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Christopher Wool, Untitled, Now on View at Art Omi

Untitled is a large-scale bronze and copper plated steel sculpture, exhibited outdoors for the first time at Art Omi.

Untitled is a large-scale bronze and copper plated steel sculpture, exhibited outdoors for the first time at Art Omi. In the past few years, Wool has cultivated a sculptural practice that intersects with his more widely known two-dimensional body of work. The sculptures demonstrate his penchant for appropriating existing forms, deriving their structure from ranching wire found around his property in Texas. The structures are uniquely defined by their coiled and twisted lines, evoking the silk-screened and spray painted contours found in the artist’s earlier two-dimensional work. The work will be on view at Art Omi through at least the end of 2019.

Christopher Wool is primarily known as a painter, his photographs, sculptures, artist books, and prints are also integral to his practice. Wool’s work has been presented at institutions around the world, including solo exhibitions at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1989); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, and Kunsthalle Bern (1991); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1998), Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (1998–99), and Kunsthalle Basel (1999); Institut Valencià d’Art Modern and Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg (2006); Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto (2008–09), and Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2009); Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2012); and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Art Institute of Chicago (2013–2014). Wool currently lives and works in New York City and Marfa, Texas.

Artists in The Fields 2019 exhibition program include: Katherine Bernhardt, Sarah Braman, Francesca DiMattio, Matthew Geller, Virginia Overton, Tschabalala Self, David Shrigley, Brian Tolle, Christopher Wool, and others to be announced.

Info & Image from ArtOmi.org

DATE/TIME:
Now through the end of 2019

LOCATION:
Omi International Arts Center – The Fields Sculpture Park
1405 County Route 22
Ghent, NY 12075

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“Columbia County Portraits” Part 2 of an Illustrated Lecture by Art Historian & Appraiser, Gayle Skluzacek, Feb 9

This is the 2nd of a two part lecture series, and will explore Columbia County portraiture, focusing on paintings from the Permanent Collection of the Columbia County Historical Society.

The Columbia County Historical Society presents “Columbia County Portraits” An Illustrated Lecture by Art Historian and appraiser, Gayle Skluzacek.

This is the 2nd of a two part lecture series, and will explore Columbia County portraiture, focusing on paintings from the Permanent Collection of the Columbia County Historical Society. Ms. Skluzacek is a classically educated art historian and appraiser. After working in curatorial, research, and public relations at the Minneapolis Institute of Fine Arts, the Chicago Art Institute, the Oriental Institute, and the Carnegie Institute, she began appraising in 1981. She has catalogued important collections, estates, and archives, identified lost masterpieces, served as an art/personal property expert in court cases, and has worked closely with major museums in their art acquisition programs.

Ms. Skluzacek served on the Board of Directors of the Appraisers Association of America and served as President, 2000-2002. She was presented with the Director’s Award for her services in 2015.

Since 1995 Ms. Skluzacek has been on the faculty of FIT’s Graduate School, teaching appraisal classes. She has also been on the faculty of NYU since 1992, where she teaches classes on appraising, American Art, connoisseurship, wine, and ethics. She teaches appraisal ethics to auction house experts throughout the country, including Sotheby’s, Phillips, Skinner, Doyle, Freeman’s, Bonham’s, and Heritage. In 2001 she was invited by the Cuban government to teach a course on appraisal ethics in Havana. Recently she was appointed as fine art expert to a NY committee for the restoration of public murals.

DATE/TIME:
Saturday, February 9, 2019: 4:30pm – 6:30pm

TICKETS:
Advance Tickets $15
At the Door:
$15 Members (CCHS)
$ 20 Non-Members

Tickets can be purchased online at www.cchsny.org/lecturenyamericanportraits.html

LOCATION:
Van Buren Hall
6 Chatham Street,
Kinderhook, NY 12106

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Friends of the Hudson Area Library Book & Bake Sale

The Hudson Area Library’s Friends of the Hudson Area Library will be hosting a Book and Bake Sale in the community room of the Library.

The Hudson Area Library‘s Friends of the Hudson Area Library will be hosting a Book and Bake Sale in the community room of the Library. This is a great opportunity to purchase new and gently used books on a variety of subjects, including art books as well as CDs and DVDs.

There will also be homemade baked desserts for sale during this event. So come out and support the library, get that unique book you’ve been looking for and didn’t know it, enjoy a baked good, and support the Hudson Area Library!

The Friends of the Hudson Area Library supports library collections and programming.
All proceeds from the sale will benefit the Friends, and enhance contributions to the Hudson Area Library.

DATES/TIMES:
Saturday, February 9, 2019: 10am – 2:30pm
Sunday, February 10, 2019: 1-3:30pm

LOCATION:
Hudson Area Library
51 N. 5th St. (at State St.)
Hudson, NY 12534

MORE:
HudsonAreaLibrary.org
For more information email programs@hudsonarealibrary.org, call 518.828.1792 x101, or visit the main desk in the library.

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At The Crandell: ‘Green Book’ & ‘Roma’

Now Playing at the Crandell Theatre! Green Book is showing nightly today, through next Thursday, and Roma will be the weekend matinee with afternoon showings on both Saturday and Sunday.

Now Playing at the Crandell Theatre! Green Book is showing nightly today, through next Thursday, and Roma will be the weekend matinee with afternoon showings on both Saturday and Sunday.

Green Book

When Tony Lip (Mortensen), a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley (Ali), a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on “The Green Book” to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger-as well as unexpected humanity and humor-they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the journey of a lifetime.

INFO:
Rated: PG-13 (for thematic content, language including racial epithets, smoking, some violence and suggestive material)
Genre: Drama
Directed By: Peter Farrelly
Written By: Nick Vallelonga, Peter Farrelly, Brian Currie
Runtime: 130 minutes
Studio: Universal Pictures

SHOW TIMES:
Friday, February 1 through Thursday, February 7, 2019: 7:00pm

Roma

The most personal project to date from Academy Award (R)-winning director and writer Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity, Children of Men, Y Tu Mama Tambien), ROMA follows Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a young domestic worker for a family in the middle-class neighborhood of Roma in Mexico City. Delivering an artful love letter to the women who raised him, Cuarón draws on his own childhood to create a vivid and emotional portrait of domestic strife and social hierarchy amidst political turmoil of the 1970s. Cuarón’s first project since the groundbreaking Gravity in 2013, ROMA will be available in theaters and on Netflix later this year.

INFO:
Rated: R (for graphic nudity, some disturbing images, and language)
Genre: Drama
Directed By: Alfonso Cuarón
Written By: Alfonso Cuarón
Runtime: 135 minutes
Studio: Netflix

SHOW TIMES:
Saturday, February 2, 2019: 2:00pm & 4:30pm
Sunday, February 3, 2019: 12:00pm 2:30pm

TICKET PRICES:
Chatham Film Club Members & Children $6.50
Non Members $7.50
Additional $2.00 fee for 3D

LOCATION:
The Crandell Theatre
48 Main Street
Chatham, NY 12037

MORE:
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Cabin Fever Party at Copake Country Club, Feb 1

The Copake Country Club invites you to break out your best flannel and join a night of fun to beat the winter blues!

LIVE MUSIC by Jukebox Junkies
FOOD by Nosh Food Truck and Catering Company
SHOTSKIS by Woody Creek Distillers
Plus Giant Jenga, Lumberjack Photo Booth, Ice Luge and other fun!

DATES/TIME:
Friday, February 1, 2019: 7pm – 10pm