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I feel Emily Saladino really honored, not just by the article Group Account Director (which is wonderful) but by know- MMG Mardiks, NYC www.arttimesjournal.com Continued on Page 8 Jan/ Feb 2011 ART TIMES page 3 Critique Jerry Pinkney at The Norman Rockwell Museum By RAYMOND J. STEINER captivating bit of “story-telling”. IN SPITE OF the long-standing as- Nor is this the end of it. If the au- sault on representational art, abstrac- thor and the illustrator have both had tion and its adherents have still not their “say”, we still have to consider managed to silence the human need the viewer — i.e. you and me — as we for “telling a story” in pictures. They move from one painting to the next. might have divined the tenacity of rep- It is an axiom that the author’s — or, resentational artists hewing to the an- for that matter, the painter’s — intent cient practice of imagery had they only is, in aesthetic matters, largely irrel- noted that we continue to give “picture evant. In other words, what Shake- books” to pre-schoolers who have not speare “meant” in, say, Hamlet — is yet mastered the written word. It is, of less intrinsic value to the individual then, an innate human skill — if not reader than what Hamlet says to that need — to “read” pictures — a lesson reader. It is this personal, individual that Jerry Pinkney has well learned “pay-back” that makes all art not only and practiced for the past 50 years and relevant but of inherent value to us. which is amply borne out in this first Therefore, when we stand before one major exhibition of his works, featur- of Pinkney’s watercolors, we not only ing some 140+ watercolors that cover “hear” the author and the painter, a wide range of his overall oeuvre*. Cover illustration for “John Henry”, Jerry Pinkney, 1994. but — if we are in any way sensitive Co-curated by Stephanie Plunkett, ©1994 Jerry Pinkney Studio. All rights reserved. to what we are seeing — also “hearing” Deputy Director of The Norman Rock- these artists. Like Sargent, Kinstler ings more than adequately fill the bill. our own reactions, ideas, opinions, well Museum and Dr. Joyce K. Schil- also does landscape painting, and one In a given work, he, by definition, is and evaluations — in brief, communi- ler, the Museum’s curator for Ameri- can hardly ignore the painterly quali- visually communicating a particular cating on our level with the work of art can Visual Studies, they’ve managed ties of these artists works. Of course, author’s ideas, “translating” that au- before us, irrespective of what either to gather representative works from the die-hard abstractionist, may still thor’s concept into an image, “telling” the author or the painter “intended”. Pinkney’s illustrations of children’s say, “Well, a portrait of a person — or us the story through his eyes — the After all is said and done, then, books (The Ugly Duckling; The Story of a particular natural scene — is still very path that art has taken from the the art of Jerry Pinkney allows us — of Little Black Sambo; Aesop’s fables; “merely” illustration” — and equally beginning, indeed even before words through its very clarity as communi- et al.), his African-American roots obvious, the prejudice is unanswer- were invented to carry the burden of cative imagery — or as its detractors (Home Place; The Patchwork Quilt; able. communication. claim, “mere illustration” — to enjoy et al.), Bible stories (From Psalms; Yet, to place an arbitrary division More than simply (or should I say the very richness that art can offer, the Elijah; Noah’s Ark; et al.), and his- between representational and non— “merely”) communicating an author’s multi-levels of appreciation that only tory (Song of the Trees; Escape from representation work as “non-art” and written intent, however, on a second good art can convey, the very elevation Slavery: Underground Railroad; “art” respectively, simply flies in the level Pinkney is also communicating of spirit that even the ancients divined et al.) as well as a collection of this face of history. As I note in this issue’s his intent — by the simple fact of in “sharing the picture” — and that choosing this particular image over carries down to art-viewers of this that — or, as the title of this exhibition very day. And, regardless of “chop implies, Pinkney’s own personal act logic”, the picture-book will continue of “witnessing”. Who can say that the to be the first means of communica- author of the story may have settled tion that we will put in a child’s hand, on that image, rather than on another? thereby ensuring representational Thus, we are, in effect, given two sto- art a permanent place in both the ries, two levels of communication — the artworld and in our lives. one the author originally wrote and *“Witness: The Art of Jerry the one that Pinkney — the illustrator Pinkney” (thru (May 30, 2011): as “witness”— has chosen to empha- The Norman Rockwell Museum, 9 size. More than emphasize, in fact, Glendale Road, Stockbridge, MA. since Pinkney’s refined skills as both A catalogue of the exhibit is avail- a master draftsman and first-class able: 96 pp.; 7 ½ x 8; B/W & Color Illustration from “The Lion and the Mouse”, Jerry Pinkney, 2009. watercolorist hold the viewer in their ©2009 Jerry Pinkney Studio. All rights reserved. Illus.; Exhibition Checklist. $17.95 thrall — thereby enhancing an already Softcover. award-winning illustrator’s memora- “Peeks and Piques!”, all art is a form of ef bilia, artist’s supplies, and personal communication, representational — artifacts — all making for a visually and especially as found in illustration delightful and informative exhibition. — as well as abstraction. All imagery Before we address Pinkney’s body “speaks” to us — as surely as does of work — as noted, largely a selection an arrow on a sign or Michelangelo’s from his various book illustrations ceiling at the Sistine Chapel. One — let’s take another look at that glib might just as well argue that Michel- dismissal of representational artists angelo’s muscular renditions of men as “mere illustrators”. Over the past and women in his ceiling mural are 30 years or so that I’ve been review- simple precursors of the characters ing, critiquing or profiling artists, the found in, say, Marvel Comics — in subject has often arisen — I recall a short, that his art is “merely illustra- rather lengthy discussion with the tion” and that he is a “non” artist. It internationally known portrait artist seems to me, then, that we ought do Everett Raymond Kinstler, when I away with the false distinction and, in profiled him for our pages in April of view of the fact that art by nature is 1988. Kinstler, who in fact did begin communication, we ought to address as an “illustrator” in his early years, what is presented to our eyes as im- had therefore a profound insight ages. By not allowing ourselves to be into the question of representational side-tracked by would-be art pundits artists being sloughed off as “mere” to dismiss illustration as “comic-book” illustrators. As Kinstler pointed out, level “non-art”, we open ourselves to a to dismiss the portraits of a Sargent, rich tapestry of experiences. a Velazquez, a Rembrandt, as glori- If we agree that art must, in some fied “illustrations” is not only silly but fashion or other, “communicate” to us, Illustration from “The Sweethearts of Rhythm”, Jerry Pinkney, 2009. insulting to the painting abilities of then it is obvious that Pinkney’s paint- ©2009 Jerry Pinkney Studio. All rights reserved. Jan/ Feb 2011 ART TIMES page 4 Because our Calendar of Events is prepared a month in advance Saturday, January 8 dates, times and events are subject to change. Please call ahead Calendar to insure accuracy. The county (and state if not NYS) where the “ANNIE” Paramount Center for the Arts, 1008 Brown St., Peekskill, NY 7pm charge event takes place is noted in bold at the end of each listing. www.paramountcenter.org Westchester Saturday, January 1 Cecilia Moy Fradet: “Dreams of Gold Mountain”, monotypes / Tina Acting Out Bronx River Art Center BronxArtSpace 305 E. 140th Street, #1A Rohrer: “Awash in Color”, acrylic paintings ArtPlace Gallery 11 Unquowa Bronx NY 718-589-5819 free (thru Jan 8) www.bronxriverart.org Bronx Road Fairfield CT Reception 4-6 p.m. free (thru Jan 29) www.artplace.org CT After the Fall Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art 1701 Main Street Faculty Show The Katonah Art Center The Katonah Village Library 26 Bedford Peekskill NY 914-788-0100 charge (thru July 24) www.hvcca.org Westchester Rd. 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April 17) www.hvcca.org Westchester guildofcreativeart.org Monmouth Silvermine January Exhibits: New Members Show, Sergio Gonzalez- The Ties That Bind eo art lab 69 Main Street Chester CT 860-526-4833 free Tornero, Director’s Choice: Karin Hillmer Silvermine Guild Arts Center Sil- (thru Jan 30) www.eoartlab.com CT vermine Galleries 1037 Silvermine Road New Canaan CT 203-966-9700 Opening Monday, January 3 Reception 2-4pm free (thru Feb 18) http://www.silvermineart.org CT Betsy Jacaruso Solo Show & Cross River Fine Arts Group Show ASK Stam-Pede Gotham Arts Exchange and Symphony Space Peter Norton Symphony Arts Society of Kingston 97 Broadway Kingston NY 845-338-0331 free (thru Jan 29) Space 2537 Broadway at 95th Street New York NY 212-864-5400 3pm charge www. www.askforarts.org Ulster symphonyspace.org Buttons Galore by Pat Badami New City Library 220 North Main Street Third Annual BDAA Members Juried Exhibition Blue Door Gallery 13 New City NY 845-634-4997 free (thru Jan 31) www.newcitylibrary.org Rockland Riverdale Ave. Yonkers NY 914-375-5100 Opening Reception 2-5pm free (thru Feb Watercolors by Jane Lake East Fishkill Community Library 348 Route 20) www.bluedoorgallery.org Westchester 376 Hopewell Junction NY 845-221-9943 free (thru Jan 31) http://www.eflibrary. Monday, January 10 org Dutchess Hudson Chorale Welcomes New Members Hudson Chorale Scarborough Thursday, January 6 Presbyterian Church Route 9/Corner of Sleep Hollow Road) Scarborough NY 914- INGRID FREIDENBERGS: Collages / JACK FEDER: Photographs Tremaine 769-1262 6pm free www.HudsonChorale.org Albany Gallery, Hotchkiss School, 11 Interlaken Rd., Lakeville, CT (860) 435-3663 (thru Semester starting date Westchester Community College Center For The Feb 3) www.hotchkiss.org/AboutHotchkiss/TremainGallery.asp Litchfield,CT Arts Westchester Community College Center For The Arts 196 Central Ave. White The History Of Medicine Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum 94 Broad- Plains NY 914-606-7500 sunywcc.edu/arts Westchesteredu/peekskill Westchester Continued on Page 6 way Newburgh NY 845-569-4997 (Thru Mar 31) [email protected] Orange

