The Artist Who Paints the in Its Sustainment, a Sudden and “Appropriation” As Body for Each Piece, Which Begins As Almost Frightening Phenomenon

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Vol. 31 No. 2 Fall 2014 (Sept/Oct/Nov) Michel Platnic: Let us Move Through Space By Dawn Lille Usually I enter a gallery, walk honors from the Midrasha School of uses it as a start- through the first part of an exhibi- Art and received a prize for Excel- ing point. The first tion to get a general impression, lence in Photography. Prior to this, impression, that we then go back and look at each work due to his degree in electrical engi- are seeing some ver- separately. When a friend took me neering, he had worked in the tele- sion of the original to the Gordon Gallery in Tel Aviv to com field. But he also studied and painting, is quickly see the work of an emerging talent practiced martial arts, performance dissipated and it I continued this habit. But after a art and the mime techniques of Eti- becomes something minute or two I realized something enne Decroix and Jacques Lecoq. else. If one were unusual was happening. He admired the theater of Ariane working only in Enter the world of Michel Plat- Mnouchkine and read extensively. dance it might be nic, a French born artist who moved Platnic mixes painting, camera akin to using the to Israel in 1998, graduated with and video, via extensive use of famous Romantic the human body, print of the four bal- to create “living lerinas as the basis paintings,” which, for a choreographic because of his at- work (which has, in tention to minute fact, been done). detail, allow the Each finished viewer to become work is that of a part of an illusion- team, which can ary and interdisci- consist of a model plinary world. For who has been care- several years he has fully dressed and been making works painted by makeup “after” Francis Ba- and costume design- con. ers, plus contribu- After Study for the Human Body He uses models, tions by video and (photo by Matan Ashkenazy) often himself, to me- still photographers, ticulously recreate a lighting designer and those who head, he constantly directs and re- or restage the scene assist in the building and painting directs the viewer’s gaze. Seen in the of a Bacon painting. of the sets. Platnic conceives of, di- very beginning of the exhibit, it was, This is not really rects and is the artist who paints the in its sustainment, a sudden and “appropriation” as body for each piece, which begins as almost frightening phenomenon. the term is currently a photograph. In his painting Triptych, 1983, used; it could almost Bacon portrays the torment of Bacon portrays three male figures, be called “homage his objects via distortion. Platnic partially nude bodies clothed in and development.” brings them to life and gives them briefs, with faces masked by blocks Platnic does not at- the possibility of breaking out of the of color, plus their shadows. The two tempt to duplicate frame, of making a choice, of being on either side are seated and the After Triptych 1983 (1 picture of a series of 3 pictures) or reconstruct the more positive. central figure is standing with his photo by Carolina Bonfil work, but, rather, In After Three Studies for a Por- back to the viewer. The three videos trait of Lucian Freud, 1965 Plat- imbedded in Platnic’s version are nic models the three faces on three not synchronized. Thus to watch the CSS Publications, Inc. screens. By the slow blinking of an Support the Arts; Continued on Page 3 PO Box 730 eyelid or subtle inclination of the Enrich your Life Mt. Marion, NY 12456-0730 www.arttimesjournal.com 845-246-6944 Each Month visit arttimesjournal.com Subscribe to ART TIMES for new essays, videos, calendar & opportunity listings

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By RAYMOND J. STEINER then it has failed in its purpose of “Sacred Language”, Prager claims, using the labels to dismissively define communicating something to the is “resonant with divinity” ‑— even each other — in effect, limiting them EVER SINCE I’VE given my talk viewer — if it needs a third-party acting at times as numbers — each, as “its” rather than seeing them in on “The Art of Art Criticism” — my “explicator” — or even the artist him/ phonetically, with its own sound and their totality as full-fledged “thous”. argument that art criticism is not a herself —to explain what it is “say- spiritual meaning. Without troubling The danger becomes very clear when “science” but an “art” (and a mighty ing” or how the viewer ought to see it the reader with extensive quotes we consider the labels used at the untrustworthy one at that since, as or react to it — then it is not worthy and explications (i.e., “bloviating”) U.N. — plaques on the tables read- a communicative language, it is far of the title of “art”, but merely that who, if they wish to get the full gist ing “Palestinian”, “Iraqi”, “Israeli”, “younger”, less exact, less “read- of “decoration”. To turn it around, of her arguments can read Prager’s “Russian”, for example, rather than able”, than image-making, which old friend, artist, and Art Students book themselves, let me wrap it up “Human”, “Human”, “Human”, etc., is believed to have begun in the League of NY instructor Rick Pantell by now saying, “In the beginning — turning each of those “thous” Pleistocene Age about 40,000 years once commented: “If they ask a poet was the sound and not the image… which ought to engage us as fellow B.C., while the ‘making of words’, to to speak, do they ask him to draw a and most certainly not the word.” existent entities (much as the child the best of our knowledge, is argued picture?” If you are still a bit doubt- (One might recall the Biblical story and the tree on their first encounter) to first begin anywhere from 10,000 ful, sometime when you have a few of the Israelites’ destruction of the into an easily-defined “it”. Words, to 60,000 years ago) — I’ve been minutes to kill, try circling nouns walls of Jericho through just the then, are inherently perilous and the concluding my ‘lecture’ by pontificat- and crossing out verbs, adverbs, ad- sounds of their shouts and trumpet more elaborate they become, the more ing (biblically), “So remember — in jectives, conjunctions, prepositions, blasts. Probably the reason for the misleading and deceptive they can the beginning, then, was not the etc., in the next art critique you ancient injunction against uttering often be (again, politicians, theolo- word, but the image.” If the audi- read, and see how much substantive the ‘name’ of ‘God’ — too dangerous, gians, art critics, and other “explain- ence was ‘loose’ enough, sometimes I ‘stuff’ (i.e. nouns) you end up with. perhaps, since we cannot predict the ers” come immediately to my mind). would add, “So go and sin no more!” In any event, now I’m not so sure consequences of making a sound with Actually, it seems rather obvious It is obvious that whenever the about my categorical pronouncement that much potency and meaning.) to me — now — that mankind (is it precise dates either appeared, it is (albeit ‘biblical’) of what came first, Reading Prager, reminds me of ‘peoplekind’ now? Hard for an old more than well-established that “art” words or images — after browsing something I read years ago that man to keep up with the ever-chang- (image-making) is far, far older than through Marcia Prager’s The Path Martin Buber wrote (in I and Thou?) ing politically-correct language now- speech-making. Stated simplisti- of Blessing: Experiencing the En- that still meanders in and out of my adays) was probably making grunts, cally, we can all “get” what a picture ergy and Abundance of the Divine mind from time to time. I recall an snorts, bellows, screams, giggles, of an arrow ‘says’ or means — it is the I’m ready for some emending of my anecdote (paraphrasing here) that sighs, sniffs, belches, guffaws, hoots, rare listener who “gets” what a politi- conclusion. I might well be mistaken describes a mother walking down a sobs or outright bawling, and other cian ‘says’ or means, which is why we about the “beginning”… (I am an art- street and pushing a stroller with such sounds, to indicate surprise, start our children out with “picture” writer/critic after all — I’m expected her baby in it. They approach a tree disbelief, fear, pain, happiness, love, books rather than “word” books, to talk nonsense!) On pages 25-29, and the infant seems mesmerized by lust or ‘horniness’, disdain, sadness, since they instinctively “get it” (as under “Sacred Language and the the tree’s presence, its “being.” The and other emotions, followed by fa- did our knuckle-dragging ancestors). Dilemma of Translation”, Prager, in mother says, “Tree”, thereby giving cial, hand/arm, and bodily gestures Erudition, therefore, especially as pointing out the difference between her child a label — in effect, changing — shrugs, smiles, eyebrow wiggling, practiced by art critics who attempt ancient Hebrew (in her words, the a ‘thou’ into an ‘it’ — which enables winks, leers, smirks, grimaces, shiv- ‘translation’ of the language of art “sacred language”) and modern- the youngster ever after to ‘disengage’ ering, cowering, cringing and even into speech, have “aft gang agley” day renditions into common speech from personal inter- (or -re) action sticking out the tongue and “moon- into their own ideas, assumptions, (most notably, English), claims that with it. Learning eventually that it is ings” along with kicks, haymakers interpretations, and fancies. Thus, I such ‘translations’ leave a vast gap perhaps a ‘maple tree’ allows for even and/or roundhouses (more academi- argue, art, already a ‘language’ with in meaning. Hebrew, she states, is further distance. We pride ourselves cally identified as the “fight or flight its own symbols, rules and ‘grammar’ a “depth language” with a “different (and our children) for attaining an response”) — long before he (she? is more often than not ‘muddied’, structure, nature, and purpose” than extensive vocabulary — even reward- we?…whatever…please insert your obfuscated, misrepresented and/or that of modern language, which is ing our kids for doing so. Buber seems favorite politically-correct pronoun distorted by the symbols, rules and predominantly a “utilitarian ve- to be asking, “Ought we?” We refer to du jour here) made images (and, grammar of speechifiers and blovia- hicle” with each word conveying a “mothers”, “fathers”, “bosses”, “neigh- especially before making words). tors. Art — if good — speaks for itself; “discrete and limited byte of infor- bors”, “wives”, “husbands”, “sons”, Explaining, rationalizing, explicat- if it doesn’t “speak” on its own terms, mation.” Moreover, each letter of the “daughters” — and on and on — airily ing, distorting and obfuscating came much, much later — in the days of art critics, theologians, and politicians, in fact. Consider just the word “love”, for instance, which was once meant to explain the sexual attrac- i v e r a n d i ota tion between opposite sexes. Really? r Then how about, “I love pizza — my new car — my living room — my cat or An exhibition by eighteen artists to bring awareness dog — weekends — sunshine — and to our country’s rivers and theirBB vulnerability on, and on, and on”? Sort of dilutes the force of the word “love” doesn’t Oct 11 – Nov 16, 2014 it? Don’t even get me started about “art” — something we can’t even Artist reception 2-5pm Sat. 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By Cornelia Seckel Angeloch’s work in addition to a profile and airy gallery I saw samples of his we entered the museum I was struck WHAT HAppened to summer? Steiner did for another publication design work and it is both simple and by the numbers of people of mixed The more I do it seems like the faster before we began ART TIMES. It was elegant. The gallery is upstairs and ages enjoying and discussing with goes the time. I’ve included several delightful to see a small booklet in the has high ceilings, wonderful natural one another the Norman Rockwell’s things that I mentioned in my online same style that Bob used with com- light and several rooms to show not paintings and exploring the work of column for those of you not yet getting ments from Kate and a discussion of only Rick’s designs but furniture, Hopper. As I walked around I felt as the hang of going to our website where Bob’s work by Staats Fasoldt, VP & lamps and art work including large if I was visiting old friends as some of new essays, videos, calendar and op- Instructor at WSA. The show will run abstract paintings by Hudson Val- the paintings were included in Ray- portunity listings are added every thru Sept 6. Curators Paula and John ley Artist Joseph Conrad-Ferm, mond J. Steiner’s reviews over the month. Our guest blog page has some spoke about Bob’s working style... and onyx and travertine lamps and years: 1994, 2001 & 2007 (available on videos that our readers have submit- their great friendship. Paula talked a accessories by Hudson artist Kerry our website under art reviews). The ted about their shows and several bit about his field painting kits, how MacBrideâ. Give yourself lots of time Norman Rockwell paintings on view blogs I feel compelled to pass along. he made one for each member of his to explore Hudson with its many gal- were works from private collections Send me your videos and link to your family out of metal lunchboxes which leries, shops and restaurants. and had not been seen at the museum blogs for consideration. coincidentally fit a 6”x8” painting The Saugerties Artists Studio before. As I wandered the gallery I Angeloch Under Glass is a panel perfectly, so many of his field Tour was again a great success with heard a familiar voice: Gail Levin, memorial exhibit of works on paper paintings were that size. hundreds of visitors. Some came from recently honored by the National by the founder of the Woodstock An exploratory mission took me to as far away as Florida. Our editor Association of Women Artists was School of Art (WSA) Robert An- Hudson, NY where I went in and out Raymond J. Steiner was part of the discussing Hopper’s work as only she geloch (1922-2011) and held at the of probably 20 different galleries. Art tour and his paintings, done en plein is qualified to do. She talked about air, were well received by the 125 or her research on the artist’s life and so visitors we had over the weekend. career, which includes a four-volume If you missed the tour but want to con- catalogue raisonné (1995), as well as nect with any of the artists take a look the books Edward Hopper: An Inti- at the website: saugertiesarttour.com mate Biography (1995), and Edward My friend Barbara and I took a Hopper as Illustrator (1979). Dr. Levin ride over to Stockbridge to see the is Distinguished Professor of Art current exhibition at the Norman History, American Studies, and Rockwell Museum now celebrating Women’s Studies at The Gradu- 45 years as a museum. The collec- ate Center and Baruch College of tion, beginning with 125 paintings the City University of New York. that Norman Rockwell placed in trust At one point in the video we heard a with the Museum, has grown to over quote from Hopper: “I was a rotten 13,000 artworks. On exhibit thru Oc- illustrator or mediocre anyway…… tober 26 is The Unknown Hopper: what I wanted to do was to paint sun- Edward Hopper as Illustrator. The light on the side of a house”. His critics exhibition focuses on a time and style and public will not agree with that; of Hopper’s little known to the pub- his illustrations were exceptional as lic. There are more than 50 original he is an excellent draftsman. Coming drawings and paintings and as part up (Nov. 8-Mar 8, 2015) will be the of the exhibition artworks by Hop- exhibit Mort Künstler: The Art of per’s fellow art students and teachers the Adventure. Künstler is a prolific are on view as well as several works illustrator known for his meticulously Robert Angeloch's painting boxes, kits and other painting memorabilia from his by Hopper’s wife Josephine. Hopper researched historical paintings. For time painting away from his studio. On display at the Woodstock School of Art was encouraged to study illustration more about the museum and this ex- during the exhibition Angeloch Under Glass by his parents and in 1906 landed a hibition see nrm.org. part time job at an advertising agency I spent a few days visiting my WSA in Woodstock, NY. Dear long- is all over the town, in shops, cafés, where he created images for popular mother’s friend Gilda in Annisquam time friends and colleagues Paula performance centers, and galleries magazines of the time. By 1920 he MA and since the fishing boat I was Nelson and John Kleinhans were that change shows every month or so; was producing etchings and painting hoping to go out on was under re- the curators of this immense under- other galleries that represent mostly taking. They went through Bob’s vast deceased artists and still more that collection of work, identified pieces combine antiques and contemporary that best exemplified a period in time, artists. I was pleased to see Elizabeth framed, and photographed the work. Roshkowska at the Roshkowska Many of Bob’s former students (he Galleries (roshkowskagallery.com) was a sought-after instructor) as well having known her when she had her as collectors, friends, colleagues were gallery in Windham. Elizabeth has at the opening. We were treated to a great variety of artists from the US his etchings, aquatint, pencil, ink on and Europe. John Davis Gallery paper, wood engravings, charcoal, oil, (johndavisgallerry.com) was a delight- watercolors, woodcuts, serigraphs, ful surprise to me as I didn’t realize he lithographs and more. I particularly had so much artwork: he has work on liked the vitrines: one held his note- 2 floors in the main building, a sculp- books and the other a sampling of ture court and behind that another his painting boxes, kits and other building with 4 floors each dedicated painting memorabilia from his time to a different artist. John has been in painting away from his studio. There the gallery business for over 30 years was an excellent video presenting the and in Hudson for 16 years or so. It is Bob who went to Monhegan Island, quite an undertaking to mount shows the ping pong player, the husband, the in each of those places every 4 weeks. teacher, the friend. Kate McGlough- Take a look at johndavisgallery.com. lin, current president of WSA and for- At FRG Objects & Design (frgobject- mer monitor in Bob’s class more years sanddesign.com) I was struck by the Raymond J. Steiner (L) and Bernard Carroll ago than she is admitting— welcomed startling visionary collography (work in Raymond's Gallery during the Saugerties Artist Studio Tour attendees to the opening and spoke in ink on various papers some of which urban and architectural scenes. There pairs I had even more time to explore about how important Bob was to WSA. are mounted on Linen) of Cuban artist is extensive programming about this the Rocky Neck Art Colony in When Bob had Paradox Gallery in Belkis Ayõn. The work is so com- artist: a trip to his childhood home in Gloucester. The Rocky Neck Art Woodstock, he always printed up plex yet beautifully simple. Owner Nyack; lectures by historians and cu- Colony is one of the oldest working small booklets from Phantom Press of the gallery is Rick Gillette, hair rators and an evening with noted Hop- art colonies in the country, and has (his press). It was at that time that and make-up artist, fashion photogra- per scholar, Gail Levin, Ph.D. When been luring artists to its picturesque Raymond J. Steiner did a critique of pher and interior designer. In this vast Fall 2014 ART TIMES page 7

