Raleigh on Film; Bethune on Theatre; Behrens on Music; Seckel on the Cultural Scene; Critique: Max Ginsburg; Lille on René Blum; Wersal ‘Speaks Out’ on Art; Trevens on Dance Styles; New Art Books; Short Fiction & Poetry; Extensive Calendar of Events…and more! ART TIMES Vol. 28 No. 2 September/October 2011 Max Ginsburg at The Salmagundi Club By RAYMOND J. STEINER vening ‘social comment’ — “Caretak- JUST WHEN I begin to despair about ers”, for example, or “Theresa Study” the waning quality of American art, — mostly he chooses to depict them in along comes The Salmagundi Club extremities — “War Pieta”, “The Beg- to raise me out of my doldrums and gar”, “Blind Beggar”. His images have lighten my spirits with a spectacular an almost blinding clarity, a “there- retrospective showing of Max Gins- ness” that fairly overwhelms the burg’s paintings*. Sixty-plus works viewer. Whether it be a single visage — early as well as late, illustrations or a throng of humanity captured en as well as paintings — comprise the masse, Ginsburg penetrates into the show and one would be hard-pressed very essence of his subject matter — to find a single work unworthy of what the Germans refer to as the ding Ginsburg’s masterful skill at classical an sich, the very ur-ground of a thing representation. To be sure, the Sal- — to turn it “inside-out”, so to speak, magundi has a long history of exhib- so that there can be no mistaking his iting world-class art, but Ginsburg’s vision or intent. It is to a Ginsburg work is something a bit special. Nor painting — say, “Foreclosure” — that does the Salmagundi often give over the expression “one picture is worth a their walls to a single artist, but they thousand words” truly fits. And yet, certainly have an eye for exception- here I am, trying to put words down, Bus Stop ally outstanding artists when they one after the other, to bring you some find them. To say that Max Ginsburg idea of what it is to actually view one on the ‘problem’, this does not mean the chain-link fence in “Two Worlds” of his paintings. A humanist with that he slights his duties in depicting and its shadow on the back of a per- a social realist message, Ginsburg that human — Ginsburg is nothing son seated nearby. Look closer: Now makes perfectly clear what his ‘mes- if not a highly-skilled draftsman. see how the individual links of the sage’ is — and that is that the human Facial and bodily details — of age, actual fence are merely “commas” of condition is at times a sorry thing to of race, of gender — are exquisitely white paint — as we step back from behold. I say “social realist” since, if rendered, carefully delineated by the painting, the illusion is magically I had to catalog his work, his work an eye and hand that is very nearly masterful. In his artist’s statement, most properly fits that ‘30s theme in infallible. Undoubtedly, it his role Ginsburg states: “I believe realism is American art. Neither as sarcastic, as illustrator (several included in truth and truth is beauty” — in view- say, as a Jack Levine, Ginsburg still this exhibit — “Tapestry”, Hoops”, ing his work, one can hardy argue goes beyond the somewhat ‘softer’ “Another Time, Another Village”, with his reasoning. humanism of a Philip Reisman — etc.) — that honed his talents of *“Max Ginsburg Retrospective (both artists, incidentally, that I’d verisimilitude, but Ginsburg’s preci- Exhibition” (thru Aug 5), The profiled and come to know personally sion goes far beyond the human face. Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Ave., during their lifetimes) and whom Automobiles, park benches, building NYC (212) 255-7740. The show will Ginsburg (whom I’ve not met) most facades, crutches, food stands, cloth- travel to The Butler Institute of reminds me. Although “Torture Abu ing, fences, fire escapes, gates, canes, American Art, 524 Wick Avenue, Grahaib” is a notable exception, Gins- stone steps and walls — all are given Youngstown, Ohio (Sept. 15 - Nov. burg’s focus seems to be less on the equal care, equal time of his attention 11, 2011). individual — victim or perpetrator and skill. Note, for just one example, — than on the misfortunes inflicted ef Theresa_ study upon humankind. War, poverty, ill- is a “realist” is somewhat misleading ness, aging — these are the culprits — for he is that, and then some. His in Ginsburg’s eyes, conditions of CSS Publications, Inc. 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To the Publisher: We became aware of ART TIMES last month having picked up a copy — which featured Clark Hulings’ work — Clark was my husband’s roommate at Haverford! And, so when we saw a new issue at Beacon’s DIA yesterday upstream Gallery 26B Main Street, Dobbs Ferry NY 10522, www.upstreamgallery.com Gallery hours 12:30-5:30 Thurday-Sunday we picked it up and brought it home Sept/ Oct 2011 ART TIMES page 3 Speak Out Is it art, or is it compost? By Lisa Wersal While on a bird-watching hike at The nature center hosts day camps a slightly arched backbone. With its ed on all of the students’ daring and a nearby nature center, I noticed that for children, and this was clearly one ears drawn back, the rabbit conveyed uninhibited practice of art. They had off in the distance there were piles of the students’ art projects, using an alert, observant quality, and I half accepted the challenge presented to of grass clippings scattered about (mostly) woodsy material as sculpting expected it to suddenly startle, and them— to use such unusual materials one area of the lawn. It seemed odd medium. The markers provided the bound away. As I studied the rabbit’s for sculpting, and to work within a to have such large clumps of dead names of the pieces and the artists, textured coat, it seemed as though prescribed time frame, knowing that grass left behind from mowing, so I as examples, “Calisopher” (bunny) compost materials might have been a whatever they came up with would be assumed the piles were deliberate — by Bailey, “Penguins” by Emma and chosen medium for the piece, rather left on the grounds, for all passersby perhaps part of some scientific experi- Savanah, and “Koala Bear Family” than simply what had been provided to see, until their work is eventually ment, maybe involving the lifecycle of by Kiki. by the teacher. destroyed by Mother Nature. some insect. From my vantage point, Amazingly, many of the sculp- This unexpected encounter with Herein lies a lesson for us adults, I could see little markers next each tures were still intact, having sur- a sculpture garden gave me pause to who, having found our respective pile, which I assumed would reveal vived a strong storm with heavy rain again consider our previous discus- niches, adhere tenaciously to what we detailed information about what was the night before. Evidently, grass sions in Art Times on the question, do well, and seldom truly stretch our- being tested. clippings are more durable than one “What is art?” I mused also on the selves into untried or uncomfortable To my surprise, as I got closer, I might expect. equally important “how” and “why” territory — certainly not for immedi- discovered that the piles were molded Though all of the pieces were imag- of art. ate public display or performance. into distinct shapes (“snake,” “cam- inative and delightful, Bailey’s “Cal- Ethnomusicologist John Blacking, According to Blacking, the practice el,” “salamander,” “hamster”), and isopher” caught my eye. I guessed speaking about the arts in general, of art (not art’s “perfection,” or art’s that each form included additional that Bailey was a bit older than the has written, “Art does not consist “ideal,” but its practice) deserves a materials — leaves, tree bark, twigs, other children, as she seemed to pos- of products, but of the processes by central place in human life, for it is berries, pine cones, twine, brightly sess a more mature “eye,” demon- which people make sense of certain “part of the process of educating the colored yarns — to both bolster con- strating skill to capture considerable kinds of activity and experience.” In feelings and the intellect.” struction, and provide additional detail and depth. Her rabbit was a this view, the greatest value of art So, here’s to more practice, more texture for eyes, claws, tongues, etc. well-proportioned, complete animal, is not in a piece of art itself, but in process... and to doing something This was not science; it was art. with sturdy haunches and feet, and how we address it — in the process more creative with one’s grass clip- of creation, or in the experience of pings than immediately tossing them encountering art and responding to into the compost bin. Be part 39th Annual Exhibition it. I wondered, for example, at what (Lisa Wersal, a regular contribu- of THE re- point in Bailey’s process she breathed for “Pastels Only” tor to our Speak Out column, source for such “life” into her creation. lives in at The National Arts Club, New York ef ALL As I left the nature center, I reflect- September 6 – October 1, 2011 the Arts Bill Creevy, PSA 2011 Hall of Fame Honoree Call (845) visit us at www.arttimesjournal.com 246-6944 by Bill Creevy ConEd Tower Jason Chang, PSA, Friend of Pastel Honoree ~ Friday, September 23, 6pm ~ Reception & Gallery Tour with Jimmy Wright, PSA Open to the public, no fee ~ Saturday, September 24, 10-4pm ~ Materials Fair Open to public, no fee ~ Sunday, September 25, 4pm ~ Awards Ceremony followed by the Awards Dinner ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ San Francisco Opera House 24 x 24 oil on canvas September 26-28 ~ Three-day workshop with Doug Dawson, PSA, 2008 Hall of Fame Honoree arbara racchia Wait list Available B F Saturday, October 1, 1-3:30pm, Special Weekend Eastside/Westside Demonstration with 2011 Hall of Fame honoree Bill Creevy, PSA October 4 -29, 2011 d d d PSA Workshops at the PSA School for Pastels ~ Receptions ~ October 9 ~ Pastel Bodies – Pastel Heads w/ Robert Palevitz Thursday, October 6 5-8pm October 21-23 ~ Lively Landscape Paintings from Photo- Saturday, October 8 3-6pm graphic Reference w/ Maggie Price, PSA November 5-6 ~ PanPastels & Everything but the Kitchen Sink with Mindy Lighthipe Pleiades Gallery Contemporary Art. 