pm Summer 2014 ART TIMES page 12 Culturally Speaking By CORNELIA SECKEL We were so sorry to hear about deft, expressive brushwork. Patrick the passing of Francine L. Trevens, Milbourn’s sense of moodiness is felt one of our dance writers who had by his expression of coloration and been with us for the past 10 years. muted sensibilities. He coaxes his Francine was a theater/dance critic, subjects – whether figures or land- theatrical press agent, stage director, scapes – only to that point where he freelance writer, poet and short story feels they are “complete”. Raymond writer, co-founder of the Greater J. Steiner composes his landscapes New York Independent Publish- alla prima – wet on wet – to capture ers Association (GNYIPA) I had a spontaneous impression. He wields the pleasure to interact with her a palette knife for most of his work, via phone, email and an evening on allowing a strong sense of physical the town. She was kind, consider- interaction with the paint. Raymond ate and absolutely a professional is pleased to be showing with such in all aspects of her work. Her last fine painters as Patrick and William. contribution to ART TIMES was a In August, Raymond will again year ago in the Summer 2013 issue take part in the Saugerties Art where she wrote about extraordinary Tour on August 8, 9 & 10. A map of Cornelia Seckel speaking about how ART TIMES began talents in Dance’s future. You can the open studios can be found at www. at a Lifespring class, Saugerties, NY read the essays Francine contributed saugertiesarttour.com. Come and to ART TIMES at: arttimesjournal. spend a delightful time in the Hud- thought the paper would look like and that subsequently became the Na- com/dance/dancearchive.htm. Her son Valley with excellent artists. lots of stories of how we began. You tional Association of Women Artists, memory is a blessing and I an honored I was pleased to be asked by can read about our beginnings online. Inc. proves that, despite adversity to have known her and published 54 Lifespring, an adult learning com- I was happy to share this story with and discrimination – which many of her fine essays about dance. munity that offers a broad range of the group and they reported that they feel extends to this day — women are It has been a busy time for Ray- appreciated my talk. an integral and valuable part of the mond this past Spring. He had a arts community.” Susan G. Ham- very well-received exhibition at the mond, Executive Director, greeted Schoolhouse Theater Gallery, us and introduced outgoing President Croton Falls, NY. There is a short Sonia Stark who gave a roundup video of the work in the exhibit at of the year report before introduc- www.youtu.be/hvs9XpTdCcE. In ing the incoming President Marie the exhibition invitation the gallery Hines Cowan. Lunch was served wrote: “For many years Raymond and Gail Levin, honored guest, was J. Steiner has cultivated his love of introduced. After thanking N.A.W.A nature with canvases expressing its for being such a wonderful organiza- magic and his philosophical quest.” tion she spoke about her artwork. The Schoolhouse Gallery said that Gail is Distinguished Professor of they were privileged to exhibit these Art History, American Studies, and paintings. Opening on June 7th (thru Women’s Studies at the Graduate July) Raymond will be participating Center and Baruch College of along with Patrick D. Milbourn and the City University of New York. William P. Duffy in a show “Deeply She continues to teach, lecture and Rooted: Expressions of Three Artists” write (we published a number of at the M Gallery 350 Main Street in essays, critiques and reviews in the Catskill, NY (www.mgallery-online. early issues of ART TIMES). Gail com). The opening reception will be is also a photographer and has been June 7th from 6-8pm. According to the working on a series of collages called Gallery, the show will focus on the (l to r) Susan Phillips (Chair of NA.W.A. Gallery) and Gail Levin (Guest Speaker) “On NOT Becoming an Artist: A interpretive process and individual at Gail's exhibit at the NA.W.A. gallery, NYC. Retro’ Spective.” Gail is best known expression that becomes a work of as the biographer of Lee Krasner, art. William P. Duffy is both a noncredit educational activities for National Association of Wom- Judy Chicago and Edward (& Jo) painter and a marine painter. He is a retired, semi-retired and other adult en Artists, Inc. (N.A.W.A.) held Hopper. Most recently she edited grandmaster of the elements of paint- participants, to speak about how their 125th year celebratory luncheon Theresa Bernstein: A Century in Art ing using the authenticity of different ART TIMES began. I brought our with guest speaker Gail Levin at the (University of Nebraska Press) effects of light and atmosphere and very first issue, the mock up of whatI Manhattan Penthouse in NYC. and includes thematic essays by Gail N.A.W.A. has been empowering, pro- and others. During her talk at the moting, supporting and encouraging luncheon, Gail spoke about her col- women artists, since 1889. It is the lages which are of different stages in oldest women’s fine art organization her life: family, school, travel, artists in the country, a vibrant community she met, etc. She said that it takes of professional women artists that great courage to be an artist. Gail strives to support its members and is an excellent speaker — although women artists at large through ex- thwarted with laryngitis, she spoke hibitions, programs and education. I humbly about her work and ac- am very pleased to be an honorary VP complishments. She seems to focus and board member. I think the work mostly on women artist whose stories they do and have done is important she feels are important to relay. After — women artists form a community the luncheon there was an opening that supports and helps one another reception for her exhibition in the in a field that has gotten short shrift N.A.W.A. gallery at 80 Fifth Avenue. compared to male artists. The his- Each of the collages has commentary tory of the organization as noted on about the collage. One day, she hopes, N.A.W.A.’ s website (thenawa.org) it will become a book. There will be a says “…is a testament to the strength video of Gail’s show on the arttimes and resilience of a group of strong YouTube channel. women who would not accept being The Salmagundi Club origi- shut out of the art salons, galleries nated in 1871 as a sketch class in and art exhibitions open to male art- (l to r) Marie Hines Cowan, President; Susan Hammond, Executive Director; Johnathan Scott Hartley’s studio Gail Levin, Guest Speaker; Sonia Stark, outgoing President ists during the 19th century. In 1889 and purchased the mid-nineteenth at the 125th-year celebratory Luncheon, NYC their founding of the organization century brownstone house at 47 Summer 2014 ART TIMES page 13

