A competitor in the weight throw competition at Highland Games held at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome on May 18, organized by the Northeast Highlanders.
Photo by David McIntyre
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DEPARTMENTS
8 On the Cover: Larry Fink
Larry Fink’s “Sensual Empathy” at CPW spans six decades of poetic, flash-lit photography, capturing society’s glamour, grit, and humanity with unflinching intimacy and wit.
10 Esteemed Reader
Jason Stern navigates the metaphorical rapids of accelerating societal change
13 Editor’s Note
Brian K. Mahoney takes a sweet sniff of defiance.
FOOD & DRINK
14 Ordinary Joy: Brushland Eating House
A Catskills restaurant celebrates simple food, shared meals, and the quiet power of connection.
16 Sips and Bites
Recent openings include Tallow in Millerton, Yummy Kitchen at the Cannonball Factory in Hudson, Pitanga North in Gardiner, and Moreish’s new home in Beacon.
HOME
19 Secondhand First
Vintage fashion entrepreneur Kym Chambers brings her love of secondhand style home to a sunlit Victorian in Saugerties, where she and her family blend history, sustainability, and personal flair into every room.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
28 The Hidden Cost of Wellness
Luxury wellness surges in the Hudson Valley, sidelining grassroots care and pricing-out longtime residents.
COMMUNITY PAGES
32 Rhinebeck: Scenes from a Small Town
A dozen glimpses of life in Rhinebeck—from forest trails to soft serve, skate parks to Sunday rituals.
38 Red Hook Portraits by David McIntyre
RURAL INTELLIGENCE
44 The Last Chast
Roz Chast’s final show at Carol Corey Fine Art features cartoons, embroidery, and pysanky eggs—blending humor, anxiety, and handcrafted eccentricity.
PRIDE
47 Pride Events and Celebrations
Where to celebrate this month.
48 Joy As Resistance
Despite mounting federal and local attacks on DEI and LGBTQ+ rights, the Hudson Valley’s queer community responds with visibility, joy, and solidarity—proving that pride is both celebration and resistance.
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Road near Kingston, 1951, Edward Budney, from “Edward Budney: Photographer,” at the Friends of Historic Kingston Gallery
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ARTS
50 Music
Tristan Geary reviews The Ballad of Natural Lines by Matt Pond PA. Jeremy Schwartz reviews Delayed Gratification by Before the Warning. Michael Wiener reviews Vulneraries Vol. 7 and 8 by Garlands. Plus recommendations from Radio Woodstock/WDST CEO and Mountain Jam founder Gary Chetkof.
51 Books
Susan Yung reviews Exit Zero, Marie-Helene Bertino’s latest collection of short stories that transforms the banalities of everyday existence into the breathtakingly surreal. Plus short reviews of The Cloud Intern by David Greenwood; Plato and the Tyrant by James Romm; Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian; The Lost Voice by Greta Morgan; and Home Inside the Globe: Embracing Our Human Family by Gail Straub.
52 Poetry
Poems by Sam Braselmann, Daniel W. Brown, Laurence Carr, Kathleen Fleissner, J. C. Hopkins, Emily Murnane, Casey O’Connell, Philip Pardi, Emma Lee Patsey, Casey Michael Robertson, Sanjeev Sethi, Martin Steingesser, and Mike Vashen. Edited by Phillip X Levine.
HOROSCOPES
92 Salve for the Burn
Cory Nakasue reveals what the stars have in store for us.
PARTING SHOT
96 “Edward Budney: Photographs”
A forgotten trove of 1950s Kingston photos by Edward Budney resurfaces, capturing daily life and major developments—now digitized and exhibited by Friends of Historic Kingston after years of meticulous archival work.
SUMMER ARTS PREVIEW
56 ART: Arrival Art Fair in North Adams, “Girls at the End of the World” at Elijah Wheat Showroom, Upstate Art Weekend, “American Masterworks” at the Fenimore Art Museum.
61 ART: For the 2025 season, Storm King Art Center unveils a $54 million renovation of its campus in New Windsor along with a new exhibition by Sonia Gomes.
63 ART: Brunel Park in Boiceville preserves Emile Brunel’s mystical concrete monuments.
64 POP + FOLK: Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, Meadowlark, Opus 40, Bethel Woods.
67 MUSIC: Five concerts not to miss in June, including the Hudson River Music Festival and Mountain Jam.
67 FILM: Napoleon Dynamite Live!, Hudson Film Festival, Movies Nights on Bannerman Island.
69 MUSIC: Suzanne Vega brings her first album of allnew material in 11 years to the Ridgefield Theater.
72 THEATER: New York Stage and Film, Catskill Public Theater, Shadowland Stages.
77 THEATER: Max Wolf Friedlich’s “The Holes,” about 21st-century life in a gentrifying small city gets the workshop treatment July 19-20 at Powerhouse.
79 DANCE: Jacob’s Pillow, Kaatsbaan Annual Festival, RAWDance Concept Series at the Senate Garage.
85 COMEDY: Kumail Nanjiani at Tarrytown Music Hall, Funny Days in Beacon, Tom Segura at MJN Center.
89 ART: Exhibition listings across the region.
Reflecting the Light Within
“Larry Fink: Sensual Empathy” at CPW
With the titular “Sensual Empathy” as the impassioned mood of this exquisite exhibition, Larry Fink takes center stage at CPW in Kingston through August 31. Fink’s signature flash-lit style sweeps us into his sensational world without hesitation, where theatrical and pedestrian moments alike capture our imagination and invite us into the festival of humanity—and Fink’s honest visions touch the heart every time.
Born in Brooklyn and raised on Long Island in a politically conscious household (his mother Sylvia Caplan was an anti-nuclear weapons activist and Black Panther supporter), Fink went on to study at the New School for Social Research in New York City, where the blessing of meeting the influential street photographer Lisette Model changed his life. Having redefined documentary photography in America, Model was an ideal mentor, and she encouraged Fink’s exploration of the social classes. Fink would eventually delve deeper into two radically contrasting images of society through his practice, and his photographs reveal the affluence of the elite aristocracy of Manhattan on the one hand and the prosaic charms of a child’s birthday party in rural Pennsylvania on the other.
The works in this show span a timeframe from the late 1950s into the 21st century, and the earliest photo is Jimmy Rushing, New York, NY, 1957 This stoic portrait of a man as he ponders alone in the corner of a room is a classic Fink snapshot, and we can almost smell the lingering odor of
cigarettes and live jazz. His image of Malcolm X, Harlem NY, May 1963 is among the most striking, a nonnegotiable truth to power moment captured with confidence. The fashionable allure of Fink’s work is palpable in works such as Studio 54, New York, NY, May 1977, an image that spotlights a woman in a flowing dress as she whirls toward the camera, her long braid chasing her amid an ecstatic dance crowd (in a word: breathless).
In the middle of the gallery a trio of photos reflect Fink’s ability to transcend time and pull us into the scene. This threesome reads like a continuation of one long night of glamorous partying that starts on the right with Peter Beard and Friends, Montauk, NY, August 1976, featuring a group of gorgeous people interacting in a dramatic Caravaggio-esque display. The photo Sonnenberg Mansion, New York, NY, March 2000 includes a couple in sultry embrace in a luxury environment; he looks longingly to her as she turns, their seductive bodies reflected in the gilded mirror behind them. Closing out this three-part bacchanal is Meryl Streep and Natalie Portman, Oscar Party, Los Angeles, CA, February 2009 on the left, where these two elegant starlets enjoy a private confab, Streep whispering close to Portman, her eyes closed as she savors the chatter.
Curated by Lucy Sante, “Sensual Empathy” is an intimate visual treasure chest at over 30 photos, all of them black and white, each a stolen moment as captured by Fink. Fink taught for over 40 years (including stints at Yale and Cooper Union) and he
and Sante were colleagues at Bard College for 20 of them. In 2024, the MUUS Collection in Paris presented “Sensual Empathy” in conjunction with a monograph of his work published by powerHouse Books, and Sante wrote the introductory essay. I had the pleasure of meeting Sante during the lively CPW gala a few weeks ago, and she indicated how this show represents a tiny fraction of Fink’s impressive oeuvre. Sante spoke of Fink’s insatiable work ethic and his passion for the projects that he took on. She noted how some of Fink’s side ventures went for decades, such as his focus on boxing. Sante described Fink as a humanist, a second-generation beatnik, and a spark. “Larry knew what he was doing,” she commented as she reminisced about his creative power. “He was a single force.”
During Fink’s 60-year career as a photographer, his photos were featured in notable magazines such as The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and GQ (among many others) and in recent years he covered the rise of the Obamas in American politics. Fink entertained the compelling spectacle of humanity in all its bravado and boringness, leaving us to savor the devastating beauty of it all. Throughout this show there are segments of his poems and musings on the walls, and these brief bursts of text further illuminate the poetic tone of Fink’s singular photographic spirit. One of those ruminations is a fitting coda for this sensuous show: “the only light that reflects upon you / is the light within / if there is none / you cannot see.”
—Taliesin Thomas
Left: George Plimpton, Jared Paul Stern, and Cameron Richardson, Fashion Shoot, Elaine’s, New York City, January 1999, Larry Fink, gelatin silver print
Right: A Sabatine Christmas, Martins Creek, PA, December 1983, Larry Fink, gelatin silver print
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Recently a friend sent me astrological evidence that changes are afoot in the world. It was something about the 80-year cycle of Uranus, which “represents sudden change, rebellion, innovation, and breaking free from limitations. It’s known as the ‘Great Awakener’ and is associated with technological and social revolutions.”
As if I needed astrological evidence. A quick glance at the events unfolding in the life of society, and even my own life, makes clear that the pace of change is accelerated. It has the feeling of entering a section of rapids in a canoe. Everything moves faster and seems more chaotic. Dangers appear suddenly and require a quick response and steady hand to navigate.
I think one of the difficulties in accepting the change in the pace of unfolding events is the belief, rooted in us through years of education, that everything automatically evolves and improves. This seems to be an extension of the image promoted by Darwin and the evolutionists. This is the notion that life evolved from a primordial chaos to the high state of order we have today and should only get better and better. When it doesn’t we are confused, feel betrayed, and believe that it should be otherwise.
An alternative model is represented in the cyclical nature of time, embodied in the teachings of myriad ancient traditions. In these cycles there are periods of improvement and periods of decline, periods in which the features of life remain unchanged for centuries, and faster ones in which everything seems utterly different from one generation to the next.
The Vedic tradition has a more technical description, using the system of yugas, or ages. The Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Iron ages refer to degrees of enlightenment or civilization determined by a background frequency. The yugas have a specific, unequal duration. Contrary to the popular view that humanity is at its apex of civilization and advancement, we are now, according to the Vedic model, in the most ignorant and uncivil stage of the cycle. The Kali Yuga, or Iron age, is characterized by an overemphasis on atomistic materiality. This is the age in which we live under the “reign of quantity” (to use the phrase of philosopher Rene Guenon).
Just as we take the movement of the Earth around the Sun to be a year, the ancient calendars, including the Vedic, the ancient Egyptian, Sumerian, and Mayan took the longer cycle which astronomers theorize is related to the wobble of the earth around its axis. This takes about 26 thousand years and includes a full cycle of yugas like the seasons of the long year.
Imperceptible to us, the celestial canopy shifts one degree in the course of an average human lifetime. For instance, our Pole Star, Polaris, which now indicates due north, will no longer be to the north in a few centuries or millennia. A precessional year encompasses the twelve zodiacal ages, each of which lasts 2,150 years, indicated by the sign in which the sun rises on the vernal equinox. For instance, we are now on the cusp of the Age of Aquarius.
The ancient Egyptian society remained intact, with a consistent religion and social structure for four thousand years. This lifespan for a society is almost unimaginable for us, who live in a country that seems close to passing into oblivion after only a couple hundred years. The Egyptians intentionally adapted to the longer inexorable cycles in order to maintain resilience. This can be seen in the emblems and statues of different periods. For instance, the Old Kingdom motifs featured bovine representations during the age of Taurus. The Middle and New Kingdom representations morphed into rams during the age of Aries (and then became fishes in the age of Pisces, though with a new religion called Christianity, arguably a reincarnation of the ancient Egyptian religion).
Having the long cycle of ages in view can be an antidote to reactions against current events. With a view of the ages comes a sense that there are times that change is accelerated, and it is clear to all that we are living through such a time. With this long view, I may be able to have more equanimity as the canoe courses through the rapids; I may be able to navigate more soberly and skillfully.
Even more, I may be able to make use of the accelerated change for my inner work. As a teacher of the last century, G. I. Gurdjieff, who navigated through a revolution, a genocide, and two world wars aphorized: “The worse the conditions of life, the more productive the work, always provided you remember the work.”
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Every June, when we unfurl Chronogram’s Summer Arts Preview across page after glorious page—38 in this issue, beginning on page 55—I feel a bit like a proud stage mother, backstage at a middle school, beaming as our homegrown culture struts its stuff. If you want to understand what kind of place the Hudson Valley really is, look at summer’s cultural calendar: dance at Kaatsbaan; jazz on the Poughkeepsie waterfront; Shakespeare in Garrison’s fields; art exploding out of barns, black boxes, basements. This is a place, as we are fond of saying, where people make things.
This year’s edition of the preview—helmed by arts editor Peter Aaron—brings together some 150 events, from Bard SummerScape’s cerebral pleasures to nostalgic rock blowouts at Bethel Woods. From Jess Hargreaves’s feminist apocalypse at Elijah Wheat Showroom in Newburgh to the handmade strangeness of Brunel Park in Boiceville. From Suzanne Vega’s rodent-inflected balladry at the Ridgefield Playhouse to the intimate setting of the RAWdance salon series at the Senate Garage. From the arrival of comedian Kumail Nanjiani in Tarrytown to a screening of glam-punk classic Hedwig and the Angry Inch at Story Screen in Hudson. (Hedwig creator John Cameron Mitchell will be performing “Queen Bitch,” songs of David Bowie, at Bard’s Spiegeltent August 15-16.) The cultural ecosystem on display here is stubborn, irreverent, impossibly varied, and very much alive. And it is no accident.
Art happens in the Hudson Valley because people will it into existence. Not just the artists, though their persistence is often heroic—but also the small armies of administrators, volunteers, grant writers, gallery sitters, ticket takers, program note writers, production assistants, and people who, in exchange for no money and little thanks, agree to sit on boards of arts organizations. The arts require a village, and the region remains one—not in scale, perhaps, but in spirit. A place where the line between audience and artist is often blurred, and collaboration is the common tongue.
All of this, of course, makes the recent slashand-burn of arts funding from the NEA and other federal agencies all the more infuriating. As we reported last month, the Trump administration’s budget cuts have eliminated
funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, along with support for other key cultural programs. These decisions are already hitting close to home. The Center for Photography at Woodstock lost essential funding to support its artists in residence program. Hudson Valley Shakespeare was defunded too. The money was earmarked for its Tent Pole Commissions program, a rare pipeline for new work by living playwrights not named David Mamet. Paramount Hudson Valley in Peekskill lost a grant that would have helped fund Cirque Zuma Zuma—an African circus arts performance planned for Black History Month—and an Argentine tango showcase during Hispanic Heritage Month.
This is not just fiscal policy—it’s ideological warfare. The targets are not just funding lines but the very idea that art matters. That value might be measured in something other than quarterly returns or shareholder profit. That beauty, ambiguity, and empathy deserve a seat at the table. That what elevates a society is not what it accumulates but what it expresses—and shares.
But rage, as the great artists have taught us, is best transmuted. So here’s the turn. The philistinism of one administration cannot destroy what we have built here. Because we know that art is not a luxury. It’s not dessert. It’s not decoration. It is the story we tell ourselves about ourselves. It’s how we metabolize the unthinkable and make the unbearable sing.
And this summer, the song is still playing. It’s playing on the Hudson River with Jazz in the Valley. It’s playing on the grass of Stone Ridge Orchard at the Meadowlark festival. It’s playing in a portable theater in the Catskills where the Catskill Public Theater is staging multimedia works on the ripple effects of the Woodstock festival. It’s playing on Belleayre Mountain at Mountain Jam, inside the massive mill building at the Wassaic Project, in the open-air pavilion at PS21, and in Kingston Film Foundation’s makeshift cinema behind Red Owl Collective in Midtown. It’s playing on Bannerman Island, where you can watch Raiders of the Lost Ark under the stars after a short boat ride. It’s playing in Beacon, where the multi-modal Five Points Festival has moved from Brooklyn. It’s playing in New Paltz, in Cold Spring, in Millerton, in
Rhinebeck. Everywhere you turn, something brave and beautiful is being risked in public. Arts organizations in our region have always been scrappy. They stretch every dollar, reroute every setback, and make miracles out of mismatched folding chairs and expired grant extensions. They are powered by part-timers and true believers, by the artists who paint the sets and then hang the lights. They work long hours and late nights, not for profit but for purpose. And they will continue to do so, with our help.
Ars Longa, Vita Brevis Eveywhere you turn this summer in the Hudson Valley, something brave and beautiful is being risked in public.
Because while some would reduce the value of everything to a bottom line—to profit and power, politics and personal brand—there are other measures of worth. There is beauty. There is empathy. There’s the hush just before the music starts, the shared breath in a darkened theater, the way a single line in a play can rattle around your head for days. There’s the laugh that erupts before you realize it’s yours. The image that stays with you like a fingerprint on glass.
There are values that can’t be appraised or collateralized: wonder, connection, transformation. They are not fungible. They are not for sale. They belong to us. Art is long. Life is short.
Ordinary Joy BRUSHLAND EATING HOUSE IN BOVINA
By Elias Levey-Swain
Ithink people get lost in the minutiae of restaurants a lot,” Sohail Zandi says. “They forget that we’re here to eat food and to have a good time. It’s as easy as that.” So plainly goes the logic behind Brushland Eating House, in Bovina, co-owned by Sohail and his wife, Sara, where the founding tenet is “celebrating the ordinary.” This is a promise Brushland fulfills with simple food cooked well, amiable service, and a communal format that upends the formalist conventions of fine dining, infused with a celebratory spirit and a profound sense of place. Pounding the drum of gratitude and human connection, the Zandis throw a nightly party whose jocular din resounds throughout the quiet hills of the western Catskills, inviting all to join.
Sohail and Sara were in their 20s and working in restaurants in Brooklyn when they first visited Bovina. On a weekend escape from the city, they were attracted by the pastoral landscape and exquisite quietude and began dreaming of a life in the Catskills. A few years later, the couple purchased a historic commercial building sitting on County Highway 6, the 650-person town’s main drag. Unexpected and by all accounts unlikely, opening their own restaurant was simply “one of those things where the pieces in your life add up to something you didn’t see coming,” Sohail recalls. They opened Brushland Eating House in 2014, with Sohail in the kitchen and Sara managing the front of house.
Brushland, a onetime moniker for Bovina Center dating from the 19th century, is a nod to the hamlet’s history and a winking implication of a particular timelessness the Zandis seek to evoke. Tacking on “Eating House,” they drew on a regional heritage of informal dining establishments serving as social enclaves for the region’s local and wayfaring public. With the name,
the Zandis made plain the kind of restaurant theirs would be: A vibrant third place where folks could escape the perils and doldrums of everyday life, coming together around the simple act of eating.
Dinner As Connection
Brushland is typically open only three nights per week, with the main event being the supper club dinner, held on Friday and Saturday nights—a single seating at 7pm, $75 per person. The objective is an intimate, collective dining experience, more akin to a dinner party than a conventional restaurant. The hope is to bring people closer, reminding them “how lucky they are to be able to sit down at a restaurant and eat food together,” Sohail says—if not literally bumping elbows, then locking eyes across the dimly lit room and raising a glass in mutual recognition. “We are here to throw you a party,” their website states, “take advantage.”
The more casual Thursday nights at Brushland boast an a la carte menu of approachable bites, with small plates (like the recent brisket salad with herbs, pickled ramps, and labneh) going for $8 to $17 and larger dishes (such as braised shank au poivre in mid-May) in the $20 to $30 range. Casual and walk-in only, Thursdays offer a neighboring breed of intimacy to the supper club dinners while allowing Sohail a creative reprieve. “There’s only so many ways to cook food for 40 people at once,” he explains. “We’re always searching for reasons to excite ourselves, and to be able to provide an experience that feels like it comes from a place of joy.” In Sohail’s view, variation is essential to longevity: “The monotony is, I think, what gets you before anything else,” he says.
Chef Sohail Zandi prepares to turn out tahdig—the crispy, golden crust of Persian rice prized for its crunch and ritual drama at a recent Persian dinner at Brushland Eating House in the Delaware County town of Bovina.
Offering another deviation from the typical fare, each month at Brushland is punctuated by a Persian dinner. Honoring Sohail’s Iranian heritage, these feasts offer a periodic twist on the usual supper club, imbued with the colors, flavors, symbols, and warmth of Persian cooking. (The next Persian dinner will be held on Sunday, June 15.)
All dinners at Brushland are accompanied by a delightfully down-toearth wine list, as well as a selection of predominantly local beers and ciders. Despite the spirits-free menu, don’t be surprised if a friendly table-neighbor offers you a toast of something stronger.
Open for a decade now and often written about, Brushland has become a local institution with an ever-widening reach. And if success was an open question, it was answered in 2023, with Sohail’s nomination for a James Beard Award for Best Chef in New York State. Asked if the award had been a goal of his, Sohail just laughs. “If anything,” he says, “it was a joke”—a “what if?” scenario he and Sara would toss around, if only to imply its implausibility. If there’s a lesson to be gleaned from Brushland’s success, Sohail explains, it’s for those service workers in their twenties who don’t know where their lives are heading. “I want to tell them, you don’t always need to,” he says. “You’ll just figure it out. Just move forward.”
The Quiet Work of Giving a Damn
Still, it can be difficult to stay inspired. “Full disclosure,” Sohail says, “it’s getting tough.” Despite Brushland’s success, Sohail feels as though his particular gospel of celebration and gratitude “falls on deaf ears pretty often.” Informed by the trend-obsessed and impersonal thrust of contemporary dining culture, customers seem increasingly ill-prepared to forge the kind of connection he’s after. “It kills me that people come here and I don’t get to connect with them,” he laments. “You trusted me to give you something that you put into your mouth, and you’re 12 feet away from me, and we’re not saying anything to each other.” He worries that the celebratory magic of convening over food gets lost in the quotidian rhythm of individual experience; he yearns for mutuality and bemoans the pervasiveness of disconnected, transactional formality.
Sohail’s frustration reveals a tension fundamental to the work of cooking. “It’s tough,” he says, “because you have to trick yourself that what you’re doing is really important, but you also have to know, it’s not that important. You’re just giving people food that they paid for.”
Aware of this paradox, Sohail understands that having an audience requires a concession to interpretation. Often, his work conjures genuine connection—strangers become friends over a toast of Fernet, the dining room devolves into a sloppy singalong. But, nearly as frequently, it simply yields an empty plate and a closed-out check—a connection deferred.
“I won’t say I feel defeated,” Sohail says. Possessed by an infectious gratitude, he looks out the window from his kitchen daily, reminding himself, “I’m lucky to be here. I’m lucky to do a job that gives me the ability to keep this life going.”
With spring in full bloom, Sohail is excited about the foods that spell the end of the long Catskills winter. He delights in describing the chickens he’s ordered from a local farmer—harvested on Monday, to be served on Thursday, never frozen. He’ll serve small cuts on toast with lentils, shallots, and mayo. It’s simple food, cooked well. Ever-uninspired by what he calls “chef-boy food,” Sohail decries the popular urge toward esoteric dishes and the gratuitously abstruse. Far from the rarefied, cliquey world of haute cuisine, it is Sohail’s simple life in Bovina that his food expresses, and he wouldn’t have it any other way.