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nrm.org 413-298-4100 open daily 9 Rt. 183, Stockbridge, MA Order by Phone, by Email or in the Store Sept/ Oct 2011 ART TIMES page 5 Dance René Blum, the Ballets Russes & Artistic Morals By Dawn Lille In 1924 when Blum was brought to had an excellent rapport, turned down When approaching the subject Monte Carlo as manager of the Theatre his invitation to join him, saying that of art and politics – especially the ac- of Monte Carlo and made responsible although a collaboration with Blum tions of an artist living under occupa- for all the entertainment (he even was something he desired, he could not tion or dictatorship – it is often difficult co-authored several productions) his leave the United States. Fokine came to to separate the collaborator from the involvement with and knowledge of stage his old works and to create three creative artist trying to stay alive. dance increased. He and Serge Diaghi- new ones for the two successful sea- Then there is the scenario in which lev met many times due to the perma- sons of the René Blum Ballets Russes prominent members of the intellectual/ nent residency of the Ballets Russes in de Monte Carlo. Then Fokine went to art community do nothing when one Monte Carlo and the fact that they were de Basil, dancers were going back and of their members is arrested, “disap- responsible for all the choreography in forth, there were lawsuits against de peared,” or killed. the operas. Basil and Blum, in poor health, was These issues came to mind while When Diaghilev died in 1929 Blum running out of money. reading a new book, René Blum and The assumed responsibility for all the dance Thus at Massine’s urging (he had Ballets Russes In Search of a Lost Life, in his theater. It took him two years left de Basil), Blum sold the company about the brilliant and knowledgeable to form a new company, the purpose name and repertoire to Serge Denham French connoisseur of the arts. Among of which was to keep the Diaghilev and Julius Fleischmann of World Art, other accomplishments, he was respon- repertory, with its ballets by Fokine, Inc., in America. He was listed as sible for keeping alive and active the Nijinsky, Massine, Nijinska and Bal- the founder and shared the artistic ballets and personnel of the Diaghilev anchine, to offer employment to the direction of the new Ballets Russes de Ballets Russes. many dancers and to encourage new Monte Carlo with Massine. He was in Judith Chazin-Bennahum, the au- choreography. He did not want to re- New York with the company (it was to thor, who researched heretofore unin- peat Diaghilev except in the sense of remain there until it disbanded in 1963) vestigated archives, has done a heroic promoting the avant-garde. after war had broken out in Europe. job in bringing to a larger public the life One of the dance companies Blum Adam Riding, a former New York and work of René Blum, who was per- brought in was the Ballet de l’Opera a Times correspondent, has written a Rene Blum haps the quintessential embodiment of Paris headed by Col. Wassily de Basil. book, And The Show Went On. Cul- credit: G. Detaille. Archives Monte-Carlo, SBI twentieth century European culture up When Blum formed the Ballets Russes tural Life in Nazi-occupied Paris. He book, as did another prisoner, Georges until World War I and a major force in de Monte Carlo, de Basil wanted to be divides members of the cultural circles Weller. Blum was frail, starving and dance after 1925. part of it and, in addition to signing on – literary, fine art, theater, music, ill, but found time to give lectures on Born in Paris in 1878, Blum was Balanchine and Massine as choreog- dance – into those in the underground literature, poetry and ballet to up to one the youngest of five sons in an upper raphers, Blum gave him a contract as resistance, those who held every day hundred other prisoners without notes. middle class Jewish family. Three of his co-director of the company and added jobs but were part of or sympathetic to He convinced the doctors to put the ill brothers joined his father’s successful both their names to its name. Blum put the resistance, those who collaborated Bernard in the hospital ward instead textile business but he and his brother a great deal of personal money into the and those who seemed neutral and of himself, feeling that the young man Leon, who was to become a noted critic venture and held the majority of the just tried to make a living. There was might recover due to the better treat- and the first Jewish Prime Minister of stock. They performed Fokine’s ballets, a large, often virulently anti-Semitic ment and be released, which he was. France, were very much a part of left three new works by Balanchine and collaborationist press and a clandestine But why was there no immediate bank society. others by Romanov and Massine. resistance one. There were also many outcry from outside the prison on the Blum was co-founder of the maga- De Basil, Lithuanian born, was a performances in the busy theaters. part of those who knew René Blum and zines Le Revue blanche and Le Banquet clever, avaricious, dishonest and reck- Some allowed themselves to be taken were in a position to help him? Jean to Germany to perform or to contribute Cocteau, the artist, playwright and to German cultural life. poet, who was part of Diaghilev’s circle In his chapter “Vengeance and Am- and a frequent contributor to the Ballets nesia” Riding points out that, although Russes, was seen constantly at German after the war many were arrested and cultural affairs. Serge Lifar, head of paraded through the streets as col- the ballet at the Paris Opera, had been laborators, they were later let go and Diaghilev’s last leading man and had eventually forgiven, often because of danced for Blum. He was an out and out their exceptional “talents.” Maurice friend of the Germans, socialized with Chevalier claimed he went to Germany them and even tried to Aryanize the to perform for the French prisoners of company at the Opera. He was exiled war. Edith Piaf, who entertained the for three years after the war but allowed Germans, claimed she had helped the to return. His published memoirs lied resistance. Riding feels that all the cul- about everything, including Blum. tural resisters really accomplished was And then there was Picasso. Dur- to “achieve a core of decency.” ing the occupation of Paris he kept an Blum, the most decent of men, re- astute silence and seemed to make no turned to Paris under the Nazi occupa- commitment, neither supporting the tion after being with his new company Germans nor joining the resistance in New York, where many pleaded nor expressing any affinity with the with him to remain. Here he report- cultural resistors. He just kept painting edly kept a low profile, although he did and selling his work. In 1944 he joined Rene Blum and Alicia Markova attend performances. He was arrested the Communist Party, which was active credit: G. Detaille. Archives Monte-Carlo, SBI in December 1941, in a roundup of over in identifying and denouncing collabo- seven hundred Jewish intellectuals rators. Many of his fellow artists felt and for many years was co-editor of Gil less man with a flair for publicity, a ten- and imprisoned at Compiegne. He was this decision was dictated by his fear Blas, a prominent literary paper. He dency to use people for his own ends and eventually sent to Drancy and then to of losing his fortune. Coco Chanel was showed both his creative and intuitive to make absurd promises. He fancied Auschwitz where he died in September seen at all the German parties with her sides in his long time as a critic. At himself another Diaghilev, but had no 1942, either shot or thrown alive into Nazi lover and after the war discreetly the age of twenty he founded a pub- talent and little taste. Blum, who once an oven, depending upon the account. took herself to Switzerland to escape lishing house, which brought out the called him the “gangster Colonel,” was Neither Chazin-Bennahum nor the repercussions. She had designed for works of decorative artists and wood perhaps initially impressed with de anyone else can answer the question the ballet and knew Blum. engravers. He promoted young artists, Basil because of these characteristics why René Blum returned to Paris. He These four and others, who were not organized exhibitions and was a major that the soft-spoken Frenchman did claimed it was because his son Claude Jews, were not in hiding, were in safe force behind the Art Deco movement. not possess. René (a result of his love affair with positions and knew René Blum and his As a friend and collaborator of poets When Blum, who did not accompany the actress Josette France) was there myriad contributions to French culture and writers he worked with Gabriele the company on tour, discovered that and also because his brother Leon was and life, could have spoken up early and d’Annunzio and was instrumental in de Basil eliminated his name and that in prison and he could not desert him. saved him. But they did not and history, getting Du cote de chez Swann, the first of the Society of Monte Carlo from all Ironically, Claude died on the battle- especially dance history, has let this volume of Marcel Proust’s A la recher- programs and posters, posing as the field in April 1945, and Leon survived sensitive man, with his keen intelli- ché du temps perdu, published. sole power behind the group, and then both Buchenwald and Dachau. To this gence and impeccable taste, to whom so His sense of theater led to his di- fired Balanchine, he realized he had day no one has found the manuscripts much of twentieth century dance owes recting several theaters and his love of made a major error. The relationship of René’s memoir, one of which was its existence, be partially hidden. His music resulted in his knowing entire ended in April 1935, and de Basil left with a publisher in London and the biographer feels this may be due to his scores by memory, plus how to stage an to