Fifth Avenue in 1917 as its second oree John Stobart was introduced home. After several years of care- by Don Demers, a marine artist ful planning and collaboration with and VP of Plein Air Painters of members, architect, and design team, America. The award was presented in mid-June, 2013, the Salmagundi by Robert W, Pillsbury, President Club began the long awaited and of the Club. John said that he was needed structural upgrade and reno- quite overwhelmed and humbled. He vation of the Grand Gallery. (The could not have gotten to this point lower gallery is next in line for reno- without help and that fate kept put- vation). These improvements include ting him in the right spot at the right entirely new physical surroundings time. His marine paintings are just (floor, walls, and HVAC system), wonderful; one can feel the wind and new lighting, and a state-of-the-art smell the ocean. He said that the “cul- hanging system. Spearheaded by ture of art is at stake, it is important architect Lisa Easton of Easton to restore painting from nature which Associates, the work was completed is the essence of painting”. In July 28- for the hanging of the American Wa- Aug 8 the annual open Non-member tercolor Show and the President’s Painting & Sculpture Show will Dinner. The contractor was Preserv be presented. Several organizations Building Restoration; the heat- are having their annual shows at the ing system gifted by the Manton Salmagundi: Catharine Lorillard Foundation. The project budget was Wolfe Art Club members’ show thru approximately 1.5M. Fundraising, June 6; National Society of Paint- Mary Anne Erickson (r) with visitor at her exhibition of roadside culture successfully initiated by the Ameri- ers in Casein & Acrylic from June time one could meet and network, also what musical training, delivered can Masters Exhibition, continued 9-20 and the COGAP (Coast Guard the program began. Dee DelBello, with care and empathy, can develop with major gifts from the Manton Art Program) from June 22-July chief executive officer and owner of in the individual. Their goal at CAPA Westfair Communications Inc. is to impart all of this in order to help (Westfair), a publishing firm head- students find their way to the joy of quartered in White Plains, NY and a Carnegie Hall experience—if not publisher of the company’s publica- as skilled performers, then certainly tions Westchester County Business as fulfilled listeners.E ither way, the Journal, Fairfield County Business result should be the special enjoy- Journal, HV Biz and WAG magazine, ment and fellowship that music can opened the program with a welcome bring. For those CAPA artists pursu- and then introduced keynote speaker ing a professional career, they offer Nancy Armstrong, the producer of special training in the business of the award-winning website and docu- making music. It’s a tough business, mentary series, MAKERS- Women and to succeed in it, today’s perform- Who Make America (www.makers. ing artist needs an understanding com). In accepting the award, I spoke of entrepreneurism and of the need about the decision I made last year for community engagement and self- that most impacted my business: promotion. Phoenicia International “Last year I adjusted our printing Festival of the Voice has been one of schedule so that we would be print- the highlights of the summer in the ing quarterly and publishing online Region. This year they have added monthly. The challenge has been and a 5th day in celebration of the 5th continues to be to bring attention to year and the theme is Celebrating our website and to attract advertis- Spain. There will be 23 events in 7 The Grand Gallery at the Salmagundi Club, NYC during the Presidents' Dinner. ers, our only means of support, for venues over 5 days. Beginning the Insert: Robert W. Pillsbury, President; John Stobart, Honoree; arttimesjournal.com. Therefore: not festival is the opening gala Flamenco Tim Newton, Board Chair only do I attend a webmasters users “El amor Brujo” by Manuel De Falla Foundation and Salmagundian Syl- 5. Take a look at the ART TIMES group each month, I have a tutor to with full orchestra under the baton of via Maria Glesmann and a match- calendar for their summer schedule help me with my website, a tutor for Elizabeth Scott, soloist, Flamenco ing grant from the New York State or go to www.salmagundi.org social media, I attend a digital meet- dancers and musicians. Workshops, Dormitory Authority. I was at the Wired Gallery (wiredgallery. up group, a mac users group and read Continued on Page 17 Presidents’ Dinner and members and com) is at their new location 11 posts by social media experts.” guests, seeing the gallery for the first Mohonk Rd, High Falls, NY. The I ended my remarks by saying: time, were rightfully impressed. The gallery’s 8th group show was of 12 “Life and work just keep getting gallery is elegant and user friendly. foreign-born artists from 10 countries more complex and challenging. Grey carpeting on the walls allows who now live and work in the Hud- Frankly I wouldn’t have it any for nail holes to easily disappear. son Valley. Each artist had several other way.” Holly DeBartolo, The lighting system is a dream forr pieces included in the show that will Events Manager for WestFair, artists who want their work to be run through July 13. The gallery has said “We are pleased to have well lit. Tim Newton, Chairman of an excellent following and several the opportunity to recognize the Board, spoke about the renova- hundred people came thru explor- such inspirational women and tions. He first remarked that we were ing the different rooms filled with their passionate commitment there to celebrate Art and as heirs of artwork. Nearby and presented by to work and community”. the founders of the Club we are all Wired Gallery was a show of Mary I’ve just learned from Jus- the beneficiaries. Tim acknowledged Anne Erickson’s roadside culture. tin Kolb, chairman of the Lisa Easton for her tireless work as Her large and well-done paintings “Phoenicia International the architect, saying that he hardly are nostalgia for the 50’s: a car, gas Festival of the Voice” (www. recognized her all dressed up for the station, fast food places, motel signs. phoeniciavoicefest.org and dinner since during the renovations Mary Anne has been traveling and coming up July 30 – Aug 3) she showed up with baseball cap and documenting this rapidly disappear- about The Catskill Academy jeans. Lisa said that she was honored ing imagery of Americana. of Performing Arts, the lat- to be part of the project. This is an I was one of the “Reader’s est program of the Phoeni- artists’ club and the camaraderie and Choice” honorees at the first an- cia Festival of The Voice support for one another is very ap- nual Women Making an Impact Foundation. It represents the parent. I was so pleased to see artists Awards event sponsored by the West- educational department of the that I’ve known over our 30+ years of chester County Business Journal. On Phoenicia Festival of The Voice publishing and saw that the age-old Thursday, April 3rd the honorees and Foundation. Imagination, flex- tradition of having artists sign the hundreds of their supporters met and ibility, passion, and critical (l to r) Dee DelBello, CEO of Westfair program was still in place. The Hon- after “bites and spirits” during which thinking skills are all essential Communications Inc, and Cornelia Seckel, musicians’ tools, and they’re Publisher of ART TIMES Summer 2014 ART TIMES page 14

