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Classical Concerts: No Tickets Necessary

We'll never know if it's liberal (arts) guilt that motivates them, but we are grateful that the elite boarding schools and private colleges that dot our region often open their doors to the community for gratis lectures, concerts and exhibits.  This Friday night, April 4 at

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40 Films in Four Days in Kent

You'd think that a town without a proper movie theater would have a tough time pulling off  a serious film festival, but the arts community of Kent, CT, does not let that inconvenient detail get in its way. "It requires a lot of imagination," says Frank

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One of a Kind: The Magic of Prints

For the collector, the appeal of prints is their accessibility.  They are, quite simply, more affordable than other unique works of art.   For the artist, printmaking offers an opportunity to experiment and, consequently, often acts as a catalyst for change in his other work. This Saturday the Spencertown Academy launches

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Opera: Something Old, Something New

Back in 1934, in nearby Hartford, CT, an organization called The Friends and Enemies of Modern Music financed the world premiere of Four Saints in Three Acts, an avant garde opera with music by Virgil Thomson and a libretto by Gertrude Stein.  Performed with an all-black cast at the Hartford

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One Chimp's Life: A Gripping Tale

You don't have to be an animal lover like the East Chatham author Elizabeth Hess to find her new book, Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human absorbing.  You don't even have to care much about the merits of the scientific experiment that brought Nim

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"Mark Twain" Returns for One Night

Hal Holbrook was just 34 years old when he took Broadway by storm (and by surprise) in 1959. "An extraordinary show called 'Mark Twain Tonight!' slipped into the Forty-first Street Theatre last evening. There should have been posters up all over the town to herald its arrival,

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Photography: Eban, Among Others

If you are going to tell the story of your life, it helps to have had an interesting one.  Gerard Malanga has.  A poet whose work has appeared in Poetry, Partisan Review, The Paris Review and The New Yorker, the multi-faceted Malanga is remembered by students of art history as

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Summerscape: Back in the USSR

How would you like your politics this morning, sir?  "Prokofiev and his World," a seven-week festival at Bard College, kicks off on July 4th, with the sublime--a fully restored version of the composer's 1935 ballet Romeo & Juliet, as written but never before performed (the political

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Hudson: A Fork and Fine Art Fete

The Columbia County Council on the Arts is at it again.  Not content with long ago having won our hearts and minds, they now appear to be after our stomachs, as well. On Saturday, March 1, they will celebrate their 13th Annual Juried Art Show with a gala opening and

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Red, White & Blacklisted: "Trumbo" Opens at Barrington Stage in Pittsfield

In this highly politicized season, Barrington Stage artistic director Julianne Boyd decided to open her 2008 season on February 14 with Trumbo, a play that explores how the United States government's crackdown on dissent in the McCarthy era affected the blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (who, apparently, liked to

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Berkshire Theatre Festival To Get a Facelift

If you've ever gone to the Berkshire Theatre Festival, in Stockbridge, MA, you know that the parking situation can be like a screwball comedy, with student volunteers sending you and your car in circles and sometimes into ditches. Now, as an 80th birthday present to itself, BTF has

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A New View of the Hudson

Until last year, film-producer (forthcoming: "The Duchess" starring Keira Knightly) and screenwriter Carolyn Marks Blackwood had never shown her photographs to anyone. Once she did, a whirlwind ensued. Since then, her work has been shown at Paul Rodger's 9W Gallery in Manhattan in a show, "

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