Arts "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma" Opens at the Crandell Ahead of FilmColumbia Honoring Chatham’s own Writer-Director Jane Schoenbrun Jane Schoenbrun's slasher-comedy, starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson, is the summer's indie hit and a preview of the FilmColumbia festival's 26th edition this October. By Jamie Larson •
Arts Jill Duffy Teaches the Alchemy of Turning Earth and Flora into Paint and Ink in Chatham At her 200-acre farm outside Chatham, a former advertising designer forages bricks, indigo, and creek rocks to make paint and ink the way it was done before synthetics took over—and teaches it to anyone curious enough to spend a day learning how. By Jamie Larson •
Arts "All the President’s Men" with WAMC's Joe Donahue in Chatham The Academy Award-winning 1976 film about the Watergate scandal will be followed by a discussion moderated by WAMC's Joe Donohue.. By Peter Aaron •
Arts Beloved as Muse, Invisible as Artist: Duston Spears' "Bird Girl" at Chatham Bookstore Her debut novel, about a reclusive painter dragged back into the SoHo art world by a viral podcast, gets a conversation with longtime Village Voice art critic Elizabeth Hess. By Jamie Larson •
Arts Bring Your Boombox: Phil Kline's "Force of Nature" Takes Over Chatham Park A living sound sculpture where the audience is the orchestra, from the composer behind "Unsilent Night," on Crellin Park Day. By Jamie Larson •
Arts PS21's Late Summer Lineup Celebrates Art in Place and Place as Art The Chatham performance center closes out its 2026 summer season with a run of premieres built around a common thread: art made from the specific, close-up texture of a place. By Jamie Larson •
Arts Horse Lords Come to PS21 with a New Record and Ava Mendoza The Baltimore avant-rock band's microtonal, polyrhythmic sound reaches for spiritual liberation on their tenth album By Jamie Larson •
Style Paula Greif's Coveted Ceramics Pop-Up at Shaker Outpost in Chatham The Hudson-based potter whose work sells out online brings new pieces inspired by Shaker baskets and buckets to the Maira Kalman-curated general store. By Jamie Larson •
Arts Berkshire Opera Festival 2026 Expands with Tragedy, Comedy, and Residency An 11-year-old opera company that fills the Mahaiwe each summer adds a training program built around a rarely performed Grétry comedy By Jamie Larson • •
Arts Farm-to-Easel: See Jill Duffy Grow Her own Paint at Farm & Field Walnut ink, wild vine charcoal, and oil and cold wax paintings made from the same land they depict—plus foraging walks, a pigment lab, and 210 acres of trails for Upstate Art Weekend. By Jamie Larson •
Real Estate A Barn Conversion on 10 Acres, Tended by the Same Owners for 52 Years, in Chatham A stone fireplace, wide-plank floors, a lofted primary suite, and gardens that have had half a century to mature. By Jamie Larson •
Arts A Triple Feature for Mel Brooks's 100th Birthday at the Crandell "The Producers," "Blazing Saddles," and "Young Frankenstein" hosted by FilmColumbia Festival Director Calliope Nicholas. By Jamie Larson •