Continued from Page 10 The Eaken Piano Trio Honest Brook Music Festival Festival Barn 1885 Hon- Calendar est Brook Road Delhi NY 607-746-3770 8 - 10 PM charge www.hbmf.org Saturday, July 12 Sunday, July 20 Buck Moon Arts Festival Fulton-Montgomery Community College 2805 State Hwy 67 Johnstown NY 518-736-7622 free www.fmcc.edu/ Facebook: Buck 2014 PHOTOgraphy Show The Philadelphia Sketch Club 235 Camac St (between Moon Arts Festival 12th & 13th and Locust & Spruce) Philadelphia PA 215-545-9298 Opening Reception 2 - 4pm free (thru Aug 9) www.SketchClub.org Dafnis Prieto with the Si o Si Jazz Quartet PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century 2980 Route 66 Chatham NY 518-392-6121 8:00pm 2nd group show of Knanashu and Keeler Ruth Keeler Ruth Keeler charge www.ps21chatham.org/music.html Memorial Library 276 Titicus Rd. North Salem NY 914-669-5161 12-5pm free www. northsalemlibrary.org Dorian Wind Quintet with guest pianist Michael Cannon The Honest Brook Music Festival Festival Barn 1885 Honest Brook Road Delhi NY 607- Monday, July 21 746-3770 8 - 10 PM charge www.hbmf.org Kent Art Association President’s Show The Gallery at Kent Art As- Kaatsbaan’s Extreme Ballet Showcase I Performance Kaats- sociation 21 S. Main Street Kent CT 860-927-3989 free (thru Sept 1) www.kentart.org baan International Dance Center 120 Broadway Tivoli NY 845-757-5106 noon to 1 Friday, July 25 pm free www.kaatsbaan.org ASOG Open Juried Art Show Art Society of Old Greenwich The Greenwich Music at the Grazhda Music and Art Center of Greene Coun- Arts Council -- Bendheim Gallery 299 Greenwich Avenue Greenwich CT Opening ty Grazhda Concert Hall Ukraine Road (off Route 23A) Jewett NY 518-989-6479 Reception 6-8pm free (thru Aug 11) www.artsocietyofoldgreenwich.com 8pm charge www.GrazhdaMusicandArt.org Kent Art Association President’s Show The Gallery at Kent Art The Measure of All Things with Sam Green and Music Mass Moca Association 21 S. Main Street Kent CT 860-927-3989 Awards Reception 5-7pm free 87 Marshall St North Adams MA 413-662-2111 8:30pm charge www.massmoca.org/ (thru Sept 1) www.kentart.org event_details.php?id=919 Recent Work by GC Myers West End Gallery 12 West Market St. Corning Tom Holmes in Gallery 1 and Jessica Poser in The Beacon NY 607-936-2011 Opening Reception 5-7:30pm free (thru Aug 29) www.westendgal- Room Beacon Artist Union (bau Gallery) 506 Main Street Beacon NY 845-440-7584 lery.net Opening reception 6-9 free (thru Aug 3) www.baugallery.com Saturday, July 26 Sunday, July 13 Manitoga’s Annual Cocktail & Artist Residency Perfor- Acting Out: Words That Connect Hudson Valley Center for Contempo- mance with Composer Ben Neill Manitoga / The Russel Wright rary Art 1701 Main Street Peekskill NY 914-788-0100 5-7pm charge www.hvcca.org Design Center 584 Route 9D Garrison NY 845-424-3812 5pm-7pm donate www. Buck Moon Arts Festival Fulton-Montgomery Community College 2805 russelwrightcenter.org State Hwy 67 Johnstown NY 518-736-7622 free www.fmcc.edu/ Facebook: Buck Music at the Grazhda Music and Art Center of Greene County Grazhda Moon Arts Festival Concert Hall Ukraine Road (off Route 23A) Jewett NY 518-989-6479 8pm charge Essence of the Valley The Betsy Jacaruso Studio & Gallery 43-2 East www.GrazhdaMusicandArt.org Market Street Rhinebeck NY 845-516-4435 free (thru Aug 31) www.betsyjacaru- Small Works Show Tivoli Artist Gallery 60 Broadway, Tivoli NY Opening soartist.com Reception 5 - 7:30 free (thru Aug 17) Tivoliartisgallery.com Continued on Page 18 SUMMER ARTS INVITATIONAL II: Martha Hill, Carol Struve, Marilynn Rowley, Gertrude Abramson Woodstock Jewish Congregation 1682 Glasco Turn- pike (off Rt. 212) Woodstock NY 845-679-2218 Opening Reception 12-2pm free (thru submit calendar to: arttimesjournal.com/submitevent.html August 24) www.wjcshul.org Thursday, July 17 All the Gallery’s A Stage: Williamstown Theatre Festival at WCMA Williams College Museum of Art 15 Lawrence Hall Dr. Williamstown MA 413-597-2429 4pm free wcma.williams.edu D.A. 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COOPERSTOWNART.COM Summer 2014 ART TIMES page 15 Art Elizabeth Okie Paxton and The Breakfast Tray: The Modernity of a New Woman Artist By Rena Tobey Continued from Page 1 were readily available to her again familiarly known as Betty. Okie Pax- and did not need any special care. ton worked within the Boston School Our painting’s protagonist is a of artists, with their focus on beauty, woman of the world, of her time, of harmony, light, color, clarity, and her place. She lives in a city, one like naturalistic representations of the Boston, which may have its ties to the everyday luxurious world of Boston’s old century, but also is finding its way elite. They guarded this domain, even through rapid industrialization, mass as the modern artistic swell moved immigration, and sweeping techno- past them. To avoid competing with logical innovations into an often con- her husband’s traditional interiors, fusing, changing world. A new youth Okie Paxton painted still life works, culture embraces this change as hope finding a ready market with private for a future very different from the collectors. Consequently, very few of traditions of their parents. One of her paintings are available for public those differences centers on sexuality viewing in a museum. and gender roles. The protagonist of Early in her career, she gives us The Breakfast Tray is a New Woman. The Breakfast Tray, a work so dar- She is educated and the beneficiary of ing and so unlike the Boston School improved health care. She advocates aesthetic. The interior was a favored for women’s right to vote, to work out- subject, but this one is casually messy, side the home, to go to the theater on middle class, and blatantly sexual. It her own, and to buy objects she uses to palpates with an intimacy that makes create an intimate space all her own, the viewer a part of what has just just as we see in The Breakfast Tray. happened and what will happen next. But hers is not a world without men. We know that Okie Paxton was about She is finding new sexual freedom. thirty-three years old and married The painting makes us want to when she painted The Breakfast Tray. know more about the artist who cre- Are we witnessing their marital bed? ated it. We dig into it trying to learn Is this a place where she could retreat more about a woman who apparently to be on her own, in this feminized was not shy, but left little record of space, a place where she did not have who she was and what she cared to keep up appearances or be put- about. Okie Paxton enjoyed a compan- together? The Boston School looked to ionate marriage, unselfishly promot- the seventeenth-century Dutch for in- ing her husband’s career. As a beauty, spiration. Was Okie Paxton laughing she also served as his muse, modeling Elizabeth Okie Paxton. The Breakfast Tray. c1910. along with Jan Steen (1626-1679) and for many of his paintings. She made Oil on canvas. 