His creations have humor and social and galleries in NYC and beyond, at- commentary. There are extensive tend workshops, panel discussions as education programs for k-12, adults well as other educational programs. and seniors; lectures, workshops, For more information thenawa.org music performances. Much of the cur- The 2014 Phoenicia Interna- rent exhibition can be viewed online tional Festival of the Voice (5th at heckscher.org but seeing work in year) was a resounding success with person is, of course, the best. over 5,000 people attending 25 events I’ve just learned about The Keep- in 87 venues held during the 5-day Safe Project, an annual fundraiser festival. Beginning with the open- to support the work of the Cheetah ing Flamenco Gala on Wednesday Conservation Fund (CCF) and evening and continuing on with the Lemur Conservation Founda- workshops, a play, lectures, dance, tion, organizations dedicated to the choral music, book readings and the conservation of these endangered spe- centerpiece of the festival the Barber cies. The “keep safe” boxes, fashioned of Seville featured Artists from around out of repurposed cigar boxes, will the world. The theme of the festival is be on exhibit throughout the towns a Tribute to Spain inspired by this of Rhinebeck, Poughkeepsie and year’s crowning of the new Spanish surrounding areas before being auc- king Felipe VI. Next year will be the tioned off at the Millbrook School, American Year featuring American Millbrook, NY on October 18, 2014. music, Native American, folk, opera, The KeepSafe Project is a joint effort barbershop, gospel, Broadway, film, Cornelia Seckel in the education room at the Norman Rockwell Museum, between volunteers and the Trevor world premieres and American song Stockbridge, NY Zoo at Millbrook School, a leading with living American composers and conservation organization now in its the artists for whom they’ve written. shores for more than 150 years. Art- in Heckscher Park. Artists and en- 78th year of promoting a greater un- Several of this year’s events were sold ists will tell you it’s all about the light, sembles include world-class talent in derstanding of environmental issues. out so make your reservations early and among many others seeking that music, dance and theatre from around Visual artists from the Hudson Valley at phoeniciavoicefest.org. At the Fla- light came Fitz Henry Lane in the the globe, as well as the finest perform- and beyond were personally invited to menco Gala, Assemblymember Kevin 1840s, Emile Gruppe, who made ing arts groups from Huntington and create and donate boxes with themes A. Cahill, (D – Ulster, Dutchess) The Neck his home and painted into Long Island; an exhibition schedule of wildlife conservation. I understand welcomed guests to the opening of the 1970s, Childe Hassam, Milton with 12 juried and invitational shows Avery, Maurice Prendergast, each year; dissemination of several Cecilia Beaux, John Sloan, Stu- different grants; an extensive art in art Davis, Frank Duveneck, Nell education program; a summer arts Blaine, and Jane Peterson. Writ- enrichment program serving 200 ers Louisa May Alcott, Rudyard youth each summer in a half day arts Kipling, and others frequented The experience at the Huntington High Neck. Today the area is home to many School and provides a head start working artists and to galleries show- for beginning orchestra and band ing paintings in all media, as well as students, exploration of new medi- batik, photography, jewelry, prints, ums for artists and advanced art and sculpture, ceramics, and fine gifts. music classes for older students; and There is a once-a-month “Night on Sparkboom™, a program to foster the Neck” schedule with numerous the success of Long Island’s emerging galleries open into the evening spon- creative talent by providing oppor- sored by Rocky Neck Art Colony. This tunities, programs and event experi- artists’ community is a tight one with ences geared to people 18-34 years of 20+ artists and galleries (some sea- age. The charge upon their formation sonal and others year-round) in just by the Huntington Town Board what might be 4 city blocks at most. was to “consider the problems of Rockyneckartcolony.org maintaining an adequate cultural life I was in Huntington, NY for a in the expanding community complex (L to R) Maria Todaro, Executive Director & co-founder; Louis Otey, co-founder; family meeting and took advantage of Huntington.” And they surely have. and Justin Kolb, Chairman of the Festival at the opening Gala of the of being there and explored a few of And then there is the Heckcher 2014 Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice, Phoenicia, NY the Art Galleries in town. bj Spoke Museum with a collection spanning that thegallery of completed boxes The Phoenicia Festival of the Voice is one I am very familiar with, hav- 500 years of Western art with par- grows daily, and can be viewed online. and announced that the Festival orga- ing juried several of their juried art ticular emphasis on the nineteenth There will be a reception and several nization will be receiving a $125,000 shows. b.j. spoke gallery is a member- and twentieth centuries. Established other events to meet the artists and New York Community Capital As- owned and run cooperative art gallery in 1920 with a gift from August hear about their work. See the website sistance Program Grant. The Fes- w/painters, jewelers, and sculptors. Heckscher of 185 works, the collec- keepsafeproject.com for specifics and tival is generating a good amount of Nearly 25 years ago two cooperative tion now numbers more than 2500 to bid on the boxes revenue for the county with the thou- galleries, Northport Galleries and pieces by American and European The exhibition N. A.W.A. at Café sands of visitors that take hotel rooms, B. J. Spoke Gallery merged to form artists. American landscape painting Mezzaluna in Saugerties, NY was eat and frequent area businesses. b.j. spoke located in Huntington, NY. and work by Long Island artists, past a huge success with about 25 mem- Co-Founder and Executive Director They have exhibits of members’ work, and present, are particular strengths, bers of the National Association of Maria Todaro (a fabulous Mezzo- yearly invitational shows, exchange as is American and European modern- Women Artists (N.A.W.A.) Members Soprano who played the role of Rosina exhibits with other galleries, an an- ism. Photography is a growing part living in the Hudson Valley Region in the Barber of Seville) spoke about nual national/international juried art of the collection. The current exhibi- invited to submit work. N.A.W.A. has the great appreciation they have for competition as well as gallery talks, tion is Rhythm & Repetition and runs been empowering, promoting, sup- the state’s support and for the audi- panel discussions, workshops, and art through August 10 focusing on artists porting and encouraging women art- ence. Louis Otey (world-renowned demonstrations. Take a look online at (all work part of the museum’s per- ists, since 1889. Café Mezzaluna spon- Barritone), co-founder, expressed his bjspokegallery.com and stop by when manent collection) who use repeated sors many art related events including excitement and amazement as he you are in the Huntington area. I also elements as a method to organize art shows for individual artists and looked around the field and heard the stopped at the Huntington Arts their compositions. The next exhibi- the Saugerties Artists Tour, dinner appreciation of the enthralled audi- Council now celebrating 50 years tion is Richard Gachot’s America concerts, and poetry readings. Mery ence. Justin Kolb, Pianist/ Actor is serving the arts community of Hun- and will run thru November 23. This Rosado, owner of the café, was so very the Chairman of the Festival and tington. There are over 500 members exhibit celebrates the career of Rich- pleased to have N.A.W.A. members co chair of the new Catskills Acad- and they have a staff of 6 that manage ard Gachot, the Museum’s Celebrate show their work. A closing reception emy of Performing Arts (CAPA) for among many other things: The Hun- Achievement honoree for 2014, who was held and board members spoke youth. More at phoeniciavoicefest.org tington Summer Arts Festival, has created sculptures using direct about the value of the organization for That’s it for now, make sure to a 49-year tradition with performing wood carving and objects found at yard women artists. Membership provides check in on arttimesonline for videos, artists 6 nights a week until August sales, discarded in dumpsters, or long- an opportunity to show at museums new essays and resources. 10 at the Chapin Rainbow Stage forgotten in attics and basements. ef Fall 2014 ART TIMES page 8

