How It All Started Originally Printed in the July/ a Variety of Publications, One of Them August 2008 Issue of ART TIMES an Arts Council

Inside: Raleigh on Film; Bethune on Theatre; th Burruss on Music; Seckel on the Cultural Scene; Year!!! Trevens and Lille on Dance; Sussman "Speaks Out"; Steiner on the problem of "Looking at Art" (Part I); Our 30 New Art Books; Short Fiction & Poetry; Extensive Calendar of Events…and more! ART TIMES Vol. 30 No. 1 Summer 2013 (June/July/August) How it all Started Originally printed in the July/ a variety of publications, one of them August 2008 issue of ART TIMES an arts council. It was taking an ex- and here with some revisions. traordinary amount of time for this By Cornelia Seckel particular organization to pull their This issue marks the begin- publication together and I, as was ning of our 30th year of publishing Ray, was anxious to see his profiles ART TIMES. Throughout the years in print. It was probably March of we have met fine people, traveled to 1984 when I approached this organi- places I never expected to get to (e.g., zation to inquire about the publica- Singapore and China), attended tion and was given a laundry list of wonderful exhibitions, concerts, the- problems that was preventing them ater and dance performances. Doing from going to print. “What could this work has enriched my life, chal- be such a big deal?” I said. “You go lenged and engaged my intellect, and around and get advertisement to pay fed my soul. I can only thank you, for your costs, put the thing together our readers and our advertisers, for and have it printed!” These were the encouraging us with your support. first words that made ART TIMES Raymond J. Steiner, co-founder, edi- a reality. Raymond and I started to tor and arts writer makes sure that toss the idea around of creating our in each issue there are interesting own paper. I think it was his sug- gestion, he believes it was mine— essays, new poetry and short fiction Cornelia laying out the first issue of ART TIMES, July 1984 for you to read. My job has always we’ll never know. We wanted it to been to make the paper happen. I be a publication about all the arts, with the stamina to make it continue support and networking group for sell the ads, manage the business a resource and a literary journal to happen. women in business who eventually and create the final product in print with essays that would be of inter- To tell you that the thought of honored me for my courage in begin- and online. It is more work than I est anywhere, crossing county and cutting loose from a regular job, one ning ART TIMES) held an expo at ever imagined but when I get feed- state lines. We’d give it away at art with weekly paychecks and defined the Civic Center in Poughkeepsie, back about how important the paper centers and galleries, bring it to the responsibilities, created anxiety for NY. I went to this expo and began is to our readers I am encouraged to galleries in New York City, and, in me is a gross understatement. Never methodically going around the room go on to the next issue. essence, have it where people go who had I felt so frightened of the un- from right to left speaking with each I am often asked how ART are already patrons and participants known (well, perhaps a divorce when woman and gaining strength from TIMES got started and thought this in the arts. We decided the support I was 30 still holds #1 spot). The sup- their achievements. Somewhere to be a good time to repeat some of would be from advertisements since port and encouragement from Ray- along the way I stopped saying that what I wrote in August 2003 for the there were enough not-for-profit mond and the knowledge that we I was “thinking” of starting a pub- beginning of our 20th year. 1984, groups looking for funding. Well, if both could and would meet any chal- lication and shifted to I am “going the year we began ART TIMES, this was such a good idea why hadn’t lenge put to us moved me along. On to” publish an Arts Journal for the was one of the major turning points anyone else done it? Next step was May 15, 1984, an organization called region. I had made that transition research. We talked to several peo- of my life. I had been Directing the All Women in Business (basically a Continued on Page 19 Ulster County Chamber of Com- ple who had been in the region for merce Career Education Program many years and asked about publi- for several years (previous to that I cations that might have been similar Visit arttimesjournal.com taught English at the High School in some ways to what we were think- level and worked as a Counselor at ing of. The only one that came close for new essays, videos, several different facilities) and found was “Ulster County Artist,” a maga- calendar & opportunity listings that I wanted a new challenge. I had zine founded in the 1970’s when Ceta developed the Career Education Pro- money existed and lots of projects gram as far as I could and felt that I were begun. Well, why did it fail? Firstly, Ceta money dried up and CSS Publications, Inc. Support the Arts; (I was then getting close to 40 — you PO Box 730 can do the math) needed to do some- most of the staff was cut. Secondly, Enrich your Life Mt. Marion, NY 12456-0730 thing that gave me new skills and and I think even more importantly, www.arttimesjournal.com 845-246-6944 stretched my abilities. I was open Allen Epstein, the man with the vi- to any number of possibilities and, sion, was working with a board and I must add, impatient to get going energies were too easily dissipated. with “something.” Raymond Steiner The lesson for me was that it takes Subscribe to ART TIMES was writing profiles about artists for a single strong vision and a person

ART-LITERATURE-DANCE-MUSIC-EXHIBITIONS-THEATRE-FILM-ART-LITERATURE-DANCE-MUSIC Summer 2013 ART TIMES page 2 Peeks and Piques! ART TIMES Commentary and Resource for the Fine & Performing Arts “What You See, is What You Get.” right perception of what they are predilections, stereotypes, tastes, etc. ART TIMES (ISSN 0891-9070) is published quar- A common enough expression, but seeing? Truth is, no one can. We may These inherent partialities are what terly by CSS Publications, Inc and distributed what does it mean in relation to, say, agree on the fact that we are seeing a define us. You are you and what you along the Northeast Corridor primarily through- out the Metropolitan & Hudson Valley Regions, looking at art? Well, you might argue, landscape — but can it ever be the ex- are depends on a lifetime of learning, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Jersey. it’s a simple enough statement — you act, one-to-one perception that both of dealing with your world, of “seeing” Copies are also available by mail to subscribers and arts organizations throughout the US and “get” what you “see” — what’s the of us are getting? E. H. Gombrich, in things in accordance with the whole abroad. Copyright © 2013, CSS Publications, Inc. problem? However, if you focus on his Art and Illusion: A Study in the of your previous experience of the ART TIMES online can be viewed at: arttimesjour- the “seeing” part of the proposition, Psychology of Pictorial Representa- world. As no two artists, side-by-side nal.com and has a pdf of the current print issue (with images in color), as well as archived critiques, a little thought just might make you tion, points to the primary problem or not, do not — cannot — see from reviews, art essays, theatre, film, music, dance es- wonder what it is that you’re “get- of putting a final interpretation on the exact same viewpoint, so can they says from 2001. Each month the site is updated with not paint the same landscape. Like- new essays, videos, advertising and resources. Call ting”. When you and I stand looking just what our conundrum of “what for visitor statistics as they change daily. at a landscape painting, do we both you see is what you get” ultimately wise, no two people (not even twins) “get” the same thing? We’ve all seen “means”. 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(Mar/Apr/May) May 15 for Summer (Jun/Jul/Aug); Aug 15 for Fall (Sep/Oct/Nov); Nov 15 for Winter can say if anyone is ever getting the worlds apart. None of us are free of Raymond J. Steiner (Dec/Jan/Feb). Items for inclusion in the Calendar ef must be uploaded to www.arttimesjournal.com/ submitevent.html and Opportunities listings must be submitted by email/ fax or mail by the 18th of the visit and workshop to take. If you go to …It has been a pleasure to work with preceding publication month. Email for guidelines. Art ……………………6 Guest articles on the arts are also considered but their website right now the homepage you and to take part in coordinating must be preceded by a written Query. Our “Speak features Charley Harper tiles — I just this wonderful exhibition. Art Book Review……20 Out” section is a forum for reader’s relevant opin- framed a signed print of his but have Sincerely, Calendar of Events …4 ions on art-related matters; viewpoints expressed in the “Speak Out” section are not to be construed been a fan of his for a long time. I’m Janae McHugh Classifieds …………20 as positions held by the publisher, editor or staff a birder and love his bird work. NY State Museum of this publication. Queries, Mss. without SASE Culturally Speaking…12 Well, best to you in 2013…thanks Albany, NY included will not be acknowledged. We do not accept Dance………………5, 9 electronic submissions. Sample copy: 9x12 SASE. again… To the Publisher: Editorial …………1, 2, 3 ART TIMES welcomes your letters and comments. Renée Burgevin Nothing in this publication may be reproduced Can you send me a link soon to your Fiction ……………21, 23 without written permission of the publisher. 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Peekskill, NY turn of your artwork to you… This is no time to look for advertis- Continued on Page 8 ing, but I am filled with ideas for brilliant newspapers that will all go unrealized I'm afraid. www.arttimesjournal.com You're clearly the winner in this game and you've survived longer than anybody. Bravo! SUMMER AT THE WOODSTOCK SCHOOL OF ART if you're ever wanting to go some- JUNE WORKSHOPS JULY WORKSHOPS AUGUST WORKSHOPS where and need a destination, take a drive to Andes. I can promise some SIMPLIFYING THE LANDSCAPE 1 HUDSON VALLEY IN WATERCOLOR COLLAGE surprises and a good lunch with Kate McGloughlin with Staats Fasoldt with Pia Oste-Alexander or dinner. June 6-27, Thursdays July 10-12 August 5-6 Hope you are well and happy. ABSTRACTION & LARGE SCALE DRAWING CUT PAPER IN 3D TONALISM AND COLORISM Merna (Popper) with Meredith Rosier with Jenne M. 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I haven’t The WSA announces the return of summer workshops for children, now expanded July 13-September 14 read the paper enough I guess, I’m to three age groups: 7- 9, 10-12, and 13-14. On Mondays and Tuesdays during July Reception, Saturday, July 13, 3-5 PM sorry to say, to know that this is a and August, beginning Monday, July 8 and continuing through Tuesday, August 27, regular feature, and that your visit artists Margarete de Soleil and Jenne M. Currie, both of Woodstock, will offer chil- here might lead to a mention. dren classes tailored to each age group. De Soleil will teach 10-12 & 13-14 year olds, and Currie, 7-9 year olds. Thanks to funding from the Community Foundations of i know about Motawi tiles — that 845 679 2388 must have been a wonderful place to the Hudson Valley, the school is able to offer these classes at very affordable rates. woodstockschoolofart.org Summer 2013 ART TIMES page 3 Speak Out Capturing Artists By Jeffrey Sussman While still in high school, I had of art in the living room, nothing by “You also stunned Theodore Roos- ber, which rang in Soyer’s studio on become an art lover. I had posters of Marcel, nothing by any of his famous evelt. I read someplace that he at- East Third Street. “Call tomorrow paintings on all of my bedroom walls. colleagues. tended the 1913 Armory Show in afternoon,” he said and hung up. There were reproductions of works Having angled my camera on the New York where your ‘Nude De- When I called the same voice an- by Picasso, Degas, Homer, Eakins, tripod, I proceeded to shoot numer- scending a Staircase’ was exhibited, swered the phone, and I again ex- Braque, Davis, Matisse, El Greco, ous shots of Marcel’s perfectly pro- and he referred to it as ‘an explosion plained who I was and what I wanted Van Gogh, Wyeth, Sargent, Rem- portioned head. I took several ex- in a shingle factory.’ ” to do. “Come by the studio tomorrow brandt, Ernst, Dali, Shahn, Marsh, treme close-ups, then some head and “So I have been told,” Marcel said, at 2 p.m.,” he said and hung up. The and many others. There was hardly shoulder shots. smiling. following day, I arrived at the door any free wall space. On the table next to his chair was “Do you now play chess most of the to his studio at precisely 2 and rang Most of the artists represented on a chessboard, each piece looking as time?” the bell. No response. I rang it again. my walls were dead, but two were if it had been sculpted by Brancusi. “I belong to the Marshall Chess Still no response. Again and again. still alive. I had a poster of Marcel One set of pieces looked to be in sil- Club, right across the street. I enjoy I decided to wait across the street Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a ver, the other in copper. the game and being there.” and see if anyone arrived or left the Staircase” and one of a seated nude “Did you sculpt those?” I asked. “I read that you played chess with building. No one. After nearly an woman by Moses Soyer. My tastes in “Yes,” he said. the composer John Cage, and that hour, I left. I phoned the next day, living artists were obviously eclectic. “I read in an article by your friend each piece when moved made a mu- and explained to the voice that I had When I was in college, I taught Man Ray that you gave up art to sical note.” come at 2 o’clock, but that there was myself photography and began do- concentrate on chess. Is that true?” “Yes, we played for an audience in no one there. ing black-and-white portraits of I asked. Canada, and it was written about in “Come now,” he said and hung up. friends, neighbors, and relatives. On “I gave up art because there was chess and music publications.” I finally succeeded and was invited an impulse one day, I pulled out the nothing further that I wanted to do. No sooner than he finished the sen- into a large loft studio by a small Manhattan telephone directory and I was not going to carry on like Dali, tence, a female voice from another man with a large head and large looked up Marcel Duchamp. To my turning out works just for more and room at the rear of the apartment sleepy eyes. He reminded me of Pe- pleasant surprise, he was listed as more money.” called out, “Marcel let’s go. It’s time.” ter Lorre, not only in his appearance, living on West 10th Street. I phoned “You almost single-handedly “Yes, Teeny,” he said in a soft, al- but also in his air of mysteriousness, and asked if I might photograph him. seemed to invent Dada,” I suggested. most inaudible whisper. as if appearing in a German Expres- In a soft, French-accented voice, he “There were many others, such as He stood up in compliance, then sionist murder film of the 1920s or invited me to his apartment the fol- Picabia,” he responded. walked