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Inside:<br />

Raleigh on Film; Bethune on <strong>The</strong>atre;<br />

Behrens on Music; Lille & Trevens on Dance;<br />

Seckel on the Cultural Scene;<br />

Cole on Miró; Steiner on <strong>Clark</strong> Hulings;<br />

Spencer ‘Speaks Out’ on African <strong>Art</strong>;<br />

New <strong>Art</strong> Books; Short Fiction & Poetry;<br />

Extensive Calendar of Events…and more!<br />

ART TIMES<br />

Vol. 27 No. 6 May/ June 2011<br />

By RAYMOND J. STEINER<br />

EYE, MIND, SOUL — pleasing the eye,<br />

engaging the mind, speaking to the soul<br />

— how rare to find artists today doing<br />

all three at one and the same time!<br />

<strong>The</strong>y do exist, however — tucked away<br />

in different corners of our country, heroically<br />

hewing to old traditions of skill<br />

and craftsmanship in spite of all efforts<br />

to sway them from the so-called “passé”<br />

standards of by-gone days. Witness,<br />

for example, the art of <strong>Clark</strong> Hulings,<br />

presently on view at <strong>The</strong> <strong>Forbes</strong> Gallery<br />

in <strong>NYC</strong>,* a show that features many<br />

works of the recently-deceased artist<br />

that have never been exhibited before.<br />

As with so many representational<br />

artists dismissed as “mere” illustrators<br />

by the modernist “pundits”, <strong>Clark</strong><br />

Hulings ignored the trend for imageless<br />

art, soldiering on while silently<br />

honing his skills of fine draftsmanship<br />

and subtly-toned color schemes on the<br />

rural motifs he seemed never to tire<br />

rendering. Hulings’ art, however, has<br />

not been totally ignored, gaining both<br />

recognition and awards from such<br />

organizations as <strong>The</strong> Allied <strong>Art</strong>ists of<br />

<strong>Clark</strong> Hulings at <strong>The</strong> <strong>Forbes</strong> <strong>Galleries</strong>, <strong>NYC</strong><br />

fine craftsmanship — a much welcome<br />

allegiance now carried on by <strong>The</strong> <strong>Forbes</strong><br />

Gallery and their current exhibition of<br />

Hulings’ work.<br />

For the aficionado of classical fine<br />

art, this is a show you ought not miss.<br />

<strong>The</strong> groundwork for Hulings’ eye for<br />

Onteniente (Oil on Canvas) 1967<br />

George Bridgman and Frank Reilly —<br />

both of whom led their talented student<br />

to eventually focus on leaving the more<br />

lucrative career of illustration to one of<br />

pursing fine art. Already influenced in<br />

his youth by the traditionally-trained<br />

portraitist Sigismund Ivanowski, his<br />

teachers could not have had a more<br />

apt and willing learner — but it was<br />

Hulings himself who transformed their<br />

teachings into his own unique vision<br />

and style of combining visual elements<br />

stored in his memory to create his compelling<br />

compositions.<br />

<strong>The</strong> fruits of Hulings’ progress are<br />

evident in the 42 paintings and drawings<br />

presently on view in “An American<br />

Master” — the designation of “master”<br />

most definitely appropriate in this<br />

instance. Viewers will assuredly have<br />

their hungry eyes, minds and souls<br />

sated by the sheer vitality of Hulings’<br />

images — images gleaned from world<br />

travels of rural land- and townscapes,<br />

colorful flower and produce markets,<br />

street vendors, farmyards, children,<br />

still lifes — and, of course, his signature<br />

placidly-patient donkeys. Never garish,<br />

never saccharine, Hulings’ seems to hit<br />

the right tone in whatever he chooses to<br />

depict — even the famous, overweight<br />

character “Suzy” of <strong>Art</strong> Student League<br />

fame — a model that I had devoted a<br />

chapter to in my book, <strong>The</strong> <strong>Art</strong> Students<br />

League of New York: A History.<br />

Close viewing will reveal how deftly<br />

Hulings’ achieves his effects — subtle<br />

shifting of values that compels color<br />

to “hold its place” and form to avoid<br />

domination of the overall motif — varied<br />

brush and broad palette strokes<br />

to evoke detail and/or texture — all<br />

blended by a masterful eye and hand<br />

coordination — all of which comes<br />

from a lifetime of looking, of noting,<br />

of differentiating, of memorizing — of<br />

near-flawless execution.<br />

So — go treat yourself — if only to<br />

fall in love with his donkeys or chuckle<br />

at Suzy the model.<br />

*“Hulings: An American Master”<br />

(thru Jun 18): <strong>The</strong> <strong>Forbes</strong> <strong>Galleries</strong>,<br />