Asked about his goals for the future of Brushland, Sohail thinks for a moment before responding. “As long as we feel excited to be here, as long as I feel tired when I go to sleep at night, I can rest easy,” he says. For reservations, weekly menus, and more information, visit the Brushland Eating House website: Brushlandeatinghouse.com.
Brushland Eating House is located at 1927 County Highway 6 in Bovina. It is open for dinner Thursday to Saturday.
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Tallow
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Using his own food journey as a departure point, Austin Cornell, along with chef Nate Long, recently opened Tallow in Millerton to offer up nutrient-dense, sustainably sourced fast food. Leaning into the fast-food angle, Tallow is housed in a refurbished and reimagined former Burger King. The most popular item is the smashburger, a grass-fed beef patty with local cheese, house pickle, onion, and tallow sauce on a potato bun ($18). Other favorites include a pasture-raised chicken sandwich with egg, house pickles, raw local cheese, red cabbage, and house remoulade ($18), and the Melt, a grass-fed short rib and brisket sandwich with local cheese, Marty’s organic sourdough, and garlic aioli ($15). Each comes with a side of tallow fries. And something you won’t find at any burger joint I know: steak frites ($36.) Seasonal fruit sides, smoothies, and kid-friendly portions are available. Tallow.menu
Kapé Mo at Ascend Collective
75 Main Street, Cold Spring
Filipino food is getting more common in the Hudson Valley (with Hapag Bistro in Highland and Harana Market in Accord leading the charge). Kape Mo, located within the Ascend Collective building in Cold Spring, brings together Filipino fare with cafe offerings. For a hearty, more familiar dish, try the chicken barbecue sandwich ($17). If you’re more adventurous, the gluten-free longanissa sandwich offers a caramelized, garlic-infused pork cutlet served between two crispy rice patties with a side of fresh veggies ($14). In addition to standard espresso bar offerings, Kape Mo also offers pandan, ube, and honey lattes, plus cold-pressed juices and specialty sodas. Facebook.com/KapeMoColdSpring
Yummy Kitchen at the Cannonball Factory
359 Columbia Street, Hudson
The Cannonball Factory is a gorgeous 1871 industrial gem that’s been repurposed as a multiuse coworking, neighborhood market collective, and event space with some onsite vendors. Erstwhile food truck/caterer Yummy Kitchen has found a permanent home here for their mouthwatering pan-Asian dishes, which span from Vietnamese bahn mi to Thai panang curry and Japanese tonkatsu ramen. Hot soups might not be top of mind as the weather heats up, so consider cold spicy peanut noodles served with a melange of toppings including peanut sauce, cucumbers, cabbage, cilantro, scallions, crispy shallots, peanuts, and housemade chili crisp and chili oil—with chicken or tofu available as an add-on ($14 to $18). Another good summer dish is the chili lime chicken sandwich served on a toasted baguette (or in a bowl with rice and salad) with spicy chili, aioli, cucumbers, and lettuce ($14). Opened mid-May, the new Yummy Kitchen spot serves lunch from 11am to 3pm, Tuesdays through Saturdays. Yummykitchen.xyz
Moreish
207 Main Street, Beacon
In mid-May, Moreish reopened in a new standalone location on Main Street in Beacon after initially launching in the nearby Hudson Valley Food Hall in 2023. Headed up by English chef Michael Johnson and his wife, Shey Aponte, the new spot continues to offer up Moreish’s signature British classics from sausage rolls ($15) to the full English breakfast ($21.50). There’s just eight tables in a cozy interior whose aesthetic is classic English tea room meets Scandi minimalism. Currently open for breakfast and lunch, the menu features staples like beer-battered fish and chips with mushy peas ($28) and a ploughman’s lunch ($22). There’s also an afternoon tea service ($45) as well as dessert specialties like sticky toffee pudding ($14) and Banofee pie ($12). The table by the front window is great for people watching on Beacon’s main drag. Gimmemoreish.com
Pitanga North
128 Main Street, Gardiner
Bushwick restaurant Pitanga is well-loved for its vegan and vegetarian offerings, which include acai bowls, wraps, and other Brazilian breakfast eats. Building on this success, owner Raquel Furtado recently opened a second location in the old Gardiner Liquid Mercantile spot, which closed on April 1, dubbed Pitanga North. The new spot expands on the menu from Brooklyn and breaks with vegetarianism, though there are plenty of thoughtful, plant-based offerings to be had. Starters range from the delicious Brazilian “cheese bread” pao de queijo ($12) to oysters ($38 for a dozen) served with a tart, tropical passionfruit mignonette, and chicken croquette ($14). Meat-based mains include moqueca, a stew made with cod, shrimp, and jasmine rice ($27); and a sirloin steak from Veritas Farms, served in a molho madeira wine sauce with broccolini, pomme aligot, and mandioca-based farofa ($40). Pitanganorth.com
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On the second floor of an 1890s Victorian in Saugerties, Kym Chambers is piecing together a collection of summer vintage wear. The owner of Chambers Vintage—which includes online retail and a brick-and-mortar store in the village—admits she prefers old things. “Anything vintage adds a sense of heritage and a cozy feeling of being lived in,” she explains. “Each piece has a story and brings its own energy by being singular and sometimes irreplaceable.”
One of five white-washed bedrooms, the sun-drenched corner room seems particularly suited to Chambers’s creative work. Under an east-facing window, a work table is strewn with a tape measure, wooden coat hangers, and an iron. A steep utility staircase leads out to the backyard. The closet-cum-studio was the ideal spot to launch the Hudson Valley arm of her old-growth clothing line.
Last season blurs into the next here. Extending along one long wall, a clothes rack bursts with the vibrancy of long summer days and relentless photosynthesis: Deep, satiny petal reds crowd out a stalk of lime-yellow; billowy
white cotton shifts float alongside blue vintage denim; wild floral prints pop out from the cracks between formal and lounge wear. Tucked above on a high shelf, winter sweaters are folded away for storage like fluffy grey and white snowdrifts.
“I always build seasonal collections,” explains Chambers of her tendency to pluck decades old must-haves and rearrange them anew. “ The vibe usually comes from the color and texture. The fabric leads, but I have to sit with things for a while to figure out how they all go together.”
Outside, the quarter-acre lot is still in the spring planning stage. Set back from the street and guarded by ancient pines, the 2,650-squarefoot farmhouse was once the center of a cattle ranch. Now, Chambers and her husband Deon Hamer are slowly mixing and matching a 21st-century home from decades of separates. Like her fashion brand, their home celebrates old things—worn fabrics, reclaimed furniture, weathered wood—all made from materials and craftsmanship that can outlast the current moment. “Of course I bought a vintage house,” laughs Chambers. “My whole life is about secondhand reuse.”
By Mary Angeles Armstrong
Photos by Winona Barton-Ballentine
Deon Hamer, Kym Chambers, and their son Noah on the front porch of their Saugerties Victorian home. The couple, who share a love of antique, timeless, and vintage designs, loved the house from the moment they visited in 2021.
In the living room, the couple paired a CB2 rocking chair with a mid-century credenza bought second-hand at ANGL in Bed-Stuy. A collection of family portraits, as well as a self-portrait of Noah, sit on top of the credenza. The art on the bookshelf includes album covers by Roberta Flack, Harry Belafonte, The Ink Spots, and Stevie Wonder. A portrait of the couple is by photographer Kwame Brathwaite.
Tipping the Barrel
Growing up in Toronto, Chambers fell in love with vintage fashion in her family ’s basement. “My parents came from Jamaica in the 1970s,” she says. “ When they moved from the islands, they put all of their clothing into giant barrels to ship. My mother was always a clothes horse: when I was a kid I would go to the basement, jump into the barrels and pull things out.” Chambers has always loved clothing and she credits her mother ’s treasure trove of style with sparking her creative path. “She was really my first muse.”
After college, Chambers moved to London, where she began working as a stylist for commercials and videos. “I started to use a lot of vintage wear in my styling,” she explains. “I loved the challenge of reusing things and giving them new life. The pieces were so much more distinct than something mass produced.” Inspired to try selling vintage herself, she set up a rack at Portobello Market one weekend. “I got a vintage sewing machine and found used scarves in Camden’s Stables Market,” she remembers. “I started turning them into tops and skirts.” Her venture was a success. When she returned to
Toronto in 2004, she took a job in vintage fashion at Kensington Market. Years of sourcing classic pieces— with materials that stood the test of time and were perennially fashionable—helped her develop a keen eye for quality and the patience to sift through decades of discards to find the gems. “I looked through a lot of garbage before I found the diamond,” she explains. “ Your eye has to be trained.”
Little Miss Match
In 2009 Chambers decided to try her luck in New York City. “I was obsessed with fashion and wanted to live in the city and get something off the ground,” she explains. She moved to Brooklyn, where she worked designing costumes and a line of leather handbags.
In 2016, she met Hamer, a Brooklyn native and IT specialist. Although their sartorial styles were outwardly very different, the two nevertheless matched. “I’m eclectic vintage,” explains Chambers of their contrasting closets. “He’s classic American prep. Deon’s Brooklyn birth comes through in his shoe choice: Adidas, Stan Smiths, or Nikes.”
Despite their differing aesthetics, they shared a deep appreciation for the history and inherent sustainability of secondhand design. “ We’re both drawn to old things with a story,” says Chambers. “ We love taking things that already exist and giving them a new life. Someone’s story is in there, then you get to have it and it becomes your story too.” Like pairing a striped shirt with polka dot trousers, the two blended into one eye-catching outfit. They got married and their son Noah was born in 2019.
Fashionable Pivots
Chambers began her signature vintage brand the way many great things begin—by saying yes. “My son was six months old when I started selling Chambers Vintage online,” she explains. “ Two women with a really cute shop on Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn suggested I bring in a rack of clothes. It started with them asking, ‘Do you want to sell clothing in our shop?’”
The business grew and she decided to open her own storefront in Fort Greene. Then the pandemic hit. “I was about to sign a lease and then everything just got shut
down.” She pivoted, beefing up her website and focusing on the online retail arm of her brand.
In 2021 the lockdown restrictions eased and the family was ready to buy a house. “After 14 years in New York City, I just felt done with the intense rat race of city life,” explains Chambers. “Even before I met Deon, I would tell friends, ‘I’m going to move upstate.’” Both were ready for a slower, more grounded pace of life.
Early in their relationship, they ’d taken a weekend trip to the Saugerties hamlet of West Camp and loved it. Ready to put down roots, they revisited the area and realized it would suit them fine. “ We love nature, we love hiking, and we wanted something more peaceful,” she says. “ We also loved how creative and diverse the region is. We felt like it was a really interesting place where people come to make things.”
The Lucky Victorian After seeing a few dud listings in Kingston, they expanded their radius. “ We wanted some land and a yard,” says Chambers. “ When this house came online, we jumped.”
After a surface rehab of the home’s kitchen, the couple added a reclaimed wood table from the online store Olde Good Things. Hanging on the wall is a mix of art including a framed print of Grace Jones, a mini portrait by the Brooklynbased SILVIA, a painting of the couple by Mina Huckins, and a portrait of Chambers by Noah.
Top Left: In the upstairs bathroom, Chambers salvaged two Ikea chairs found on the street in Brooklyn and recovered them with deadstock fabric from the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Project.
Top Right: The couple converted the home’s dining room into a playroom for Noah. They bought the hanging Lunar New Year lantern on Mott Street in Manhattan.
Bottom: Overlooking a historic church and churchyard, the surrounding lot feels much more spacious than its quarter-acre footprint, with plenty of space for experimentation.
“We have a large and wild yard we are slowly working on taming,” explains Chambers. “We’ve also built the beginnings of a stone patio and a vegetable garden.”
They loved the Victorian’s center hall and staircase, and the ample layout. “It was as pretty as the pictures,” she says. “ We opened the door and above the staircase was a Chinese New Year dragon,” she recalls. “I just knew that this was the house we were going to buy.”
The structure was sound, but the original details had been covered with decorating trends long passed. Hamer and Chambers wanted to restore some of the home ’s original story but keep the design simple and family-friendly. “ We like things with a history,” she says. “ It doesn’t have to be perfect. We want things that will last but don’t want to worry about it if they get nicked.”
Their redesign began in the kitchen. “ We did just what we had to do: fix things, without changing the layout,” she says. They replaced the cabinets and appliances, then added a seamless sink and a new backsplash. They sourced brass fixtures and salvaged vintage doorknobs from Facebook Marketplace and added a reclaimed farmhouse table to the design.
Designed to Last
Throughout both floors, Chambers’s approach to decorating mirrors her approach to clothes: layered, unfussy, and full of found treasures.
“ The house is dressed similarly to how we dress,” she says. “It’s a vintage home with some nods to tradition.” In the street-facing living room, Chambers and Hamer matched Turkish rugs from Barri Boudin Designs with a sofa recovered in outdoor fabric. “ We love the aged feeling of the rugs,” she says. “ They match our vintage fabric pillows and silk Moroccan pillows from Josie’s Coffee Shoppe.” Kerry Pascale Davis Lyons at Tidy Corners helped them organize their spaces; in particular she reimagined the dining room as a playroom.
Next, the couple plan to remove linoleum and restore the original pine floorboards—but they ’ re not in a hurry. “A house like this is never really done,” Chambers says. “Our spaces feel like we’re making them up as we go along. It ’s the neverending story of a home that we feel really lucky to be a part of.”
Top: Chambers in front of her vintage shop on Main Street. “I definitely think Upstate has its own style,” she says. “With so many historic homes, people lean into the history in their interiors while adding in mid-century, Scandi hygge looks, and Moroccan and Turkish rugs for bohemian texture. Historic home colors are also popular—deep reds, Wedgewood blues, and sage green. Just like my house, I decorated the store with sustainability in mind with most pieces vintage and locally sourced.”
Bottom: Chambers’ second-floor studio office has access to a back entrance via the home’s second staircase. After launching Chambers Vintage online, she began utilizing the space for clients. “When I first started, this was a by-appointment studio,” she explains. “People would come up the staircase and shop here or get fittings. Now it’s just my workshop.”
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The Hidden Cost of Wellness in the Hudson Valley
Luxury wellness booms, but locals are priced out of healing traditions they helped create.
By Tracy Miller
In 2023, The Ranch Hudson Valley opened on a sprawling Gilded Age estate in Sloatsburg, offering guests week-long programs of guided hikes, organic meals, and massages—for $8,200. This wasn’t just a new luxury retreat. It marked a turning point: The Hudson Valley, long associated with grassroots healing and natural beauty, was now becoming a destination for high-end wellness tourism.
Since then, the trend has only grown. Wildflower Farms in Gardiner, Inness in Accord, and Troutbeck in Amenia now offer curated “restorative experiences” that command prices well beyond the reach of most locals. And the recent announcement of One&Only—a global luxury brand planning a resort and private residences in Hyde Park—signals that the region’s transformation is far from over. With a “Longevity Hub” spa and a partnership with the Culinary Institute of America, the project promises immersive wellness experiences in a region once known for community gardens, neighborhood clinics, and free meditation circles. This shift raises a pressing question: As wellness becomes a luxury commodity, who gets left behind?
From Collective Care to Curated Experiences
Not long ago, wellness in the Hudson Valley was built on accessibility and community. “When I
started practicing herbal medicine, everything was word-of-mouth, sliding scale, or free,” says Maria Lopez, a community herbalist and lifelong Kingston resident. She recalls leading free plant walks in Hasbrouck Park, teaching families how to make teas and tinctures from local herbs. “You didn’t need thousands of dollars to heal. You needed your neighbors.”
Those traditions haven’t disappeared—but they’re being overshadowed. Developers and luxury brands are capitalizing on the region’s appeal, turning it into a high-end backdrop for a global wellness economy now valued at $5.6 trillion, according to the Global Wellness Institute. “Clean air and mental clarity have been rebranded as luxury experiences,” says Dr. Emily Rosen, an economic geographer who studies wellness migration. “The irony is that the communities who nurtured these practices are now being priced out of their own traditions.”
For many longtime residents, this isn’t just economic displacement—it’s cultural. “Neighborhoods stop feeling like neighborhoods when most of the homes are empty during the week,” says Deborah DeWan, a Woodstock resident and local housing advocate.
The
Wellness Gap
This rise in luxury retreats comes as access to basic health care remains a struggle for many in the
region. In Ulster County, the number of people without adequate healthcare grew by nearly 12 percent from 2020 to 2023, according to Ulster County Department of Health statistics. Clinics in Newburgh and Poughkeepsie report long waiting lists, and local health workers say the system is stretched thin.
Meanwhile, high-end resorts offer $300 facials and wellness therapies with price tags in the thousands. “How can we talk about ‘restorative wellbeing’ when so many people can’t even get a checkup?” asks Jamal Thomas, a public health advocate in Newburgh. “For some, wellness is a lifestyle choice. For others, it’s a luxury they simply can’t afford.”
The contrast is jarring—and growing. “We see a lot of developer interest in this area,” says Austin DuBois, who heads Newburgh’s Industrial Development Agency. “But it needs to happen in a way that doesn’t exclude the people who already live here.”
When Wellness Signals Wealth
Luxury wellness is no longer just about health— it’s about status. “It’s not about feeling good,” says Jada Cruz, a licensed massage therapist from New Paltz. “It’s about being seen in the right places. Wellness is the new Rolex.”
At properties like The Ranch and the forthcoming One&Only resort, experiences are
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meticulously designed—from eucalyptus-scented linens to Swiss-designed longevity therapies. One&Only’s spa will be developed with Clinique La Prairie, a brand known for six-figure medical retreats offering everything from cellular regeneration to diagnostic immersion packages.
Prices haven’t been released, but One&Only’s other properties suggest that a weekend stay could cost more than a month’s rent for many locals. “It’s not about healing,” Cruz says. “It’s about branding.”
Displacement Without Moving Vans
While traditional gentrification often forces people from their homes, luxury wellness shifts the social landscape in quieter ways. In Kingston, Rhinebeck, and Woodstock, longtime residents say community spaces are changing. Affordable yoga studios close down, to be replaced by boutique wellness clubs. Sliding-scale acupuncture clinics struggle to compete with high-end spas. “You don’t need bulldozers when people can’t afford to belong anymore,” says Derrick Wilson, a lifelong Poughkeepsie resident. He used to run free tai chi classes in local parks—now he says it feels like there’s no public space left untouched by the luxury wave.
Even community events once centered around shared healing now carry steep ticket prices and glossy sponsorships. What used to be grassroots is now branded. “It’s like being a tourist in your own town,” Wilson says.
Pandemic Acceleration
The Covid-19 pandemic accelerated these changes. As remote work took hold, thousands of city dwellers moved to the Hudson Valley in search of space and safety. The influx pushed housing prices to new highs— Beacon’s median home price jumped 47 percent between 2020 and 2024. In Ulster County, the median home price rose 77 percent between 2019 and 2023. Developers and luxury brands followed, eager to serve the new, wealthier population.
For locals, the fallout was swift. Rents soared. Community clinics closed. “We lost three neighborhood health centers during Covid because they couldn’t pay the new rents,” says Cynthia Vega, a community health worker in Hudson. “At the same time, luxury retreats kept popping up like mushrooms after a storm.”
Diane Kutsher, chair of the Ellenville Chamber of Commerce, summed up the dilemma: “You want to fix up a town, attract investment. But if you’re not careful, you end up pushing out the people who helped build it in the first place.”
Growing Grassroots Alternatives
Despite the commercialization of wellness, grassroots efforts are alive and growing. In Hudson, the Healing Justice Collective offers free or donationbased yoga, herbal workshops, and trauma support at libraries and public parks. “Our ancestors didn’t need $200 massages to care for each other,” says Cynthia Vega, one of the organizers. “We’re continuing that legacy.”
In Newburgh, the Reclaim Wellness Project, led by BIPOC healers, hosts low-cost sound baths, breathwork sessions, and ancestral healing classes. “We’re building an ecosystem where healing isn’t a product,” says founder Malik Jones. “Our wellness isn’t for sale.”
Local leaders are joining the effort, too. In Ellenville, Mayor Evan Trent is advocating for a model of economic growth not centered on luxury tourism. “We want to grow, but in a way that includes everyone,” he says.
Who Gets to Heal?
The rise of luxury wellness isn’t just about spas and yoga—it’s about who has access to rest, care, and restoration. When companies sell “immersion in nature” at a premium, they’re putting a price tag on something that was once part of daily life.
“The wellness industry says, ‘healing is for everyone,’” says Jamal Thomas. “But it’s clear that healing is only for those who can pay for it.”
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Rhinebeck has a reputation. Quaint. Moneyed. Good at brunch. And while all of that is true—yes, the pancakes are pricy and yes, you will run into a celebrity buying goat cheese—it’s also, still, somehow, a real town. Not a simulacrum. Not a backdrop. A place where things happen that aren’t posted about in real time.
In Rhinebeck a priest blesses a red-tailed hawk like it’s the most natural thing in the world. Grown men chase a soccer ball across a field with comical intensity while the kids wait for their turn. A Porsche suns itself on East Market Street, just up the road from the hardware store and across from a shop that sells felt hats hand-formed on century-old blocks. You can get soft serve in one hand and a six-pack of housebrewed saison in the other and still make it to the forest before dusk.
There’s a nostalgia that clings to Rhinebeck, but not the cloying kind. It’s less “vintage” and more “well-maintained.”
It’s not trying to go back in time—it just never fully surrendered to the present. The result is a town that runs on its own frequency, not quite past or future, but tuned to a kind of perennial now. Old trees, new shops. Skate parks and art galleries. Pickup trucks and vintage convertibles. Photographer David McIntyre spent a few days in May capturing that rhythm, assembling a dozen visual dispatches from a community that’s often romanticized but rarely looked at straight on. His images neither flatter nor deflate. They observe. The players, the places, the rituals—sacred and mundane—are all treated with the same even gaze. And what emerges is a portrait of a village that, despite its fame and fuss, remains in many ways defiantly local. A place you can visit, but never fully know unless you’ve waited in line for a cone at Del’s or caught the light in Ferncliff Forest at just the right hour.
—Brian K. Mahoney
Above: A skateboard takes flight at the skate park in ThompsonMazzarella Park on Traver Lane.
Opposite above: A Saturday morning adult league soccer game at Thompson-Mazzarella Park.
Opposite below: A yellow Porsche catches the light—and a few stares—on East Market Street in front of Village Pizza.
Top: A 200-acre preserve of secondgrowth forest, Ferncliff offers solitude, birdcalls, and the occasional deer crossing. At the fire tower’s summit, the Hudson Valley unspools in every direction.
Bottom: Matt and Miranda Mobley’s Slow Fox Farm on Lake Drive blends hands-in-the-dirt farming with onsite brewing—where Scottish Highland cattle graze the fields and saison ferments just steps from the market.
Opposite, top: David Campolong Tony Capalbo, and James Himelright, owners of the Phantom Gardener, the organic and sustainable six-acre garden center on Route 9.
Bottom: A father and his kids cross Market Street, between errands and ice cream. In Rhinebeck, the pace favors conversation over rush.
Del’s Dairy Creme has been serving up cones, burgers, and summer memories for generations. In Rhinebeck, some things don’t need to change.
Michael Garfield Levine performing his one-man show, “Spinning My Wheels” at the Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck in May.
David Giroux, a member of artist-run Art Gallery 71, stands with his work outside the gallery on East Market Street.
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Clockwise from top left: Margaret Savino of Tiny House Ceramics, a mobile pottery shop on East Market Street.