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You’ll Carry Me Down on Your Dancing, 2010 Collages by Everyday Signs of Life Ingrid Freidenbergs in Photographs by Robert M. Lipgar 81st ANNUAL OPEN JURIED Looking In, Looking Out Edward Avedisian, Untitled, c. 1962 EXHIBITION acrylic on paper May 2–28, 2011 Juror & Judge Cornelia Seckel Seeking entries in all media except photography and craft $2,000 in Prize Awards Signs populate the photographs—signs that direct, For prospectus, send SASE or download inform and point to where others have been. from website: www.nationalartleague.org Woman looking out window - Little Italy, New York City Susanna White, Assoc. Dir. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College 1970s Entry deadline March 10 Lipgar… presents scenes and situations that com- Photographs by Jack Feder Edward Avedisian, Untitled, 1991, acrylic on canvas ments on familiar moments with irony and humor. National Art League Robert Lemkowitz, Ed. & Pub., Hudson Valley Review 44-21 Douglaston Parkway, Studio C Jan. 6 - Feb. 3, 2011 Feb. 9 - March 4, 2011 Price: $25.00 plus Tax & S&H • Purchase Douglaston, NY 11363 & inquiries: [email protected] 718.225.4985 Reception: Jan. 8, 4-6 p.m. Reception: Feb. 12, 4-6 p.m. • www.lipgarphotography.com Jan/ Feb 2011 ART TIMES page 5 Dance By Dawn Lille Creating at the Baryshnikov Arts Center IN SEPTEMBER I was privileged to was made up of dancers from various attend a showing by two choreogra- styles and techniques, performed over phers at the Baryshnikov Arts Center fifty newly commissioned works and (BAC) who were part of the 2010 revived many dance classics. The lat- Residency Program. Raewyn Hill and ter were mostly modern, including Stefanie Batten Bland had each spent some that went back to the Judson several weeks in the center’s studios Dance Theatre of the 60’s. He has also developing new dance works. performed to acclaim as an actor in When BAC opened in 2005 at 450 several off Broadway productions, in West 47th Street in the old Hell’s Kitch- films and on television and is an excel- en neighborhood, Mikhail Barysh- lent photographer. nikov wished to provide opportunities Artists participating in the Resi- for and give support to artists from all dency Program at BAC are given the disciplines and countries – dancers, space and the resources to develop actors, musicians, visual and media projects or collaborations that are both artists. The pre-opening announce- new and independent. They are in- ment stressed that it would be both a vited to spend from two to eight weeks laboratory and a performance space at the center and given the freedom to where experiments, often interdisci- pursue their own creative investiga- plinary, could take place and success tions, with administrative and techni- was not necessarily a criterion. Its stu- cal support available if needed. Part dios and performance spaces are also of what is offered is an opportunity to Dancenorth company Photo credit: Jacqui Ferry venues through which audiences for show or test these works-in-progress She spoke briefly about a book that different cultures that migrate to the contemporary works can be developed through informal studios showings. deals with why some survive disasters United States, Andrew Lyght created at little or no cost. On one hand, these ”sharings” allow and others do not, in a cycle of denial, a space divided by billowing swaths In addition to various fellowship an audience to view a work in its raw deliberation and decision. Together of gauzy material suspended from and residency programs, the center or growing stage and on the other the the company researched the topic and the ceiling and raised and lowered by commissions new work, has created artists may wish to invite art present- viewed films of war. To an electronic ropes that the dancers manipulated. a dance company, presented a series ers or others in the dance field. score by the Spanish composer Micka The graphic memory of this work is of free chamber music concerts (the The 2009 residencies include chore- Luna, the rehearsal-clad performers of constant movement between the Movado Hour), offered a series of film ographers relatively known (Annie-B moved with strong, sweeping body ges- swirling set, the ropes and the danc- screenings with discussions (BAC Parson and Paul Lazar of Big Dance tures, stressing the importance of the ers (clothed in draped black garbage Flicks), given jazz concerts with live Theater and Azure Barton) and un- torso, which always carried with it the bags) ‘midst the changing light design broadcast, held visual art exhibitions, known (Pontus Lidberg) as well as active arms. The implication was that of Lacee Goodman. of a sense of strength plus the intense BAC’s continuing desire to encour- involvement of the entire body. Ms. age multi-disciplinary performance Hill is also setting a work at Juilliard and to present international talent that will be shown in early December. that might not have an opportunity Stefanie Batten Bland, born in New to be seen in this country has been York, raised in Los Angeles and now helped by the opening last February of transplanted to Paris, from which she the newly renovated Jerome Robbins frequently returns, is a young chore- Theater, a 299 seat space within the ographer and performer. She is inter- building. There is much new, young ested in what she terms “human emo- work yet to be created in this sup- tional relationships” and how notions porting community. It is perhaps not of community are reflected physically. coincidental that both choreographers Her company, stefanie batten bland/ discussed here are concerned with sbb birdlegs, presented a full scale exploring still other communities – showing of Terra Firma, with music by and the planet certainly needs more John Adams. For this piece, based on welcoming ones! ef

Stefanie Batten bbland/sbb birdlegs Photo credit: Benjamin Heller hosted international arts festivals and theater director Maureen Towey, offered free workshops to practicing playwright Sheila Callaghan and professional artists. Stephen Earnhart who developed an It is not surprising that, given his interdisciplinary theater production own history, Mikhail Baryshnikov that merged live performance, music, would create such an environment. dance/movement and Bunraku pup- Trained in classical ballet in Riga, petry, along with video, anime and Latvia, and St. Petersburg, Russia, he holographic technology. was a member of the Kirov Company The 2010 residency list includes Di- and joined American Ballet Theatre ane Madden and Iver Findlay (dance after his defection to America in 1974. and visual art), the Builders Asso- ©Jerry Pinkney. All rights reserved. Later he spent a year with the New ciation (theater), The Knights (music) York City Ballet, dancing the works and Dance Conduction Continuum of George Balanchine under the direc- plus Burnt Sugar Arkestra (dance and exhibition currently on view tion of that master. As a performer he music), among others. was a chameleon. He could go from a Raewyn Hill, a New Zealander, Witness: the Art of Jerry Pinkney strictly classical role such as Albrecht is a choreographer who now works Original illustrations by the Caldecott Award-winning artist. in Giselle, to a more dramatic one like in Australia where she has her own ______the lead in Balanchine’s Prodigal Son, company, Dancenorth. Her five danc- ©Jerry Pinkney. All rights reserved. ©Jerry Pinkney. February 19 through May 8, 2011 to the smooth jazz inflected Sinatra ers came with her to the residency at Suite of Twyla Tharp, to a work by BAC. They showed an excerpt from Elwood’s World: The Drawings and Animations of Elwood H. Smith Paul Taylor. Black Crows, a work-in-progress in In 1990 he formed the White Oak which she attempts to explore what Dance Project with the modern cho- kind of community is created when reographer Mark Morris in order to strangers meet, the psychological ef- nrm.org • open daily • 413-298-4100 • 9 Rt. 183, Stockbridge, MA perform both new and existing chore- fects of war and the later integration ography. He and the company, which of soldiers into their home community. Witness sponsored in part by Penguin Group, Inc. and Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, a division of The Hachette Group. Jan/ Feb 2011 ART TIMES page 6

Continued from Page 4 Rohrer: “Awash in Color”, acrylic paintings ArtPlace Gallery 11 Unquowa Calendar Road Fairfield CT Workshop “Playing with Color” 3-4:30pm free (thru Jan 29) www. Tuesday, January 11 artplace.org CT CENTER FOR THE DIGITAL ARTS Open House Westchester Community Col- “Mirage” Gemstone Paintings by Fareen Butt Great Neck Arts lege Center for the Digital Arts, 27 N. Division Street, Peekskill, NY (914) 606-7304 Center 113 Middle Neck Road Great Neck NY 516-829-2570 Opening Reception1- www.sunywcc.edu/peekskill Westchester 4pm free (thru Mar 20) www.greatneckarts.org Nassau Wednesday, January 12 Street-Corner harmony by Memories of You New City Library N.A.W.A. - Associate Members Exhibition The National Association of Women 220 North Main Street New City NY 845-634-4997 2pm free www.newcitylibrary. Artists, Inc. The N.A.W.A. 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Division Street, Peekskill, NY (914) 606-7304 www.sunywcc.edu/peekskill Westchester 25th Annual International Juried Show / Lisette Bedoya: Ceramics /Painting Students of Raul Villarreal Visual Arts Center of New Jersey Willie Marlowe, exhibition The Sage Colleges Opalka Gallery 140 New 68 Elm Street Summit NJ 908-273-9121 Opening reception 6-8 pm donate (thru Mar Scotland Avenue Albany NY 518-292-7742 free (thru Mar 6) www.sage.edu/opalka 18) www.artcenternj.org Union Albany Group Show of Photographs by New Artists Galerie BMG 12 Tannery Brook Thursday, January 20 Road Woodstock NY 845-679-0027 free (thru Feb 14) www.galeriebmg.com Ulster Cecilia Moy Fradet: “Dreams of Gold Mountain”, monotypes / Tina New Horizon’s The Orange County Art Federation Seligmann Studio 23 Rohrer: “Awash in Color”, acrylic paintings ArtPlace Gallery 11 Unquowa White Oak Drive Sugar Loaf NY 845-987-8748 Opening Reception 6-8pm snow date: Road Fairfield CT Artist Talks 12:30 free (thru Jan 29) www.artplace.org CT Jan. 21, 6-8pm free (thru Jan 30) soon to be announced Orange Teen Visions Mill Street Loft Palmer Gallery Vassar College Raymond Avenue Volta Trio Percussion Concert North Country Arts Council Jefferson Com- Poughkeepsie NY 845-471-7477 Opening artists reception 5-7pm, part of Vassar munity College, Sturtz Theater 1220 Coffeen Street Watertown NY 7:00 PM charge College’s annual MODFEST free (thru Feb 11) millstreetloft.org Dutchess www.nnyart.org Jefferson Friday, January 21 Saturday, January 15 Rendering Green Studio Montclair Inc. SMI Virginia S. Block Gallery 33 Inspired Landscapes: Paintings by George Ballantine & Robert Plymouth Street Montclair NJ 973-744-1818 Artists Reception 6-9pm free (thru Apr Selkowitz The Emerson 5340 Route 28 Mt Tremper NY 845-688-2828 Opening 29) www.studiomontclair.org NJ reception 2-4 (snow date Jan 16, 12-2) free (thru Feb 28) emersonresort.com Ulster 31st Annual Regional Juried Show Ridgewood Art Institute 12 East Glen INVITATIONAL SHOW Longyear Gallery 785 Main Street Margaretville NY Avenue Ridgewood NJ 201-652-9613 free (thru Feb 6) ridgewoodartinstitute.org 845-586-3270 Opening Reception 3-6pm free (thru Feb 22) www.longyeargallery. Bergen org Delaware SUSTAINABILITY AND THE ARTISTIC VISION Studio Montclair Inc. THE Marion H. 