62 Fifth Ave., <strong>NYC</strong> (843) 842-4433<br />

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America, the Hudson Valley <strong>Art</strong> Association<br />

and representation at the oncefamous<br />

Grand Central <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Galleries</strong> in<br />

<strong>NYC</strong> — all organizations that have long<br />

hewed to the traditional standards of<br />

Looking for Shade (Oil on Canvas) 2003<br />

form and color had been long laid<br />

down by “gruntwork” as a successful<br />

illustrator whose innate eye for detail<br />

had been finely-tuned by such master<br />

<strong>Art</strong> Student League teachers as the late<br />

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Letters<br />

To the Publisher:<br />

I’m hoping that the winter went well<br />

for you two, and that spring now<br />

brings abundant warmth and color<br />

into all of our lives. I’ve had a quiet<br />

winter myself, and it really has been<br />

a very long time since I’ve seen you,<br />

too long... hopefully we can change<br />

that; I promise to get out more!…<br />

Please send my very best to<br />

Ray, and tell him I am still getting<br />

responses to the article! [“Marlene<br />

Wiedenbaum at <strong>The</strong> Bruynswick<br />

<strong>Art</strong> Studio & Gallery, Nov/Dec 2010]<br />

Marlene Wiedenbaum<br />

Highland, NY<br />

To the Publisher:<br />

What a joy to see the coverage of our<br />

present exhibit at Rockefeller. Thank<br />

you so much for coming, sharing time<br />

with us and displaying a picture and<br />

mention.<br />

I enjoyed seeing you after such a<br />

long time.<br />

With much appreciation.<br />

Audrey Leeds, Curator<br />

Norwood, NJ<br />

To the Publisher:<br />

Thank you very much for attending<br />

our winter concert at the Ailey Citigroup<br />

<strong>The</strong>ater, and for mentioning<br />

our company and performance in<br />

the March/April 2011 issue of ART<br />

TIMES.<br />

Roberto Villanueva<br />

Execitive/<strong>Art</strong>istic Director<br />

BalaSole Dance Co., Inc., NY, NY<br />

To the Editor:<br />

Receiving the <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Times</strong> is always<br />

