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at The Frick (Photos Courtesy of The Frick Museum) By RAYMOND J. STEINER “REMBRANDT NEVER PALLS” — Netherlands Cultural Services, and so I began a review of his works at the Netherland-America Founda- Vassar College’s Loeb Center back tion. There are, in fact, only five in June of 2006, and the sentiment paintings featured from the Frick’s still holds true as I revisited his collection — three by Rembrandt works at The Frick, an exhibition (including the regal and recently that combines the collections of restored Self-Portrait painted in both the Frick and of Frits Lugt 1658) and two by his followers or of Paris. Appropriately titled “school” — along with a wealth of “Rembrandt and His School: Mas- prints, drawings and etchings (some terworks from the Frick and Lugt sixty-five from the Frits Lugt Collec- Collections”* the exhibit features tion (Paris) along with those of The paintings, drawings and etchings Frick’s permanent (and rarely seen) of the great Dutch master and his collection. followers, the ensemble arranged It is difficult for me, whenever by the combined efforts of Colin I view Rembrandt’s works, to com- P. Bailey, Peter Jay Sharp, Mar- prehend the modern stance against garet Iacono, and Joanna Shers the need of present-day art students with support from the Christian of studying the art of draftsman- Humann Foundation, Fiduciary ship. To my eyes, it is precisely Trust Company International, the Rembrandt’s use of line that per- Robert Lehman Foundation, the manently seats him in the halls of

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669) Self-Portrait, 1658 Oil on canvas (The Frick Collection, New York)

great artistic geniuses. As skillful as I had my first “up-close-and-per- he may have been with the brush — sonal” encounter with Rembrandt’s and assuredly he was — it was his work in 1992 at the exhibition “Rem- use of the pen and the burin that brandt: The Master and His Work- forever sets him apart — and it is shop” at the Rijksmuseum in Am- assuredly this assessment of mine sterdam, a show that was mounted that reveals my own prejudice for shortly after the Rembrandt Re- his etchings over his admittedly search Project had drastically glorious paintings. Continued on Page 3

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niscent of the Ri- course, many singular works I could work to this single print alone, we jksmuseum visit concentrate on, but this print offers would need no further proof of his in that the crowds so much for the viewer — enough, genius. paralleled that I believe, to satisfy acclaiming his The Frick exhibition offers the day back in Am- genius. There are some 40 distinct aficionado of drawing a veritable sterdam in 2006. figures in this print — along with treasure trove of visual delight, as When I arrived at The Frick, there were lines that stretched around the building to 5 th Avenue (I learned the following day that there were about 2,000 visitors) — surely affirm- ing my assertion some years back that “Rembrandt n e v e r p a l l s ” . Once again, I Samuel van Hoogstraten (1627–1678) Death of the Virgin, c. 1645–50 Pen and brown ink with brown wash and additions of had difficulty in red and black chalk and four framing lines in pen and brown ink getting to closely (Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris) study many of the works because of By RAYMOND J. STEINER the throngs of people but, thank- Continued from Page 1 fully, although the present exhibit reduced the artist’s opus from an es- had works that were new to me timated 1,000 works to around 250. many were “old friends” and I could Like the one presently under con- renew that friendship with such sideration at The Frick, it featured prints as, for example, Death of the Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669) Christ Presented to the People (Ecce Homo), by Rembrandt’s paintings, drawings Virgin (Hoogstraten from the Lugt 1655 Drypoint on cream-colored Asiatic wove paper (state II of VIII) and etchings along with many of his Collection) and Rembrandt’s Christ (The Frick Collection, New York) Crucified between Two Thieves (The “school”. In spite of the spectacular several animals — grouped to the well as an adventure into a world Night Watch taking up “front row” Three Crosses), from The Frick. Although I have a fondness for right, left and front of a standing of fine art for the casual viewer. I preference at the Rijksmuseum, I Christ, the entire group highlighted mentioned my predilection for land- was soon drawn to the print room, Rembrandt’s landscapes — such as his Landscape with Three Trees, and set against a shadowy back- scape and I would be remiss not to which was less crowded and better mention one by Jan Lievens, View in lighted (though, unfortunately, un- a Wood that almost held me as long like The Frick and its well-appointed as the Hundred Guilder Print. This galleries, the lighting was rather is a show that no one ought miss — it poor throughout the old building), will renew your faith in the value of finding the paintings more interest- great art and linger in your memory ing in their handling of paint than for a long time to come. for their subject matter — mostly re- ligious and/or allegorical — or treat- *“Rembrandt and His School: ment of color. Though entranced by Masterworks from the Frick and most of Rembrandt’s graphic work, Lugt Collections” (thru May 15): th it was Christ Preaching (The Hun- The Frick Collection, 1 East 70 dred Guilder Print) that captivated St., NYC (212) 288 0700. A fully- me, holding me the longest while at illustrated catalogue by Colin the Rijksmuseum. The press of the B. Bailey, et al. of the exhibition crowd, however, moved me along so is available: 112 pp.; 8 ½ x 11 it was with great delight that I would ½; B/W & Color Illus.; Checklist be honored by a special and private of Works; Bibliography. $20.00 viewing of The Hundred Guilder Softcover, ef Print plate a week later while visiting the Kupferstichkabinett (Cop- perplate Room) at the Staatliche Museen Preuschischer Kulturbezitz The following Essays were featured online in February in Berlin with my friend Heinrich Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669) Landscape with Three Trees, 1643 Jarczyk, himself a master etcher/ Etching, drypoint and burin (single state) (The Frick Collection, New York) You can still read them at painter, with white-gloved atten- www.arttimesjournal.com dants hovering nearby as our eyes Cottage with a White Paling and ground of stone walls and arches. (but not our hands!) were but inches his Landscape with Three Gabled Surrounded in velvety chiaroscuro from the surface. Then, once again, Cottages (The Frick) and The Grain and stark, linear outline, there is Dance: Politics and Dance – I would revisit a print of the work Mill ‘De Bok’ on the Bulwark ‘Het not a single unnatural figure to be Tenth Year of Freedom By Francine L. Trevens at Vassar College’s permanent col- Blauwhoofd’ – Cottage near the found. Facial expressions, gestures, lection at the Loeb Center in Pough- Entrance to a Wood or Farmhouse stances, dress — all give evidence of Blink by Henry P. Raleigh keepsie, NY (noted above). and a Haystack (Frits Lugt) — I am Rembrandt’s uncanny and celebrat- CD & DVD Reviews by Frank Who could predict that I would forever drawn to his drawings of ed skill at depicting human beings Behrens once again be reunited with The people. Thus, I once again found my- in a dramatic setting. Any one of his Hundred Guilder Print at The self lingering in front of his Hundred figures could be “worked up” into Culturally Speaking & Videos Frick’s “Rembrandt and His School”? Guilder Print — mercifully hung in a full-scale, individual painting or By Cornelia Seckel the most Unfortunately, I chose a day to re- a smaller gallery where less people print. Had the Rembrandt Research recent video is of the Delray Arts view the exhibition that was remi- had to be fought off. There are, of Project reduced Rembrandt’s total Festival in Delray, Florida March/ April 2011 ART TIMES page 4