to a bookshelf and pulled out early 1930s. lowing day. “Yes, but it was not only your paint- a large art book with a black-and- “May I look at your paintings before I arrived with my cameras, tripod, ings, but also your assemblages, the white cover. I photograph you?” I asked. and lights, having lugged them all out famous urinal which you titled ‘The “I would like you to have this,” he “Go ahead,” he said. He sat in a of the subway on West 14th Street. Fountain’ and signed R. Mutt, and said. “There were only a thousand chair, listening to classical music Marcel lived on the second floor of then taking on the persona of Rose copies of this printed and it contains as he put the finishing touches on an elegant old town house. His tall Selavy.” all of my work.” He took out a pen a large oil portrait of a nude young French windows faced the street. He He laughed gently. and wrote, “To Jeffrey Sussman, woman. I spotted a small oil of a was a slim man who seemed taller “I took a music course last year with Avec plaisier, Marcel Duchamp.” He nude couple, a Rubenesque woman than he actually was. His face was a composer named Stefan Wolpe handed me the book, and I prom- recumbent on an unmade bed, and a old but beautifully sculpted with who told me that he participated in a ised to send him copies of the pho- naked man sitting on the edge of the high cheekbones and vivid hawk-like Dada happening with you and some tographs I had shot. It was the last bed, facing the viewer. eyes and a slightly aquiline nose. He others in Paris. Apparently, there time I saw him, for he died not long “Would you sell me that painting?” had thin Renaissance lips that re- were a number of stuffy French afterward. I asked. minded me of paintings of archbish- academicians and others who were Next on my list was the painter “I could let you have it for $1,500, ops and cardinals. invited to a highly important gal- Moses Soyer, whose work seemed to which is less than my gallery would “Shall I sit or stand?” he gently lery opening and they had to walk be influenced by Degas, the social re- sell it for. Do you really want it?” asked. through a public bathroom where all alists, and Thomas Eakins. When I “Yes, but I’ll have to get the money. “Sitting I think would be fine,” I the toilets were noisily in use.” phoned him, a man’s voice would not I’ll be back with a check for it next responded. As I set up my camera, “It was very enjoyable, that time,” say whether he was Soyer or not. He week.” I noticed that there were no works he said. simply told me to call another num- Continued on Page 22 Summer 2013 ART TIMES page 4

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41 artists' studios will be open. Maps available online at www.saugertiesarttour.com and from numerous locations throughout the Hudson Valley. JUNE, JULY, AUGUST For more information about Steiner's work see Wed ~ Sun 11am to 4pm Along Wrolsen Road oil www.RaymondJSteiner.com 209 Fishcreek Rd, Saugerties, NY or email [email protected] www.faywoodstudio.com • 845-246-7504 Summer 2013 ART TIMES page 5 Dance MMDG = Mark Morris Dance Group By Dawn Lille The Mark Morris Dance Compa- Dance Group. ny gave twelve performances in the The Morris choreo- intimate James and Martha Duffy graphic style varies with Performance Space at the Mark Mor- each creation and his ris Dance Center in Brooklyn during moods can range from ele- the first two weeks in April. giac to wonderfully silly. Mark Morris is from Seattle, All his works seem to offer a where he studied ballet, Spanish direct, unadorned simplic- dance and music. He later danced ity, which is not simple at with a Balkan dance group and all, often building to be as studied flamenco in Spain before complicated as some of the moving to New York City, where music to which it is tied. he performed with several modern He has a sometimes wicked dance companies. He formed his sense of humor and an air of own company in 1980 and has since insouciance seen also in his created more than 140 works for own now rare dancing. His it. From 1988 to 1991 they were in time with the folk dance Brussels, where he was Director of company can be glimpsed Dance at the Theatre Royal de la in the occasional insertion Monnaie. His work in opera, both of a folk step or gesture into Festival Dance (Photo by Stephanie Berger) as choreographer and director, is the choreography. extensive and he has been the recipi- ity, intelligence and ability to enter ent of a MacArthur Fellowship. He into any role made him an instant opened the Dance Center, a school, hit at American Ballet Theater. Af- rehearsal space and the source of an ter he became head of that company outreach program for children and in 1980 he brought a Morris work seniors, in 2001. into the repertory. Among his many Morris is musical in the most obvi- endeavors after leaving was the co- ous way: he listens to the music and founding in 1990, with Morris, of the allows his dance creations to absorb White Oak Project. This was a small and enhance it. He doesn’t play hide group of modern and ballet dancers and seek with the notes, so that, to who performed modern works, many this viewer/listener, the sound and choreographed by Morris. the movement enrich and support Spencer and Jenn, to Henry Cow- each other, frequently producing a ell’s “Suite for Violin and Piano,” glorious result. The company always featured Spencer Ramirez and Jenn dances to live music played by expert Weddell in a duet that focused on musicians, which makes each perfor- a relationship that seemed to grow mance a special one. deeper and more complicated. It The MMDG Music Ensemble was began with linear walks past each formed in 1996 and is an integral other and evolved into movements part of the dance group, perform- with her hair and dress flowing ing with the company around the through space. At one point they world, including the Mostly Mozart projected the image of a couple of Festival at Lincoln Center. It often wild horses. There were convoluted includes guest artists such as Yo turns of their bodies within the space Yo Ma. One could almost say that that caused the viewer to have a MMDG stands for Morris Music and Silhouettes (Matthew Rose and Joe Bowie) photo by Marc Royce quick intake of breath. This was not a Morris has those who direction that create an almost archi- simple or easy relationship, but they adore him and his share of de- tectural form. Is this a job interview, were beautiful. tractors as well. His attitude a death camp, an audition – or just Carl Maria von Weber’s “Grand of “Who cares – I’ll do what I life? We never know. Duo Concertant for Piano and wish” is probably bone deep! A Wooden Tree, which premiered Clarinet, Op. 48” was the musical The program seen in April in 2012, is accompanied by the songs half of Crosswalk, where eleven contained four works: The Of- of Ivor Cutler, an eccentric and icono- dancers moved back and forth as if fice, A Wooden Tree, Jenn and clastic Scottish poet, songwriter, their bodies were the clarinet and Spencer and Crosswalk, the singer and humorist. The songs the clarinet was a body. I have no latter two being world pre- bear names such as “Stick Out Your idea what the crosswalk was or is, mieres. Mikhail Baryshnikov Chest,” “ I Got No Common Sense,” but it was exhilarating to see these appeared as a guest with the and “ I Love You But I Don’t Know dancers, particularly Laurel Lynch, company. What I Mean.” The eight dancers, who seemed to expand and pull out The Office,to Anton Dvor- including Baryshnikov, who tapped the music and play with the clarinet. ak’s “Bagatelles for Two Vio- Morse code on a chair in one vignette, This concert had so much gener- lins, Cello and Harmonium, rearranged themselves for each song osity in it: the form of the choreogra- Op. 47,” was created in 1994 tableau. The result was a delightful phy that seemed to put each dancer and involves six bored peo- mélange of bodies moving to and in charge of their own body; calling ple waiting on mismatched sometimes seeming to illustrate the duet by the names of the danc- chairs in a bare room. They songs few in the audience had ever ers; giving the music an equal place; move in twos and fours or as heard. They were like tiny morsels Baryshnikov’s willingness to be just a group until a woman with a of dessert. one of the dancers. It was a pleasure! Baryshnikov was one of the en- clipboard appears and takes ef one away. This happens over semble, all of whom gave intensely concentrated performances If he and over until the curtain Visit our website: descends on one remaining stood out a bit it was because he is figure sitting in a chair. The older and one of the world’s great- www.arttimesjournal.com movements, some in a fast est dancers. Now 65, he arrived in and read previously published moving circle, are walks and America in 1974 as a defector from Dance essays and new essays Amber Merkens in Ten Suggestions the Soviet Union. His innate virtuos- (Photograph by MMDG - Johan Henckens) runs and sudden changes of uploaded each month. Summer 2013 ART TIMES page 6 Art Essay Looking at art: A Guide for the (Understandably) Perplexed Part I: Image-making

By Raymond J. Steiner form arrow or spear heads; the step to or sign? Slow down when you see a I might enjoy my kids’ scrawls, you IF MAKING AN image made “sense” forming images of animals and people curved line on a yellow sign along might say, but when it comes to “art” to a caveman, then it ought to make would not be far behind. Early man a highway? Looked around to see with a capital “A,” I’m completely lost. “sense” to us. No one today really carved rocks and bones and sticks if there actually were any of those Well, let’s take a more gradual tran- knows why that first caveman took and animal teeth, replicating forms “animals” around that were painted sition and take a closer look at some a stick with a burnt end and drew and figures that they saw in nature. on road signs? Well, these are just of the image-making that falls some- images of buffalo on his cave wall. They even made images of things that a few examples of the “abstract art” where between children’s scrawls Chances are, he didn’t know why he they could only imagine: gods and we’ve learned to rely on without ever and Michelangelo’s ceiling paintings did it himself. It is fun to speculate, demons and fantastic man-animals really giving it much thought. An in the Sistine Chapel. though. and man-gods. Eventually they found “arrow” painted in an “up” position We look at and learn from—even There are those who argue—and, that they could also manipulate mal- seems to convey a fairly simple mes- enjoy—images that fill our lives—we at times, persuasively—that it was a leable earth and make similar figures sage. Yet, if we think about it, the come across them in story books, form of “magic” performed by early by molding them with their hands. concept is a very sophisticated one. comic strips, movies, television, and man. A “sympathetic” magic that set The hands of some persons made Not only is the painted “arrow” unlike magazines; we see them on road signs up analogies between man and his these images and whether for magi- any real arrow, chances are not one and billboards and banners; we see natural environment. If one were cal reasons or simple decoration, the in ten thousand who have followed it them in toys and curtain designs and to draw buffalo on the cave walls, urge to make them seems to answer has ever held an actual arrow in his photo albums and fabric patterns. In so the theory goes, buffalo would be a deep universal need in mankind. hand. Yet we know that simple image short, we see them everywhere. They sighted in the real world—and food As doubtful as the reason may be suggests movement and direction. only become troublesome for some would once again be in abundance. for those first image-makers to begin When coupled with other symbols— when they are called “Art.” Depicting stick-figured men felling their creating, there seems relatively whether pictures or words—it also Why should this be so? What line the animals with spears and arrows, little doubt that the act of looking at indicates what is to be found when is crossed when an artist moves from then, would somehow bring about an images is even more wide-spread than we make movement in the direction making comic strip characters to analogous success to the hunters of is the need to make them. Even the to which the arrow points. How’d we painting a picture of a landscape? the tribe. most inartistic, the most inept among do that? Why can some make the step over Whether this is true or not cannot us able to “draw a straight line,” find Here’s where we come to one of that line—that is, enjoy looking at actually be proved at this distance the business of plain old looking a nat- the more interesting things about im- paintings or sculpture as well as in time, but it does seem less likely ural one. Almost all children “look” ages—they not only attract us, they reading the latest Spiderman comic that those early cave-wall depictions around and draw stick figures and communicate with us. They tell us or Field and Stream—while others of animals and men were intended crude representations of faces. Some things — go left, or up, or over there. fear the leap? as aesthetic dalliances at wine and go even further to draw dogs and cats In fact, communicating through im- And what further line is crossed cheese receptions meant only for and trees and suns beaming down ages is older than communicating when an artist moves from making pleasure. The fact is, no one truly from cotton-ball, cloud-filled skies. through language. Yep…the simple pictures that are recognizable as ob- knows and it would not be for a very Though most become side-tracked fact is, image-making is older than jects we see every day—objects like long time before anyone even thought somewhere along the way, intent on speech — by how many thousands of people, trees, boats or birds—to mak- about discussing these pictures—at exploring new worlds to conquer with years, we can only guess, but we do ing non-representational pictures— least as “pictures.” Mankind would no desire to become “artists,” they know that it was for quite a while. so-called “abstract” art—that depict be making pictures—with more or may still doodle while speaking on the Ever think of why we give children only lines and colors? Why can some less sophistication as time went phone making deals or sitting at their picture books before they can read? move quite easily from looking at the by—for centuries (some estimate desks buying and selling stocks. And, Well, there you are. Some, in fact, one kind to the other while some oth- about 35,0000 years!) before someone even when their hands stop “creat- even believe today that image-mak- ers throw up their hands in disgust? thought it important enough to write ing,” they continue to “find” images ing or “art”—in any of its forms—is a Does it have something to do with about. We’ll return to this in a later in shifting clouds and water-stained surer way of communicating to others the artist, the art or with the viewer? chapter when we look at artwriting, walls or ceilings—even inside their than with words. Ever think of the Must all image-making be rep- but suffice it to say for now that, as own heads—as their minds wander U.N.? Well, maybe ‘nuff said, there. resentational—that is, “look