Continued from Page 4 Sunday, September 7 Calendar 84th WASHINGTON SQUARE OUTDOOR ART EXHIBIT Washington Square Friday, September 5 East & University Place (212) 982-6255 Gerry Malkin Jazz Cabaret Jazz Fest is presented by ArtsWestchester, Artwork of Stacie Flint and Leslie LeFevre-Stratton: Joy- the City of White Plains and the White Plains Business Improvement District Arts- ful and Animated Unison Arts Center 68 Mountain Rest Rd. New Paltz NY Westchester 31 Mamaroneck Ave White Plains NY 914-428-4220 8-10:30pm charge 845-255-1559 Opening Reception 4-6pm. free (thru Sept 28) Jumble Expressions: International Art Show curated by Kent Art Association ELECTED ARTISTS & JANE CARLSON SOLO Basha Maryanska Marina Gallery 153 Main Street Cold Spring NY 845-265- SHOW The Gallery at Kent Art Association 21 S. Main Street Kent CT 860-927- 2204 Opening Reception 6-8pm free (thru Sept 30) 3989 Opening Reception 1-5pm free (thru Oct 13) Recent Work by Bridget Bossart van Otterloo & Brian Kee- Silvermine School of Art Open House Silvermine Arts Center 1037 ler West End Gallery 12 West Market ST. Corning NY 607-936-2011 Opening Silvermine Road New Canaan CT 203-966-9700 2-4 free Reception 5-7:30pm free (thru Oct 10) Monday, September 8 Terra Incognita and Horizons Gallery 66 NY Gallery 66 NY 66 Main Hudson Chorale Welcomes New Members in September for its St. Cold Spring NY 845-809-5838 free Featuring artists, Carol Flaitz, Jane Exciting 2014-2015 Season Pleasantville Presbyterian Church 400 Bedford Rd Soodalter, and Rick Thurston. Opening reception Sept.5, 6-9pm Pleasantville NY 914-478-0074 6-7:30pm free Saturday, September 6 Tuesday, September 9 84th WASHINGTON SQUARE OUTDOOR ART EXHIBIT Washington Square PETER BUSBY: AMPHORATE The Arts at Hotchkiss Tremaine Gallery at the East & University Place (212) 982-6255 Hotchkiss School 11 Interlaken Road, Lakeville CT 860-435-4423 (thru Oct 11) “Art With A Poem,” watercolors by John Nieman Irvington Pub- Thursday, September 11 lic Library 12 South Astor Street Irvington NY 914-591-7840 Opening Reception ANTHONY KRAUSS: Maquettes The Opus 40 Sculpture Park Opus 40 Gallery 2-4:45pm free (thru Sept 30) 50 Fite Road Saugerties, NY 845-246-3400 free ASOG’s 63rd Annual Sidewalk Art Show and Sale The Art Society of Fifth Annual “Arts Attitudes” Exhibition with Featured Old Greenwich Sound Beach Avenue Old Greenwich CT free Sept 6 & 7, 9am to 5pm. Artist Jacob Houston and 30+ local artists Malta League of Arts Barbara Miller’s Abstract Collages and Damon Tommolino: Historic Round Lake Auditorium 2 Wesley Ave. Round Lake NY Opening Reception In lieu of, a solo painting exhibit b. j. spoke gallery 299 Main Street and Silent Auction 6-8:30pm charge (thru Sept 14) Huntington NY 631-549-5106 Opening reception 6-9 pm free (thru Sept 27) Roslyn Rose and Don Sichler: Beyond the Photograph hob’art Community Concert and Cider Party PS21: Performance Spaces for gallery 720 Monroe Street, Suite #E208 Hoboken NJ 201-319-1504 Opening Recep- the 21st Century 2980 Route 66 Chatham NY 518-392-6121 6:30-8:30pm charge tion 6-8pm free (thru Oct 5) Fresh Picks - Original Oils by Dorothy Lorenze Muscoot Farm Friday, September 12 Muscoot Main House Gallery 51 Rte 100 Katonah NY 914-864-7282 free (thru Sept 28) 30th Anniversary! 300 artists Fall Crafts at Lyndhurst Artrider Produc- Group Show at Amity Gallery Amity Gallery 110 Newport Bridge Road tions Lyndhurst estate 635 S. Broadway Tarrytown NY 845-331-7900 (thru Sept 14) Warwick NY 845-258-0818 Opening Reception 5:30-7pm free (thru Sept 28) Maralyn Matlick: Circadian Rythym Abstract Paintings of Lenore Fiore Mills: Pennsylvania Winter/New York Summer- the Temporal World Upstream Gallery 26 Main Street Dobbs Ferry NY batik paintings Pleiades Gallery of contemporary art 530 West 25 th St. 4th 914-674-8548 (thru Oct 5) floor New York NY 646-230-0056 Reception 3-5 pm free (thru Sept 27) Natural Enemies Pelham Art Center 155 5th Ave Pelham NY 914-738-2525 Music of Miles Davis with Wali Ali, Bob Baldwin, Ray Blue and Opening Reception 6:30-8PM Harvie S: Jazz Fest is presented by ArtsWestchester, the City of White Plains RoGallery.com’s Extravagant Art Auction RoGallery.com 47-15 and the White Plains Business Improvement District White Plains Performing Arts 36th Street Long Island City NY 800-888-1063 2:00pm free Center 11 City Pl, White Plains NY 914-428-4220 8pm charge Continued on Page 10 Randall Schmit New Work: Sans Serif Woodstock Artists Association Museum (WAAM) (WAAM) 28 Tinker Street Woodstock NY 845-679-2940 Opening Reception 6-8pm free (thru Oct 5) Studio Lighting Photography by Josh Goodrich and Stuart Fisher: Concentrated Light ARTBAR Gallery 674 Broadway Kingston NY 845-430-4893 Opening Reception 5-8pm free (thru Sept 28)

