Arts FilmColumbia Kicks Off Friday With a Party for Jane Schoenbrun, and a Weekend of Cannes Winners The 26th festival opens with a Q&A with its honoree, a children’s program, a screenwriting workshop, and films from Cannes and the New York Film Festival. By Jamie Larson •
Arts FilmColumbia 2026: 10 Must-See Films in Chatham Awards contenders, discoveries, and cinematic curveballs. By Brian K. Mahoney •
Arts Kiki Smith's "Visiting" Opens at Shaker Museum's Outpost in Chatham The Hudson Valley artist's show, the third at Shaker Museum's downtown pop-up, runs through December 20 alongside Maira Kalman's General Store. By Jamie Larson •
Arts Harry Belafonte Biographer Screens 1959 Hudson NY Noir "Odds Against Tomorrow," Saturday in Chatham Biographer Joshua Jelly-Schapiro introduces the 1959 heist film and signs "Daylight Come," his new book on Belafonte. By Jamie Larson •
Arts Lenio Kaklea's "The Birds" Makes Its New York Premiere at PS21 The Paris-based choreographer explores mating rituals, hunting patterns, and the desire to be seen through the lens of avian behavior. By Jamie Larson •
Arts PS21's Commonground Festival Brings 100 Self-Playing Drums and Free Ice Cream to Chatham A world premiere from Amsterdam's Touki Delphine, a new Andrew Schneider piece, and a local artist showcase close out the summer at PS21 By Jamie Larson •
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 •