form a different company. other in Paris. own quiet modesty and charm. opera. He headed the first Cinema Club Blum too, decided to form another A fellow prisoner at Compiegne, Judith Chazin-Bennahum, in in France. During World War I he was ballet company, international in char- Jean Jacques Bernard, son of the writer searching for his lost life has done a ser- in charge of the safety of works of art acter and including many well-known Tristan Bernard, survived and wrote a vice – not just culturally, but morally. and won a Croix de Guerre. dancers. Balanchine, with whom he ef Sept/ Oct 2011 ART TIMES page 6 The Farm Project 2011 At Saunders Farm Collaborative Concepts Saunders Continued from Page 4 Farm 853 Old Albany Post Rd Garrison NY 845-528-1797 Opening Reception 1-6:30 pm, Calendar Rain date Sept 4 free (thru Oct 30) www.collaborativeconcepts.org Friday, September 2 Sunday, September 4 8 Views / 4 Seasons: 32 new plein air Adirondack paintings. Adirondack Artists’ Guild 52 Main St. Saranac Lake NY 518-891-2615 Opening reception 5-7pm free (thru 81st WASHINGTON SQUARE OUTDOOR ART EXHIBIT Washington Square Oct 4) adirondackartistsguild.com/ Outdoor Art Exhibit, Wash. Sq. E. & Univ. Pl. (212) 982-6255 www.wsoae.org NYC Chagall in High Falls D&H Canal Historical Society D&H Canal Society ANNUAL WOODSTOCK FINE ART AUCTION Woodstock Artists Assoc Museum, Museum Museum 23 Mohonk Road High Falls NY 845-687-9422 Opening Reception (WAAM), 28 Tinker St., Woodstock (845) 679-2940 1 pm www.woodstockart.org Ulster charge (thru Oct 30) www.chagallinhighfalls.com Just Paint: Oil & Acrylic Exhibition Rowayton Arts Center 145 Rowayton Avenue Harold Lohner: Gathering The Sage Colleges Opalka Gallery 140 New Scotland Rowayton CT 203-866-2744 free (thru Sept 25) www.rowaytonartscenter.org Ave Albany NY 518-292-7742 Artist’s reception 5-9pm free (thru Oct 16) www.sage.edu/ OPEN STUDIO & SALE Fay Wood Clove Church Studio & Gallery, 209 Fishcreek Rd., opalka Saugerties, NY Weekends thru Christmas 10am-4pm (thru Dec 25) www.faywoodstudio. 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(212) 982-6255 www.wsoae.org NYC Memorial Library 24 Chestnut Street Spring Valley NY 845-352-5700 free www.fin- OPEN STUDIO & SALE Fay Wood Clove Church Studio & Gallery, 209 Fishcreek Rd., kelsteinlibrary.org Saugerties, NY 10am-4pm (thru Dec 25) www.faywoodstudio.com Ulster OPEN STUDIO & SALE Fay Wood Clove Church Studio & Gallery, 209 Fishcreek Rd., Traveling Teen Show Les Malamut Art Gallery 1980 Morris Ave Union NJ free (thru Saugerties, NY 10am-4pm (thru Dec 25) www.faywoodstudio.com Ulster Oct 15) http://lesmalamutartgallery.web.officelive.com 48th Annual Juried Exhibition The Orange County Art Federation CS Arch Tuesday, September 6 Architecture downstairs fr 19 Front Street Newburgh NY 845-987-8748 free (thru Oct 39th Annual Pastel Society of America Open Juried Exhibition Pastels 16) [email protected] Only Pastel Society of America National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South New York “Threads” MURAL and The Robinson-Broadhurst Foundation Mural on Main NY 212-533-6931 free (thru Oct 1) www.pastelsocietyofamerica.org Gallery 74 Main Street Stamford NY 607-652-1174 free (thru Oct 31) facebook JANESE HEXON Pleiades Gallery 530 W. 25th St. New York NY 646-230-0056 (thru Saturday, September 3 Oct 1) www.hexonstudios.com NYC 81st WASHINGTON SQUARE OUTDOOR ART EXHIBIT Washington Square MALKA INBAL: From White to Gray: Photographs NOHO Gallery 530 W. 25th St, Outdoor Art Exhibit, Wash. Sq. E. & Univ. Pl. (212) 982-6255 www.wsoae.org NYC Suite 406, NYC (212) 367-7072 (thru Sep 30) www.malkainbal.com NYC Art on the Wall Virtual Gallery “Combined and Twined” with Julia and Ste- Thursday, September 8 ven White Deep Listening Institute Virtual Gallery on view www.deeplistening.org 77 Fall for Art Juried Art Show Sale and Cocktail Reception Jewish Federation Cornell St, Suite 303 Kingston NY 845-338-5984 Opening Reception 5-7 pm free (thru Sept 30) of Ulster County Wiltwyck Golf Club Kingston NY 845-338-8131 6-9 charge www.deeplistening.org Different Perspectives The Smithy Pioneer Gallery 55 Pioneer St Cooper- Dogs Crows & Things Dolce 27 Broadway Kingston NY 845-339-0921 Opening stown NY 607-547-8671 5-7pm free SmithyPioneer.org Reception 6 - 9pm. 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By FRANK BEHRENS Disguised as a second trombone cousins on the mu- They say there are only seven and a singer of ballads “cut and sical stage. basic plots and that any work of fic- dried,” he wants to win the lovely “ T h e M a g i c tion is a variation on one of those Yum-Yum. But to do so, he must de- Flute” is told like seven. Don’t ask who said that or feat two monsters: the timid ex-tailor, a fairy tale to begin what those seven plots are, because I now Lord High Executioner of Titipu, with, but again we couldn’t be that precise. But assum- Ko-Ko; and the horrendously ugly have the Prince in ing it is true, I would like to return to (except for her left shoulder-blade disguise, Tamino, a theme I handled quite a few years and right elbow, which are miracles who is commanded ago in this journal, namely Myth in of loveliness) Katisha, the Mikado’s by the Queen of the Opera. Daughter-in-Law Elect. To get his Night (a sympa- Back then, I devoted several ar- girl, Nanki-Poo must agree to be thetic character in ticles to operatic treatments of myth, beheaded after one month’s conjugal Act I, a blatant vil- such as Gluck’s two Iphigenia operas bliss, a situation not unlike that of Sir lainess in Act II) to (one of which is was recently shown Gawain vis-à-vis the Green Knight. rescue her daugh- at the Metropolitan Opera, on televi- Did Gilbert have all this myth in ter Pamina from sion, and in movie houses), Handel’s mind when he came up with the sce- the evil Sarastro. look at the last days of Heracles, and nario? I would not dare second guess. Being a Masonic Strauss’s take on Elektra. In this es- But the elements are certainly there. allegory, the plot say, however, I want to turn things The Prince in “Turandot” has a has both Tamino around and look at mythical elements special problem. The monster he and Pamina risk in operas and other works for the must slay to get the girl he wants ordeals of water musical stage that have nothing to is the girl herself, the man-hating and fire (not very do with retelling the original ancient Princess Turandot. Where Oedipus dangerously, since tales but retain aspects of the same had but one riddle to solve, the Prince he has the magic mythic concepts. must solve not one but three riddles flute to help him), Durward Lely, the original Nanki-Poo, disguised Prince of a Perhaps an example will make of Florentine complexity. Like Per- and when he gains godlike father, in “The Mikado” things clearer. One frequent feature seus who had to go to the three Grey self-knowledge, he of many myths is a young man who Sisters (with one eye between them), wins the bride. by combat between her accuser and is the son of a god or goddess, travel- this hero is confronted unwillingly by Although “Lohengrin” is an opera whoever acts as combatant for the ing in disguise for some reason or the advice of the three court officials based on a Teutonic myth, it makes defense (I suppose you would call it). another, but usually to win a fair Ping, Pang and Pong. And by offering use of a classical myth for its climax. Out of the mist and riding on a raft princess. Well, if we allow the Mikado to sacrifice himself by posing a riddle Elsa is accused by a knight named pulled by a swan, Lohengrin appears of Japan to be a divine being, then of his own to Turandot, he displays Telramund of doing away with her and needs only a few bars of music to his son Nanki-Poo fits the bill nicely. the heroic aspects of so many of his brother, and the issue is left to a trial beat his opponent to the ground. This seems automatically to mean wed- ding bells (and the world’s two most famous wedding marches) for the yet HOFSTRA unnamed knight and Elsa. UNIVERSITY M A G For reasons of his own—which MUSEUM 126 Larchmont Avenue, boil down to “There is no love with- out trust”—he refuses to tell her his Larchmont, NY 10538 914-834-1117 Burton Silverman: name. After a few plot turns, Lohen- www.mamaroneckartistsguild.org grin says he feels betrayed that Elsa THE HUMANIST SPIRIT asked for his name and feels he must September 1 - Jurying for New Members announce it all. His name is Lohen- December 16, 2011 October 17 & 18, 2011, 3 – 6 pm grin and his father is Parsifal, Guard- ian of the Grail. He exits by swan. Emily Lowe Gallery Now since a wife is forbidden to South Campus Download forms from our website do or say a certain thing and she www.hofstra.edu/museum or send a SASE to the gallery 516-463-5672 is driven to disobey in this tale, it should immediately bring to mind the story of another such situation, that of Cupid and Psyche. Psyche was so The Bruynswick Art Studio American Watercolor Society beautiful that worship of Venus fell off to the point that the goddess vowed & Gallery 145th Annual International Exhibit 1058 Bruynswick Rd. Gardiner, NY 12525 revenge. She sent her son Cupid to have Psyche fall in love with the vilest 845-255-5693 [email protected] creature possible; but the young god Gallery hours: Tues. — Sun. 10am— 5pm was smitten himself. Presents Psyche winds up with a husband CALL for whose name she must never ask and “Garden Gate: Botanicals” whose body she must never see. (This by ENTRIES makes Lohengrin seem very reason- Sharon Vairamides able.) Goaded by her sisters, she does approach her husband as he sleeps and finds him to be the fairest man she ever hoped to see. At the end, the Postmark Deadline for Submissions Olympians agree to let the marriage November 15th, 2011 last—and Cupid (Love) and Psyche (Soul) were forever united. Show Opens April 3rd, 2012 We will continue to consider the Estimated $40,000 in awards with 12 medals Unknown Prince theme and that of the Trickster in the next issue. Entries accepted by slide or digital photograph ef We are now accepting online submissions!