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So, not having on my beside table’s chromed me- ing music CDs was of no consequence: tallic coaster and the BBC Radio pips we listened to BBC Radio 4 morning sounding the sixth hour, to the rocking talk shows http://www.bbc.co.uk/pro- and rolling of The Delta Breaks and grammes/b04f89mc until we lost radio the sultry sounds of Bella Collins and signal in the wilds of southwest Wales, the Blue -- these were music to my ears and contented ourselves with talking which, contained in my 36-hour stay- to one another (for a while). cation to Wales’ small-but-perfectly- When we spotted a small brown formed west coast, have become a road sign with a picture of a jug on significant chapter in the soundtrack it, we got excited. Follow that jug! of my life. The brown signs in the UK are tour- 36 hours – that’s all it was. Our ist signs -- they indicate attractions work-life balance this summer af- and facilities, and usually display an forded us a one-day staycation, and icon and a worded description. This our get-away was unplanned and com- was just a brown sign with the white pletely spur-of-the-moment. There outline of a jug – how daring! But really is no other way here in the UK. further on, over the river and through If you plan an outdoor event too far the woods, was another brown sign in advance you run the risk of being which read: Pottery. Mystery over, AberJazz: the joint was jumping! rained out and that in a country which, we parked in an empty grassy area/ At a local charity shop in the town you will not miss it. The program told absurdly enough, doesn’t typically designated car park in a delightfully centre, where CDs were on sale, 3 for us that at 6pm at the Ffwrn (which have contingency rain dates, or offer secluded spot called Wolfscastle, and £1, instead of picking madrigals and is Welsh for oven), Rick Asherson of rain checks. ventured forth -- passing a picture cathedral choristers, we opted for the Debbie Bond & The Tru Dats would As the August Bank Holiday week- postcard cottage and into the court- Fine Young Cannibals’ FYC: The Raw be offering ‘a practical introduction to end (equivalent to Labor Day in the yard, where two more stone buildings & The Good, 1988; NOW 50 and NOW cross harp blues harmonica, includ- USA) approached, we glanced at the formed an L-shape. 56 (from the Now That’s What I Call ing rhythm and soloing elements. forecast. Promising a very nice Satur- Unsure what or who we would find Music Chart Hits range), offering hits Suitable for beginners of any age or day at most, we did a quick calculation at 10am, a table of seconds beckoned, such as: Black Eyed Peas Where is the level and anyone who wants to extend of things-to-do squared over number- and then noticed the open door – and Love?, and Britney Spears I’m a Slave their harmonica playing to the blues. of-mouths-to-feed, then rounded off to went into the studio and gallery. 4U, and gave our glove compartment Harmonicas in key of A will be for the nearest whole number and got one. Madeline Cunningham, owner/artist, something to sing about. sale for £5.’ Numerous phone calls on Friday was as beautiful and charming in the Wool remained front and centre for And so we did not (miss it). We night resulted in ‘no vacancies’, but morning light as the location and her our next pit stop at Melin Tregwynt spent a tenner on two bits of kit, luckily found a suite at Dove Cottage handmade, hand-painted pottery col- (Tregwynt Mill), in Castlemorris. got stuck right in, and had an ab- in Goodwick, Pembrokeshire on Air- lection. Wolfscastle Pottery also offers Their designs reflect their Celtic roots, solute blast. It was a privilege to be bnb, which we swiftly booked (www. workshops www.wolfscastlepottery. and they have supplied an impressive taught by Rick, whose teaching style airbnb.com; www.dovecottagebb. co.uk. range of stores, hotels and fashion de- was accessible and who talent was co.uk/). Maximising our time, we In our short visit, we connected signers. Their workshops are brown- abundant. And in the informal and packed that night, slept fast, and head with Madeline in a meaningful way signed and, while they are off the friendly atmosphere that surrounded off on Saturday with the dawn chorus through an open and informative con- beaten path, nothing is too far out of everyone and everything about this and a box of fresh-baked pastries from versation – her son, a photographer the way, and worth a visit. festival, we enjoyed chatting to Rick our local Portuguese bakery, Nata & she told us, is currently at Nevada’s It was only lunchtime when we and Deb afterwards. Rick, originally Co. (https://twitter.com/natacouk). Burning Man Festival www.burning- arrived at our destination which was, from London and Deb, originally from The plan was simple: we would get man.com/, and her daughter had just at first sight, hauntingly quiet. First California, live in Alabama, and they up early and head west until the road left this site for the AberJazz Festival stop was to a music store brandishing play the Alabama blues. We were ended, to the ferry-port town of Fish- in Fishguard aberjazz.com/. Our ears closing down signs, where I got a great sorry we would have to miss their gig, guard, then follow our noses, noting pricked up at the mention of a jazz deal on a beautiful set of bongo drums on late Sunday, but bought their CD, the big antiques centre in the area, festival in the town we were heading for my son. But then all the other That Thing Called Love, and looked and fantasising about a long, deep for, and with the spirit of adventure shops, including the antiques centre, forward to adding it to our growing sleep on a sun-warmed blanket on a still in first gear, we said goodbye and were closed. We were keen to find out collection for the Clio. We enjoyed it, nearby beach. set off, hugging our ceramic cake plate where the jazz action was, but agreed but I was disappointed that so little of Our little Renault Clio is still very and humming happily. it was best to eat, and narrowed our Rick’s harmonica features on it http:// new to us (the beautiful, big, old Hon- St Davids, an exquisitely tiny place choices down in this sleepy town to www.debbiebond.com/. da Accord diesel Tourer with 170,000- with ‘city’ status because it is home to The Gourmet Pig or The Gourmet Pig Lobster was the catch of the day at plus miles on the clock had just died a Cathedral, was our next stop, where www.gourmetpig.co.uk/. Bar 5 www.barfive.com/, which we ate and got towed to Poland to be sold for the silence was golden, and any voices The jazz festival was definitely the on the heated terrace overlooking the parts). This transition took all our heard were respectful whispers. As town’s main attraction, and that be- harbour, while chatting and gaining CDs into the house; hence we left the the Castlewales website tells us, ‘to came blatantly obvious when we found the acquaintance of another couple house that morning without stashing understand part of the reason St. a poster which guided us to The Royal from Cardiff, then head back to The the Clio with music for the journey. Davids is so special, you have to know Oak, situated on Fishguard square, Royal Oak to hear The Rumblestrut- This piece didn’t start out as a a little about the history of the area. where the historic peace treaty be- ters, a three-piece ‘jug’ band that play confessional but, I have to admit that, St. David is the patron saint of Wales. tween France and Britain was signed a mix of Memphis jazz, hokum blues while I love music, I also love the Legend claims he was born around 500 in 1797. The joint was jumping. and ragtime. rhythms that the spoken word create; A.D. on the rugged Pembrokeshire Perched on the thick-recessed window Had we not bumped into these I relish the clatter, hum and buzz that coast of southwest Wales. He was the ledge of this landmark pub, we could other folk later on in the car park we everyday sounds around us make; and founder of a strict monastic order in see the rest of our trip taking shape. would have missed their daughter’s I am moved by the movement of noises the town that bears his name, and We would pub hop and soak up the gig the next day. After a superb break- inside my head; and the combination was the most influential clergyman in groove that was Aber Jazz. fast in the home of John and Maryna of all of these to produce soundscapes all Wales during the “Age of Saints.” Andrew Morris, the lead singer of at Dove Cottage, we decided to stay in of day-to-day living. His place of birth and the cathedral the quintet called The Delta Breaks town longer, heading back up by mid- Quite a lot of my writing is inspired built in his name became one of the belted out blues, rock and soul cov- day to hear Bella Collins at the Ffwrn. by these -- soundscapes which become most important shrines of medieval ers – perfect at 3pm on a Saturday At an eclectic venue that was also soundtracks and play a lead rather Christendom -- two pilgrimages to afternoon in August. Who can resist a bakery, serving freshly-made pas- than supporting role in the work St. Davids equals one to Rome www. singing along to Mustang Sally? www. tries, croissants, tea and coffee, as (Stalemate, 1990). More recently, I am castlewales.com/stdavid.html. I’ve facebook.com/thedeltabreaks well as beer and savoury pies, Bella’s weakened by the power and synchro- been to a service at St. Davids before. And when you’ve wet your whistle performance was the cherry on the nicity of the interaction between live As a tourist this time, I was inspired with a beer or two and an opportunity cake www.facebook.com/bella.collins. radio and the thoughts in my head – by the ‘kneelers’ which bestowed the to develop your musical skills presents blue. 36 hours packed with music, the harmony created by the fusion of a bottom rung of every chair in the Ca- itself in the shape of a blues harmon- food, new friends and fun. I really particular theme I am working on and thedral, each one a piece of handmade ica workshop in the venue just down must get out more. the serendipitous turning on and tun- tapestry. the road, you must promise yourself ef Fall 2014 ART TIMES page 10

Continued from Page 8 RMAA 49th Annual Fall Open Juried Exhibition Ringwood Manor Association of the Arts The Barn Gallery at Ringwood State Park 1304 Sloatsburg Calendar Road Ringwood NJ 845-258-4218 free (thru Oct 22) Saturday, September 13 Thursday, September 18 A Tide of Memory: Premier Performance Miranda arts project space 6 N Pearl St. Port Chester NY 914-318-7178 2-5pm free Compass: Jazz Quartet Smithy Center for the Arts 55 Pioneer Street Coo- perstown NY 607-547-8671 7:30-9:30pm charge Barbershop & Beyond Unison Arts Center 68 Mt. Rest Road New Paltz NY 845-255-1559 8-10pm charge KeepSafe Project Mid Hudson Heritage Center 317 Main Street Pough- keepsie NY 845-546-0845 free From September 18th till October 1st Poughkeepsie David Link in Gallery 1, Eleanor White in The Beacon Room and Hyde Park businesses Zimmer Brothers, Mid Hudson Heritage Center and the Beacon Artist Union bau Gallery 506 Main Street Beacon NY Opening Reception Artists’ Collective of Hyde Park will display KeepSafe boxes created by local art- 6pm-9pm free (thru Oct 5) ists to support the work of the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) and the Lemur PHOTOcentric 2014 The Riverside Galleries Garrison Art Center 23 Garrison’s Conservation Foundation. Opening Reception 4:00- 8:00pm, at Zimmer Brothers in Landing Garrison NY 845-424-3960 free (thru Sept 28) Poughkeepsie; Friday September 19, from 5:30-7:00pm at the Mid Hudson Heritage Piano Recital Series Carnegie Concert Series The Nyack Library 59 S. Center in Poughkeepsie; Sunday September 21 from 3:00-5:00pm at the Artists’ Broadway Nyack NY 845-358-3370 7:30 pm charge Collective of Hyde Park. SELDOM SEEN The Woodstock School of Art 2470 Route 212 Woodstock NY 845- Rick Shaefer: Rendering Nature Bellarmine Museum of Art Fairfield 679-2388 Opening Reception 3-5 (thru Nov 1) University 1073 North Benson Road Fairfield CT 203-254-4046 Opening reception 6-8pm free (thru Dec 19) Visions Revealed: Exhibition of Multi media competition winners ArtsWestchester Hammond Museum 28 Deveau Rd North Salem NY Friday, September 19 914-669-5033 Opening Reception 1-3pm charge (thru Nov 15) ANTHONY KRAUSS: Maquettes The Opus 40 Sculpture Park Opus 40 Gallery Window on the Arts Festival Windsor Partners Inc. 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Call to Artists Putnam Arts Council’s Annual Juried Fine Arts Exhibit October 11 – 31, 2014 Hand delivery due by: Tuesday, September 30, 3pm Juror: Frank Gimpaya Cash Awards announced at Opening Reception Saturday, October 11, 4-6pm ~ ~ ~ ~ Prospectus/ info/ directions: putnamartscouncil.com 521 Kennicut Hill Rd., Mahopac • or call 845-803-8622 Fall 2014 ART TIMES page 11 Theatre The False Dichotomy By Robert Bethune Last March, Judith Ohikuare in this area. Ohikuare does both, nor and outer life to an audience located age has experienced their theater wrote a good piece for The Atlan- is she alone in doing so. One is to at non-conversation distance. One’s as convincingly realistic, though we tic about the relationship between accept the idea that a higher degree voice must become easier to hear; would not accept it as such today. actors and roles, exploring recent of stylization correlates with a lower one’s diction must become easier to That’s not because we are smart and thinking about the effect fictional degree of emotional authenticity. understand. Movement, gesture and they were stupid, or because we are characters have on the real people The other is to fail to realize that facial expression must become easier sophisticated and they were yokels; who play them. How actors do what modern acting involves a great deal to see. The intensity of emotional it’s because we use our conventions they do is becoming a topic of interest of stylization. Both of these errors expression conveyed by those vocal and they used theirs. Furthermore, to people who study the brain and to lead to the false idea that acting has and physical means must become they were as nearly unconscious of people who study human behavior, become steadily more realistic over more easily perceptible and more their conventions as we are of ours. such as Thalia Goldstein at Pace and time. capable of evoking response. In a In this respect, theater does not Paul Bloom at Yale. It should be obvious that a high word, the actor must, as theater progress. It changes, but it does not In the process, Ohikuare fell into degree of overt stylization can ex- people say, project. The many physi- progress. one of the ordinary pitfalls of the press a high degree of emotional cal and vocal adaptations, large and What does not change in theatri- subject. It is true that modern acting authenticity. We need only take note small, adapted to that end constitute cal performance – spoken drama in the broad tradition of Stanislavski of the tremendous emotional power a much higher degree of stylization and comedy, musical theater, opera, greatly values emotional authentic- of opera and dance to realize that than we normally realize. That is dance, and so forth – is our ability ity and a high level of apparent real- the very high levels of stylization something most people very rarely to use these practices to fall into a ism in physical and vocal behavior, involved in those forms of theatrical do in the real world. When they do so, double state of mind, in which we but the relationship between that expression not only permit, but also their behavior immediately becomes are both in the real world and in a and approaches to acting that domi- facilitate intense emotional authen- quite similar to the behavior actors fictional one, both in control of our nated earlier periods is nowhere ticity. Merman, Callas, Baryshnikov, use on stage. hearts, minds and eyes and not at near as cut-and-dried as Ohikuare Graham—these artists were highly We do not perceive those adapta- all in control of them, both standing would have it. emotionally authentic, and the tions as unrealistic (assuming, as I apart and profoundly affected. The First and foremost, we have to stylization involved in their various mentioned before, that they are done ability of human brains to enter that specify in all these discussions that modes of performance helped them well) because they are done accord- state is well worth further study. we’re talking about the best work out get there. Stylization can do that ing to conventions that we audience ef there, not the mediocre work that in- because it involves doing what all art members have learned to accept. In evitably comes our way. We’re going must do, namely, form and organize so doing, we do what audiences have to be talking about performance in what is presented to the perception always done in every age and every straight spoken drama and comedy, of the audience in such a way as to place where theatrical performance musical theater and opera, ballet evoke the desired responses. has occurred and does occur. It is 97 Broadway . Kingston NY . 845-338-0331 and modern dance, and we need It is less obvious that modern act- very revealing to go back and read to remember that mediocre perfor- ing in straight drama and comedy what was written about actors and “SidFest” mance in all genres of live theater involves considerable stylization acting in the past. Aristotle’s de- With Staged Readings of 3 of Sidney Norinsky’s Plays does not evoke the kinds of cognitive, because we accept those styliza- scription of ancient Greek theater, Sunday, Sept. 21, 4 p.m. emotional and esthetic effects and tions as realistic when in fact they a form that appears highly stylized — ROMANCE — responses of interest here. Perform- are not. Every novice actor has to to us, focuses heavily on what we Does Mother-in-law know best when politics pokes ers can be deadly dull regardless of learn that you cannot simply walk think of as fundamental realism: its paw into a young couple's lives? & what style they use and the adop- out on stage and behave the way “probability and necessity.” The ac- — FAR FROM THE TREE — you would in real life. The behavior tors of Roman times were praised tion of any particular style offers no A prodigal-son drama blazes with social and personal furies. guarantee whatsoever of excellence one must adopt onstage differs from for emotional authenticity. From Director: Nicola Sheara in performance. that one would adopt in real life be- the earliest descriptions of European There are two ways to go astray cause one must convey one’s inner theater down to the present, every Sunday, Sept. 28, 4 p.m. — BERTIE — It's 1940. Why is the USA so upset when CCNY hires British philosopher Bertrand Russell? 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By Rena Tobey© A Provocative Voice The paintings of Lilly Martin held by the father. She reads the Spencer (1822-1902) often reveal battlefield news aloud. The baby in the personal joys and challenges her lap touches her breast, while of her life, while also acting as a a foot kicks out at the newspaper. th metaphor for issues faced by 19 - Symbolically, the infant links the century Americans. Looking closely mother’s roles in the home and as at one of Spencer’s better-known a witness and interpreter of his- works—War Spirit at Home, from tory. The newspaper also divides 1866—shows how she navigated the the mother from her other children, country’s changing sense of itself. leading some to critique her as in- The painting depicts a noisy, seem- different or absent minded. With ingly happy household moment of the mother’s precarious hold on the work and play. It noticeably lacks a baby, Spencer may also allude to male presence. Spencer’s own home her own juggling of the two spheres, was non-traditional. She was the since painting sales were crucial to breadwinner, with a husband who the family’s domestic comfort. worked in supporting her career Still domestic chores must be and the care of their seven surviv- attended to, no matter what is hap- ing children of 13. Domestic chores pening in the broader public sphere. were an insistent part of their lives, In War Spirit at Home, the servant as well as an ongoing financial continues to conduct her duties, no pressure, but Spencer generally matter what else happens in the employed a servant to help with the scene. The servant handles her do- ensuing domestic chaos. mestic chores with a kind of humble In War Spirit at Home, Spencer dignity, dressed modestly in black, highlights the woman reading a melting into the darker background newspaper, in the new role of the of the painting. The power difference indirect eyewitness. The newspaper between the mother and the servant was viewed as a symbol of authority, is clear—the servant works, while and because it reported news from the mistress is at leisure enough to the world, it also stood in as a sym- read the newspaper. But as the tall- bol of the public sphere, the male est figure, the servant is important, domain. Here, news consumption contrary to the authority afforded to has been moved into the domestic the mother by her literacy. sphere, with no men to make this How do we read the servant’s activity more acceptable. It also expression? Is it empathy for the charges the scene with historic pressures and responsibilities this significance.T he Civil War was con- mother bears? A sign of the ser- sidered the first ‘living room war’, vant’s own exhaustion? Her expres- with photography providing graphic sion might also show disapproval. images of what war really looked With the messy interior, the noisy Lilly Martin Spencer, ca. 1900. like and illustrations of battle and children, the seeming disregard for Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. camp life scenes. Having a woman the safety of the infant while the resent societal criticism: this house being lazy, dishonest, and thieving. read such potentially distressing newspaper has the mother’s full at- information indicates how the Civil is disorganized and out of control, The war spirit at home may refer to tention, the servant can be read as as is the country during the Civil the mistress-servant relationship. War upturned convention, giving criticizing household management. women agency in new ways. War. Further, the disdain on the This servant has been placed at a Traditionally in paintings, a messy, servant’s face might reflect Spen- distance, relegated to work outside With the printed word, the chaotic household suggests a society mother has the power usually cer’s tensions with her servants. the family circle. in disarray. The servant could rep- She complained about servants Her turned head could also be un-

