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Kingston plans $3.5 million Franklin and Henry Street sidewalk revitalization
After a year-long, pandemic-caused delay, the City of Kingston is moving ahead on two projects designed to making walking and biking safer and greener on two Midtown streets that have long suffered...
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Mary Frank’s world on display at Dorsky Museum
“Mary Frank: The Observing Heart,” an elegant survey of the 89-year-old artist’s oeuvre of paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and posters at the Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz through...
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Patricia Miranda’s lace and fabric works at Jane St. Art Center
Artist Patricia Miranda. (Photos by Dion Ogust) In March 2020, just as the lockdown was going into effect, Patricia Miranda posted an image on Instagram of some lace she had inherited from her...
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Sewing in Kingston: Stitching Past and Present
Reher Center’s new Sewing in Kingston exhibition examines the history of the garment industry and otherwise tracks the history of the city through sewing. (Photos by Dion Ogust) In the early 20th...
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Solar cooking demonstration at SUNY New Paltz
Mary Frank is organizing a solar cooker demonstration on June 19 at SUNY New Paltz. (Photo by Dion Ogust) It’s practically impossible to talk to artist Mary Frank without having her bend your ear about...
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Harvey Fite, the sculptor, examined
“Let the Stone Tell the Story: An Inside Look at Sculptor Harvey Fite’s Studio Work” at Emerge Gallery and Lamb Center. During the nearly 40 years Harvey Fite was carving, lifting and layering...
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“Shelter” at White Pines
Work by Tristan Fitch. (Photos by Dion Ogust) The 16 sculptures and installations comprising “Shelter” constitute the first outdoor exhibition in two years on the grounds of White Pines, the historic...
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Color: The Primary Material at The Lockwood Gallery through July 30
Blue Gray, Warm Brown, Feathered Edges by Grace Bakst Wapner. Color: The Primary Material, an exhibit at Lockwood Gallery on view through July 30, pairs the work of two artists, Grace Bakst Wapner and...
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No Justice exhibit at West Strand Gallery
May 28, by Rob Swainston and Zorawar Sidhu. In the summer of 2020, when New York City was in quarantine, artist and printmaker Rob Swainston was riding his bike through the empty city streets taking...
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Mother and son exhibit their plein air landscapes at ASK
Nancy Campbell (Photo by Dion Ogust) “Campbell + Campbell, Recent Paintings,” an exhibition of plein air landscape paintings by Nancy Campbell and Jon Campbell at the Arts Society of Kingston, is a...
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Kingston’s Lowell Thing shines a light on the art of Margaret Armstrong
Lowell Thing’s new book, Cover Treasure: The Life and Art of Margaret Armstrong. (Photo by Dion Ogust) Lowell Thing’s Cover Treasure: The Life and Art of Margaret Armstrong, is an 8 by 11-1/2-inch,...
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A talk with Kitt Potter, Kingston’s Director of Arts and Cultural Affairs
Kitt Potter (Photo by Dion Ogust) Over the past year, if you attended a gallery opening, concert, festival or other cultural event in Kingston, chances are you would have run into Kitt Potter, the...
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Reher Center acquires historic buildings
(L to R) Reher Center lawyer Stuart Lipkind, President Barbara Blas, Vice President Geoffrey Miller, Ulster County Jewish Federation President RonDavid Gold, and UCJF lawyer Mark Grunblatt hold the...
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One of the Hudson Valley’s most important art collections is now on display...
Charles Rosen, River Boat, no. 2, Hudson River, 1939, oil on canvas. (Photos of artwork by Lauren Thomas) In 2018, Arthur Anderson donated his entire collection of Woodstock art to the New York State...
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The historic Wurts Street Bridge lives to span another day
(Photos by Dion Ogust) A decade ago, the fate of the Wurts Street Bridge, whose graceful span over the Rondout Creek is one of the attractions of Kingston’s downtown district, was uncertain....
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Kingston’s stewards of history
Marisa Marvelli outside her historic renovated house. (Photo by Phyllis McCabe) Few places in America rival the architectural heritage of Kingston. “On Fair Street, there’s every architectural style...
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No ordinary flow: Bird and Lava
Arriving at the ‘T’ Space Gallery in the wooded “T” Space preserve near Rhinebeck, one could easily miss the small path from the rise of the small dirt parking area to the gallery. A small sign off...
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This weekend: Hudson Valley’s art event of the summer takes over the area
The Seligmann Center The biggest regional arts extravaganza in recent memory launches this Friday, splashing color on every corner of the Hudson Valley. Held this July 21-24, Upstate Art Weekend (UAW)...
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D.R.A.W. offers its participants “a creative melting pot for possibilities”
(Photos by Dion Ogust) One of the highlights of Kingston’s September art walk was the exhibition of large-scale linocuts at D.R.A.W.’s new Neighborhood Print Studio – they capitalize its first letters...
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Transart celebrates the resurrection of a Victorian jewel in Midtown Kingston
Transart is located at 107 Henry Street in Kingston. (Photos by Dion Ogust) Back in 2001, George Allen, director of The Kingston Library, described 107 Henry Street as “a tiny castle from a fairy...
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