Dana Boisson inside Brooklyn Millinery Company,
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Lazarus the owl, with handler Dr. Laura Jaworski, receiving a blessing from Pastor James Miller at the annual Blessing of the Animals at the Third Evanglical Lutheran Church on Livingston Street on May 18
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Red Hook
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Hooked on Red Hook
By Jamie Larson
Ask a stranger what they know about Red Hook and nine times out of 10 they’ll say, “The school district is really good.” While that’s true (the district was ranked in the top 18th percentile nationally by US News and World Report in 2024), a successful school doesn’t make the town great—an engaged community that prioritizes civic engagement, supports small business and agriculture, and provides adequate funding for the education of the next generation has the tools to grow a successful school system that then gives back in turn.
The proof is right in the center of town. Red Hook’s most exciting new business (or rather new much larger location for an existing business, now offering a vastly expanded menu) Bliss Juice and Smoothie Bar is owned and operated by Annie Sullivan, a 27-year-old Red Hook High School graduate.
“I want Bliss to be an oasis,” Sullivan says. “A place where people can come in, take a deep breath, and
know they’re putting something good into their bodies. That’s the goal.”
A few doors down and across the street is Taste Budd’s Cafe, a community hang with good food and a house-made chocolate and confections business. During the pandemic, owner Dan Budd founded Red Hook Responds, a nonprofit that provided free meals to anyone in need. Post-Covid, the organization still exists and has grown to include projects like working with FeedHV to gather unused food after events like the Dutchess County Fair, for redistribution.
Frankly, forget the school! Red Hook should be known for its food. Other eateries in the village like Chronogram readers’ favorite Misto, Flat Iron steakhouse, the Locavore Market, the Corner Counter, the Historic Red Hook Diner, Savona’s Trattoria, Brigitte Bistro, and Bubby’s (just to name a few) have quietly turned the town’s center into a diverse culinary destination and an easy place to grab a quality quick bite when in town for Apple Blossom Day, the Chocolate Festival, Gilson Fest, Hard Scrabble Day, or any of the other new communitycentric shenanigans stakeholders regularly dream up.
There's also a ton to eat and drink in the wider town, often directly on bucolic farmland, like the increasingly famous Rose Hill Farm cidery. Similarly, there’s multigenerational institutions like Greig Farm, home to a cafe, brewery, art gallery, hiking trail, pickyour-own program, the O-Zone ecofriendly refillery, goats, and Kesicke Farm, known throughout the region for its harvest season activities. Oh, and the Migliorelli Farm and Montgomery Place Orchard stands are awesome, too—understated but packed with farmfresh food.
It’s crazy that we still haven’t mentioned the sophisticated little village of Tivoli, the quiet hamlet of Barrytown, any of the town’s lively political drama (of which there is plenty at the moment), or even Bard College, which is overflowing with a diverse summer calendar of arts and cultural activities on campus, at the Fisher Center and under the Spiegeltent.
The point is: One does themselves a disservice to only think of Red Hook as a donut surrounding a school district (oh yeah! Mighty Donuts at the south end of town is incredible). The point is: Eat the donut.
Top row: Alex Geller, director, Red Hook Public Library; Craig Stafford, chef/owner Flatiron restaurant, with Nathan Stafford; Etta Shafer, Stevie Dunbar-Ruff (dog), Shea Shafer, Lincoln Rupe DeCarolis; Ash BradleyRickard, lead technical product manager at Optum Insight, with Atlas; Agatha Bacelar, Red Hook Chamber of Commerce, with Octavia.
Middle row: Dinha Siegel-Shea and Jeff Shea, owners, Millbrook Classics Auto Storage & Preservation; Dan Goldman, photographer, Maureen Gates, photographer/ publisher; Don O’Shea and Alicia O’Shea, teachers; Jennifer Howland, retired technology executive, Ken Migliorelli, owner, Migliorelli Farm; Sarah Carlson, owner, The Crows Nest and Elena Flores.
Bottom row: Roxanne Fischer, Red Hook Boat Club member; Olivia Larson, Jamie Larson, editor Rural Intelligence, Kristin Larson, teacher, Lucas Larson; Sarah deVeer, civic engagement coordinator at Bard College, Doug Keto, garden educator at Mill Road Elementary School.
Opposite, top row: Marguerite San Millan, Cocoon Theatre; Dina Fennell, beekeeper; Stefan Steil, interior designer.
Bottom row: Erin Moylan, Lofty Supply, cannabis microbusiness owner; Janett Pabon, general manager, Hotel Tivoli and The Corner.
Top row: Susan Hinkle, academic tutor, civil rights activist, community volunteer, Hope Hinkle, loyal companion; Kristina Dousharm, Kristina Dousharm Architecture; Timothy Goodwin, real estate, Sam Goodwin, Dr. Audrey Reichman, clinical psychologist; Chad Williams, owner of CWilliams Contractors, with Ruby Williams and Samuel Williams; Wilson Costa and Nadia Costa, owners, Misto Eats.
Middle row: Ryan Richardson, registered nurse, Shana Smith, art teacher, Pine Plains Central School District, with Everett Richardson and Antonia Van Ness, English teacher at Bulkeley Middle School, Andy Van Ness, band teacher, Linden Avenue Middle School, with Philip Van Ness; Troy Haley, county legislature candidate, Mikki Glass, Olive Haley.
row: Daniel Akst, publisher of Tivoli Books, Louise Dewhirst, events editor at the Daily Catch and marketing director at Tivoli Books; Roger Husted, ophthalmologist and Laurie Husted, chief sustainability officer, Bard College; Third Eye Associates Financial Planners crew: Jennifer McKinley, Beth Jones, Eva Ross, and Rob Alonso; Melissa McNeese, Fit PR, Brian McNeese, musician.
Middle row: Patrick Robinson, musician/ carpenter; Tobi Farley, library director, Tivoli Free Library; Judy Schmitz, self-employed; Juliet Harrison, owner, Equis Art Gallery; Robert McKeon, Red Hook Town Supervisor.
Join us for the June issue launch party on Wednesday, June 4 at C. Cassis, 108 Salisbury Turnpike in Rhinebeck, from 5:30 to 7:30pm.
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Bottom row: Judge Jonah Triebwasser; Ellen Triebwasser, retired.
On May 4, residents of Red Hook gathered at the high school for the Tour de Red Hook, a community bike ride around the village. We set up our pop-up portrait station in the parking lot. Thanks to all the Red Hookers who showed up to represent their town!
Top row: Town of Red Hook Greenway and Trails Committee: David Brangaitis, Lisa Whalen, Betsy Brauer, Kym Bradley-Rickard, Cat Viega.
Middle row: Sylvie Huffman; Nancy Lee, florist, Petals and Moss; Paul LaBarbera, soccer coach; Nick Ascienzo, director, Ascienzo Family Foundation.
Bottom row: Jeremy Croft, Sara Croft, Leah Croft, Aiden Croft; Shep Crane, Johanna Crane.
Litchfield County Road Trip
J. Seitz & Co.
9 East Shore Road, New Preston, CT Jseitz.com
For over 38 years, J. Seitz has been a beloved destination shop in the charming village of New Preston. Located in a 5,000-square-foot vintage building overlooking a 40-foot waterfall, the family-owned emporium features a carefully curated selection of sustainable goods. Design enthusiasts will find Belgian linen upholstery from Cisco Brothers, Lee and Libeco Home, along with eclectic accents needed to decorate in style. Women’s and men’s apparel, accessories, and jewelry, from exciting indie brands like Campomaggi Italian Bags and Ottotredici Cashmere Scarves share the space with favorite contemporary brands like James Perse, Hartford Paris, Frank and Eileen, and AG Jeans. Interior design services are available. Open every day.
Fern is a contemporary Italian restaurant located in a former historic fire house in the heart of Lakeville. Opened in 2023, Chef Gianni Scappin and Luciano Valdivia offer their lauded menu, featuring seasonal, local ingredients combined with the highest quality Italian products.
Morrison Gallery
60 North Main Street, Kent, CT, Morrisongallery.com
Discover the new home of Morrison Gallery, now located at 60 North Main Street in Kent. Open Friday through Sunday, the gallery presents a thoughtfully curated selection of international contemporary art, notable Midcentury estates, and striking large-scale paintings and sculpture. The inaugural exhibition in the newly built 6,500-squarefoot space features works by prominent Post-War artists, alongside emerging and established contemporary artists. Founded in 1999 by William Morrison, the gallery has become a cultural landmark for Litchfield County and beyond. This summer, they launch a new program of rotating indoor and outdoor exhibitions, with the first opening reception on June 28 from 5 to 7pm.
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The Hotchkiss Library of Sharon
10 Upper Main Street, Sharon, CT (860) 364-5041
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Annual Sharon Summer Book Signing on Friday, August 1 from 4:45 to 7:30pm on the library lawn. Meet favorite local and visiting authors, discover new reads, and enjoy an evening filled with literary charm. The festivities continue on Saturday, August 2 from 10am to 4:30pm with Page to Plate, a brand-new culinary-literary experience where books and bites meet. Enjoy live readings paired with delicious food inspired by the stories themselves, catch chef demos, and explore the delightful connection between literature and cuisine.
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Iconic New Yorker
Cartoonist Roz Chast
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Carol Cory Fine Art
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After five years, Carol Corey Fine Art is hosting its final show—an exhibition of new works by legendary New Yorker cartoonist and longtime gallery friend Roz Chast. Chast, whose off-kilter, wiggly characters and relatably anxious worldview have been part of the American subconscious for decades, was the natural choice to give Carol Corey’s gallery a memorable sendoff.
“Roz has an enormous fan base, and people really come out for her shows,” Corey says. “Everybody just laughs—and it’s a really wonderful thing to hear in a gallery.”
Running through June 8, “Roz Chast: New Work,” will feature a collection of recent New Yorker cartoons, embroideries, and a fresh batch of Chast’s pysanky eggs—all infused with the charmingly unstable energy that defines her work.
“It’s going to be a lot of cartoons—that’s pretty much what I’m probably best known for,” Chast says with a laugh. “But I also get obsessed with different crafts. I just kind of want to do them for a while.” Alongside the original cartoons and covers, the show will spotlight her vibrant hand embroideries—pieces that look, uncannily, like her drawings stitched directly onto fabric, shadows and all. “Carol pointed out that I embroider like someone who draws,” Chast says. “I sketch it first—it’s the architecture—and then
feel my way through it.”
Anthropomorphized bird imagery appears frequently in the embroideries, a theme Chast attributes to her lifelong affection for feathered creatures, both indoor and outdoor. “Birds have really rich personalities,” she says. “And sometimes they’re just a little... unhinged. Which, you know, I relate to.”
Adorably Awkward
Chast’s work is defined by its ability to capture a sense of nervous, urban claustrophobia. Though she’s lived part-time in Connecticut for years, she admits she’s never quite adjusted to rural life. “I’m really a city kid,” she says. “I didn’t learn to drive until we moved out here, and I never really got comfortable with it. I feel more at home in an urban environment.” She rarely ventures out to regional events or performances—and jokes that she’s far more likely to be found inside, absorbed in her many projects, than hiking any of the nearby trails. Alongside the stitched works, Chast is also bringing one of her most delightfully unexpected mediums: pysanky eggs. Using a traditional Ukrainian wax-resist technique, Chast first learned the craft in 2004 and quickly adapted it to her signature style. “You’re drawing on a round surface and you have to think in the negative,” she says.
Above, from left, two New Yorker cartoons by Roz Chast: Adult Arugula, October 7, 2024; Uncalled-For Notifications, April 28; 2025.
Below: Chast with gallerist Carol Corey.
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“Which, I’ve joked, comes very easily to me.” She estimates she’ll have between one-and-a-half and two dozen eggs ready for the show, carefully transported, of course, in humble egg cartons. For those still complaining about egg prices, beware. Chast’s eggs sell for $600 a pop, so a dozen will run over $7,000.
A Fond Farewell
The pairing of artist and gallery is especially poignant. Chast has worked with Corey for decades, since her days running a gallery in New York City, a relationship marked by deep trust and mutual admiration. “I love Carol,” Chast says. “You hear stories about galleries that are incompetent or unscrupulous. Carol was neither. She’s just great to work with.”
Corey opened her Kent gallery in late 2020, after decades working in Manhattan. Though she originally swore she would never open another gallery after leaving New York, the warm Kent Barns community—and the surprising success of Chast’s pysanky egg sales, which Cory started selling from home during lockdown—nudged her back into it. “The sale of Roz’s eggs gave me the down payment to open the gallery,” Corey says. “Roz helped make this happen.”
The show will also be a going-away party for Corey. She and her husband are relocating to Scotland to be closer to family. “It’s hard to leave,” she admits. “Kent became a true home to me almost immediately, and the friendships and community we built here are very dear.”
But before she trades New England barns for the Scottish countryside, Corey is closing her gallery with humor, affection, and the touch of beautiful chaos that Chast brings to the world.
“Roz Chast: New Work” will be on view through June 8 at Carol Corey Fine Art in Kent, Connecticut.
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June 1
New Paltz Pride
This is the 21st anniversary year of the historic gay nuptials on the steps of Village Hall. The march steps off at New Paltz Middle School at noon, with festivities in Hasbrouck Park until 5 pm.
June 1
Athens Pride
Athens Pride will host its sixth annual Pride flag raising and community gathering on Sunday, June 1 at 5pm at Riverfront Park, located at the foot of Second Street.
June 7
Kingston Pride
The Hudson Valley LGBTQ+ Community Center is holding Kingston Pride from 12 to 7pm with food, festivities, and fun.
June 7
Stanford Pride
The 4th annual Stanford Pride event will be held at Thomas Equestrian in Clinton Corners from 1 to 4pm and feature music, food, and an array of activities for all ages.
June 8
Woodstock Pride Parade
Woodstock Pride’s parade will step off from the Comeau property at 1pm and process to Colony, where a post-parade bash MC’d by Chris Wells includes DJs, bands, stilt walkers, and a variety of other performers.
June 8
Warwick Pride
Warwick Community Center will host their annual family friendly Pride Day: Loud & Proud from 11am to 5pm. At 1:30pm the Pride Parade departs from the Community Center led by Funkrust Brass Band and processes to Veterans Memorial Park for performances and celebration.
June 13-15
Pride Weekend at Omega Institute
Showcasing LGBTQIA+ faculty of global renown, this weekend offers 10 workshops centered on queer storytelling, embodied empowerment, activist art, bold leadership, radical self-love, rewilding the imagination, gender and sexuality exploration, and spiritual nourishment.
June 14
Poughkeepsie Pride Parade
The city’s annual pride parade will start at noon and march down Main Street to Waryas Park, where festivities will feature vendors, performances, and community booths.
June 14
Putnam Pride
The 6th annual Putnam Pride kicks off at 1pm with a rally at the Putnam County Historic Courthouse in Carmel , followed by vendors, food, and celebration at Veterans Memorial Park with hosts Angel Elektra and Shay D’Pines.
So Much Pride, So Little Time Round-up of Pride Events
Once upon a time, the Hudson Valley had to borrow its Pride. Queer folks packed the car, kissed the cat goodbye, and pointed south to New York City or west to Northampton in search of something that felt like home. But that was then. Now, home shows up for us. The Pride calendar in the Hudson Valley is not just full—it’s overflowing. From Beacon to Catskill, Newburgh to Hudson, the month of June is glitter-drenched, flag-festooned, and unabashedly fabulous.
We’re not talking about one-size-fits-all Pride, either. These events are as local as they are loud—each with its own flavor. Family-friendly park picnics. Stonewall-saluting speeches. Outdoor drag shows, bar crawls, zine fests, queer film nights, bike rides, tea dances, and joyful marches down Main Street. Some are new, others are now local traditions, complete with parade route debates and preferred portable toilet vendors.
And let’s not forget that Pride is protest too—especially in a year where the national tide is turning against LGBTQ+ rights. The visibility, the joy, the sheer presence of our queer and allied neighbors out in the streets is not just a party—it’s a statement.
The Hudson Valley is still a place where love lives, and in June, it lives out loud. Dig out the sunscreen and sequins. There’s a Pride for you, and probably three more you’ll have to miss. What a fabulous problem to have. NB: This is only a partial list—there is much more going on!
June 15
Beacon Pride
Queer Family Network will host Beacon Pride at The Yard from 1 to 5 pm, with arts, music, food, community tables and emphasis on family.
June 21
OutHudson Pride Parade and Festival
OutHudson’s 15th annual Pride theme is “There’s No Place Like Home.” There’ll be festival programming, vendors, and performances throughout the day in addition to the parade, which kicks off at 2pm from 7th Street Park.
June 22
BeckHook Pride Parade
BeckHook Pride will take to the streets of the Village of Red Hook for a Pride Parade, starting at 10 am. A celebration in the village’s municipal lot will follow, with music, performance, face painting, and light refreshments.
June 21
Pride on the Green
Safe Harbors of the Hudson is producing its second annual Pride on the Green in Newburgh from 11am to 4pm, hosted by Andramada and includes music and dancing.
June 28
Peekskill Pride
The 5th annual Family Pride in the Park at Pugsley Park from 2 to 6pm features crafts and games, music, pet photos, drag queen story time, and performances.
Celebrants at 2024 BeckHood Pride. This year’s event takes place on June 22 in Red Hook.
Joy as Resistance
HOW THE HUDSON VALLEY IS RESISTING DEI REPEALS
By Devon Jane Schweizer
Even with the threat of mighty winds whipping some of the world’s largest pride flags into the Hudson River, the Hudson Valley’s queer community marches on. During Big Gay Hudson Valley ’s second annual pride kickoff, Pride in the Sky on May 18, locals paraded two giant flags to the middle of the Walkway Over the Hudson starting from either end. They held hundreds of feet of pride taut against fierce gusts as children darted under the billowing fabric. When the gay and trans flag met in the middle, people celebrated the magnificent rainbow under a looming dark sky. With the queer joy and uncharacteristic foreboding clouds overhead, it was a fitting metaphor for the current political moment.
President Trump’s continuing repeals of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) positions and initiatives within the federal government have cast a dark shadow over minorities nationwide. Under the guise of instilling a merit-based hiring system, Trump has chipped away at LGBTQ+ protections, especially with regard to gender. A slash here says that all DEI offices, positions,
and programs in the federal government are null and void. A slash there says goodbye to Equal Employment Opportunity, a decades-old executive order requiring anti-discrimination practices and compliance with civil-rights laws. Another letter threatens federal defunding of K-12 schools if they don’t lose their DEI programs. An email from the White House Office of Personnel Management demands that references to gender ideology be removed, including pronouns in email signatures. In fact, gender is no longer an acceptable term; the US government only recognizes sex assigned at birth.
The Hudson Valley, though staunch in its queer support, hasn’t gone untouched by DEI pushback. The Hudson Valley LGBTQ+ Center has been told to change language on grant applications to exclude DEI wording. Haldane Central School District in Cold Spring voted to suspend their DEI policy in fear of losing federal funding, only to go back on the decision after federal judges in other states managed to block cuts to funding for their public schools. Poughkeepsie Pride has lost corporate sponsorships from previous years due to
changes in “funding priorities.” The safety net of a progressive New York State is not sturdy enough to balance on, and queer people are leaning on each other.
School’s Out
When Rob Conlon, co-chair of the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) MidHudson Chapter, got his start at the organization 25 years ago, he was still getting told that schools didn’t have gay or lesbian students. Today, it’s hard for the chapter to keep up with the numerous educator and student requests for LGBTQ+ informed courses and training. With more and more calls to censor books with queer messages from schools nationwide, GLSEN frequently provides schools with LGBTQ+ books and resources. At local parent meetups, the group facilitates conversations about how to advocate for students within the community. Ultimately, the goal is self-sufficient, supportive districts. “There’s still a sense in some of the school districts that they need an outside expert to come,” Conlon says. “There are already LGBTQ+ people on staff that could be the in-house experts.”
Pride in the Sky on Walkway Over the Hudson on May 18.
Photo by Kyle Bredberg
Kathy Sellitti, the Kingston City School District’s director of DEI, is the perfect example. Though she doesn’t directly interact with students in her behind-the-scenes work emphasizing inclusive language and bringing staff awareness to New York State’s queer legal protections, her very presence serves as queer visibility. “I would consider myself queer presenting, and kids find me,” Sellitti says. “I think that’s an effort to look for, support, or to just see representation in terms of ‘Wow, I can make it to just be an adult someday,’ which sometimes doesn’t feel possible when you are a persecuted person.”
Artistic Allyship
“What young people show me and other members of our community is that we can actually continue to expand the tent and not be threatened,” says photographer Kate Warren. “Not to feel like someone else’s freedom is coming at my expense, but that someone else’s freedom actually makes me more free.”
Warren runs queer artist residency Golden Kin Studio on this idea of collective freedom. In a serene farmhouse between Hudson and Red Hook, they prioritize a social-justice-informed space to queer and BIPOC artists for as long as they need it. Their homemade vegan stews and cups of tea don’t hurt either. As getting funding and grants to make art as a queer person grows increasingly difficult, Warren gives space for artists to work and connect, or if they choose, just rest and enjoy a warm family dinner.
Art is at the core of queer visibility. Drag, music, dance, and visual art all serve as avenues for
queer expression and resistance. Queerly, Inc., the nonprofit behind Woodstock Pride, understands this, with a rich variety of art programming offered throughout Pride month. As rainbow fitted drag queens come striding down Tinker Street for the second year in a row, Woodstock Pride will be honoring Mr. and Mr. Woodstock, Chris Wells and Bobby Lucy, founders of the vibrant art collective The Secret City. Trees will be sweatered in colorful crochet, and local musicians will bound proudly past the Village Green onto the Colony stage.
“Art can be a healing process for many, a form of resistance for those experiencing discrimination and injustice, sometimes even helping challenge the social norms of society,” says Gerald Lanza, the head of the Woodstock Pride Art Committee.
“Art in all its forms can act as a catalyst for love and building a more inclusive society as a whole.”
No Parade Required
“There’s that much happening here now where you can literally do something gay every night of the week,” says Stephan Hengst, the co-founder of Big Gay Hudson Valley. Since 2008, Hengst and his husband, Patrick Decker, have been a guide for queer folks in the area. What started as a Facebook group sharing LGBTQ+ centered events with a few friends has grown to become a powerhouse of queer resources for hundreds of thousands. Whether for community support or somewhere to have fun on a Friday night, their events and local guides to queer-friendly businesses are there for people of all identities and generations. With DEI pushbacks undermining
diverse and inclusive businesses, local business owners can use the support more than ever.
“We have to put our money where our mouth is, and if we want to see the diverse community that has the same values that we all do, we have to support the businesses that are investing and bringing that talent and creating those experiences in our communities. Because if we don’t do it, they’ll stop,” Hengst says.
Half the battle is showing up, and sometimes showing up isn’t picket signs or the front lines of protests. It’s a drink with queer friends at Unicorn Bar in Kingston. It’s a crowd of children at Drag Story Hour in Poughkeepsie. It’s a meetup at a local pride center. It’s knowing you’re not alone.
“The assumption that we’re progressive, that everybody gets it and representation is not needed is so wrong,” says Jennifer Brown, secretary of Queerly, Inc., who also happens to be a globally recognized DEI thought leader with her own inclusivity consulting business. “Kids need to see it. We need to see businesses with rainbow decals in their windows. We need to see the efforts that people go to to show up. We can’t take it for granted.”
Queer joy is not just happiness. It’s a tool for defiance against oppressive forces. It’s a reclamation of authentic expression in the face of darkness. “We have to be joyful, we have to celebrate. We have to be in spaces where we demonstrate our love, where we demonstrate our happiness, where we demonstrate how successful we can be just through being,” Conlon says. “That joyful visibility is not only resistance, but it is the foundation of our growth.”
The 2024 Pride march in Newburgh.
