The Columbia County Historical Society presents an illustrated lecture by Ghent Historian, Gregg Berninger.
The Columbia County Historical Society presents an illustrated lecture by Ghent Historian, Gregg Berninger. In 1818, the town of Ghent was founded from parts of the towns of Chatham, Claverack and Kinderhook. 2018 marks Ghent’s bicentennial and the publication of Berninger’s “Ghent 1818-2018: A History of Our Own”.
Gregg Berninger serves as the Municipal Historian for the Town of Ghent and is widely known for his provocative and humorous presentations. Gregg grew up in Ghent, is a Professor of English at Columbia-Greene Community College, and a seasonal Park Ranger at the Martin Van Buren National Historic Site.
DATE/TIME:
Tuesday, November 20, 2018: 7pm – 8pm
ADMISSION:
Free and Open to the public
LOCATION:
Van Buren Hall
6 Chatham Street, Kinderhook, NY 12106
Basilica Hudson’s sixth annual Holiday Market happens this weekend. In collaboration with Hudson River Exchange, the marketplace consists of a diverse group of regional makers, farmers and vintage collectors.
Basilica Hudson’s sixth annual Holiday Market happens this weekend. In collaboration with Hudson River Exchange, the marketplace consists of a diverse group of regional makers, farmers and vintage collectors. Visitors can browse vintage and artisanal goods and eat locally sourced farm-fresh food.
Born Thanksgiving Weekend 2013 as an antidote to big box Black Friday, Basilica Farm & Flea is part timeless flea and farmer’s market and part 21st century craft and design fair. With over 10,000 square feet of raw space, Basilica Farm & Flea is the only market of this scale in the region.
This Sunday, the Claverack Free Library is hosting a lecture titled, “The Hudson River Valley in the American Revolution, Fortress West Point, & the Great Chain”.
This Sunday, the Claverack Free Library is hosting a lecture titled, “The Hudson River Valley in the American Revolution, Fortress West Point, & the Great Chain”.
COL. Jim Johnson, in the uniform of the 5th NY Regiment, will be speaking about Washington’s “key of America”–Fortress West Point on the Hudson River. As the center of the colonies at the time of the American Revolution, the Hudson River Valley provided a nexus for the conflict and hosted many key figures, battles – Fort Montgomery and Fort Clinton, and political events throughout the eight years of war. The American Revolution played out along the Hudson’s banks – from the first riots protesting the British Quartering Act on Golden Hill in Lower Manhattan, to the chaining of the Hudson and Benedict Arnold’s attempted betrayal of West Point in the Highlands in 1780, to the Battles of Saratoga along its northern shores where Arnold played the role not of traitor, but of hero. The Hudson River Valley was essential to the birth of our Nation.
DATE/TIME:
Sunday, November 18, 2018: 2 – 4pm
LOCATION:
A.B. Shaw Firehouse
67 NY-23, Claverack, NY 12513
The Thompson Giroux Gallery presents “Small Show of Big Drawings From the Collection of Jack Shear”.
The Thompson Giroux Gallery presents “Small Show of Big Drawings From the Collection of Jack Shear”. Works by Jared French, Nancy Grossman, Richard Haas, Ellsworth Kelly, Patrick Lee, Roy Lichtenstein, Agnes Martin, Jim Nutt, Claes Oldenburg, Martin Puryear, Richard Serra, Terry Winters, and Joseph Yetto.
This exhibition will run from November 3 to November 25, 2018. There’s an opening reception on Saturday, November 17.
Martin Puryear Niche, 1999 Graphite and ink on paper
DATES/TIMES:
Exhibit: November 3 – November 25, 2018
Opening reception Saturday, November 17: 4 – 6pm
Thursday – Monday 11am – 5pm, Friday 11am – 7pm.
Closed Tuesday & Wednesday.
Closed Thursday, November 22nd for Thanksgiving
LOCATION:
Thompson Giroux Gallery
57 Main Street
Chatham, NY 12037
Art Omi is hosting an opening and public reception in the Benenson Center for three exhibitions with Art Omi: The Fields + Art Omi: Architecture.
Betty Parsons, Two Ways, 1973 Acrylic on wood 24.50h x 18.50w in, Image courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York Stephen Holl, One Two Five, Watercolor on paper Lebbeus Woods, Three Reconstructed Boxes, 1992-3, (Details), Courtesy Estate of Lebbeus Woods
Art Omi is hosting an opening and public reception in the Benenson Center for three exhibitions with Art Omi: The Fields + Art Omi: Architecture. Betty Parsons: Blue Sky Very High is a series of paintings by Betty Parsons, which will be on view through January 6, 2019 in the gallery. Steven Holl’s One Two Five will be exhibited in Architecture Field 01, and OnSite: Lebbeus Woods’ work will be on view in the Kantor Lobby in the Benenson Center through January 6, 2019.
Betty Parsons: Blue Sky Very High is a series of paintings spanning over two decades of Betty Parsons’ career, which depict her ongoing investigation of landscape as explored through a range of approaches to abstraction. Also included in this exhibition are some of Parsons’ painted driftwood constructions.
Steven Holl worked with the dialectic of simultaneously presenting a subtractive form of sculpture and an additive form. In One Two Five, each piece is carved out of 21-million-year-old stone “pietra di Lecce” by the latest CNC technology and assembled to a two-part sculpture, where the individual elements form space either in composition or freestanding.
Lebbeus Woods’ has only a few full-sized constructed projects. Three Reconstructed Boxes is a sculptural work with sound and video components constructed with close collaborators and by Woods himself.
DATE/TIME:
Opening Public Reception – Saturday, November 10, 2018: 2 – 4 pm
LOCATION:
Omi International Arts Center – Benenson Center
1405 County Route 22
Ghent, NY 12075
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