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Continued from Page 6 Sunday, September 11 Calendar 4th annual weekend Gallery Tour in Catskill M Gallery/CGA M Gallery 350 Saturday, September 10 Main Street Catskill NY 518-943-0380 free Throughout Catskill mgallery-online.com 4th annual weekend Gallery Tour in Catskill M Gallery/CGA M Gallery 350 60th ANNUAL SIDEWALK ART SHOW Art Society of Old Greenwich, Sound Beach Main Street Catskill NY 518-943-0380 free Throughout Catskill mgallery-online.com Ave., Old Greenwich, CT (203) 637-9949 9-5pm www.sidewalkartshow.com 60th Annual Schenectady Stockade Art Show Stockade Ferry St at Front St., 81st WASHINGTON SQUARE OUTDOOR ART EXHIBIT Washington Square Schenectady, NY (518) 381-6322 10am - 4pm Outdoor Art Exhibit, Wash. Sq. E. & Univ. Pl. 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Watching some old terbug, which my generation adored. tempt to paint the films, and reading the biographies Most social dancing in early Amer- beauty of the ballet of those who were the big names in ica was group dancing, where people moves. An illustra- my day, I realized how significantly would form different patterns and tion of my attempt dance itself has changed: Most par- move from partner to partner, fre- accompanies this ticularly social dancing. Thinking quently partners were held an arms article. Dance was of how it has changed made me distance away. Square dancing is a beautiful, move- suddenly aware that dance reflects more intimate and warmer version. ment was lyrical, more than a musical trend – it also il- The waltz caused a scandal, in a pas de deux a lustrates a social trend and mindset. its day, because a man and woman breathtaking exam- That dance is a basic reaction to danced in such proximity. The two- ple of movements music or a strong beat is evident in step, fox trot, tango and other dances both exhibitionistic even the youngest children. Play mu- emerged from this “holding pattern”. and interactive. sic and they sway or hop about to it. These dances were a coupling of The first ballet Adults sitting in a theater or listening a man and a woman. Even before school was estab- to music on radios or through ear- gay rights became popular, it was a lished in France in phones react by tapping their fingers coupling of two men or two women in the mid 17th cen- or feet, or timing their strides with gay environs. The main factor was tury. Ballet schools the beat of the music to which they that it was a way of two people mov- flourish even now, are listening. ing together. with littlest little Ethnic dances often reflect the early It was often an expression of af- girls and occasion- influences of dance, which were a form fection. It was a form of courting. It ally young boys ea- of religious worship. They are often was sometimes a prelude to a kiss or ger to try the art very stylized, with picture perfect poses more. It required moving together, form. Many audi- and frequently with staccato rather often beautifully and elegantly, often ences throng to bal- than flowing gestures – Indian dance, in a wild profusion of lifts and spins. let recitals and per- traditional Japanese dances, Balinese Their steps synchronized, they relied formances. dances are all such examples. on each other, embraced each other. Today, in pub- Then there are the ethnic dances, lic, however, people often do not dance This is traditional Chinese ribbon dance from Nai-Ni Chen together – they dance This is traditional Chinese ribbon dance from Nai-Ni Chen alone midst a throng mately supersedes sex? of others dancing alone. First time I I believe such dancing shows the saw a group of people dancing at a alienation of people today. It reflects disco I thought of whirling dervishes! the “me only” rather than merely the Seeing this separate gyrating type “me first” attitude of the previous of dance time and again, I realized it generation. conveyed a loss: A loss of connections, As an audience, people of all ages a loss of duality and a loss of warmth. respond to modern dance, athletic There may be fire and passion in one’s dance and ballet on stage, but prefer dancing, but it is not with another, it solo untouching dancing for them- is an exhibition to a mass of others. selves. That reflects the mindset of too It makes me feel sorry for my many people today – their isolation, grandkids, growing up in a world their trouble bonding with others, where friends are words or faces on a their insularity. They are more at computer screen: Where competition home with a computer screen or a is a mechanical box which challenges cell phone or text messaging than you to try to beat it. Where music is a with the actual presence of another pounding, incessant beat and melody human being. is mostly lost, while lyrics are more They may fall into bed more eas- and more repetitive and mindless. ily and less self consciously, but do I only hope the pendulum swings they fall into like and understanding back before these youngsters grow up and closeness that precedes and ulti- in an insular, single modem world. ef Visit our website: www.arttimesjournal.com to read previously published essays.

This is traditional Chinese ribbon dance from Nai-Ni Chen Dance company photo by Carol Rosegg which are more flamboyant – such Today people admire and applaud as Irish step dancing which is said these dances and dancers. Several to have been conceived as a political television shows are based on the bril- rebellion against English rule. This liance of couples dancing together. dance form enjoyed a strong Ameri- I have a friend whose hobby is can following at the turn of this cen- ballroom dancing. She and a partner 83rd Grand National Exhibition tury when brilliantly trained troupes sometimes compete with other danc- brought their work to our attention. ers…they enjoy the experience of a Painting Graphics Sculpture Another exuberant ethnic dance couple of dancers where half the magic st th is the Jewish hora, where groups is how well they move together, how Tuesday, November 1 — Friday, November 11 of men and groups of women form- they manage to seem almost like two Awards Presentation and Reception ing circles do a series of prescribed halves of one being when at their best. Sunday, November 6th 2 - 5pm steps, celebrating the solidarity of Their dancing shows trust in each this often prejudiced against group. other, knowledge of each other and a Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Avenue, New York City I remember when I first saw a conga wordless communication. Open Daily from 1-5pm line thinking this was a linear mod- I fell under the spell of ballet when www.americanartistsprofessionalleague.org ernization of the hora! I saw The Red Shoes, which still Sept/ Oct 2011 ART TIMES page 10 history, but also National history. I made She has photographed many dancers a short video of this exhibit that is also over the years and is best known for her Culturally Speaking available on the ART TIMES YouTube portraiture, especially of the human body. By CORNELIA SECKEL channel and from www.arttimesjournal. Another exhibit was of photographs by were unemployed or underemployed, but com (see videos). Barbara Morgan who created unfor- The Summer seems to have disap- would also provide rural youth training peared. I did manage to accomplish many Jacob’s Pillow, celebrating their 79 gettable images of Martha Graham for new kinds of work. Val-Kill Industries Anniversary is now a National His- and other pioneering modern dancers of my “get to see/ do” list but as usual, I (in operation from 1927 through 1936) didn’t make it to everywhere. toric Landmark and home to America’s from the generation that followed Pillow was created as an experiment dedicated longest running International dance founder Ted Shawn. When Ernestine festival. In 1931, modern dance pioneer Stodelle, Teacher and Dancer (partner Ted Shawn bought the farm as a re- of José Límon among others) was our treat. At the time of the purchase, Shawn dance writer she wrote about many of and his wife, Ruth St. Denis, led the theses pioneering modern dancers and Denishawn Company. One of Shawn’s we ran Barbara Morgan’s photographs to goals was to legitimize dance as a career accompany the articles. I remember fond for American men and in 1933 formed a conversations with Morgan’s son Lloyd company of male dancers, intent on chal- about the logistics of getting the images lenging the image of men in dance forging here by deadline, as there was no internet a new, muscular style. There is a school, to email them. Memorabilia from Trisha intern program, Archives that chronicle Brown’s 40th Anniversary, Photos from more than 80 years of dance, a year- past Pillow seasons and The National round Community Program, Art Gallery, Medal of Arts presented by President Residencies and several performance Barack Obama and the signed presi- spaces. In March 2011, Jacob’s Pillow dential proclamation are on display along was honored by President Obama with with some of the other awards received by a National Medal of Arts. During my the Pillow and its founder, Ted Shawn, visit to the Pillow, The Lar Lubovitch including the Capezio Award, the Com- Dance Company performed. They are monwealth Award, Shawn’s medal lyrical in their movements, strong, fluid, from the King of Denmark, and other powerful with exquisite form and control. treasures. Learn more about Jacob’s Pil- The dancers and the choreography were a low at: jacobspillow.org. What a fabulous great pleasure to experience. An informal place to be. I felt like I was visiting camp discussion before the performance, held on a day where campers where showing (L to R) Suzanne Norris, Education Specialist Roosevelt National Historic Sites; on the back porch with Choreographers what they had learned during the sum- Paula Nelson, WSA Historian and former Director; John Kleinhans, Photograph and reproductions; Carol Davis, Board Member and Volunteer; Nancy Campbell, Lar Lubovitch, Zoe Scofield mer (of course these are, for the most part, Director WSA and Exhibit Visionary; Kate McGloughlin, WSA Board President; Juniper Shuey moderated by Pillow professional dancers). One would have to Frank Futral, Curator for Historic Parks & Exhibit Scholar-in-Residence Maura Keefe, spend the entire summer in residence to was very interesting and informative. begin to grasp the richness that is offered. At the beginning of the Summer, The to labor reform, social justice, and above They were all in strong agreement that The Mount, in Lenox, MA. was the New York Conservancy for the Arts all, promoting the economic and social each audience “feeds” the performers home of Edith Wharton who designed held their gala opening at the historic welfare of American youth. The Na- and changes the quality of the produc- the house and