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She did some choreographed by wide age range. The press kit I was fascinating footwork, was gloriously Magliore had as its given showed how often critics have lyrical throughout and often seemed set an ebony piano, lauded Magliore’s work. to be practically in flight across the which the two danc- I was prepared for a delightful dance space. Undoubtedly she ex- ers used as a barre. ecuted everything I enjoyed that touch, the choreographer as I enjoyed one of wanted. However, the dancers leaning the music was far her head against the more dramatic than piano as if listening the choreography: to the murmurs of it built and crescen- a lover. The music doed, but the dance was by Stockhau- did not. While I ad- sen, and the dance mired her exper- had been designed tise and the musical in honor of the com- renditions of piano poser who, unfortu- (Stephen Beck) and nately, died shortly violin (Erik Carl- before its original son), I do not con- performance. This sider this a great was an unusual and Lauren Toole marriage of music fascinating dance and choreography: piece in which I felt I got no sense of regret or passion or the music dazzled at the dancers were the embodiments longing in any of the choreography. moments when the of the notes. . The fine musicians, elegant danc- dancer did not, and The final world premiere was ers, plus the appropriate wispy cos- vice versa. purportedly sketches of a woman tumes (mostly by Candice Thomp- The next world remembering and possibly ruing a son) would’ve made for a most p r e m i e r e w a s previous decision. Choreographed delightful evening. But trying to im- “Night Music” cho- by Constantine Baecher, we were pose the concepts behind the dances reographed by Mr. advised it was inspired by the nymph detracted from rather than added to Magliore. It was from “Afternoon of a Faun” and was my enjoyment. I think this is a case danced by three to be three representations of that of the laddie doth profess too much. lovelies who– Mad- nymph years later, having second Or my guest and I were just having eline Deavenport, thoughts about refusing an alliance an off night, Katie Gibson and with the sensual faun. Three excel- The audience appreciated every Lauren Toole. They lent dancers Alexandra Blacher, work. Whether or not they could get Alexandra Blacker also provided the Victoria North and Lauren Toole, the images Magliore thought were non-music accompa- each exquisitely precise, but again, there, I do not know. But for me, I evening pf classical dancing, and niment. Fluid, sinu- wish Magliore had just left the titles in that, I was not disappointed. ous movements and and the dances and the musicians to Problem is, I have always been one a few brief dramatic do their work and leave the images of those people who hate to read the confrontations were or emotions they were able to convey foreword to a book prior to reading again brilliantly directly to the audience. the book, or read the explanation of performed. But I I have never before felt such a a dance prior to seeing it. I hate im- again felt I was not disparity between the original inten- posing an image on what I’m about getting the message tion and the finished work as I felt to see. I want the dance piece or book intended. at this performance. Nevertheless I to talk to me directly. It was then in- think if the ensemble of five elegant Many years ago when I submit- termission, which dancers and two fine musicians ted a book manuscript to a writer’s gave me an op- had been left with no explanations conference, they asked for author’s portunity to speak or intentions mentioned I would’ve comments on his or her work. I wrote with my compan- found the evening most exciting and I wanted my script to speak for itself. ion, a knowledge- exhilarating. Therefore I say if New I still want a work of art, whether on able dance person, Chamber Ballet is performing near stage or page to speak for itself. who had reacted you, and you love classically trained Had I heard nothing about these much as I had. We dancers performing at their best, New Chamber dances, but merely enjoyed the perfor- you’ll be well rewarded for attending. observed them I would have com- mances and musi- Two interesting side notes – Al- mented on the charm of the evening, cians, even though exandra Blacker has the distinction the grace, the technical skill of we weren’t always of having coached Mila Kunis in the dancers, etc. I certainly would have sure that the mu- film “Black Swan:” Also. The compa- commented on the exquisite five long sic and performers ny plans to perform at the Museum limbed long armed graceful women were on the same of Art and Design March 16 and in who brought these works to life. page. Perhaps we April present several programs at City Center Studios. But Mr. Magliore welcomed us were trying too hard ef all warmly at the beginning of the to read into it what evening, and spoke of his guest Magliore had said Read more essays on choreographers and a bit about the it was meant to be. composers. Unfortunately, he also After intermis- Dance by Francine on our spoke about what each dance piece sion, “Sculpture website: was intended to convey. While I Garden”, choreo- Madeline Deavenport www.arttimesjournal.com March/ April 2011 ART TIMES page 6

Continued from Page 4 Watercolor Eyes Piermont Fine Arts Gallery Piermont Landing 218 Ash Calendar Street Piermont NY 845-398-1907 Artist Reception 4-7pm free (thru Mar 27) www. Wednesday, March 2 piermontfinearts.com Civil War Images Ellenville Public Library & Museum The Gallery Link 40 Saturday, March 5 Center Street Ellenville NY 845-647-5530 free (thru Apr 27) www.eplm.org All New Benefit Cabaret eba Theatre Corner of Lark and Hudson Albany Festival of Contemporary Music U. Albany Performing Arts Center 266, NY 518-465-9916 7pm charge www.eba-arts.org Albany, NY 12222 Albany NY 518-442-3995 7:00pm charge http://www.albany.edu/ pac/ Albany AMERICAN COLOR PRINT SOCIETY Exhibit Chestnut Hill Gallery 8117 Germantown Ave., Chestnut Hill, PA. Opening Reception 6-8pm thru Mar 19) Allen M. Hart: Images…The Journey Upstream Gallery 26 B Main Street Dobbs Ferry, NY 914-674-8548 www.upstreamgallery.com Color - Group Show Tivoli Artists’ Co-op 60 Broadway Tivoli NY 845-757- 2667 Opening Reception 6-8pm free (thru Mar 27) www.tivoliartistsco-op.com EXPO 30 Winners Show b.j.spoke gallery 299 Main Street New York NY 631- 549-5106 opening reception 6-9pm free (thru Mar 29) www.bjspokegallery.org Suf- CONTEMPORARY ART SHOW: Together Curated by Basha Maryanska folk New Century Artists Gallery, 530 West 25th St., 4th Fl., NYC Opening Reception 3-6pm (thru Mar 19) NYC Friend of the Arts Awards Mill Street Loft Poughkeepsie Grandview Rin- aldi Blvd Poughkeepsie NY 845-471-7477 5-7pm donate millstreetloft.org Dutchess Eleven Eyes Redux: New Perspectives from Upstream Martucci Gallery at the Irvington Public Library 12 South Astor Street Irvington NY 914-591-7840 Shirley R. Glasser Then and Now Upstream Gallery 26 B Main Street Opening reception 2-4:30 pm free (thru Mar 30) www.irvingtonlibrary.org/meet. Dobbs Ferry, NY 914-674-8548 www.upstreamgallery.com html Thursday, March 3 Special Artist’s Reception and One Year Birthday Celebration The Permanent Collection The Ridgewood Art Institute 15 East Oak A.R.T.S. Gallery 4 W. Cross Street Croton Falls NY 914-276-2209 4-6pm free www. Street Ridgewood NJ 201-652-9615 Opening Reception free (thru Mar 20) www. arts6gallery.com Westchester Continued on Page 8 ridgewoodartinstitute.org Bergen watercolor eyes Piermont Fine Arts Gallery 218 Ash Street Piermont NY 845-398-1907 free (thru Mar 27) www.piermontfinearts.com Friday, March 4 Signed Copies of The Mountain 1st SPRING AUCTION Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Ave., NYC (212) 255-7740Sal- magundi Club, 47 Fifth Ave., NYC (212) 255-7740 8pm (thru Mar 18) www.salma- by Raymond J. Steiner gundi.org NYC Melissa Yao An Artistic Discovery; Expressions in Color Cooperstown Art Association 22 Main St Cooperstown NY 607-547-9777 Opening Reception 5-7pm The "A great read…" Everett Raymond Kinstler, NYC, CT donate (thru Mar 25) www.cooperstownart.com Mountain "…asks all the important questions about art…" John Allen & Lucille Tortora Sculpture & Photography Marina Kathleen Arffmann: Director, Salmagundi Club, NYC Gallery 153 Main Street Cold Spring NY 845-265-2204 Artist reception 4 - 6 to 8:30 pm free (thru Mar 27) themarinagallery.com “…a poetically…compelling work. I highly recommend it.” Eleanor Jacobs: Art Agent, Writer, NYC & CT Lisandra Carlomagno Sketches East Fishkill Community Library 348 Route 376 Hopewell Junction NY 845-221-9943 Opening Reception 7pm free (thru “…immerses you in the artistic atmosphere of New York City Mar 31) http://www.eflibrary.org Dutchess and Woodstock…” The Collective Art Tank Art Fair The Shoppes at the Arcade 658 Robert Brink: Theatrical Director, NYC Cookman Ave Asbury Park NJ 732-927-1317 free (thru Mar 6) www.thecollec- “…a must have for anyone interested in art, local art history, tivearttank.com [and the] history of the Catskills…” Jamie Barthel: Owner/Curator Lotus Fine Art, Woodstock, NY a Novel “…[Steiner’s] ability as a storyteller rivals his passion for the New York, New York, by rich cultural history of the Woodstock Artists’ Colony…” Kate McGloughlin: Artist, Teacher, Woodstock, NY Annual Non-Members Juried Exhibitions Raymond J. Steiner ~ Paintings, & Sculpture Exhibition ~