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Kreznar and GG Stankiewicz: WOMEN ARTISTS RECONFIGURE THE SIGNS OF POWER 1973-1992 Neu- Figure / Ground Catskill Art Society CAS Arts Center 48 Main Street Livingston berger Museum of Art, Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Rd., Purchase, NY (914) Manor NY 845-436-4227 Artist Talk 2pm; Reception 3-5pm free (thru Feb 27) www. 251-6100 (thru Apr 3) www.neuberger.org Westchester catskillartsociety.org Sullivan Sunday, January 16 Sunday, January 23 Cecilia Moy Fradet: “Dreams of Gold Mountain”, monotypes / Tina Art Connections 7 The George Segal Gallery, Montclair State University One Normal Ave. Montclair NJ 973-655-3382 Opening Reception 2-5pm free (thru Feb 19) montclair.edu/segalgallery Essex Hudson Chorale to Hold Inaugural Concert Hudson Chorale Horace Gree- ley High School 70 Roaring Brook Road Chappaqua NY 914-462-3212 4pm charge www.HudsonChorale.org Westchester 31st Annual Regional Juried Show Ridgewood Art Institute 12 East Glen Avenue Ridgewood NJ 201-652-9613 Opening Reception 1:30 free (thru Feb 6) ridgewoodartinstitute.org Bergen The Original Art of Peter H. Reynolds: The Dot and Ish Katonah Museum of Art 134 Jay Street Katonah NY 914-232-9555 charge (thru May 1) FOR ALL http://katonahmuseum.org/ Westchester Continued on Page 18 Did you miss the deadline for this issue? You can still include a calendar item, opportunity listing, YOUR announcement or publicize your business for a small fee. ARTTIMES Online: www.arttimesjournal.com with 2 million + hits in the last year ­is your solution. ART We will get your advertising online within a few days. NEEDS email: [email protected] or call: 845 246-6944 Study Art in Italy! May 9, 2011 - May 18, 2011 An Experience of a lifetime- to paint the figure & landscape in Italy! Brian Keeler leads a group to Umbria in central Italy near Todi to paint the beauteous light of this ancient land. Inspiration in many forms is the best way to characterize the art sojourn. The class is held at an Agritourismo in the country with abundant meals and special trips to see inspiring Renaissance art in Rome, Florence and 44 West 18th Street nearby towns. The workshop is for painters of Tuscan Hilltown- Barga all levels working in oil, pastel or acrylic. New York, NY 10011 pastel on paper- painted on location (212) 243-9000 For a free brochure call or e-mail: 495 Boston Post Road Brian at 570-746-1187 or [email protected]. Brian has been visiting Italy almost every Port Chester, NY 10573 year for 18 years and teaching classes in Umbria and Tuscany since 2004. (914) 937-7351 Brian Keeler Studio • PO Box 397 • 25 School Lane www.AIFRIEDMAN.com Wyalusing, PA 1853 • www.briankeeler.com Jan/ Feb 2011 ART TIMES page 7 Music Carmen’s Lunch Break and a Socratic Discourse By FRANK BEHRENS Those familiar with the opera his motivation is obvious. He loves After hearing “Carmen” on know that Don Jose has just joined being admired and reminds his fans LPs and then CDs and then watching the Seville regiment and Carmen about all the things he has done to it on DVDs and in live performances, sees him for the first time. If I were be admired. I can believe he DOES something finally popped into my directing, I would play it this way. sing this song at the drop of a hat mind. Does Carmen sing the Haba- Don Jose is busy fixing his firing pin whenever he thinks the crowd will nera EVERY DAY during the break and does not see her. She sees him. appreciate it. However, while singing from the cigarette factory? Bingo! Her next temporary lover. But his aria this time, he notices Carmen. There is no doubt that the entire how to get his attention? Ah, pretend And it is always played on stage that male population of Seville tries its to be addressing the crowd but aim it the “amours” at the end of his second luck with her the moment she ap- all at the handsome soldier. stanza are directed only at her, while pears and that the song is an answer She sings the first stanza but it she repeats them only to him. to the crowd. But what should moti- doesn’t work. Or perhaps it does but Here, only the most obtuse Direc- vate her on that particular day to pro- Don Jose pretends not to hear or un- tor would ignore the obvious and treat claim her Gypsy Woman’s Manifesto? derstand what he clearly does hear. it as just another aria. Reply: This is only an opera and So she becomes bolder. She sings And speaking of “La Boheme,” one does not ask questions like that. the second stanza directly to him, every single number in that all-too- The character needs an entrance aria leaving no doubt to any one as to her short gem helps advance the plot as and Bizet gives her a good one. That intentions. In this way, not only is well as revealing character. Oh yes, is all we need to know. the song as a whole motivated but it has been mentioned that Colline’s Response: Yes, the work might be even the second stanza alone serves farewell to his overcoat seems an an opera but it is also a DRAMA. It is a DRAMATIC purpose — as well as interpolation; but it is certainly moti- one of the earliest operas that looks revealing not only her character but vated by the circumstances and does at and treats life realistically. These her methods. show us quite a bit about Colline’s are supposed to be real people and it In fact, I would have her coworkers character — not to mention that of is up to the Director to make them nudge each other with knowing nods his overcoat! seem real. If she sings that long song and winks. They certain know what It is sobering to recall that the at that moment, there must be some is going on. So should the audience. earliest musicals scarcely had ANY motivation for it. And thus can a warhorse of an aria songs that were dramatically moti- Reply: There is a motivation. You become a telling dramatic event. vated at that moment other than the said so yourself. She is responding to Reply: Isn’t that exactly what hap- justification that the character was expressing an emotion concerning the amorous male chorus. pens in “La Boheme” when Musetta does it accomplish? (That last ques- events at that moment. Early opera Response: I thought I covered that. wins back Marcello with her waltz tion might prove unsolvable for many is loaded with this kind of arias, be- They woo her every day. But why song? arias.) What new information does it cause it was the purpose of an aria respond on this particular day? What Response: Yes. Puccini’s librettist reveal about the character? back then simply to express a single is new that day? knew how to use a song to forward the This is not easy. But many direc- emotion. plot. Bizet’s (I feel) merely put in an tors of local opera groups or even When faced with a “realistic” or entrance number. It is up to the Di- professional companies might want “verismo” work from about 1870 on, a rector to coin gold from the ordinary. to consider this question seriously Director must find dramatic reasons In the next act, we see Escamillo before mounting yet another hum- for nearly every musical moment. responding to the crowd’s acclaim drum production. But for now, give WHY is this character singing this with his “Toreador Song.” Being a Carmen a break! conceited and shallow superstar, particular aria at this moment? What ef

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Lynne Cooke, et al. tribution I have made through my dices; Index. $16.99 Softcover. ***** monuments, or, even more fundamen- 192 pp.; 9 ¼ x 11 ½; 150 Color Illus.; gallery [Culturally Speaking Nov/ tally, Art which rejects its obligation to Biography; Exhibition History; Bibli- Compiled by Raymond J. Steiner Dec issue]. be beautiful. Respect for the diversity ef Best regards, dictates that artists acknowledge the Paul Gould In the music world, it has been Today’s public, however, does not even validity of both representation and ab- Hudson valley Gallery much the same. As only one example, know the difference. The rules have straction, and seek inspiration in their Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY Andrea Bocelli, whose popular vocal been changed in large measure due own religious traditions without feel- stylings and recognizable vocal sound to electronic assistance/enhancement. ing obliged to amalgamate them into To the Publisher: can be wonderfully persuasive at I read that, as an experiment, a paradoxical contradiction of both. Hello Cornelia and Raymond: times (who cannot come away hum- violin virtuoso Joshua Bell played Eugene Batizat, M.A. A voice from the past keeping up with ming “Con te partirò”?), passes in this anonymously in the DC Metro dressed Yonkers, NY an upstate journal. I have been living day and age for a classical singer, an casually in a baseball cap and jeans. To the Editor: on the end of Long Island and enjoy opera singer. I understand he took He looked like any other young street I meant — but neglected — to write to issues of the Art Times. some lessons with the late and—no musician with aspirations. Apparent- you about your piece on the art world I compliment both of you to have exaggeration—great tenor, Franco ly, hardly anyone stopped long enough having simply changed the rules of published for so many years such a Corelli—but to a real, classical singer, to listen. Bell’s exquisite sound and criticism by lowering the bar [Peeks unique Journal. Bravo. Keep it up. Bocelli is still a wildly successful pop musicianship should have grabbed & Piques! Sep/ Oct Issue]. I thought Hans Van de Bovenkamp singer with a sweet sound who wants anyone with ears to hear by the heart, of Picasso, who went through all the LI, NY to sing opera. I would find nothing but the public did not know it was be- steps of classical line and form before To the Editor: wrong with that, if only he were hon- ing treated to the Joshua Bell, for free. he ever got into color and deconstruc- You did a wonderful job describing est about it. A Caruso, Corelli, or So, what does that tell us? Perhaps it tion. To my mind, that’s the artist’s Marlene Wiedenbaum’s work [Cri- Pavarotti he is not. I’m not talking is that the public will learn to accept version of “paying dues”: learn it tique: Nov/Dec Issue]. Your opinion about ability to move an audience; as artistry anything that is sufficiently square before you go off doing your of the style in which she works and Sinatra was a master of his idiom and hyped and has a price tag high enough own thing, and then know why you are your favorites in the show put into certainly could do that. Rather, when to suggest value. doing it. How sad that the fundamen- words her vision of what stands before it’s live, one cannot fake classical vocal Barbara Bassano tals have not only been overlooked; her. I understand this show was just production (a.k.a. technique). I just Allentown, PA they have been ignored. wish there were no pretense about it. ef Jan/ Feb 2011 ART TIMES page 9 Theatre

By ROBERT W. BETHUNE Theater is a mysterious art, per-Butmake-believe oh, of children, that as utterly bering Tenth! and imagining, of attending the audience; and in how both sets of haps the most mysterious of them all. and obviously false as anything of and interpreting, of being strangely perceptions influence each other in a Every play is a playing with reality, a paint and pasteboard might be. absent and strangely present both complex swirl of communication and complicitous game between perform- Theater is like an onion, or Chi- at once. evocation. ers and performers and between per- nese boxes, or a Russian doll. The Inside the performance is another At the core of it there are two formers and audience in which those more we peel back the surface to look game, a playing with the essence beings in one body—perhaps even who play the game become absorbed inside, the more we find the outside of the self, a being-present and a three. There is that self which is in it, while those outside the game—if of another surface. What is this game being-absent, a being-which-is and a turned over to fiction, which exists we imagine a dispassionate observer, we play? It is a game within a game, being-which-is-not. The actor is the wholly in a fiction and ceases to exist happening upon the performance and a game beside a game. Inside character, and is not; the character when the fiction ceases.T here is that unprepared—can only look on and the show, with its space and lighting, is the actor, and is not; the character self which is partly of the fiction and shake their heads that such an obvi- scenery and costumes, all its physical is present, and is not; the actor is ab- partly of the reality, which shapes ous falsity to those outside should infrastructure, is