Matt Pond PA
The Ballad of Natural Lines (131 Records)
Kingston-based band Matt Pond PA’s album The Ballad of Natural Lines is reflective of a hazy Hudson Valley sound: Something not precisely defined, but some collision of country twang, nature-inspired subject matter, and the aesthetic of the cheap-beer enjoyer of the hipster variety. Much of this comes together on the release, where charm and awkwardness are happily joined. It’s a feat of organization, with 13 musicians, three engineers, and three recording studios involved. The result is like a stuffed suitcase, zipped up by leader Matt Pond, whose namesake band supports him in his earnest vocals with muscular drums, piercing guitars, and liquid strings. The title track sets a happy-go-lucky tone, but with a hint of reflective melancholy and a polished, pop-rock chorus. On “Connecticut,” the dissecting of the title through witty wordplay gives the song a sardonic tilt, riding on the sharp edge of a forward-driving pulse.
Everything changes with “The Clivia in the Living Room,” an instrumental interlude where, despite the album’s high production value, brings back a crackle, a certain graininess that’s often buffed out in more produced music. It’s something you don’t realize you miss until you hear it again, which, coincidentally, is the sonic feeling of this tender tone poem. After the spikier instrumental “Number 9000,” the second half of the album starts sunsetting. The brooding and downtempo “Musik Express,” despite having repeated lines, abandons traditional song structure and reads like a confessional monologue. Just before you’re lulled into sleep with the somniferous “Risky Business,” the album goes out with the dusky “Winged Horse.”
—Tristan Geary
Before the Warning Delayed Gratification (Cacophone
Records)
In true punk rock style, this debut record from Albany’s Before the Warning zips by in less than 20 minutes. Comprised of veterans from scene stalwarts
4 Minute Warning and the Riff Raffs, the quartet plays songs that are easily digestible pop punk; antecedents include the Ramones, the Descendants, and Operation Ivy. The production is clean and concise, and the band’s 4/4 blitzkrieg attack is tempered by just a hint of ska on tracks like “Violet Girl” and “Rimshot.” “Model American” rails against apathy and injects a dose of political sensibility amid songs that otherwise focus on dissolute youth and personal freedom, while “Dagobah” references the home of the Star Wars character Yoda. Released on Cacophone Records, home of area mainstays such as the Erotics, Blasé DeBris, and Trauma School Dropouts, Delayed Gratification delivers the type of caffeinated, melodic punk that has long been a Capital Region hallmark.
—Jeremy Schwartz
Garlands
Vulneraries Vol. 7
Vulneraries Vol. 8
Tall Owl Audio
In his poignant liner notes for Volumes 7 and 8 of Vulneraries, the captivating, long-running series he records with his son Kenji, Hudson composer and multi-instrumentalist David Garland—a seminal avant-garde refugee of New York’s fabled 1980s downtown scene— defines vulneraries as “healing medicine.” Indeed, the idea for the series was formed in the wake of David’s wife Anne’s terminal cancer diagnosis, with the family entwined in a collective, collaborative sonic healing modality. This paternal-filial dialogue is embodied by the duo’s innovatively enmeshed instrumentation: an acoustic 12-string guitar and modular synthesizer in complete attunement, both complementary and contrapuntal, in flux. Conjuring the spirit of their lost matriarch, their interlocutory peregrinations might be summoning sentient arboreal voices. Vol. 8 is sparer, more austerely arranged. Vol. 7 is lusher, the duo’s guitar-synth articulations embellished by woodwinds—clarinet, bass clarinet, flute—and bass. The two men evoke a dizzying range of musical voices, from the earthbound elegiac to the ecstatic empyrean.
—Michael Wiener
SOUND CHECK | Gary Chetkof
Each month we ask a member of the community to tell us what music they’ve been digging.
Since the Mountain Jam festival is right around the corner (June 20-22), I am listening to many of the artists that I booked last year to play the festival, in anticipation of singing along to many of their songs. I am obsessed with Mount Joy’s “Highway Queen,” especially the version with singer Maren Morris. Plus, their new song “Coyote” is great and showcases the diversity of their songwriting. Goose’s new album, Everything Must Go, has been out for a few months and I can’t get enough of it. “Give It Time” starts off as a slow ballad and then kicks into high gear. And Khruangbin has been one of my favorite artists for the past five years; I especially like their collaboration with Leon Bridges from 2020, which features their popular song “Texas Sun.” Khruangbin’s 2024 album A La Sala is truly unique,
and the ethereal song “May 9th” really transports me into another dimension.
And speaking of Leon Bridges, he is my other music obsession at the moment. He is the new Marvin Gaye, and I cannot get enough of his new album Leon. The song “Laredo” is so smooth and beautiful, as is the song “Ain’t Got Nothing on You ”
And speaking of soul music, Curtis Harding is a new emerging artist and his recent release There She Goes is also reminiscent of Martin Gaye and ’70s soul. “I Won’t Let You Down” from his 2021 album If Words Were Flowers is often played on Radio Woodstock. And circling back to Mountain Jam, our festival favorites Micheal Franti and Spearhead have a new album, Welcome to the Family, and a really beautiful and meaningful song, “Break Up with Everything.” It chokes me up every time I hear it.
Gary Chetkof is the principal owner and CEO of Radio Woodstock/WDST and the founder of the Mountain Jam music festival.
The Cloud Intern
David Greenwood UNDER THE BQE PRESS, 2025, $19.95
David Greenwood’s The Cloud Intern is a debut novel that reads like a satire-laced startup manual coauthored by Kafka and Kara Swisher. Set aboard a floating tech utopia called the Sky Yacht, the novel follows reclusive mogul Chris Curtis—an Elon-ish figure in exile—whose encounter with an enigmatic intern named Zoraida launches him into a spiral of strange revelations and stranger choices. Greenwood skewers our fetish for innovation while poking tenderly at the brittle human bits underneath the cloud-based sheen. That he lives right here in Kingston, not Palo Alto or some desert biotech compound, makes this sharp little fable all the more delicious. Published by Brooklyn micropress Under the BQE, The Cloud Intern is a weird-and-wonderful local export you’ll want in your summer tote.
Plato and the Tyrant
James Romm
W. W. NORTON & COMPANY, 2025, $31.99
In Plato and the Tyrant, James Romm—James H. Ottaway Jr., professor of classics at Bard College—delivers a gripping narrative that peels back the layers of the philosopher Plato’s life, revealing a man deeply entangled in the political upheavals of his time. Drawing from Plato’s personal letters, Romm chronicles the philosopher’s ventures in Syracuse, where he sought to guide two tyrants named Dionysius towards philosophical rule. These endeavors, however, led to catastrophic consequences, including a civil war that reshaped Greek Sicily. Amidst this turmoil, Plato penned his seminal work, Republic, envisioning the concept of a philosopher-king. Romm’s account not only humanizes Plato but also offers a fresh perspective on the origins of Western political thought, illustrating how lofty ideals can clash with the harsh realities of power.
Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature
Forest Euphoria is a genre-defying debut that blends memoir, science writing, and queer ecological theory into a luminous meditation on belonging. Raised in the swamps and culverts of the Hudson Valley, Kaishian—now curator of mycology at the New York State Museum and faculty with the Bard Prison Initiative—found kinship in the overlooked and the in-between: fungi with thousands of mating types, intersex slugs exchanging “love darts,” and glass eels whose sex remains undetermined until their final year of life. Her lyrical prose invites readers to see queerness not as anomaly but as a fundamental expression of life’s diversity. This book is a gift to anyone who’s ever felt out of place, and a reminder that nature itself resists binaries. A must-read from one of our region’s most original voices.
The Lost Voice
Greta Morgan HARPERONE, 2025, $28.99
A longtime touring musician—known for her work with Vampire Weekend, Jenny Lewis, and her own projects—Greta Morgan’s world unraveled in 2020 when Covid led to a diagnosis of spasmodic dysphonia, a neurological disorder that silenced her singing voice. What follows is not just a story of loss, but of radical reinvention. From backstage green rooms to the red canyons of Utah, Morgan’s journey is both physical and spiritual, as she learns to listen anew—to the world, to others, and to herself. Written with poetic clarity and emotional honesty, this debut is a luminous, soul-baring memoir that charts the collapse and reconstruction of an artist’s identity. Morgan now lives in Woodstock, where she continues to create, teach, and listen.
Home Inside the Globe: Embracing Our Human Family
Gail Straub
GREENLEAF BOOK GROUP, 2025, $28.95
Straub’s Home Inside the Globe is a sweeping memoir of movement and meaning, tracing her decades of work in global women’s empowerment alongside a deeply personal search for connection. From the sands of the Sahara with Tuareg nomads to refugee camps in Jordan, Straub’s story is one of radical empathy and cross-cultural encounter. Her prose moves between the political and the poetic, driven by a belief that our differences are less significant than our shared human longing to belong. Part travelogue, part spiritual reflection, Home Inside the Globe offers a hard-won optimism forged in the world’s most tender and turbulent places. A powerful offering from a Woodstock-based writer with a global reach.
—Brian
K. Mahoney
Exit Zero
Marie-Helene Bertino
FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX, 2025, $18
In her short stories, Marie-Helene Bertino transforms banalities into the breathtakingly surreal. Given such a compact format, it’s essential that the author engages the reader quickly. Each of the dozen stories in her new collection, Exit Zero, instantly sparks the imagination. Take for example the enticing lede of “Flowers and Their Meanings”: “The summer my mother has hernia surgery, a tiger escapes from our tiny shore-town zoo.”
The book’s title story centers around possessions left to Jo by her deceased father, from whom she was estranged. She is urged by the executor of the estate to take care of some “sensitive” items quickly—the next day, if possible. She drives to his house, cleaning up and finding not much except, curiously, apricot juice and zoo flyers. But she hears noises in the yard and discovers a silver unicorn, who promptly begins to chew up the kitchen after being brought inside. (“If it weren’t for the horn—the only pleasant thing about it, Jo thinks—navy-colored with flecks of glittery mineral issuing out from an active, spiraling core—it would look like a frustrated donkey.”) Jo can’t leave the unicorn alone, so she lowers the seats in her station wagon and the unicorn folds itself in, resting her muzzle on the console between the front seats, and they drive to the Econo Lodge where Jo’s staying. (Note the resonance of the motel as a netherworld refuge with that in Miranda July’s All Fours.)
Other stories concern ghosts trapped in a bag of farmers’ market peaches purchased on a drive home from Long Island; the buyers conclude that the only way to be rid of the ghosts is to eat all the fruit. In another, a woman finalizing a divorce (Lottie) shares a cab with an art dealer, and by default becomes caretaker to a diamond-dust portrait of Cher by Warhol after the cab crashes, the dealer dies, and Lottie is ignored at the potential buyer’s office. A woman spends an evening at the TV bar Cheers, interacting with Sam, Carla, Frasier, and Lilith. A boy who gains vision is taken by his father to Knightwatch, “an imaginative experience in a Gothic cathedral,” complete with peacocks. As she did in her novel Beautyland, Bertino quietly injects magical realism into her writing, creating a vibration between daily tedium and a vast imagination. Her protagonists are regular people dealing with extraordinary situations. Rather than dramatizing the unreal phenomena, or drawing attention to how bizarre the situation is, she introduces the absurd in the same way she might describe making a pot of coffee. It provides a sort of delightful catharsis for the mind to come up with transportive scenarios without needing to justify their existence or mechanisms.
—Susan Yung
Nothing
There are no footsteps here— only echoes dragging their shadows across the ash. The sky is a sealed eye, and the stars have stopped pretending to care.
I speak just to feel my own voice again, but it dies before it leaves my throat. Even silence has abandoned this place.
I walk the ruins of thoughts that never became prayers. I touch stone that was once warm and pretend it remembers me. It doesn’t.
—Sam Braselmann
(13 years)
Aphasia
Evening sunlight drapes across her face as she stares vaguely in my direction. For a moment I feel her eyes meet mine, but in the instant I realize that to meet a gaze requires more than a mere overlap of pupils; it is a recognition, an identification somehow situated outside of language (you do not need to be taught the horror of an empty stare; does she, now lost of language, know that my stare is full?). As I look at the streaks of yellow cascading down her cheek, I wonder if aging brings contrast to the sense of touch: are the striped shadows of the sunlight passing through the blinds felt as oscillating instances of warm and cool, or does she simply feel a uniform warmth radiate across her body? I would ask her, but my question came ten years too late, and so instead I say the same thing as the day before, and the day before, and the day before: hi grannie.
—Casey Michael Robertson
Summer Valentine
Midsummer is better suited to our love
Than February—warm, soft, lilac-scented June and sweet, sun-dappled, wind-chiming Honeyed you, still spring-wild around the edges. June, when you stride home to me whistling, Reigning in your feral pieces; my green-suited Roaming tomcat tucking in his shirttails
To appear every inch the flower-bearing suitor On my doorstep. Darling, I don’t know where you have been and I don’t care. Just keep coming home to me. Come home to me And keep coming home until there is no more June.
—Emily Murnane
Today, My Mother Called Me
Today, my mother called me
And asked me how I was I told her I watched “Beef,” on Netflix
And that she, too, should watch “Beef” on Netflix
Even though maybe she wouldn’t like it
I was right. She said she hated it off title alone I asked her what she thought it was about She said, “I am NOT eating bugs!” I told her it was about road rage, not vegans
She was now interested, she said so
So I told her of its strong themes, how she may relate Because I relate, and it gave me comfort It made me laugh. She raised her voice: “I don’t have RAGE. I have passion.”
Then she told me she’d come a long way
And I said I believed her, I did, but Then she started talking about respect And that you must have it for your elders
And I couldn’t say, even though I wanted to: “Respect is something earned.” But
She believes in the name of good parenting, in taking A preteen’s bedroom door off its hinges, to teach lessons About not slamming them or hiding away behind them (Even though I was always writing fan fiction and definitely not Hiding boys—really, I mean it….back then, I maybe knew one)
I don’t believe in the name of good parenting, in being involved In parental-figure fights that were not mine, of punishments For having complicated feelings I couldn’t trust at the time When she didn’t want to understand, she could still see…
My therapist’s away, but I’m writing it down for when we next meet;
We are trying to kill Our mothers
Are trying to kill us
—Casey O’Connell
In Bed
14 saint severin reading rilke to you poems to the night i read once i took into my hands your face the moon fell upon it most unfathomable of things you took the book from my hand put it on the bed and kissed my eyes
—J. C. Hopkins
Splashdown
He pulls it out of my mouth the drill for long enough that I can see the score: physics versus two humans left in space for 286 days.
Parachutes deployed their pod’s engulfed in flames while my dentist earns his pay my eyes glued to the screen that normally shows the weather, who’s died and what should anger those of us still living.
He offers me a mirror that I decline pointing to the device he’s had installed for my distraction in a ceiling corner of his office.
We watch well after my allotted time divers in green helmets boarding that capsule that possible coffin bobbing in the sea as dolphins circle to greet it. The astronauts’ muscles having atrophied they can’t open the vessel’s escape hatch relying on their rescuers to cue the media frenzy.
I pity their return. What a lousy planet they’ve entered again: a trauma bond misnomered with sentimental value.
—Mike Vahsen
Spring Cherita a new morning such sadness everywhere outside my window the first elm buds and spring songbirds I compose a poem
—Daniel W. Brown
Letter to Kamal Boullata
Restless now in the blood light of autumn, low afternoon sun on the carpet, the cat preening, I think of you Kamal, refugee in our land of refugees that fears refugees.
Palestinians were forbidden to paint a homeland. All the artists went to jail you said; and in Jerusalem told the Israelis—Fascism! We met in the northern light of Blue Mountain this same season, Adirondack forests flaming yellow and red, what is changing constant. When you look at a leaf, you said, and enter into its turning, when something about that leaf, beautiful beyond knowing, wound red as an aging sun, something beyond burning, that is Allah akbar—wondrous as god.
Long conversations walking those woods, Kamal, I imagine we were joined— underneath, not unlike the trees, yet still am confounded by the borders between us.
For how many Original Peoples has it been too late? Think of the Maya, Pueblo, the Apalachee, Cherokee, Ottawa, Shoshone, Zuni— for how many heartened by another drum, refusing eternal, material progress?
Now harvests of profit fill our plate. Now uranium tailings ride the Plains winds. Now the dark bud of melanoma blooms on hand, or cheek. Now the blights with plagues, the spirit hearse.
Sometimes I imagine a line joining everything, imagine pulling on it and watching every lost face rise and turn to the light, the way fields of mammoth sunflowers turn, flaring in a lowing sun.
Pray, let my tongue be fire and flower. Pray, let our tongues be fire and flower.
—Martin Steingesser
Windjammers
Treachery of distance was marked on our nautical chart before we could grok it. One had to skipper the patterned tides on the seaway between us. This and other twists shaped a slot we could not fill. The minutiae of daily acts accelerated the pace. No hawser could secure our ship. When the keel leaks, droplets of an unseasonal drizzle affect it. I’m beginning to learn that love is for loonies.
—Sanjeev Sethi
Haiku (Dear Mr President)
I don’t understand what part of “love thy neighbor” you don’t understand
Haiku (Note to Self)
Don’t let the fascists into your heart—it’s enough they’re in Washington
Haiku (ish)
Some days, yes the joy takes a little effort
—Philip Pardi
After Snow, Freezing Rain
After snow, freezing rain— the face of everything now the shell of an egg
A goldfinch appears in its winter plumage like the flame of an empire turned to ash
Its feet leave no trace across the shell of the world
Overhead, straining against centuries, the trees creak and knock
The world is made of rock and timber and ice but it is not solid
Overlook
Spanning your wings and perching on the great mountain lying north, eyes compact and dark as a hawk, mind spinning hard steel cogs, you’re an outlier.
Guarded, yet a guardian, resting the hard, ascetic frame of your body at the pinnacle.
Elemental: granite, crystal and flint. A cup of coffee, opaque as ink.
A Boston brownstone, some windows shut dustily, curtains drawn, others with shutters that flutter fluently as laughter, and one in the corner opened wide, letting in whatever the spring will bring, oozing the glow of office lamps onto the sidewalk, spreadsheets, data sheets, news about the government, swirling streams of paper headed down Main Street in the gusty wind.
I lived here 12 years and never thought about that mountain. Now suddenly it looms at dawn as if newly erected, rust, mauve, turmeric and purple splashed across it through naked branches, a llama wool vest woven tight.
After every twig turns on its tiny green bulb and sprouts thick sugary leaves, once again singing so loudly of abundance that it’s practically deafening, that view will fade again.
But it was there all along.
Gilded by the sun’s early light glowing like embers in all that cold, a reliable reminder of relativity; how distinct, yet alit by each other we are, and the arc of our growing, dying and the pages in between.
—Katherine Fleissner
A Set Table
Wrap me in a table cloth
Tie my shoulders between folds of stiff linen Perfect tails between sharp and wide shoulder blades
I am the meal the world craves
Let it eat me whole.
—Emma Lee Patsey
—Jason Baker Cheers! Glasses have emptied. The wine shouts out our secrets we have hidden for too long.
—Laurence Carr
“Pastoral” at Bard SummerScape July 27-29
As part of the Bard SummerScape festival, Bard College welcomes the world premiere of Fisher Center LAB Choreographer in Residence Pam Tanowitz’s “Pastoral.” Created in partnership with composer Caroline Shaw and Brooklyn-based painter and visual artist Sarah Crowner, “Pastoral” uses Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 in F Major as a literal jumping-off point, seeing the dancers, original music, and visuals riffing on and expanding upon Beethoven’s bucolic theme to create a new work said to “evoke pastoral landscapes in magnificent jewel colors.”
2025 SUMMER ARTS PREVIEW
The Hudson Valley’s cultural calendar is bursting at the seams again this summer, and our annual Summer Arts Preview is your indispensable guide to what’s happening, where, and why it matters. There’s something defiant in the act of gathering—to dance, to witness, to laugh—and this season offers more than enough chances to do just that.
Among the many standout events: concerts by the Lemon Twigs and Suzanne Vega; music festivals like Meadowlark, Jazz in the Valley, and the season-long sonic bounty of PS21; theatrical work from Voice Theatre and Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival; dance performances including Pam Tanowitz’s Pastoral at Bard SummerScape and world premieres at Jacob’s Pillow; visual art happenings from “American Masterworks” at the Fenimore to the region-wide sprawl of Upstate Art Weekend; and comedy that spans Michael Ian Black in Beacon to Sarah Sherman at MASS MoCA.
Take a look. Mark your calendars. And remember: the arts survive not by accident, but by attention. Be part of the audience.
—Peter Aaron, Arts Editor
From left to right: Maile Okamura, Marc Crousillat, Lindsey Jones, and Christine Flores perform "Pastoral" as part of the Bard SummerScape festival June 27-29.
Photo by Maria Baranova
“General Conditions”
Jack Shainman’s The School, Kinderhook Through November 29
With his stronghold going strong in Kinderhook, Jack Shainman’s The School inaugurates the summer season with “General Conditions,” a dynamic group exhibition featuring over 30 artists working in a range of creative media, including heavyweights such as Gordon Parks, Yoan Capote, and Deb Willis. With the protean title as an open-ended baseline for this show, the concept of “general conditions” as expressed through art highlights a multiplicity of creative strategies for navigating the shifting social-political realities of today, where notions of “exploitation” and “weaponization” are explored (and exploded) as these artists address the threats of late-stage capitalism in all its complexity. —TT
Arrival
Art Fair
Tourists Hotel, North Adams, MA
June 13-15 | VIP Preview June 12
If Frieze Week makes you want to run for the hills, good news: Arrival is already there. Nestled in the Berkshires at the stylishly understated Tourists hotel, this firsttime art fair stakes its claim as a slower, smarter,
more generous alternative to the mega-fairs. Think: fireside Lodge Talks on the future of art publishing and artist residencies, studio visits with Jenny Holzer, poolside kikis DJ’d by April Hunt, and regional satellite shows from Powerhouse Arts, Fall River MoCA, and others. The curatorial firepower is real—Arrival’s lineup includes thinkers and doers from MASS MoCA, the Clark, VIA Art Fund, Creative Capital, and beyond—but the vibe is refreshingly analog: walkable, talkable, and threaded through with community. Free and open to the public, with room to breathe. —Brian K. Mahoney
“A Room of Her Own: Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1875-1945”
The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA June 14-September 14
With a nod to the sentiment behind Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own and the need for women to discover their own creativity in their own space, the Clark in Williamstown presents “A Room of Her Own: Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1875–1945” and the work of 25 professional women artists who were active during Woolf’s lifetime. Curated by the Clark's associate curator, Alexis Goodin, and featuring paintings, drawings, prints, stained glass, embroidery and other
decorative art forms, this exhibition explores the private spaces that afforded these women a place to discover their talents, including their studios, art schools, clubs and the public venues that gave them opportunities to exhibit, protest, and cultivate community.
—Taliesin Thomas
“Harold Stevenson: Less Real Than My Routine Fantasy”
ArtOmi, Ghent
June 28–October 26
This is the first institutional solo exhibition of Stevenson's work in New York. The show offers a comprehensive look at Stevenson's career, highlighting his exploration of identity, desire, and the human form. Known for his monumental painting The New Adam, Stevenson challenged traditional norms and celebrated queer aesthetics in his art. The exhibition features a selection of Stevenson's works that reflect his personal perspective and contributions to contemporary art. Visitors can expect to engage with pieces that are both provocative and deeply personal, offering insight into Stevenson's artistic journey and the cultural context of his time.—Jamie Larson
Muro de Mar (umbral), Yoan Capote, fsh hooks, nails, ink, and enamel on carved recycled wooden doors, 2020. Part of the exhibition "General Conditions" at The School in Kinderhook.
