Rural Intelligence (Page 660)

Parties

Flocking to Ornamentum

Stefan Friedemann and Laura Lapachin, owners of the Hudson gallery Ornamentum, like to cross the line—not only between serious art and wearable jewelry but also between the conscious and unconscious mind. A recent controversial display of taxidermy rabbit heads, ears stuffed with jewels, was a provocative surrealist display worthy

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Food

AgriCulture: The Great Release

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week, Peter writes: This is the week of the great release. Our 100 or so heritage turkey poults finally, after more than two months of confinement, have reached a size that they no

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Arts

Louise Lecavalier: Daredevil Dancing at Jacob's Pillow

Dance review by Bess J.M. Hochstein Photos: Andre CornellierLouise Lecavalier is petite, more than 50 years old, sinewy and muscled, and a dare devil dancer with a stage presence that grabs your attention and never lets it go – not only when she is moving with complete physical abandon, but

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Arts

From Cuba to Becket: DanzAbierta's U.S. Debut at Jacob's Pillow

Dance review by Bess J.M. Hochstein Photos by Carlos Furman In DanzAbierta’s hour-long work, MalSon, the dancers wear gray and black and the sole scenic prop is a gray block, about the size of an super-deep mattress. All color comes from video intermittently projected on the

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Parties

Lift off in Lenox: Two Gallery Openings and a KiteFest

Cultural correspondent Bess J.M. Hochstein reports: Last Saturday in Lenox, there was something old, something new, and definitely something in the air. The annual show of new work by Lucy MacGillis, who was born in the Berkshires and lives and paints in Umbria, attracted a typically enthusiastic crowd at

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Community

Art Studio Tour to Benefit Library

Nothing compares with seeing art and crafts in the environment in which they were produced. Unlike galleries, which are intentionally sterile so as not to compete for attention with the work, artists' studios are rife with clues. Among the dozen-plus studios that will be open to the public

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Arts

Todd Reynolds on the 10th Annual Bang on a Can Festival

The rock band Wilco, which hosted the recent Solid Sound festival, was not the first musical group to commandeer MASS MoCA. In 2002—just three years after the museum was founded – Bang on a Can, a group of musicians and composers dedicated to commissioning, performing, creating, presenting, and recording contemporary

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Arts

Commentary: Mr. Rodgers' Neighborhood

by Scott Baldinger In 1966, when asked what he thought of the music of the Beatles, Richard Rodgers churlishly replied, “I find it monotonous…I don’t think there’s anything creative or original about it. Their music won’t last.” When told about this, Paul McCartney responded that he

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Community

Zip-lining: Adventure in the Treetops

by Betsy Miller In 2009, there were 62 ziplines in the United States. Two years later, there are about 200, three of them in our area. Investors, get out your checkbooks. Treetop zipping is coming to a neighborhood near you. The use of cables and harnesses to transport people between

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Style

Style Shopping: All About Weave

by Scott Baldinger One of the great things about Hudson, New York, is that you can literally fall out of bed (or your car, if you don’t live or weekend here) and into a new and wondrous world of the decorative arts. Sometimes you may even find worlds within

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Parties

Tanglewood 2011 Opens With a Splash

It was that kind of night. Just before hundreds of undaunted Boston Symphony Orchestra supporters, some local, many more, it seemed, from New York and Boston, descended on the grounds of Tanglewood to celebrate the opening of its 2011 season, it had rained. Fortunately, the weather held throughout the cocktail

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Food

AgriCulture: Why We (Um)...Castrate

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week, Mark writes: If you want to know what empathy is, follow the expression on a young man's face as he assists at a piglet's castration. Last Sunday I

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