a highlight of my month; it’s such a<br />

Peeks and Piques!<br />

OVER THE YEARS I’ve given my<br />

readers a “peek” into my life behind<br />

my role as editor of this publication<br />

— “Splitting Wood” back in March<br />

of ’96; “<strong>The</strong> Stone Wall” in May ’04,<br />

“Autumn in New York” in November<br />

of ’07, and “City Boy, Country Boy” in<br />

May of last year — a life that I jealously<br />

guard along with the solitude it<br />

guarantees me. If you’ve kept track<br />

over the years, I’ve given glimpses<br />

into my home and environs that is<br />

situated on a 2-acre plot on a deadend<br />

road about half-way between the<br />

villages of Woodstock and Saugerties,<br />

New York — even some first-hand<br />

glimpses to those who’ve managed<br />

to break my barrier of isolation for a<br />

short visit (the “stone wall” described<br />

in May of 2004 serves as a visible<br />

warning to the idle curious). Anyway,<br />

this time I want to share another peek<br />

into my life in the woods — a visit to a<br />

sugar maple farm about a mile down<br />

the road from me. Many don’t know<br />

that it is, in fact, not Vermont but<br />

New York State that leads the country<br />

in the production of maple sugar.<br />

Set back a few hundred feet from the<br />

road on a piece of woodland riven by<br />

a meandering brook, the maple sugar<br />

“factory” is a one-story wooden building<br />

that deceptively hides a high-tech<br />

Contents<br />

<strong>Art</strong> ……………1, 3, 7<br />

<strong>Art</strong> Book Review…17<br />

Calendar of Events …4<br />

Classifieds …………18<br />

Culturally Speaking…10<br />

Dance ………………5, 9<br />

Editorial ……………2, 3<br />

Fiction ………………14<br />

delightful read. I must congratulate<br />

Henry Raleigh on his “Sometimes<br />

Curmudgeons Laugh” (January/February,<br />

2011), which had me laughing<br />

out loud. Later, I shared sections of<br />

his piece with friends over breakfast,<br />

so they could enjoy it too. In that same<br />

issue, Robert Bethune’s “But oh, that<br />

Tenth,” a description of the theater,<br />

was itself a work of art — moving, reflective,<br />

poetic. I’ve clipped out both<br />

pieces, so I can savor and share them<br />

again.<br />

Best regards,<br />

Lisa Wersal<br />

Vadnais Heights, Minnesota<br />

Continued on Page 18<br />

operation which converts raw maple<br />

sap into one of America’s favorite pancake<br />

toppings behind its rustic walls<br />

— pure maple syrup. For countryliving<br />

cognoscenti, the maze of plastic<br />

lines running from surrounding<br />

sugar-maple trees and converging on<br />

the “factory” give away the game that<br />

is largely hidden behind leafy foliage<br />

during the rest of the year. But come<br />

early Spring — when cold nights are<br />

followed by warming days — the sap<br />

begins to rise and the “factory” begins<br />

to fill its waiting containers. <strong>The</strong>n<br />

the day comes when smoke arises<br />

from the open-end gable atop the<br />

roof and all the neighbors know that<br />

the process has begun! This year, the<br />

event was heralded by an open-house<br />

featuring free pancakes, sausages,<br />

ham, and — of course — fresh maple<br />

syrup! It was not long before the little<br />

parking lot and adjoining woods were<br />

awash in cars and people — Cornelia<br />

and I among them. We wondered at<br />

this close-up view of the building and<br />

operation — having passed it almost<br />

daily on our way to the Post Office<br />

but never having actually driven<br />

in to take a close look. We are not<br />

exactly greenhorns when it comes<br />

to making maple syrup — having<br />

tapped the maple trees on our own<br />

Film ………………13<br />

Letters ……………2<br />

Music………………15<br />

Opportunities ……16<br />

Peeks & Piques!……2<br />

Poets’ Niche ………15<br />

Speak Out…………3<br />

<strong>The</strong>atre ……………19<br />

Joyce Parcher<br />

@ Ceres Gallery<br />

April 26 th - May 21 nd<br />

2011<br />

Ceres Gallery<br />

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property in our early years and boiling<br />

down the raw sap into syrup — a<br />

ratio, incidentally, of 40 to 1 — i.e. it<br />

takes forty pints of raw sap to make<br />

one pint of syrup — and a considerable<br />

amount of labor in getting and<br />

cutting wood for the process during<br />

the preceding season. We did that for<br />

several years, until the sheer labor<br />

of it finally got to us. <strong>The</strong> next best<br />

thing then, was to visit the “factory”<br />

— its two overhanging eaves on both<br />

sides of the structure sheltering the<br />

fire-stove-sized cut logs. As we approached,<br />

several young bloods were<br />

steadily feeding the large cast-iron<br />

wood-burner sitting in the middle of<br />

the floor inside, while others cooked<br />

up food and skimmed the boiling<br />

container of fresh sap being converted<br />

into “country sweetness” into waiting<br />

cruets — trying to keep up with a<br />

hungry horde led by their noses and<br />

appetites taking it all in. Yep — give<br />

me the rural life; you can keep your<br />

city traffic, crowds, parking meters,<br />

and noise. I’ll just visit now and then<br />

to take in a promising art exhibit.<br />

(See a short video of the process on<br />

arttimes channel of YouTube)<br />

Raymond J. Steiner<br />

Doretta Miller<br />

“Portrait of Chairs”<br />

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April 26 – May 21, 2011<br />