Vincent Valdez: “Just a Dream…” MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts Through April 5, 2026
Vincent Valdez’s “Just a Dream…” arrives at MASS MoCA as a searing, full-body reckoning with American mythmaking and memory. Spanning over two decades of work, this first major museum survey of the San Antonio-born painter and multimedia artist is a visual indictment of cultural amnesia and systemic injustice. Valdez’s large-scale canvases—like the infamous The City I, depicting hooded Klansmen in eerie grayscale— confront viewers with the uncomfortable persistence of racism in American life. Other works, such as The Strangest Fruit, hauntingly portray lynched Latino men, drawing parallels between historical and contemporary acts of violence. A new collaborative installation with partner Adriana Corral memorializes Joe Campos Torres, a Chicano Vietnam veteran killed by Houston police in 1977, grounding the exhibition in personal and collective trauma. Co-organized with the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and co-curated by Denise Markonish and Patricia Restrepo, “Just a Dream…” is a raw, unflinching mirror held up to a nation still grappling with its past. —BKM
Jessica Hargreaves:
“Girls at the End of the World” Elijah Wheat Showroom, Newburgh Through June 29
Bad-feminist apocalypse meets domestic installation art in “Girls at the End of the World,” Jessica Hargreaves’s solo show at Elijah Wheat. The exhibition—a sumptuous, end-times boudoir bristling with primal energy and painterly precision—features oil and acrylic reliefs alongside artist-designed household objects: the final decor of a doomed patriarchy. Drawing on her background in fashion and textile design, Hargreaves reimagines feminine archetypes in collapse and bloom, embedding them in soft surfaces and sharp critiques. Known for curatorial projects like 49.5 and her Germantown project space Mother-inLaw’s, Hargreaves brings her overtly political sensibility to bear on themes of power, identity, and aesthetic rupture. The results are feral, funny, and beautifully unsettling—just like the future. —BKM
“Trees Never End and Houses Never End”
Sky High Farm, Pine Plains
June 29-October 31
This summer the pastoral Sky High Farm in Pine Plains (a nonprofit organization devoted to food security and community-centered research) will present their firstever biennial featuring a range of artworks by over 50 international artists, including Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation, Tschabalala Self, and Rirkrit Tiravanija. Curated by SHF founder and seasoned artist Dan Colen, “Trees Never End and Houses Never End” promises a fresh experience of the cross-pollination between art, climate activism, and agriculture. As SHF further expands into its 560-acre property, this ambitious exhibition is rooted in Colen’s commitment to land stewardship and long-term impact with art as a driving force for positive transformation and sustainability. —TT
Upstate Art Weekend 2025
July 17-21
Multiple locations in the Hudson Valley and Catskills
This summer, Upstate Art Weekend again transforms the rolling hills and river towns of the Hudson Valley and Catskills into an opendoor art extravaganza, unfolding over five days for its sixth edition, UAW now includes more than 150 participants—from storied institutions like Dia: Beacon, Storm King, and Bard’s Hessel Museum, to underground studios at Bull Farm and Art. Visitors chart their own course: gallery
hop historic Main Streets, drop in on residencies at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, PS21 performances in Chatham, or wander the grounds of Manitoga. With bespoke itineraries, a dynamic Google map, and a spirit of regional discovery, UAW is less fair than festival—a living portrait of the region’s artistic ecosystem. —BKM
Jon Kinzel: “Hudson Terminus” Hudson Hall, Hudson
July 18-August 17
“Hudson Terminus” marks the return of Jon Kinzel to the liminal edges of movement and meaning, in an ambitious, multi-floor takeover of Hudson Hall. Equal
parts installation, drawing practice, performance score, and body-time experiment, the work extends Kinzel’s “Terminus” series—an ongoing interrogation of aging, gesture, and digital decay. Downstairs, visitors traverse a landscape of mark-making and sculptural residue; upstairs, a kinetic trio (Kinzel, Anne Iobst, and Fabio Tavares) performs twice daily on July 19-20, blurring the line between compositional rigor and improvisatory spasm. “It’s about the body as both instrument and archive,” says Kinzel. Commissioned by Hudson Hall and running just 25 minutes per showing, the live performance lands somewhere between a fugue state and a transmission from the near future. —BKM
People of the Sun (Grandma and Grandpa Santana), Vincent Valdez, 2018.
Part of the solo exhibition "Just a Dream" at MASS MoCA.
Heart
KIDZ BOP
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Avril Lavigne with Simple Plan & We The Kings
“Weird Al” Yankovic with Puddles Pity Party
The Black Crowes blink-182 with Alkaline Trio with Jimmy Eat World & New Found Glory
Def Leppard with The Struts
Cyndi Lauper with Jake Wesley Rogers
Barenaked Ladies with Sugar Ray & Fastball
Bret Michaels & Vince Neil with Stephen Pearcy
with Our Lady Peace & Greylin James Rue
Bonnie Raitt with Jimmie Vaughan & The Tilt-A-Whirl Band
neil young and the chrome hearts
The Black Keys with Gary Clark Jr.
Dierks Bentley with Zach Top & The Band Loula
Steve Miller Band with The Rascals
John Mulaney with Fred Armisen, Mike Birbiglia & Nick Kroll
“So It Goes”
Wassaic Project, Wassaic
Through September 13
The fun-loving team at Wassaic Project in Wassaic consistently pulls together terrific installations that fill the oldie Maxon Mills and the surrounding grounds with exciting visions of contemporary art practices and projects. This season, the So It Goes group exhibition employs the notion of the “desensitized ways in which we cope with recurring horrors” as the emotional ethos of this provocative show (a concept culled from SlaughterhouseFive, a semi-autobiographic science fiction anti-war novel by the late Kurt Vonnegut). Featuring diverse artworks by 43 artists, these objects reflect conceptual responses to our collective dread, everything from “play” and anarchist upbringings to “disconnect” and mega-floods, and thus the “so it goes” of art shakes us from dormancy and inspires us to face terror with valor. —TT
“Lens on the Hudson: Photographs by Joseph Squillante”
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers
Though October 19
For over five decades, Joseph Squillante has chronicled the Hudson River’s evolving story—from its pristine headwaters in the Adirondacks to the bustling harbor of New York City. In “Lens on the Hudson,” the Hudson River Museum presents 30 of Squillante’s evocative photographs, many never before exhibited, capturing the river’s natural beauty, seasonal moods, and the communities along its banks. Beyond picturesque landscapes, the exhibition delves into the river’s environmental narrative, highlighting Squillante’s documentation of pivotal moments such as the PCB dredging operations and the resurgence of bald eagles in the mid-Hudson Valley. His lens also turns to the human element, portraying figures like singer-activist Pete Seeger and the dedicated crews of the sloop Clearwater, emphasizing the intertwined relationship between people and this vital waterway. As Squillante reflects, “Photography stops time, preserving moments for posterity.” —BKM
“American Masterworks”
Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown
Through December 31
In a bold stroke of curatorial ambition, Fenimore Art Museum has unveiled “American Masterworks,” a landmark exhibition showcasing 27 newly acquired paintings by titans of American art. This $33.8 million expansion, funded by the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust, bridges the museum’s 19th-century holdings with works spanning the 1850s to the early 20th century. Visitors can now encounter Georgia O’Keeffe’s Brown and Tan Leaves, Mary Cassatt’s Madame de Fleury and Her Child, and John Singer Sargent’s luminous Portrait of Laurence Millet, alongside pieces by Childe Hassam, Thomas Moran, and Joshua Johnson—the first known professional African American portraitist. The exhibition not only enriches Fenimore’s collection but also offers a profound narrative of American art’s evolution. —BKM
Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill
June 21-December 14
Best known for her sensuous paintings of flowers, Georgia O’Keeffe once stated, “to see takes time” regarding her focus on the extraordinary beauty of her blossomy muses. Pairing O’Keeffe with Cole, “On Trees” at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill presents the work of these two artists side-by-side for the first time. This modest show features the pairing of two important paintings: Hunters in a Landscape (1825) by Cole, a vision of his first visit to Catskill, and Dead Tree Bear Lake Taos (1929) by O’Keeffe, a vision of her first visit to New Mexico. These respective sojourns mark a turning point for Cole and O’Keeffe alike, and these two painters embody the significant effect of these locales on the creative practice of each. —TT
Top: Maneater, Jessica Hargreaves, oil and acrylic, 2025. From the solo show "Girls at the End of the World" at Elijah Wheat Showroom in Newburgh.
Bottom left: Jon-Kinzel "Hudson Terminus" at Hudson Hall, opening July 18-August 17.
Photo: Zach Gross
Bottom right: Dead Tree Bear Lake Taos, Georgia O’Keeffe, oil on canvas, 1929. Part of the exhibition "On Trees" at Thomas Cole Historic Site, June 21-December 14.
MARY CASSATT / BERTHE MORISOT
ALLIES IN IMPRESSIONISM
May 24 – September 1, 2025
Thrust together due to their involvement in the Impressionist circle, Cassatt and Morisot have always served as an interesting comparison for art lovers. Discover the influence these two artists had on one another and their overarching impact on the Impressionist movement.
Sponsored in part by The Clark Foundation, Nellie and Robert Gipson, NYCM Insurance, and the Wyeth Foundation for American Art. The exhibition catalog is made possible through a generous gift from Denise Littlefield Sobel.
Mary Cassatt, American, 1844–1926, Summertime, 1894, oil on canvas, 39 5/8 x 32 in., Daniel J. Terra Collection, Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago, IL, 1988.25, Photo courtesy of Terra Foundation for American Art
THE POWER OF PHOTOGRAPHY
19TH-20TH CENTURY ORIGINAL MASTER PRINTS
May 24 – September 1, 2025
120 iconic images by 120 different photographers.
Sponsored in part by Nellie and Robert Gipson, and NYCM Insurance.
Organized by Photographic Traveling Exhibitions. Los Angeles, CA.
Steve McCurry (b.1950). The Afghan Girl , Sharbut Gula, Pakistan, 1984
William Clift (b.1944). Georgia O’ Keefe , New Mexico, 1981
Fields of Vision
STORM KING ART CENTER
Stormking.org
As the Hudson Valley warms with the summer season, residents should stop by the rolling landscape of Storm King Art Center to explore the newly unveiled visitor experience. Following the completion of the $54 million capital project, patrons can expect a new entry process, expanded grounds and a handful of recently unveiled exhibits across the park’s 500 acres.
With funding from New York State and various donors, the project focused on creating a cohesive visitor experience that enhances the natural elements of Storm King. While the changes may be subtle to the untrained eye, the idea was to allow visitors to feel fully immersed in the Storm King experience. “[The renovations] are much more about making Storm King, more Storm King, rather than just saying, ‘Hey, we’re completely different,’” says Nora Lawrence, executive director of Storm King.
One of the main efforts of the remodel was eliminating cars throughout the center to improve the pedestrian experience. The project consolidated the lots within the park into one main lot outside of it, which feeds into trails leading to a revamped welcoming pavilion. This move allows the center to return to a natural space for visitors to experience nature and art.
The capital project has been a long and meticulous process. It has been actively in construction since 2023, but assembling the landscaping team and brainstorming the vision for the capital project goes back as far as 2017.
“We took it as an opportunity to think deeply about who we are at heart and who we want to be,” Lawrence says. “We created a plan that really puts artists and nature first, as well as visitors.”
With new spaces to display art come new exhibits, including works by Sonia Gomes. Based in Sao Paulo, this is the Brazilian sculptor on her first outdoor exhibition in the US, along with an indoor exhibit of older pieces spanning her career in the Storm King Museum. “O Abre Alas!” utilizes found everyday items, textiles, and natural materials to explore her history and identity. (“O abre alas!” translates roughly from Portuguese as “open the way,” and is associated with Brazilian parade culture, referring to the one who leads the parade.)
As you view Gomes’s pendulum-like work hanging from a tree near the indoor museum, you’ll discover one of Lawrence’s favorite aspects of the center.
“What I love about 'O Abre Alas!' is that the landscape of Storm King always plays a role in terms of what an artwork displayed here becomes and is,” Lawrence says. “[The piece] really wasn’t a fully complete work until she was able to see it here and see the effect of the landscape on it.”
The Watch/Harvest/Dormacy: On Reflection will be the focal point of the newly established Tippet’s Field, which was previously a parking lot. The exhibit, featuring Beasley’s largest sculpture to date, represents the four seasons. “The way that the sculpture is positioned in the field allows the visitor to understand that they’re supposed to be with it in the field and that they’re supposed to be taking up that space,” Lawrence says.
There’s also abstract work from Ellsworth Kelly and new work from Dionne Lee, an emerging sculptor who blends her photography roots with the natural world.
Beyond the visitor experience, the capital project allowed for the construction of the David R. Collens Building for Conservation, Fabrication, and Maintenance. Although the building is not open to the public, this space provides an onsite location for refurbishment and upkeep of the art in a streamlined and accessible space.
“ I think that we are showing a real dedication to the artists we work with,” Lawrence says. “The new facilities that we’ve been able to add, in terms of new spaces for art and the Collens building, can really assist us in working with our artists.”
Storm King Art Center has a robust calendar of events throughout the season, including concerts, theatrical performances, hands-on workshops, and artist talks and tours.
—Chamidae Ford
The main workspace in the new David R. Collens Building for Conservation, Fabrication at Storm King Art Center.
Photo by Richard Barnes
Luke’s and Leonidas Kavakos, violin, 2021
The Concrete Mysticism of Brunel Park
EMIL BRUNEL'S SCULPTURES IN BOICEVILLE Brunelpark.org
There are places in the Hudson Valley where history clings politely to the corners—plaques, restorations, faint echoes of a life once lived. And then there’s Brunel Park in Boiceville, where history rises 30 feet tall with outstretched arms, covered in moss, staring at the Catskills sky like it’s waiting for a sign.
Brunel Park is not a sculpture garden in the usual sense. It’s more like a concrete seance, conceived by Emile Brunel—a French-born photographer, spiritualist, and self-taught sculptor who once counted the likes of Enrico Caruso, FDR, and Sarah Bernhardt among his clients. Brunel emigrated to New York in 1904, made a name (and a fortune) photographing vaudevillians and grande dames, and founded the New York Institute of Photography. But his true
obsession wasn’t the camera—it was communion.
During his travels in the American West, Brunel became enamored with Native American cultures—not only their imagery but their cosmology, the ways in which art, land, ritual, and identity were inseparable. He returned east determined to create a place that could hold those ideas. In 1921, he purchased land in Boiceville and began constructing what would become both retreat and reliquary: Le Chalet Indien, a Catskills resort styled with woodwork and ornamentation nodding to Indigenous design, and surrounding it, a mythic concrete landscape.
Between 1929 and 1941, Brunel sculpted an entire pantheon by hand. Towering figures with open hands and closed eyes. Totemic columns. Animal spirits and hybrid forms. The crown jewel is The Great White Spirit—a massive arboreal structure embedded with the faces of religious figures and philosophical symbols, which also serves as Brunel’s tomb. It is neither subtle nor explainable. It is exactly what it is: a spiritual mash-up rendered in concrete, built not to please the eye but to outlast fashion.
This wasn’t cultural mimicry so much as spiritual
appropriation of the sincerest, strangest kind. Brunel saw no contradiction in blending Catholic iconography with Indigenous mythology, Eastern mysticism with Art Deco flourishes. He believed there was a unifying soul behind all human culture, and that the artist’s job was to make it visible. In his hands, the sculptural medium became both message and miracle—heavy, slow, immutable, and mysterious.
After Brunel’s death in 1944, the site fell into a long quiet. The lodge closed. Vines crept up the statues. For decades, Brunel Park was a rumor, visible only from Route 28 through the brush. But in recent years, thanks to the efforts of his descendants and local artists, the park has been restored and reopened to the public. Now operated as a nonprofit, the 1.5acre grounds function as a wildlife habitat, artistic sanctuary, and historical curiosity.
To walk through Brunel Park today is to step into one man’s uncompromising vision of spiritual unity—and to confront the sheer audacity of trying to render that vision in rebar and cement. It’s strange. It’s moving. And it’s still standing.
—Brian K. Mahoney
Left: Brunel Park in Boiceville circa 1940. Courtesy of Eric Russell.
Right: Brunel Sculptures Post Restoration 2023. Photo by Cynthia Nikitin.
POP + FOLK
Opus 40
June 7-September 6
With prior promotions group Chosen Family stepping aside and the staff of Saugerties venue The Local stepping into the breach, sculpture park Opus 40 returns with a run of enticing events for summer 2025. The schedule kicks off with a Silent Disco with live DJs (June 7) and continues with Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp (July 6); a Jimmy Cliff Birthday Celebration with DisnDat (July 12); cumbia from Yeison Landero (July 18); CJ Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band (August 17); the Rock the Quarry festival with Gail Ann Dorsey, Two Many Guitars with Cindy Cashdollar, Jack Petruzzelli, Jeff Hill, Lee Falco, Will Bryant, Simi Stone, Ginger Winn, Kendra Mckinley, and more (August 23), and another Silent Disco night (September 6).
Green River Festival
June 20-22
This blowout in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts brings headliners Mt. Joy, Courtney Barnett, Waxahatchee, and MJ Lendermen and the Wind. Also on the three-day calendar are Torres, Kevin Morby, La Lom, Danielle Ponder, Kabaka Pyramid, Balthvs, Ocie Elliott, Kathleen Edwards, Futurebirds, Mo Lowda and the Humble, AJ Lee and Blue Summit, Illuminati Hotties, Grace Bowers and the Hodge Podge, Teke::Teke, Marc Mulcahy, Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp, Chaparelle, Coral Moons, Reyna Tropical, Thee Sinseers, Chicha Libre, Dogpark, Winterpills, Funky Dawgz Brass Band, and much more. Camping options are available, and vendors and kidfriendly activities round out the fun.
Arrowood Farms
July 10-September 20
Accord’s Arrowood Farms Distillery and Brewery is a prime place to enjoy great music al fresco as you
do the same with the spot’s tasty beverages and menu items. Arrowood’s upcoming warm-weather lineup boasts Stockade Works’ 2025 Make Local Work Summer Benefit with live music, games, and local food and drink (July 10), the Drive-By Truckers, Deertick, and Thelma and the Sleaze (July 26), Guster and the Mountain Goats (July 27), Ani DiFranco and Hurray for the Riff Raff (August 28), and the Woodsist Festival featuring Panda Bear, Built to Spill, Dean Wareham, the Medeski Martin Duo, Woods, White Fence, W.I.T.C.H., and others (September 20).
Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival
July 16-20
The long-running (41 years!) hoedown in Greene County’s Oak Hill is back with a savory serving of reliably roots-heavy fare. This year features hosts the Dry Branch Fire Squad and forever faves the Del McCoury Band, plus Sam Bush, the California Honeydrops, I’m With Her, Della Mae (two sets; one is a special tribute to bluegrass legend Hazel Dickens), Sierra Hull, the Steep Canyon Rangers, Noam Pikelny and Friends, the Henhouse Prowlers, Lindsay Lou, Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, the Mammals, the Lonesome Ace Stringband, Mike and Ruthy, Mark Gamsjager and the Lustre Kings, Jim Gaudet and the Railroad Boys, a touching tribute to Happy Traum by Adam Traum, and more.
Meadowlark
September 12-14
This festival at the 200-year-old Stone Ridge Orchard and Framers’ Market in Stone Ridge promises an eclectic mix of indie rock, folk music, psychedelic music, blues, and Americana sounds. Appearing at the three-day soiree are Cut Worms, Haley Heynderickx, Sunflower Bean, River Whyless, Camp Saint Helene, Mystery Lights, Daughter of the Vine (featuring ex-Mr. Airplane Man member Margaret
Sun Ra Arkestra performing at Opus 40 in 2024. This summer's concerts include shows by Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp (July 6) and Yeison Landero (July 18).
Garrett), Ryan Lee Crosby, Driftwood Soldier, Emily Jeanne Brown, Ongoing, Kendra McKinley, and much more. The performance will take place at the site’s Ramblin’ Rose, a one-of-a-kind 1940s travel trailer that doubles as a stage, and a second stage in the property’s Cider Room facility.
SPAC
Through September 27
The Spa City steams up with the Saratoga Performing Arts Center’s 2025 summer season. Standouts include Vampire Weekend with Geese (June 4), Glass Animals (June 7), Mumford and Sons (June 21), the Lumineers (July 3), Rod Stewart with Cheap Trick (July 15), “Weird Al” Yankovic with Puddles Pity Party (July 17), the Dave Matthews Band (July 18-19), Shania Twain (July 20), Def Leppard with Bret Michaels (July 22), Phish (July 25-27), Pantera (July 28), the Outlaw Music Festival with Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Wilco, and more (August 2), Billy Idol with Joan Jett (August 17), the Indigo Girls and Melissa Etheridge (August 31), Bonnie Raitt (September 3), and the Tedeschi Trucks Band with Gov’t Mule (September 5) plus others.
Bethel Woods
Through September 27
The outdoor musical tradition begun here in 1969 at the original Woodstock Festival site plays on with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis (June 22), Avril Lavigne (June 27), Almost Queen with Lez Zeppelin (July 19), Def Leppard (July 20), Cyndi Lauper (July 25), Barenaked Ladies with Sugar Ray and Fastball (July 27), the Offspring (August 1), Live with Collective Soul (August 2), Brett Michaels and Vince Neil (August 3), Dark Star Orchestra (August 14), the Steve Miller Band (August 15), Dierks Bentley (August 16), Neil Young (August 24), the Black Keys (August 29), Heart (August 30), Blink-182 (September 6), and the Black Crowes (September 27).
—Peter Aaron
Bethel Woods 2025 line-up includes concerts by Barenaked Ladies with Sugar Ray and Fastball (July 27), Live with Collective Soul (August 2), Dark Star Orchestra (August 14), and the Steve Miller Band (August 15).
Photo courtesy of Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
Camp Saint Helene plays Medowlark Festival in Stone Ridge on September 12.
Ani DiFranco plays Arrowood in Accord with Hurray for the Riff Rafff on August 28.
Photo by Danny Clinch
Live Music Performance Dancing JUNE 27 – AUGUST 16, 2025
THIRD REPRISE
FRIDAY, JUNE 27 AT 8 PM
RINGDOWN
LADY ON THE BIKE
SATURDAY, JUNE 28 AT 8 PM
ADRIENNE TRUSCOTT’S 24-MINUTE MISINTERPRETATION OF SONG, TIME, AND JEENYUS
SATURDAY, JULY 5 AT 8 PM
SUNNY JAIN
DHOLUSION
FRIDAY, JULY 11 AT 8 PM
MARTHA REDBONE
MY INDIGENOUS SOUL
SATURDAY, JULY 12 AT 8 PM
ELISAPIE
SUNDAY, JULY 13 AT 6 PM
Co-presented with the Center for Indigenous Studies at Bard.
TINA FRIML
FEATURING CHANEL ALI
FRIDAY, JULY 18 AT 8 PM
OLATUJA
SATURDAY, JULY 19 AT 8 PM
SUSANNE BARTSCH PRESENTS NEW YORK, NEW YORK! WITH MURRAY HILL, JOEY ARIAS, JULIE ATLAS MUZ, AND MORE!
FRIDAY, JULY 25 AT 8 PM
SATURDAY, JULY 26 AT 8 PM
This event contains nudity and adult content and is recommended for mature audiences only.
JUNO BIRCH
THE PROBED TOUR
FRIDAY, AUGUST 1 AT 8 PM
SATURDAY, AUGUST 2 AT 8 PM
STELLA COLE
FRIDAY, AUGUST 8 AT 8 PM
MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO
NO MORE WATER: THE GOSPEL OF JAMES BALDWIN
SATURDAY, AUGUST 9 AT 8 PM
SUNDAY, AUGUST 10 AT 6 PM
QUEEN BITCH: JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL
SINGS DAVID BOWIE
WITH SPECIAL GUEST SHANNON CONLEY
FRIDAY, AUGUST 15 AT 8 PM
SATURDAY, AUGUST 16 AT 8 PM
SUNDAY SOCIALS AT THE SPIEGELTENT KINDERDISCO!