like” far as we can tell, no one cared much — or dream. Anyway, we all know that a certain something we are already familiar about who made images and how or We see profiles, eyes, ears, noses, painting, piece of music, or dance with before we can enjoy it? Before why or to what degree of skill they mouths in random markings of movement can move us — i.e. com- it “communicates” something to us? made them. nature and, at times, even in geo- municate, let’s say, joy, or anger, or How about images of monsters, and What is known is that image- logical formations. Mountain and surprise, or fear, for example, a heck dragons, and ogres, and angels, and making seems to be an old pastime of hill features are given anthropomor- of a lot faster—and clearer—than unicorns, and elves, and fairies? Or mankind, and evidences of this craft phic names such as “sleeping man,” some long-winded critic can. animals that wear clothes like us and have been found around the world. “Anthony’s nose,” “Grand Tetons” Well, like I’ve been saying…look- even talk like us? And how about that In addition to cave-drawings, people (Large Breasts), and the like. I was ing at images is second nature to us Batman guy? Have any of us ever ac- have uncovered and unearthed not once shown seven hills in Germany’s because they tell us things that, in tually seen an angel or a talking bear only carved incisions on stones and Rhineland and told that it was these most cases, we “get”—we understand that complained of someone eating cliff-faces, but, in more sophisticated very protuberances of the earth that them. From early times, the “powers his porridge or setting his woods on civilizations, painted images on the were the inspiration for the story of that be” knew this—the leaders, the fire? How about a fifteen-foot seated insides of tombs, the walls of houses “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” governors, the churches—and used Buddha or life-sized crucified Jesus? and even on such artifacts as vases, Even the most literal-minded, the them to communicate to the illiter- Have you ever actually seen either? bowls and urns. Eventually these most unimaginative, the least frivo- ate. In the Renaissance, for example, Who determined that Buddha or Je- image-makers would stop attempting lous of us all, will “image make” when churches were filled with paintings— sus really “looked like” that? to duplicate what he could see—faces, we fall asleep, creating “pictures” images—that “told” the stories of the Or take a seascape. Do you think animals, plants—and begin to make while we dream. So, whether we Bible to congregations that could not that each wave, each cloud, that the designs. Abstract imagery such as make them or make up stories about read the written word. The pictures precise yaw of the ship or the billow- geometric shapes or stylized patterns them or simply notice them, mankind “spoke” to the people—and they ing of its sails were exactly as the art- of curling vines or leafy branches has had a long association with imag- understood them. In other cultures, ist depicted? Do you think he or she were both imprinted on fabrics or es. They are, to use a modern phrase, even their alphabets were composed might have fudged just a little? Took sewn into them with what seems to one of the most “user friendly” things of “pictures”—pictograms, ideo- a little leeway and altered a wave, a be painstaking care. we come across in our lives. grams—images that helped make the cloud, or a full sail? Or must a paint- At some point in this image-mak- Some images have managed to so transition from illiterate to literate. ing be like a photograph and record ing activity, probably after learning intertwine with our every-day living It is when we separate some imag- only what “is there”? And while we’re how to make weapons, our ancestors that we are not even aware that we es from the millions we interact with at it, can a photograph be called “art”? discovered that they could also make are not only looking at but using im- every day and give them the label of So, although you might look for a images in three-dimensions. They ages from moment to moment. Ever “art” that many of us find a wall begin one-to-one relationship in, say, a por- had already learned that they could follow an arrow painted on a wall to come up between us and “it.” Sure, trait, an “exact” replication of a given Summer 2013 ART TIMES page 7 face, no one really expects an artist to stop hunting for meaning and simply different colors—might be exhibited. example, would have banned artists act like a camera. First of all he can’t. enjoy have a point. Not everything Given enough time, you might even (and poets) from his ideal Republic Second of all, when you think about has to be analyzed for us to enjoy it. find yourself drawn to “Abstract Art” precisely because of this power of it for a moment, not even a “realistic” I recall a music apreciation course I in the future—if only to figure out images. For Plato, the world was portrait has a one-to-one relation- once took, in which the instructor had for yourself what others are finding already a place of images, each piece ship. And third, not even a camera can us so minutely dissect a piece of mu- to look at. I still recall my own first of objective phenomenon a shadow- make an exact reproduction. Without sic, that, it well nigh made it impos- reaction to such art. After voicing image of some otherworldly realm of going into a lot of technical jargon and sible for me to “step back” and hear it my opinion, a teacher recommended ideal reality. Each individual chair, explanation here, let’s just say that a as a whole again. We have a tendency that I try an experiment. “Hang a for instance, strives to imitate an picture is flat while a real face on a to over analyze everything today, as picture of Marilyn Monroe—the fa- ideal form of chair that exists only in real head is not. Well, what about a if being able to explain a thing was mous calendar pose—on one wall of the ideal world. The world of things, head modeled in clay or carved out of the same as understanding it. To talk your room,” he suggested, “and on therefore, is only a world of “shades,” stone or wood, you might ask. Sorry. about love can be romatically poetic, the opposite wall, hang an Abstract unreal phantoms that are doomed Exact duplication is not even possible uplifting. But, as every woman comes Painting. See which one attracts your to change and eventual destruction. here. to know, in direct proportion to the attention after a period of time.” Well, Man’s job, according to Plato, is to What is possible is an approxima- elaboration of his clinical patter as to I have to admit that Marilyn held my pierce this world of illusion and to tion of reality. There was a time when why he is in love, then so much has attention for quite awhile, but the strive for the world of ideal truth and imitation of nature was the be-all and he fallen out of love. So, being able truth is I kept coming back to that beauty. The artist must be banished end-all of image-making, but even to name a thing—no matter how glib piece of Abstract Art—if only to try since, by making images of images, he at its very, very best, no one tries to or elaborate the definition—does not and figure out what I was missing. merely confuses man and places one jump into a lake in a painting or eat necessarily mean that we know that Familiarity, as they say, often does more obstacle in his search for truth. the fruit in a still life. I doubt if even thing. Explanation is given in place of bring—if not exactly contempt—a Happily—at least for artists—Plato’s the ancient Greeks were as fooled by passion. In short, there are those who certain amount of boredom. I mean, thoughts about art and artists didn’t art as their old story about the birds know and those who talk. how long can you look at a picture of take strong hold and, although we who were duped into picking at the As for Abstract Art, Jungian psy- a sailing ship with the same amount don’t exactly always make it easy for grapes painted by one of their mas- chology has told us that there are of excitement as the first time? What artists to live, we don’t banish them ters implies. Realistic is one thing. shapes and colors to which we subcon- holds us is the fantasies that occur from the kingdom either. Whether or Real is quite another. sciously respond, whether we recog- in our minds—of either being on the not you agree with Plato, we still to- The truth is, all art is an abstrac- nize that we are doing so or not. Theo- sea or with Marilyn—and—and this day are aware of the power of images; tion of reality just as the word “food” retically, when we are first confronted is important—not the actual work consider, as an obvious example, is an abstraction of the real thing. with a painting, we initially respond of art. most bans on pornography that are Now this word ‘abstraction” might to shape and color, and then notice The truth is, that images—wheth- the “law of the land” in many states. be a problem at first for some, if only that it is, say, a picture of a boat tied to er “readable” or not—do have an Finally, as long as we’re talking because of the label “Abstract Art” a pier under a sunny sky. Purists will impact on us—they “communicate” about artists, let’s move our focus given to some modern art. “Abstract say that, in fact, as soon as you begin to us, even if it is on an unconscious from the product to the producer. If Art” (and from here on, whenever noticing what those blobs and colors level. We fall in love with a person you are not daunted by being con- I’m speaking about such art, I’ll use signify—that is, water and boats and and, more often than not, do so on fronted by either your offspring or his capital letters to differentiate it from clouds—you are no longer looking at the basis of infinitesimal variations scrawling, why, then, should you be the general meaning of “abstract”) is the painting but at the subject of the in the shape of a nose, the curve of so by the artist or his works? Whether a term commonly applied to art that painting. This subtle difference need a breast, the outline of an eye. We painter, sculptor, filmmaker or what- is non-representational—that is, art not overly concern us here, but, as respond on a “gut” level—as Jung ever, they are still only image-makers that does not attempt to depict a tan- you spend more time with looking at argues—to archetypal forms that we and, as we have seen, images are so gible thing like a person, an apple or pictures yourself, you might want to can barely identify or are even aware much a part of our lives that there a sailboat. For simplicity’s sake, let’s come back to these ideas and ponder of. This subliminal level of reaction can be no danger in allowing some of just say that “Abstract Art” is usually them at your liesure. is probably the basis of our overall them into our lives. Surely, there is thought of today as art that has only For now, however, there is no response to image-making in the first no reason for any one of us to be in- formless shapes and colors in it. requirement to like these non-repre- place. Artists have long known this, timidated by either the professional Now, a great many people don’t sentational pictures (or even repre- and part of their art is to make us so image-makers or by their products. like “Abstract Art” precisely because sentational art, for that matter)—you respond—to stop, to look, to enjoy… In our next issue, let’s take a closer it is non-representational. They don’t need only look at them. If you find to “get” what they are trying to “say”. look at these professionals. Let’s look like it because they can’t see things in yourself responding to certain forms So pervasive is our predilection at artists. it—no people or dogs or trees or flow- or colors, all well and good. If not, to respond to images that some (to be Continued) ers. They can’t find any meaning in just move on to the next room where philosophers have warned of the those shapeless blobs of color. “What paintings of recognizable objects—or dangers of our doing so. Plato, for ef does it say?” they want to know. “What is being communicated to me?” Well, reams of paper have been filled with answers to such ques- tions, but the truth is there are no real answers. Artwriters have been busily trying to convince people that Raymond J. Steiner they ought not try to find “meaning” in art, but that they ought to simply Landscapes in oil enjoy it. A common retort to people who look for meaning in art is: “Con- sider the song of a bird. It doesn’t have to mean anything—just enjoy June 15 - July 30 it!” True—perhaps—but birdsong does mean something to another bird. And the person who wants “meaning” Opening Reception in his art, expects the same from his fellow man. He wants others—even June 15, 4-6pm artists—to communicate to him. Truth be told, we simply can’t know what every image, word, sound, per- son, or event “means”. Not everything in our world “communicates” to us. 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RaymondJSteiner.com Still, in a way, those who tell you to Fite Road o/c Summer 2013 ART TIMES page 8 Continued from Page 4 luncheon/artist opening, I told her Continued from Page 2 Calendar Letters how much I was pleased with your Sunday, June 2 To the Editor: article on the Artist statement. 10th Annual South Orange and Maplewood Artists Studio Tour South Orange Thank you — I enjoyed your ar- At last, someone has cried “Enough!” and Maplewood Various South Orange and Maplewood locations Vary; see website South Orange and Maplewood NJ 973-378-7754 11am-5pm free www.studiot- ticle criticizing “Art Criticism” in the i have always had trouble with oursoma.org Spring Issue of the ART TIMES. shows that want an artist statement 46th ANNUAL ART IN THE PARK Art League of Long Island, Heckscher Museum As discussed many times with as part of the entrance documents/ Park, 2 Prime Ave Huntington (631) 462-5400 10-5pm www.artleagueli.net fellow artists the question “what art images. WASHINGTON SQUARE OUTDOOR ART EXHIBIT Washington Square East & constitutes good art?” is the topic of After reading your article, I sort of University Place (212) 982-6255 www.wsoae.org conversation and as you point out in copied your text and submitted: 50th Annual White Plains Outdoor Arts Festival Tibbits Park One North Broadway White Plains NY 866-210-7137 10-5pm free Juried Fine Arts & Fine your conversation with Will Barnet my artist statement is the work I Crafts Children’s workshop, exhibits & much more! 866.210.7137 www.whiteplainsout- many artists including myself have am submitting (or something like that) doorartsfestival.com a studio full of art. 