the performance, sent, and is not. This monadic dance and responds to the fiction and is be so like reality to those inside. We the words and voices, movement and of self and other plays out in the per- shaped by how the fiction responds, think back on a play that we remem- gesture, expression and vocalization. ceptions of the audience, and in how but which exists continually before, ber as utterly gripping, totally involv- Beside that game is another game, those are reflected back to the actor, during and after the performance. ing; we look at pictures of that very one of observing and reacting, of and in the perceptions of the actor, And there is that self which stands performance and they seem like the thinking and responding, of remem- and how those are reflected back to apart, a shepherd, a guide, a mentor, setting boundaries to the game that keep it safe and keep it pure, that knows what the object of the game is Call for Entries and watches for the signposts on the 62nd Art of the Northeast USA road to the goal. April 15—June 3, 2011 Something to sing about at This is what we need. This is what we long for. To this end we build what Juror: Tom Eccles, Executive Director, SUNY Sullivan is not easily seen by the partakers, Bard College, Curatorial Studies Program We not only support the arts, we present them! but which is profoundly important to Total Cash Awards: $4000-$8000. Open to All Media the preparers: the ritual. The coming Artists must reside in CT, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VT Love the opera? Then you’ll want to join to the theater. The greeting of our Deadline for All Entries: March 11, 2011 other the hundreds of other opera lovers partners. The arrangement of sets Entry fee: $25 per work from the area who come to the college to see and props, of costume and makeup, For Prospectus: send #10 SASE to: AONE, Silvermine Guild The Met: Live in HD of lighting and sound, of effects and Arts Center1037 Silvermine Rd. New Canaan, CT 06840 (All performances are on Saturday at 1:00 p.m. contrivances. The execution of move- Phone 203-966-9700, ext 26 in the Seelig Theater unless otherwise noted.) or: download from www.silvermineart.org ments and vocalizations, the expres- sion of words and ideas, the enact- This season our Saturday opera series presents: ment of interactions. The permission we give to our partners to invade us, Salmagundi Club La Fanciulla del West, Giacomo Puccini, and the invasions we make, by per- Center for American Art since 1871 January 8 mission, of our partners, emotional Current & Upcoming Events Nixon in China, John Adams and and physical. Alice Goodman, February 12 There are no guarantees. The Saturday, January 1, 12-4pm, $30 + tax Lucia di Lammermoor, Gaetano Donizetti, gods may descend, or remain aloof. New Year's Day Brunch March 19 We may attain the magic, or we may only give a show. It may be 8 8 8 9 Le Comte Ory, Gioachino Rossini, April 9 thru Jan 7 made or marred by the weaknesses Capriccio, Richard Strauss, April 23 and failings in ourselves and in our Works of Malcolm Mackenzie Il Trovatore, Giuseppe Verdi, April 30 partners, in our seeking for power or 8 8 8 9 Die Walkure, Richard Wagner, May 14 at noon vanity or reputation or—for the most January 3 — January 21 foolish—money. It is the possibility, Scholarship & Junior Artists Exhibit $20 Adult; $10 students. which lures us back, like a cruel and (OPERAtunity-Met Series Package and School of the Future Exhibition capricious lover, nine-tenths pain 8 8 8 9 any six performances for only $96) and one-tenth pleasure. But oh, that tenth! ef January 10 — February 11 Celebrate Black History Month Photo and Graphics Exhibition with story and music. 8 8 8 9 A new and inexpensive ad- January 24 — February 11 Joseph Mantia & His Jazz Quintet vertising opportunity online Black and White Exhibition A Tribute to Jazz Greats Gillespie, Coltrane, at www.arttimesjournal.com Ellington and more! and Square Foot/ Round Feet [email protected] 8 8 8 9 Thurs., Feb 17 at 7 p.m. - Seelig Theater $12 Adults; $10 children Sunday, January 30, 11-3, $20 Destination Arts Winter Brunch Sam Cooke: Where You Been Baby? Creative Workshops 8 8 8 9 Starring Michael Monasterial as Sam Cooke February 14 — February 25 and SUNY Sullivan’s Kitt Potter as Vi Cooke Recuerdos de Chiapas The Eternal Landscape Thurs., Feb 24 at 7 p.m.- Seelig Theater March   and Art About Art $20 Adults; $10 Children 8 8 8 9 Group rate for eight or more available February 28 — March 18 for both Black History Month shows. Spring Auction Exhibition 8 8 8 9 For more information and to purchase tickets call 845-434-5750, ext. 4472. Digital Photography ~ Join us in the Dining Room with Dan Lipow for Brunch, Lunch and Dinner ~ Tickets also will be available at the box office. & Painting & Printmaking HAVE YOUR EVENT AT SCNY! SUNY Sullivan with Kate McGloughlin 47 Fifth Avenue, NYC 112 College Road, Loch Sheldrake, NY 12759 212-255-7740 www.sunysullivan.edu wwwdestinationartscom www.salmagundi.org   or     Jan/ Feb 2011 ART TIMES page 10 Faddah, Nunsense, Frank McCourt’s Culturally Speaking A Couple Of Blaguards, Gershwin’s American Rhapsody ‘Drama Desk By CORNELIA SECKEL of Grace Paley (1922-2007) a woman Nominee’ and Loose Lips with This column is meant to keep you who I see as the quintessential New Bebe & . It’s been informed, on a more personal note, Yorker — a mother, activist, poet, Neuwirth Peter Boyle known as the Triad for 15 years and about events I attend and newsy items teacher, short fiction writer, friend and has been a performance space since the that come across my desk. As we are wife. Lilly Rivlin has told this story show Forbidden Broadway originated now printing every other month the with old photographs of Grace Paley’s in the space then known as “in between print” culturally speaking early years, interviews with friends, Palsons about 25 years ago. Meetings, parties, column goes online — mostly as pic- students, family and most of all a lot performances and film screenings can tures and videos. Here I can be more of footage of Grace reading her poems, all be scheduled at The Triad. The show elaborate with my comments about telling stories from her life, talking we saw, Broadway’s Next Hit Musical, previous and current activities. with her friends and family, as well will again be presented February 10 To begin with, three new books as news clippings and footage from through April 21. The idea of the show came in, Modern Gestures: Abraham demonstrations. This is an important is this: Before the show the audience Walkowitz Draws Isadora Duncan testament to Grace Paley and to the is asked to make up titles of songs. Dancing by Ann Cooper Albright, times of the women’s movement and The first act is an award ceremony, spotlighting a scene that includes the musical number of the year’s “Best Musical” nominees. These are made up on-the-spot, from the song titles the Jerry Pinkney at the Norman Rockwell nd audience created. Before the 2 act, the Museum just before his lecture about his audience chooses their favorite musical work and his exhibition "Witness: The number from Act 1 and the 2nd Act is Art of Jerry Pinkney" a production of the “winning” musical part of HeartShare’s various programs with several scenes including the origi- in NYC. There were over 80 paintings, nal made-up scene and song from Act 1. sculpture, jewelry and photographs Needless to say we laughed throughout from 50 artists whose age ranged in every performance. This unscripted, age from 6-42. The gallery was packed fully-improvised show is presented with friends, family, supporters and by Strategic Entertainment, NYC staff members who came to celebrate in association with Ralph Buckley this show and sale. Much of the work and hosted by Greg Triggs featur- was sold including several that kept ing Robert Z. Grant, Kobi Libii, drawing my attention. I applaud this Deb Rabbai, Stefan Schick, Rob project and the gallery for their support Schiffmann, Rebecca Vigil with of this important exhibition that does Eric March and Andrew Resnick on much more than show an artists’ work. piano. The actors have excellent voices Katharina Rich Perlow Gal- (L to R) Barbara Cuthel, Curator of ArtShare for HeartShare; William R. Guarinello, and are amazingly skilled with impro- lery of Contemporary Painting, Pres. & CEO of HeartShare; Linda Dano, Board Member; Jill Gentile, Assoc. Comm. visation. Clearly they were having a lot of Office for People With Developmental Disabilities; Rosanna Scotto, Board Member; Sculpture and Photography has of fun as they pushed the absurdity of Joyce Levin, VP of Program Development, HeartShare; Linda Tempel, Exec. Dir. of been at the new location on Madison the stories/songs they were making up. Developmental Disabilities Services, HeartShare; Robert C. Golden, Board Member at Avenue, NYC for nearly a year. I was It was wacky, innovative, playful and their exhibition Art from the Heart at New Century Artists, NYC pleased to see the work of Sally Mi- fine entertainment. chel (1902-2003) a one-time resident Music by Andrew Zuckerman, and anti-war movement. Upcoming screen- I was at the 2nd Annual Artshare of Woodstock, wife of artist Milton Accelerating On the Curves: The Art- ing are at the New York Jewish Film at the New Century Artists Gallery Avery, mother of artist March Avery ist’s Roadmap to Success by Katharine Festival, Walter Reade Theater, in NYC. This exhibition is presented —the gallery has shown each of these T. Carter that deserve special mention. Lincoln Center, NYC in mid–Janu- by HeartShare Human Services artists. In fact Milton Avery is buried in For the dance aficionado, music lover, ary, 2011 and at the Palm Springs of NY (heartshare.org), a 96-year old the Artists’ Cemetery in Woodstock or artist, these books ought to be of International Film Festival early in organization providing care and sup- and my memory is that many years ago interest. Modern Gestures, a little over January, 2011. For more information: port to many of NYC’s most vulner- there was a family exhibition at the pocket-sized and hard covered book, gracepaleythefilm.com able individuals. The Developmental Petrucci Gallery in Saugerties. The would make a nice self- or favorite- In November, my actor/niece Mady Disabilities Division was created in Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery con- friend Holiday gift while Music, a sub- Spiegel and I went to The Triad (tri- 1977 and provides community-based sistently shows excellent artists and stantial tome-sized coffee table trea- adnyc.com) on the upper West Side in services including day and residential recent shows included work by: Milton sure (12 ¼” x 12 ¼”), offers insightful NYC to see Broadway’s Next Hit Musi- programs, medical/clinical services, Resnick, Jack Tworkov, Stephen glimpses into some 50 musicians on the cal. This delightful little theater with education programs and additional Pace, Syd Solomon, John Grillo, current scene, many with “takes” from cabaret seating, has been the starting support services for individuals of all Helen Frankenthaler, James the performing artists’ own words. place for numerous Broadway hits ages with intellectual and develop- Kelly, John Ferren, James Brooks, This is a 3 in 1 multimedia project: including: Forever Plaid, Forbidden mental disabilities. Barbara Nowak- Norman Bluhm, Fred Mitchell, an artbook, film, and a first of its kind Broadway, Secrets Every Smart Trav- Cuthel was the curator for this exhibit Claire Klarewicz-Okser, Richard iPad app that is available now at the eler Should Know, Hello Muddah Hello of work by artists/ participants that