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The children’s in- the image with wry suggestions that in the battle or is concerned for his of noise Spencer herself had to make nocent joy is tempered by the adult triggered recognition of contempo- safety, consistent with her down- to succeed in a man’s professional understanding of the deeper losses rary issues and debates. turned lips and seeming disregard world. The girl wears the bright- from this, and any, battle. Spencer lived to be eighty, but for the infant and other children. est color, a red dress sure to grab War Spirit at Home subverts never retired, unable to achieve The servant’s skin is painted darker the viewer’s eye, and the patriotic convention. No male figure provides financial security. She was still than the other figures. Spencer’s mate to her mother’s blue and white order to the scene. The mother, seeking commissions to make facility with painting faces would gown. The color binds the two and generally seen as responsible for ends meet into her late 70s. She suggest that she used a darker suggests that women will be central moral uplift, has a messy home with died while painting at her easel. skin tone to open up the conversa- to patriotic service for the country unruly children. She is a reader Her work then fell into obscurity, tion about the race of the servant. coming out of the war. The girl is the of news. The girl marches as a vi- as critics labeled it inferior. But If the servant is African American, only child to wear an actual Union sion for the future, not as make paintings like War Spirit at Home the quizzical look may suggest that cap, called a kepi, not a paper hat believe. The issues of the day—the are too potent, sparking perpetual she hears the war news with dif- like her brothers. She is not just Union cause, the future for African debate on the artist’s intentions and ferent ears. A reported Vicksburg playacting at being a soldier. By Americans, women’s suffrage— dialogue with the issues of her day. victory means the likelihood of the wearing a real hat versus a paper have invaded the domestic sphere Her works quickly deepen with wit, overall Union success, and African hat, she seems to say, “I can fight, of nursing mothers and domestic charm, and intelligence to comment American lives would be profoundly too, for the future of this country.” help. Spencer may paint the par- on a turbulent period with a distinc- changed. By 1866, Spencer would Her march may become that for lor, but she would not descend to tive American voice, projected by a have known that this battle was the women’s rights, which resurged stereotypes. She gave the viewer a remarkable, pioneering woman. turning point in the Union’s favor, after the Civil War. Her marching mother-and-child scene, appropri- ef and the future of African Americans is more than child’s play. It has real was on everyone’s minds. goals and desired outcomes for new The future is also unclear for freedoms. the children, who are depicted in a As allegorical figures, the mother more exaggerated style. Children and daughter show how to mend the in paintings represent the future, nation, rising above the upheavals and in Spencer’s commercially suc- in the parlor and in the country. cessful works were often shown as With the loss of so many men (and little angels. These rambunctious their patriarchal authority), the children, celebrating a battle they mother represents moral and social cannot fully understand, play sol- order, while also engaging with the dier, embodying the manly virtue outside world. The energized tom- of courage, again blurring the boy suggests the changes coming distinctions between the spheres. out of the turmoil of war. Her dress They play-act the battle, while also is in disarray, falling off her shoul- celebrating the victory reported in der; the untied ribbon trailing. She the newspaper. The war has been needs tending, like cleaning up the brought into the home, not just in country’s mess. word, but also in deed, through the The mother can also be read as a mock parade. religious figure and as representa- This improvised party features tive of all women who suffer from improvised props. The toddler in war. The baby laid across the moth- the center carries a stick as a rifle er’s lap can be understood as a Pietá, over one shoulder and wears a paper and the newspaper has been folded hat. The boy in the back also wears a and now reopened to reveal a cross paper hat and blows a toy horn. The shape in the creases. Her serious- girl, modeled on Spencer’s daughter ness represents Christian suffering Angelique, bangs a cooking pot with from the pain of war and sacrifices a spoon as a makeshift drum. The for her family, unrecognized by the Lilly Martin Spencer The War Spirit at Home, 1866, Oil on canvas, 30" x 32 ¾". girl makes the most noise, convert- raucous children. Women view- Purchase 1944 Wallace M. Scudder Bequest Fund. Collection of the Newark Museum

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The Arts at hotchkiss.org/arts HotcHkiss All are welcome! (860) 435 - 4423 September 9 - October 11 November 13 - 16 Tremaine Gallery — Peter Busby: Amphorae. Hotchkiss Dramatic Association - The Secret Reception: September 27, 4 - 7 p.m. Garden, musical by Marsha Norman. (Ticket & reservation information: 860-435-3203) September 19, 7 p.m. Robert deMaine, cellist. Free admission. December 5, 7:00 p.m. Hotchkiss Ensembles: Hotchkiss Orchestra September 28, 7 p.m. and Right Brain Logic Jazz. Free admission. Aszure Barton Dance Company. Free admission. December 7, 7:00 p.m. Hotchkiss Chorus: Festival of Lessons and October 17 - November 16 Carols, Hotchkiss Chapel. Free admission. Tremaine Gallery — Sharon Land Trust: Twin Oaks Reflections. Reception & December 6 - January 18 fundraising gala: October 27, 4 - 7 p.m. Tremaine Gallery — Hotchkiss in Fifty Objects. The Hotchkiss School ~ 11 Interlaken Road, Lakeville, Connecticut Fall 2014 ART TIMES page 15 Dance Michel Platnic Talks About Movement Pictures: After Three Studies for Portrait of Lucien Freud (Photo by Omer Yair) By MICHEL PLAT NI C And Its Influence On His Work In my early twenties a friend and I created a ticket office for students. Theatre: The emphasis of my stud- tain College with the collaboration of then prepared costumes and painted We would go to the theater nearly ies was on the methods of Jacques John Cage and Merce Cunningham. on them and on the characters, direct- every night, to contemporary dance Lecoq and Etienne Decroux. With I was struck by their combination of ly on their bodies. The preparation of performances and then we would Jacques Lecoq I was mostly influ- accuracy in building space, choro- the characters during filming of my write critiques. This is where I first enced by the work with the masks graphical phrases and the usage of works take a very long time, models that aimed at cleaning the expression chance. The framework is perfectly are tired and at some point forget that of the body from any mannerism. built, thought, and then it finally be- the camera will be filming, they don’t Even if I did not do a lot of stage comes alive at the moment of the per- have the expectation of seeing their combat, I think it was part of learning formance where everything is subject own image anymore, of liking it, ego to find my own expression, my own to chance, the unplanned is life, it is is neutralized. And then I start film- strengths. the creation, it is not controllable. ing. With a Merce like throw of the With the method of Etienne De- I suppose at that point the Zen dice, I put the character inside the set croux, the isolation Buddhism influ- and start filming. My directing part of body parts within ence of Cage and is minimal, I let the character live in each movement had my own practice the structure of the set. a great affect on of martial arts The presentation of the works at me, in learning how intersected. The Gordon Gallery, Tel-Aviv, May 2014 to build a narra- intense prepara- as well have been very much influ- tive with the body tion of the mind enced by theatre where the specta- and the power of and body with tor enters into a world disconnected each movement in the aim of sim- from everyday material life. Visual its ability to com- ply living with met the physical theatre with Ariane municate a story or awareness. The Mnouchkine at the Theatre du Soleil. an emotion. best fighter is The amazing power of the characters, Later on (through the one who does the mise-en-scene, the décor, the cos- books and visuals, not enter fights, tumes, everything was just there to not actual acting) I because the ene- create a world, a closed system that discovered the Bau- my understands could live by itself, independently. I haus performances even before the remember I was so amazed by the and their principle fight starts that movements of the characters and of ‘total art work’. Oscar Schlemmer he has no chance to win. Martial Arts their expressions. I encountered this emphasized the ‘object’ quality of the help the development of this intense power again but in a completely dif- dancers, transforming them into pup- moment of the meeting with the other ferent expression, a lot softer with pets, propelled by means of precise where everything is said with no Marcel Marceau and his amazing mechanism. In what he defined as words. Just like in the artworks from body expression. His sole presence ‘sensation of space’, and ‘felt volume’, these performers and choreographers was also creating a new world, an- he tried to unify the dancing figure I mentioned. All the preparation of other possibility for the creation of a with the geometrical property of the Cunningham just to be able to live the closed independent system. space. My works ‘Self-Portrait in a moment in its full intensity. references to life are made only via It was only in my late twenties Pool, 2009’ or ‘Self-Portrait in Red, I believe that when creating these art history, and the sensorial meet- that I started to study theater act- 2010’, ‘Self-Portrait in White, 2010’ works dealing with Bacon, I searched ing between the visitor and the space ing. In my thirties I went deeper into are obviously very much influenced for these same moments of intensity. created starts while encountering the physica. You can do better I’m sure, by his works. I created a space for each of the char- essence of both the characters and the media in the Artworks. but I thought I’d pass it on. Then there was the Black Moun- acters, a living environment for them, ef A banner ad on either the arts, classes & workshops, calendar, opportunities page on arttimesjournal.com is just $100/ Year. This is a way to get your message out to arttimes online readers and to support the work we do in listing your events.