the gardens outlined in Woodstock Playhouse in Woodstock, her influential book,The Decoration of NY. Within 6 months’ time after pur- Houses (1897) and lived there for many chasing the Playhouse, the Theatre was years until relocating to France where completely renovated and is now fully she lived till her death in 1937. Edith enclosed. Air conditioning and heating Wharton wrote over 40 books and was allow the Playhouse to be a year-round the first woman awarded the Pulitzer venue for Music, Theatre and Dance. Prize for Fiction, the first woman to Originally built in 1928, there have been receive an honorary doctorate from Yale several owners, fires and rebuilding. Dur- and the first woman elevated to full ing the summer the Resident Company membership in the American Academy performed “Chorus Line”, “Anything of Arts and Letters. While I was there, Goes” and “Hair”. Coming up this Fall: the gardens were in full bloom, although Saturday, September 10 at 8pm, NYCA according to our guide each week there Song & Dance Performance: An eve- are new blooms to see, and there is a ning of song and dance from the advanced great variety of bushes, trees, and flow- students of the New York Conservatory ers. Programming at The Mount reflects for the Arts; Sunday, September 18 at Wharton’s interests in the literary arts, 3pm, Woodstock Chamber Orchestra; interior design and decoration, garden September 21-25, Woodstock Film Fes- and landscape design, and the art of liv- tival; Saturday, October 1 at 10am-4pm, ing. Annual exhibits explore themes from Woodstock British Car Show, a ben- Wharton’s life and work. In the summer efit for the Woodstock Playhouse. At the of 2010, The Mount launched Berkshire gala opening people were excited about WordFest, a vibrant gathering of writ- the renovations and thrilled to be in the ers and readers. The Wharton Salon Playhouse, a very historic and important performs the stories of Edith Wharton landmark for Woodstockers. Learn more and her contemporaries in adaptation in at: WoodstockPlayhouse.org The Mount, Lenox, MA. home of Edith Wharton who designed the house & gardens a setting that offers a unique intimacy I went to Maplewood, NJ and while I tional Youth Administration, under tion. On view in one of the galleries was between author, actor and audience. was there the MapleWoodstock (more whose auspices the Woodstock Resi- the exhibit Annie Leibovitz: Dance. The plays are performed in site-specific at: MaplewoodOnline.com), a 2-day Free dent Work Center was developed, was event, was being held. 22 groups per- an initiative of the Works Progress Ad- formed, local food and art vendors and ministration (WPA) that was founded in community organizations had booths. I 1935 by FDR to provide work for unem- made a short video of the event which ployed artists, craftsmen, and members can be seen on the ART TIMES YouTube of the trades. Woodstock was chosen to channel and ART TIMES website (see be the site of an NYA training facility be- videos or Culturally Speaking August cause of the community’s reputation as a online). center for arts and crafts in America. The “A New Deal for Youth: Eleanor Roos- exhibition has many photographs, tools evelt, Val-Kill Industries and the Wood- and products from the time of the Work stock Resident Work Center” is an exhi- Center but the buildings themselves are bition at the Woodstock School of Art the major attraction. Designed by local (WSA), Woodstock, NY thru November 5, craftsmen, they were built in part by the 2011. (Quoting from the WSA website) “In young students themselves. Original iron 1926, Eleanor Roosevelt and her friends hinges, made in the school’s forge and Nancy Cook and Marion Dickerman metalworking shop (today’s graphic and built a larger building near Stone Cot- printmaking studio) grace cabinets in tage at Hyde Park and the following the office. The buildings’ unique, rustic year Val-Kill Industries began selling styles were consciously designed in ac- colonial-style furniture reproductions cordance with the local vernacular “arts produced by Hyde Park workers and de- and crafts” influence. The buildings hous- signed by Cook. Later, they would expand ing the offices and gallery, studios 1 and the business to include pewter (Val-Kill 2, and studios 3 and 4, are listed on New Forge) and weavings. They hoped the York State and National Registers of factory, a nonprofit entity, would not Historic Places.” What an interesting An informal discussion on the back porch at Jacobs Pillow with Choreographers only provide jobs for rural workers who exhibition and slice of not only Woodstock (R to L) Lar Lubovitch, Juniper Shuey, Zoe Scofield - moderated by Pillow Scholar-in-Residence Maura Keefe Sept/ Oct 2011 ART TIMES page 11 otherwise would not exist. The 2011 Al- The programs at the center take place in tamura/Caruso International Voice a very intimate room where perhaps 100 Competition continues to accept ap- people can sit comfortably. I applaud the plications. Auditions were held last April work that Carmela does and continues in Recanati, Italy and coming up Sept to do bringing peace and harmony to our 25 & 26 in Sainte-Thérèse, Québec, world through music. Canada and in New York City, audi- My partner, Raymond J. Steiner, tions will take place on October 27, 28 and took part in this year’s 9th Annual 30. For more information www.altocanto. Saugerties Artists’ Studio Tour held org. Carmela told me that “We have a long in Mid-August. Although it was quite and proud history in which our winners rainy on the second day (Sunday) we had have gone on to sing title roles at the upwards of 150 people over the two-day Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, and event. Village and Town Artist’s Studio many other major opera houses of the Tours are becoming increasingly popular world.” Over the past several years I have events throughout the Hudson Valley, been up to Round Top for the summer giving both residents and tourists a first- programs. The Cappuccino Society hand “behind-the-scenes” look into local Concerts present competition winners, artist’s “sanctum sanctorums” — a boon dancers, choral groups, orchestras, cham- for visitors and a chance for artists to both ber and jazz ensembles, theater groups, show and sell their work to new audi- individual instrumentalists, painters ences. See Raymond’s blog on the event

Tero Saarinen Company Triple Bill at Bard SummerScape, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, NY locations allowing audiences to experi- sets, voices and acting were all excellent. ence Wharton’s world through words, “The Wild Duck” by Henrik Ibsen had architecture and nature. In 2001 I was excellent acting, staging, inventive stage- on a tour of the Berkshires and I visited work and sets. Ibsen is dark and difficult The Mount. We saw the beginnings of the and so it is hard to say I liked the play. I house renovations and heard about and surely liked, appreciated and admired the saw plans for the Garden renovations and production. It was surely fine theatre. For programs that would be held in the house. information about next year’s Bard Sum- It was exciting, 10 years later, to see a mer Scape: bard.edu/fishercenter. finished interior, the gardens beautifully This year’s Phoenicia Festival of restored and so much programming in the Voice was another huge success place. See my video with highlights on and a wonderful happening for the YouTube or the ART TIMES website (see town of Phoenicia (economically), Ulster Videos) Learn more about Edith Wharton County, and a great addition to the arts

Survey of Opera, Maestro Anton Coppola sitting center at the Altamura Center for Arts and Cultures and sculptors from around the world. at rjsteiner.wordpress.com This year there was a Murder Mystery The 4th Annual Woodstock Art Theatre “A Shot in the Dark” — appar- Fair cosponsored by ART TIMES and ently a play will be offered each summer. the Woodstock Jewish Congregation The event I attended was the Celebration will be held again this year on Sunday, of Italy’s 150th Anniversary of its Uni- November 27. For artists and craft- fication and a “Survey of Opera” per- speople it is an inexpensive ($45 and no formed by Met Opera Tenor Francisco commissions taken) way to show and sell Casanova and the Winners of the Al- work. For the rest of the population it is tamura/Caruso International Voice an excellent way to see a lot of fine work, Competition. Maestro Anton Coppola meet the artists/ craftspeople0 all in time gave the audience brief overviews of the for Holiday Gift buying. Applications are evolution of opera with examples given still being accepted until September 15. by the musicians, both voice and piano. Download the application at wjcshul.org. I found the afternoon very enjoyable That’s all for this round-up. The art Phenicia Festival of the Voice's production of Don Giovanni and I learned quite a bit about opera, season begins this month in NYC and we and The Mount at: EdithWharton.org and culture offered in the region. This operetta and the Broadway Musical. The can look forward to the national shows I was supposed to go over to Shake- year there was an additional day for the voices were excellent, most causing my of the Catharine Lorillard Wolf Art speare & Company while in Lenox but Festival and more than twice as many shoulders to rise in that oooh feeling—I Club, The Pastel Society of America, had injured my hand and a raging infec- events as there were last year. I could felt as if I’d been listening to music of the The American Artists Professional tion was brewing that sent me home for only get to Don Giovanni, by Mozart. spheres. Competition winner Lawrence League, Allied Artist, Audubon some serious doses of antibiotics. There- This year the singers had a full orchestra, Harris (a former offensive linebacker Artists held at the National Arts Club fore, I was pleased to see the 2011-2012 The Woodstock Chamber Orchestra for the Houston Oilers), Giovanni and the Salmagundi Club. Take a Fall/Winter Season brochure reminding conducted by Steven White, who also Formisano and Francisco Casanova look at the calendar for the dates and me that Shakespeare & Company offers works for the Metropolitan Opera. The and Anna Tormela had me swooning. locations. See you there……… ef year-round performances and programs voices were exquisite, delicious, smooth, beginning with “War of the Worlds” and strong. The newly-built stage allowed from Sept 9-Nov 6. See Shakespeare.org for more “acting” and in fact protected for their full schedule. the musicians from the rainy night. Two Bard SummerScape had a full pro- large tents were set up (when news of the gram of Opera, Dance, Theatre, Music, rain became a sure thing) and thousands Film, Music & Cabaret all presented on of people brought their chairs, umbrel- the Bard Campus in the Richard B. las and picnics. What a fabulous treat to Fisher Performing Arts Center, the hear these world-class musicians so close Spiegeltent and in The Bard Music to home. Don’t miss out on it next year. Festival Tent where the 22nd Bard There were children’s programs, films, Music Festival (Aug 12-21) that fea- lectures and all sorts of musical offerings tured Sibelius and his World took over the 4 days. Thank you to founders place. For the first time in many years I Maria Todaro, Louis Otey and Kerry was able to get to a dance performance, Henderson for bringing us this festival theatre and opera. Tero Saarinen Com- and we will see you next year. pany Triple Bill at Bard SummerScape Inter-Cities, founded in 1970 by Car- was an intense, powerful dance program mela and Leonard Altamura in Union that kept my attention throughout. Die City, New Jersey, began as an urban arts Liebe der Danae (The Love of Danae, educational enterprise offering schol- 1940), by Richard Strauss, starring arships to promising musicians. They soprano Meagan Miller was done in discover and support the finest young tal- modern times and that didn’t always ent, provide first-rate programs for both work well for me as the juxtaposition them and the communities in which they was too ludicrous. The music, staging, live, and make available resources that Raymond J. Steiner (R) & visitors to his gallery during the Saugerties Artists Tour Sept/ Oct 2011 ART TIMES page 12