21 x 17 in. Private Collection. his messy household paintings that choices. One apparently was to pull equated a disordered interior with a back from provocative works like The tion to his posthumous career than and so different from most of her body society in disarray? Or was Okie Pax- Breakfast Tray, while still satisfying her own active one. Could she have of work. With still life paintings that ton satirizing how buttoned up this her need to paint through less con- been better known had she not mar- suggest order, clarity, comfort, and Boston School was, because she was troversial still life works. She had a ried? Had she not married, would she even opulence, Okie Paxton produced not bound by it? In the painting, the visual voice. She had no children. Her have had access to influential people a pleasurable, appealing oeuvre. But ordinary black pumps that took their life was devoted to art—his and hers. and teachings that propelled her own this work makes her a painter of owner out into the world have been They loved and respected each other. development? Unanswerable ques- note. Coming so early in her produc- tossed aside, as has the newspaper She continued to meticulously man- tions confound us. tive career, we have to wonder, what that long represented the male do- age her husband’s business affairs What we are left with are a few if? But ultimately, “what if” is more main of business and politics. Perhaps after his death with correspondence paintings in known locations, with a frustrating than learning “what is.” Okie Paxton was so used to tapping regarding his art estate until 1970, stand out, The Breakfast Tray. This “What is” is the opportunity to get to into their power that she knew they apparently paying even more atten- painting is so powerful, so personal, know Okie Paxton better, to bring her works out of the shadows and into her own celebration of light, vision, and the modern world. Raymond J. Steiner (Rena Tobey is an art historian will be part of the and lives in New Haven, CT.) ©Rena Tobey, 2014 Saugerties Art Tour ef Sat & Sun August 9 & 10 from 10am-6pm RON Meet the artists and see their work at the opening reception August 8, 5-7pm MINEO Opus 40, 50 Fite Road, Saugerties SCULPTURE

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Culturally Speaking Continued from Page 13 ographer has been a supporter of sible environment. Art shows will Kaatsbaan since the founding in 1990 be presented monthly in the home and performed at the galas to raise of Rosemary and Robert Rau, 12 money to proceed with the project. Lake Road in Newtown, CT. The Kaatsbaan is a permanent interna- couple, with a lifelong appreciation tional dance center dedicated to the of art and backgrounds in design and growth, advancement and preserva- business, is realizing a dream by cre- tion of professional dance. kaats- ating an atmosphere where art can be baan provides a creative residence viewed in comfort. Shows will feature for dance-related artists from all dis- works in all mediums (oil, acrylic, ciplines and ethnic backgrounds. The watercolor, pastel, mixed media, and Residency Program is designed sculpture) representing a variety of to provide a productive and creative schools including Realism, Abstract, working environment for national Modern and Impressionism. By fore- and international dance companies, going the traditional gallery white choreographers, dancers, composers, walls and institutional lighting, visi- dance photographers, journalists, tors will be better able to imagine the historians and scenic and costume art in their own homes or business designers. Emerging, mid-career settings. Thus the creation of Art in and established dance companies and Residence. The Raus are planning to professionals apply or are invited to host informal socials such as teas or be in residence at the center for a Sunday Suppers in order to provide Buglisi Dance Theatre troup taking a bow at Kaatsbaan International weekend to a month. Housing and a congenial place for artists and art Dance Center, Jacqulyn Buglisi far left. studios are provided on site. Coming lovers to meet. Additionally, they will up at Kaatsbaan is Ballet Next on offer in-home or office consultations By CORNELIA SECKEL able experience rain or shine. Tickets June 7 & 8; New York Theatre Bal- through the use of what they call a concerts, plays, lectures, fill out the are very reasonable and available at let on June 21 & 22 and the Extreme Traveling iPad Portfolio. rest of the festival with the “The www.phoeniciavoicefest.org/ Ballet Showcases July 12, August 2 Take a look on the arttimes web- Barber of Seville” (opera buffa in 2 Buglisi Dance Theatre (www. & 23. www.kaatsbaan.org site for additional comments about acts by G. Rossini) — referred to as buglisi-foreman.org) performed at Art in Residence is an innova- my “out and about” during the Spring. the centerpiece of the festival— per- Kaatsbaan and what an exciting tive gallery space devoted to show- I enjoy meeting our readers so don't formed on Saturday night. The gor- evening it was. Jacqulyn Buglisi, casing works by established and hesitate to introduce yourself if you geous festival tents insure a comfort- artistic director, dancer and chore- emerging artists in a friendly, acces- see me on my “wanderings” ef