The New Rochelle Art Association 99th Annual Juried Exhibition Sept. 13 - Oct. 26 New Rochelle Public Library, Library Plaza, New Rochelle Receiving: Sat., Sept. 13, 10am -1pm • Reception: Sat., Sept. 27, 5:30 to 7:00pm Minimum $2500 cash and art related awards Judge: Janet Gorzegno Download Prospectus at www.nraaonline.org or send SASE to: NRAA, 30 Oakdale Avenue, New Rochelle, NY 10801

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Deadline Rochelle, NY (914) 320-2432 Seeks entries If you have an opportunity to list, Be prepared to sing. Visit website for full Oct 31. [email protected] • www.pq.cz for “Fantasy Realism Artworks in Group email: [email protected] or info. Deadline Sep 8. ekleinke@hotmail. Exhibit Oct 1-22. Call of visit www.facebook. Artists: Putnam Arts Council, 521 Ken- write: ART TIMES PO Box 730, Mt. com www.coachhouseplayers.org com/modharts/notes for info, details. Dead- nicut Hill Rd., Mahopac, NY, 845.803.8622 Marion, NY 12456. Please follow above Artists: Cultural Alliance of Western Con- line Sep 30. [email protected] http// Seeking entries for Annual Juried Fine Arts format and include deadline and connecticut (203) 798-0760 Seeks entries for www.modharts.com Exhibit Oct 11-31. Juror: Frank Gimpaya tact phone number. Fall 2014 ART TIMES page 17 Fiction Nocturnal Vibrato By R. Jayess means — really.” “Well?” good or bad, rich or poor, tall or SOMETHING WOKE HIM. He tried to see his intruder, but “I think you know…but again, short, smart or dumb…just as long He was lying on his right side, couldn’t. Just felt him standing does it matter?” as they’re alive.” facing the window. alongside the bed. “No, I guess not.” “So you can make us not alive.” Dark outside. “How do you keep all that para- “It’s always going to be one thing “Like I said, you guys never seem His chest. phernalia quiet? Like how come I or another.” to have gotten around this thing.” What the hell is that? didn’t hear your scythe hitting the “But why this, I wonder?” “‘To be — or not to be.’” A fluttering.N o. More. A vibrating. walls on the way up here, or any- “Don’t know. Not my bailiwick. “Yeah, That fella seemed to have He didn’t move. thing?’ I’m just the picker-upper.” gotten it. What was his name again?” The vibration lasted for what “Like I said…been doing this for “And the breaker and enterer.” “Hamlet — well, Shakespeare.” seemed like a full minute. a long time.” A chuckle. “Actually, I “That too.” “Right. But it doesn’t matter.” An alarm clock? left that stuff down in the kitchen.” “Hmmmm. So, how do you want “Yeah. He was and now isn’t.” He still did not move…fearful that “Nice touch.” me? Should I lie on my back and fold “That’s the spirit…” it might get worse. “A long time…you learn some my hands over my chest?” “Nice, that.” He had no idea what time it was. tricks along the way.” “Does it matter?” “Well, I have my moments.” The clock was on his left, on the “What is it with all that stuff, “Well…somebody’s going to find “Right.” dresser, but he did not turn over to anyway…the hourglass, the scythe, me.” “This gets pretty cut and dried, look. It was pitch black outside. the hooded robe…and whatever else “And?” you know…not much room for impro- What the hell is that? An alarm you come equipped with.” “Well, shouldn’t I look a little visation and witty repartee.” going off inside me? “Tradition.” presentable?” “Well that ‘cut and dried’ wasn’t He felt no pain. Just that rapid “Tradition.” “Does it matter?” A short silence. bad….” fluttery, vibration in his left breast. “Yep…sort of expected now.” “And, presentable for what?” “Yeah. A little scythe pun. You’re Suddenly it stopped. “Do you mind if I sit up?” “Well, I don’t know. This is your quick.” Still no pain, no discomfort. Just “Does it matter?” business…it’s my first time, you “Well, I like words.” sudden stillness. He thought for a moment. “No… know.” “Yeah, I know. You’re a writer. He was about to turn over when not rea—.” “You’re only time. But on your Were a writer.” he realized he was not alone. “Hmmpf.” back with your hands folded over “You know that?” “Hm, hmm. I’m here.” “Just a habit, I guess.” your chest sounds a bit dramatic.” “Not much I don’t know.” He hadn’t heard anything. Not a “One your kind has had for a very “My only time?” “So. Not sure I ought to ask, but sound while he lay there focused on long time.” “Yes. What’d you expect? Repeat what will happen to my stuff? My that vibration. “Oh?” performances?” books and other writings?” “But, then…I guess I wouldn’t “Yeah. The constant mixing up of “Well, there’s been rumors, you “They’ll be or they won’t be.” have heard you.” appearance and reality. You’d think know.” “‘Cut and dried’.” “Nope.” by now that you’d have had that “Appearance and reality. Things “Yup.” He eased onto his back, could still sorted.” are or they are not. I’m here and soon “Shame when you think of it.” not see the clock which was too far He shrugged. you won’t be.” “Does it matter? Seemed to me to the left and behind for him to see. “I mean, things are or they are not. “So all those stories down through that most of your stuff — most of all “Figures.” Where’s the difficulty?” the ages…? About a Supreme Being? writer’s stuff — is a confusion of ap- “I guess…I’ve been doing this for “Well, it’s a bit tricky at times. A Heaven? Or, an Evil One and Hell?” pearance and reality. You make stuff a long, long time now.” Like now, for instance. How come I “Smoke and mirrors.” up. Trouble is, you begin to believe it. “A serial breaker-inner.” can’t see you?” “Wishful thinking?” Things are or they aren’t.” “Yup. Know all the tricks.” “Does it matter?” “That, too.” “That simple.” The room was as dark as it was “Well — either you are here or you “Hmmm! Well, I was always of the “Yup. The whole shebang is, actu- outside. are not.” opinion that God and Satan were too ally.” “What time is it?” “I’m here.” picky, anyway.” “So?” “Does it matter?” “So, as long as you’re here, answer Silence. “So?” “No…I guess not. Not really.” me this. What was that jiggling going “You, at least are democratic… “How do you want me?” “Love that expression you guys on in my chest?” non-judgmental.” “Does it matter? Make yourself use — ‘not really’ — not sure what it Silence. “Absolutely. I don’t care if they’re comfortable. Lie on your side, your back, whatever. You can hang off the edge of the bed if you want to. That’s always dramatic.” AUTUMN AT THE WOODSTOCK SCHOOL OF ART “How long…?” “Will this take? Let’s see… your The School will be closed November 23-December 1 heart stopped fibrillating a split second ago…” SEPTEMBER LANDSCAPE INTERPRETING THE LANDSCAPE WORKS ON PAPER (R. Jayess lives in NY.) with Kate McGloughlin IN PASTEL with Kate McGloughlin ef September 6-7 with Christie Scheele October 30-November 20, Thursdays October 17-19 ABSTRACT COMICS MIXED MEDIA with Meredith Rosier MONOTYPE with Loel Barr September 21 with Kate McGloughlin November 1-2 October 20-22 EXPLORING ABSTRACTION ABSTRACT COMICS with Jenny Nelson ABSTRACTION AND with Meredith Rosier September 27 LARGE SCALE DRAWING November 9 with Meredith Rosier COLLAGE October 25-26 THE ABSTRACT LANDSCAPE with Robert Ohnigian with Donald Elder October 4-5 November 12-14 SELDOM SEEN SILK AQUATINT MIXED MEDIA: RECYCLE AND REUSE WORKS FROM THE COLLECTION with Jenne M. Currie with Julio Valdez OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF October 8-29, Wednesdays November 17-19 WOODSTOCK SELECTED BY MASTERING THE PALETTE KNIFE SUSANA TORRUELLA LEVAL with Mary Anna Goetz for a complete listing of all classes and