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Domestic Sightings by Richard Metzner; The Beauty of Chil- by Sid Caesar) looks on in disgust as dren and Birds by Veronica Dean Oresman Gallery Larchmont Public Library 121 Larchmont Avenue Larchmont NY 914-834-2281 free (thru June 28) www. the first art critic urinates on his cave To the Editor: larchmontlibrary.org drawing. I loved your recent article “Art: Land- “Flat Iron Gallery Presents Carrier Pigeon Artists” Flat Iron Norman Darvie scape Painting: Studio or Plein Air?” Gallery, Inc. 105 So. Division St. Peekskill NY 914-734-1894 Opening Reception 1-5 pm Phoenicia, NY in the January/February edition of free (thru June 30) www.flatiron.qpg.com Art Times. I loved the way you de- Kent Art Association Annual Member Show II The Gallery at Kent Art To the Editor: Association 21 S. Main Street Kent CT 860-927-3989 free (thru Jul 14) www.kentart.org My name is Gabriela Henkel. I’m a scribed Birge Harrison’s idea that New Paltz School of Ballet Spring Recital: “Dancing Through Mexican painter. I was once accepted color comes to us as “sensations Time” with Katie Critchlow & Trevor Naumann of Ballet West & Breaking to participate in the Florence Bien- of heat and/or sound.” Your article Point Wallkill High School 90 Robinson Drive Wallkill NY 845-255-0044 3pm charge perfectly captured the experience www.npsballet.com nale, but I never applied, so for me it of plein air while also addressing that Rockland Camerata “Spring Pops Concert” Rockland Camerata Clark- was very strange. I went on to Google stown Reformed Church 107 Strawtown Road West Nyack NY 845-634-5562 4pm charge about that Biennale and found what for some subjects it might be better to www.planet-rockland.org/CMRTA/ you wrote about it in Art Times. work indoors. Rose Day Garden Celebration, music and Lectures The New York That helped me make up my mind. i’m very excited because this Council for the Humanities Lyndhurst 635 South Broadway Tarrytown NY 914-631-4481 June I’m going to have my very first 10AM-5PM free http://www.lyndhurst.org I decided not to participate since I solo exhibition in New York City at Stuart Bigley: Paintings, Drawings & Photographs Unison Arts found it unprofessional (the biennale, Center 68 Mt. Rest Road New Paltz NY 845-255-1559 Opening reception 4-6pm free not you). That was a couple of years the Andre Zarre Gallery. i would www.unisonarts.org ago and I don’t know what took me be honored if you would consider writ- Wednesday, June 5 sooooo long to write you this note. ing about my show for your summer Art After Hours: Henri-Gabriel Ibels Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers i just wanted to let you know that issue of Art Times. University 71 Hamilton Street New Brunswick NJ 848-932-7237 5-9pm charge http:// To tell you more about my art, www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu I feel grateful to you. It was very im- all of the drawings for this show Thursday, June 6 portant that you wrote how you felt were inspired by my experiences in IT’S NOT ALWAYS BLACK & WHITE a group exhibit of Peekskill Arts Alliance about it so that artists get to know Members Westchester Community College’s Center for Digital Arts 27 North Division how they really work. Moscow over the past year. My draw- Street Peekskill NY 914-606-7304 Opening Reception 5:30 - 7:30pm; free (through July Well, that’s all I wanted to say. ings are comprised of thousands of 31) www.sunywcc.edu/peekskill hand-drawn circular dots or marks Saludos from México, Studio Montclair Presents Full Circle Montclair Public Library (50 that can represent anything from South Fullerton Avenue Montclair NJ Opening reception 6:30pm to 8:30pm. free (thru Gabriela Henkel (HeGGO) molecules to people interacting in June 29) www.gabrielahenkel.com.mx Continued on Page 10 societies. The reason I draw by hand (RJ Steiner responds: Nice to know is because analogous to humans, our Additional calendar listings are online and that somebody out there listens now differences are what make us beau- updated monthly and then.) tiful. my work has been shown in numerous solo exhibitions in the U.S. arttimesjournal.com To the Editor: Speaking to Cornelia at the NAWA and one in Singapore. 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In addition to performances by YAGP Galas featuring the world’s dancers from Paris Opera Ballet, most promising young dance stu- New York City Ballet, San Francisco dents and the stars of today’s leading Ballet, National Ballet of Cuba, Bol- international dance companies have shoi Ballet, Tbilisi Z. Paliashvili Op- been thrilling New York City audi- era and Ballet State Theatre, there ences since 1999. were world premieres by Emery This year it was even more memo- LeCrone and Marcelo Gomes, with rable than last. In fact, even though an original score by Karen LeFrak. the event ran an hour over, there was not a moment when one was bored Coming up in June, the Valen- or restless. The evening moved with tina Kozlova International Bal- precision and the young talents were let Competition (formerly Boston breathtaking. International Ballet Competition) From the moment the petite violin next event, is set for New York City’s protégé Elli Choi played the “Carmen La Guardia High School, at Amster- Fantasy” to start the proceedings, dam & 65th Street, June 27-30, 2013. the event displayed one extraordi- It requires a great deal of work from the young dancers, because nary performance after another. I Sterling Hyltin and Robert Fairchild in George Balanchine's knew we were watching the final- participants not only select dances Stravinsky Violin Concerto Photo Credit: Paul Kolnik ists of the competition. The first two from a list provided by VKIBC, which includes solos from dancers, Russia’s Lada Saratkova Steps on Broadway held its Cele- Sleeping Beauty, La with her endless pirouettes and Ja- brate Dance - Steps Beyond event Bayadere, Giselle, pan’s dynamic Daichi Ikarashi set in April at Ailey Citigroup Theater. and other clas- high standards for all who followed. Many of the lifts and poses were sics, but are also It was a day or so later that I breathtaking, challenging the body required to learn, learned Ikarashi had won the HOPE to assume new shapes and positions. via computer, one award for a pre-competitive dancer I often felt I was observing a gym ses- of the following: for he is amazingly only 10 years old sion rather than dance, so much of it Compulsory Con- and already could out dance half the was athletic and showed the dancers’ temporary Female men I’ve seen on other stages! Ms strength, physical stamina and skills Solo, created this Saratkova, who is also ten, won the but proved staccato with one move- year by Jacqulyn silver medal in the pre-competitive ment not flowing into the next.I n Tit Buglisi, Compul- competition. for Tat there were unique partnering sory Contemporary The junior competitions for wom- moments that created excitement. Male Solo, created en and men were for dancers 12-14 Certainly the performers were all by Viktor Kabani- years old and the senior competition well trained and highly skilled, but aev or Compulsory for 15-19 year olds. I guess it was just a night when I Duet, created by Several countries won multiple was in the mood for a different style Paulo Arrais. awards in the various categories. of dance, because I simply did not Dance, of course, Companies from Belgium won a respond. means different bronze award. Brazil won one Grand The New York City Ballet will things to different Prix, one gold, two silver and two present 33 dances in three weeks people. I remember bronze awards. Korean dancers won May 21-June 9. A rare opportunity back when the jit- one gold and one bronze. Japanese for classical ballet lovers such as terbug was a fad contestants won one top award, one myself! The wonder of today’s dance offer- ings is that they include such a wide range of styles and skills that there is sure to be a dance event that will thrill even the most jaded audience. We won’t all respond to the same From stars of today meet the stars of tomorrow contest. dances, we won’t all admire the same Viengsay Valdes and Osiel Gouneo (National Ballet of Cuba) choreographers or dance companies, in Double Bounce, choreographed by Peter Quanz. but we will all agree that the dance photo credit Liza Voll. smorgasbord allows each of us to find dance events that satisfy our wants. and the older cepts and dreams of the choreogra- The more frequently we go to see generation was pher and performer. We can appreci- companies that are not in our comfort a p p a l l e d b y ate the skill of the dancers without range, the more we expand our own the moves of necessarily responding to the dance concepts of dance and our apprecia- the youngsters pieces we are viewing. who excelled in tion of its practitioners. Not all the good dancers are this flamboyant Like any contemporary art form, featured only at such competitions. dance style. dance is alive and well, experiment- There were many exciting dance Just as with ing, discovering and delighting some events in the early spring – the Miro our politics, our of us all the time! Magliore’s New Chamber Ballet sense of human in the City Center Studios presented Francine regularly contibutes essays rights, our eth- well trained young dancers in two online. Don't miss out on recently nicity, dance premiers and two other pieces. published Aesthetics to Athletics and c o m e s f r o m Piano and/or violin accompanied Dance for the Family as well as previ- many different each of the dance works. Magliore ously run Dance essays. Additional sensibilities and choreographed most of the works but work by Francine can be seen at her creates move- Constantine Baecher choreographed website: writerfrancinetrevens.co/ From stars of today meet the stars of tomorrow contest. ment that ex- Albert Gordon, 17, Washington School of Ballet, USA a Top 12 and was one of the dancers in the presses the con- Finalist in the Senior Men's Division. Photo credit Liza Voll provocative Allow You to Look at Me. ef Summer 2013 ART TIMES page 10

Continued from Page 8 Nordic Lights Grieg Revival Close Encounters With Music Ozawa Hall, Calendar Tanglewood Lenox MA 800-843-0778 6-8pm charge www.cewm.org Friday, June 7 RITES OF PASSAGE Collages and 3D Wall Sculptures by Debra Friedkin Color and Dimension bau Gallery 506 Main St. Beacon NY 845-565-2976 (thri Harrison Council for the Arts Harrison Public Library 2 Bruce Avenue Harrison NY July 7) www.baugallery.com 914-835-0324 Opening Reception 2-4pm free (thru June 28) www,harrisonpl.org Floriography - The Language of Flowers Galerie BMG 12 Tannery SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS: The Creation of a Classic Norman Brook Road Woodstock NY 845-679-0027 free (thru Aug 5) www.galeriebmg.com Rockwell Museum 9 Rte 183 Stockbridge MA 413-298-4100 (thru Oct 27) www.nrm.org Maude Baum & Company Dance Theatre Spring Salon Concert Maude Baum Water Works Featuring pastels by M. Wiedenbaum with works & Company eba Theater 351 Hudson Ave. Albany NY 518-465-9916 8pm charge (thru by other local artists. Belvoir Gallery 3278 Franklin Avenue Millbrook NY Jun 9) www.eba-arts.org 845-605-1130 Reception 6-9pm free (June 30) [email protected] Refigured: Form and Fracture in the paintings of Allison Hill- WILD THINGS, a group exhibit Unframed Artists Gallery 173 Huguenot Street New Edgar; Postcards From Cooperstown Cooperstown Art Association 22 Paltz 845-255-5482 Reception 4-7 pm (thru Aug 3) unframedartistsgallery.com Main Street Cooperstown NY 607-547-9777 Opening Reception 5-7pm free (thru Jul 5) Sunday, June 9 www.cooperstownart.com 23rd Annual Silvermine School of Art Student Exhibition Silvermine Arts Center Saugerties Sunset Concert Series-Where the Mountain meets 1037 Silvermine Rd New Canaan CT 203-966-9700 Opening Reception 2-4 PM free (thru Cafe Mezzaluna & Saugerties Chamber of Commerce Tina Chorvas Wa- the River July 20) www.silvermineart.org terfront Park Saugerties NY 845-246-5306 6pm - 9pm free cafemezzaluna.com Newburgh Symphonic Chorale performs the Faure Requiem St. George’s The Landscape - Emblematic & Abstract/The Paintings of Daisy Church 105 Grand Street Newburgh NY 845-534-2864 3:00 pm free de Puthod and Madelon Jones The Stray Cat Gallery The Stray Cat Gallery 2032 Route 17B Bethel NY 845-423-8850 Opening Reception 4-7pm free (thru Jun 19) Ottmar Liebert and Luna Negra The Newton Theatre 234 Spring Street www.straycatgallery.com Newton NJ 973-383-3700 7:30 PM charge www.TheNewtonTheatre.com “The Spirit of Color” The Marina Gallery 153 Main St. Cold Spring NY 845-265- Project 44/Upstream Showcase Performance Kaatsbaan Kaatsbaan 2204 Artists reception 6-8 pm free (thru June 30) www.themarinagallery.com International Dance Center 120 Broadway Tivoli NY 2:30 pm donate Saturday, June 8 Warder Cadbury Music & Dance Event National Museum of Dance 99 South Broadway Saratoga Springs NY 518-584-2225 6:30-9pm free www.dancemuseum.org A Day in the Parks: works by Joyce Kanyuk, Chris Dabagian & Fred Letzter AIP Gallery at the Inn at Bear Mountain 98 Hessian Drive Bear Tuesday, June 11 Mountain NY 845-781-3269 free (thru Aug 10) www.artistsintheparks.org MICHAEL R. 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in Phoenicia, NY PhoeniciaVoiceFest.orgPhoeniciaVoiceFest.org Summer 2013 ART TIMES page 11 Music The Roots of Roots Music Part 2: From the Folk Revivalists to the Appalachians By Mary Burruss the Appalachian region.” According In the Fall issue of ART TIMES to Wilson and Martin, “Performers I contributed a story about the from the region, such as Doc Watson, popularity of Roots music in indie, the Carter Family, Ralph Stanley, pop and contemporary music. My Etta Baker, Wayne Henderson, and goal is to backtrack from music from others, have taken their music to bands like Mumford and Sons, Salsa audiences across the country and Celtica and David Wax Museum to around the world. Many visitors their collective foundations. This journey to western North Carolina issue I will investigate the Euro- and Virginia to hear the music in African influences found in the its homeplace.” There are also two Appalachians. music “trails” that help locals and Revivalists have taken many travelers find venues and festivals forms since the mid-1900’s and that host traditional jam and dance though most of the sounds coming sessions all along the Blue Ridge from today’s “Roots” bands echo Mountain Range in Virginia and mountain music as witnessed North Carolina: The Crooked Road: through the use of banjos and Virginia’s Music Heritage Trail and mandolins, the bridge between them the Blue Ridge Mountain Trail. and the sounds that evolved from the On a recent visit to Asheville, I immigration of English, German, David Holt holding a banjo on Grandfather Mountain in Linville, NC. stopped in at the Grove Park Inn, an Irish and African settlers and slaves overlooking the Blue Ridge Mountains. Photo credit: Hugh Morton award-winning golf and spa resort to the Appalachians in the early to collaborative project with River Walk established fiddle repertoire and with stunning views of the Blue mid 1700’s is the resurrection of folk Jazz host, David Holt, titled, Legacy, became an integral part of the sound Ridge Mountains, to learn about its in the 1950’s - 1970’s. Bob Dylan, a three-disc set with interviews of Traditional Mountain music.” Centennial Concert Series which the poster child of this movement and music plus a concert recorded The Civil War also played a part in begins in January with a Big Band and the artist most often named by at the Diana Wortham Theatre in spreading the popularity of the banjo and Swing Concert and ends Labor roots bands I have interviewed as Asheville, North Carolina. Holt an and Mountain music along with it Day weekend with a performance by an influence, was actually only a eight time Grammy nominee and as soldiers from different localities the Tams. The highlight of the series part of it for a short time. Initially four time Grammy winner himself, exchanged