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The Kent Art Association • 21 S. Main St, PO Box 202, Kent, CT 06757 860-927-3989 • www.kentart.org • [email protected] Summer 2014 ART TIMES page 19 Art Essay Art And Addiction By JENNI DOYLE also states that, in such cases, it can portraits extremely effective in sort- feeling very vulnerable. But with art Healing And Transforming: be the individual’s very creativity ing through and reaching conclusions you don’t always have to say it…It’s The connection between drugs and which saves them from the worst of about his own issues surrounding like, the words I can’t come up with, I art is an ancient one. Plato described the downward spiral. “The greatest drugs and his father’s death. “It made can physically put on a piece of work, creativity as “a divine madness”[1], thing you can do is to follow your me face a lot of issues around how I or a painting or an easel or a canvas and his contemporaries followed creative tendencies”, she has stated. deal with the memory of my dad”, he using all different types of mediums him in the belief that true creativity Perhaps, therefore, many drug ad- said, as well as commenting that the and it really develops into this thing required an altered state of conscious- dicts and sufferers of mental illness artwork represented a solid rejection that it then shows how I’m feeling ness. Worshipers of the Greek god have turned to the creative arts as of drug issues which he, personally, instead of having to verbalize it” [13]. Dionysus used alcohol, opium, and a cure – or at least a coping mecha- had suffered from [10]. Even if this is not direct communica- mysterious, frenetic rites to work nism – to aid their problems, rather However, above all Throwell tion with others, it can clearly have themselves into a state of psyche- than creativity being a side-effect of wished the portraits to act as a salvo much the same self-expressive effect, delic frenzy – in which they believed these issues. in the battle against addiction na- which gives the brain what it craves themselves to be more receptive to the and at the same time can release a Spiritual Recovery: tionwide. The exhibition, according god and his inspiration. The greatest good deal of pent-up emotional angst. One aspect of recovery promoted to him, “shows the two paths you can poets of the Norse sagas were invari- take…One is that you can embrace ably to be found liberally imbued by many rehabilitation and therapy Healing Art: programs is that of ‘spiritual recov- the addiction and you fall down the Far from being something which with ‘divine liquid poetry’ (or, as we rabbit hole as far as you can until would term it today, highly alcoholic ery’. In their “Big Book” [7], Alcoholics causes addiction, therefore, art in all Anonymous promote spiritual rigor it kills you. The other path is clean, its multiform disciplines can actually mead [2]). Throughout history, cre- and you survive”. It’s a powerful ative people appear often to have and self-comprehension as a key ele- aid those suffering from addiction, ment of successful recovery. This need message, represented in a powerful alerting them to potential problems in either suffered from the ‘divine mad- way, and it cannot come a moment ness’, which Plato deemed essential not necessarily be religious spiritual- their lives, providing a pressure valve ity, but awareness of and interaction too soon. DrugTreatment.com claim for turbulent emotions, and alerting to true creativity, or to have inspired that “nearly 11 million Americans” it through artificial means with drugs with a higher level of consciousness, them to issues lurking in the murky be that internal or external, which have tried methamphetamine, and depths of the subconscious psyche. and alcohol. The writer Thomas De “Every year, thousands of Americans Quincey in his “Confessions of an prevents the individual from reaching Rather than castigating art as some- into the Slough of Despond and grasp- struggle with meth addictions, and thing done by drug-fuelled lunatics, English Opium Eater” [3] expounded even people who have never had a sub- his belief that the opium he quaffed ing therein the neck of a bottle. Stud- we should instead be celebrating and ies by Harvard scientists have shown stance abuse issue before can become utilizing its ability to heal and trans- in such quantities enabled him to addicted to meth” [11]. communicate on a deeper level with fairly conclusively that yoga practiced form suffering psyches and societies. his soul, Van Gogh famously spent with an adherence to its spiritual Expressing the Inexpressible: and meditational aspects can have a Art provides a direct route through [1] Plato, “Phaedrus”, 260 BCE, The his life bouncing between alcoholism Internet Classics Archive and mental asylums, and Rolling profound effect upon addiction. John which artists can communicate with Denninger, leading the study, told their own unexpressed, perhaps un- [2] Norman Sheppard, “The Mead Of Stone Keith Richards has likened his Poetry”, The Norse Gods Bloomberg News that “There is a true realized feelings and desires. It then own experiments with drugs to those [3] Thomas De Quincey, “Confessions of an “alchemist in search of the per- biological effect. The kind of things gives them a channel through which of an English Opium Eater”, Penguin fect rock’n’roll cocktail” [4]. However, that happen when you meditate do they can express these feelings both Classics what is less known is the propensity of have effects throughout the body, not to themselves and the world. Some [4] Erin Coulehan, “Keith Richards on the arts and other such disciplines to just in the brain” [8]. drug users suffer from isolation is- Drugs: ‘All Experiments Come to an ‘save’ those who are suffering from ad- This mind-body effect and en- sues. Isolation and the inability (or End’”, Rolling Stone Magazine, June 2013 dictions and the mental health issues hanced spiritual awareness arguably perceived inability) to express oneself which underlie them. Often, addicts provide that which the drug and adequately to one’s contemporaries [5] Vision And Ageing Lab, “Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)” and those with mental health prob- alcohol users were initially (perhaps can be a major factor in addictive lems turn to art in the first place as a subconsciously) seeking through behavior. Scientists in Texas found [6] Harvard Extension School, “Cre- substances, and thus allowed them that even rats which were subjected to ativity and Madness: Shelley Carson way of expressing and thus assuaging on the Psychology of Creativity” their predicament. In such cases, art, to eschew their addictions far more social isolation became “more vulner- easily than therapies lacking a spiri- able to addiction to amphetamine and [7] “Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book”, far from incurring and inspiring the Hazelden use of drugs and other substances, can tual element. Art can have a similar, alcohol” [12]. Applied to a theoretical if not better (depending upon the human model and extrapolated to ac- [8] Makiko Kitamura, “Harvard Yoga help to control and even cure it. Scientists Find Proof Of Meditation proclivities of the patient) effect. The commodate the enhanced sociability Drugs And Art: Benefit”, Bloomberg, November 2013 Journal of the American Art Therapy of the human animal, the implications [9] Holly Feen-Callgan, “The Use of There has always been something Association points out that “Art fos- for those who feel vulnerable and of a ‘chicken and egg’ debate over the Art Therapy in Treatment Programs ters spiritual development through isolated in our society are clear. The to Promote Spiritual Recovery from association of creativity and drugs. both the creative process itself and theory runs that communication with Addiction”, Journal of the American The Calgary Vision and Ageing Lab, in contemplating a work of art which others gives the brain a dopamine hit Art Therapy Association, 1995 for example, argue that Van Gogh’s moves one to a higher level of under- – which it needs and craves. [10] Rheana Murray, “Artist uses crys- preoccupation with the color yellow standing” [9]. It also allows a degree Without the dopamine rush which tal meth, dad’s ashes in artwork”, New York Daily News, February 2013 may have had a lot to do with the cock- of personal expression which can be comes from human communication, tail of what we would now consider du- highly cathartic and spiritually liber- the brain will inevitably turn to other [11] DrugTreatment.com, “Residential Centers versus Outpatient Facilities” bious substances prescribed for him ating for those feeling trapped in the reward-giving behaviors like drugs, [12] University of Texas, “Socially by a succession of doctors. They claim traumatic isolation of drug addiction alcohol, food, and sex. Art, however, Isolated Rats are More Vulnerable to that this may have caused “a distur- and poor mental health. opens a channel of communication bance in yellow-blue vision…similar Addiction, Report Researchers”, Janu- Societal Aid: which allows people to express the in- ary 2013 to viewing the world through a yellow expressible. As one recovering addict filter” [5] - as well as inducing certain It is also worth noting that art [13] Justin Quesinberry, “Art therapy can be used in powerful ways to put it in an interview with WNCN, can help overcome addiction”, WNCN, psychedelic and psychological effects May 2014 fight back against drug addiction on “You can express how you feel like, which may have driven him to strike ‘Today I’m feeling very emotional. I’m canvas with paint. Others argue that a wider scale. Last year, New York ef creative people themselves may be artist Zefrey Throwell opened an more susceptible to drug abuse due exhibition of a series of his artworks to a general inclination towards men- entitled “Panic in The Chalk Cave”. In tal health issues. Thus, any creative a highly personal and powerful move, Call for Artists influences stem more from their own Throwell created his artworks by mix- North East Watercolor Society psychological make-up than from the ing crystal meth with the ashes of his th drugs they take. dead father – who had been horribly 38 Annual International Exhibit, Kent, CT. Oct. 19 - Nov. 2 Shelley Carson, a Harvard psy- addicted to the substance. 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Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Inc. KITE 118th Annual Open Juried Exhibition for Women Artists white picket fence too white to keep clean CALL FOR ENTRIES faded smiles strung from the kite’s tail National Arts Club, New York, NY laugh into the pardoning wind December 2 - 19, 2014 words and cartoons a newspaper kite Open to Women Artists. Media: Oil - Watercolor - Pastels - made from skeleton remains Graphics - Acrylic - Sculpture Online entry deadline: Sept. 19, 2014 string and youth hold it tight Submit your entries at www.ShowSubmit.com tension pulls the other way yanking down it climbs higher Over $10,000 in Awards Entry fee: $40/Members; $45/Associates; $50/Non-members Debbie McIntyre For prospectus, download at www.clwac.org —Gresham, OR www.psychicreadingsinwoodstockny.com Summer 2014 ART TIMES page 21 Fiction Off To Bazaar By Andre I. Santillana Ahmed sits up with a start, face. Four o’clock. Panic strikes the so thin that Fateema routinely rein- flash, he tears back in. roused by the whistling wind. He boy like a sledgehammer. He rubs his forces it with patches and stitches What is he thinking? He can’t go to squints, struggling to penetrate the eyes, rechecks the clock. There is no cleverly situated to keep the wearer the bazaar without his stuff – his mer- fog of sleep that weighs down his mistake. It is late! The clock is slow! modest and the garment from disin- chandise – nothing more than bric- faculties. He shivers, but it is not the He grabs a handful of his matted tegrating. a-bracs – that nonetheless, mean all cold concrete he slept on – with only hair, slapping his forehead with the His old clothes do not bother the world to him: demonetized paper a threadbare rug between him and heel of his other hand. Youssef will be Ahmed. Aside from soldiers in uni- money bearing the face of a departed the floor, a coarse blanket to ward here at any moment. I’m not ready! form, there are also Amreekan civil- dictator, defunct coins with the same off the winter cold – that makes him Maneuvering to stand up, his eyes ians in his village. Some wear pants dead man’s mustachioed likeness, cringe. Phantom spiders scurry down fall on Mustafa, curled on the floor that, although new, are fashionably ornamented lighters more trinket his spine. He can’t put his finger on next to him. Things will be difficult if faded, frayed, scuffed, and torn – on than tinder starter, brass bracelets, it but something does not feel right. he wakes up. He will insist on going the knees, backsides, thighs, hems. garish scarves, stringed glass beads, He yawns, coughing as dust-speckled to the bazaar. But he is slow and will I do not understand Amreekans. used stamps no philatelist worth his desert air fills his lungs. cause more delays. Why should new trousers be abused, salt would want, and postcards of His blurry eyes wander to the clock He pulls the blanket over his made to look like rags? Maybe, they splendid palaces before these were resting on the plastic table. Old and brother’s shoulders. I can sell more do not care. They have plenty of ravaged by war. slow but an heirloom nonetheless, its stuff if I don’t have to worry about money for clothes. If I have money, Stuff is a big word. Amreekans call luminous hands and numbers glow you. You will be angry. But I must Inshallah, I want my clothes to al- many things stuff. They call anything eerie green in the predawn darkness. leave you. You will forgive me when I ways look new so people think they and everything stuff. There is nothing A soldier friend, Sgt. Mitchell, taught give you my share of the baklava Sgt. are new. If God wills it – I will have that cannot be called stuff. Ahmed