Continued from Page 8 Sunday Afternoon Concert Eastchester Arts Council Bronxville public li- Calendar brary, Yeager auditorium 201 Pondfield Rd. Bronxville NY 914-337-7680 3pm free www. eastchsterartscouncil.com Saturday, September 17 Monday, September 19 2nd Annual “ Just for Squares “ Exhibition Hudson Valley Gallery 246 Hudson Street Cornwall-on-Hudson NY 845-401-5443 Opening Reception 5-8pm free (thru Oct JAMES E. FREEMAN 1808-1884: An American Painter in Italy Munson-Williams- 16) www.hudsonvalleygallery.com Proctor Arts Inst Mus of Art Newington-Cropsey Foundation, 25 Cropsey La., Hastings- on-Hudson, NY (914) 478-7990 1-5pm Mon thru Fri (thru Nov 18) www.newingtoncrop- Apple Tree Theater performs “Things are looking Grimm” Collaborative sey.com Westchester Concepts Saunders Farm 853 Old Albany Post Rd. Garrison NY 845-528-1797 3 pm free www.collaborativeconcepts.org Wednesday, September 21 Drum Boogie Festival benefiting Cancer Treatment Woodstock Chimes Fund Artist Potluck Share & Show Lapham Gallery, LARAC 7 Lapham Place Cornell Park Wurts and Hunter Streets Kingston NY 845-657-0499 9:30 AM - 8 PM free Glens Falls NY 6-8 pm free www.drumboogiefestival.com WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?!! (You’ll Find Out!) Sisters-In-Art (Hammond/ Elected Artists’ Invitational and Solo show Kent Art Association 21 S Main Holford/Kaufmann/Millman-Ide/Pearl/Peters/Valenza Riverside Branch NYPL 127 Am- St. Kent CT 860-927-3989 Opening Reception 1-5pm free (thru Oct 16) www.kentart.org sterdam Ave. (at 65th St.) New York NY 212-362-5133; 212-870-1810 Reception 5-7pm free (thru Oct 14) www.anitapearlsculptor.com Fine Art and Crafts at Anderson Park Anderson Park 274 Bellevue Avenue Upper Montclair NJ 908-874-5247Sat & Sun 10-5pm Sat & Sun 10-5pm rain or shine Thursday, September 22 free (thru Sept 18) http://www.rosesquared.com/ Essex Wayne Sittner Watercolors: Art at The Adams Horse Stable H. Haller Financial First Annual Silvermine Arts Fest and Silvermine - Special Ticketed Con- The Adams Horse Stable 28 West Bridge Street Saugerties NY 834-246-1618 Opening cert Featuring Asphalt Orchestra Silvermine Arts Center 1037 Silvermine Rd New reception 6 - 8 free (thru Oct 31) www.hhallerfinancial.com Canaan CT 203-966-9700 2-4pm; 4-6pm charge www.silvermineart.org Friday, September 23 Kitchen Paintings: watercolors of Alix Hallman Travis Longyear Gallery 39th Annual Pastel Society of America Open Juried Exhibition Special Gal- Upstairs in the Common Building 785 Main Street Margaretville NY 845-586-3270 lery Tour with Jimmy Wright, PSA Pastel Society of America National Arts Club Tastings: Sat. Sept 17, 3-5. WIM read their writings on food. free (thru Sept 18) www. 15 Gramercy Park South New York NY 212-533-6931 Gallery Tour & Reception 6pm; longyeargallery.org free (thru Oct 1) www.pastelsocietyofamerica.org Linking Collections, Building Connections: Works from the Artist at Work Studio Tour Saranac Lake ArtWorks Adirondack Artists Guild Hudson Valley Visual Art Consortium Collections: Curated by Ariel 52 Main St. Saranac Lake NY 518-891-2615 free (thru Sept 25) saranaclakeartworks.com Shanberg and Brian Wallace Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Two Brothers Two Views Charles and Robert Blake Main Street Paltz 1 Hawk Drive New Paltz NY 845-257-3844 Opening Reception 5-7pm Petite Gallery 213 Main St Huntington NY 631-271-8423 Opening Reception 6pm free free (thru Dec 11) www.newpaltz.edu/museum [email protected] MARIE COLE: Never the Same Tivoli Artists Co-op 60 Broadway Tivoli NY 845-757- Saturday, September 24 2667 Opening Reception 6-8pm free (thru Oct 9) www.tivoliartistsco-op.com 18th Annual Small Matters of Great Importance National Juried Exhibition Media Loft Plus Media Loft 50 Webster Ave. New Rochelle NY 914-235-9022 free Edward Hopper House Art Center 82 N Broadway Nyack NY 845-358-0774 Opening (thru Sept 27 www.medialoftarts.com Reception 5-7pm charge (thru Nov 13) www.edwardhopperhouse.org Rimer Cardillo Nassau County Museum of Art Saltzman Fine Art Building at 19TH ANNUAL PAWLING ARTS & CRAFTS FESTIVAL Pawling Chamber of Com- Nassau County Museum of Art 1 Museum Drive Roslyn Harbor NY 516-484-9337 charge merce Charles Colman Blvd., Pawling 10-4pm (thru Nov 27) http://www.nassaumuseum.org 34th Annual Juried Exhibition Ridgefield Guild of Artists 34 Halpin Lane Ridge- Vanaver Caravan - Passage to India Gala The Vanaver Caravan Opus 40 50 field CT 203-438-8863 (thru Oct 28 www.RGOA.org Fite Road Saugherties NY 845-256-9300 4pm-Sunset donate www.vanavercaravan.org 49th Meet the Artists & Artisans Fall Finale Denise Morris Curt Historic Window on the Arts Windsor Partnership Windsor Village Green Main St. Wind- green milford CT 10am-5pm CT. sor NY 607-655-2128 10am-5pm free www.windsorpartnership.org Burton Silverman: The Humanist Spirit Hofstra University Museum Emily Sunday, September 18 Lowe Gallery Hempstead Turnpike Hempstead NY 516-463-5672 Opening reception AUDUBON ARTISTS 69th ANNUAL JURIED EXHIBIT Salmagundi Club, 47 2-4pm free (thru Dec 16) hofstra.edu/museum Fifth Ave., NYC (212) 255-7740 Reception 12-5pm; Awards 2:30 (thru Sept 30) www. HUDSON VALLEY GARLIC FESTIVAL Kiwanis Club of Saugerties Cantine Field, audubonartists.org NYC Saugerties, NY (845-) 246-3090 10-6pm charge (thru Sep 25) www.hvgf.org Ulster CIRCA 1986 Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art 1701 Main Street Peekskill Inner Scapes: Paintings by Ann Lee Fuller Longyear Gallery Upstairs in NY 914-788-0100 free Opening reception on Sunday, September 18, 2011, from 4 to 7pm. the Common Building 785 Main Street Margaretville NY 845-586-3270 Opening Recep- www.hvcca.org tion 3-6pm free (thru Oct 16) www.longyeargallery.org Harmonic Brass of Munich in Concert Saugerties Pro Musica Saugerties New Rochelle ArtsFest “11 New Rochelle Council on the Arts Throughout United Methodist Church Corner of Washington Ave and Post Street Saugerties NY the entire city of New Rochelle New Rochelle NY 914-235-9027 12:30-5:30 free www. 845-246-5021 3-4;15 charge www.saugertiespromusica.org newrochellearts.org Reunion: Twenty Years of Making Art at Upstream Upstream Gallery 26 Main 39th Annual Open Juried Show Pastel Society of America National Arts Club Street Dobbs Ferry NY 914-674-8548 Opening Reception 2-5:30 pm free (thru Oct 9) 15 Gramercy Park South New York NY 212-533-6931 Materials Fair 10-4 free (thru Oct www.upstreamgallery.com 1) www.pastelsocietyofamerica.org September concert featuring works by Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner Wood- “Tis More Than Just Green” a Photographic Exhibit on Ireland & Its stock Chamber Orchestra Woodstock Playhouse Route 212 Woodstock NY 845-338-0647 People The Schoolhouse Theater 3 Owens Rd Croton Falls NY 914-277-8477 Opening 3pm charge www.wco-online.com Reception 1-4pm free (thru Oct 30) www.schoolhousetheater.org Continued on Page 14 The next issue: Nov/ Dec If you missed getting an opportunity or calendar listing into this is- sue or a display ad for your business or exhibit email [email protected]. 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“The Art of Wood” MS Fine Cra� Invitational & will be open throughout Oil Paintings by Labor Day weekend Brian Zievert September 2, 3, 4, & 5 10am to 4pm Aug. 26 - Sept. 23 [and each weekend thru Christmas] Showing DRAWINGS, PAINTINGS, Gallery Hours: Daily 11-4; & SCULPTURE Sunday 1-4. Closed Tuesday. 209 Fishcreek Rd, Saugerties, NY 22 Main St. | 607-547-9777 www.faywoodstudio.com • 845 246-7504 www.cooperstownart.com Sept/ Oct 2011 ART TIMES page 13 Fiction Of Throwing and Bouncing Balls By Raymond J. Barry isn’t worth wanting; that is, the might have been a chance once, some through! Come on, boy, we’re for you!” In the beginning there was end- temporary sporting thrill of air-filled small opportunity to open young eyes in a cadence meant to encourage the less space, brightness of scope, unbri- balls in flight, as well as bouncing for the sake of what is possible, of- bleating herd. Love for the flight of dled potential for success. Television them upon hardwood floors glossed fering little by way of euphoria that balls on a hardwood floor. Love for propaganda encouraged the boy to with varnish and polished with the winning brings. War is the inevitable the demands of the game ­– what else be a star. The old man, the father, various janitorial tools of the trade; end of the process after the game is could be possible in the face of facts enjoyed the spectacle too, watching maintenance engineering, if you will, done. And then to become a member universal that effect the world, trac- the impressive public display of young inspired by the polishing of floors, of the police force perhaps with their ings of history from which our leaders boys’ bodies bouncing and throwing a cleaning of toilets and various forms mace and guns and clubs to hit. Surely have guided the course of events, a ball to the roar of the cheering crowd. of brushing, washing and sweeping their end began with balls thrown and dead end to the adult observer. The national anthem was sung before – a dim future for a lad inspired by bounced aggressively with a roaring At a loss for proper action to take, bouncing balls were thrown. Short- the flight of well-thrown balls, a com- background of audience. what encouragement