WITH DJ ALI GRUBER
SUNDAY, JULY 6 AT 4 PM
STUD COUNTRY
SUNDAY, JULY 20 AT 6 PM
SUMMERTIME SWING!
WITH DANNY LIPSITZ AND THE BRASS TACKS AND GOT2LINDY DANCE STUDIOS
SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 AT 6 PM
BLUEGRASS ON HUDSON
TRUNK, ROOTS, AND BRANCHES
THURSDAYS AT 7 PM
THE JASON CARTER BAND
JULY 17
MICHAEL DAVES & JACOB JOLLIFF
JULY 24
ALISON BROWN QUINTET
JULY 31
BRITTANY & NATALIE HAAS
AUGUST 7
CHRIS ELDRIDGE & KRISTIN ANDREASSEN
AUGUST 14
SPIEGELTENT AFTER HOURS
FRIDAYS AND SATURDAYS JUNE 27 – AUGUST 16 Visit the website for the full DJ lineup.
POP + FOLK FILM
Five Concerts Not to Miss in June
The Lemon Twigs
June 6 at Bearsville Theater
The Lemon Twigs channel the sweetly harmonizing power-pop of Big Star, the Raspberries, and one-time Bearsville resident Todd Rundgren, with whom they’ve recorded. Brower opens.
Hudson River Music Festival
June14 at Croton Point Park
Grahame Lesh and Friends, Lucius, Madison Cunningham, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Jorma Kaukonen, Steve Earle and Friends, and more. Outdoor family-friendly activities.
Carbon Leaf
June 19 at City Winery Hudson Valley
Virginia’s Carbon Leaf has been making melodic, heartfelt indie pop/folk rock since the early 1990s. The band is currently supporting their 15th studio album, Time is the Playground
Robin Trower
June 21 at the Bardavon
Octogenarian English guitar god who made his name with baroque psych greats Procol Harum before becoming a 1970s hard rock hero at the helm of his own heavy trio. With Dave Maida.
Mountain Jam
June 21-22 at Belleayre Mountain Khruangbin, Mt. Joy, Goose, Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, Trampled by Turtles, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Moe., Molly Tuttle, Dogs in a Pile, Karina Rykman, Michaela Davis, and more.
What's Screening This Summer
Kingston Film Foundation Summer Movies in the Park
June 1, July 20, August 17 Midtown Linear Park hosts three free outdoor screenings this summer: romantic sports drama Love & Basketball (June 1), Stanley Kubrick's epic 2001: A Space Odyssey (July 20), and Terry Gilliam's slapstick fantasy Time Bandits (August 17). Presented by Kingston Film Foundation, each sunset screening includes local food, beer, and a short video intro. Bring a blanket and settle in.
Napoleon Dynamite Live! at UPAC
June 6
Celebrate 20 years of Napoleon Dynamite with a full screening of the cult comedy followed by a live conversation with cast members Jon Heder, Efren Ramirez, and Jon Gries. The post-film event mixes Q&A, improv, and audience participation for a night that’s part reunion, part variety show, all ligers.
Creature Double Feature at the Rosendale Theater
June 21 The Rosendale Theater screens two cult sci-fi classics from the golden age of monster movies: Revenge of the Creature (1955), the underwater sequel to Creature from the Black Lagoon, and It Came from Outer Space (1953), a Ray Bradbury-penned alien invasion tale known for its eerie atmosphere and 3-D effects.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire at the Moviehouse
June 18 and 22 Experience Celine Sciamma’s acclaimed 2019 French romance Portrait of a Lady on Fire in Millerton. Set on an isolated 18thcentury Breton island, this visually stunning love story between painter Marianne and her subject Heloise is a masterclass in longing and gaze.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch at Story Screen Cinema
June 23 John Cameron Mitchell’s cult rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch returns to the big screen for a special Pride Month screening in Hudson. With its glam-punk soundtrack and raw emotional core, this gender-bending tale of heartbreak, identity, and fierce self-expression remains as electrifying—and cathartic—as ever.
We Can Be Heroes at ArtPortKingston
June 28 This award-winning documentary follows the Wayfinder Experience, a Kingston-based live action role-playing camp where teens craft alternate identities in fantastical worlds. Directed by Alex Simmons and Carina Mia Wong, Heroes offers an empathetic, often funny look at the transformative power of imagination, community, and radical play.
The Godfather at Starr Cinema
July 2 Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather returns to the big screen at Starr Cinema for a special revival screening. Widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, the 1972 epic charts the rise of Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) as he takes his place in the violent world of organized crime. With unforgettable performances, Nino Rota’s haunting score, and Gordon Willis’s iconic cinematography, this is a rare chance to see the film in all its cinematic glory. Leave the cannoli—bring your friends.
Movie Nights on Bannerman Island
July 5 and July 11 Set sail for an unforgettable film experience with Movie Nights on Bannerman Island. Each event includes a boat ride to the Hudson River’s iconic castle ruin, a brief island tour, and an outdoor screening under the stars. Upcoming screenings include Coco (July 5) and Raiders of the Lost Ark (July 11).
Peekskill Film Festival
July 26-27 Held at the historic Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, the Peekskill Film Festival showcases an eclectic mix of shorts, features, docs, and animation. With screenings, panels, and filmmaker Q&As, PFF offers an intimate, high-quality experience for cinephiles and creators alike—all in the heart of downtown Peekskill’s walkable arts district.
Hudson Film Festival
August 7-10 Now in its third year, the Hudson Film Festival returns with an extra day of screenings and special events. This year’s highlights include a free youth filmmaking workshop on August 9 and a free family film screening of Encanto on August 10. The full program will be announced later this summer.
Steve Earle plays the Hudson River Festival on June 14.
Daniella Dooling—Mathew Gilbert—
Phil Knoll—Gabriel Martinez—
Susan Ottavino—Rafael Santiago—
Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens
A Familiar Type of Magic Bill Arning Exhibitions
She can’t say if any of the creatures were harmed in the making of the song, but according to Suzanne Vega, all the rodents mentioned in the punky “Rats,” from Flying with Angels, her first album of all-new material in 11 years, were entirely real. “Oh yeah, all of them,” says the celebrated singer-songwriter, who will perform at the Ridgefield Playhouse on June 15. “The one who fell down from the ceiling and ran across the bed, the ones that were swarming at [Upper West Side deli] Barzini’s and the ones that attacked a Prius in the street. They all came from specific stories I heard or read about.”
“Rats” is a fun, quirky tune, belying the fact that rodent infestation is a dark, urban subject. But, of course, Vega is famously no stranger to dark, urban subjects. Her worldwide 1987 hit “Luka” dealt with child abuse; her other hugely successful singles, 1990’s “Tom’s Diner” and 1992’s clanging, industrial “Blood Makes Noise,” essayed, respectively, the scene at a buzzing Uptown Manhattan restaurant from the perspective of a disenfranchised outsider and the heart-racing, walls-closing-in feeling of fear. As with Lou Reed, one of her strongest influences, it’s hard to imagine Vega, a consummate New York artist, coming up with quite the same types of songs if she lived somewhere other than the Big Apple. “I think I could,” the singer counters. “I’ve also spent time living in London, Tokyo, and other cities, and I’ve written songs in those places. I have some that were written when I was by the ocean—my ‘water songs,’ I call them.”
Born in California in 1959, Vega moved to New York with her mother, a computer systems analyst, and stepfather, a writer and teacher, when she was 11, settling first in Spanish Harlem and then the Upper West Side. Folk music was big with her parents, and she soaked it up while she studied modern dance at the High School of Performing Arts. While majoring in English literature at Barnard College, she began performing the songs she’d been writing at Greenwich Village folk clubs. In 1985, with Patti Smith Group guitarist Lenny Kaye coproducing, she recorded her eponymous debut album, whose “Marlene on the Wall” became a UK Top 40 single, a feat repeated by “Left of Center,” her contribution to the 1986 Pretty in Pink soundtrack. The following year brought Solitude Standing (recorded at Bearsville Studio and again coproduced by Kaye) and the international smash “Luka,” a US number three hit; the same album’s acapella “Tom’s Diner” found new life as a Top 10 single in 1990 when it was remixed by dance music duo DNA.
In the time between that album and the new Flying with Angels, Vega released seven other studio albums, the most recent being 2016’s Lover, Beloved: Songs from an Evening with Carson McCullers, a set inspired by her 2011 play “Carson McCullers Talks About Love,” in which she starred as the revered writer. More theater work came with her role in an off-Broadway musical based on the 1969 film Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice in 2020.
But amid all her touring and theatrical activities, Vega, who presently performs with cellist Stephanie Winter and guitarist (and Flying with Angels producer) Gerry Leonard, has continued to compose. “We’ll have five brand-new songs in the set [for the Ridgefield show],” she says. “Maybe more. They’re being added as they’re written.”
—Peter Aaron
Urban Legend
SUZANNE VEGA AT THE RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE
June 15 at 7:30pm Ridgefieldplayhouse.org
Graeme Steele Johnson plays Stissing Center in Pine Plains on June 6.
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Maverick Concerts summer season includes performances by the Pacifica Quartet (July 13), Fred Hirsch (July 26), and Margaret Leng Tan on toy piano and toy instruments (August 2).
Photo by Neil Larson
Leon Botstein conducting The Orchestra
Now, which will be performing selections by Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu as part of the "Martinu and His World" program at Bard SummerScape.
Photo by Matt Dine
Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle
June 3-24
Presented over three Saturday evenings in June at Olin Hall at the Bard College Fisher Center, the Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle offers concerts by some of today’s leading ensembles. The Juilliard String Quartet will play Bela Bartok’s String Quartet No. 1 and Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 130 with “Grosse Fuge” (July 3); the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio will perform Franz Schubert’s String Trio in B flat major, D 471, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, K. 478, and Johannes Brahms’s Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25 (June 17); and the Calidore String Quartet will deliver Antonin Dvorak’s String Quartet in F Major, Op. 96 “American,” Paul Hindemith’s String Quartet No. 4, Op. 22, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581 (June 24).
Caramoor
June 15-August 3
Katonah’s Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts has a Juneteenth celebration with the Legendary Ingramettes (June 15), the Orchestra of St. Luke’s with Beethoven’s ninth symphony, “Ode to Joy” (June 21), the Terra String Quartet (June 22), Seth Rudetsky’s “Broadway Pride!” (June 26), the American Roots Festival (June 28), Telemann’s “Pimpinone” and “Ino” (June 29), Endea Owens and the Cookout (July 3), La Excelencia (July 5), the Escher String Quartet with Alessio Bax (July 6), Ranky Tanky (July 11), Chanticleer (July 18), Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway (July 19), the Caramoor Jazz Festival headlined by Arturo O’Farrill (July 26), Terry Riley’s “In C” (July 27), Leonidas Kavakos with Emanuel Ax and Yo-Yo Ma (July 30), Lyle Lovett (August 2), and others.
Maverick Concerts
June 21-September 14
America’s oldest continuously running outdoor chamber music festival returns to the Woodstock woods with afternoon family and evening concerts. The 2025 roster includes Ars Choralis (June 21-22), Trio Celeste (June 28 and 29), Cindy Cashdollar with Joan Osbourne and Rachel Yamagata (June 28), Connie Hahn (July 5), the Manhattan Chamber Players with Mariam Adam (July 6), Elizabeth Mitchell honoring Joan Baez and Peter Schickele (July 12), the Miro Quartet (July 13), Adam Tendler (July 13), the Pacifica Quartet (July 13), Fred Hirsch (July 26), Margaret Leng Tan on toy piano and toy instruments (August 2), the Restless Age (August 2), Joel Harrison and Free Country (August 9), the Calisto Quartet (August 17), the Dali Quartet (August 30 and 31), Bill Charlap (August 30), and more.
Bard SummerScape/Bard Music Festival
June 27-August 17
Bard SummerScape and its “festival within a festival,” the Bard Music Festival (August 8-17), are back, the latter component focusing on Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu. Pam Tanowitz Dance’s ballet “Pastoral” premieres (June 27-29), followed by the Scott Joplin-inspired opera “Jubilee” (July 11-13), and Bedrich Smetana’s opera “Dalibor”
CLASSICAL + JAZZ
(July 25-August 3). Emceed by performer Adrienne Truscott (July 5), the Spiegeltent has, among other acts, funk band Third Reprise (June 27), electropop duo Ringwood (June 28), Indian American drummer Sunny Jain (July 11), Indigenous American blues singer Martha Redbone (July 12), Canadian Inuk singer-songwriter Elisapie (July 13), bluegrass fiddler Jason Carter (July 17), drag artist Juno Birch (August 1-2), string duo Brittany and Natalie Haas (August 7), genre-defying musician Meshell Ndegeocello (August 9-10), and John Cameron Mitchell doing David Bowie (August 15-16).
Jazz in the Valley
August 16-17
Jazz in the Valley is trumpeting its 25th year with two days of hot and cool music at Poughkeepsie’s riverside Waryas Park. Things get underway with trombonist Craig Harris and his 50-musician ensemble playing his extended, awarenessraising composition “Breathe” (August 16). “[The piece] is about the ancient contemporary sonic offerings we play, which will inspire one to only accept social justice past, present, and future,” says Harris. Day two has the awesomely named vocalist Jazzmeia Horn, Bobby Sanabria and his orchestra, and Echoes of an Era featuring Javon Jackson, Lenny White, Lisa Fischer, Orrin Evans, Dr. Eddie Henderson, and John Patitucci (August 17).
Stissing Center for Arts and Culture
Through August 29
Situated in pastoral Pine Plains, the Stissing Center for Arts and Culture is a creative bastion of the eastern edge of the Hudson Valley. Its current event program encompasses such delights as clarinetist Graeme Johnson’s “Fleeting Inventions” (June 6), pop rock party band Hillbilly Parade (June 7), Nova Scotian folk duo Cassie and Maggie (June 17), pianist and composer Jeff Beal (June 29), accordionist Radu Ratoi (July 12), jazz from the Galen Pittman Quartet (July 17), bluegrass by Bright Star Theatre (July 26), Off-Broadway musical “Kafkaesque!” (August 9), Brazilian/classical guitarist Benji Kaplan (August 21), the Northern Dutchess Symphony with Broadway musicians Rachel Handman and Keve Wilson (August 29), and other fine fare.
Tanglewood
Through September 5
The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer home since 1937, Tanglewood always has a packed, highly varied schedule. This year’s no exception, with Nas with the Boston Pops (June 27), Jon Batiste (June 28), the TMC String Quartet Marathon (June 29), John Mulaney (June 29), James Taylor (July 3-4), an all-Rachmaninoff program with Daniil Trifonov (July 5), the Barenaked Ladies (July 8), the TMI Orchestra performing Adams, Bartok, and Tchaikovsky (August 18), a Keith Lockhart 30th anniversary concert (August 22), Poulenc “Gloria” and Holst’s “The Planets” with Kazuki Yamada (August 23), Beethoven’s ninth symphony, “Ode to Joy” (August 24), Lynyrd Skynyrd (August 30), Bonnie Raitt (August 31), Jon Legend (September 5), plus more.
—Peter Aaron
Martina Deignan and Glenn Barrettcin "Summer," presented as part of Plein Air Plays by Ancram Center for the Arts.
Photo by B. Docktor
Sarin Monae West in the Hudson Valley Shakespeare production of "Medea: Re-versed" in 2024.
Photo by Gabe Palacio
Bridge Street Theatre
Through November 23
Certainly one of the Hudson Valley’s most active spots for live theater, Catskill’s Bridge Street Theatre has a set of five plays booked for 2025: playwright Brian Dykstra’s timely comedy written in iambic pentameter, “Polishing Shakespeare” (through June 1); a new “nautical musical” by local Carmen Borgia, “South” (July 24-August 3); Hannah Moscovitch’s drama about a journalist investigating a domestic violence case, “Red Like Fruit” (October 2-12); and an in-house interpretation of Ernest Thompson’s award-winning “On Golden Pond” (November 13-23). Also: “Sinatra: the Man, the Myth, and the Music” (June 29), Bridge Street Dance’s “Reclaiming” (June 21), and a Bob Dylan tribute by the Complete Unknowns (June 6-7).
Shadowland Stages
Through December 21
Shadowland Stages is currently celebrating its 40th season. The new schedule at the historic former vaudeville-era theater in Ellenville presents Judd Hirsch in “I’m Not Rappaport” (through June 29), the poignant comedy “King James” (July 5-20); the musical “Waitress” (July 25-August 24); the new “Darker the Night, Brighter the Skies” by “Almost Maine” playwright John Cariani (August 29-September 14); the uproarious “Becoming Dr. Ruth” (September 19-October 5); the Pulitzer Prizeand Tony Award-winning drama “Proof” (October 10-26); and the delightful holiday musical “Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberly” (December 5-21).
Great Barrington Public Theater
June 5-August 17
Great Barrington’s nexus of “new plays with a focus on playwrights and theater artists living in and nearby the Berkshires,” Great Barrington Public Theater is gearing up for another inspiring run. This season, the theater is producing three tantalizing works: “How to Not Save the World with Mr. Bezos” (June 5-June 22), which has the titular billionaire giving “an interview in exchange for information on the federal case against him… The fall of capitalism is about to get very messy”; “Madame Mozart the Lacrimosa,” about the great composer’s widow, Constanze Mozart (July 10-27); and the hilarious and poignant comedy “The Best Medicine” (July 31-August 17).
Hudson Valley Shakespeare
June 8-September 7
Presenting a repertoire that includes Shakespeare’s classics as well as plays by contemporary writers in an open-air setting since 1987, Hudson Valley Shakespeare is once again bringing the good stuff to its 98-acre campus. The Bard’s evergreens for 2025 are “The Comedy of Errors” (June 6-August 2) and “Julius Caesar” (September 9-10), with the rest of the season rounded out by Thornton Wilder’s “The Matchmaker” (June 8-August 3); “Octet” by Dave Malloy (“Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812”) (August 11-September 7); HVS Cabaret with the workin-progress “Fathertime: Birth, Death, and Songs” (August 6-7); and HVS Cabaret with “Bebe and Friends - The Women of Woods” starring Bebe Nicole Simpson (August 8).
Ancram Center for the Arts
June 28-October 19
In rural Columbia County, the Ancram Center for the Arts is headquartered at the Ancram Opera House, originally built in 1927 as a Grange Hall. For its 10th season, the center is featuring the storytelling night “Real People Real Stories” at Hillsdale’s Hilltop Barn (June 28); the folk musical “Where the Mountain Meets the Sea” (July 11-20); “Plein Air Plays,” an outdoor play series at various locations in Ancram (August 7-10); the drama “Blue Cowboy” (August 16-17); the musical “Penelope” (September 19-28); and a show of music and words by local playwright Mary Murfitt, “Framed” (October 19).
Voice Theater
July 10-27
Launched in Paris with funding from the French government, Voice Theater moved to New York City in 1989 before finally landing in Kingston. To date, the company has produced more than 45 full-scale productions that range from original plays to American classics, festivals, and numerous other stagings. This summer it’s putting on Michael Frayn’s “Noises Off” (July 10-27), which the producers describe as “a bedroom farce, a hilarious comedy revolving around mistaken identities, physical gags, sexual liaisons, and sardines. An under-rehearsed group of English actors tour tiny UK towns whilst vengeful vendettas, jealousy, and passion erupt on and off stage.”
Catskill Public Theater
July 10-August 17
Now in its second season, this Sullivan County upstart is making noise—literally—with a state-of-the-art mobile stage and a pay-what-you-wish model that brings free outdoor theater to breweries, barbecues, and backyards across the Catskills. This summer’s lineup includes “Woodstock Ripples,” a multimedia swirl of original plays, live music, and rarely seen photos from the 1969 festival; “Renegade,” a revival of the company’s gripping interactive courtroom drama; and “The Gin Game,” a bittersweet Broadway classic about cards, aging, and regret. With performances scattered across beloved local venues like Catskill Brewery and Big Kev’s BBQ, Catskill Public Theater is doubling down on its mission: community-powered art under the open sky.
New York Stage and Film
July 11-August 3
Now celebrating its 40th anniversary, the Marist College-based New York Stage and Film was founded in 1985 and was the incubator for such hits as “Hamilton,” “Hadestown,” and “American Idiot,” among several other acclaimed shows. This year brings Noel Coward’s “Vivas Privadas” (July 11), “Tee Tee and La La Show” (July 12), “Gertrude” (July 12), “Backyard Boys” (July 13), “Shelter (In the Promised Land)” (July 19-20), “Stokely” (July 25), “Manakin” (July 26), “I Said Evolution” (July 26), “Searching for Mr. Moon” (July 27), “None” (July 31-August 2), and “The Pushover” (August 3).
Woodstock Shakespeare Festival
July 25-August 31
This year marks the 35th season of Woodstock’s Bird-on-a-Cliff Theatre Company, which was founded by Elli Michaels and David Aston-Reese in 1990. The organization began under another name, the Byrdcliffe Theatre Festival, and during its debut season put on the first all-female production of Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot.” This summer Bird-on-a-Cliff is presenting the 30th year of its Woodstock Shakespeare Festival, with a staging of the perennial farce “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” which was first published in 1602 and supposedly written at the request of Queen Elizabeth I. The performances will take place on the company’s outdoor Elizabethan Soundstage at the Comeau Property in Woodstock.
—Peter Aaron and Brian K. Mahoney
Roxanne Fay and Amy Crossman star in "Mary Jane" at Bridge Street Theater.
Photo by John Sowle
GUIDED BY VOICES
June 21 - July 27
Theresa Daddezio
Steve Ellis
Jo Nigoghossian
Pareesa Pourian
Caroll Taveras
Paul R Weil
Rodney White
THREE FRIENDS
August 2 - September 7
Angela Dupresne
Brenda Goodman
Mala Iqbal
LANDMINES:
February 8 – July 13, 2025
www.newpaltz.edu/museum Dawoud Bey, Christina Fernandez, Richard Mosse, Rick Silva
“Queen” by Theresa Daddezio
J. C. Hopkins and Linh Luu are looking to make some magic happen in a small storefront on Partition Street in Saugerties. This month, the couple is opening Rohmer Gallery, a space whose mission is inspired by the New York School of the 50s and 60s in which poets, painters, and musicians like Frank O’Hara, Jackson Pollack, and John Cage collided, prompting experimentation within their own work. “It was an artistic conversation,” says Luu. “We’re trying to make something like that happen in just 500 square feet.” The duo are no strangers to creative cross-pollination. Hopkins is a Grammy-nominated producer, songwriter, musician, and jazz big band leader, as well as an abstract expressionist painter and writer. Luu, an alumna of Columbia’s MFA program, is a novelist with experience in the London art gallery scene. “Art has always been something that follows us,” Luu says.
Though the two met in New York City, it was Hopkins’s connection with the Catskills music scene that prompted them to seek out a creative refuge of their own upstate. He worked with Levon Helm and fellow Band member Garth Hudson to record his 2018 album, It’s a Sad and Beautiful World—one of the few musicians outside of The Band and Bob Dylan who had the honor to record with both. While living in Woodstock, he also helped Helm launch the Midnight Rambles at The Barn.
The two moved to Saugerties last fall, and soon after, they discovered the vacant storefront in the village waiting for its next act. The space was small, but it had high ceilings and enough room to add a vintage Steinway piano for performances. “It all started to come together pretty quickly,” says Hopkins.
In addition to visual art, Rohmer Gallery (named in honor of the couple’s love of French New Wave director Eric Rohmer) will feature weekly acoustic performances from emerging and well-known musicians and monthly poetry and literary readings whose themes dialogue with the art exhibited in the space.