him how to read time. But Ahmed Mitchell promised. money. Maybe, if I sell enough stuff? does not understand why Amreekans, needs practice. He falls into awkward Ahmed’s lips curl into a smile as If… Amreekans buy my stuff. Until instead of using the right word, prefer pauses jogging his brain, counting in his eyes next fall on Fateema, her then, I only have this old pair. No to substitute… stuff. his head, before he can give the time. arms wrapped around Mustafa. I need to make a rag of it. It is one. “What are you doing?” If I have a wristwatch like Sgt. must be quiet. Don’t want to wake Ahmed’s ears pick up the faint, “Stuff.” Mitchell, I can carry it with me every- up Mother. Working hard every day – almost inaudible whine of an engine. “What are you packing?” where for practice. His watch is nice: cleaning and washing for Amreekans, His mind screams: Oh no! YOUS- “Stuff.” brown leather strap, digits instead cleaning and cooking at home, taking SEEEEEF! “What are you eating?” of hands, lights up with the push of care of Mustafa and me – she needs The boy peels off his t-shirt but “Old stuff.” a button. No more awkward pauses. all the rest she can get. Oh! I better stops in the middle of undressing. “Good stuff?” No more embarrassing silences. No hurry. Must be ready before they He decides there is no time. He sniffs “Oh… so-so!” more feeling stupid especially in front wake up… or Youssef arrives. his armpits then pulls the grey shirt If a small English word with only of foreigners. Ahmed knows Youssef well. The – off-white when freshly washed – five letters like stuff has so many Sgt. Mitchell also taught him shopkeeper has no equal in terms back on. Judging himself not smelly meanings, then English must be a numbers. “Acch-mhed,” the Am- of impatience. He hates waiting. He nor looking too shabby, he tucks the powerful language. British… Am- reekan once asked in a throaty accent, blasts his truck’s horn like a madman loose shirt he slept in, into his time reekans… they speak English. They his sincere though comical effort to at the slightest impulse – compelling worn, time-tested, can-be-mistaken- are powerful. Hmmm… I must im- sound like a local, “Do you know who reason for Ahmed to intercept his for fashionably Amreekan, raggedy prove my English! invented these numerals?” The sol- employer by the bend on the road, a pants. Enough! The boy warns himself. dier was pointing to a calendar. good distance from the shack. Ahmed’s hair stands on end upon There is no time to think of other stuff! Ahmed shook his head from side Youssef has a pet warning – dis- hearing the distant yet familiar blast I must meet Youssef’s truck before it to side. guised as fatherly rhetoric – which of a notorious horn. So early and gets here! “These are Arabic numerals. he routinely recites to Ahmed, laced Youssef is already in a rotten mood! He fumbles in the dark for the Your ancestors invented them. Very with a thick Kurdish accent, accom- He imagines the shopkeeper tearing wooden box – almost as wide as his important stuff; the world can’t do panied by vigorous, menacing flour- down the road in his big, black, dust torso – that contains his stuff. He without them.” ishes of his pudgy, heavily calloused covered truck. finds it on the same chair his dirty Arabic numerals? We must be hands. “Akkhh-m’d, you are like son Grabbing the jacket hanging from jacket had hung. Grabbing it, he flies very intelligent, inventing important to me. I give you advice. Do not sleep a chair, he gives it a big sniff. It smells out the shack, this time for good… things like Arabic numerals. A so much. Be up early to work early. If fine… he thinks. Squirming into the …Almost. warm tingling gripped every fiber in you work early, you work more hours. faded frock, he dashes out the door... Craning back his neck, peeping Ahmed’s body. Pride – he never felt More hours work, more selling. More only to dash back in. through the crack in the doorway, he anything like it before. selling… makes more money. Inshal- Half-diving to the floor, snatching takes a parting glance at the slum- But, if we are so smart… how come lah – God willing – more money… his shoes from under the clock table, bering shapes huddled on the floor. we’re poor? make Youssef happy. If you sleep, he hops back to the doorway, clumsily Mother, I am going to the bazaar. I Ahmed checks his wandering money sleeps. Sleeping money makes putting a shoe on, then the other. He will sell all of my stuff so we can buy thoughts. His eyes reappraise the Youssef unhappy… and Akkhh-m’d kneels to tie his laces, fingers fum- stuff we need. Sorry, little brother. I rusty timepiece, his brain process- will lose job.” bling to find them. promise, next time, I will take you ing the information on the luminous Springing from the floor, not both- There is no time for shoelaces. The with me.” ering to light the lamp next to the roaring engine sounds much closer, Ahmed pulls shut the creaky ex- clock, the twelve-year-old gropes for the infernal horn louder. Youssef is cuse for a door, leans into the wind, his pants. The denim is as threadbare almost here! heads for the bend on the road, strid- as his blanket – knees torn, seat worn Ahmed tears out the door. In a ing as fast as his feet can carry him, for his untied shoelaces whipping about, Fall Art his box of precious stuff tucked tightly Juried Art Show & Cocktail Reception under an arm. 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86th Grand national Exhibition opEn JuriEd Show Salmagundi Club Main and Lower Gallery 47 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003 Painting Oil/Acrylic, Pastels, Watermedia, Sculpture, Graphics/Mixed Media Judges: Claudia Seymour, Elizabeth Spencer November 10, 2014 - November 21, 2014 DeADLiNe for entries: September 6, 2014 www.aaplinc.org/Email: [email protected] /212-645-1345 Summer 2014 ART TIMES page 23 Fiction God Bless You Miss Ehrenberg By Steven Katz Then she told us, “Now Laura and a Rich Man, because I love that I talk to Laura at lunchtime? Forget Miss Ehrenberg had flaming, Steven; these two tickets that you song, especially the part about one about that. I need to get out into the red-dyed hair. She was our seventh have won are for the Broadway Mu- stair going up and one stair going yard and be the first or second kid grade typing teacher. She never was sical, Fiddler on The Roof. It stars down, and another going no where out at the handball court so I can successful in teaching me to type, Herschel Bernardi. I don’t know if at all, just for show. Really, can win that and then shoot some hoops. as evidenced by my two-finger hunt he is going to be as wonderful as Zero you imagine being so rich and car- I can talk to her after school. Oh boy, and peck that is tapping this out full