would be ap- skirted cheerleaders pranced their mon sedative for a boy who knows The disgust of a parent for having propriate regarding the goodness of butts before crowds of shouting men. nothing about the challenge of life made ill-advised choices along the things beyond the cheering crowd; The boy, dressed in brightly colored, with its multiple demands upon the way, the public school chosen instead in solitude then, left alone with ones’ short pants and shirt, was taken up soul. Endless bouncing balls thrown of a private one with good teachers ingenuity for survival. That struggle with detail of the game, balls thrown by innocent boys, skilled in the art of and manageable classes; the fanatic hell bent to overthrow the weak by every which-way, rebounding off bouncing but lacking rigorous activ- interest in sport, bouncing balls and the strong, earning money, when one walls, careening gracefully through ity of the mind, brings a deserved such, wrestling and diving for random hasn’t made the sacrifice to learn the air. “There is a great one” the short range of experience limited by spherical shapes thrown and bounced there is worth beyond wealth. Bounc- crowd exclaimed. “He is good,” they the game’s rules for those involved in from hand to hand, running and ing and throwing balls is the gist of it, screamed, each player moving and ball play. Balls ricocheting off walls jumping in the process, hitting and yelling coaches and screaming black running, skidding and shifting. Papa and floors is a distraction if there knocking the opponent until blood is fathers who have no way of escaping was humbled by it all, watched his ever was one, a side show to what is let and shaking hands in the end as the ghetto, aside from sporting con- offspring bouncing and throwing air- really happening behind the cheering if the war is finally won. tests with abundant skill in the field filled balls, the futility of that effort, crowd, behind the voluminous noise, The game itself is a metaphor – of bouncing and throwing; the parent the utter empty-headed exhaustion the tumult of the all-important game good guys against the bad. Slaughter in a state of frustration, aware of the brought to his young body. How tired and more significant to a young boy them so they’ll never forget, with lack of depth, the lack of thought in the father and son became, how fatigued than life itself with all of its obstacles wounds so deep and cheering so loud game. What measures would a parent by aspirations set too high in the busi- and obstructions. and thick crowds shouting, refusing take to reverse the great loss that ness of sport, the contest, the struggle How to be a parent? How to guide the calm of silence, peace of mind and has befallen his boy, loss of curiosity, to win that ultimately led to loss. without yelling? How to be calm while balance that offers solitude for medi- loss of learning, loss of intellect, loss The father was an ex-jock himself, wishing the best for one’s offspring? tation. No recourse in loss regarding of outlook beyond the limited bound- left with vague memories of vic- Perhaps best to retreat and allow games and war. One must win to ary of the hardwood floor? Within the tory some fifty years before. He often air-filled balls fall where they may, guarantee a bright future when the confines of the game there is no space warned the son against the notion bouncing lightly among cheerleaders season of play is done; war games to explore, no room to invent, no will of “play at all costs,” with nothing in in front of a crowd, roaring for its then, with bombs instead of balls, in- to surpass a world of sport, always mind but running and jumping, the home team. The future is bright and suring the enemy has fallen. Sporting limited by rules of the game, by yelling futile bouncing and throwing of balls opportunity plentiful when the boy is boys, unaware of the propaganda with coaches and screaming fathers. There while missing the essence of life’s winning. The goal is to provide a guid- which they are smothered beyond is little on the horizon of the hardwood game. He believed that rather than ing light for him to follow, even when breath, smothered by battles that floor, little sparkle in an otherwise throwing and bouncing balls, the the future is dimly lit – homeless, gray-haired senators and backward, bleak terrain of the sporting contest. young boy should focus upon grow- destitute offspring, a parent’s worst political-hack presidents perpetrate, Sad day. Sad Day, this repertoire of ing a pair of balls. But the boy was nightmare, this process of choosing their careers enhanced by use of large movement, strength, and jumping bred from a culture that seldom saw what is best, better, just good, in the cannon and high-flying rockets that followed by middle age. Knees rebel, beyond the joy of competition, never face of a young mind interested only kill in the name of sport. legs hurt and no elevation in the jump. saw the gleaming light of awareness in bouncing balls. Maturity sets in Wars are won in a similar fashion, Time to get a job; time to get up in the beyond roaring crowds and the bounc- and the goals of the young are limited invading and conquering at all costs, morning ready for work; time to follow ing butts of pretty, long-legged cheer- by pride in the game, values having regardless of injury, regardless of the orders from a boss, to be reprimanded leaders with their flying pom-poms merely to do with balls. Jammed fallen dead during the course of the for tardiness and later to return home in hand. The lad played the game focus upon oneself, selfish direction, game won or lost, regardless of how again exhausted. Earning ones keep well enough to sweat drops upon the retreating from the common good. many points scored or men killed in the middle of it, the children’s hardwood but might be left holding Mother Theresa had a good dribble. in the throws of battle, the fever of hungry mouths opened wide, waiting the bag, nowhere to turn, nowhere to She knew how to handle herself when contest. Collision tactics in both cases to be served; real life, where bouncing earn a living, nor interest in acquiring it came to throwing balls and bounc- produce the same result, men lost, balls have no effect, where cheerlead- sufficient knowledge to take the helm ing them. Values well placed, self-sac- games won, same difference. Minds ers are nowhere to be seen. A boy as an adult. rificing individual, Mother Theresa, lost, in the case of the game, with has grown into manhood requiring a “You are misinformed,” the father beyond the roar of the crowd with every bit of energy exhausted against mature life of earning and caring and said to his son. The boy replied, “I private concerns of suffering among the opposing team, otherwise identi- the earth’s terrain, so rough, so hewn, know what I want,” at which point people; the bravery of the idealist, to fied as the enemy, the one against with immobile boulders so very large; the father claimed, “You’re too young hold her own against ambitious poli- whom battle is waged, against whom desperation, lack of interest, lack of to know what you want.” The boy ticians who hoard profit earned from there is no compromise to victory. War knowledge useful, overriding lack of stopped talking, knowing in his heart the common man’s sweat. is a game of sorts and barely heard skill once the last ball is thrown. that nothing mattered but his goal, That is the nature of life’s beast, before a roaring crowd. Corpses lay The game, bouncing balls and which was to throw and bounce balls selfish, violent – power and weakness unnoticed, and severed, broken limbs such, is finished then. before cheering crowds. “Small vi- colliding, many deaths in the wake are left to rot; bombs in the distance, What of soft things? What of giv- sion,” accused the father, “to bounce of destruction, injury to the common beyond the crowds cheering, beyond ing in? What of compromise, of shar- air-filled balls on a hardwood floor good. Effort isn’t enough to accom- bouncing balls thrown to players on ing and giving of oneself? What of – bouncing balls and such.” But how plish the goal. One must attack softly the home team. “Don’t like reading those good values that can be gained does an old man explain to a young with Zen calculation when it comes anyway,” the boy insists. Don’t like by evolving thought creatively? The boy the essence of life, the futility of to a boy who is sure. Sureness can be anything that doesn’t include spheri- thrill of throwing, bouncing and slid- jumping and running before the roar- cocky in most cases of youth, the cocki- cal orbits of flying. Wars and cheap ing across the floor has its own grace ing herd, the prospect of ignorance in ness of the fool who has every defini- politicians, uncared for children, that disguises illiteracy, the plain a stingy system that takes advantage tion in place, each one stacked upon arrested development, aborted prom- dumbness of a lost desire to learn. of its weak for the well-being of the its proper shelf without a drop spilling ise, a dying dream of glory having to Complacency then, that enough has strong. Strong boy, weak boy, with lit- out, all knowledge consumed by fasci- do with young boys bouncing balls been done, and on to bouncing balls tle by way of a future, limited horizon, nation with bouncing balls. The mind for a career in the field of throwing and throwing them, on to winning limited scope of understanding. For lost and replaced by legs that jump and bouncing on a team dressed in the game or war, whichever may come the ex-jock, boyhood still prevailed in and hands that catch random balls brightly colored pants and adorned first; the wayward student, intensity an adult body, but that wouldn’t hap- thrown at high speeds down the pike. with five hundred dollar sneakers of the game. pen to his son. Yelling coaches offer no guidance with that skid and squeak across a pol- (Raymond J. Barry lives in Los The father spoke of stubbornness, their winning ways. Win at all cost in ished hardwood floor for all the girls Angeles, CA.) when what one desperately wants place of the mind’s awareness. There to cheer. “Dribble the ball! Swish it ef Sept/ Oct 2011 ART TIMES page 14