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OPENING RECEPTION WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30 - 6-8 P.M. March/ April 2011 ART TIMES page 7 Art at the Boca Raton Museum Review California Impressionists(Photos Courtesy of the Boca Raton Museum of Art) By RAYMOND J. STEINER vine Smith and James Irvine Swinden IT DOES SEEM as if impressionism — and, of course, with the additional is perennially addictive — drawing a help of the staff at The Boca Raton huge viewing public whenever a show Museum of Art, visitors may rest as- of these light-filled paintings appear sured that all of these efforts combine to make an outstanding presentation. There is always the problem facing a reviewer of which artists, which paintings ought be pointed out — often not a daunt- ing task, but in the case of impressionists — French, California, Connecticut, or wherever — the problem is usually which ones do you not mention. This comes as little surprise to me since a few years ago, in September 2008, I faced the same dilemma when I reviewed “All Things Bright and Beautiful” at the Katonah Museum of Art in Katonah, New York, which featured very nearly the same roster of artists (and paintings) that are on view here in Florida — the show up North also from The Irvine Museum and John Hubbard Rich (American, born in Boston, 1876 – 1954), organized by Jean Stern The Idle Hour, 1917, oil on canvas. Courtesy of The Irvine Museum but, in that instance, with an almost magical light falling from Boca Raton Museum of Art Artist’s the assistance of William a cloud-filled sky from the upper left Guild — have not formed a group of F. Gerdts, author of what corner down into a small cleft of land in “Florida Impressionists” — after all, has now become the stan- the mid right-hand half of the canvas this is the “Sunshine State”! And, if Franz A. Bishoff (American, born in Austria 1864 – 1929), dard text on the subject, Roses (In a tall glass vase), 1912, oil on canvas. — breathtaking! — and Percy Gray’s not light, what else is Impressionism Abbeville Press’s book Courtesy of the James Irvine Swinden Family Collection somewhat smaller Oak Tree and Pop- about? I’ll be looking forward to their California Impressionists. pies, a little gem of a painting that lures first exhibition… — and the present exhibit* certainly In any event, as I wrote the eye into its warm, light-dappled *“California Impressionism: no exception. Some 60+ paintings back in 2008, the “irrepressible joie de “little piece of Heaven” for some seri- Paintings from The Irvine Mu- vivre shared by Impressionist paint- comprise the exhibit, all filling a ous meditative moments. Again, a bit seum” (thru Apr 17): Boca Raton ers” — of all stripes — continues to separate well-lit wing separate from a unfair to call attention to my favorites Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real, be “well-nigh impossible for viewers concurrent show, “Cut! Costume and since there are few (though I did find Boca Raton, FL (561) 392-2500 (www.bocamuseum.org). A fully- one or two which, if cited here, would illustrated catalogue, Selections only serve to make known my personal from The Irvine Museum by Jean tastes and nothing of the quality of Stern, et al. (272pp; 9 x 12; Color Illus.; the works) that do not deserve some Selected Bibliography; Index. $25.00 moments of your time. There are land- Softcover), is available. ef and seascapes, intimate gardens and sweeping vis- tas (landscape afi- cionados will love John Marshall Gamble’s Joyous Spring), interiors and townscapes, still lifes and figures — in brief, the usual Impression- ist fare one might expect in such a show. I h e a r t i l y recommend you devote an afternoon to visiting John Bond Francisco (American, born in Cincinnati, 1863 – 1931), these “California Scrub Oak, oil on canvas. Courtesy of The Irvine Museum Impressionists” the Cinema”. to resist”. Small wonder, then, that — it’d be perfect “California Impressionism” is the the current selections from The Irvine on one of those result of the combined efforts of a num- Museum will continue to delight even overcast, beach- ber of people — Jean Stern, Director of the most jaded of viewers. forbidding days. The Irvine Museum (from whence the As noted, choosing which paintings You won’t be dis- paintings), Harvey L. Jones, Senior to focus on is somewhat counterpro- appointed. Curator from the Oakland Museum, ductive since all need to be viewed and For myself, I and Janet Blake, Curator of The Ir- appreciated, but I will mention but two keep wondering vine, all of whom have contributed to that stopped me in my tracks for closer why some of these John Gamble (American, born in New Jersey, 1863 – 1957), Floridian artists the accompanying catalogue that also inspection— John Bond Francisco’s Joyous Spring, oil on canvas. Private collection, courtesy of includes prefacing essays by Joan Ir- Scrub Oaks, a lovely landscape with — for example, the The Irvine Museum March/ April 2011 ART TIMES page 8

Continued from Page 6 Sunday, March 13 Calendar 2nd SPRING AUCTION & Champagne Brunch Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Sunday, March 6 Ave., NYC (212) 255-7740Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Ave., NYC (212) 255-7740 48TH ANNUAL Members’ Show Putnam Arts Council Belle Levine Art Center, Brunch 11am -3pm (thru Mar 18) www.salmagundi.org NYC 521 Kennicut Hill Rd., Mahopac, NY 845-803 8622 Opening Reception 3-5PM (thru Adam Handler: Paintings & Photographs Media Loft 50 Webster Ave., New Mar 27) www.putnamartscouncil.com Westchester Rochelle, NY Opening reception 2-6pm (thru May 7) Allen M. Hart: Images…The Journey Upstream Gallery 26 B Main Street Art Exhibition Reception National Art League National Art League 44-21 Dobbs Ferry, NY 914-674-8548 Opening Reception 2-5pm www.upstreamgallery. Douglaston Parkway Douglaston NY 718-224-3957 Opening Reception 1-4pm free com (thru Mar 27) www.NationalArtLeague.org Eyesights 2011: 8th Annual Open Juried Photography Show Guild of Cre- Euphonique Saxophone Quartet Grace Church, Nyack 130 First Avenue ative Art 620 Broad Street Shrewsbury NJ 732-741-1441 Opening Reception 3-5PM Nyack NY 845-358-1297 4 pm charge www.gracemusic.info free (thru Mar 31) www.guildofcreativeart.org Monmouth Iva Bittova & Tony Fajt: Voice, Violin & Piano Saugerties Pro Musica Fabulous Fakes: Create your own copy of a Masterpiece. All mediums Saugerties United Methodist Church corner of Washington Avenue & Post St. Sau- accepted. Brookhaven Arts and Humanities Council Phoenix Gallery 139 South gerties NY 845-246-5021 3-4:15pm charge www.saugertiespromusica.org Ulster Country Road Bellport NY 631-839-0932 Reception 1pm charge (thru Mar 27) http:// www.phoenixartsgallery.com/ Suffolk LES AMIES w/ CAROL WINCENC Ulster Chamber Music Series Church of the Holy Cross Pine Grove Avenue Kingston NY 845-340-9434 3:00 PM charge www. Quintet in Concert Newburgh Chamber Music St. George’s Church 105 ulsterchambermusicseries.org Grand Street Newburgh NY 845-566-8674 3:00 pm charge www.newburghcham- bermusic.org Member Show 1 Kent Art Association 21 South Main Street Kent CT 860-927- 3989 free (thru Apr 10) www.kentart.org Shirley R. Glasser Then and Now Upstream Gallery 26 B Main Street Dobbs Ferry, NY 914-674-8548 Opening Reception 2-5pm www.upstreamgallery. Grace Knowlton Painting, Photography and Sculpture: GAGA Arts Cen- com (thru Mar 27) ter 55 W. Railroad Avenue Garnerville NY 845-947-7108 Opening reception 2-5pm free (thru Apr 3) www.gagaartscenter.com Opening Reception Arts for Healing: Student Exhibition Silvermine Arts Center 1037 Silvermine Road New Canaan CT 203-966-9700 Opening Recep- Thursday, March 17 tion 2-4pm free (thru Mar 19) http://www.silvermineart.org CT Lifespan: The Bayonne Bridge in Transition The Noble Maritime Collec- Youth Arts: Multi-media art by high school students Harrison Council for tion 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D Staten Island NY 718-447-6490 Opening the Arts Harrison Public Library 2 Bruce Avenue Harrison NY 914-835-0324 Open- Reception 7 to 9 pm donate (thru Oct 23) www.noblemaritime.org ing Reception 1:00pm at Town Hall with musical performance at 1:30pm at the Friday, March 18 Library free (thru Apr 4) www.harrisonpl.org 3rd SPRING AUCTION Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Ave., NYC (212) Wednesday, March 9 255-7740Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Ave., NYC (212) 255-7740 8pm (thru Mar 18) Ev(e)olution - N.A.W.A. Celebrates Women’s History Month National As- www.salmagundi.org NYC sociation of Women Artists, Inc. The Riverside Public Library 127 Amsterdam Saturday, March 19 Avenue (W. 65th Street) NYC 212-675-1616 Opening Reception 5-7pm free (thru CHERYL RICE (Sats, 10-NOON) / JANET HAMILL (Sats, 1:30-3:30pm) North- Mar 31) www.thenawa.org east Poetry Center (8435) 294-8085 Spring 2011 Curriculum charge (thru May 7) Thursday, March 10 Orange Brooklyn Art Festival 2011 Z Space Gallery 2291 Nostrand Avenue NYC Annual Member Show Kent Art Association The Gallery at Kent Art As- 718-377-7779 free (thru May 12) www.zspacegallery.com sociation 21 South Main Street Kent NY 860-927-3989 Awards Reception 2 to 4 - Fredrick Letzter Art Show Piermont Fine Arts Gallery 218 Ash Street presentation at 3. free (thru Apr 10) www.kentart.org Piermont NY 845-398-1907 free (thru Mar 27) Member Show 1 Kent Art Association 21 south Main Street Kent CT 860-927- Giselle - Ballet The Lycian Centre 1352 Kings Highway Sugar Loaf NY 845- 3989 Awards Ceremony 3pm free (thru Apr 10) www.kentart.org 469-2287 8:00 pm charge www.lyciancentre.com Orange Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre Kaatsbaan International Dance Center Sound Shore Shakespeare Festival New Rochelle Council on the Arts 120 Broadway Tivoli NY 845-757-5106 7:30 p.m. charge www.kaatsbaan.org Various venues New Rochelle NY free (thru May 1) www.newrochellearts.org Sunday, March 20 Friday March 11 Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Annual Members’ Exhibition Maira Kalman: Illuminations (of a Crazy World) The Jewish Museum 1109 2011 Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Ave., NYC (212) 255-7740 thru Apr 1) Fifth Avenue New York NY 212-423-3200 charge (thru July 31) http://www.thejew- Classical Music Concert Time Warner Cable Troy Savings Bank Music ishmuseum.org/exhibitions/mkalman Hall 30 Second St., Troy, NY 12180 Troy NY 3:00pm charge http://www.timewar- Mentor/Mentee Exhibition Garrison Art Center 23 Depot Square on Gar- nercable.com Rensselaer rison’s Landing, Garrison, NY 845-424-3960 Opening Reception 6 to 8pm free (thru Empire State Youth Orchestra’s Annual Gala to Celebrate Diver- Mar 20) www.garrisonartcenter.org Putnam sity Franklin Plaza Franklin Plaza Ballroom, Fourth and Grand Streets, Troy, NY Cultural Voyage to the East: “Thus Spake German Romanticism” 12180 Troy NY 518-382-7581 12:30pm charge http://www.esyo.org Rensselaer Close Encounters With Music Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street Rioult Dance Theatre Kaatsbaan International Dance Center 120 Broadway Great Barrington MA 800-843-0778 6:00PM charge www.cewm.org Tivoli NY 845-757-5106 2:30 p.m. charge www.kaatsbaan.org Saturday, March 12 Tuesday, March 22 Music Inspires Dance Kaatsbaan International Dance Center 120 Broad- New Expressions 2011 New Century Artists, Inc. 530 West 25 Street New way Tivoli NY 845-757-5106 7:30 p.m. charge www.kaatsbaan.org York NY 212-367-7072 free (thru Apr 9) www.newcenturyartists.org Manhattan Linda Dujack, Curator Thursday, March 24 ANGEL FRANCO: Photographs of Invisible New Yorkers Tremaine Gallery, Hotchkiss School, 11 Interlaken Rd., Lakeville, CT (860) 435-3663 (thru Apr 23) Continued on Page 12