Mostel, but Herschel Bernardi is a ing so little about spending money I think this might be something, this of errors at about twenty words per really great actor, and he might be that you would build a stairway in Broadway thing. minute. But I don’t think she cared every bit as good, but even if he isn’t, your house going no where at all, I forgot to talk to her yesterday. much about our typing. She taught what you are holding in your hands but just for show? This is all great I did manage to win at handball, us about life. She told us about her are your tickets to Broadway. Tell and everything but mostly I am and shoot some hoops, but today I travels. She said outrageous things, your parents to make sure you get already plotting how I am going to will tell her that I will pick her up like the fact that certain teachers there and dress appropriately. This kiss Laura. Will it be in the middle at 6pm. Then we, oh Jeez, will her went on dates with other certain is Broadway. The tickets are good of the show, near the beginning, or mother and father be at the door teachers. seats and they are for this Friday at the end? Will my arm creep up to check me out? Have they heard One Monday she floated into class night at 8pm.” so quietly around the back of her about me? Do they know that I am and she was waving a pair of tick- I am thirteen. I am not in Elemen- chair that she won’t notice until it the same kid that beat up 34 differ- ets. She told the class that she was tary School anymore. I don’t need is around her shoulder. Will she let ent kids when we were in the third thinking of two numbers. She had my parents to take me anywhere me keep it there? Will it fall asleep? grade? Do they know that I played us raise our hands and take turns anymore. I know that if I go to Lau- Will I blow in her ear? Oh, I cannot Spin The Bottle and Seven Minutes to see which kids would guess her ra’s house at 6pm, with some flowers even think about this. Maybe I won’t in Heaven with Laura in their very lucky numbers. Laura, the sweet that I will buy with my paper route try to kiss her until it is time to say own basement while they were out but quiet girl with the short brown money that I get from delivering the good night. That way if she doesn’t on a Saturday night date when we hair and the gingham dress with the NY Post six days a week, we can take want me to it won’t mess up the were in the sixth grade? Hmm, always-sharpened set of three num- the Q75 bus to the E or the F train whole date. Date, holy cow, this is a maybe I should just have her meet ber two pencils sitting in the groove and get off at 42nd Street, we should date. I have been to the movies be- me at the bus stop? No, that is the at the top of her desk picked the get to the theater by 7:30. And this fore with girls, but that was always coward’s way out. I will wear my first correct number. Me and Elliot will be a date. I know what Fiddler a whole gang of kids, never just two real tie that my Dad taught me how and the other rowdy seventh grade on the Roof is because we have the of us. I wonder if she is scared. I am to make a Windsor knot with, and boys (is that a redundant phrase?) record album at home. I can sing definitely not scared. Where will I her father will notice that, and my started oohing and moaning to get the words to Sunrise Sunset because keep this ticket? I will put it in my tweedy-looking sports jacket and Ehrenberg’s attention. My turn they played it at my bar mitzvah wallet with my bus pass and my pa- her parents won’t even know I am came and I said “a hundred.” She party when I danced with my mom per route money. Today is Monday. the same kid, and even if they do gave me the ticket. and she cried. And I know if I Were These tickets are for Friday. Should they will know by my outfit that I am grown-up now, not a big bully anymore. I will look and smell so great with my Dad’s Old spice on Art workshops all summer long that they would even let me marry Laura. Screenprinting. Monotype. Color Linocut. Intaglio It worked. Not the marrying part Call for Entries Pronto Plate. Japanese Woodblock. Chine Collé of course. But now we have taken Artists in All Media Eligible Solarplate Master Class w/Dan Welden & more! the bus and the E Train. We got off Ridgefield, CT Guild of Artists’ at Times Square. Holy Macaroni. I

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I SUMMER ART ADVENTURE WORKSHOPS FOUNDATION DRAWING totally forgot. This is what I want (7-9 YEARS OLD) with with Christopher Seubert to do. This is what I will be doing with Jenne M. Currie Mondays, 9 AM-12 Noon for the rest of my life. I will be on Tuesdays, 10 AM-12 Noon Julio Valdez Christopher Seubert June 2-July 14 that stage. I will be up there when July 8-August 26 Meredith Rosier Lois Woolley some kids like us are sitting down here with their jaws in their laps. SUMMER ART ADVENTURE Karen O’Neil Richard Segalman FOUNDATION PAINTING (10-12 years old) with Christopher Seubert How could anyone possibly want to with Margarete de Soleil Tor Gudmundsen Peter Clapper 9 AM-12 Noon, do anything else? What would be Tuesdays, 1-4 PM July 28-August 18 the point of settling for anything July 8-August 26 Donald Elder Pia Öste-Alexander less? Might as well just kill your- Christie Scheele Robert Carsten self, jump in front of the E train like Marty did. I am going to be an 845 679 2388 Loel Barr Ron Netsky PO Box 338 • 2470 Route 212 [email protected] Woodstock NY 12498 actor. Who cares if Laura kisses me Jenne M. Currie Piek Larsen tonight? I will have girls waiting for ANGELOCH UNDER GLASS me at the stage door, swooning for Carol Zaloom Lisa Mackie Works on paper by Robert my autograph. I wonder what she is Angeloch including serigraphs, Kate McGloughlin thinking. Who cares? God bless you Miss Ehrenberg, wherever you are. etchings, and lithographs. The Woodstock School of Art, Inc. is a not-for- Curated by John Kleinhans profit, 501(c)3, educational institution char- (Steven Katz lives in Kailua, HI tered under the laws of the State of New York. and Paula Nelson. 96734) Funding made possible by the New York State Council on ef the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and County of Ulster’s Ulster July 19-September 6 for a complete listing of all classes and County Cultural Services & Promotion Fund adminstrated by www.arttimesjournal.com Reception, Saturday, July 19, 3-5 PM events visit woodstockschoolofart.org the Dutchess County Arts Council. for previously published essays Summer 2014 ART TIMES page 24 Calendar Continued from Page 22 Saturday, August 16 Elysian Fields Mass Moca 87 Marshall St North Adams MA 413-662-2111 8pm charge www.massmoca.org/event_details.php?id=924 Sweet Tea Peters Valley School of Craft Sally D. 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