Reception<br />

May 7, 3-5 pm<br />

First Street Gallery<br />

526 W. 26th St, Suite 209<br />

<strong>NYC</strong>, NY 10001<br />

646-336-8053<br />

firststreetgallery.net/millerd.html<br />

Location: Junction of Rtes. 35 &<br />

121 South, Cross River, NY 10518<br />

(914) 864-7317


Speak<br />

Out<br />

By OLGA SPENCER<br />

WHEN WE REFER to “African <strong>Art</strong>”,<br />

what exactly comes to mind Is it<br />

sub-Saharan or African-American<br />

art Does it consist of art from Africa<br />

only or any artist using African motifs<br />

Or is it an umbrella for all of the<br />

above<br />

My interest in the accurate definition<br />

of what represents African <strong>Art</strong><br />

was reactivated by an unexpected<br />

experience. Several years ago, a local<br />

library inquired if I would be interested<br />

in lending them some of my<br />

African paintings to exhibit during<br />

African Pride month. A committee<br />

came to review and select the artwork.<br />

However, a few days later I<br />

was notified that they would not be<br />

using the artwork in the exhibit because<br />

a few local African-American<br />

artists protested the inclusion of art<br />

from Africa.<br />

This dichotomy reflects the deep<br />

rift and confusion in the field of African<br />

art. Currently, the label “African<br />

<strong>Art</strong>” does not require identification<br />

of the country of origin. It can represent<br />

artifacts from equatorial or<br />

North Africa, as well as works by Africans<br />

living in Europe, USA or elsewhere,<br />

that produce art using African<br />

motifs. For example, recently I<br />

saw a replica statuette of an African<br />

tribesman, made in China.<br />

<strong>The</strong> confusion surrounding African<br />

art is not alleviated by the expertise<br />

of professional appraisers. To<br />

the best of my knowledge there are<br />

no certified or licensed appraisers of<br />

20th century African art. In 1998 I<br />

made a donation of African paintings<br />

to a museum and could not locate an<br />

expert in the New York area to provide<br />

a written opinion on the origin,<br />

history or date of the paintings and/<br />

or the background of the artists.*<br />

May/ June 2011 ART TIMES page 3<br />

African <strong>Art</strong> of the 20 th Century & Beyond<br />

One would expect that an expert<br />

would recognize “airport art” from<br />

the genuine old masters who started<br />

the golden era of sub-Saharan art in<br />

the 20th century before WWII and<br />

that blossomed during the forties<br />

and fifties.<br />

While African artists rightly<br />

claim the concept of “African art” as<br />

a copyright for their territories, modern<br />

critics and dealers are divided on<br />

the subject.<br />

From a historic perspective, all<br />

art originated from the universal<br />

archetypes that were identical in<br />

its symbolism, whether they were<br />

produced in the caves of Alta Mira,<br />

South Patagonia or other paleontologic<br />

locations. It would be difficult to<br />

deny their universal connectedness<br />

just because the were created on different<br />

continents. <strong>The</strong> need of primitive<br />

people originated in the urge to<br />

capture meaningful events or pictures<br />

of local heroes as a message for<br />

future generations. It was their testament<br />

that they had lived there. It<br />

was their “veni, vidi, vici” statement,<br />

long before writing existed. <strong>Art</strong>work,<br />

as produced in the “Cave of hands”<br />

in 9,000 BC in Southern Patagonia<br />

assured the artists immortality. Regardless<br />

of the continent and site of<br />

the art, the fundamental archetypes<br />

bind all arts with symbolic expression<br />

of artists about their world.<br />

In former Portuguese colonies, idiographic<br />

images were already seen<br />

in the 17th century when Africans<br />

imitated pictures of saints and religious<br />

motifs brought by navigators<br />

and traders. In Ethiopia, paintings<br />

were produced by local artists since<br />

the 13th century. <strong>The</strong>y learned the<br />

art of painting in Jerusalem where<br />

they had workshops producing copies<br />

of the bible and pictures of holy<br />

persons.<br />

<strong>The</strong> indigenous imageries evolved<br />

later during the 19th century on<br />

the West Coat, as well as in various<br />