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March/ April 2011 ART TIMES page 9 Film Dogs and Murder on 71st Street

considered one of the best of the the blink of an eye Philo deduces suspects: a dagger, a fireplace poker, dozen or so detective novels created from a partially removed show from a broken antique vase, a wounded by S.S. Van Dine. Of the many the foot of the corpse that here is dog, the aforementioned shoe, a films made from these works, “The not a suicide but a murder and darning needle, a fish hook and a Kennel Murder Case” is cited as the the killer is one of seven suspects length of string. As Philo traces out best as well. William Powell plays (I may have lost count after the each step that led t the murders his the suave, freelance detective as seventh.) The gaggle includes the narration is neatly illustrated by he had in three other Philo Vance classic Hollywood suspects — a very a progression of flashbacks, which, crime mysteries before. This would nervous butler, two ethnic types, one in that temperamental fashion of be Powell’s last role as Philo, a year shifty-eyed, the other stone-faced, a flashbacks, show only the feet of the later he would star as Nick Charles, clearly untrustworthy woman and killer. This presents a problem for another urbane crime solver in the Mary Astor. This last is the female Philo. While it eliminates the two long running Thin Man series and lead and while having a large part ladies (at least for us, the feet are accompanied by a wife, Myrna Loy, she is a star none-the-less and too definitely male) the killer cannot and a fair amount of martinis. The elegant for us to believe she could be identified. So in the custom of Scotty dog Philo owns in “The Kennel really be the killer. In this mélange Hollywood crime mysteries all the Murder Case” also contains a career one is reminded of Peter Seller’s suspects still living are gathered in the series — I ‘m only guessing it’s Inspector Clouseau” “I suspect no together before the maestro as he the same dog. one. I suspect everyone.” prepares to spring the trap that will “The Kennel Murder Case” Most of the scenes take place in expose the guilty one. I must say I was revolves about two rival dog show the 71st street mansion and it is a pretty disappointed at the way this competitors and an apparent beehive of bustling people — the turned out. The director certainly suicide of one. It is filmed in that seven suspects, a district attorney did an admirable job of weaving the soothing black and white look of and his assistants, a gruff voiced tangled threads of the story into 30’s films which tend to appear in homicide chief and his assistants, a reasonable whole and I suppose modulations of gray from dark to and a platoon of uniformed policemen there was nothing he could do about light — no dramatic tonal contrasts, and Philo Vance. The homicide the conclusion — it was there in the no bewildering rapid cutting, all chief is played by a character actor, plot and that was that. You see, the By HENRY P. RALEIGH smoothness, one scene melting Eugene Palette, who provides a bit poker clue had been used the killer easily into the next, mid-shots of comic relief, excitedly proclaiming to bop a Doberman on the head Perhaps because it was a predominating. Perfect viewing for a his solutions to the crime, of each of — a deus ex machina if there ever chilly, rainy day in early May, the dreary day, it’s like being read to as which is shot down by Philo. William was one. Philo has but to release sort of day that encourages lethargy you sleepily relax. Powell had always seemed to me the recovered Doberman before the that I gave myself over to listlessly The film opens on a dog show on an unlikely leading man being of suspects and the aggrieved dog will roaming cable film offerings. I Long Island — town unnamed. As a receding chin, largish nose, and naturally recognize his attacker stopped at “The Kennel Murder a Long Islander I can tell you those somewhat bulging eyes; still it is and rush forward, fangs dripping, to Case”, a 1933 whodunit directed by hills and valley belong to some other his “man-about-town” and dry wit demand an explanation or at least Michael Curtiz. I often fall for the region of the country but this matters that put him over. Even here in this an apology. The real killer, thus 30’s Hollywood films to wonder at the not at all since events quickly move preposterous murder mystery he unmasked, obligingly grabs the very styles of dress and cars and the era’s to Manhattan, principally a mansion offers a cover of classy conviction. same poker in defense, realized the standards of ideal male and female on 71st street and dog shows, Piece by piece Philo assembles jig is up and babbles out a confession. form that had existed in the initial kennels, and Long Island are largely from a large assortment of disparate It’s a stretch, all right; still the film days of my own existence on earth. forgotten. The plot has that pulp- clues a reconstruction of the murder does hold you up to this point. And too, Michael Curtiz is a well- fiction innocence that characterizes — well, murders for one of the “The Kennel Murder Case” is a respected figure in the pantheon of so many of the 30’s film mysteries suspects is found stuffed in a closet. charming vintage piece, probably American directors. and is wonderfully incredulous. In There are many clues as there are best to be seen on a cold, rainy day. The Kennel Murder Case is ef

American Watercolor Society

144th Annual International Exhibition April 5–May 1, 2011

Salmagundi Club 47 Fifth Ave at 12th St. New York, NY 10003 Daily 1–5pm, Tuesday 1–8pm, Monday closed www.americanwatercolorsociety.org March/ April 2011 ART TIMES page 10 Culturally Speaking

