1+ hour, 49+ min ago   (84+ words) This exhibition at the Fenimore Art Museum showcases American folk art’s bold colors, direct storytelling, and inventive craftsmanship. Portraits, landscapes, and decorative works reveal how self-taught artists captured everyday life while reflecting the country’s evolving identity. The pieces note the…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (567+ words) At 45, John Vega is making the sort of career move most people spend their lives talking themselves out of. For two decades, the Brooklyn- and Bethel-based massage therapist and acupuncturist built a career helping people heal. Before that, he was…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (232+ words) Chronogram Magazine For one weekend each summer, Upstate Art Weekend (June 25-29) turns the Hudson Valley and Catskills into a sprawling, decentralized art crawl, with museums, galleries, artist studios, farms, storefronts, and improbably beautiful old buildings all pulled into orbit around…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (64+ words) June 4 at The Egg in Albany June 25 at Tarrytown Music Hall June 27 at Bard’s Spiegeltent July 24 at Bard’s Spiegeltent July 24 at Mass MoCA in North Adams August 8 at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts August 22 at Troy Savings Bank Music…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (29+ words) Private Public GalleryJune 13-July 12 Elijah Wheat ShowroomJune 13-July 19 Clark Art InstituteJune 13-February 21 Mad Rose GalleryThrough June 28 This article appears in June 2026....

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (279+ words) Before “Hamilton” became a cultural supernova, it passed through Powerhouse. So did John Patrick Shanley’s “Doubt,” Stephen Karam’s “The Humans,” and Sarah DeLappe’s “The Wolves.” More recent Powerhouse-developed projects have gone on to productions at Lincoln Center Theater, MCC Theater,…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (585+ words) Chronogram Magazine There are few places in the Hudson Valley where the setting does as much work as the programming. At Opus 40, the season lineup arrives already charged by the site itself: Harvey Fite’s sprawling hand-built bluestone labyrinth, carved over…...

3+ mon, 6+ day ago   (255+ words) Chronogram Magazine For a company entering its fifth decade, Shadowland Stages shows no signs of settling into repertory comfort. The Ellenville institution’s 2026 season—its 41st—leans into what artistic director Brendan Burke describes as “a very Shadowland mix of plays and…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (281+ words) Chronogram Magazine PS21 has always made a case for performance as something that doesn’t just happen on a stage but in relation to a place—to weather, to landscape, to the people who show up. This summer in Chatham, that idea…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (587+ words) Chronogram Magazine The season opens not with a whisper but a provocation: a collaboration between Heather Christian and Taylor Mac, two artists who rarely aim small. Their collaboration, “Clarence, in a Pause: A Listening Party,” kicks off the Play Lab…...