parts of Equator Africa, after H.M.<br />

Stanley crossed the unexplored continent<br />

from Zanzibar to the Atlantic<br />

Ocean. As the traders, missionaries<br />

and administrators from Europe colonized<br />

the territories, Africans were<br />

exposed to non-religious works of art<br />

that the colonists brought from Europe<br />

to decorate their homes. Suddenly<br />

there was a market for artwork<br />

by Africans expressing their vision of<br />

life and nature for arts’ sake and not<br />

for ritualistic purposes.<br />

Some of the artists were inspired<br />

by the continental art form; however,<br />

others developed their own unique<br />

style. European connoisseurs visiting<br />

the colonies soon recognized the<br />

talent of local artists and provided<br />

the young African artists with needed<br />

tools and occasionally instructed<br />

them on traditional techniques.<br />

<strong>The</strong> influence of the Western art<br />

form on African artists was not always<br />

welcome or integrated by local<br />

masters. Some westernized their<br />

style, while others adhered faithfully<br />

to their own techniques and vision of<br />

African life that greatly differed from<br />

western culture. For example, Bella,<br />

an uneducated bushman, painted<br />

with the tips of his fingers, refusing<br />

to use brushes or change his vision<br />

of life and death and the struggle of<br />

African nature. Koyongondo, Futa,<br />

N’zita, and Pili-Pili were talented<br />

men that have grown to be recognized<br />

as African artists.<br />

In the early 1960’s Albert N’Kusu<br />

won the first prize during the Intercontinental<br />

<strong>Art</strong> Exhibit in Monte<br />

Carlo, Monaco. Koyongonda, N’zita<br />

and Bomolo exhibited in New York<br />

under the auspices of the Monaco art<br />

show.<br />

After the dissolution of the colonies<br />

and the sub-Saharan territories<br />

proclamation of independence, many<br />

young artists developed skillful techniques,<br />

but were not truly dedicated<br />

to art. <strong>The</strong>se artists imitated the<br />

old masters and flooded the market<br />

with cheap reproductions that were<br />

known as “airport art”. During the<br />

1960’s and later, so called “African<br />

<strong>Art</strong>” could be bought for less that<br />

50 U.S. dollars. However, the works<br />

of the old founding fathers became<br />

difficult to obtain after the artists’<br />

death.<br />

While living in Paris in the early<br />

1950’s, I frequently saw an artist<br />

painting the Sacré Coeur Church,<br />

a favorite tourist monument. <strong>The</strong><br />

painting was a very good imitation<br />

of Utrillo’s style, known for his sceneries<br />

in Montmarte. In 1954 the artist<br />

was selling the painting for 3,000<br />

francs, then the equivalent of $6.00.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re are many experts who can recognize<br />

an original Utrillo from an<br />

imitation. However, who can distinguish<br />

an old African master from an<br />

imitation<br />

As art becomes part of the global<br />

market and economy, it is time that<br />

universities, galleries and other artrelated<br />

institutions focus on African<br />

art and shed some light on this new<br />

field of creativity that is still, to a<br />

large degree, a “terra incognito” to<br />

the general public.<br />

I wrote this article with the hope<br />

that increased attention to the definition<br />

of “African <strong>Art</strong>” will help clarify<br />

all the various art forms currently<br />

falling under the broad umbrella of<br />

“African <strong>Art</strong>”.<br />

*I had purchased the painting in the<br />

early 1950’s in Zaire, Congo Republic.<br />

(Olga B. Spencer, Ph.D, is an<br />

author and lecturer living in<br />

Southport, CT).<br />

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May/ June 2011 ART TIMES page 4<br />

Because our Calendar of Events is prepared a month in advance<br />

dates, times and events are subject to change. Please call ahead<br />

Calendar to insure accuracy. <strong>The</strong> county (and state if not NYS) where the<br />

event takes place is noted in bold at the end of each listing.<br />

Ongoing<br />

May 7, 14, 21, 28, at 3pm Cintinuum: Gender Identities, a Big Conversation<br />

in a Small Town <strong>The</strong> Ridgefield Guild of <strong>Art</strong>ists 34 Halpin Lane Ridgefield CT<br />