By CORNELIA SECKEL an evening/ day. The idea works and an extensive ar- In January I often drive down to support for the arts has grown with chival library. The Florida for serious relaxing. I fish, sit many communities helping to fund work on view will on the beach, walk the beach, hang arts events knowing that there is a remain for at least a out with a group of women I fish with substantial economic return. A num- year and then there and visit family and friends. And then ber of artists and craftspeople I know will be periodic ro- I explore some new cultural events do a “southern art fair circuit” thus tations of the col- and venues. This year Raymond ac- spending some winter months in a lection and special companied me, and his experience warm climate and selling their work. exhibitions. It is the is documented in this month’s Peek On the West Coast, we stayed in largest collection of and Piques! Venice with friend Elaine Jaffe. Dali’s work outside While on the East coast I went to I re-connected with Karen Koop, of Spain. It is a the 22nd Festival of the Arts in my guide when I was in Sarasota beautiful structure Delray Beach (see the video I made and attended the Ringling Inter- with an exquisite on YouTube and on our website). Per- national Arts Festival in October view of the Gulf haps 20 years ago I first went to this (video of this festival and the John and has a “contem- Arts Festival and was impressed by and Mable Ringling Museum is plation room” an the support the city gave the artists available on our website, YouTube alcove to rest ones (even paying musicians who played and the ART TIMES facebook page) eyes as they view during the festival). It was my first and we made a date to see the brand the very engaging, encounter with the “gallery stroll” new Salvador Dali Museum in St. stimulating and en- grossing paintings. In following with Dali as a “show- man” the museum is sponsoring “look alike” contests and a myriad of programs for adults and children. View outside the apartment we rented in Pompano beach, Florida Last year I attended one of the Sarasota Insti- sales and become much more efficient tute of Lifetime Learning (www. at searching for a job. Jake Fernan- sillsarasota.org) lectures hosted by dez contacted me, as do many artists June LeBell. There are 2 series, Mu- and people involved in the Arts, and sic Mondays and Global Issues, both, wanted to connect on Linked In — a for the most part, in Sarasota and business-oriented social networking in Venice. I was there for Michael tool; facebook being geared to more Lasser’s lecture about Fred Astaire social connections. Jake invited me and was particularly pleased that to connect and offered an invitation he included old movie clips. For the for me to visit his studio. Jake is in most part, June interviews great Sarasota, Florida where I was head- Jake Fernandez and Cornelia Seckel in front of Jake’s work "Myakka Fork" performers including Lauren Fla- ing and I thought, why not? I was in at The Studio at Gulf and Pine on Anna Maria Island, Florida. The landscape is painted on nigan, Martina Arroyo, Jacques the right place at the right time and 24 wood panels to form an 8 foot by 12 foot mural, creating a life-size bas relief tableau d’Amboise and composer Robert had a delightful visit with Jake at his Ward. I was sorry to miss the Round studio and then visited his gallery on concept of galleries being open the Petersburg, just north of Sarasota. Table discussion with Robert Sher- Anna Maria Island owned by Rhea same day/ night, stores and restau- The Salvador Dali Museum (www. man, Martin Bookspan and June Chiles, widow of former US Sena- rants being open and generally a fes- thedali.org) opened in St Petersburg LeBell, all well-known and respected tor and Florida governor Lawton tive event for people to visit galleries Florida in 1982 with the collection and shops. Now I see most towns with of Industrialist A. Reynolds Morse even a ½ dozen galleries have such and Eleanor Reese. Yann Wey- mouth, AIA, Senior Vice President and Design Director for HOK, conceived the museum’s architec- tural design of this museum. The geo- desic oculum by No- vum Structures who engineered and installed the free- form glass exterior is the only novum glass structure in the Western hemi- sphere. The museum had been open just 2 weeks and was quite crowded on the weekday of my Lesly Reich of Pottery Mountain, Woodstock NY, shows her work to a visit. This is one of customer at the 22nd Festival of the Arts in Delray Beach, Florida. just a few museums music radio personalities. Chiles. In the studio I saw paintings, devoted exclusively A question that often comes up pastels, and drawings. Many of the to a single artist and is what value is there with facebook drawings became large paintings has 96 oil paintings, (witness the Mid-East!), linked in composed of wood panels. Jake takes over 100 watercol- and other social networking tools. his drawing of a landscape and then ors and drawings, Jan Wallen, author of Mastering by gridding them paints that part of 1,300 graphics, pho- Linkedin in 7 Days or Less writes that the drawing onto a square. When he tographs, sculptures by giving 15 minutes a day one can is done the painting is very much a Looking out towards the sky and Gulf from the interior of and objets d’art, and The Salvador Dali Museum, St Petersburg, Florida. increase business contacts, product mandala. 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Fernandez.com. Linda Chapman, to bring African-American cultural Jake’s wife, also had some of her work expression and the American modern on view in Jake’s studio. Her oils and dance tradition to the world. Since watercolors were classics and you 1974, Ailey II has been a showcase can see more of her work at www. for rising young dancers and chore- LindaChapman.us. ographers. The faculty trains 3,500 Back in NY having missed 4 major students annually in the Professional snow-storms I did get to an art show, Division and Junior Division pro- dance performance and play. grams for aspiring dancers. The Ailey Francine L. Trevens, one of our Extension program allows everyone Dance Writers and a well respected to dance at Ailey with “real classes Theatre critic and experimented has for real people” classes.. Ailey’s com- worked as a theatre/dance critic, munity program brings dance to theatre publicist, producer of dinner classrooms, communities and people theatre mysteries, director of other throughout the world. Also in the people’s plays. She has written fic- Joan Weill Center for Dance is The tion, non-fiction, celebrity interviews, Ailey Citigroup Theater available plays, novels, short stories, kids to dance (and other) companies and stories, dinner theater segments in it is here that I saw the BalaSole “Best Plays Annuals” for all the years Dance Company’s (www.balasole- they ran, the musical theatre section dance.org) program Variations. The of McGraw Hills’ Encyclopedia of company was founded by Roberto World Drama, reviews, interviews, Villanueva who is also the Executive (L to R) Alix Schnee, Park Manager at Rockefeller State Park Preserve; etc. Francine invited me to the stage and Artistic Director. Before the per- John Laurenzi, artist; Audrey Leeds, curator of the exhibition Art Seeing Music reading of “Spirit of the House” a formance, Roberto spoke to the audi- one-act ghost play dedicated to Jane ence thanking us for coming and told first piece. drey felt that much of it would work Chambers and Beth Allen at the us about the mission of the Company Bar Scott, singer and composer at the preserve. The three artists’ Dramatists Guild in NYC. We were which is to educate the general public (see video of Bar performing at Pho- work did very well together. The pho- about 40 people in the audience, about the gaps that exist in the field tosensualis Art Gallery, Wood- tographs by Tom Artin of individual friends, colleagues and other theatre of concert dance, to create increased stock, NY, May 2010 on ART TIMES musicians, the groups of musicians professional. The purpose of the read- visibility for underrepresented dance website, YouTube and the ART in bright vivid jazzy colors by John ing was to give feedback to Francine artists and to mentor dance artists TIMES facebook page) has written Laurenzi and the individual musi- about the play. I found that I wanted to develop their own unique artistry. The Present Giver, a memoir about cians painted by Michael Single- to know more about each of the char- tary blended well and held their own acters and was not ready for the play in this small gallery. I’ve made a short to end. This was a consensus in the video of the work and it can be seen audience with several people giving on our website, YouTube and ART thoughtful ideas as to how the play TIMES facebook page. could evolve. Francine’s books and I’ve just learned about Wethers- plays are available at www.tntclas- field Academy for the Arts. It is a sicbooks.com newly opened academy that will hold Alvin Ailey American Dance drawing and painting classes and Theater is housed within the Joan workshops and an Atelier Program Weill Center in New York. The offered by Professional artists in a 77,000-square-foot structure com- newly renovated historic red barn. pleted in 2004 includes two stories Classes are for children, youths and below ground and six stories above adults of all levels. More than 10 ground and houses the Alvin Ailey years ago, Virginia Buck had a vi- American Dance Theater; Ailey II, sion: Students coming to the barns the company’s junior performing in her backyard to learn about dance troupe; The Ailey School; and the and art. “That’s when I knew I had to Foundation, which includes Ailey do it,” she said and transformed their Arts-in-Education and Commu- barns and a carriage house into fa- nity Outreach. There are 12 dance cilities for the newly formed Wethers- studios, two of which can convert (L to R) Actors:Ella Misché, Lenore Wolf, Heather Massie, Pamela Osowski and field Academy for the Arts. Sandra into a 300-seat black box auditorium (center) Francine L. Trevens, after the stage reading of Francine's play “Spirit of the House”. Wakeen, President, is excited by space for performances. The Alvin Of the 12 dance pieces, 10 were cho- her son Forest who died in 2002 after the new facility and believes that by Ailey American Dance Theater was reographed and performed by the having lived 1266 days. The memoir bringing world class instructors to founded in 1958 by dancer, choreog- individual dancer. The Company brings us vividly through the days of the community the will quickly gain rapher and visionary Alvin Ailey, performed and choreographed the Forest’s life and the soul wrenching national recognition for providing a story of his parent’s transformation, quality art program. They are offer- recognizing the beautiful gift they did ing internships, looking for mentors receive from his life and the struggle and holding art competitions. Find to not get stuck in the wanting more. out more at www.wethersfieldarts. It is for people who have suffered loss org and for the rest who will surely have See you out and about and don’t be to face the loss of loved ones. The shy about saying hello. ef book is a courageous and important sharing. NOTE: I have been meaning to get to the The next issue is May/ June Rockefeller State Park Preserve If you have missed getting an in Tarrytown, NY for quite a while to see the art shows and to meet Alix opportunity or calendar listing Schnee Park Manager the Preserve. into this issue or a display ad for The Park was donated by the Rock- your business or show contact us efeller family and has over 40 miles at [email protected] and of paths to hike. I was there for the we can accommodate you on our art show curated by Audrey Leeds, website which had well over 2 a woman I’ve known since the 1990’s million hits last year. when she had l’Atelier Gallery in Piermont, NY. The show, Art See- Make sure to look online for ing Music, came out of an exhibition exclusive web essays, calendar The BalaSole Dance Company after their performance at the Ailey Citigrouop Theater. curated by Carolyn deLisser at the and opportunity listings. Executive/ Artistic Director and Founder Roberto Villanueva in the Center. Blue Hill Cultural Center and Au- www.arttimesjournal.com March/ April 2011 ART TIMES page 12