songs and technique. is July 5th and 6th. That weekend the a Woody Guthrie wanna-be, Dylan is also dedicated to preserving the Holt said, “The American Civil Inn will pull out the stops for its one was drawn to the strong emotions sounds of traditional American War helped spread the sound of the hundredth birthday party featuring expressed in folk music as seen music as a performer but also as banjo to the north and throughout Holt with his five piece band, The through, Blowin’ in the Wind and an archivist. For the past twenty the south. Minstrel shows featuring Lightening Bolts at a VIP Barbecue The Times They Are a Changin’, years Holt has collected songs and banjo became the most popular form event on July 5th and a big concert two generally accepted anthems of tales that have become a part of the of entertainment in America in the July 6th with blues legend, B.B. the neo-folk and civil rights era. But permanent collection of the Library later half of the 1800s.” Wilson and King. “We strive to engage traditional Dylan’s music quickly morphed to of Congress and though he plays ten Martin claim that minstrelsy was the artist involvement to support the incorporate other genres. Guthrie, acoustic instruments he may be best first international pop music fad that heritage of our area since it is such and Joan Baez (Dylan’s former lover known for his banjo picking. spread to urban areas and abroad. a big part of our heritage here at and mentor) along with Peter, Paul “Traditional Appalachian music The age of music recording the Grove Park Inn,” said Robert and Mary are arguably the real holds a great deal of soul and power starting in the 1920’s and ’30’s Butler, Director of Special Events royalty of the Folk Revival. Guthrie, because it was not created for money instigated the preservation of at the Grove Park Inn. Said Holt of Baez and others drew from the soul- or profit but came from people’s mountain music. Today there are his upcoming performance, “We play baring ballads of the Appalachians hearts and hands. It is wisdom that many collectors of old recordings old time mountain music with a new for inspiration. According to Joseph can’t be put into words but must be like Holt but for the mother lode one time jolt. The show features lots of Wilson, Chairman of the National expressed through sound,” he said can go to the Blue Ridge Institute different instruments and sounds Council for the Traditional Arts and in a recent interview. “It seems and Museum at Ferrum College in heard in Appalachian music played Wayne Martin, Executive Director of young people are rediscovering that Ferrum, Virginia, which boasts over by some of western North Carolina’s the North Carolina Arts Council, in Soulfulness and bringing it into the 3,000 recordings in its repository. The best musicians.” The reincarnation A Brief History of Blue Ridge Music 21st century.” Indeed, where the National Council for the Traditional of the traditional sound in today’s found on the Blue Ridge Music Trails ballad was the main influence during Arts supports the preservation of indi, rock and pop music pleases website, The Kingston Trio borrowed the folk revival, the traditional all folk arts encompassed across Holt. He is proud to be a purveyor of from a rare ballad by Frank Profitt, a Appalachian mountain stringband the United States but its support of the old music that inspires the new. singer from western North Carolina, sound dominates the current roots Appalachian Music is exemplified “The sounds of Anglo and African for their 1957 hit, Hang Down Your trend. A stringband may include by its sponsorship of the Blue Ridge traditions blended in Appalachian Head, Tom Dooley, igniting young several string instruments such as Music Center located along the Blue music and created a powerful mix people’s interest in folk music. guitar, mandolin, or bass fiddle but Ridge Parkway in southwestern that has influenced almost all of “During the late 1960s large numbers the must-haves are fiddle and banjo. Virginia. The NCTA website states American roots music in the last of outsiders began to attend music Wilson and Martin refer to the string that the Blue Ridge Music Center, “is 150 years,” he said. “You can trace events held in the Blue Ridge region. bands as, “...the symbol of Blue Ridge dedicated to honoring and celebrating a direct line of influences affecting Fiddler’s conventions held in Union music for many Americans,” and the rich, living musical traditions of today’s roots-inspired artists.” ef Grove, North Carolina, and Galax, that they are, “...a prime example Virginia, attracted crowds of young of a new flavor that emerged from people motivated by the desire to the cultural stew simmering in the hear music, learn tunes, or be part of region prior to the Civil War.” a huge party,” they note. The fiddle is of course a European Also during the 1960‘s blind instrument, brought to North guitarist, Doc Watson, was making America by the German, Irish, a name for himself. Originally form English and Scottish immigrants of Deep Gap, North Carolina, he was the late 1700’s. The banjo’s origins adored as an authentic messenger of are West African. “The banjo has mountain music ultimately winning its roots in Africa and came to seven Grammy’s between 1973 and America with slavery. In the mid- 2006. He dedicated his life to sharing 1800s Joe Sweeney and other white the music of his home around the musicians began to learn to play from world in an effort to preserve it. A plantation slaves,” Holt explained. 2002 Grammy for Best Traditional NY “In the southern mountains the Folk Recording was earned for a banjo blended perfectly with the long 845-679-2303 • • • lotuswoodstock.com Summer 2013 ART TIMES page 12 Culturally Speaking

By Cornelia Seckel printing 4 times a year: Spring: Mar/ Apr/ May; Summer: Jun/ Jul/ Aug; This issue marks the beginning Fall: Sept/ Oct/ Nov; Winter: Dec/ of 30 years that we are publishing Jan/ Feb. The months we aren’t print- ART TIMES. It has been an awesome ing, we publish new essays, videos, undertaking and it is hard to accept Calendar and Opportunity listings that 30 years have passed since Ray- online. April online we published: mond and I decided to start a publica- Imagine- Association of Performing tion that not only crossed county lines Arts Presenters by Mark Laiosa; but state and now with our extensive Aesthetics to Athletics by Francine website, country lines and serves to L. Trevens; The Drawing Galaxy provide literary essays about the arts by Meredith Rosier; Are Digitals and resources for a global creative Good? by Henry P. Raleigh; Soul community. I’ve said it in the past and Music: The Ancient Practice of Kirtan I’ll say it again— “If I died today I will by Mary Burruss and in May online: have made a difference in the world Dance for the Family by Francine L. to people who are trying to have the Trevens; a new Steiner’s Peek and results of their creativity seen.” Not a Piques!; Film on an iphone by Henry lot of people can say they have made P. Raleigh; Profile of Jessye Nor- a difference and I am proud of what man by Mary Burruss. My Travel Raymond and I have done and how and Culture pieces were about San we have done it. We have supported Antonio and about the Fishermen’s Rhoda Sherbell enjoying Aaron Copeland (pastels hanging) at the National and presented the work of creative Festival in Boothbay, ME (arttimes- people and the creative spirit. I was Association of Women Artists' Gallery, NYC. The exhibit was part of being the journal.com/Travel_and_Culture); honored Artist and Guest Speaker at N.A.W.A.'s annual meeting and luncheon. told early on that I would never suc- all of these essays are and will remain ceed and here ART TIMES still is available online at arttimesjournal. for women but we don’t cry about it”. Braxton, Jimmy Giuffre, Wadada — 30 years later. com. Her work — excellent pastels and sev- Leo Smith, The Art Ensemble Of i’ve written about how we began eral fine bronze heads were on view at Rhoda Sherbell was the honored Chicago, Pat Metheny, George and believe that this is the time to Artist and Guest Speaker at the the N.A.W.A. gallery. For more about Lewis, Lee Konitz, Nana Vas- say it again briefly in another page of the organization: thenawa.org National Association of Women concelos, Trilok Gurtu, Collin this issue (a more detailed version is interested in Jewelry as Art? Our Artists, Inc. annual meeting and Walcott, Oliver Lake, John Cage, online “about ART TIMES”). You can luncheon (see essay about Rhoda cub reporter Laurie Spiegel filled Ismet Siral, Ed Blackwell, and read a different take about the early Sherbell, honoree at arttimesjour- Cecil Taylor. Part of what the CMF years in the profile that Raymond nal.com). This organization has has/ is undertaking includes: • The wrote about me in the Mar/ April 2012 been Empowering Women Artists Oral History Project, in conjunction issue of ART TIMES— this profile since 1889 and promotes culture with Columbia University’s Jazz can be found online, along with early and education in the Visual Arts Studies Program, gathering stories pictures from our beginning at art- through exhibitions of its member’s from the Guiding Artists (instruc- timesjournal.com. works, lectures, art demonstrations, tors) and alumni. An archive of re- raymond will again be part scholarships, awards and other edu- cordings of their performances are of the Saugerties Artists Tour being digitized • the CMS Archive th th cational programs. They encourage scheduled for August 10 and 11 . new emerging artists in many ways. Project under the guidance of CMS Check saugertiesarttour.com for the The luncheon was very well attended Director Karl Berger, master engi- Friday, August 9 reception informa- and after the annual meeting and neer and musician Ted Orr leads tion, as well as a video of some of the lunch Rhoda gave a very stimulat- the to transfer and re-master the participating artist and a tour map. ing presentation about her sculpture CMS Archive Collection of tapes. • The tour is free and always a lot of and paintings. Rhoda teaches at the Karl Berger developed an innovative fun with many fine artists to visit. orchestra comprised of 20 or more Art Students League of NY and at Rocket Ship Brooch, Unknown maker, Raymond will also have an exhibit of professional string, horn, reed and the National Academy and has her American, mid-1960s, platinum, diamond. Lang Antiques, San Francisco. his Landscapes at Mezzaluna Café work in many of the finest museum percussionists. The KBIO takes the (www.cafemezzaluna.com). This Bis- principles of CMS Orchestra Work- collections. She told stories, praised me in on the fabulous exhibition Out tro Latino has excellent food, weekly N.A.W.A., passed along good advice shops to a professional level, with of this World! Jewelry in the Space astounding results and has been in Age at the Forbes Galleries in NYC. residence at several locations in NY Jewelry has reflected our fascination over the last few years. • Residencies, with space from the ancients until workshops, seminars, presentations today. Events such as Halley’s Comet and performances in various formats and the Russian Sputnik inspired detailing and employing principles specific motifs but the sparkle, color of the unique Creative Music Studio and reflections of the moon and the approach to personal development sun and the stars have inspired all in musical expression and commu- generations. The exhibit was curated nication. Led by Karl Berger and by Elyse Zorn Karlin to include not supported by Ingrid Sertso, these only designs inspired by space but presentations can also give an his- also materials from space, space-age torical view of the CMS. · CMS materials and even jewelry flown in NETWORK: a developing program space. This exhibition will remain on of services for the music community. view until September 7, 2013 at The During this year the Creative Music Forbes Galleries 60 Fifth Avenue at Foundation / Creative Music Studio 12th Street, NYC is holding anniversary workshop The Creative Music Founda- retreats. Sketches of Sound from the tion and its educational program, Gallery, a performance series, will the Creative Music Studio, were running monthly at Photosensua- founded in the early 70’s by Karl lis, a gallery and performance space Berger, Ingrid Sertso, and Ornet- in Woodstock, NY. During the perfor- Blessing of the fleet, during the Fishermen's Festival te Coleman. CMS was considered mances, artists are invited to make in Boothbay Harbor, ME. the premier study center for creative sketches or art response. This series, music in the 70s and 80s. Over 100 initiated by Harvey Sorgen, is cu- concert brunches, poetry readings and wisdom to artists “Be truthful to Guiding Artists came to CMS to rated by Harvey and Karl Berger and art shows every 6-8 weeks. Ray- yourself and your work will be true.” teach, including: Don Cherry, Dave and supported by CMS. Check out mond’s show will open with a recep- About being a woman artist she said Holland, Carla Bley, Jack De- creativemusicfoundation.org for tion on June 15 from 4-6pm. that women should “walk in their own Johnette, Steve Gorn, Anthony more information and to learn about As you probably know, we are shoes and be strong. It is a tough life Summer 2013 ART TIMES page 13 the additional events offered by this and it just amazes me how one can important group. have such stamina and convey such Phoenicia International Festi- emotion with a flick of the wrist. val of the Voice (phoeniciavoicefest. The dancers showed great passion org) is scheduled for August 1-4 and and pleasure as they presented this will have over 20 programs including program of Flamenco dance with lectures, workshops, story telling, a contemporary flavor. As part of chamber music and Verdi’s Rigolet- their 30th Anniversary the company, to, the centerpiece of the festival to be in partnership with the NY Public performed on Saturday night Aug 3 Library for Performing Arts, at 7:30. I’ve been to this festival since has created an exhibit “100 Years of it’s inception and each year it has Flamenco in NYC” that will run thru grown, and each year I’m sure I just Aug 3 at the Vincent Astor Gallery want to camp out in Phoenicia for the at Lincoln Center, NYC. Coming up duration of the festival. Music styles this summer at Kaatsbaan is Jen- presented include: Jazz, Gospel, nifer Muller, Dances Patrelle: Classical, Theatrical, Experimental, “Gilbert and Sullivan, the Ballet” and Sacred. Many programs during and Extreme Ballet 2013 Session last years’ festival were sold out and I Showcase. thousands of people sat spellbound The Mamaroneck Artists Guild under tents and in the open field for (MAG) began in the backyard barn Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana finale at the performance of Madame Butter- of local artist Grace Huntley Pugh Kaatsbaan International Dance Center in Tivoli, NY fly. Festival founders Maria Todaro, in 1953. The initial seven, Ruth and the receipts from a Beaux Arts ArtPlace America is a collaboration Louis Otey and Kerry Henderson, Connery, Allen Glicksman, Hugh Ball, they were able to rent space of leading national and regional themselves noted opera singers, rep- Gumpel, Grace Carr Gurwitz, (known as the Art Barn) in a building foundations, banks and federal resented the festival as it was hon- Alice Neaman, Grace Huntley on