are Segalman, Yvonne Thomas, Byron iTunes store — a must-have for the Browne, George McNeil, Robert serious celeb follower. Accelerating On Natkin, Michele Harvey, and Wil- the Curves, written by one of the lead- liam Clutz. ing full-service public relations and Julie Hedrick had a show at the marketing firm for artists(Katharine Nohra Haime Gallery (nohrahai- T. Carter & Associates), offers an in- megallery.com) that was just excellent. depth guide to achieving success in the Titled “Red”, all the canvases, some art world. Chock-full of valuable tips quite large, were red but not just red. and information, the book is heralded Swirls of different tones and intensities by artists, curators, critics, dealers and all showing fabulous red atmospheres teachers from across the spectrum. with depths to explore. Julie’s show I met Lilly Rivlin at the Wood- last year at this gallery was “Blue” with stock Film Festival’s awards cel- the same vibrancy in her canvases. ebration in Woodstock, NY this past While my partner/critic Raymond Fall and as we chatted I said that one J. Steiner was looking at Witness: of the films I regretted not seeing was The Art of Jerry Pinkney (thru May 30, her film Grace Paley: Collected Shorts 2011) honoring Jerry Pinkney’s 50 and she offered to have it sent to me years as an illustrator, at the Norman and I’m glad she did. The screening at Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, the WFF was the East Coast Premiere MA, (nrm.org), I attended a lecture for for the film and won the audience educators given by him that gave me award for Best Feature Documen- good insight into this award-winning tary. The film is an excellent and Katharina Rich Perlow with Raymond J. Steiner speaking about the Sally Avery illustrator of over 100 children’s books beautifully skilled acknowledgement exhibit at the Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery at 980 Madison Ave., NYC Jan/ Feb 2011 ART TIMES page 11 translated into 11 languages in 14 a wide range of creative, educational countries. Jerry shared this with the and culturally-enriching programs group and was quite pleased that an to diverse audiences throughout the additional language will soon be added. Hudson Valley. These kinds of col- The purpose of these “Educators” laborative and cooperative efforts are events is to help teachers and librar- the future for Arts Organizations as ians make the curriculum connections they can share resources and support to traveling exhibits at the Museum. one another more efficiently. The Cel- Students in busloads will go to the ebration was a gala affair with over Museum to see this show and to enjoy 140 people filling the Poughkeepsie many of the programs, some, with Tennis Club with thanks to artist and Jerry Pinkney, a Westchester resident. BAC member and teacher Seth Nadel, These education outreach programs Manager of the Club. Numerous volun- are ultimately audience-building for teers helped make it quite an elegant not only this, but all cultural institutes. and memorable evening that included Jerry spoke of his early years growing music by The Ground Above and a up in the South, the various stories and performance by Courtenay Carami- people that influenced him and which co, Soprano, and accompanist Terry eventually show up in his paintings. Chapin as well as an Art Auction. An extremely personable man, easy Jose Gomez, President of the Board speaking (unlike many artists I’ve welcomed and thanked us all for com- Charles Weidman’s classic Christmas Oratorio performed by Nacre Dance Company met) before a group and knowledgeable ing; Executive Director Russ John- at Kaatsbaan, International Dance Center in Tivoli, NY about where he fits into the art world. son thanked all the sponsors; several tion Companies to rent, for Touring state of the art exhibition space. After See Steiner’s critique of Pinkney’s people spoke about the history of the Companies, Film and Theatre Fes- dinner (FYI, the dining room is open work in this issue. Center; Pete Seeger was presented tivals, as well as be a venue for NYCA to the public and the new chef is excel- Since beginning ART TIMES with his award made by Clayworks produced performances. lent) President Claudia Seymour nearly 28 years ago, I’ve been famil- Manager Judith Meadow thanking An evening at Kaatsbaan, Inter- gave welcoming remarks and then iar with the Dutchess County Arts him for his work. There were so many national Dance Center in Tivoli, Robert Strong spoke about the Gal- Association (DCAA), known more old friends to greet and celebrating NY (kaatsbaan.org) is always delight- lery Renovation Program. Richard fondly as the Barrett House or Bar- such an important organization for our ful. I saw Charles Weidman’s classic Schmid and John C. Traynor were rett Art Center. Through these years region was my pleasure. Christmas Oratorio performed by the Honorees, both excellent artists I have attended numerous exhibits and It was 24 years ago when I first Nacre Dance Company. It was love- and great teachers and supporters of events. I was pleased to attend the spoke with the founders of The New ly with excellent dancers and a precise the Salmagundi Club and artists in 75th Anniversary Celebration that York Conservatory for the Arts/ and beautiful performance. Coming up general. I was pleased to see the old honored Pete Seeger and acknowl- Pan American Dance Foundation at Kaatsbaan is Rioult on March 19 tradition of having artists sign one edged Thomas Weeks Barrett who (nyca.org). They had just moved to & 20 and the TAKE on April 16 & 17. another’s souvenir program continue. The President’s Skylight Din- I wasn’t able to track down when that ner at the Salmagundi Club in NYC began so if any of you know, please send (salmagundi.org) was a delightful me an email. event attended by a larger crowd than Originally formed as the Salma- seen in many years. First there were gundi Sketch Club in 1871, the Club cocktails and hor d’oeuvres upstairs in adopted its present name a hundred the library and Founders Gallery. years ago after Washington Irving The exhibit in the Founders Gallery published his potpourri of wit and wis- was a plein air show coordinated by dom called “The Salmagundi Papers”. Sharon Way-Howard and Michael The name also serves as the club din- Budden. This was a juried show and ing room’s famous “Salmagundi Stew”. Jane McGraw-Teubner’s painting Following a tradition of 139 years, the won the Presidential Purchase Salmagundi Club continues to serve as Award. Coming up is a show of works a center for fine artists fromN ew York by Malcolm Mackenzie and then Art and around the country-providing ex- About Art. hibitions of paintings, sculpture and In the lower level of the Club where photography, conducting art classes pool tables are set up for member’s use and painting demonstrations and art there was a Mystery Miniature Sale auctions throughout the year. of donated paintings by artists whose ART TIMES has a Twitter account Left to right: Jose Gomez (President), Denise Fecketter (President in the 1980's), names were unknown. The funds went and a facebook page for you to friend Russ Johnson (Executive Director), Carole Wolf (Executive Director of Mill Street to The Gallery Renovation Project and follow. Enjoy the Winter, it is a Loft), Pete Seeger (Honoree), Frank Munzer (Treasurer) that includes the rebuilding of the time to gather oneself for the creative skylight in the Grand Gallery allow- flow of spring. Keep in mind that the in 1935 founded DCAA, thus fulfilling West Hurley, NY and began offering ing paintings to be seen in natural best way to reach me is via email: one of his lifelong dreams of provid- classes in dance, music and theatre light. The gallery will be a 21st century [email protected]. ef ing classes, events, and art shows to along with Cabaret Performances the community. In recent years, the and now a Traveling Troupe, a Barrett Art Center has annually held Summer Camp and the large scale national shows, including New Direc- Musicals held at UPAC in Kingston. tions and Photo Works. Paint-Outs Over the years I’ve attended plays offer artists of the region opportunities and in the mid 1990’s we awarded to gather for a day of painting outdoors, them with the ART TIMES Cul- then an auction of the resulting work tural Achievement Award. I was with a wine-and-cheese reception. In so pleased to hear that they were able 2005 a second building, Barrett Clay to come to an excellent agreement and Works, was opened at 485 Main Street purchase the Woodstock Playhouse in Poughkeepsie offering ceramics thus providing NYCA with a Perform- courses, exhibitions, and communal ing Arts Facility and saves the Wood- and private studio spaces for artists stock Playhouse from demolition. By in all media. The School of Art now this coming Summer Stock Season, holds courses at the Barrett Art Cen- 2011, nYCA intends to enclose the ter, at the Barrett Clay Works, and at Woodstock Playhouse, install heating sites throughout Dutchess County and and air conditioning, and provide for programs such as Family Clay Day, more comfortable seating. The plans Artist’s Salons, Gallery-to-Go. Re- for the Woodstock Playhouse by the cently there have been several collab- Foundation include maintaining the orative efforts with Mill Street Loft, facility as a presenting Playhouse with a not-for-profit, Multi-Arts Educa- performances of all kinds, including tional Center based in Poughkeepsie, dance, theatre, music and film and Richard Schmid (honoree), Claudia Seymour (president), and John C. Traynor NY that since 1981 has been bringing for it to be available to other Produc- (honoree) at the Salmagundi Club, NYC, President's Dinner Jan/ Feb 2011 ART TIMES page 12 Fiction Artsy Crafty By SUSAN BOUCHER “I did, but Dad got sick. I’m tak- shallow basin below, illicit toboggan- to put up a deer fence. I don’t know The downturn left Elise job- ing care of the business for him and ing over icy snow along River Road’s what your mother was thinking, put- less and homeless when the mortgage Mom.” switchback—and the babies born, ting the bushes slap bang on their on the frame shop she’d managed and “Landscaping? It’s a far cry from marriages made and unmade. regular route, but I couldn’t dissuade over which she’d lived for two years multi-media collage fame in the capi- “Who did you marry?” she asked, her.” was foreclosed. She would have been tals of Europe.” emboldened by their common, though Elise grabbed the bottle and entirely miserable except for her luck “It’s a form of multi-media art, rarely shared, history waved it as he pulled away. Turning in winning first prize at Reading’s right?” He shrugged and grinned, “No one,” he said. “I’ve been busy, her back to the truck’s rear end, she Arts and Crafts Fair for her exhibit, a exposing his fabulously white teeth to what with the business and my scrubbed her face with the inside watercolor embroidered with a cross- great advantage against the backdrop sculpting.” front of her baggy tee shirt. Immedi- stitched, tumble-down bridge over a of his outdoorsman’s complexion. She looked along the row of per- ately, she began spraying the inno- rushing stream, the textures decep- She flashed to high school, and to fectly aligned shrubs, newly mulched, cent vegetation, destined, otherwise, tively realistic. Still, there was little the gossip-girls describing in exqui- and needing, she realized, a good to become high-end deer browse. choice but to starve or to scoot home site detail and then comparing, point- soaking. “What’s your medium?” The next thing she knew, her to Mom with her precious canvas and by-point, boys’ kissing techniques. “Scrap metal.” mother was standing beside her, the winner’s check, which might just David was usually top-ranked “Neat,” she smiled. “So, you weld, directing a water jet along the base carry her through the summer. cutie, regularly beating out Gareth and rivet, and dismember huge of her new, perfectly spaced shrubs. Her mother was tiring to live with, Donahue, the team quarterback. Not pieces of equipment with acetylene “You’re interfering, Mom,” she a dynamo, perpetually involved in that Elise had enjoyed salivary ex- torches?” said mildly, hooking the repellent causes, whether bog preservation, change with either. The most atten- “Not generally in that order,” he into her jeans pocket. pothole repairs, or artists’ funding. tion David ever bestowed was today’s said, rising to his feet. Jan heaved a mock sigh. “David If a local cause had to whip up public peck on her grimy cheek. “I guess,” she agreed, sitting back needs to settle down. His mother says support, Jan Lassiter was the woman “Anyways,” he said, “today’s about to let the sun toast her face. so. You do too.” flicking the lash. Her tongue was getting some shrubs established in The job finished, he set about col- “We’re not a social problem,” sharp, her brain sharper, and her this wasteland your mother calls her lecting his tools and the discarded Elise said sourly, cradling shovel business skills honed finer than the front garden. Let me start unloading twine. and pickaxe in her arms. “You won’t point of size 26 chenille needle. before they fry.” She wanted to ask him to stay for even listen to reason when it comes to To Elise’s horror, her mother an- She continued with her digging, lemonade but couldn’t summon the planting deer-resistant shrubbery.” nounced landscaping as their joint easier now the surface crust was nerve. She glimpsed her mother, loi- Partially blocking the hose with summer project. Using Elise’s muscle broken. She created a series of cavi- tering on the front porch, pretending her thumb to increase the pressure, power, her mom planned to establish ties deep and sufficiently wide, she to inspect spider egg deposits. Jan sprayed Elise, head to toe. “Take shrubbery along the road’s hard edge, guessed, to contain the roots. David hauled himself back into his that, you wretched girl! The trouble I where plucky weeds suffered prema- He dumped a fair-size, burlap- truck. His right fist, clutching a pam- went to, the hazard to these potential- ture decay under the disrespectful wrapped ball with shiny foliage into phlet, appeared through the window. ly lovely lilacs and hydrangeas, just hooves of a herd of white tail deer. the first hole she’d excavated. “Your He poked out his head to summon her. to give you two a cause to bond over.” And, in view of Elise’s workaday ex- mom wants hydrangeas interspersed “A craft show this Saturday in Water “You’re mad; you’re a mad match- perience with wood, her mom wanted with lilacs.” Gap. Want to come?” maker!” Elise shouted, shivering, and to erect a do-it-yourself gazebo, in Elise was none the wiser. She’d “Yes,” she said, springing up and shaking her head like a dog. which Elise could already envision grown up a deer-infested desert, only hurrying to take the flyer. “Mad enough to dream of grand- her swilling down bulk chardonnay the old high-bush blueberries, the “I’m exhibiting. Meet you there?” children,” Jan said. “And make sure, with her motley associates and plot- pines, and the oaks surviving beastly “Sure thing.” when you get engaged, he buys a ting the resurrection of American depredations. She nodded and let He drove off in a cloud of gravel sapphire. I’ve always loved sap- chestnut forests. him get on with the arrangement of dust that caused Elise’s eyes to squint phires. They remind me of hydrangea There was no question of finding shrubs along the sidewalk while she up and tear. blossoms, although, I have to say, paid work in the rural hamlet where knelt down to flay more root and rock Jan was sauntering up the drive- artistically speaking, the color goes she’d grown up, so Elise surrendered from the tortured ground. way, hose in hand, but she suddenly better with my blue eyes than your to her mother’s despotic energy and “Say,” he said, as he tamped down dropped the hose head and loped back hazel ones.” began breaking up the soil lying be- the first bush, “I heard you won an to the porch. When Elise noticed the Elise resolutely shouldered her tween the rim of the turkey mound art prize.” truck backing slowly down the road, tools and squelched down the drive- and the ribbon of pavement that “Yeah. A real thrill.” she caught on to the set up. way. She dropped them off in the ran parallel to the gravel road. The “Is it for sale?” David’s head popped through the porch and entered the familiar, com- ground was mostly clay, baked hard, “I’m totally broke. I’d sell my toe- window. Smiling, he inched the ve- fortable house, tracking mud, in an and she raised the pickaxe time and nail clippings if I could.” hicle back and engaged ‘Park’ without attractive dancing-sneaker design, again, only to jar her joints on em- “I thought our company might looking at his gears. “I forgot to give all the way to the shower. bedded rocks and the ironclad roots use it on our website, especially if it you this.” He dangled a bottle of deer of scrub oak. (Susan Boucher lives in Ding- really is our bridge, and the original repellent by its trigger. “I’ll try to Her hair peppered with debris and mans Ferry, PA). would be displayed in the office, just come back tomorrow or the next day ef yanked messily into a plastic clip, she so,” he said, angling his hands as if stopped digging to watch a flatbed contemplating the optimal position Calendar submission are only accepted by the online truck loaded with leafy shrubs slowly of artwork on a wall. form at: www.arttimesjournal.com/submitevent.html pass her by and sigh to a stop. Her Elise was shocked. She sat back heart unexpectedly flipped when the on her mud-encased heels. “You driver jumped from the cab. InView Center for the Arts know, I hadn’t realized the picture “Hey, ‘Lise, long time no see,” he was inspired by that old wreck over NORTHEAST POETRY CENTER said, heading toward her like a bolt At The Landgrove Inn, your creek.” COLLEGE OF POETRY of tame lightning. 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I heard you graduated 05148 • 800-669-8466 • 802-824-6673 of Deer Leap Falls into the all-too- Warwick, NY 10990 from Tyler.” Jan/ Feb 2011 ART TIMES page 13 Film Sometimes Curmudgeons Laugh By HENRY P. RALEIGH smarty-pants. And then I came upon Her visual range included a variety of Curmudgeons don’t often Marion Davies in “The Patsy.” subtle gestures that rivaled those of laugh. The older the curmudgeons the Most today probably remember Chaplin. It is no wonder that Chaplin less likely they will laugh­­— except, the Marion Davies story from the was one of the few that recognized perhaps, for the wrong reasons. cruelly inaccurate portrayal of her Marion Davies’ extraordinary talent Lillian Gish once described her film by Susan Alexander Kane, mistress for comedy. Here, in an effort to entice persona as funny as a barrel full of of the newspaper tycoon, W. R. a drunken would-be suitor she first dead babies. Many curmudgeons will Hearst, in Orson Wells’ “Citizen impersonates a Clara Bow flapper, laugh at that. But in an unguarded Kane.” In fact Marion Davies was a frantically shimmying and doing a moment recently I did laugh. I most talented comedienne although, Charleston. Drawing no response am quite certain I laughed while on Heart’s insistence, misplaced in she next tries Lillian Gish, downcast, watching a 1928 silent comedy called romantic roles in mediocre films. Her forlorn eyes, “Orphan of the Storm” “The Patsy.” Now film historians will beginnings in comedy film are largely impersonation. This failing as well, tell you silent comedies are the finest forgotten. I can recall having seen only she appears once more now as Theda form of comedy ever put on film and a few of Davies’ films made during Bara, vamping dramatically, rose would be burned on a stake before that other Depression, one, “Going between teeth. Each impersonation admitting that most, at best, have Hollywood”, mostly remembered as is dead-on, as good as Tina Fey’s more than an archaic, simple-minded an early Bing Crosby and for a tune Sarah Palin. And yes, I did laugh charm. To test your endurance try, popular on radio back then — We’ll and not soundlessly I can tell you, for example, “Tillies Punctured Make Hay While the Sun Shines (and scaring the cats. Romance” of 1914, an early Chapin We’ll Make Love When it is Raining— If Marion Davies had been given film of historic importance and little in case you wondered.) “The Patsy” clever lines to speak in “The Patsy” of comedic value — unless you enjoy however is full-blown Marion Davies she might very well have continued an endless and wearisome round of at her peak, appealingly funny best. into the 30’s earning a star position people pushing, shoving, slapping, No matter this is a silent, one of in the romantic-comedy genre as had tripping and falling down only to rise the last to be made, with the usual Constance Bennett and Rosalind again to be pushed, shoved, slapped, sub-titles that all seem to be poorly Russell. The nearest comparison in tripped and fall down, pausing now written puns, Davies’ physical the modern era that comes to mind is and then to throw food at one another. comedy is nearly a spoken language Carol Burnett, also a master of comic Oh, I will sit through these silent, in itself. Her movements and facial mugging and physical expression. pure, finest comedies ever recorded by expressions are marvelously elastic, It’s too bad, I think, we have no such ancient cameras whenever they come sliding easily from pouting anger to talents anymore. Well, if we did what around because that’s what you do if indignation to sappy mooning (a love- would become of Adam Sandler? historic minded and wish to appear a sick expression, for you younger folks.) ef