Continued from Page 8 Wednesday, March 30 Calendar David Tobey Paintings & Sculpture Friends of the White Plains Library & Friday, March 25 The City of White Plains The White Plains Museum Gallery 100 Martine Avenue, MUSIC & WOMEN A Potluck Concert Cornwall Presbyterian Church 222 Hud- 2nd floor White Plains NY 212-260-9240 Opening Reception 6-8pm free (thru Jun son St (Rte 218) Cornwall on Hudson NY 845-534-8368 7:30 pm donate hudsonval- 15) www.davidtobey.com leysocietyformusic.org Thursday, March 31 Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Annual Members’ Exhibition Monica Bradbury Baseball and Mountains, Paintings / Sondra Gold 2011 Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Ave., NYC (212) 255-7740 Reception & Awards New Works, Sculpture in Bronze, Steel and Copper The Upstream Gallery 26 6-8pm thru Apr 1) Main Street Dobbs Ferry NY free (thru Apr 24) upstreamgallery.com Music and Art Cafe feat. Tophenjamin The Petersburg Veterans Memorial Sharon Klass Solo Exhibition: Visual Exploprations: Piermont Fine Arts Community Center Rt. 2 Petersburg NY 518-658-3260 7-9 pm charge Rensselaer Gallery 218 Ash Street Piermont Landing NY 845-398-1907 free (thru Apr 17) School Invitational Theme Exhibitions (SITE) Garrison Art Center 23 piermontfinearts.com Rockland Depot Square on Garrison’s Landing, Garrison, NY 845-424-3960 Opening Recep- Friday, April 1 tion 6 to 8pm free (thru Apr 10) www.garrisonartcenter.org Putnam High School Regional The Sage Colleges Opalka Gallery 140 New Scot- Saturday, March 26 land Avenue Albany NY 518-292-7742 free (thru Apr 14) www.sage.edu/opalka ANGEL FRANCO: Photographs of Invisible New Yorkers Tremaine Gallery, Ann Charles Photography East Fishkill Community Library 348 Route 376 Hotchkiss School, 11 Interlaken Rd., Lakeville, CT (860) 435-3663 Opening Recep- Hopewell Junction NY 845-221-9943 Opening Reception 7-8:30pm free (thru Apr tion 4-6pm (thru Apr 23) 30) http://www.eflibrary.org Dutchess GOING GREEN-CELEBRATE THE EARTH The Art Guild of Port Washington Red Bank Regional High School Students Show Guild of Creative Art Elderfields 200 Port Washington Blvd. Port Washington NY 516-304-5797 charge 620 Broad Street Shrewbury NJ 732-741-1441 Opening Reception 6-8pm free (thru (thru May 1) www.THEARTGUILD.ORG Nassau Apr 27) www.guildofcreativeart.org Live Choral Music Master Singers of Westchester Bedford Presbyte- Stu Eichel / Tony Murray Solo Shows Co-sponsored by OCCA / Earth rian Church Village Green, Big White Church Bedford NY 914-645-0705 charge Festival 2011 Cooperstown Art Association 22 Main St Cooperstown NY 607-547- Program -Mozart & Haydn. 50-voice chorus, soloists Leslie Fagan, Patricia Green, 9777 Opening Reception 5-7pm donate (thru Apr 27) www.cooperstownart.com Kevin Deas & orchestra. Saturday, April 2 New Expressions 2011 New Century Artists, Inc. 530 West 25 Street NYC 212-367-7072 Reception 3-6pm free (thru Apr 9) www.newcenturyartists.org Man- ANNUAL WATERCOLOR WORKSHOP SHOW The Betsy Jacaruso Studio & hattan Linda Dujack, Curator Gallery, The Chocolate Factory, 54 Elizabeth St., Red Hook, NY (845) 758-9244 (thru April 30) www.betsyjacarusostudio.com Photo Identities: Images from the Benton Collection William Benton Museum of Art 245 Glenbrook Road Storrs CT 860-486-4520 free (thru May 8) Elements - Group Show Tivoli Artists’ Co-op 60 Broadway Tivoli NY 845-757- www.thebenton.org 2667 Opening Reception 6-8pm free (thru Apr 24) www.tivoliartistsco-op.com SUNY Sullivan’s 15th Annual Women’s Conference SUNY Sullivan College Sunday, April 3 campus 112 College Rd Loch Sheldrake NY 845-434-5750 8:15 am - 3:30 pm charge monica Bradbury Baseball and Mountains, Paintings / Sondra Gold www.sunysullivan.edu New Works, Sculpture by in Bronze, Steel and Copper The Upstream Gallery 26 Susan Phillips: Collage / Thaddeus Kviat Projects 1536 Rte 212 Stu- Main Street Dobbs Ferry NY Opening Reception 2-5pm free (thru Apr 24) www. dio# C route 212, Saugerties, NY Opening reception 5-7pm free (thru May 1) upstreamgallery.com GARRISON KEILER Bardavon Opera House at UPAC, 601 Broadway Theatre, Sunday, March 27 Kingston, NY (845) 339-6088 (845) 473-2072 5pm www.bardavon.org Ulster Piano Jazz Summit Lycian Centre for the Performing Arts 1351 Kings High- Harrison way Sugar Loaf NY 845-469-2287 7pm charge www.lyciancentre.com Orange M&M Productions Presents Collected Stories by Donald Margulies Public Library Harrison Public Library 2 Bruce Avenue Harrison NY 914-835-0324 Yonkers Philharmonic Orchestra Concert Fine Arts Orchestral Society 2pm free www.harrisonpl.org of Yonkers, Inc. Saunders Trade and Technical High School 183 Palmer Road Yon- Ulster Chamber Music Series Church of kers NY 914-631-6674 3:00-5:00 pm free www.yonkersphilharmonic.org MANHATTAN STRING QUARTET the Holy Cross Pine Grove Avenue Kingston 845-340-9434 3:00 PM charge www. Tuesday, March 29 ulsterchambermusicseries.org Phyllis Rosser: Nature Abstracted Ceres Gallery 547 West 27th Street Masterpieces of British Choral Repertory GraceMusic Grace Church, Ny- NYC 212-947-6100 free (thru Apr 23) [email protected] ack 130 First Avenue Nyack NY 845-358-1297 4 pm charge www.gracemusic.info Mini Show featuring Exhibiting Members and “Small Treasures” by As- sociate Members Guild of Creative Art 620 Broad Street Shrewsbury NJ 732-741- 1441 Opening Reception 3-5PM free (thru Apr 27) www.guildofcreativeart.org Piano Trio di.vi.sion in Concert Saugerties Pro Musica Saugerties United Methodist Church corner of Washington Avenue & Post Street Saugerties NY 845- THE Tremaine Gallery aT The hoTchkiss school 246-5021 3-4:15pm charge http://www.saugertiespromusica.org Ulster 11 Interlaken road, lakevIlle, Ct Monday, April 4 860-435-3663 • www.hotChkIss.org Arts BIRDS IN ART 2010: Annual Juried Exhibition Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art AT HOTCHKISS gallery hours: Mon. - sat., 10 - 4; sun., 12 - 4 Museum of Wausau, WI Newington-Cropsey Foundation, 25 Cropsey La., Hastings- on-Hudson, NY 914-478-7990 (thru May 26) www.newingtoncropsey.com Westchester Continued on Page 14 Invisible New Yorkers Photographs by Ángel Franco RoGALLERY fine art buyers & online art auctions

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March 24 - April 23, 2011 Reception: March 26, 4-6 p.m. March/ April 2011 ART TIMES page 13 Music When Composers Are Victims of Their Own Success

By FRANK BEHRENS impossible. claimed he was sorry he ever wrote typical love song forever. True, Larry There comes a time in some com- Did either composer regret having that “damned” song. Hart before him did write anti-love posers’ lives that they create a piece made one big hit and no other? Cer- Oh, the title? “Dixie.” songs such as “Falling in love with that is tremendously popular (a Good tainly they regretted the latter, just Sergei Rachmaninoff often stated love is falling for make believe.” And Thing, surely) but that causes them as certainly not the former. that he grew to hate his too-popular so Hammerstein took a leaf from “The considerable grief afterwards. But the history of music abounds “Prelude in C sharp minor” because Mikado” and let Curly and Laurie I have already in past articles in works that were regretted by the he could not give a concert any place sing a “negative love song”: “Don’t mentioned how Cole Porter’s “Kiss composer, often for the most ironic of in the world without having to play throw bouquets at me, don’t laugh at Me Kate” was so well received that reasons. it for an overly enthusiastic audience. my jokes too much” lest “people will critics said of his next show, “Can- Daniel Emmett helped originate Satirist Anna Russell once gave a say we’re in love.” can,” that is was not up to Porter’s the Minstrel Show, something of an performance and omitted her spoof- That done, he had to provide a standards. Did he, by any means, re- embarrassment for the more sensi- analysis of the Ring Operas for just similar one for “Carousel” and came gret having written “Kiss Me Kate”? tive folk today. As a lad, he had a once. When reprimanded for doing so up with a “conditional love song”: “If Of course not. talent for writing new lyrics to old by an audience member, she replied I loved you, words wouldn’t come in Take the case of two men who be- tunes, one of his earliest successes that she thought that people knew it an easy way….” [Compare Gilbert’s came “one-opera” composers. Pietro being “Old Dan Tucker.” In 1830 or too well and were becoming bored by “Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted, I Mascagni wrote his “Cavalleria Rus- 1831, the minstrel troupe of which it. She never omitted it again. would say in the tender tone.”] ticana” between 1888 and 1890 for a he was a part needed a song for the I sometimes wonder if Judy Gar- However, Hammerstein was contest. There is a story that he was final segment, the Walk-around, and land ever dreaded having to sing bright enough to find other ways to so unsure of the work that his wife Emmett was asked to dash one off “Over the rainbow” during any of her express love without cliché or nega- mailed it in without telling him. And overnight. He did and the song was so acts. If she did, there is no record of tivity (especially in “The King and I,” that is the one of his 17 or so operas popular that other minstrel troupes her ever saying so. [Ironically, the where love between the leads is quite that has stayed in the repertory. asked for permission to use it. It was song was nearly dropped from the impossible). Still, let us not forget Yes, occasionally his “L’Amico Fritz” granted but the composer/lyricist lost film because it “held up the action.”] “The gentleman is a dope” from the is performed for the sake of its only the copyright by doing so. That is the trouble when a success excellent but almost never performed popular number, “The Cherry Duet,” Years went by and the tune was makes one wish a song or a routine “Allegro,” which turns the “he is won- and “Amica” has been recorded on a turned into a quickstep, thereby in- had never caught on quite as much derful” lyric on its head. DVD as a curio. creasing still more its exposure and as it did. Again, I turn to my readers for The same can be said of Ruggiero popularity. But then the Civil War At times, it is not a just single work other examples of successes that led Leoncavallo’s “I Pagliacci” (1892), came and the Confederate Army (or but a new kind of work that might to their creators’ regret. I thank them which has overshadowed all his other Rebels, depending on one’s inclina- lead an artist into a blind alley. For in advance. ef works. Perhaps his “La Boheme” tions) took it up as a stirring Southern example, while working on “Okla- would still be regularly performed quasi-national anthem, often sung to homa!” Oscar Hammerstein II stated had not Puccini’s version made it altered lyrics. It is said that Emmett that he just couldn’t go on writing the Visit our website: www.arttimesjournal.com to read previously published essays & CD/ DVD reviews by Frank Behrens. 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N.A.W.A. Gallery 80 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1405 NYC 212-675-1616 Opening Recep- tion 5-7pm free (thru May 3) www.thenawa.org CALL for eNTrieS Continued on Page 20 ALLied ArTiSTS of AmeriCA SONNET IN 22 LIES (AND NO PARTICULAR th Poets’ Niche 98 Annual open exhibition RHYME SCHEME) LE MALENTENDU November 2 - November 23, 2011 I’ve always preferred sleeping alone. I’ve He brought flowers to the house, never felt better. It’s true. My house is at The National Arts Club Galleries, NYC Dried ones. I liked him. a home and it keeps its own heart. You’re I was uncomfortable, I said nothing, welcome to visit me still. My children Open to all artists I was afraid of saying something gauche. are lonely, they get up at dawn, they write Oil, Watermedia, Pastel, Finally he said, to their grandmother weekly. They all wear Graphics, Sculpture “I’ll go find someone who wants to talk to me!” their hair short and they cut it each week and And he left, and I was happy they wash their own ears quite completely. I $24,000 awards in cash & medals Because it meant he’d wanted to talk to me. never have married. I own my own heart. Jpeg entries accepted. No one ever does. I climb mountains whenever I’m hungry. But it was an insensitive happiness, I look like a maiden. I have golden deadline September 12. And he never understood Hair. I do math for fun and write neatly. Why I hadn’t talked to him, I sing like a songbird. I write my own For prospectus go to website at: And he never knew that I liked him. Songs. I’ve never, no never, been lonely. www.alliedartistsofamerica.org —Joseph Hart —Kelley Jean White visalia, CA. Gilford, NH