Prospect Avenue just a few doors agencies committed to accelerating ored as the cultural business of the Pugh and George Russin, were off of Mamaroneck Avenue. After a creative placemaking – putting art at few other moves in the fall of 2008 the heart of a portfolio of strategies they moved to the present location designed to revitalize communities. on Larchmont Avenue in Larch- This is ArtPlace America’s third cycle mont. Present membership includes of grant awards. With this round of over 200 artists from Westchester, grants, in total, ArtPlace America has surrounding communities and from awarded a total of $42.1 million in 134 across the country. Each member is grants to 124 projects in 90 communi- eligible to apply for a solo show and ties across the U.S. (and a statewide to enter group shows and have ex- project in the state of Connecticut). amples of their work in display bins. Central to its rebuilding efforts fol- They have recently co-sponsored a lowing Hurricane Irene, the Town of workshop for immigrants with the Prattsville will renew a flood dam- Hispanic Resource Center of aged building into a contemporary Larchmont/ Mamaroneck and art center and residency to engage they host an annual show for high artists-in-residence in town planning school art students. MAG offers vi- and design as well as public exhibi- sual presentations, demonstrations, tions and events to re-imagine the critiques and family and children’s’ future of this rural town as it recov- workshops for the public, as well as ers from a natural disaster. Nancy their members. Lectures at the Gal- Barton, Director of the Art Center lery or elsewhere in the community said, “The arts have a history of em- are open to the public. Their mission powering struggling populations. As Karl H Berger one of the founders of the Creative Music Foundation, Inc. is two-fold, to nurture member artists Prattsville recovers from devastating Photo credit: Savia Berger and to reach out to the community. floods, the Art Center (at prattsvil- ArtPlace America announced leart.org) will bring together rural year by the Ulster County Cham- frustrated that they were unable to the award of a $200,000 grant to the residents and urban artists, who ber of Commerce for developing a find a model and so they contacted the Town of Prattsville, NY to rebuild share an DIY approach to problem cultural institution that has enjoyed Art Students League in New York an Arts Center and Residency on solving, to create an inclusive com- instant success, with the potential where they found models who, for an its Main Street. The Prattsville munity space - alive with exhibitions, for significant growth. The website hourly rate and train fare, would go Art Center was chosen from over music, films, and visionary ideas for has the full schedule and videos from to Mamaroneck to pose. By 1955, with 1,200 applications as an exceptional the future”. The 54 organizations that earlier festivals. some 30 members and 100 patrons example of creative placemaking. received grants were selected from Once again I had the pleasure over 1200 applications. Inquiries to see Flamenco Vivo Carlota came from all 50 states as well as the th Santana (it’s their 30 Anniversary District of Columbia. Grant amounts Season) at Kaatsbaan Interna- range from $750,000 to $33,000 with tional Dance Center in Tivoli, an average grant size of just over NY. The house was filled to capacity $280,000. The complete list of 2013- with additional seating being set up 2014 ArtPlace America awards can cabaret style. When introduced by be found at artplaceamerica.org and Bently Roton, one of the founders at prattsvilleart.org of Kaatsbaan and, along with Greg “Friend” and “like” ART TIMES on Carey another co-founder (both Pro- facebook and “follow” us on twitter for ducers), Carlota said that she was connections with thousands of other so pleased to be at Kaatsbaan again. creative people. Visit us online at Martine van Hamel and Kevin arttimesjournal.com for new essays, McKenzie are also co-founders of videos, calendar and opportunity list- this “Playing Field for Dance”, a place ings. for dance companies to prepare for ef tours, to try out new choreography in a gorgeous setting along the Hudson Read previously published River. It was hard to sit still as these fabulous dancers and musicians filled essays and exclusive my ears and eyes with stimulating online essays & resources sounds and movements. Costumes @ arttimesjournal.com were beautiful, dancers exquisite Prattsville Art Center, recipient of ArtPlace America award Summer 2013 ART TIMES page 14 Continued from Page 10 YALE EPSTEIN: Re-Imagings: Re-Contextualized Photographs Shahinian Fine Art East Market Street, Suite 301 Rhinebeck NY 845-876-7578 Preview 12-8pm (thru Calendar Friday, June 14 Aug 11) www.ShahinianFineArt.com 2013 Whipple City Festival Greater Greenwich Chamber of Commerce Mowry Park Main Street Greenwich NY 518-692-7979 6 pm free www.greenwichchamber.org Sunday, June 16 Dances Patrelle at Kaatsbaan: “Gilbert and Sullivan, the ballet” Kaatsbaan 4th Annual Arts Attitudes! Malta League of Arts Historic Round Lake Auditorium 120 Broadway Tivoli NY 845-757-5106 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm charge www.kaatsbaan.org 2 Wesley Ave Round Lake NY 4-8pm www.maltaarts.org RHCAN Sculpture Expo 2013, an outdoor large - scale sculpture exhibit Red 81st ANNUAL EXHIBITION Hudson Valley Art Association Lyme Art Association, 90 Hook Community Arts Network Red Hook Village main commercial district Red Hook Lyme Street, Old Lyme CT Opening Reception 5-7pm (thru July 28) www.hvaaonline.org NY Opening free (thru Nov 20) www.rhcan.com Elizabeth Castellano - Patricia Roth Look| Art Gallery 988 South Lake Boulevard Mahopac NY 845-276-5090 Artist’s Reception Sunday June 23 3-5pm free Thursday, June 20 (thru July 7) http://www.lookartgallery.com 3rd Thursday ArtWalk Saranac Lake ArtWorks Main Street Saranac Lake NY New Paintings by Martin A. Poole West End Gallery 12 West Market Street 518-891-1388 5-7:30 pm free www.saranaclakeartworks.com/artwalks.htm Corning NY 607-936-2011 Opening Reception 5-7:30 pm. Music by William Groome. Joyce Kanyuk, Chris Dabagian, Fred Letzter Exhibit Piermont Fine Gallery talk June 15 1pm free (thru Jul 19) www.westendgallery.net Arts Gallery 218 Ash Street, Piermont Landing Piermont NY 845-398-1907 free (thru July 14) piermontfinearts.org Saturday, June 15 Friday, June 21 4th Annual Arts Attitudes! Malta League of Arts Historic Round Lake Auditorium 2, Wesley Ave, Round Lake, NY 11-4pm www.maltaarts.org Photography by Michael Bloom & Shane Cashman The Stray Cat Gal- lery 2032 Route 17B Bethel NY 845-423-8850 Opening Reception 4-7p free (thru July 2) Arts Upstairs Opening Rosemary C. Brooks, Douglas Brooks, www.straycatgallery.com Harper Blanchet & Group show The Arts Upstairs Gallery 60 Main Street Phoenicia NY 845-688-2142 Art Opening 6-9pm free (thru July 14) www.artsupstairs.com Saturday, June 22 Audubon Craft Festival Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum 1031 Old A Passion for Art: Arles Buchman, Gerda Roze & Louise Stern Route 17 Livingston Manor NY 845-439-4810 10-4pm free www.catskillflyfishing.org Mamaroneck Artists Guild 126 Larchmont Avenue Larchmont NY 914-834-1117 Recep- tion 3-5pm free (thru July 13) www.mamaroneckartistsguild.org Bloomsday: Celebration of Irish Folk Arts Pelham Art Center 155 Fifth Ave. Pelham NY 914-738-2525 1:30-3:30pm free www.pelhamartcenter.org Founders Day Celebrating the founding of Stone Ridge with a weekend exhibit of local area art work, music & more The Wired Gallery Hasbrouck House Dances Patrelle at Kaatsbaan: “Gilbert and Sullivan, the bal- Route 209 Stone Ridge NY 845-687-0736 free www.thewiredgallery.com let” Kaatsbaan 120 Broadway Tivoli NY 856-757-5106 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm charge www.kaatsbaan.org Open Your Eyes Performers Showcase Northwest CT Arts Council The Green in New Milford Main Street New Milford CT 860-618-0075 5 - 9 pm free www.openy- Eighth Annual Paul Grunberg Memorial Bach Concert PS21: oureyestour.org Performance Spaces for the 21st Century 2980 Route 66 Chatham NY 518-392-6121 7:30pm charge ps21chatham.org Open Your Eyes Studio Tour Northwest Connecticut Arts Council 29 Artists’ Studios throughout Kent & New Milford, CT Kent CT 860-618-0075 10-5pm free www. Erasing Borders Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora; openyoureyestour.org Stanley Zabar “Extended Excitement” painting with light; Marty Kremer “Tutti Vetro” glass sculptures ArtsWestchester Ham- Paint out, Paint the Picturesque Landscape of Palenvillle hiddengallerywalk mond Museum 28 Deveau Rd. North Salem NY 914-669-5033 Opening Reception 1-3pm Palenville Malden avenue Palenville NY 845-241-0270 12-6 free hiddengallerywalk@ free (thru Sept 14) www.hammondmuseum.org gmail.com Maria Zemantauski Trio with dancer Lisa Martinez & percus- Pop-up art galleries in unique locations in Palenville hiddengallerywalk sionist Brian Melick Unison Arts Center 68 Mt. Rest Road New Paltz NY 845- Palenville Palenville NY 845-241-0270 12-6 free [email protected] 255-1559 8-10pm charge www.unisonarts.org The Beguines: Creative Religious Women In The Time of Ferment Wisdom MICHAEL R. GRINE exhibit: Adhesion Pleiades Gallery 530 W. 25th St. #405 NYC House Retreat and Conference Center Main Building 229 East Litchfield Rd Litchfield 646-230-0056 Opening Reception 6-9pm (thru July 6) michaelgrineartist.com CT 860-567-3163 9:30 am -3 PM charge www.wisdomhouse.org Modern Nature: Georgia O’Keeffe and Lake George; Family Album: Wild America! Wildlife & Nature Photography by Larry Gambon Arthur Stieglitz and lake George The Hyde Collection 161 Warren Street Catskill Mountain Foundation Kaaterskill Fine Arts Hunter Village Square, 7970 Main Glens Falls NY 518-792-1761 Opening reception 6-8pm charge (thru Sept 15) Street Hunter NY 518-260-2060 Opening Reception 4-6pm free (thru July 28) http:// www.hydecollection.org www.catskillmtn.org Raymond J. Steiner Exhibition Cafe Mezzaluna 626 Rte. 212 Saugerties NY YALE EPSTEIN: Re-Imagings: Re-Contextualized Photographs Shahinian Fine 845-246-5306 Opening Reception 4-6pm free www.cafemezzaluna.com Art East Market Street, Suite 301 Rhinebeck NY 845-876-7578 Opening Reception 5-8pm (thru Aug 11) www.ShahinianFineArt.com Continued on Page 16

Adhesion - Michael R. Grine

Imp II 2012 - 8”x8” acrylic on wood

Pleiades Gallery of Contemporary Art 4th Floor, 530 West 25th Street 62nd ANNUAL SIDEWALK ART SHOW New York, NY 10001-5516 Sound Beach Avenue, Old Greenwich June 11, 2013 - July 6, 2013 Saturday & Sunday Opening Reception Saturday, June 15, 2013, 6-9pm September 7 and 8, 9 — 5pm Open to All artists, This is not a juried show pleiadesgallery.com H michaelrgrineartist.com Media: Watercolor, Oil, Acrylic, Pastel, Drawing and Graphics, Other Media, B&W Photography, Color Pho- tography and Sculpture. Receiving all media except sculpture: Fri., Sept. 6, 12 to 7pm. Selleck Hall, St. Paul Episcopal Church, 200 Riverside Ave. Riverside, CT Receiving for sculpture: Fri, Sept. 6, 3:30-6:30pm Images Gallery, 202 Sound Beach Ave., Old Greenwich. Sculture will be displayed at Images during the show. Large pieces (pedestal) limited to three (3), smaller pieces (table size) limited to five (5) Pick-up: Sunday, Sept 8, starting at 5pm. Any work not removed by 5:30 will be stored in Sound beach Ave. Shop entrances. Cost: Members Max. 5 pieces @ $10 each; non- members 4 pieces @ $15 each; non-members may join at receiving for $30) Size: 168" max. perimeter. Works must be framed and wired for hanging. All works must be for sale. Sculp- tors must supply their own bases. Portfolio Tables - $30 payable at receiving ASOG take no commisions on sales. For more information: Aga Cichy, – 203-987-4767 Summer 2013 ART TIMES page 15 Film Granddad’s Troll Story By HENRY P.RALEIGH Gather around me children as low-budget as you can get — the and your old granddad will tell actors are amateurs, some apparently the Legend of the Troll just as my pulled in because they happened to granddad told it to me and as told be walking by during the filming, the him by his granddad and as ...(OK male lead himself the local dentist dammit, I’ll get there.) It all begins from Alexander, Alabama. Shooting a long, long time ago in a far, far took all of three weeks in Utah, place...(I said I’ll get there so just never went to theatrical distribution shut up.) The year was 1985, a and was judged by any who saw it distant time in a far, far...(OK, OK)... as the worst film ever made, even and it was a movie known as “troll”. beating out Ed Wood’s “Plan 9 It was a light-hearted horror story from Outer Space” and was then about a little girl taken over by trolls seemingly tossed into the dustbin of and who goes about turning everyone movie history.... (no, I’m not done, I’ll into seed pods. A famous scene in the tell you when I’m done)...but in 2009 movie was the one in which Sonny Michael Stephenson, an original cast Bono transforms into an apartment member eighteen or so years before, filled with dripping, creepy foliage. brought out a documentary in tribute The trolls themselves, however, to “Troll 2” titled “The Best Worst looked a good deal like the gremlins Movie”. You see, children, “Troll 2” featured in a movie of that name the had surprisingly become a cult film, year before. To be scientific about playing in midnight horror showings it.... (and I will, whether you like it all over the mid-west and beyond, or not)... trolls are either dwarfs or even assembling the old cast for giants and even uglier than your stage appearances. The director, if cousin Lucinda.... (stop whimpering that’s what he was, Claudio Fragasso it was just a joke)... and are not a came over from Italy to attend one bit like gremlins. Now a year or of these and expressed shock and so later...(no, I’m not done)...along deep disappointment that American comes “Troll 2”, though some say it audiences now saw his film as high was 1992 or 1998, official listings camp comedy and not the profound put it at either 1985 or 1986; one of social statement he knew it to be. the original cast members claims it So that’s where matters stood... was 1989...(all right, it doesn’t make (get back here, there’s more)... the any difference)...whatever, “Troll Legend of the Troll had gotten off to 2” ’s opening credits show a Mr. a pretty bad start until 2010 when Drake Floyd as writer and director; a Norwegian filmmaker, Andre was prefaced by a claim that the thereafter his appears forgotten and Ovredal, got it all sorted out and explains that trolls suffer a genetic found material had been searched subsequent sources credit a Claudio finally here were the real goods. It defect and can’t convert vitamin top to bottom and was officially Fragasso as director and his wife, was straight from the horse’s mouth, D from sunlight into calcium. judged to be AUTHENTIC. The Rosella Drudi the script writer. or maybe I should say the Troll’s This isn’t good news for trolls, all footage had been shot by a gaggle Mr. Fragasso is an Italian director mouth...(that wasn’t funny? well, right, and means they will explode of Norwegian students for a science of low-budget horror films which so what?)