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Westchester Community College PO Box 813 • 20 Main Street Center for the Digital Arts Wyalusing, PA 18854 www.sunywcc.edu/Peekskill 570-746-4922 • [email protected] www.wyalusingartgallery.com In Good Hands Oil painting by George Strasburger Jan/ Feb 2011 ART TIMES page 14 Ringling International Arts Festival, Sarasota, Florida injured in an accident that left him Convention and Visitors Bureau in a wheel chair with amnesia. His (SCVB), and Anna Maria Island health was restored at the expense of & Longboat Key were the main the son’s life during the hurricane. It benefactors of the evening with over is still a hurricane in my mind. The 30 additional patrons and support- set, the noise, the lightning, all made ers. We ate, drank, danced to the a huge tumult throughout the play, excellent music and then watched the strong emotions, soul searching and fireworks as they splayed out behind redemption. As any fine work should, the museum with a statue of David in it is still with me, as does the idea the foreground. I met several people that Hurricanes destroy lives, change and had a chance to speak with some lives and make one question who they of the dancers and actors I would see are and what they are doing. in the next few days. What a celebra- After the play I met Karen Kopp, tion and way to begin this Festival. my media escort for the duration of The following morning (Thurs- the RIAF. What a delightful person day) I met up with Erin Duggan and guide. Karen, a student of art from the SCVB for breakfast and history for the past 40+ years and a she mentioned the terrific job one full docent in both the Museum and of ART TIMES’ writers did for The Historic Asolo Theater on The John and Mable Ringling Art Museum Campus the Mansion, brought me to the inner Sarasota’s Art Festival in 2007. courtyard of the museum where over Laurie Spiegel wrote an excellent Continued from Page 1 1200 guests including participat- piece about that festival and some of By Cornelia Seckel the Asolo Theatre, an 18th-century ing artists, sponsors and the paying what Sarasota has available to the Native Americans lived along the treasure created in Asolo, Italy in public enjoyed excellent food from the culturally-minded. That report is still waterfront of Sarasota more than 1798. In the late 1940s, the theater Treviso Restaurant (housed on the available at: www.arttimesjournal. 3,000 years ago. In the 1500’s Ponce was dismantled and brought to the Ringling campus), music by DeLeon com/Travel_and_Culture/Sarasota_ de Leon, Panifilo Narvaez and Her- Ringling Estate in Sarasota. Big Band and fabulous fireworks by April_07_Laurie_Spiegel/Sarasota_ nando De Soto arrived from Spain After arriving at the Hampton Bell’s Fireworks. The evening was Winter_Art_Scene.htm. We spoke looking for silver and gold and found about the current tourist concerns the Seminole Indians. In 1824 the of the oil spill. The oil never reached US acquired the territory of Florida Sarasota and didn’t affect any of the and in the 1880’s development began. sea life. There was some spotting of Sarasota, located on the gulf coast of oil in the panhandle of Florida but Southwest Florida, was promoted in people seem to be unaware that the Scotland and many families came waters are safe for wildlife and per- to settle but left when all they found fect for swimming, boating, and beach was an unpaved main street, no citrus combing. Erin suggested some addi- groves or housing. A few people, John tional activities might be of interest to Hamilton Gillespie (first mayor of me. When she mentioned Kayaking I Sarasota) stayed and began to develop immediately smiled and took her up the town. By 1910 wealthy Americans on the offer of a guided tour through were attracted to the area and in the mangroves in Sarasota Bay. 1912 John and Mable Ringling began After breakfast I met Karen at spending their winters in Sarasota. the Ringling Museum’s Visitors John Ringling and 4 brothers Pavilion, which also houses the joined together to start the Ring- Historic Asolo Theater as well ling Bros. Circus (noted for their as the Museum store, and Treviso Menageries) in 1884. John had begun Restaurant. We headed over to the his circus career at 16, performing museum where we heard an excellent as a song and dance man. Given his lecture on the Threads of Gold, an great organization skills, he soon The Tapestry Demo by Becky Stevens as part of the “Golden Threads” exhibition of eight tapestries that are oversaw the circus route. By 1907 exhibit at The John and Mable Ringling Art Museum on tour from Vienna’s, Kunsthis- Barnum & Bailey (noted for their Inn and settling myself I headed to sponsored by Board Chairman Sena- torisches Museum’s collection. Sideshow) joined forces and the Made in the 16th century, several Circus continued to be a world-class the beach by way of a restaurant tor John & Mrs. Michele McKay well known for seafood. I picked and board member Tana Sandefur. belonged to the Emperor Franz I show crossing the country with four (1708–1765), husband of Empress trains and 100 rail-cars each season. up delicious crab cakes (I was on The City of Sarasota, Sarasota By 1927, Ringling moved the circus’ a coast—what else would I choose winter quarters to Sarasota and then but fish?) and headed over to Lido opened it to the public significantly Beach and dip my toes into the cool increasing area tourism. Ringling clear gulf. I had to get back early in by now was a very wealthy man and time for the Night of Premieres bought railroads, real estate, and a lot Gala. First, a champagne toast for of art. With his wife, Mable, Ringling all attending the gala, and then off began accumulating a collection of to 4 different venues and events: Old Master paintings that they dis- “Hurricane” by Nilo Cruz, Solos with played in their homes in New York Mikhail Baryshnikov and David City; Alpine, New Jersey; and then in Neuman, Tim Fain violin solo of Sarasota on the bay where they built work by Philip Glass and J.S. Bach, Cà d’Zan (House of John) which was and Forman Brothers Theatre completed in 1925. In NY they found Opera Baroque. I went to see the furnishings, tapestries, and paint- world premiere of “Hurricane”, a play ings from the homes of wealthy and commissioned by the Ringling In- prominent families and bought them ternational Arts Festival (RIAF) at various Auctions. By the 1920s, the and held in the Historic Asolo The- Ringlings were traveling annually to ater. Briefly, the play takes place in Europe to locate new circus acts, and a hurricane and looks at the lives and made many purchases of art objects relationships of a husband and wife The Forman Brothers posing before their Marionette stage during the pre-show antics and in fact entire rooms including and their son. The father had been Jan/ Feb 2011 ART TIMES page 15 Maria Theresia (1717–1780). All of his design. The house was designed the tapestries were recently restored. with great influence from theDoge’s They depict one of the most popular Palace in Venice. We could visit secular themes in the sixteenth-cen- the various rooms and since Karen tury repertoire of Flemish tapestry was the “lace lady” that repaired the production: the legendary founding lace on the bedspread and pillows in of ancient Rome by the twins, Ro- Mable’s room I learned a lot. John mulus and Remus and are woven Ringling lost most of his fortune with gold and silver. It was quite an during the crash. With his passing education for me. As there were no in 1936, he gave the entire museum books, people learned from the sto- including his art collection and the ries told in paintings and tapestries. house to the state. By the 1990’s, They also had much practical use, major renovations needed to be done, providing insulation for castle walls, especially to the house. covering openings and giving privacy Late in the afternoon (as I did each around beds. Also on display were 5 afternoon) I went to Cà d’Zan patio tapestries of Sarasota weavers and a where Les DaCosta Jazz Quintet loom with a weaver demonstrating played while I (and several hundred the current method and explaining others) watched the sunset. The how that was different from the looms first night was a dedication of the that 5-20 people might be working on new waterfront promenade that was Fireworks in the Museum Courtyard at The Gala Reception for at the same time. It was interesting underwritten by David F. Bolger. the Ringling International Arts Festival, Sarasota Florida to then see some of Peter Paul Ru- This beautiful spot, overlooking the involved?” Dwight told us that on any John Ringling’s mission was about bens’ cartoons (paintings from which Sarasota Bay, is perfect for parties, given night in season (now December- education and this surely continues tapestries were executed) in the art music and perhaps performances. April) there are 7,000 tickets avail- that mission. They needed a name to museum. He worked closely with In the evening I saw the play “The able for performances in Sarasota bring people in. Baryshnikov has an Bravant & Brussels Company in Boys” by The Theatre Art Studio, area and there are 200,000 + people. art center in NYC that is concerned There is the Sarasota Ballet, The with emerging middle career artists. Sarasota Orchestra, The Sara- The museum people thought it might sota Opera, The Asolo Repertory be a match. Baryshnikov came to Theatre, Van Wezel Performing Sarasota to explore the possibilities Arts Hall, Florida Studio Theatre, and when he walked on to the stage Venice Theatre, Banyon Theatre of the Asolo Theatre he said “this Company, Florida Studio The- will do” and the collaboration began. atre, Towles Court Artist Colony, Baryshnikov is the artistic director Golden Apple Dinner Theatre, and wanted no formulas, just new and The Players Theatre. So why enervative work by emerging artists create something else? Why not? But from around the world. It was a con- not in Season. After Season people tinuation of the BAC mission. If there are tired and they need a break. In was any festival that they modeled October, before the Season begins is themselves after it was the Edin- a good time to bring additional people burgh Festival and as with many to Sarasota and as a pay back to the festivals, there are side festivals that community. Ticket prices average crop up in the community. $30-$40 per performance and pack- There is still a strong commitment ages for several performances are to the circus families (Show Folks) The John and Mable Ringling Art Museum inner courtyard, Sarasota, Florida quite reasonable. To date they were who live nearby and come together 20% over the expected sales. There for an annual event. In Sarasota their manufacturing of Tapestries. A the highly acclaimed and youngest are 13,000 young people in local col- there are still many Circus related number of years ago we visited Ru- theatre company in Moscow. Their leges and a number of tickets were activities: Circus Sarasota, PAL’s bens’ home in Antwerp, Belgium, an mission is to perform rare and little provided for students by donors who Sailor Circus — a youth circus, elegant Renaissance Baroque home known works by classical authors. believe that there is a great need to Circus Ring of Fame and the Fly- and gardens. He lived and worked in The excellently performed play (ev- change the hair color of the audience. ing Trapeze Academy & Flying this house from 1616 until his death ery performance Fantasy Circus. in 1640. The Tapestry exhibit will be I attended was Dwight gave us much more time at the museum until January 2, 2011. of the highest than he had scheduled and when we After lunch at the Treviso Restau- professional lev- left him we headed over to the Circus rant we toured the Circus Museum el even though Museum by way of Mable’s award and the Tibbals Learning Cen- they were rel- winning Rose Garden. The Circus ter that houses the world’s largest a t i v e l y n e w Museum had Ringling’s private miniature circus with a replica of and emerging railcar, several wagons, posters, and Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey troupes) was costumes (many Karen had repaired Circus from 1919 – 1938. The How- from 9 chapters and created new ones for visiting ard Bros. Circus was created over from the Broth- students). a 50-year period by master model ers Karamazov We stopped at The Circus Mu- builder and philanthropist Howard by Dostoevsky. seum, a museum that celebrates Tibbals. There are eight main tents, It was heavy, it the American circus, its history and 152 wagons, 1,300 circus performers was intense, it unique relationship to Sarasota. Es- and workers, more than 800 animals was powerful. tablished in 1948, the museum was and a 57-car train. I was fascinated Friday found the first in the county to document by the details, the individual plate m e m e e t i n g the rich history of the circus. Cir- settings in the eating areas, the tent with Dwight cus performers made their homes where the performers got dressed, Currie, Fes- in Sarasota and brought a unique the menagerie, even the parking area tival Director diversity to the area — Cristianis, with vintage cars. This is a must see and the Mu- Concellos, Merle Evans, Lou Ja- when you are in Sarasota. seum’s Interim cobs, Emmett Kelly, LaNorma, From this phenomenal experience Deputy Direc- Unus, Wallendas, and Zacchinis. we went to Cà d’Zan to tour the tor for Collec- They are an integral part of the com- “house”, a home that was comfort- tions, Programs munity and the circus became a part able for circus people with its elabo- and Exhibitions of Sarasota County’s ongoing legacy. rate furnishings. It was built to the for a briefing Afterwards, we headed over to specifications of Mable who brought on the Festi- the Art Museum to have a more postcards, sketches, photos and val. My ques- thorough tour. The John and Mable other materials that she gathered on tion: “How did Ringling Arts Museum was built by her travels to aid the architect with Baryshnikov get Interior room of Cà d’Zan home of John and Mable Ringling, Sarasota, Florida Continued on Page 19 Jan/ Feb 2011 ART TIMES page 16 mont, NY 10538 (914) 834-1117. Seeking aol.com www.NationalSocietyofPaint- website. www.equinephotocontest.com Opportunities work in all media for 7th Annual Small ersinCaseinandAcrylic.com Deadline: Deadline: Feb 1. Works Show, May 10 - May 28, 2011. Max. April 16. Artists: The Lake George Arts Project : Art League 15” in any direction. 