On Saturday, June 14, the gallery opens to the public with its debut exhibition “Look Again.” The show, which will be on view through August 13, features paintings by Andrea Olivia, Rina Kim, Oneslutriot, and Hopkins himself, as well as ceramic sculptures by Robbie Ginsberg. From Olivia’s intimate portraiture that explores her Black trans identity to queer anonymous artist Oneslutriot’s fierce paintings that span body politics and LGBTQ issues, “Look Again” asks viewers to move beyond the surface to explore the artists’ own process of experimentation. “We’re especially excited to champion emerging voices,” says Luu.
That evening, the gallery will kick off its weekly acoustic music series, curated by Brooklyn singer songwriter Kyle Morgan, featuring a performance by folk musician Lily Talmers at 7pm.
On Sunday, June 15, the gallery will be open again for a classical music performance by flautist Liliana Szokol from 2-4pm, followed at 7pm with the debut of its monthly poetry reading, “Not My First Rodeo,” featuring Bibbe Hansen, Phillip X Levine, Martina Salisbury, Jonas Kyle, and Hopkins.
In addition to poetry, the gallery will host readings by authors of Hopkins’s and Luu’s literary imprint, Eponymous Books, which they founded last year as another outlet for their creativity. Coinciding with the gallery opening, Hopkins’s next novel, The Children See Everything, will be released on June 13. The imprint’s current bestseller, Luu’s The Napper, follows the Parisian journey of a young Vietnamese woman who also happens to be an art historian. “I wrote it before we even imagined opening the gallery,” Luu explains. “But it was kind of prophetic, in a way.”
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Bottom: J.C. Hopkins and Linh Luu are opening Rohmer Gallery in Saugerties this month. Photo by Michael Nelson.
Top: Artist Rina Kim with two paintings featured in Rohmer Gallery's opening art show, "Look Again."
Sydney Lemmon, Peter Friedman, and Max Wolf Friedlich after a preview of Friedlich's play "Job." Friedlich's "The Holes" will be workshopped at Powerhouse this summer.
A Role to Play
MAX WOLF FRIEDLICH’S “THE HOLES” AT POWERHOUSE THEATER
July 19-20
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“Right now, the base act of bringing people together, away from the isolation of their devices to watch live theater, is starting to feel more and more radical,” posits playwright Max Wolf Friedlich, whose “The Holes” will be presented by Powerhouse Theater at Vassar College with readings on July 19 and 20 as part of the company’s 39th season. “I think it’s a spiritual act, too. I feel the same way when I’m watching theater as I do when I’m at synagogue.”
Friedlich, who was born and raised in New York, became the latest enfant terrible of the Gotham theater world thanks to his psychological thriller “Job,” which premiered Off-Broadway in 2023 and moved to Broadway the following year. Confronting the toxic realities of the internet that the 30-year-old writer grew up with and mental illness, “Job’s” online themes were rooted in his experience as an aspiring screenwriter
in Hollywood, where he worked at the startup that created the computer-generated influencer Lil Miquela. Compared favorably to the tense, dystopian feel of TV’s “Black Mirror,” the production earned a New York Times critic’s pick and an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best New Play, among other accolades.
In tandem with his New York background, Friedlich also spent chunks of his youth in the Hudson Valley, including Vassar in Poughkeepsie (he apprenticed and did a post-graduate residence at Powerhouse), and Kingston, where he was enrolled at the Wayfinder Experience LARP (live action role playing) camp, where these days he teaches part-time. It’s in the latter town that “The Holes” is set, with much of its action taking place at a fictitious bar in the “rapidly gentrifying city” where illicit sex acts take place in the back room. The writer describes the tale as “a story about shame, fathers and sons, legacy versus progress, and the relationship between spirituality and capitalism in the 21st century.”
But, of course, “The Holes,” directed by Michael Herwitz with dramaturgy by producer Hannah Getts, isn’t all that Powerhouse has planned for 2025. Also on the menu are readings of Andy Boyd and Zinc Tong’s “It Is Right to Rebel!” (June 20) and Amalia Oliva Rojas’s
“In the Bronx Brown Girls Can See Stars Too” (June 28), while the Powerhouse Theater Training Company will present Max Reuben’s “Biography” (July 3, 10, 17, and 24), Shakespeare’s “The Comedy of Errors” (July 11-13), Chekov’s “The Seagull” (July 18-20), Aeschylus’s “Orestia” (July 20-21), and the New Works Play Festival (July 26). Workshops include the musical “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” (July 18-19) and the award-winning “A Simple Herstory” (July 5-6). The main stage has “A Trojan Woman,” Sara Farrington’s adaptation of Euripides’s “The Trojan Woman” (July 25-27).
“Naturally, I hope [attendees] enjoy what they see and are entertained by it,” says Friedlich. “That the act of experiencing a good play with other people, communally, stays with them. And that what [the company does] gets into their head, hopefully in a positive way. I welcome all reactions—as long as people engage and are moved in some way, that’s great.”
Max Wolf Friedlich’s “The Holes” will be presented at Powerhouse Theater on the campus of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie on July 19 and 20. The 2025 Powerhouse Theater season will run June 20-July 27. —Peter Aaron
Photo by Andy Henderson
FRANCINE TINT
August 30-September 21.
“The Woods” at New York Stage and Film
July 26-27
Along with the other prime presentations during New York Stage and Film’s summer itinerary at Marist College is Brooklyn composer Ellis Ludwig-Leone’s “The Woods” (July 26-27). An immersive concert experience that includes a live score by musicians from Ludwig-Leone’s indie rock collective San Fermin and dancers of the production company BalletCollective (led by choreographer and director Troy Schumacher), “The Woods” features sets by the Emmy Award-winning designer Jason ArdizzoneWest (“Redwood”). Ludwig-Leone and Schumacher are long-time creative partners, working on 2013’s revered ballet “The Impulse Wants Company” and the likewise lauded 2023 musical “The Night Falls.”
Music from the Sole at Caramoor
July 17
Appearing at Caramoor in Katonah is New York dance company Music from the Sole, which is led by Brazilian tap dancer and choreographer Leonardo Sandoval and composer and bassist Gregory Richardson. Here, the company will perform “I Didn’t Come to Stay,” a work commissioned for the Guggenheim in 2020 that brings together AfroBrazilian, jazz, soul, house, rock, and Afro-Cuban music by a live band as it explores the universal and timely themes of immigration and family. The performance will take place at Caramoor’s outdoor covered Venetian Theater, which features lowerpriced lawn seating.
Kaatsbaan Annual Festival
August 30-September 21
Kaatsbaan Cultural Park’s 2025 Annual Festival runs from Labor Day weekend through the month of September and includes performances and exhibitions by artists innovating in such fields as music, film, archiving, storytelling, and dance. Events in the latter medium include a new work in the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company’s “Curriculum” series (August 30-31), Nichole Canuso and Branching Paths’ “Lunar Retreat” (September 6-7), Ayodele Casel’s “Freedom… In Progress” and new works (September 19-20), and Kayla Farrish’s “Docile” and “A Beast That Came Apart Mid-Air” (September 20-21).
—Peter Aaron
"Human" by Yannick Lebrun, featuring dancer Brady Farrar at the Kaatsbaan Annual Festival
Photo by Emma Zordan
SUMMER SEASON
RAWdance co-artistic directors Wendy Rein and Ryan T. Smith performing at last summer's Concept series at the Senate Garage.
RAWdance Concept Series
June 27-28
Since 2019, the San Francisco-born RAWdance company has been staging its summer Concept salon series at the Kingston Stockade’s historic brick Senate Garage building. Concept corrals curated choreographers to share new works in an intimate, living room-like setting complete with popcorn and other refreshments for those in attendance. Emceed by RAWdance’s artistic codirectors, Wendy Rein and Ryan T. Smith, the June symposium has pieces by Adam Weinert, InkBoat, Carlye Eckert, Ouro and Boros Dance, and Meg Fry/De Facto Dance. “RAWdance champions the power of movement as an indispensable source of connection and a visceral medium to illuminate the issues of our time,” say the organizers.
PS21 Dance Performances
July 11-August 9
Within its larger, multi-disciplinary lineup, the ongoing summer-season attractions at the outdoor PS21 contemporary performance center in Chatham are a trio of recommended dance events. They include the BlackBox Ensemble dance troupe with choreographer Kyle Marshall’s 1974 “Femenine,” which is set to composer Julius Eastman’s work of the same name (July 11-12); the Obie Award-winning “CATCH,” organized by Andrew Dinwiddie, Caleb Hammons, Jeff Larson, and Matt Romein (July 26); and the Paul Taylor Dance Company for a three-night stand that includes “Cascade,” “3 Eps,” “Tablet,” and “Vespers” (August 7-9).
BlackBox Ensemble dance troupe with choreographer Kyle Marshall’s 1974 “Femenine” at PS21.
Photo by Tony Turner
Prehistoric Body Theater, an experimental dance theater collective from Indonesia, performs "Ghosts of Hell Creek: Stone Garuda" June 25-26 at Jacob's Pillow.
Matthew Rushing's "Sacred Songs" with dancers from Ailey Extension performs August 21-22 at Jacob's Pillow.
Photo by Maria Baranova
Jacob’s Pillow
June 25-August 24
One of the certified birthplaces of American modern dance, Jacob’s Pillow was established in 1931 by pioneering choreographer Ted Shawn. For summer 2025, its international roster will host more than 40 companies across its nine weeks of festival. The rebuilt Doris Duke Theatre, said to be the dance world’s most technologically advanced venue, will open during the festival’s third week. Highlights include the final on-site performances of the Steven Petronio Company after a 40year run (July 23-27); “Here” by interactive electronics artist Andrew Schneider (July 16-20); “The Answer is Land” by Norway’s Elle Sofe Company (July 23-27); and “Touch of Red” by Shamel Pitts’s Tribe company (August 6-10).
2025 SEASON PRODUCTIONS
RENEGADE
A taut interactive courtroom drama that asks the audience to vote on the verdict of a high stakes trial, which will determine a man’s fate, and the conclusion of the play.
Catskill Brewery, Livingston Manor 7/11 & 7/19
Westinghouse Estate, Goshen 8/7 & 8/15
GIN GAME
A Pulitzer Prize winning timeless tragicomedy, and the longest running comedy/thriller in the history of Broadway. Can two Seniors playing cards turn bad luck into good? The stakes are high as age and time bring them closer to their final game.
Catskill Brewery, Livingston Manor 7/12 & 7/17
Westinghouse Estate, Goshen 8/9 & 8/14
WOODSTOCK RIPPLES
Inspired by the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival in 1969 featuring live music and rediscovered, as well as previously unseen photos from the original concert, dramatic surprises, and short plays submitted by authors worldwide.
Catskill Brewery, Livingston Manor 7/10 & 7/18
Westinghouse Estate, Goshen 8/8 & 8/16
Open Eye Theater, Margaretville 8/17
MOBILE STAGE AVAILABLE FOR RENT
Funny Days in Beacon
June 8-20
This month, the Towne Crier Cafe launches Funny Days in Beacon, a standup comedy series featuring a mix of established performers and rising talent. The series kicks off June 8 with Michael Ian Black, known for “The State,” “Stella,” and Wet Hot American Summer On June 15, Gary Vider brings his dry, observational style, recently featured on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and in his podcast #1 Dad. Chloe Radcliffe, named a “Comic to Watch” by Vulture and Deadline, headlines June 20.
Mark Gagnon at Laugh It Up Comedy Club
June 14
Best known as Andrew Schulz’s podcast partner on Flagrant, Mark Gagnon brings his surgically absurd comedy to Laugh It Up in Poughkeepsie on June 14. Having toured internationally as Schulz's trusted opening act, Gagnon brings a wealth of experience and a fresh perspective to his stand-up performances. His comedic style seamlessly intertwines insightful commentary with laugh-out-loud moments, making for an engaging and memorable show. Gagnon’s stand-up walks a tightrope between irreverent and insightful, with the offhand confidence of a guy who’s been touring big rooms—and writing killer bits—for years. If you like your laughs delivered with the precision of a scalpel and the vibe of a guy you’d trust to fix your Wi-Fi, this is your night.
Married, Single, & A Baby at Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center
June 28
Three comics. Three life stages. One night of laughs. Married, Single, & A Baby brings together stand-up veterans Joe Bublewicz, Vanessa Hollingshead, and Chris Monty for a comedy showcase exploring the chaos of love, dating, and parenthood. Bublewicz
offers newlywed observations from the over-50 set, Hollingshead mines the modern single life for sharp laughs, and Monty delivers dad jokes with vintage flair. Whether you’re swiping right, settling down, or sleeptraining a toddler, this trio’s mix of punchlines and perspective promises something for everyone.
Sarah Sherman at MASS MoCA
July 19
Comedian Sarah Sherman brings her fearless, absurdist comedy to MASS MoCA this July. A breakout star from the recent season of “Saturday Night Live,” Sherman is known for her off-kilter characters, deadpan delivery, and delightfully surreal sketches. She’s also a rising voice on the stand-up circuit, blending bizarre imagery with sharp social observations. Expect a one-of-akind live experience as Sherman performs her latest material in the museum’s industrial-chic commons. Whether you’re already a fan of her “SNL” creations or discovering her for the first time, this show promises unexpected laughs and a vivid reminder why she’s one of comedy’s most exciting new talents.
Sandra Bernhard at Bearsville Theater
July 24
Legendary comedian Sandra Bernhard returns to the Bearsville Theater with “Shapes & Forms,” her brandnew live show blending incisive social commentary, musical interludes, and her signature fearless wit. Bernhard—whose career spans groundbreaking standup specials, “The Larry Sanders Show,” and cult classic film roles—will riff on celebrity culture, politics, and the absurdities of modern life.
Kumail Nanjiani at Tarrytown Music Hall
July 27
Oscar-nominated screenwriter, Emmy-nominated actor, and stand-up comedian Kumail Nanjiani brings his
sharp wit and wide-ranging credits to Tarrytown. Known for his breakout role in “Silicon Valley” and co-writing The Big Sick, Nanjiani has since starred in Marvel’s The Eternals, Hulu’s “Welcome to Chippendales,” and the latest Ghostbusters installment. He recently won a SAG Award for “Only Murders in the Building” and has a new stand-up special on the way—his first in over a decade. With roles upcoming in James L. Brooks’s Ella McCay and Season 2 of “Poker Face,” Nanjiani remains one of comedy’s most versatile voices.
Borscht Belt Festival in Ellenville
July 26-27
The spirit of Catskills comedy gets a fresh spin at Borscht Belt Fest, a two-day celebration in the heart of Ellenville. Once a playground for stand-up legends, the region now hosts a new generation of Jewish comedians redefining the form with bite, wit, and heart. The festival features rising stars from the New York comedy scene alongside New Yorker cartoonists and authors like Gary Shteyngart. The streets of Ellenville will come alive with Jewish food vendors (yes, there will be knishes), klezmer music, comedy performances, intriguing panels, and a few punchlines your bubbe might not approve of.
Tom Segura at MJN Convention Center
September 27
Standup superstar Tom Segura brings his “Come Together” tour to the Hudson Valley this fall. Best known for his Netflix specials—“Sledgehammer” debuted at number one in 2023, following hits like “Disgraceful” and “Ball Hog”—Segura combines sharp storytelling with deadpan delivery. He’s also co-creator and star of Netflix’s dark comedy series “Bad Thoughts.” On September 27, catch him live at the MJN Convention Center, where he’ll share his latest material drawn from life on the road and observations on modern culture. A portion of platinum ticket proceeds benefits World Central Kitchen.
—Brian K. Mahoney
From left: Michael Ian Black, Sandra Bernhard, Kumail Nanjiani.
EStage Presence A Summer of World-Class Performances at SPAC
ach summer, hundreds of thousands of people are drawn to the splendor of Saratoga Spa State Park. It’s not just Saratoga Springs’ famed natural mineral springs and geysers that beckon them there, however, but the soul-stirring performances at Saratoga Performing Arts Center. With its distinctive wooden amphitheater and sloping lawn that accommodates just over 25,000, SPAC feels at once expansive and intimate—offering a magnetic combo of world-class performing arts under a canopy of soaring pines.
Located just a mile from downtown Saratoga Springs, SPAC stands among the country’s elite concert venues, with a summer lineup to match—but with room to relax, explore, and connect with nature. The 2025 season brings together its renowned residencies from the New York City Ballet and the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Saratoga Jazz Festival, and more for an unforgettable summer of performances.
“SPAC has become a destination stage for many of the greatest artists in the world and our 2025 season is no exception. From Cynthia Erivo to Renée Fleming, to our incredible New York City Ballet dancers, this year’s programming offers something for everyone,” says Elizabeth Sobol, SPAC’s chief executive officer.
A Season of Excellence and Delight
The 48th Annual Saratoga Jazz Festival kicks off the season June 28–29 with two days of genre-crossing music and 22 acts performing
across two stages. Headliners include fourtime Grammy winner Gary Clark Jr. and the electrifying Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue. Acclaimed jazz vocalists Gregory Porter and Cassandra Wilson bring emotional depth, while next-generation stars like jazz and funk guitarist Cory Wong; jazz, rock, and funk vocalist Veronica Swift; and Keyon Harold, the “future of trumpet” (Downbeat), push the boundaries of their genres.
Between sets, festivalgoers can also browse a fine arts and crafts fair, grab something tasty from a diversity of food vendors, or just sit back and relax on their own lawn chairs and blankets with homemade snacks.
July 9–12, the full company of the New York City Ballet arrives for its 59th summer residency at SPAC. This year’s program nods to the past and future with a return of “Coppélia”—a whimsical, large-cast story ballet that had its world premiere at SPAC in 1974—and a SPAC debut of “Mystic Familiar,” a new work by Justin Peck set to music by Dan Deacon. The repertory also includes timeless classics like George Balanchine’s “Stravinsky Violin Concerto” and Jerome Robbins’s “The Four Seasons,” set to Verdi’s vivid score.
The residency offers accessible ticketing options, including “Kids in Free” extended to age 16, $40 amphitheater seats for patrons under 40, and family four-packs ($99)—an invitation to make ballet a summer tradition.
From August 6–23, the Philadelphia Orchestra returns to its summer home at SPAC with a
three-week residency that balances canonical masterworks with innovative premieres and appearances from celebrated names. The season opens with three performances led by conductor Marin Alsop, including the ever-popular “Tchaikovsky Spectacular,” Holst’s “The Planets,” and a show of Gershwin and Bernstein standards. Renowned vocalists from across the sonic spectrum will also make appearances. Grammywinning soprano Renée Fleming returns for an evening of arias and works from her Voice of Nature album (August 15); Wicked’s Cynthia Erivo makes her SPAC debut with Broadway hits and soul classics (August 22); and Gen Z darling Laufey brings a genre-defying “Night at the Symphony” (August 9). Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads two standout programs: a performance of Verdi’s “Requiem” with stars from the Met (August 14), and an evening of Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff, and William Grant Still’s rarely performed Second Symphony (August 13).
Other highlights include Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, Copland’s Appalachian Spring, and genre-bending trio Time for Three’s new concerto by contemporary composer Mason Bates. Families and friends will also delight in SPAC’s beloved film concerts, which include screenings of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Back to the Future, with the orchestra performing the scores live under the stars.
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68 PRINCE STREET GALLERY
68 PRINCE STREET, KINGSTON
“Symbolic of the Whole.” Paintings by Francine Tint. Through June 8.
ADS GALLERY
105 ANN STREET, NEWBURGH
“Gloop Entity.” Photographic sculptures by Mollie McKinley. Through June 29.
AL HELD FOUNDATION
26 BEECHFORD DRIVE, BOICEVILLE “Peelings.” Work by Linnea Gad Through October 10.
ALBANY INSTITUTE OF HISTORY & ART
125 WASHINGTON AVENUE, ALBANY.
“On the Road to Cragsmoor with Charles Courtney Curran.” Through October 13.
ALBERT WISNER PUBLIC LIBRARY
1 MCFARLAND AVE, WARWICK
“Our Diverse Interests.” St. James Camera Club juried exhibit. Through June 30.
ANN STREET GALLERY
104 ANN STREET, NEWBURGH
“etheReality: from breath to air, and back.” Group show curated by Alison McNulty. June 21-August 31.
ARTISTS' COLLECTIVE OF HYDE PARK
4338 ALBANY POST ROAD, HYDE PARK “Organic Geometry.” Group show. Through June 28.
ARTPORT KINGSTON
80 SMITH AVE, KINGSTON
“Garden of Delights.” Group outdoor sculpture exhibition. Through October 31.
ARTS SOCIETY OF KINGSTON
97 BROADWAY, KINGSTON
“Fire Over Water.” Work by Len Jenkin. “Living Queer.” Work by Faith Bugman. “Big Bold Pride Show.” Group show. All shows June 5-29.
ARTPORT KINGSTON
80 SMITH AVENUE, KINGSTON
“Garden of Delights.” Group outdoor sculpture show. June 1-October 5.
AZART GALLERY
40 MILL HILL ROAD, WOODSTOCK
“Between the Lines.” Typographic work by Jorge Regueira and Gregory Valentin. Through June 29.
BAU GALLERY
506 MAIN STREET, BEACON
“The Other World.” Ceramics by Bob Barry. “Said, Not Said.” Paintings by Nansi Lent. June 14-July 10.
THE BEACON BUILDING
427 MAIN STREET, BEACON
“Beacon Reimagined.” Photos by Scott Lerman presented as eight-by-four-foot banners. June 14-December 31.
BILL ARNING EXHIBITIONS
17 BROAD STREET, KINDERHOOK
“A Familiar Type of Magic.” Work by Phil Knoll, Annie Sprinkle, Beth Stephens, Gabriel Martinez, Mathew Gilbert, Rafael Santiago, and Daniella Dooling. Through July 6.
THE CAMPUS
341 NY-217, HUDSON
“Second Annual Summer Group Exhibition.” Group show. June 28-October 26.
Norcia, Gabe Benzur, oil on linen. Part of the show "Demiurge" at One Mile Gallery June 17-July 15.
CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY
622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON
“The Summer Show.” Group show. June 6-July 27.
CATSKILL ART SPACE
48 MAIN STREET, LIVINGSTON MANOR
“Wade Kramm, Howard Schwartzberg, and Susan Silas.” Group show. Through June 21.
CLARK ART INSTITUTE
225 SOUTH STREET, WILLIAMSTOWN, MA
“A Room of Her Own: Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1875-1945.” June 14-September 14.
“Ground/Work.” Group outdoor sculpture exhibition. June 28-October 12.
DAVID M. HUNT LIBRARY
63 MAIN STREET, FALLS VILLAGE, CONNECTICUT
“Here Here Here Here.” Work by Scott Reinhard. June 6-July 3.
DIA BEACON
3 BEEKMAN STREET, BEACON
“Mary Heilman: Starry Night.” Long-term view.
“Andy Warhol: Shadows.” Long-term view.
DISTORTION SOCIETY
155 MAIN STREET, BEACON
“What She Builds, She Must Destroy.” Paintings by Michelle Silver. June 14-August 10.
ELIJAH WHEAT SHOWROOM
195 FRONT STREET, NEWBURGH
“Compact, Relaxed, and Intact.” Sculptures by Millicent Young and video installation by Virginia L. Montgomery. Through June 29.
“Girls at the End of the World.” Installation by Jessica Hargreaves. Through June 29.
FENIMORE ART MUSEUM
5798 STATE HIGHWAY 80, COOPERSTOWN
“American Masterworks.” Through December 31.
“Boundless Spirit: American Folk Art at the Fenimore Art Museum.” Through December 31.
“Mary Cassatt / Berthe Morisot: Allies in Impressionism.” Through September 1.