...because this film was or turn to stone when exposed to project and had run into a secret may explain something of all this assembled from found footage in ultra-violet rays. This is why trolls government troll hunter. The whole confusion but I don’t know what. that fuzzy, jiggly documentary style only venture out at night to eat bunch vanished mysteriously, the What is certain is that “Troll 2” is that had come into fashion. And it tourists and tires and greatly eases footage was later discovered, giving the trouble and expense of special us “Troll Hunter”. Here the real effects since Norway evenings are Troll story is revealed and I can tell dark, indistinct, and it’s hard to you it’s stomach-turning stuff. Not see anything. And when you hear o many know this but no one has more scientific sounding words like trolls per square mile than Norway RINGLEFINCH and RIMETOSSER GALLERY and it has been covered up because you know this is AUTHENTIC to AUCTIONS trolls eat tourists, particularly beat the band. There is even an Yaacov Agam R Jasper Johns Christian tourists though there epilogue to the footage pleading Josef Albers Paul Jenkins seems little reason for this. Trolls for any information leading to the Richard Anuszkiewicz Alex Katz Karel Appel Kiki Kogelnik are big — eight, ten, twelve feet tall discovery of the missing teenagers. Arman Mark Kostabi with enormous noses. Born with one To date there has been no further Romare Bearden Jacob Lawrence Ilya Bolotowsky Roy Lichtenstein head and one eye, trolls grow more word on this. Still, as found footage Fernando Botero Roberto Matta heads as they age just for the helluva films go, “Troll Hunter” is one of the Alexander Calder Peter Max Marc Chagall Joan Miro it...(no, that’s not a curse so stop best. Chryssa Robert Motherwell whispering) ...gnaw on old tires as ef Lucien Clergue Reuben Nakian well as tourists, smell really, really William N. Copley Louise Nevelson bad and are stupid. Just to show you Salvador Dali LeRoy Neiman arttimesjournal.com for Allan D’Arcangelo Dennis Oppenheim how true and AUTHENTIC all this Gene Davis Pablo Picasso more of Raleigh's essays. Willem De Kooning Mel Ramos is, the footage includes an interview Burhan Dogancay Robert Rauschenberg with a Norwegian veterinarian who Sam Francis Omar Rayo Red Grooms James Rosenquist Keith Haring Kenny Scharf David Hockney Jesus R. 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Continued from Page 14 Monday, July 1 Calendar Painting the Adirondacks Northville Public Library 341 South Third Street Monday, June 23 Northville NY 518-863-6922 free (thru Aug 30) http://northville.mvls.info/ Brazilian Capoeira during Pelham Street Fair Pelham Art Center 155 Fifth The Contemporary Watercolors of Michael Mendel Harrison Ave. Pelham NY 914-738-2525 1:30-3:30pm free www.pelhamartcenter.org Council for the Arts Harrison Public Library 2 Bruce Avenue Harrison NY 914-315-1922 Founders Day Celebrating the founding of Stone Ridge with a weekend free (thru Aug 1) www.harrisonpl.org exhibit of local area art work, music & more The Wired Gallery Hasbrouck House Tuesday, July 2 Route 209 Stone Ridge NY 845-687-0736 free www.thewiredgallery.com Shelter Cats: Photography by Elizabeth Pollaert Smith Ores- Northwest CT Arts Council 29 Artists’ Studios Open Your Eyes Studio Tour man Gallery Larchmont Public Library 121 Larchmont Avenue Larchmont NY 914-834- Throughout Kent & New Milford New Milford CT 860-618-0075 10 - 4 pm free www. 2281 free (thru Aug 30) www.larchmontlibrary.org openyoureyestour.org Pop-up art galleries in unique locations in Palenville hiddengallerywalk Friday, July 5 Palenville Palenville NY 845-241-0270 12-6 free [email protected] Birds of Prey/ Photography by Jerry Cohen The Stray Cat Gallery 2032 Route 17B Bethel NY 845-423-8850 Opening Reception 4 - 7 pm free (thru July 17) Tuesday, June 25 www.straycatgallery.com MARIE HINES COWAN Paintings and Literary installations NY Public Library, Nancy Brossard: Out Painting Plein air oil paintings Adirondack Riverside Branch 127 Amsterdam Ave. NYC 212-870-1810 (thru July 29) mariehines- Artists Guild 52 Main Street Saranac Lake NY 518-891-2615 Opening Reception 5-7 pm cowan.com free (thru Jul 30) http://adirondackartistsguild.com Thursday, June 27 Saturday, July 6 ARTIST TALK: YALE EPSTEIN: Re-Imagings: Re-Contextualized Photographs Shahinian Fine Art East Market Street, Suite 301 Rhinebeck NY 845-876-7578 5-7pm Chamber Trio Music and Art Center of Greene County Grazhda Concert Hall www.ShahinianFineArt.com Ukraine Road Jewett NY 518-989-6479 8 pm charge grazhdamusicandart.org JURIED WORKS ON PAPER EXHIBIT Upstream Gallery 26 Main Street Dobbs Extreme Ballet 2013 Session I Showcase Kaatsbaan International Dance Ferry NY 914-674-8548 (thru July 28) www.upstreamgallery.com Center 120 Broadway Tivoli NY 845-757-5106 12 noon - 1 pm free www.kaatsbaan.org Livingston Manor Artwalk/ Chalkwalk 2013 Chamber of Commerce Friday, June 28 Livingston Manor Main Street Livingston Manor NY 845-439-4325 10am-4pm free www. Andrew DiVries exhibit; Homage to dance National Museum of Dance livingstonmanor.org 99 South Broadway Saratoga Springs NY 518-584-2225 An opening reception 6 to-8pm Perspectives Ensemble “Sparkle!” With Guest Artist and Com- charge (thru Nov 24) www.dancemuseum.org poser Huang Ruo Catskill Mountain Foundation Doctorow Center for the Arts- OPEN JURIED SHOW Art Society of Old Greenwich, Bendheim Gallery, 299 Green- Weisberg Hall 7951 Main Street, Rte. 23A Hunter NY 518-263-2066 8 PM charge www. wich Ave., Greenwich, CT Reception 6-8pm (thru July 18) www.sidewalkartshow.com catskillmtn.org Saturday, June 29 Monday, July 8 64th Annual Kutztown Folk Festival Kutztown Folk Festival 225 N. Dancer Health Day National Museum of Dance 99 South Broadway Saratoga Whiteoak Street Kutztown PA 610-683-1597 Open daily 9am-6pm charge (thru July 7) Springs NY 518-584-2225 1-4pm free www.dancemuseum.org www.kutztownfestival.com Tuesday, July 9 Gerda van Leeuwen, New Work Longyear Gallery Upstairs In The Commons 785 Main Street Margaretville NY 845-586-3270 Opening Reception 3-6pm free (thru Painting the Adirondacks Northville Public Library 341 South Third Street July 22) www.longyeargallery.org Northville NY 518-863-6922 Opening reception 6 - 8pm free (thru Aug 30) northville. mvls.info/ MARIE HINES COWAN Paintings and Literary installations NY Public Library, Riverside Branch 127 Amsterdam Ave. NYC 212-870-1810 Artist’s Reception 1-4:30pm Wednesday, July 10 (thru July 29) mariehinescowan.com Art After Hours: Maples in the Mist Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers Weekend Pop-Up Art Show Tivoli Artists Gallery 60 Broadway Tivoli NY 845- University 71 Hamilton Street New Brunswick NJ 848-932-7237 5-9pm charge www. 757-2667 Opening Reception 6-8pm free (thru June 30) www.tivoliartistsgallery.com zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu Sunday, June 30 Thursday, July 11 ART TALK Castellano/Roth Look| Art Gallery 988 South Lake Boulevard Mahopac Clothing Optional National Association of Women Artists, Inc. N.A.W.A. Gallery NY 845-276-5090 3-4pm free www.lookartgallery.com 80 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1405 New York NY 212-675-1616 free (through Aug 28) www. thenawa.org Ongoing July Friday, July 12 July 5-14 Secondary Cause of Death Coach House Players 12 Augusta Street Kingston NY 845-331-2476 charge www.coachhouseplayers.org 78th Annual National Exhibit Cooperstown Art Association 22 Main Street Cooperstown NY 607-547-9777 Preview Party: Friday, July 12th 5-7pm Awards at 6pm. free (thru Aug 16) www.cooperstownart.com PAC Faculty and Student Showcase Pelham Art Center 155 Fifth Ave. Pelham NY 914-738-2525 Opening Reception & Art Workshop, July 12, 6:30-8pm, free (thru Aug 9) www.pelhamartcenter.org Sigmund Abeles Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council Lapham Gallery 7 Lapham Pl. Glens Falls NY 518-798-1144 Opening Reception 5-7pm free (thru Aug 9) www.larac.org Wijnanda Deroo Brewery Ommegang and Hand in Hand Farm West Kortright Centre 49 West Kortright Church Road East Meredith NY Opening Reception 5-7 PM free (thru Aug 23) Continued on Page 22 Summer 2013 ART TIMES page 17 Theatre Why Theater Matters Less Than It Used To By ROBERT W. BETHUNE Suppose we hold down the crier, one-off printed pamphlets, and None of this is news, but people ing a few hearts and minds that rewind button for a while standing – well, whaddya know! – theater. who do theater do not easily give way, a few, a very few, compared to on the south bank of the Thames Live theater. People improvising or up the idea that the outreach func- the number you would really like just a little to the west of Southwark memorizing words, getting dressed tion of live theater is like an email to change. Only a few people have Bridge. Suppose we held it down long up in costumes, and performing in message that comes in marked with heard you, and they’ve only heard enough that the modern world faded public for money. It is strange to that red exclamation point that says, you once. You need lots of people to out and thatched roofs sprouted on think of, but public speaking and “High importance!” One can follow hear you, and you need them to hear most of the buildings, the women live theater were the only media of the example of Spencer Tracy – “Not you many times. The disconnect is suddenly sprouted farthingales, and the day that acted like “mass media,” much meat on her, but what’s there is just too great. the men suddenly found themselves capable of addressing large numbers cherce” – to argue that the audience All this means that when we do wearing codpieces. After the initial of people simultaneously. Not only at live theater is small but select. One theater, trying to show our age its confusion, and perhaps delight, wore that, but aside from words printed on can argue that the experience is more form and pressure, we have to ac- off, we might suddenly notice some- paper, they remained the only ways direct, more intense, more lasting knowledge that in an odd way, we’re thing. of presenting a complex message to and so forth. One can argue that the doing so privately. We don’t play to We’re in Shakespeare’s London. numbers of people simultaneously for quality of the message is superior. All thousands; we play to dozens. We are Our cell phones have stopped the next 300 years or so. well and good, but the plain fact is you talking quietly amongst ourselves, working. T’ain’t so no more. can’t make a loud enough noise that not speaking out before the world. We have no internet connection. The functionality of theater as a way. It’s a beautiful bird singing in a There is value in that. Letting our- There’s no television. mass medium has been superseded forest drowned out by a continental selves recognize the truth of that is There’s no cinema. by far more efficient media forms. If cyclonic storm sweeping the entire very likely a first step, perhaps the There’s no radio. you perform to 500 people a night – in nation. most important step, in giving our- There are no newspapers, at least which case you’re doing really, really I think that is why we do not see selves and our audiences the best we have to offer. not as we have known them since well – and you play for 2,000 nights – very many productions that truly are ef the early 1600’s. We’re only a couple 250 weeks at 8-a-week, about 5 years efforts to change hearts and minds. of decades away, but that miss is as – you’ll have reached as many people It’s not that you can’t change hearts good as a mile. as a typical television news broadcast and minds in a theater; in fact, you “Mass media” consists of the town reaches in one show. have a pretty good chance of chang- each month @arttimes- journal.com We Hold These Truths... New Essays, Videos, Calendar and Through July 26, 2013 Opportunity listings Emily Lowe Gallery Atelier South Campus, Hofstra University Renée fine framing Funding provided by: The Chocolate Factory Back Room Gallery National Endowment for the Arts 54 Elizabeth Street Veryal Zimmerman, Artist & Director Red Hook, New York 12571 New York State Council on the Arts Showing more than 30 artists' work Tuesday through Saturday 10 ~ 6 including: New York Community Bank Foundation or by appointment Paintings, Linocut Prints, Photography, Renée Burgevin, owner, CPF Sculptures, Unique Handmade Jewelry, [email protected] Hofstra University-Hempstead, NY Handmade cards and much more. 516-463-5672 • www.hofstra.edu/museum 845. 758 .1004 Gallery also features: Vinnie Bagwell, Maquette for Frederick Douglass Circle, 2003 Vintage Decorated Crepe Designs from the Early 1900's Audubon Artists and exhibitions with featured artists. Online Jury Exhibit Artists’ Reception 2nd Saturday of each month 6-8pm October 12 — December 31 2013 Back Room Gallery 475 Main Street, Beacon, NY Exhibition Posted on Audubon Artists [email protected] • 845-838-1838 Website: www.audubonartists.org Open: Th, Fr, Sa 12-6; Su 12-5pm

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Continued from Page 3 Capturing Artists Calendar Saturday, July 13 By Jeffrey Sussman chased the last painting I had done of A Passion for Art: Talks by artists Arles Buchman, Gerda Roze & Louise I was so excited about buying the a nude couple, I want to replace it. And Stern Mamaroneck Artists Guild 126 Larchmont Avenue Larchmont NY 914-834-1117 3-5pm free www.mamaroneckartistsguild.org painting that I nearly forgot to take what would be better than to have a nude of the couple who now own my Art in the Park Festival Northport Arts Coalition Northport Harbor Park Main any photographs. Street Northport NY 631-261-4134 10-5pm free www.northportarts.org That night, I called various rela- painting of a nude couple.” We were flattered and a little taken INSTRUCTOR’S EXHIBITION The Woodstock School of Art The Woodstock School tives and asked to borrow money to of Art 2470 Route 212 Woodstock NY 845-679-2388 Opening Reception 3-5 (thru Sept buy a painting. Some of them thought aback. 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Summer Landscape Show Mark Gruber Gallery Mark Gruber Gallery 17 New buy the painting and would come by Paltz Plaza New Paltz NY 845-255-1241 Opening reception 5-7pm free (thru Sept 7) the following afternoon. And since we divorced years later, I markgrubergalllery.com i handed him the check and he now think it was a good idea that we Monday, July 15 said, “I want to give you a present.” weren’t memorialized in a Moses Soy- Ukrainian Folk Art Embroidery Course Aug 5-9; Ukrainian-style Ceramics He handed me a sketch of a woman er painting. & Course in Making Pysanky Ukrainian Folk Art July 29; Registration deadline Though he never painted us, I did Music and Art Center of Greene County Grazhda Concert Hall Ukraine Road Jewett NY breastfeeding an infant. 