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[email protected] Contact: PSA Office: 212-533-6931 —John Cantey Knight [email protected] Metairie, LA March/ April 2011 ART TIMES page 15 Fiction Pocket Traffic up and dropping pieces of each other’s believe this crazy lady is wearing heels By Azenath Adede sentences like a game of pick up sticks. (heels!) to do laundry. I don’t even look I’m not sure what kind of green rupted by congratulations. I have holes They resemble each other in their facial past her ankles; the patent leather that is but it’s totally at home at this in my retinas, both eyes actually. So features and the way they gazelle about. shoes are enough for me to judge her. place. It’s kind of a sea foam green sometimes I see a distant shower of Their jet-black hair ends in a blunt line As for the guy? Forget it. He’s just a that’s been heightened for our viewing bright lights or glints of gold in the at their shoulders. It was no nonsense hazy voice in the air. I look as my pen pleasure. Maybe it’s not a color so much corner of my eye. When it happens, I hair; I imagine it’s just like the columns begins to write: as a reaction—the walls are sea—sick; imagine myself at a podium giving a of letters that ran down the pages of by-all-means glances Flatbush’s currents do run strong. I speech as wedding bands, cuff links their grandmother’s letters. As they wandered around waist—high traffic, enter the laundromat as I usually do— and perhaps the gold frames of a critic folded, two sisters snapped sheets up in come—ons crushed under stiletto one foot in front of the other and walk catch the lights from the stage as they soft arches so they momentarily covered heels, towards an orange chair, (on second thunderously applaud. The particular their heads like de-boned umbrellas, sour grates forced to witness thought, it’s more like a toasted pump- speech I give changes in my fantasies, which was fitting since rain was fore- conversations near sewer pipes kin. It complements the interchanging sometimes it’s my Nobel Prize speech casted for this evening. Man, I love the Laundromat. cement grey and ruby red linoleum or the one about Global Warming (the As they spoke I notice that each I hear nervous laughter underscored floor tiles. It’s like a J. Crew catalogue reason I am invited to lecture about a sister wore her smile differently, some by resentment, (it’s an exotic laugh that grimaced in here). The most annoying subject I am not well versed in never were bright and wide, others dim and only a woman can do) and it immediate- part of this place is that the chairs are materializes just that I am asked). As weary. I watch their smiles and am ly grabs my attention. I look to my left too small. The seat ends in the middle of the applause dies down, I walk down reminded of the swatches of colors ma- and see a couple near the washer. The the back of my thighs leaving a groove Ocean Avenue through the usual layer rines and soldiers wear on their uniform woman is small with hunched shoulders of indented flesh as if I was branded cake of languages—Spanish, Creole to denote rank. and lines around her mouth. She can’t by other people’s chores. In the sum- and Arabic. Every once in awhile an There, the one in the middle’s smile be more than twenty-five years old but mer time when all we laundromatians exotic language (English for example) isn’t as wide as the others. She wears it has the air of someone who has been wear shorts, we resemble the walking gets thrown in like fennel on a plate. like a straight line, unmoved but polite. picked on for forty years. Her hands wounded shuffling about with white I hear Ernesto even before I see the She’s the one in charge. nervously peck at the clothes like two caskets, lugging our war dead to metal bodega and as usual, he is singing an A story begins to take shape and I pale robins attacking crumpled berries. resting grounds. elegy. Ernesto never tells me who or grab my pen and my notebook (Felicia? She is furiously separating, and then It’s not too crowded today. As I look what he is mourning but I like to think Hmm, maybe not) and begin to write: re-separating colors as her boyfriend re- at the machines near the window I see it’s something mundane like, the knife “Rosemarie stands by the door hold- gales her with stories of ancient Egypt. the Spanish lady who always orders skills he lost when he went from butcher ing three book bags and the specific He wears his education like a Toucan seven sandwiches even though she to cashier or the windowsill near his indulgences she will allow her younger wears its beak— each sesquipedalian only brings three kids with her to the kitchen sink. sisters. It was their daily allotment and word more difficult then the next and bodega. The sandwiches are usually “Hi Ernesto!” I said shouldering past Rosemarie felt so adult in her generosity. used to attract himself. He looks like variations of eggs and cheese. Some on spaghetti, diapers and cat food to my She will let Ruby rehash her boring story a Chad but I bet he wants to be called rolls, some on heroes, no salt, pepper panacea. about making her teacher laugh, Rachel Chip. Tall and angular (just like the and onions, bacon, tomatoes on this one, “My friend again with the orange can borrow her favorite sweater to the obelisks he is droning on about) he mayonnaise on the one before. She nods juice!” Ernesto announces as he watch- party and finally Rebecca can have the punctuates each sentence with a hand slightly as she pulls soggy yellowbluered es me take two surprisingly cold mini last piece of cake, no questions asked, (at through his sandy blonde hair. from the washer. I sit down, take my orange juices from a refrigerator. eight years old Rebecca is the youngest She laughs where she should but branding like a man and dig out my “Yes me again,” I said gently placing and needs to be humored more than the there are pockets of hesitation, just like dusty composition notebook. (My note- them before him. others). As Rosemarie entered her senior the popcorn ceiling under which she book has gone everywhere with me, I Strange, now I do want a cup of year in high school she realized she dreams of leaving him each night. We wonder why I haven’t named it yet. B.B. coffee. couldn’t let childish things bother her. make eye contact and I silently wish King has Lucille, what will people write “You know I bet they have fresher For example, it used to really get under her good luck. She smiles and returns to of me? I have to think of a smooth name. oranges in Florida,” he says as he rings her skin that all her sisters had names humoring his tales of Egyptian statues It’ll come, I can’t force it.) I hold the blue me up. beginning with the same letter. he will never visit. pen so hard smooshy calluses appear on “Yep, nothing beats them,” I said “There’s no uniqueness,” she’d whine It’s getting late. I look outside and my middle finger. I do my best writing in sticking to the script. to her friend Alberta. Now, Alberta who see the sky has become cemented. Huge the Laundromat, bouncing images and “Why would I want to beat them? I was middle sister to Thomas, William, blocks of thunderclouds are building in conversations off the shoulders and legs want to eat them!” His laugh replaces Elliot and Aloyuisius couldn’t under- the borborygmus sky (Chip is still firmly of characters as they stroll across the the sun. stand what Rosemarie (never Rosie) was implanted in my brain). The clouds tum- page. There is something about stub- “Okay Ernesto! Te veo!” I giggle and whining about. Better to have sisters ble and fumble just like the grey rocks born stains and folding tables that are juggle the two juices out the door. than boys before and after you. tumbled and fumbled into Stonehenge. conducive to character building. “Adios!” he says still lost in the One day as Rosemarie and her That’s my cue to stretch and yawn into I tend to jot down images with the groves of Florida. mother washed snow peas, she asked the standing position. promise to dress them up in a story lat- I take long swig of the juice and why all the girls had names that began You know, one day I’ll actually do er. These were my ear worms, repeating greet smooth disappointment. It tasted with the letter ‘R’. my laundry here instead of at my apart- themselves in my head like a relentless slightly familiar—bland with a bitter “I liked the idea that if you were to ment building. On second thought, jingle. Today’s little ditty went like this: aftertaste, just like a good joke. Never gather the names in a tight bunch, there maybe not. You ever know who’s doing Conversations near sewage pipes one to shy away from comedy, I finish would be one letter connecting you all,” the watching. Besides, as my friend Ann Wandered around waist high traffic the juice and save the other one for her mother softly said. would say, “People watching is great, Discussions that could fit in a bread later. I shouldn’t have been surprised Rosemarie wasn’t buying it. She it’s cheap and you know always know box that it tasted bad. I did buy the Product chalked it up to her parents being un- the ending—you go home.” Pocket size traffic X brand of