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She happened to see several British theater does have a somewhat sitting, and walking about with Laura Barnett’s experience and productions at the Avignon Festival, deserved reputation for existing hand and arm gestures as needed. It her reaction to it point directly at all in French, which she does not un- primarily from the neck up. What is pops out at you if someone so much what every member of every audi- derstand. She’s British; self-reported interesting is that it took this strong as spins around suddenly. Even at ence needs to do: pay attention to skills in Spanish and Italian, but la a disruption of her normal viewing that, however, you still have a level the whole production, absorbing ev- français, alors, pas du tout. So the habits to push her to this realization: of expressive, physical life going on, erything we are meant to experience. bottom line was, as she reported, that that there’s something more happen- life that is telling you things you need Theater isn’t an audiobook, nor is it a her attention shifted from the text ing onstage than just words. to know and see and feel. textbook; it is, as I tirelessly repeat, to the production, particularly the We don’t all have the luxury of That life wasn’t created by the an experience of the living presence of physicality of the performers. highly physical actors. In fact, if we playwright. It was created by the the performer, body, breath and soul. Now, it would be absurd to suppose own up to the truth, we must admit actors under the guidance of a direc- Perhaps we need a little shock that this is the first time she’s seen that the ordinary, garden-variety, tor. With any luck it was created in treatment. Perhaps we need to go response to the playwright’s words, see a show in a foreign language, or but it certainly wasn’t created by see a show with earplugs in our ears. them. Even George Bernard Shaw’s Perhaps actors and directors need to novelistic stage directions don’t be- do more with the physicality of the- gin to provide enough to cover every ater than they do. Perhaps somebody moment, and the rest of the world’s just needs to give us a good dope-slap! playwrights provide much less than Whatever it takes, we need to be sure, that. Even radio drama has to provide when we are in the theater, that we audible hints of physicality; we want are truly there, fully responding to th to hear things like footsteps falling, the physical dynamic, letting those 4 Annual Woodstock doorknobs turning, teacups rattling, mirror neurons fire for all they’re and so forth—the audible cues that in worth! 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RALEIGH Ever alert to increasing my Abel Gance and his 1927 “Napoleon”, Now my own film (I will not name knowledge of filmmaking and its a four and a half hour epic, had anyone its title so unfairly maligned) it has practices I have begun an intensive tried to cram nearly every minute of been in previous mentions, has little investigation into the art of film fifty-one years of Mr. Bonaparte’s in way of a script, a mere handful of writing. I confess I am encouraged life into a film. Even spreading his notes, actually. Here Mr. Kubrick in this scholarly pursuit by learning hero’s adventures over three screens and I are quite different. I feel a that Amazon.com has created Mr. Gance could only get him up to truly unique, creative work of filmic Amazon Studio, an organization that the invasion of Italy. Mr. Kubrick, in art can only suffer from excessive will receive original film scripts and an hour’s less time, moved him right planning and maybe that’s what award generous cash prizes to the best through the burning of Moscow and happened to Mr. Kubrick. And in of a month’s submissions and best of maybe Waterloo and after but by then any case you really only need a script the year. And — get this — the grand my brain was so overburdened by if your actors are to have speaking winner’s script could be produced historic facts that tumbled willy-nilly parts, right? My nameless film has by Warner Studios. The terms and over a story unfolding in machine gun no speaking parts – less is more, as conditions are a bit complicated, all rapidity, that I abandoned the script someone once said, although one of described in their internet site for in exhaustion. the principals did bark but this did anyone interested — and boy, will Equally impressive, not to say not detract one bit from the work’s there be plenty interested. intimidating, is an addendum to Mr. dramatic intensity. I have found Now script writing is tricky Kubrick’s “Napoleon” script in which myself that it is the dialogue end business, I can tell you. Schools he lists, in mind-boggling detail, a of film writing that gets you into devote entire writing programs complete preliminary planning for trouble, so it’s best, I think, to avoid to this craft. Although my own this prospective film. Starting with it whenever you can. Mr. Kubrick education in the higher reaches of a precise number of shooting days was somewhat weak in this respect aesthetics included nothing of this (150), dates for the shoot (July 1 to and unless his characters were sort of activity I figured I could easily September 1, 1969); on to the cost of shouting “charge” or “Damn, it’s cold stretching things out and using extra develop these skills by a study of the 30,000 soldiers to stock battle scenes in Russia”, their speaking parts ran wide margins. Once you get into this real, professional goods. Luckily film (Rumania offered $12 per day, per to the banal or worse. script stuff it’s easy enough it seems scripts are not hard to come by and man, Yugoslavia $15); extras in Amazon Studios does set a to me and I don’t see why Mr. Kubrick the one that proved of greatest value costume (authentic looking $2 to $5 a seventy-minute minimum length had to take on all his research and is the first and only script written set) $19.20 if hired in England, from running time for competition entries. labor over 157 pages and where did by the notable filmmaker, Stanley Spain $14.28, Italy $24 and France Since we script writers figure a page it get him? Amazon Studio would, Kubrick. Here is a script to learn $24.30 — nothing is overlooked by of written script is approximately in a pinch, consider a finished film from, all right. Well, rather to learn Mr. Kubrick and it’s a shame we’ll equal to one minute of film time I but this seems unnecessary when what not to do for the film was never never get to see the film after all the need but throw in sixty pages or so Warner would do the whole thing for produced — and no wonder. Not since work he put into it. to flesh out my notes to knock out a me and it wouldn’t take up too much completed script to meet Amazon’s of their time, either. Needless to say requirements. This should prove I would certainly tell them the title rd 3 Annual Painting Competition no problem; it’s simply a matter of of my film. ef “Just for Squares!” Sept. 17 to Oct. 16, 2011 EXHIBITORS Opening Reception WANTED September 17, 5-8pm Art League of Long Islandís Holiday Fine Arts and Crafts Fair Juried Show

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Marion, NY 12456 or 17) Ulster Upper Union St. Harvest Fest & Art Show Upper Union Street BID Upper  visa /  mc /  disc / code______Union St., Schenectady from Garner Ave. to VanAntwerp along Union Street Schenectady card # ______/______/______/______exp date______NY 618-573-0773 10am - 3pm free http://upperunionbid.org Sunday, October 16 Art & Flowers; Works on Paper by Bonnell Marie Cotnoir The Bronx- ville Women’s Club 135 Midland Avenue Bronxville NY 914-337-3252 Reception 3-5 (thru Oct 30) bronxvillewomensclub.org Classical Pianist Leon Livshin in Concert Saugerties Pro Musica Sau- gerties United Methodist Church Corner of Washington Ave and Post Street Saugerties NY 845-246-5021 3-4:15pm charge www.saugertiespromusica.org North Adams Open Studios City of North Adams Main Street North Adams MA 413-664-8718 10-4pm. free www.northadamsopenstudios.com PIONEER WOMEN: 1st Ladies of SCNY Salmagundi Club 47 Fifth Ave., NYC (212) 255-7740 (thru Oct 28) www.salmagundi.org NYC UNBUILT: Robery Egert; TOY STORY ROCA/ Rockland Center for the Arts 27 South Greenbush Rd West Nyack NY 845-358-0877 Opening Reception 1-4pm donate (thru Dec 4) www.rocklandartcenter.org Monday, October 17 Paintings by Kerrie Wandlas Les Malamut Art Gallery 1980 Morris Ave Union NJ free (thru Nov 30) http://lesmalamutartgallery.web.officelive.com Thursday, October 20 Bringing Nature Indoors Westchester Photographic Society Hudson Valley Hospital Cortlandt Cortlandt NY 914-271-5542 Reception 3-5 PM free (thru Dec 30) WPSPhoto.org North East Watercolor Society Exhibition Kent Art Association 21 S. Main Street Kent CT 860-927-3989 Gallery open weekends from 12 - 4pm free (thru Nov 6) www.kentart.org Friday, October 21 Visual Trick - Visual Treat The Art Guild Elderfields Preserve 200 Port Washington Blvd Manhasset NY 516-304-5797 Reception 6-8 PM free (thru Oct 31) theartguild.org Saturday, October 22 Awakenings: All Media New Century Artists Inc. 530 West 25th Street suite 406 New York NY 516-767-0538 Opening Reception 3-6pm thru Oct 29) City scapes: Photographs by Christopher Moore Longyear Gallery Upstairs in the Common Building 785 Main Street Margaretville NY 845-586-3270 Open- ing Reception 3-6pm free (thru Nov 13) www.longyeargallery.org M C MIller Craft Fair M C Miller Middle School 65 Fording Place Road Lake Katrine NY 845-382-2960 10-4 pm charge Sunday, October 23 Festival of Storytelling, Puppetry, Music and Dance Mountain Laurel Waldorf School Ulster County Fairgrounds 249 Libertyville Rd. New Paltz NY 845-255- 0033 10am-5pm charge www.mountainlaurel.org SCNY FALL AUCTIONS Salmagundi Club 47 Fifth Ave., NYC (212) 255-7740 2pm (thru Oct 28) www.salmagundi.org NYC Yonkers Philharmonic Orchestra Free Concert Fine Arts Orchestral Society Saunders Trade High School 183 Palmer Road Yonkers NY 914-631-6674 3:00 pm free www.yonkersphilharmonic.org Monday, October 24 35th International Northeast Watercolor Society Exhibition 21 South Main Street Kent CT 860-927-3989 (thru Nov 5) www.northeastws.com Litchfield Friday, October 28 Photography of Ron Rosenstock “Iceland” Westchester Photographic Society WCC Tech. Bldg. Auditorium East Gate, Grasslands Rd. Valhalla NY 914-271- 5542 8-9:30pm free WPSPhoto.org SCNY FALL AUCTIONS Salmagundi Club 47 Fifth Ave., NYC (212) 255-7740 8pm (thru Oct 28) www.salmagundi.org NYC Saturday, October 29 A Way with Words: Text in Art (thru Jan 1); Ripped: The Allure of Collage (thru Jan 8) The Heckscher Museum of Art 2 Prime Avenue Huntington NY 631-351- 3250 charge (thru Jan 1) www.heckscher.org Chaos & Order: Master Workshop with Sandy Skoglund Visual Arts Center of New Jersey 68 Elm Street Summit NJ 908-273-9121 9am-4pm charge http://www. artcenternj.org/Learn/Lectures---Special-Programs/Master-Workshop.aspx New York Theatre Ballet at Kaatsbaan Kaatsbaan International Dance Center 120 Broadway Tivoli NY 845-757-5106 7:30 p.m. charge www.kaatsbaan.org Sunday, October 30 New York Theatre Ballet at Kaatsbaan Kaatsbaan International Dance Center 120 Broadway Tivoli NY 845-757-5106 2:30 p.m. charge www.kaatsbaan.org Signed, Sealed & Delivered Silvermine Arts Center 1037 Silvermine Rd New Canaan CT 203-966-9700 3-5pm free http://www.silvermineart.org ef