203-438-8863 free www.RGOA.org<br />

May 14,15, 20, 21 Spring Salon Concert eba <strong>The</strong>ater with eba students eba <strong>The</strong>ater<br />

corner of Lark St. & Hudson Ave. Albany NY 518-465-9916 charge at 7:30 eba-arts.org<br />

Sunday, May 1<br />

11th ANNUAL GAGA <strong>Art</strong>s Festival GAGA <strong>Art</strong>s Center 55 W. Railroad Avenue Garnerville<br />

NY 845-947-7108 11am-6pm rain or shine charge www.gagaartscenter.org<br />

20th Anniversary Exhibition Carrie Haddad Gallery 622 Warren Street Hudson<br />

NY 518-828-1915 free (thru May 29) www.carriehaddadgallery.com<br />

BIRDS IN ART 2011: Annual Juried Exhibition Leigh Yawkey Woodson <strong>Art</strong><br />

Museum of Wausau, WI Newington-Cropsey Foundation, 25 Cropsey La., Hastings-on-<br />

Hudson, NY (914) 478-799 (thru May 26) www.newingtoncropsey.com Westchester<br />

Brush with Nature M & T Bank Hammond Museum 28 Deveau Rd. North<br />

Salem NY charge (thru June 18)<br />

Cintinuum: Gender Identities, a Big Conversation in a Small Town <strong>The</strong><br />

Ridgefield Guild of <strong>Art</strong>ists 34 Halpin Lane Ridgefield CT 203-438-8863 free (thru June<br />

3) www.RGOA.org<br />

David Tobey Paintings & Sculpture Friends of the White Plains Library & <strong>The</strong><br />

City of White Plains <strong>The</strong> White Plains Museum Gallery 10 Martine Avenue, 2nd floor<br />

White Plains NY 212-260-924 free (thru Jun 15) www.davidtobey.com<br />

ELWOOD’S WORLD: Drawings and Animations (thru May 15); Witness: <strong>The</strong> <strong>Art</strong><br />

of Jerry Pinkney (thru May 30) Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Rte 183, Stockbridge,<br />

MA Free MA<br />

Eric Lind - Revealed: Hidden Lives of the River Beacon Institute for Rivers and<br />

Estuaries Beacon Institute Gallery at 199 Main Street 199 Main Street Beacon NY<br />

845-838-160 free (thru Oct 2) www.bire.org<br />

FIBER PLUS: Fiber with Mixed Media in the 21st Century Blue Door Gallery 13<br />

Riverdale Avenue Yonkers NY 914-375-510 free (thru May 17) http://www.bluedoorgallery.org<br />

HANK VIRGONA Etchings: Nothing Changes Satire and the 1970’s and Curator’s<br />

gallery talk on Thick and Thin: Ken Landauer and Julianne Swartz<br />

Samuel Dorsky Museum of <strong>Art</strong> at SUNY New Paltz 1 Hawk Drive New Paltz NY 845-<br />

257-3844 Opening Reception 5-7pm; Talk 2-3pm free (thru June 6) www.newpaltz.edu/<br />

museum<br />

Identity In Itself: Benjamin Duke and Lorraine Hall Lapham Gallery,<br />

LARAC 7 Lapham Place Glens Falls NY free (thru May 6)<br />

JOYCE PARCHER: Paintings Ceres Gallery 547 West 27th St. <strong>NYC</strong> (212) 947-610<br />

free (thru May 21) art@ceresgallery.org<br />

Mary Anne Erickson Signs of the <strong>Times</strong> Oriole 9 17 Tinker Street Woodstock<br />

NY 845-679-5763 free (thru May 10) www.vanishingroadside.com Ulster<br />

2011 Annual Members Show New Jersey Water Color Society Ocean County<br />

<strong>Art</strong>ist’s Guild 22 Chestnut Ave. (Ocean & Chestnut Ave) Island Heights NJ<br />