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She lived here. most apologetic, although it was I sand lire note, and followed. I was world his subjects dwelt in which was Once.” who had dropped my wine glass. at loose ends. Yet, had I been on the not this world, despite the wealth of “She was your mistress? You could “No, but I’m afraid I’ve made a point of concluding the most lucrative homey detail surrounding them. do that…” mess.” business deal, I knew I would still get Now I wanted nothing so much as “Ah, forgive me, I see that you have I wanted the man to leave, so I up and follow. The woman — for she to show my friend my discovery. My been smitten.” made a parade of helping myself, al- was more than a girl — carried her own aesthetic appreciation would “Not that way.” though nothing short of a bath could femininity nonchalantly. Her pace be multiplied in Sant’Angelo. The “No, your case is worse. Beauty relieve the stickiness I felt. The whole was languorous. But I had lost sight couple ahead turned a corner, crossed for its own sake.” time I never took my eyes off her, she of her face, following her and her a bridge, then entered a palazzo. “But why did you never paint her?” who had been — all unwittingly — the companion in the narrow street off Quickly entering, I followed them up “Never paint her? I painted no cause of my mishap. the Piazza. All I could do was plod one flight, just in time to see them one else.” I had just seen a face so strikingly along, uncomfortably, behind them. enter a door at the end of the hall. “But…” And I looked at his beautiful I knew I could never forget My fascination — obsession? — His or hers? Descending, I examined thieves, his demimondaines. it. I was in Venice to visit my art- was such that I felt no jealousy of the the cards above the buttons, noting a “You don’t see her?” ist friend Paolo Sant’Ange­lo, whom man with her. My urge was not for man’s name. Going out to the street, I walked over to his gallery. As I I had not seen in two years. But gross posses­sion, nor did I feel “love.” I lit a cigarette, determined to wait an peered at every face, I did see. How Sant’Angelo was too intent on his All that was mere egoism. I didn’t hour to see if either — or both — came had I missed it? They were all one work to provide much companion- even have to know her name. To me, out. If they did not, it was likely they face — in so many different guises ship. I was therefore sitting alone the face was a portal on Plato’s world, would stay the night. To possess her and expressions that the identity was at an outdoor table alongside the the real world. that way, what was it? For me, at hidden. The masculine as well as the Piazza San Marco, when I saw The “Sant’Angelo must see her!” I re- any rate, it would be no more than to feminine. Yes, the eyes were all green Face. The possessor of this face was flected. I was the scout, and would possess any attractive woman. But — of varying nuances, in different with someone — a man, I think. She faithfully report when I got back. My it would ruin what had attracted me. lights. I now saw the source of that wore something dark. The face was friend holds that the principle of all At the hour, neither had emerged. ethereal quality which I had ascribed classic, with regular features, Roman art is nostalgia. It seizes the moment Impatience overtook me. I made my to the painter’s genius alone. nose, high cheekbones. But it was the and preserves what is already sliding way back to Sant’Angelo’s studio. But there were no canvases of eyes, which most arrested me. They into the past. Fortunately, the painter was at one the woman herself. As I turned to were a lustrous, pellucid, expressive, “Then you agree with Keats?” of his quickly consumed meals as I Sant’Angelo, he seemed to read my green. The total effect was of a syn- Thinking of the Grecian Urn. entered, brimming with my news. question. ergy of features which produced a “Yes, except that beauty is not “A beautiful woman, you say?” “I tried — a hundred times.” He beauty whose whole was far greater truth, art is.” I realized how inadequate had seemed to sag. “All failures.” than the sum of its parts, as perfect “Aren’t art and beauty intimately been my description. How could I “By comparison with the original,” as each of these was. She fulfilled related?” convey an aesthetic frisson? I thought. I now saw that his belit- Aquinas’ definition of beauty, “the “My dear Charles, beauty is a “You must see her.” tling the relation between art and mistress only. Art has many rela- “You don’t even know her name or beauty was bitterness. Beauty had tionships.” And with that enigmatic where she lives.” indeed been his mistress, but he had statement, Sant’Angelo had turned to “But I know where her lover lives.” been unable to capture her in his art. his canvas, a sign that he was not to “Green eyes, you say?” Yet, her image was so seared into his be disturbed. “Luminous ones.” brain that he could paint nothing As I left the studio this morning, A flicker of interest. Then what else. I passed my friend’s jongleurs, gen- seemed like a sag of resignation. And me? My case was indeed darmes, gondoliers, and prostitutes. “Along the Piazza?” worse. Resisting the impulse to slash every one of his canvases, I turned and strode from my friend’s studio. M A G We will get The image that hovered behind my your ads consciousness rendered me unfit for human contact. I could only hope that th online within 7 ANNUAL SMALL WORKS SHOW a few days. the affliction was temporary. 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“Threads of Gold”, from the Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna on exhibit at The John and Mable Ringling Art Museum, Sarasota, FL phins or Manatees but they are often John’s intention from the beginning seen during this trip. It was a beauti- to have a museum and school where ful day with waters clean and clear as students could learn to draw from the crystal. Kayaking is a delightful way model (he bought 3000 sculptures) to explore the shorelines. Perhaps and study work from different periods next time I’m in Sarasota I’ll take of art history. His purchases were the guided fishing trips, or perhaps all to that end. There are 240 staff the Gulf of Mexico Expeditions, members, over 750 volunteers, 150 A Detail (Ladies Dressing Tent) of the Howard Tibbals Miniature Circus at and then there is the Bird Watching docents and a huge program for chil- The John and Mable Ringling Circus Museum trip. So many choices. dren with 10 school tours a week and finest in the world. In 2006, a com- orative piece) or dancing solo, seeing Late in the afternoon I met up with over 13,000 kids a year visiting the bined endowment, building and col- these two was the highlight for me. Elaine Jaffe, a friend from home museum. An extensive Art Library lection gift from noted Asian art col- My focus was on Baryshnikov and who winters in Venice and she ac- is available to the public. lector and philanthropist Dr. Helga the last piece he did, “Years Later”, companied me to the last two Dance Sarasota is 2nd to NYC per capita Wall-Apelt, substantially bolstered had him dancing with his younger programs and a final (for now) look at of people employed by the arts. Per the Ringling Museum’s Asian art self that was projected on a large the sunset in Sarasota Bay with lovely capita there are more performing arts initiative which aims to establish scrim. Choreographed by Benjamin Jazz playing in the background. We seats than in NY on a given night dur- the Museum as an important venue Millepied, the piece was courageous, saw Les Slovaks Dance Collective, ing the season. What a place to stay in Florida for the study of Asian Art. humorous, and generous. I was burst- a group of 5 Slovak dancers and a vio- away from the cold. And the beach- The Courtyard of the Museum ing with emotion for hours after the lin player who live in Brussels. Their es… some of the most beautiful in the of Art (where the Gala was held) performance and when I saw Barysh- performance, which is structured and world. And then there is the tour of features casts of original antiquities nikov later that evening as he was impromptu, is just delightful as they historic buildings and The Sarasota and renaissance sculptures, includ- posing for a group picture with young tease, antagonize and play with one School of Architecture, sometimes ing the towering David by Michel- Russian dancers and actors, I greeted another. The Company focus is on called “Sarasota Modern,” a regional angelo. The Courtyard features two him and expressed my appreciation performing and dancing. style of post-war architecture that fountains - Fountain of Tortoises, one for his generosity in dancing for us The final performance of the Fes- emerged on Florida’s Central West of three replicas from the Piazza and for being the artistic director of tival for me was Magic, Mystery, Coast and is characterized by its at- Mattei in Rome, and the Oceanus the Festival —he seemed pleased. and other Mundane Events by the tention to climate and terrain. Fountain, copied from the 16th cen- Two hours later and after some John Jasperse Company who are I never did get to some of the pro- tury original by Giovanni Bologna “Coming Down” time I saw Loan based in the US. So many different ductions at the RIAF, the family fest, in Florence’s Boboli Gardens. When Sharking by the Rubberband- dances styles delighted and totally the library, or the Johnson-Blalock John died in 1936, he bequeathed his dance, a Group from Montréal, engaged the audience. Education Center. I guess I’ll just art collection, mansion, and estate to Canada; Co-Artistic Director, Cho- The Museum Campus includes the have to return. Tickets for the 3rd the people of Florida. reographer & Dancer is Victor Qui- Art Museum, Cà d’Zan, the Historic Annual RIAF will go on sale early in With reluctance and an extracted jada. Their movements were so fluid Asolo Theater, the Circus Museum 2011. Most every performance was promise that we would meet again, and intense that I was at the edge of and the Tibbals Learning Center. sold out so go online and secure your I left Karen and went to the Circus my seat once again. At one time the Ringling School tickets for a most fabulous festival. 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