Arts

Arts

Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Jacques Kaplan in Kent

Jacques Kaplan, the pioneering art dealer in Kent, CT, was a larger than life figure.  A one-time Fifth Avenue furrier, who collaborated on coats with artists such as Frank Stella in the go-go sixties, he ran his Paris-New York-Kent Gallery in a caboose by Kent's old railroad station

By Editor

Arts

All That Jazz: Wanda Houston Sings with Heart & Soul

When Wanda Houston sings her zippy version of "Over the Rainbow," it's as if you've never heard the Harold Arlen/Yip Harburg tune before.  When she puts a gospel spin on Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin',"

By Editor

Arts

A Major Sol LeWitt Retrospective at Mass MoCA

Sol LeWitt, one of the most influential artists of the last half century, so opposed the notion of artist-as-celebrity, it's hard to imagine, had he lived, how he would have grappled with the opening this weekend at MASS MoCA.   Never mind that the exhibition is a landmark retrospective

By Editor

Arts

Duncan Sheik Comes to Albany & Great Barrington

Duncan Sheik, the 38-year-old alternative rocker and songwriter, has had a cult following since his days at Brown University.  He made Broadway history when Spring Awakening, his musical about adolescent sexuality, opened to rave reviews on Broadway. "A straight shot of eroticism steamed open last night at the Eugene

By Editor

Arts

The Murder of Lidice; A Multi-Media Event

With the very air around us still crackling with political energy, the Spencertown Academy will host a live performance of Edna St. Vincent Millay's poem, "The Murder of Lidice" this Friday night. On June 10, 1942, the German government announced that it had destroyed the small

By Editor

Arts

"Over the Top: American Posters from World War I" Opens at the Norman Rockwell Museum

As anyone who has spent time at the Norman Rockwell Museum knows, the quintessential American illustrator was a politically-minded man with a highly developed social conscience.  Rockwell's spirit lives on not only in the museum's extraordinary permanent collection of his paintings, but also in the temporary

By Editor

Arts

"Forces of Nature" at Kent's Ober Gallery

"Some of my best clients are my former students," says Rob Ober, the former tennis pro at the Sharon Country Club who became an art dealer two years ago when he opened the Ober Gallery in Kent. "One day during a lesson, the man I was teaching

By Editor

Arts

6th Annual Local Authors Day in Sheffield

If you have any lingering doubts that our region has more than its fair share of writers in residence, just take a look at the list (below) of 49 authors and illustrators who will be signing books in Sheffield on Saturday, November 1, at the 6th annual Bushnell-Sage Library'

By Editor

Arts

Infinity Music Hall Debuts in Norfolk

Live music and good booze are a great combo, but you don't always get to enjoy them at the same time when you attend a concert.  At the just-opened Infinity Music Hall, an intimate yet grand 300-seat club in a restored 1883 building in Norfolk, CT, you can

By Editor

Arts

The White Gallery Reopens in Lakeville

Susan and Tino Galluzzo believe in second careers, second marriages and second acts. She's a former lawyer and he's a former investment banker, who became art dealers six years ago when they opened The White Gallery in Lakeville. Two years later, they became husband and wife

By Editor

Arts

A Vassar Visionary: Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn Brings Her Collection to her Alma Mater

Since 2002, Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn (Vassar class of '89) has been exhibiting contemporary art at Salon 94, which is located downstairs from her home on New York's Upper East Side. Now she is bringing pieces from her cutting-edge private collection to the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

By Editor

Arts

A Choreographer Climbs the Walls at Bard

The Richard B. Fisher Center helped put Bard College on the cultural map, and now the Fisher Center is putting dancers on the roof of the iconic Frank Gehry-designed building. This weekend and next, site-specific Canadian choreographer Noémie Lafrance will premiere a work called Rapture on the brushed stainless-steel exterior

By Editor