“The Power of Photography: 19th-20th Century Original Master Prints.” Through September 1.
FIGUREWORKS GALLERY
92 PARTITION STREET, SAUGERTIES
“Pride.” Work by McWillie Chambers, Tatana Kellner, and David Strout. June 14-July 15.
THE FLOW CHART FOUNDATION
348 WARREN STREET, HUDSON
“More Fugitive Than Light.” Digital collages by Daniel Rothbart. June 14-July 14.
LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER
124 RAYMOND AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE
“Great Green Hope for the Urban Blues.” Artists reinterpret and reinstall the Loeb’s collection of Hudson River School art. Through August 10.
“Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Black Space-Making from Harlem to the Hudson Valley.” Group show retelling of the history of the Hudson Valley. Through August 17.
“Water/Bodies.” Work by Sa’dia Rehman. Through August 17.
FRED J. JOHNSTON HOUSE
MUSEUM & GALLERY
63 MAIN STREET, KINGSTON
“Edward Budney: Photographer.” Photographs of Kingston in the 1950s. Through October 31.
FRONT ROOM GALLERY
205 WARREN STREET, HUDSON
“Her Memory, A Metropolis.” Work by Linda Ganjian. Through June 15.
GALLERY40
40 CANNON STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE.
“Landscape, Reimagined. Landscape, Reimagined.” Work by Maxine Davidowitz, Virginia Donovan, Martha Hill, William Noonan, and Julia VanDevelder. June 7-29.
GARNER ARTS CENTER
55 WEST RAILROAD AVENUE, GARNERVILLE
“Echoes of Grass.” New work on paper by Edward M. O’Hara. Through June 15. “Franc Palaia: Urban Archeology.” Twentyyear survey across media. Through June 15. “Urban Archaeology.” Survey of the multimedia work of Franc Palaia. Through June 15.
GARRISON ART CENTER
23 GARRISON’S LANDING, GARRISON
“Rise: Scenes of Resistance.” Photography by Jeremy Dennis. Through June 22.
GERMANTOWN LIBRARY
31 PALATINE PARK ROAD, GERMANTOWN
“Spare Time: Adam T. Deen.” Photographs by Adam T. Deen from his book Spare Time Through July 31.
GREEN KILL
229 GREENKILL AVENUE, KINGSTON
“Deidre Day and Joanna Grabiarz.” Through June 28.
GRIT WORKS | GRIT GALLERY
115 BROADWAY, NEWBURGH
“Astounding Sanctuaries and Sun Lit Songs”. Abstract paintings by David Lionheart. Through July 6.
HEADSTONE GALLERY
28 HURLEY AVENUE, KINGSTON
“Son/Set.” Work by Jinsik Yoo and John Roy. June 7-29.
HESSEL MUSEUM/CCS BARD
BARD COLLEGE, ANNANDALE
“All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Group for Modern Art.” Arab modern and contemporary art. June 21-October 19.
HOWLAND CULTURAL CENTER
477 MAIN STREET, BEACON
“Work in Decay: The Renaissance of Beacon, Then and Now.” Remounting of 1982 show of photos by Patrick Prosser with contemporary additions. Through July 21.
HUDSON RIVER MUSEUM
511 WARBURTON AVENUE, YONKERS
“Lens on the Hudson: Photographs by Joseph Squillante.” Through October 19.
“Smoke in Our Hair: Native Memory and Unsettled Time.” Twenty-seven works by influential Native artists. Through August 31.
HUDSON VALLEY MOCA
1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL
“Psychological Portraiture.” Group photography show. Through June 30.
JACK SHAINMAN: THE SCHOOL
25 BROAD STREET, KINDERHOOK “General Conditions.”Group show. Through November 29.
JANE ST. ART CENTER
11 JANE STREET, SAUGERTIES
“Folds and Faults.” Paintings by Lindsey A. Wolkowicz. Through June 21.
KLEINERT/JAMES CENTER FOR THE ARTS
36 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK
“Touch Wood.” Sculptural paintings by Andrew Lyght. June 7-July 20.
LABSPACE
2642 NY ROUTE 23, HILLSDALE
“Carlton Davis: Humble Beauty.” Photographs Through June 29.
“Susan Meyer: Group Chat.” Mixed media sculpture. Through June 29.
LIGENZA MOORE GALLERY
78 TROUT BROOK RD, COLD SPRING
“Destination Earth.” Work by 15 artists including Katherine Bradford, Judy Pfaff, Chris Martin, Tony Moore, and Don Voisine. Though July 27.
LIGHTFORMS ART CENTER
743 COLUMBIA STREET, HUDSON
“Through Color to Form.” Work by Gerard Wagner (1906-1999). Through July 31.
LIMNER GALLERY
123 WARREN STREET, HUDSON
“Arte Natura.” Group show. Through June 17.
LOCKWOOD GALLERY
747 ROUTE 28, KINGSTON
“Redux.” Work D. Jack Solomon. Through June 22.
MAGAZZINO ITALIAN ART
2700 ROUTE 9, COLD SPRING
“Llencols de Aigua.” Installation by Antonio Marras and Maria Lai. Through July 28.
“Maria Lai. A Journey to America.” Through July 28.
MARK GRUBER GALLERY
13 NEW PALTZ PLAZA, NEW PALTZ
“Hardie Truesdale and Andrea McFarland.”
Photography and pastels. Through June 28.
MASS MOCA
1040 MASS MOCA WAY, NORTH ADAMS, MA
“Just a Dream…” Work by Vincent Valdez. Through April 5, 2026.
Duck duck goose for Daniel, Michael David, mirrored glass, silicone, and acrylic on wooden panels, 2025. Part of Michael David's show "The Navigator" at Private Public in Hudson through June 29.
SPENCERTOWN ACADEMY
ARTS CENTER
790 ROUTE 203, SPENCERTOWN
“Nurturing Nature.” Work by Deborah H. Carter, Maxine Davidowitz, Shelley Lawrence Kirkwood, Anat Shiftan, Jackie Skrzynski, and Anna Thurber. Through June 29.
T SPACE
50/60 ROUND LAKE ROAD, RHINEBECK
“Robert Grosvenor.” Recent sculpture and photography. June 8-August 24.
MILLBROOK VINEYARDS
26 WING ROAD, MILLBROOK
“Art in the Loft.” Group juried exhibition. Through November 9.
THE MOUNT
2 PLUNKETT STREET, LENOX, MA
“Movement.” Annual group outdoor sculpture exhibition. Through September 30.
THE MUSE
1 MADELINE LANE, ROSENDALE
“Seeding Ancient Mother’s Song.” Paintings by Natali Connell. June 27-July 12.
OLANA STATE HISTORIC SITE
5720 ROUTE 9G, HUDSON
“What’s Missing?” Work by Ellen Harvey and Gabriela Salazar in the landscape. June 14-November 2.
OLIVE FREE LIBRARY
4033 ROUTE 28A, WEST SHOKAN
“Address: Earth Art Expo—Reef & Desert.” Group show curated by Bibiana Huang Matheis. Through July 12.
ONE MILE GALLERY
475 ABEEL STREET, KINGSTON
“Muddy Music.” Group ceramics show curated by Ben Estes. Through June 14. “Demiurge.” June 17-July 15.
PAMELA SALISBURY GALLERY
362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON
“Adjustments.” Work by Lisa Corinne Davis. “Ancient Rhymes.” Work by Shari Mendelson. “A Colorful Universe.” Work by Mark Milroy. “Rough in the Distant Glitter.” Work by Mary Temple.
“Upended.” Work by Lisa Hoke. All shows Through June 15.
PHILIP DOUGLAS FINE ART
545 WARREN STREET, HUDSON
“The Americans.” Paintings by David Becker. June 6-July 13.
PRIVATE PUBLIC
530 COLUMBIA STREET, HUDSON
“The Navigator.” Work by Michael David. Through June 29.
QUEEN OF ROGUES
2440 ROUTE 28, GLENFORD
“Address Earth: Cave.” Group show curated by Bibiana Huang Matheis. Through July 12.
ROBIN RICE GALLERY
234 WARREN STREET, HUDSON
“Three Decades of Photography, A Retrospective.” Photographs by Patricia Heal. Through June 22.
ROHMER GALLERY
84 PARTITION STREET, SAUGERTIES
“Look Again.” Work by Andrea Olivia, Rina Kim, Oneslutriot, and J. C. Hopkins, and Robbie Ginsburg. June 14-August 13.
ROOST ARTS
122 MAIN STREET, NEW PALTZ
“Stone, Steel and Paper.” Work by Dr. John Diamond. Through June 15.
“Drawbak: The Work and Life of Thor Badendyck.” Retrospective of the illustrator and comic book artist Thor Badendyck. June 20-July 13.
ROUNDABOUTS NOW
25 BARBAROSSA LANE, KINGSTON
“Liquefier.” Work by Meg Lipke and Jeff Williams. Through June 21.
RUTHANN
453 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL
“The River That Flows Both Ways.” Work by Ever Baldwin, Erika deVries, Clarity Haynes, and Portia Munson. Through June 29.
SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART
1 HAWK DRIVE, SUNY NEW PALTZ
“Landmines.” Work by Dawoud Bey, Christina Fernandez, Richard Mosse, and Rick Silva. Through July 13.
SEPTEMBER
4 HUDSON STREET, KINDERHOOK
“The Motherlode.” Work by Nicole Cherubini. June 7-July 31.
SKY HIGH FARM
675 HALL HILL ROAD, PINE PLAINS
“Trees Never End and Houses Never End.” Group show. June 29-October 31.
THE SPARK OF HUDSON
502 UNION STREET, HUDSON
“Portraits of Hudson.” Photographs by Chad Weckler. Through August 1.
THOMAS COLE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE
218 SPRING STREET, CATSKILL
“Emily Cole: Ceramics, Flora & Contemporary Responses.” Work by the daughter of Thomas Cole. Through November 2.
“On Trees: Georgia O’Keeffe and Thomas Cole.” June 21-December 14.
TIME AND SPACE LIMITED
434 COLUMBIA STREET, HUDSON
“At a Glance.” Paintings by Frank Tartaglione. Through June 22.
TREMAINE ART GALLERY AT THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL
11 INTERLAKEN ROAD, LAKEVILLE, CT
“Perspective Narrative.” Group alumni show. Through June 7.
TURLEY GALLERY
609 WARREN STREET, HUDSON
“Hope Chest.” Work by Mack Sikora. “Elaborations.” Work by Dana Piazza. Both shows through July 12.
TURN PARK ART SPACE
2 MOSCOW ROAD, STOCKBRIDGE, MA
“Leaving Traces.” Work by Jim Morris. Through August 4.
“Sculpture - Tablets - Chargers.” Ceramics and sculpture by Paul Chaleff. Through August 4.
UPBRINGING
28 HURLEY AVENUE, KINGSTON. “Presence.” Work by Zoe Buckman, Tamar Ettun, Nona Faustine, Qiana Mestrich, Cheryl Mukherji, Rebecca Reeve and Keisha Scarville. June 6-July 21.
THE WASSAIC PROJECT
37 FURNACE BANK ROAD, WASSAIC
“So It Goes.” Group show curated by Bowie Zunino, Will Hutnick, Jeff Barnett-Winsby, and Eve Biddle. Through September 13.
WOMEN’S STUDIO WORKSHOP
722 BINNEWATER LANE, KINGSTON
“You Deserve Your Flowers.” Group ceramics exhibition curated by Lena Chin. Through September 19.
WOODSTOCK ARTISTS
ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM
28 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK
“Focus: In Flux.” Group show juried by Kathy Greenwood.
Through June 22.
“Paola Bari: Nature, Revisited.” Sculptural ceramics. Through June 22.
Recent Acquisitions.” Group show curated by Tom Wolf.
Through August 10.
WOODSTOCK SCHOOL OF ART
2470 ROUTE 212, WOODSTOCK
“Woodstock School of Art Instructors Exhibition.” Works by the WSA Instructors. June 14–September 6.
WOODSTOCK SPA
62 RICKS ROAD, WOODSTOCK
“SCAPE.” Sculpture installation sponsored by the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild. June 13-September 30.
Horoscopes
By Cory Nakasue
Salve for the Burn
A bevy of astrological helpers come to the fore this month to soothe and tend to the wounds of the past several months. This doesn’t necessarily mean that everything in life will be magically fixed, but there are many palliative agents to take the edge off.
Venus enters its home sign, Taurus, on June 6. After a prolonged stay in Aries, the sign of its detriment, it can finally breathe a sigh of relief. Venus in Taurus encourages relaxation and a renewed interest in sensual pleasures and the stability of our resources. We just need to watch for indulgent behavior, extravagance, and hoarding our assets. Mercury enters Cancer on the 8th, and our thoughts and communication become tinged with emotion. We might find ourselves in frequent states of nostalgia and sentimentality. The biggest transit of June is Jupiter’s entrance into Cancer. After spending a mindfracturing year in Gemini, the sign of its exile, it enters the sign of its exaltation. Jupiter has enhanced powers of coherence, connection, and embodied wisdom in Cancer; definitely a signature of sweet relief.
A high-flying full Moon in Sagittarius on the 11th might have us feeling free from all limits, but this lunation’s ruler, Jupiter, at the height of its discernment in Cancer, is in a tense relationship with Saturn in Aries. We can only enjoy our freedoms if they are soberly earned and exercised responsibly. Mars entering industrious and exacting Virgo on the 16th can help us do this. The Sun enters Cancer on the 20th (the summer solstice), to deepen our emotional intelligence and needs for protection. June ends with a new Moon in Cancer that pits the desire to nurture against the desire to enforce rules. Ideally, these two conflicting desires result in the implementation of regulations that ensure care.
ARIES (March 20–April 19)
There’s so much to learn about your origins this year, and with that knowledge, great healing. The stories about where and who you come from reveal themselves in layers. Prepare to open your heart for discoveries, unveilings, and hard truths about the land, lineages, and conditions that contributed to your current experience. When we integrate new knowledge about our past, it reshapes our selfconcept. Hopefully this will yield self-compassion and more detailed self-definition. You’re retrieving a part of yourself from the past and expanding your origin story. There may even be a new sense of purpose budding.
TAURUS (April 19–May 20)
This is a time of mental coherence for you, and it comes by way of the heart. If you’ve been struggling with confusion or a schism between the heart and mind, this month begins a process of mending. With Venus finally crossing your ascendant after a prolonged stay in the elusive 12th house, it’s likely that you may want to express your new-found clarity with others. Use this month to write, or have conversations that you may have been too agitated to have during the last six months. Your stories, songs, and teachings have soothing power.
GEMINI (May 20–June 21)
If you’ve recently suffered a financial blow or harm to your self-esteem, you’re about to get some help. You’re entering a time of piecing back together anything that fell apart over the last six months. Your situation reminds me of thes, where broken pottery is pieced back together with lacquer and powders made out of precious metals. It’s not about hiding the fact that it was ever broken, but turning the fractures into the most valuable parts of the whole. Your bank account or self-worth can become whole by tending artfully to the places that fell apart.
CANCER
(June 21–July 22)
This month, you create more space for your emotional needs. As nice as this sounds, it can be a painful process, but one that yields many rewards. When we actually allow ourselves to feel, all kinds of sensitivities can come up. You have extra capacity this year to hold the deeper and more complex emotions you may have been suppressing. This is a huge time of maturation for you, it’s also a time of defining who you are. If you can work the interplay between shaping who you are based on your deepest needs for care and safety, you’re golden.
LEO (July 22–August 23)
If you can cultivate a more compassionate and empathetic view of yourself, you’ll also be able to do this for others. This year, you may have to retreat from your usual routines and extroversion in general. Of course, you could choose not to do this, but you’ll be missing out on a world of self-knowledge and healing that is available to you at this time. The aim isn’t to “fix” anything that is “broken” in you, but to collect as many pieces of yourself as you can. Arts or spiritual retreats would be useful this year, as would esoteric study and all forms of therapy.
VIRGO (August 23–September 23)
Enjoy this time of optimism and opportunity. It’s also a time when you feel more confident about letting yourself consider a wider range of possibilities. You may also find that you have more resources and support at your disposal for long-range planning. If your plans rely on partnerships with other people or institutions, you might hit some roadblocks if those agreements are imbalanced or out of alignment with your needs. You’re more open to connecting with friends and solidifying bonds. Jupiter in Cancer will also point out who doesn’t fit, and who gets in the way of group solidarity.
LIBRA (September 23–October 23)
Robust, new structures in your life can be built if you can walk the line between your personal ambitions and your responsibilities to those close to you. This might feel like a pretty, high-flying time in terms of your career and worldly goals, but there are some compromises you need to make to satisfy those closest to you. This month is an exercise in finding the middle way. Notice when life becomes all about you, but also notice when you let relationships dominate. True fulfillment can be found somewhere in between. When you build in this space, you build forms that can endure.
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Horoscopes
SCORPIO (October 23–November 22)
You find a sense of belonging when you leave the familiar behind. You not only become a citizen of the world, but, mother, father, and child to the whole human family. Travel, literature, or spiritual study may be especially comforting if you’ve been feeling incomplete. A narrow perspective may have had you thinking that you’re a political, religious, or cultural orphan. If this is the case, broaden your mind and your scope, and you will recognize yourself in places, cultures, and people you thought were so different from you. Foreign films, philosophy lectures, and teachers who inspire can help this process.
SAGITTARIUS (November 22–December 22)
Intimate relationships, shared resources, and deep psychological study all yield luck, healing, and growth this year. The thornier and more vulnerable transactions in life yield the greatest rewards. Some of these activities might be practiced with family, lovers, or your therapist. You have a chance to heal from family trauma, debt, and displacement when you stop avoiding the more painful parts of being human. At the very least, you can gain deeper insights into the behavior patterns you’ve inherited. If you have the courage to confront trust issues and handle yourself with the utmost integrity, the world opens its purse.
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CAPRICORN (December 22–January 20)
The important people in our lives don’t necessarily complete us. They do, however, help us access knowledge about ourselves that we’re not conscious of. If we can integrate what’s reflected back to us by people we love and trust, we grow. This month might involve many conversations about aspects of yourself that have been fuzzy or confusing for a long time. You might meet new people who make you feel expansive and help you connect the dots about the mysteries of your psyche. There is also valuable information on the table about relationships in general and how to soften into them.
AQUARIUS
(January 20–February 19)
It’s often said that Aquarius loves the idea of humanity more than real, individual humans. Some would go as far as saying that Aquarius is the archetypal humanitarian instinct. Well, it looks like you’ll be more comfortable this year, lending a helping hand to friends in need, and infusing your progressive ideals for society with an uncharacteristic dose of compassionate warmth. Not to get all touchy-feely on you, but you’re about to develop emotions for the people you serve, including yourself. Investigate and tenderly work on old, emotional wounds. You’ll gain deeper insight about the wounds of humankind.
PISCES
(February 20–March 19)
You will receive profound healing when you nurture the children in your life. This includes biological children, brain children, inner children, and young people in general. What are the ways we can engage in caring for all that is youthful, so that it can mature into a secure and fruitful entity? How can we use play as an activity that stimulates growth? What gets in the way of feeling free enough to have fun? The answers to these questions might make us address past wounding. If you can correct some misplaced criticisms about prioritizing the pursuit of pleasure, your vitality will reemerge.
Catskill Public Theater ...........................84
Central Bark USA 12
Chatham Yoga Center 88
Clarion Concerts in Columbia County ...91
Clark Art Institute 68
Colony Woodstock 12
Cone Zero Ceramics ..............................91
Current Cassis 36
Custom Window Treatments 27
Cutting Edge Design, Nick Brown Wood Working 24
The Egg 84
Encore Hair Center .................................35
Exposures Gallery 91
Fairground Shows NY 95
Farmers Choice Dispensary 2
Fenimore Art Museum 60
Fern 43
Fisher Center at Bard College 9, 66
Four Seasons Sotheby’s International Realty 18
Glenn’s Wood Sheds 24
Great Northern Catskills of Greene County 4
Green Cottage 95
Grit Works | Grit Gallery 83
H Houst & Son 24
Harmonious Development 45
Herrington’s 27
Historic Huguenot Street 88
Holistic Natural Medicine:
Integrative Healing Arts 29
Hot Water Solutions, Inc. 1
Hotchkiss Library of Sharon 43
The Howland Cultural Center 80
Hudson Clothier/Canvas + Clothier 94
Hudson River Maritime Museum 92
Hudson Valley Airporter 36
Hudson Valley Native Landscaping 27
Hudson Valley Pottery Tour 86
Hudson Valley Shakespeare 66
Hudson Valley Trailworks 24
Hummingbird Jewelers 35
International Museum of Dinnerware Design 88 J. Seitz 43
J&G Law, LLP 45
Jane St. Art Center 91
Jankscraft 20
Kingston Social 91
Lagusta’s Luscious 17
The Lockwood Gallery 93
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 78
Mark Gruber Gallery 92
Maya Kaimal 16
Menla 29
Mid Valley Wine & Liquor 15
Montano’s Shoe Store 12
Morrison Gallery 43
Phoenicia
Boxed Set
Edward Budney’s Lost Kingston
The negatives were purchased at a tag sale. Ten thousand or more negatives, carefully stored inside 10 yellowing shoe boxes, documented with detailed notes on the photographic techniques employed and the subjects captured in black and white. Longtime members of the Friends of Historic Kingston discovered the negatives at a sale, then kept them for years before donating them to the organization’s archives in 2018.
What the negatives revealed was a glimpse into post-war Kingston, photos of grand projects such as building the Thruway, constructing the County office building and creating Broadway’s railroad overpass; but also more intimate glimpses into daily life in mid-century America: Families watching a parade, harvesting vegetables in the garden, or preparing Sunday dinner. The photos were taken by Edward Budney (1920-1980), who lived with his mother, father, and younger brother in Midtown Kingston.
Taking and sharing photos is so easy today that it may be difficult to imagine how many hours went into photographing and developing this extensive collection
Memorial Day Parade at Broadway Theater, 601 Broadway, 1943, Edward Budney, from the exhibition “Edward Budney: Photographer” at the Friends of Historic Kingston Gallery at the Fred J. Johnson House.
during the 1950s. Budney worked as an inspector at IBM and before that at Port Ewen’s Hercules Powder Company. Taking pictures was his hobby, something he did on his days off. And although Budney submitted pictures to a Times Union snapshot contest and had a few photos printed in the Daily Freeman, most of his work was not seen by the public. That’s about to change, since a selection of his many negatives have been digitized and now form the basis for the exhibit “Edward Budney: Photographer” at the Friends of Historic Kingston Gallery at the Fred J. Johnson House at 63 Main Street, on view through October 31. Finding the negatives was a lucky break, but exhibiting them involved many hours of painstaking work by Dean Engle, the museum’s recently appointed assistant director. When the museum’s director, Jane Kellar, suggested he take on the project, neither could imagine it would take a couple of years to sort through and digitize the images.
“Jane laid all the boxes out on a table after I’d expressed an interest in doing a show just like this, where we took a film archive that had never been
digitized and curated a show around it,” says Engle. “Jane knew we had one such collection waiting for some attention.” Over 500 of Budney’s negatives were digitized.
“It’s overwhelming, really,” says Kellar. “The amount of time that he spent going through every envelope, which he had to open very, very carefully. They were all sealed.”
While assembling the exhibit, Engle sought to learn more about Budney, who died in 1980, but could only find one neighbor who remembered him photographing their family. Engle hopes the exhibit will inspire people to come forward with more information. However, the exhibit already says a lot about the photographer and the decade he photographed.
“When you take a picture at random, many of the images were either Christmas card related or a camera test of a flower or not necessarily identifiable or relevant to Kingston,” says Engle. “But in exploring the archive from beginning to end it offers this very warm view of post-war Kingston.”
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