732-899-155Reception 2-4pm free (thru May 31) www.NJWCS.org<br />

New Views of Our Old Neighborhood - Photographs of Dutchess<br />

Ulster Counties Locust Grove Historic Site Locust Grove Gallery 2683 South Road<br />

Poughkeepsie NY 845-454-450 free (thru May 23) www.lgny.org<br />

New York <strong>The</strong>atre Ballet performs works of Anthony Tudor Kaatsbaan<br />

International Dance Center 12Broadway Tivoli NY 845-757-5106 2:30pm charge<br />

www.kaatsbaan.org<br />

Recent Work by Shari Abramson, Roisin Bateman, Shelley Haven, Patricia<br />

Mamatos Omni Gallery 333 Earle Ovington Blvd Uniondale NY free (thru June 12)<br />

Robert Scott Duncanson: <strong>The</strong> Spiritual Striving of the Freeman’s Son<br />

<strong>The</strong> Thomas Cole Historic Site 218 Spring Street Catskill NY 518-943-7465 charge<br />

(thru Oct 31) www.thomascole.org<br />

Spring Juried show Kent <strong>Art</strong> Association 21 South Main Street Kent CT 860-<br />

927-3989 (thru June 5) www.kentart.org<br />

Susan Phillips: Photographs Unison <strong>Art</strong>s Center Unison <strong>Art</strong>s Center 68 Mountain<br />

Rest Rd New Paltz NY 845-255-1559 Opening reception 1-3pm free (thru May 22)<br />

www.unisonarts.org<br />

That’s <strong>The</strong> Way I See It <strong>The</strong> <strong>Art</strong>s Upstairs <strong>The</strong> <strong>Art</strong>s Upstairs 6Main Street<br />

Phoenicia NY 845-688-2142 free (thru May 14) www.artsupstairs.com<br />

THICK & THIN: KEN LANDAUER AND JULIANNE SWARTZ (thru Oct 23);<br />

THE UPSTATE NEW YORK OLYMPICS: TIM DAVIS (thru July 17) Samuel<br />

Dorsky Museum of <strong>Art</strong>, SUNY New Paltz, 1 Hawk Dr., New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3844<br />

www.newpaltz.edu/museum<br />

Monday, May 2<br />

CLAY: <strong>The</strong> <strong>Art</strong> of Earth & Fire Tremaine Gallery, Hotchkiss School, 11 Interlaken<br />

Rd., Lakeville, CT (860) 435-3663 (thru June 12)<br />

ECCENTRICITY New Century <strong>Art</strong>ists Gallery 530 West 25 Street New York NY 212-<br />

367-7072 Opening Reception 3-6pm (thru May 28)<br />

Tuesday, May 3<br />

122nd ANNUAL EXHIBITION NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN ART-<br />

ISTS Sylvia Wald—Po Kim Gallery, 417 Lafayette St. 4th Fl. <strong>NYC</strong> 212-675-1616 (thru<br />

May 31) www.thenawa.org<br />

Wednesday, May 4<br />

AMERICAN MASTERS / DOUG ALLEN EXHIBITION / ROBERT LOUGHEED<br />

EXHIBIT Salmagundi Club 47 Fifth Avenue, <strong>NYC</strong> (212) 255-7740 (thru May 20)<br />

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Thursday, May 5<br />

Alison Hoornbeek - Solo Exhibition the National Association of Women <strong>Art</strong>ists,<br />

Inc. the N.A.W.A. Gallery 80 Fifth Avenue - Fourth Floor New York NY 212-675-<br />

1616 free (thru May 26) www.thenawa.org<br />

“Seasons” solo art exhibit of paintings by Anne Johann Flat Iron Gallery,<br />

Inc. 105 So. Division St. Peekskill NY 914-734-1894 free (thru May 29) www.flatiron.<br />