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Continued from Page 14 See what happens when England’s dirtiest politician tries to hire Shakespeare as Calendar his spin doctor! Sunday, September 28 “Bonnie and Clyde” Trinity Players Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center 12 Vassar Street Poughkeepsie NY 845-227-7855 charge (thru Oct 12) 22nd Annual Open Juried Show at The Guild of Creative Art The Guild of Creative Art 620 Broad Street Shrewsbury NJ 732-741-1441 Opening Reception Earthly Beings Marina Gallery 153 Main Street Cold Spring NY 845-265-2204 3-5pm free (thru Oct 29) free Opening Reception 6-8pm 44th Annual Fine Craft Fair Peters Valley School of Craft Sussex County It’s Only Natural - works by Carla Goldberg and Cynthis Mc- Fair Grounds 37 Plains Road Augusta NJ 973-948-5200 charge Cusker Gallery 66 NY Gallery 66 NY 66 Main St. Cold Spring NY 845-809-5838 free Explorations of land and sea by Goldberg and McCusker. Opening reception A PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION AND EXHIBIT Art League of Long Island, October 3, 6-9 pm. 107 East Deer Park Rd, Dix Hills, NY (631) 462-5400 (thru Nov 2) Nyack Arts Collective New City Library 220 N. Main Street New City Artist at Work Studio Tour Saranac Lake ArtWorks Adirondack Artists NY 845-634-4997 free Members of the Nyack Arts Collective share their creations. Guild 52 Main St Saranac Lake NY 518-891-1388 10 - 5pm free “Posies & Pixels”: New Work by Nina Lipkowitz 510 Warren Street ASZURE BARTON DANCE COMPANY The Arts at Hotchkiss The Hotchkiss Gallery 510 Warren St. Hudson NY 518-822-0510 free Opening reception Oct. 11, School 11 Interlaken Road Lakeville CT 860-435-4423 7pm free 3-6 pm Gracie Square Art Show Carl Schurz Park, East End Ave. & East 86th Saturday, October 4 St, NYC 10-5pm Arts on the Lake Fall Art Exhibition Arts on the Lake Lake Carmel HUDSON VALLEY GARLIC FESTIVAL Kiwanis Club of Saugerties Cantine Community Center 640 Route 52 Carmel NY 845-228-2685 Opening Reception Field, Saugerties, NY (845-) 246-3090 10-5pm charge 1-5pm free (thru Oct 13) MONOTHON 2014 Center for Contemporary Printmaking 299 West Ave., Norwalk, Dan Tepfer, Solo Jazz Piano, Goldberg Variations/Varia- CT (203) 899-7999 Sessions: 9/28-10/2; 10/7-8; 10/16-18 tions Catskill Mountain Foundation Doctorow Center for the Arts 7971 Main SIDFEST: BERTIE a Staged Reading ASK Arts Society of Kingston 97 Street (Route 23A) Hunter NY 518-263-2000 8:00pm charge Broadway (Rondout) Kingston NY 845-338-0331 4pm charge Kazzrie Jaxen Jazz Quartet Delaware Valley Arts Alliance Tusten The- Monday, September 29 atre 210 Bridge Street Narrowsburg NY 845-252-7576 8 p.m. charge New Jersey Water Color Society 72nd Annual Juried Open Richard Anello & Kate Kelly, solo exhibits of digital paint- Exhibition Middletown Arts Center 36 Church Street Middletown NJ 609-386- ings b. j. spoke gallery 299 Main Street Huntington NY 631-549-5106 Opening 5482 charge (thru Oct 26) Reception 6-9pm free (thru Oct 26) Tuesday, September 30 Street Dressing ARTBAR Gallery 674 Broadway Kingston NY 845-430-4893 free Opening Reception 5-8pm Collaborative works by Joan Barker and Allison MEMORIES: curated by Basha Maryanska New Century Artists Gallery 530 Constant W25th, suite 406, NYC 212-367-7072 (thru Oct 18) Sunday, October 5 Richard Anello & Kate Kelly, solo exhibits of digital paintings b. j. spoke gallery 299 Main Street Huntington NY 631-549-5106 free (thru Draw Out! Free Community Event The Heckscher Museum of Art 2 Oct 26) Prime Avenue Huntington NY 631-351-3250 12-4pm free Thursday, October 2 Festival Warwick Chamber of Commerce & Warwick Valley Commu- nity Center Downtown Warwick Railroad Ave and South Street Warwick NY International Encaustic Artists Group Exhibition National 845-987-8300 9 AM - 5 PM free Association of Women Artists, Inc. 80 Fifth Avenue - Suite 1405 New York NY 212- 675-1616 Opening Reception 5-7pm free (thru Oct 29) Gallery opening: John Laurenzi & Herb Rogoff--”Rhythm in Color” Unison Arts Center Unison Arts Center 68 Mountain Rest Road New Paltz Friday, October 3 NY 845-255-1559 free Reception 4-6pm is free and open to the public Exhibit on 125th Anniversary Member’s Exhibition National Association of display (thru Nov 30) Women Artists, Inc. Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery 417 Lafayette Street New York Thursday, October 9 NY 212-675-1616 free (thru Oct 30) 125th Anniversary Member’s Exhibition National Association of Bill Cain’s “EQUIVOCATION” Rhinebeck Theatre Society Center for the Women Artists, Inc. Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery 417 Lafayette Street New York Performing Arts at Rhinebeck 661 Route 308 Rhinebeck NY 845-876-3080 donate NY 212-675-1616 Reception 6-8pm free (thru Oct 30) Friday, October 10 Abstract Impressionist Susan Marx Exhibits Paintings at Agora Gallery in Chelsea, NY Agora Gallery 530 West 25 Street (between 10th and 11th Ave) New York NY free Opening Reception October 16, 6-8pm Continued on Page 20

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49th Annual Fall Open Juried Art Exhibit 43rd Annual Holiday Craft Fair Ringwood Manor Association of the Arts September 17 - October 22, 2014 Nov. 29 & 30, 2014 Ringwood State Park, Sloatsburg Rd., Ringwood, NJ 10 am to 4 pm Judge: Trevor Hodgson and Linda Rossin Juried Show Receiving at the Barn Gallery Sat., Sept. 13, 11am-2pm Hand-Crafted Items Only Fee: $25 members/ $30 non-members Send #10 SASE for prospectus to: RMAA Open Show, For an application or more information go to PO Box 32, Ringwood, NJ 07456 • 201-444-7760 www.sunydutchess.edu/craftfair Or download at: www.RMAArts.wordpress.com This exhibit is funded in part by the Passaic County Cultural and Heritage Council at Passaic County Community College, made possible, in part, by Funds from the New Jersey State Poughkeepsie, NY Council on the Arts/Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.

THE MAMARONECK ARTISTS GUILD Rhinebeck 126 Larchmont Avenue, Larchmont, NY 10538 914-834-1117 Artist’s Shop www.mamaroneckartistsguild.org Expert Picture Framing Jurying for New Members Mon., Oct. 6, drop-off of artwork, 3-6 pm Affordable Art Supplies Tues., Oct. 7, pick-up of artwork, 3-6 pm New Location: 188 Main Street Download forms from our website New Paltz NY 845-255-5533 [email protected] Still & Always: 56 E. Market Rhinebeck, NY 845-876-4922 Fall 2014 ART TIMES page 20 Calendar Continued from Page 18 Fiction The Artist Saturday, October 11 By Alice Andersen Amy Fradon & Leslie Ritter: Folk & Blues Unison Arts Center 68 Mountain Rest Road New Paltz NY 845-255-1559 8-10pm charge Irene parked her rusty blue vine spread across the dunes behind ANNUAL JURIED FINE ARTS EXHIBIT Putnam Arts Council Belle Levine jeep on the packed sand, leaving the her. Art Center, 521 Kennicut Hill Rd., Mahopac, NY 845-803 8622 Opening Reception headlights on in the early morning Irene settled in to finish her paint- 4-6pm (thru Oct 31) darkness. She walked to the water’s ing; capturing the sky on canvas as Community Free Day Dia and Gallery Talk: Manuel Cirauqui edge and breathed deeply of the moist it began its early morning ritual of on Carl Andre 2pm 3 Beekman Street Beacon NY 845-440-0100 11am-6pm free night air. Salty droplets of spray change. The gentle sound of the surf Group Show curated by Russ Ritell in Gallery One; Jaanika lingered on her skin. Her hair blew rolling on the shore was hypnotic Peerna in the Beacon Room. Beacon Artist Union bau Gallery 506 Main into twisty little whirlwinds of red. and Irene relaxed. She experimented Street Beacon 917-459-7849 free Opening Reception 6pm-9pm. Reaching back, she swept the pile of with her palette of colors, mixing MEMORIES: curated by Basha Maryanska New Century Artists Gallery hair into a windblown ponytail. She magical combinations of orange, red, 530 W25th, suite 406, NYC 212-367-7072 Opening Reception 3-6pm (thru Oct 18) pulled the colorful scarf from around and yellow. PAINT OUT, SILENT AUCTION & SWEEPSTAKES The Gallery at Kent Art her neck, tying it tightly around the From a distance, a stranger pho- Association 21 S. Main Street Kent CT 860-927-3989 Painting begins at 9am; Fund- tographed the scene; the dunes, the raising Gala at 5pm bundle, and letting it drape down the soft bend of her back. The pale green jeep, the girl, the painting, and the Piano Recital Series Carnegie Concert Series The Nyack Library 59 S. Broadway Nyack NY 845-358-3370 7:30 pm charge peasant blouse and crinkled cotton radiant sunrise spreading across the skirt she’d purchased long ago in water. He titled the picture The Art- River and Biota Catskill Art Society & Art Center 48 Main Street Livingston Manor NY 845-436-4227 Artist Talk 2-3 pm; Reception 3-5 pm; Music performance Mexico fluttered in the wind, hugging ist. His captivating photograph of the 5-5:30 pm free (thru Nov 16) her long, lean legs. girl at work on her art won awards at Taste of the Catskills Festival Maple Shade Farm 2066 County With damp sand tugging at her shows across the nation. Her painting Highway 18 Delhi NY 607-746-8886 charge The Taste of the Catskills Festival is sequined flip-flops, Irene returned to leans against the wall in her simple a family-friendly event that showcases the food, beer, crafts, and wine of our re- the car. Removing the heavy wooden studio waiting for another trip to the gion. With a variety of vendors including farmers, value-added food producers, and easel and stool from the back, she set sea shore. restaurants, attendees learn how food travels from farm to fork during a fun-filled up her work area. Patches of tall sea (Alice Andersen lives in autumn weekend on the grounds of Maple Shade Farm, a family-run farm in Delhi. oats and purple flowering railroad Cedaredge, CO. alice_andersen Unlocking Whimsy, new photographs by Leah Macdonald [email protected]) Galerie BMG 17 Cricket Ridge Road Bearsville NY 845-679-0027 free Opening ef Reception 4-7 pm Sunday, October 12 American String Quartet Newburgh Chamber Music St. George’s Church 105 Grand Street Newburgh NY 3-4pm charge “One World, One Sky” Fall Kite Festival with the NYS Kite Enthusiasts Stone Quarry HIll Art Park 3883 Stone Quarry Road Cazenoia NY 316-655-3196 10-4 pm donate The Beacon Sloop Club Annual Pumpkin Festival Pete & Toshi E l E c t E d A r t i s t s & s o l o s h o w

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Main Street Kent CT 860-927-3989 Opening Reception and Awards 2 -4 pm free (thru Nov 2) 8th Annual ArtEast Open Studio Tour Pawling, Patterson, Poughquag, Hopewell Junction, Amenia, Holmes 11-5pm free Anatomy of a Melody- Beethoven, Brahms and Schoenfield Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Castle Street Great Barrington MA 6pm charge Monmouth Museum - Panel Discussion National Association of Women Artists, Inc. Monmouth Museum 765 Newman Springs Road Newman Springs Road Lincroft NJ 212-675-1616 2-4pm free Yonkers Philharmonic Romantic German Music Concert FAOS Saunders Trade High School 183 Palmer Road Yonkers NY 914-631-6674 3:00 pm free Continued on Page 22 Fall 2014 ART TIMES page 21 Film YA By HENRY P. RALEIGH I came across the acronym not Funicello 22. However singing and “Divergent” was a long ago, first mistaking it for one of dancing YA’s can’t be taken seriously disappointment, those artful internet chat room things but it’s a different story when they it had strayed, like LOL and LJBF. Well, it turned are killing each other as they did in like the others, out to be a term in book publishing the 2012’s film “The Hunger Games” too far from that referred, rather generously I from the novel by 22 year old the essence of thought, to an expanding genre of Veronica Roth and for a smashing YA ‘growing up short novels plotted around teenaged box office return. With such problems”. Does “growing up” problems. I imagine encouragement from then to 2014 your average this group doesn’t care any longer to came a parade of YA derived films teenager hang out be known as “teenagers” (a growing throwing in some leftover vampires with vampires up problem all in itself) and it did from the “Twilight” franchise: or get shot by wonders for their self-esteem and “Beautiful Creatures” , “City of arrows? So back those book sales to take on an up- Bones”, “Mortal Instruments” and to basics and real grade in identify suggested by “young “Vampire Academy”. All, alarmingly, teen problems, adults” — shortened to YA it does bombed dismally. The YA boom hit with films such as sound pretty cool. All of this caught a low in returns and book sales did “The Fault in our the eye of Hollywood filmmakers who better. Maybe there was a surfeit of Stars” the love are ever on the lookout for catchy vampires - “Hunger Games” had gone story of two teen trends. The “Hobbit” films and the without the bloodsuckers and did cancer patients, success of the “Twilight” series fine. “Divergent” in early 2014 would “If I stay”, a opened the way for youth oriented hopefully put things to right. Where thoughtful piece movies. Movies based on YA novels the dystopian society in “Hunger about a seventeen then seemed the way to go and after Games” was divided into thirteen year old who is all, there will always be teenagers districts and an annual televised comatose albeit and they will always suffer “growing celebration of chosen adolescents choosing between up” problems, won’t they? Oh, there murdering one another, “Divergent” her life and was Nancy Drew and Tom Swift in opts for five “Factions” with keeno death, and “The the old days but no one could find names as Dauntless and Abnegation Giver”, a sixteen any hot script material there. Later composed of SAT selected sixteen to year old living we had a fill of Mickey Rooney/Judy eighteen year olds trained to main what seems to Garland still there was no real angst and slaughter those of contentious be a perfect world is forced to learn old adults. You know, something for here that couldn’t be resolved by rival Factions. A big plus here, it’s all a sham. Here are certainly everyone. a swell musical production. Beach authentic “growing up” problems swiped from another popular note: Henry Raleigh’s daughter movies followed exchanging only the that every teen may come up franchise, is the lead character’s is a published YA author. You Lindy for the Twist but extending the against. Come to think of it the YA back resplendent with nifty logos can find her at norabaskin.com/@ age range of YA’s to include twenty concept might readily embrace other of the five Factions tattooed from noraraleighb somethings. Frankie Avalon was 26 top to bottom. 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Sunday, November 2 profound enough to rhyme 38th Annual International exhibition, Northeast Water- Turning over, patterns changing, with you. color Society The North East Watercolor Society Gallery at Kent Art Assoc. see anew, Is it innocence or guile, Rte 7, South Main Street Kent CT 607-637-3412 Closing reception luncheon/meeting sisters tie-dyed to interaction’s my playful wink, my soulful smile? Abstract Expressions by the James Kent Group Guild of Creative hasty glue. Art 620 Broad St Shrewsbury NJ 732-741-1441 Opening Reception 3-5pm free I only know it seems Spinning celebrations design (thru Dec 3) a divine hand places me, our talents, Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts 2014/2015 Season a thousand miles away, affixed with bonds the cosmos there, where you are Family Series Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts 2900 Campus Road represents. Brooklyn NY 718-951-4500 charge (programs thru May 17, 2015) in the open window of your mind, Betti J. Marvel (Bernardi) each day of three thousand days. Wednesday, November 5 —Pueblo, CO New Members’ Exhibition National Association of Women Artists, Inc. Would once have been enough? N.A.W.A. Gallery 80 Fifth Avenue - Suite 1405 New York NY 212-675-1616 free Ah yes! Knowing, as we do, (thru Dec 2) two poets can speak, and scan, cantos Thursday, November 6 in one shy, half-hidden smile, “e-klek-tik”: The Fine Art Photography of Red Circle Photo- in the twinkling of an eye. Arts Red Circle PhotoArts Collective The Riverfront Gallery @ Yonkers Library 1 Patricia Craddock Larkin Plaza Yonkers NY 917-627-7989 Artist Reception 6-8pm free (thru Nov 30) —Atlanta, GA