orange juice. The font alone imaginative. I look down at my notebook tattooed I stick each phrase between my teeth should have been a clue something was Rosemarie hears a patchwork of Ra- with ink and codes to the lives I have and the inside of my cheek like I used to not right. There was a braggadocio chel’s conversation on the phone, created. Will anyone besides me ever stick this hard caramel square I loved as aspect to the stocky black letters. It “Oh my God, Bill asked who out?” meet them? They’re so raw—will they a kid. I liked digging the caramel out as I came at you like a muscled chest. What “Wait—What is she wearing? Seri- make it? wrestled with a problem. It could totally could the juice be so proud of? See? Clue ously, she should leave the city.” I fish my house keys out of my jacket explain why my teeth are jacked. My number one. Rachel is no doubt talking to Amy and am interrupted by Manhattan. My feet start tapping out their rhythm and A block away from the Laundromat who with a broken leg and fever (at subway metrocard and office building possibilities, but I have no idea where I watch a bouquet of little girls dressed once! What is this The Middle Ages?) is ID have become entangled with my these phrases will go. Wait—maybe a in petal pink and mint green jumpers. at home and telling Rachel what she in keys. I return them to my pocket and im- haiku or a misheard conversation. Or— They are tossing their braids and legs as turn has been told by Sarah. pulsively add my pen. It’s now officially I stop because a sudden craving they play tag in the radioed air. The mu- Rosemarie shook her head, they lived a collection of getting theres. Two steps for orange juice demands to be heard. sic seems to come from everywhere and in such a small world, these conversa- away from the door, a story begins to get However, I’ve had my heart broken by nowhere, maybe from their knees. One tions could fit in a bread box. legs. I laugh because it’s fitting that a the bodega before, so I think of a back little girl is singing a playground song, Wait. Am I wasting that “conversa- character would admonish me: up craving—coffee. There’s nothing but she has added grit to it, each note tions in a bread box” line in this story? “I can’t believe you concern yourself worse then working yourself up into an is fished from the bottom of a bowl. She Maybe I should save it for something with such trivialities, ‘Waaah, will orange juice lather only to be confronted is singing it softly and mischievously else. I hate wasting ideas but it hap- anyone read my stories? Are they any by rows of Coronas and milk in warm giving the song a peeking—over—the— pens. good?’” he rolled his eyes and newspaper. refrigerators. That happened to me last shoulder feel to it. “Uh, can I borrow some detergent “Who cares if no one else knows what you Sunday. “How could this be?” I asked the I watch for a few seconds then get and your phone number?” write? Keep going! Those little things six sullen refrigerators. They reminded my sea legs before re-entering the Laun- “No to both.” A nasal voice responds. that put the stop in your go are inconse- me of those Beef Eaters in London; they dromat. I am surprised to see my seat A smarmy and corny pick up line quential. They’re small, stupid— they’re revealed nothing as they emptied. The still available and that a new group has saves me from my problem. I hear the pocket traffic.” lesson here is always hedge your bets. arrived. Five Asian sisters are standing tap—tap—tap of the heels before I even (Azenath Adede lives in Brooklyn As I enter the outside, I am inter- a under stack of conversations, picking see the woman standing in them. 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BETHUNE Or maybe we should say it never here’s one response you might hear what’s wrong with the people. When of great worth, though not caviar to rains but it pours. Consider the eco- from Mishropish Widgets, but was Mishropish Widgets obtains subsidy the general. What happens, however, nomics of Mishropish, a wonderful definitely heard loud and clear from and is therefore able to decide that when Mishropish Repertory’s cul- mythical town somewhere in our Mishropish Repertory: “Why not just the problem is that people don’t like tural productions are not even caviar great land, home of Mishropish Wid- increase our funding?” perfectly good widgets, and there- to the fish? gets Inc. and Mishropish Repertory There’s a certain logic to this. After fore goes right on making the same Sooner or later, the one who pays Theatre, a proud live professional all, we’ve been subsidizing farmers widgets that the people don’t much the piper is going to call the tune. resident theater. not to grow crops for decades, and buy, Mishropish Widgets eventually Sooner or later, live professional Rocco Landesman, NEA chairman, we’ve been subsidizing oil companies goes out of business, subsidy or not. theater as an industry is going to be threw a lovely hand grenade into the to produce oil, and some places subsi- When Mishropish Repertory decides held accountable for their product audience’s lap at a conference about dize fisherman to catch fish, and we’re that the problem is that people don’t by the people who give it the money. new plays. His idea was a simple dumping money by the trainload into like perfectly good theater, and there- For about a century, theater artists analysis of industrial economics as banks in what amounts to all intents fore goes right on making the same have been able to sell quite a bit of applied to theater production. When and purposes to a subsidy to make theater that the people don’t much the world on the idea that public re- Mishropish Widgets finds out that bad loans. So if theaters are having come to, subsidy is an enabler to their sponse is not an appropriate criterion the demand for widgets is down, they trouble making ends meet because thinking, just as it is down the street for the quality of the work. For about decide they’ve got too many widget not very many people come to see at Mishropish Widgets. a century, fewer and fewer people factories and they shut some of them the shows, why wouldn’t subsidy be OK, so Mishropish Repertory can every decade are ready to respond to down. Mr. Landesman doesn’t think the answer for Mishropish Repertory, seat 200 people, but only 50 people the work on an ongoing, repeatable the demand for live theater is likely to just as it might be for Mishropish come. So let’s solve the problem with basis. It is not uncommon for theater increase—i.e., demand for widgets is Widgets? more subsidy. And what if only 25 companies to declare with pride that down—and therefore maybe we need Subsidy creates its own brand of people come? More subsidy? What if they deserve subsidy precisely be- to get rid of Mishropish Repertory. thinking. When Mishropish Widgets, only 12 people come? More subsidy? cause they cannot generate enough When Mishropish Widgets decides lacking subsidy, realizes that fewer What if only 6 people come? More public response to cover their costs. to close a widget factory, all sorts of and fewer people are buying their subsidy? What if only 3 people come? All cultural production rests on noises erupt. The workers in Mishro- widgets, they are very likely to won- More subsidy? What if only 1 person an economic foundation. Subsidy is pish become very vocal, as does the der what’s wrong with the widgets. comes? fundamentally an economic contra- Mishropish Chamber of Commerce, When Mishropish Repertory, blessed What if nobody comes? Perhaps diction. Sooner or later—months? the Mishropish businesses that with subsidy, notices that fewer and the theater critic for the Mishropish Years? Decades? Who knows?—that supply the factory, the mayor of fewer people are coming to the the- Times-Herald can recall, as I do, contradiction is going to resolve itself. Mishropish and so forth. However, ater, they are very likely to wonder being sent to review a performance The decisions that resolve that con- only to find that the performance tradiction are not going to be made by had been cancelled, quite literally the artists unless the artists change for lack of interest. There may be the way they make decisions. Those National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic a valid argument that Mishropish that do will be able to go on doing Repertory’s cultural productions are theater. Those that don’t will not. 57th National Juried Exhibition ef at the Salmagundi Club, 47 5th Avenue, NYC

May 23rd — June 10th

Juried by slide or CD • Entry deadline April 16th. Featuring the ROBERT SANSTROM PRIZE-Gold Medal and $5000.

Over $15,000 in prize money and medals. THE DORSKY SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART Entry fee: Non-members, $20. STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT NEW PALTZ For prospectus: send SASE to: D. Wels, Corr. Secy., 1710 1st Ave., #245, New York, NY 10128 or visit NationalSocietyofPaintersinCaseinandAcrylic.com.

Ken Landauer, Untitled (bed), 2009, Ink on paper (detail) From Huguenot to Microwave: New and Recent Works by Marco Maggi Through April 15, 2011

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