Recently Olana added new Guided Tours to their outdoor offerings.
Olana’s landscape and carriage roads have been open to the public and are always free to visit from 8AM to sunset. Recently Olana added new Guided Tours to their outdoor offerings.
Guided tours (walking and driving) of the historic landscape will be offered on Saturday and Sunday from 10 AM to 4 PM. Tours are limited to 14 guests.
There are four different tours including the Family Explorer Tour (a 1/4 mile-long walk with family-friendly discussion and activities), the Landscape and Architecture Tour (a 1/4 mile-long tour focusing on the integration of landscape and architecture), the Art and Environment Tour (a mile-long tour that provides a comprehensive introduction to Frederic Church’s work as an artist and landscape designer), and the Electric Carriage Tour (a five mile-long driving tour providing the most comprehensive exploration of Olana’s landscape).
All tour participants are required to:
Wear a mask covering the mouth and nose during the tour.
Streaming next at the Crandell Theatre ‘Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets’
Streaming next at the Crandell Theatre ‘Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets’.
Co-directors Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross’s genre-bending docudrama focuses on a Las Vegas dive bar named ‘The Roaring 20s’ as it prepares to close its doors forever. Its longtime bartenders and patrons come together for one last night of alcohol-charged camaraderie, commemoration and consolation as they contemplate their place in a fracturing and downcast late-2016 America.
Waterfront Wednesdays at Henry Hudson Riverfront Park, in Hudson.
“Hudson in Concert: a Community Celebration” was originally scheduled for August 1st in Henry Hudson Riverfront Park. Due to the Coronavirus, the full orchestra concert has been rescheduled and reimagined as a smaller program of “Hudson in Concert” to take place during the Waterfront Wednesdays series on August 26th
The program will feature musicians and guest artists of the HFO with musical selections including tango, Klezmer, jazz, Indian classical music, Bangladeshi songs, and R&B/Afrobeat-influenced music.
DATE/TIME: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 / 6:30pm – 8pm
LOCATION: Henry Hudson Riverfront Park
Hudson, NY (Behind the Amtrak station)
Earlier this month, Art Omi reopened the Newmark Gallery with an exhibition of photo collage and video art by American painter and mixed media artist, Howardena Pindell.
Still from Free, White and 21, Howardena Pindell Courtesy of the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery
Earlier this month, Art Omi reopened the Newmark Gallery with an exhibition of photo collage and video art by American painter and mixed media artist, Howardena Pindell. Pindell’s extensive body of work addresses political themes, including racism, physical trauma, memory, and the human experience.
Born in Philadelphia in 1943, Howardena Pindell studied painting at Boston University and Yale University. After graduating, she accepted a job at the Museum of Modern Art, where she worked for 12 years (1967–1979), first as Exhibition Assistant, then as Assistant Curator in the Department of National and International Traveling Exhibitions, and finally as an Associate Curator and Acting Director in the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books. In 1979, she began teaching at the State University of New York, Stony Brook where she is now a full professor. Throughout her career, Pindell has exhibited extensively.
Pindell often employs lengthy, metaphorical processes of destruction/reconstruction. She cuts canvases in strips and sews them back together, building up surfaces in elaborate stages. She paints or draws on sheets of paper, punches out dots from the paper using a paper hole punch, drops the dots onto her canvas, and finally squeegees paint through the “stencil” left in the paper from which she had punched the dots. Almost invariably, her paintings are installed unstretched, held to the wall merely by the strength of a few finishing nails. The artist’s fascination with gridded, serialized imagery, along with surface texture appears throughout her oeuvre. Even in her later, more politically charged work, Pindell reverts to these thematic focuses in order to address social issues of homelessness, AIDs, war, genocide, sexism, xenophobia, and apartheid.
Howardena Pindell’s work has been featured in many landmark museum exhibitions, such as: Contemporary Black Artists in America (1971, Whitney Museum of American Art), Rooms (1976, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center), Another Generation (1979, The Studio Museum in Harlem), Afro-American Abstraction (1980, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center), The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s (1990, New Museum of Contemporary Art), and Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African-American Women Artists (1996, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta).
DATES: Now through November 1, 2020 Every Friday through Sunday / 11am – 4pm
ADMISSION: Free / Registration Required
A timed entry system will permit gallery visitation. Visitors will be able to register for a half-hour slot in advance, or upon arrival to the Sculpture & Architecture Park if space is available at that time. No more than eight visitors will be allowed in the gallery at once, and all visitors will be required to wear masks during their visit. Click here to register
LOCATION: Omi International Arts Center Newmark Gallery
1405 County Route 22
Ghent, NY 12075
Although our numbers are low, it is IMPORTANT to remember to stay home if you feel symptoms. Recent positives were feeling ill and continued to go to work and/or socialized and potentially exposed many more people, putting them on Mandatory Quarantine for 14 days. Please continue to practice social distancing and wear your mask!
As of 3 PM on July 27, 2020:
– Columbia County has had 37 residents that have passed away from COVID-19.
-Columbia County has 477 confirmed positive cases.
-There are 9 active cases of COVID-19 in Columbia County. We are monitoring 44 county residents on mandatory quarantine, and there are 8 on precautionary quarantine.
– 431 of the 477 cases have recovered from COVID-19
– 5 of the positive cases are hospitalized, none of those hospitalized are in the ICU
-We have received 17,321 PCR reports. Please note this number may represent duplicate reports, out of county reports, and multiple nursing home testings.
All tour participants are required to:
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