518-989-6479 charge grazhdamusicandart.org i took a great deal of time develop- manage to photograph the three of Wednesday, July 17 ing, cropping, and printing the photo- us, all with our clothes on. The photos have an “American Gothic” quality, va- Clothing Optional National Association of Women Artists, Inc. N.A.W.A. Gallery graphs I did of him. They varied from 80 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1405 New York NY 212-675-1616 Reception 5-7pm free (through poster size to 5 by 7. I had them framed cant eyes staring off into space. In one Aug 28) www.thenawa.org of those photos, my ex-wife and I are at a shop recommended by a curator Thursday, July 18 standing beside a seated Moses Soyer, from the Museum of Modern Art. 3rd Thursday ArtWalk Saranac Lake ArtWorks Main Street Saranac Lake The following week, Soyer invited who is putting the finishing touches NY 518-891-1388 5-7:30 pm free http://www.saranaclakeartworks.com/artwalks.htm my first wife and me to his home on on a portrait of a woman. While the CARL STOVELAND: a collection of photographs Piermont Flywheel Gallery 223 West Ninth Street, between Fifth and three of us have blank, vacant stares Ash St Piermont NY 845-365-6411 (thru Aug 4) piermontflywheel.com Sixth Avenues. There, I presented on our faces, the woman in his portrait Guilford Art Center’s Craft Expo 2013 Guilford Art Center The Guilford Green Broad and Park Street Guilford CT 203-453-5947 charge (thru July 21) www. him with the photos. His wife, Ida, is staring at the camera with a barely perceptible smile on her face. guilfordartcenter.org who had been a ballet dancer in her Friday, July 19 youth, complimented me on the “dra- We would see the Soyers once or twice a year. I had the pleasant op- Global Explorations: Symbol and Myth in Precolumbian Cultures Hofstra ma of the photos.” I could have purred, University Museum Emily Lowe Gallery Hempstead Turnpike Hempstead NY 516-463- I felt so pleased. portunity of introducing them to my 5672 2-3pm charge www.hofstra.edu/museum unlike the apartment of Marcel Du- then-employer, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Shandaken Art Studio Tour Catskill Heritage Alliance Entire Town of Shan- champ, the Soyers’ was a virtual gal- the Nobel Prize-winner, and his wife, daken Mt. Tremper to Highmount Shandaken NY 845-688-2977 free (thru Jul 21) www. ShandakenArt.com lery of paintings and sculptures. There Alma. We all had a vegetarian dinner were busts by Jacob Epstein, paint- together in my apartment. Singer had The Work of Helen K. Garber, Naomi Teppich & Ray Fiero The Stray become a vegetarian not for health Cat Gallery The Stray Cat Gallery 2032 Route 17B Bethel NY 845-423-8850 Opening ings by Milton Avery, Robert Henri, Reception 4 -7 pm free (thu July 31) www.straycatgallery.com reasons of his own, but, as he said, “for John Sloan, George Bellows, Reginald Saturday, July 20 the health of the animals who I don’t Marsh, Ben Shahn, Jack Levine, and Arts Upstairs Features Susan Nickerson, Lynn Powner, Fred many others. It was truly an aesthetic eat.” Woller & group & Opening Reception/ Shandaken Art Tour Arts Upstairs feast for the eyes. I walked around the my friendship with Moses Soyer Gallery 60 Main Street Phoenicia NY 845-688-2142 Opening reception 6-9pm free (thru living room, stunned and envious, as continued until his death in 1974. He Aug 11) www.artsupstairs.com if I were in a museum. “What a collec- was a generous man, and when my Piano Recital of Yosyp Yermin Music and Art Center of Greene County son was born, he gave me another of Grazhda Concert Hall Ukraine Road Jewett NY 518-989-6479 8 pm charge grazhdamu- tion,” I murmured. sicandart.org his works of art: an artist’s proof of As we were putting our coats on Shandaken Art Studio Tour Catskill Heritage Alliance Entire Town of Shan- and readying to leave, Moses asked us a lithograph of 12 contemplative and daken Mt. Tremper to Highmount Shandaken NY 845-688-2977 free (thru Jul 21) www. to come by his studio the next week. pensive faces. The gifts did not stop ShandakenArt.com “Call first to make sure I’m there,” he there: He gave me three autographed Sunday, July 21 said. books of his works, including an in- Kent Art Association President’s Show The Gallery at Kent Art Associa- After we arrived the following structional text, “Painting the Human tion 21 S. Main Street Kent CT 860-927-3989 free (thru Sept 2) www.kentart.org week, Moses showed us a series of Figure.” Shandaken Art Studio Tour Catskill Heritage Alliance Entire Town of Shan- i occasionally look at those photos daken Mt. Tremper to Highmount Shandaken NY 845-688-2977 free (thru Jul 21) www. nudes that he had done in the past ShandakenArt.com I took of Marcel Duchamp and Mo- few months. One of them was one of Summer Institute for Advanced Vocal Studies Altamura Center for my former high school classmates. I ses Soyer and consider myself a lucky the Arts Round Top, NY 404 Winter Clove Road Round Top NY 201-863-8724 donate was surprised, not because I had nev- man for having known two such tal- (thru July 30) www.altocanto.org er seen her nude, but because I didn’t ented artists who brightened my life Continued on Page 24 know that anyone from my small pri- with their unique talents. vate school knew Moses Soyer, never (Jeffrey Sussman is the author of mind would pose in the nude for him. ten books, president of a market- The next Print issue: Fall “I would like to paint the two of you ing/ PR firm inN YC; his website is September, October, November in the nude,” he said. “Since you pur- www.powerpublicity.com) ef If you missed getting an Opportunity or Calendar listing into this issue or an advertisement for your business, event or exhibit, contact us at [email protected]. We can accommodate you on our website within 24 hours of receiving your materials.

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art- Nov. 30 & Dec. 1, 2013 times- 10 am to 4 pm Juried Show jour- Hand-Crafted Items Only For an application or more information go to nal. www.sunydutchess.edu/craftfair com Poughkeepsie, NY Summer 2013 ART TIMES page 23 Fiction The Trunk house and put it outside in the shed, held it together. Everyone agreed the By KRYSTAL ROLLINS and to bake cookies. And her children since it wasn’t in the house. The tears trunk would not be opened right then. ran down the old woman’s cheeks as Jacob and his brother thought for sure The first time Kathrine broke appreciated the break from parenting. she sat in the midst of all six of her the item would be heavy to tote but a dish from her wedding set after Sometimes the grandchildren would children and four grandchildren. The noticed quit the opposite. They wanted Sunday dinner, she sat on the floor spend the night on pallets spreads grandchild broke the silence and told to get it out as quickly as they could. and cried for hours. Her husband all over the living room floor and just some of the stories she had heard from Outside the house everyone walked and six children surrounded her on like old times, Kathrine would read her grandmother as the grownups sat around and talked about their fond the kitchen floor and tried unsuccess- to them from her Bible and tell them around the table. Then Ainsley asked memories growing up on the farm. fully to glue the dish back together. stories about life on the farm. why her grandmother hadn’t started a Without delay, all six children Because the broken dish brought The only time Kathrine said any- memory trunk for the grandchildren. drove directly to their mother’s house. her family around her when she was thing about the trunk was in the Everybody was still while they waited The two oldest boys brought the trunk sad, it made the broken dish a happy presence of her grandchildren; like for an answer. in through the front door. It sat in the memory. Katherine wrapped it, wrote the day a little one dropped a plate “The move from the farm house was middle of the living room floor on top a note on it and placed it in an empty on the floor and cried thinking that a quick one and there wasn’t enough a sheet of plastic while Kathrine just chest that sat beside the fireplace for her grandmother would be upset. room on the truck for everything. looked at it and began to cry. a great memory. Thus started the Kathrine sat on the floor and talked Only the necessary things could come “Mom, don’t cry. Our whole life is in Wooden family memory trunk. about the day she dropped one of her with us and since the trunk was in that trunk. You put so many memories Time went on, the trunk grew dishes and everybody tried to help out. the house before we moved in, I left in there for us. Why didn’t you say full of the Wooden family memories The grandchildren considered all the it there for the next family thinking anything about leaving it down at and the children grew up. Two of the items that their grandmother claimed perhaps they might to do the same the farm house? We would have gone older boys left the farm and went off have put in the trunk and thought it thing we did.” down there years ago to get it.” to war. The man Katherine loved for must have been a big trunk. Accord- After they helped Kathrine clean Each of her six children sat around so many years died in her arms after ing to her stories, it contained a pair up after dinner, the oldest child, Ja- the living room and grinned from ear being sick only a few days. The fields of trousers their uncle had torn on the cob, talked with his siblings away from to ear. All their children sat in their became overgrown. Katherine never fence. The pants were bought new but their mother. He suggested someone laps and waited anxiously for the learned to drive her husband’s truck were torn so bad Kathrine was not able go back to the farm house and beg the trunk to be opened and for Kathrine to with the gear shift on the column and to mend them. She bandaged up her people who lived there to give up the tell stories about everything that was relied on friends to stop in from time son and put the pants in the trunk. It trunk if it was still there. Everybody in there. When Kathrine became com- to time to offer help. After all the hogs also contained dishes family members was in agreement over the adventure fortable on the couch, Jacob opened were slaughtered for the meat and the had dropped and shattered. Toys that and the next weekend all six children the trunk. Much to everybody’s sur- vegetables picked from the garden, had been broken with broken hearts met and drove two cars to the farm prise, it was empty. Kathrine looked Katherine moved with her remaining and tears shed from a little boy with- house. They had not been back since around at the grim and empty looks children to a one-level house in town. out his favorite tractor. A doll that had the day they left. The house looked on everyone’s faces. Because the new home was so much been lost and had been found cut up in bad shape. There was no evidence “There was nothing in the trunk smaller than the old farmhouse, the by the combine that ran over it and a that peanut fields had been planted to begin with.” Kathrine said quietly. family took only what they needed to little girl who couldn’t sleep without it. because of all the weeds. The roof over “Mom, we saw you wrap up each take. The farm equipment was sold Everything that had upset Kathrine’s the front porch had caved in part of thing and put it into the trunk for our for a down payment on the house and children taught her grandchildren a the way; the paint had begun to chip. memories.” whatever scraps that were left on the lesson and it soothed them to know There were no cars in the driveway “It was just paper I folded up and property were sold to a salvage yard. one great woman patched it up or put and it looked like no one had lived wrote notes on. Then I used the paper But Kathrine was strong and quickly in the trunk every time for a special there in years. Some of the glass had to wrap up some of my pieces of crystal adapted to her new surroundings. memory. been broken out of the front door so Ja- for the move. Every-time something It wasn’t long before all the chil- It was Sunday afternoon during a cob was able to reach in carefully and happened, it would bring us all to- dren had left the home for all the usual family dinner that one of the young- unlock it. The scene inside frightened gether and to preserve the moment, reasons: work, marriage, college and est grandchildren fell out of the back all the siblings. The floor had started I put the memory in the trunk. But just living out in the world. But with screened-in porch. A big hole was to come up and in some spots it was you see, the memory only exists in our their busy lives, none forgot their torn in the screen and the child had so mushy, that they feared one wrong hearts and minds. It’s not found on a mother. They visited often and tried a scraped arm. Kathrine quickly put step would send them falling through. broken dish or toy or a shredded pair to continue their Sunday evening tra- her motherly skills to work and ban- Parts of the roof had caved in so bad of pants. It’s the moment in time that dition of the Wooden Sunday dinner. daged the wound up and consoled her that beams of sun shone to the floor. brought all of us together as a family. Those nights when Kathrine would grandchild who was scared her grand- Everyone walked hand in hand and That’s the real memory. And we could turn down her bed she would find mother would be mad for tearing the it didn’t look like anyone had moved all be apart from it; just like now. Each different amounts of currency under- screen. All the grandchildren ran to in after they left. Dead rat carcass of us who sit here tonight after a good neath her pillow where someone had the back porch to take a peek at what lay around the floor and the smell dinner is a part of the memory. All of snuck her some extra money to buy was going on and to offer assistance. was unbearable. There in the living my children and grandchildren are the ingredients for the next Sunday’s After all had settled down, an older room next to the crumbling fire place around me and that’s something you dinner. granddaughter spoke up asking that was the old trunk even now was more can’t wrap up and put into a trunk.” The empty evenings where her a piece of the screen be put into the rusted. The second layer of paint had children used to be there were soon trunk for a memory. Kathrine’s own (Krystal Rollins lives in Duluth, separated from the metal straps that filled with grandchildren.E ach had a children fell silent. They were amazed GA) ef special place in Kathrine’s heart and that the subject of the trunk had come she was honored to spend each and up in conversation. None had seen the every moment she could with them. trunk or even thought about it since OUR LAST LUNCH they moved. They thought for sure On Saturday’s, Kathrine would have Poetry – A Saving Grace I never thought all the grandchildren over for lunch Kathrine had taken it from the farm Poetry is a saving grace our last lunch a calling would be our last a gift. lunch but you always were It comes without warning full of surprises or invitation THE MORGUE AT QUANG-TRI as well as other things and calls me to an honored work, it’s a damn shame The Day, a humble/humbling task – now the cats Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon to which I answer yes! sit and watch the Morgue at Quang’tri was full To heed the call leads me to Life, for you by the too full, they had to place the bodies window to find my greater Self. out in the halls of the hospital and I sit To refuse is to ignore who I am, a day enshrined forever in the annals of man and watch to die by bits – yet the face of the Great Nation was turned away myself and I want to live! they saw the bright face of the moon, not the filth sink into the couch nor the blood, and the day Poetry is a gift a calling love stinks Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon and the smell the Morgue at Quang-tri was too full truly a saving grace.

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