Continued on Page 24 Fall 2014 ART TIMES page 23 Fiction So It’s Raining By Rebecca L. Monroe room. new, too early for night. The thought rustle us up some hot chocolate,” Scotty dropped his dump Scotty followed her. “You get wet of the rest of the day spent cleaning she got her coat and followed Scotty truck, staring around at the floor taking a bath.” the house was suddenly nauseating. outside. He wasted no time – coat that was littered with other toys. “That’s a warm wet.” Scotty had gone back to dusting, half off one shoulder as he pulled the “Mommy, I’m bored.” “You get wet swimming.” making the cloth take sharp, sliding door open while trying to buckle his Mary sighed inwardly because “You don’t have a bunch of clothes corners around the lamp, backing up holster. she’d known it was coming. She on and the weather is warm,” and racing forward. It was cold and wet out; a steady thought of her own list of things to “Oh.” He turned and left. Mud and water. If she’d gotten a autumn rain that penetrated; dripped do, a similar list to last Saturday and Mary sorted laundry...whites, cold from her walk, she’d forgotten off leaves in slow thick lumps, hung the Saturdays before, and wished she colors, jeans, really dirty jeans, about it. How did she want Scotty to in the very air. Scotty ran ahead of were bored too. “Do you want to play while she replayed the conversation. remember this day? She carried his her, plastic gun flapping at his hip. cards again?” Where had she gotten the idea being toys to his room and picked up the The wet soaked through her clothes, Scotty shook his head, brown eyes out in the rain was bad? From her plastic holster and gun that were on her hair but the air was like a shot of dark as he scowled at the water- own mother, of course; which was his floor. Then she went to the hall energy and she laughed when Scotty streaked window. His body still held closely linked with muddy feet and closet and got his raincoat and cowboy suddenly disappeared behind a tree. a bit of toddler chubbiness but his soaked clothes. She smiled slightly, boots. She carried them to the living Oops! She was an Indian, out in expression was one of a judge who had remembering the time when she room. the open, exposed to… just heard a displeasing argument. was ten or eleven, walking in the “Get these on, Partner,” “BANG! You’re dead!” Scotty “When is it going to stop raining?” rain, hair a wet cap, tilting her face Scotty dropped the dust cloth. bounded out, gun drawn. “I don’t know, honey.” She had up to feel the dots of the sky. It had Mary could see his mind work. Mary hesitated as she gripped the to vacuum yet, had to get a load of been a wonderful walk; the rhythm Holster, yes. Boots, yes. Raincoat. obvious wound in her stomach. Mud, laundry in and start the dishwasher. of the rain a soothing escape from “It’s still raining,” it had lost its wet grass…a small thing released Sometime today, she also needed to the over-heated house. She dumped appeal. Outside alone was just as inside. Groaning, she fell to the make cookies for Scotty’s first grade a load of jeans into the washer and boring as inside alone. ground. class on Monday. started it. Then she went back to the “Well, you were right when you Scotty squealed with delight. She “Can I help you?” living room. Scotty was staring out said real cowboys don’t care about heard his running feet as she kept It would distract him for a little the window once more, dust cloth rain,” she went back to his room, her eyes shut, rain pattering on her while. “Sure. Do you want to pick up resting against the glass leaving a suddenly eager to be free of the smell lids and face; the sound of sliding your toys or dust?” foggy mark. of furniture polish and laundry soap. and the bump of Scotty against her. “Dust.” “What are you thinking about, She heard Scotty pulling on his coat “You’re okay now, Mommy. You’ve She got Scotty the package of pre- Scotty?” even as she scooped up the feather got to shoot me,” treated cloths. Something tugged at “Cowboys and Indians didn’t care headband. He would go outside Mary opened her eyes, joy swelling her heart as she watched him fumble if it was wet,” because he’d asked, not because he at the face hovering above her own. a cloth from the package. Maybe she Mary began picking up Scotty’s wanted to. Unless…“Can I be the She scowled fiercely. “You in heap big would rent him a movie this evening. toys. He’d played quietly by himself Indian,” she came back to the living trouble!” Scotty began to wipe the coffee all morning but lunch had broken the room, cramming the small headband Laughing, Scotty danced away. table. “Why can’t people play in the spell. Now it was what she always on. (Rebecca L. Monroe, a frequent rain?” called the dead of the afternoon – two The instant grin went straight to contributor, lives in Troy, MT.) “You’d get wet, silly.” Mary raised o’ clock on a gray day was the most her heart. “You bet!” ef her voice as she went into the laundry depressing time. It was too late for “Later we’ll stop at the saloon and

RODIN’S “THE HAND OF GOD” Erupting out of a great block of marble, BRAHMS IN ARMS ARITHMETIC a huge hand -- With crack brigades of fingers mobilized Finding at the composer’s posthumous commands, the not an old god’s it’s strange the keyboard isn’t pulverized remainder but a smooth young hand, by those sforzandos from her practiced hands. of the the polished Carrara She deftly executes staccato notes division fingers, delicate yet strong emerging ominously on the score, of their like they were pentatonic antidotes lives. as a pianist’s -- to the composer’s internecine war, Raw holds another square of stone of nerves, which she’ll succinctly prosecute. Numbers out of which a small human figure Nor could he have conscripted better troops on the is emerging, left unfinished than those skilled fingers armed by this recruit. table With their percussive arsenal she swoops they used to remind us down on the keys with forte tonic chord to share. that nothing is complete whose overtones concede the sounding board. A short, not long or needs to be. Frank De Canio —Union City, NJ equation. Sarah Brown Weitzman Gregory Liffick —Delray Beach, FL INTERMEZZO —Ontario, CS The massive Steinway sits sulking, ON NATALIE’S DEFINITION THAT GOD IS LOVE its elegant ebony length WATCHING THE WIZARD OF OZ ON The indeterminacy, the full reliance curving sinuously COLOR TELEVISION FOR THE FIRST TIME of the verb love on subject and object, under its immense hoisted lid. as well as its alternate appearance Its keys lie cold, All those years believing it was in black as noun, let us take pause now to inspect. its strings silent, and white, then seeing ruby slippers, the its pedals powerless. yellow brick road, not as I’d imagined The meaning of, for instance, I love you the yellow and red, but golden yellow, depends on you and me, no more, no less. Where is she? a true ruby red. Sure, the wicked witch For since verbs live as verbs in what they do, You know. still wore black, but wickedness, I suppose the verb, until it’s noun’d, is meaningless. The little girl has its constancies, needs them. Goodness, though, is different. Tempered by human frailty, Nor think God as a personage aloof, with fierce fingers pure white becomes a rainbow of colors. but as both verb and noun. Then you will see who comes every morning The emerald city isn’t just green, it’s that He, like love, requires no further proof to awaken old man Brahms emerald green. And the wizard’s not all he’s than that we love: that way God too can be snoring softly cracked up to be. He’s human, after all. and do! And that describes divinity— in its steely depths. In the end, back in Kansas with Dorothy, how noun and verb become one, as do we. She’s late. even in black and white, colors prevail. James B. Nicola Cristina Ferrari-Logan Matthew J. 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Edward Hopper, Men Seated at Café Table, (1906). Transparent and opaque watercolor, pen and ink, brush and ink, and graphite pencil on paper. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Josephine N. Hopper Bequest magundi Club, 47 Fifth Ave., NYC (212) 255-7740 Reception 2-5pm (thru Nov 21) 70.1348 © Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper, licensed by Whitney Museum of American Art. Digital Images © Whitney Museum of American Art Friday, November 21 Group Exhibit: Director’s Choice West End Gallery 12 West Market St. Corning NY 607-936-2011 Opening Reception 5-7:30pm free (thru Jan 16) RHCAN.com: Art Call Home for the Holidays Red Hook Community Arts Network 7516 N. Broadway Red Hook NY free (thru Dec 29) Saturday, November 22 CAS Winter Members Show Catskill Art Society CAS Arts Center 48 Main St. Livingston Manor NY 845-436-4227 Opening reception 2-4pm free (thru Dec 29) Furuya Sisters Trio Concert at Yonkers Public Library (Grinton I. Will Branch)) Pincus Auditorium 1500 Central Park Ave. Yonkers NY 914-200-3622 2:30pm charge Piano Recital Series Carnegie Concert Series The Nyack Library 59 S. Broadway Nyack NY 845-358-3370 7:30 pm charge Sunday, November 23 HOLIDAY and SMALL PAINTINGS SHOW The Ridgewood Art Institute 12 East Painting Demonstrations by the Following artists: Glen Avenue Ridgewood NJ 201-652-9615 Opening Reception 2-4pm (thru Dec 24) Putnam Symphony Orchestra Brewster High School Performing Arts Center 50 Foggintown Road Brewster NY 845-228-4167 3 pm charge Saturday, November 29 43rd ANNUAL HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR Dutchess Community College Founda- tion, Main Campus, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 431-8403 10-4pm Sunday, November 30 43rd ANNUAL HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR Dutchess Community College Founda- tion, Main Campus, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 431-8403 10-4pm

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