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Dance<br />

By Dawn Lille<br />

<strong>The</strong> name Nijinsky is recognized<br />

by a wide circle. Say Nijinska and the<br />

knowledgeable group gets smaller.<br />

Bronislava Nijinska, the younger<br />

sister of the legendary Vaslav Nijinsky,<br />

famed for his mesmerizing<br />

performances and shocking choreography,<br />

was a key figure in 20 th century<br />

ballet. She was as innovative as her<br />

brother, who worked out most of the<br />

movement in Afternoon of a Faun and<br />

Rite of Spring on her. Nijinska had a<br />

long and successful career collaborating<br />

with avant- garde graphic and<br />

theatrical artists and composers in<br />

Russia and Europe, especially Paris,<br />

in the 20’s and 30’s. Late in life she<br />

came to America, where her work was<br />

less well known.<br />

Bronislava Nijinska’s amazing<br />

ballet Les Noces has music by Igor<br />

Stravinsky (scored for soprano, mezzo-soprano,<br />

tenor and bass soloists,<br />

mixed chorus, timpani, percussion<br />

and four pianos) that is simultaneously<br />

modern and very Russian in<br />

feeling. It premiered in Paris on<br />

June 13, 1923, in a performance by<br />

Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes de<br />

Monte Carlo. <strong>The</strong> work was given<br />

five performances by Juilliard Dance<br />

in late March on a program that also<br />

included works by Mark Morris and<br />

Eliot Feld.<br />

Nijinska was born in 1891 in<br />

Minsk and died in 1972 in California.<br />

Although she won first prize when<br />

she graduated from the Imperial<br />

School in St. Petersburg, joined the<br />

Maryinsky Ballet and was a member<br />

of Diaghilev’s company from 1909<br />

to 1913, she was never known as a<br />

great dancer, possibly because her<br />

Nijinska, Stravinsky, Les Noces, Juilliard<br />

brother’s reputation was so overwhelming.<br />

Her own ideas probably<br />

began to form during the time she<br />

served as his muse.<br />

When Nijinska left Diaghilev and<br />

returned to Russia in 1914 she established<br />

a studio in Kiev, where she<br />

worked with many artists, especially<br />

the Constructivist Alexandra Exter.<br />

This influence may be seen in the<br />

many tableaux in Les Noces, several<br />

of which are human pyramids with<br />

bodies draped and posed as carefully<br />

as an architect/builder would construct<br />

a tower. Basic structure and<br />

use of space – and stillness – create<br />

powerful theater when combined<br />

with insistent music and the simple<br />

brown and white costumes designed<br />

by Nathalia Gontcharova, upon<br />

which Nijinska had insisted.<br />

She wrote down her theories on<br />

movement, stressing rhythm, transition,<br />

form and design, trying to<br />

reach the spectator “who hears with<br />

his eyes the melody of the dancer’s<br />

movement and who sees the form of<br />

this movement.” She felt that each<br />

ballet had a particular theme that<br />

demanded its own style.<br />

Howard Sayette, who staged<br />

the work on thirty four Juilliard<br />

students, has reconstructed it on<br />

Juilliard students rehearsing Les Noces. (photo credits: Nan Melville)<br />

thirteen different companies including<br />

the Maly and the Kirov in St.<br />

Petersburg, the Tokyo Ballet and<br />

the Dance <strong>The</strong>atre of Harlem. A native<br />

of Los Angeles, he came to dance<br />

late and was sneaking off to ballet<br />

classes when his mother thought he<br />

was studying at UCLA. He moved to<br />

New York, danced at Radio City, with<br />

the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and<br />

the Metropolitan Opera Ballet. After<br />

New York, New York,<br />

Annual Non-Members Juried Exhibitions<br />

~ Paintings, & Sculpture Exhibition ~<br />

~ Photography & Graphics Exhibition ~<br />

August 8 - August 19<br />

Entries postmarked June 6<br />

Cash and Material Awards<br />

Entry Fee $30 for 1 image, $35 for 2, $45 for 3. Digital entries only.<br />

30% Commission. Send SASE for prospectus to Non-Members Exhibition<br />

<strong>The</strong> Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY 10003 for prospectus.<br />

Email info@salmagundi.org • Website: www.salmagundi.org<br />

Juilliard students rehearsing Les Noces. (photo credits: Nan Melville)<br />

he returned to California and opened<br />

a school he was asked to be the ballet<br />

master for the Oakland Ballet, which<br />

was developing as a serious company.<br />

It was here that Irina Nijinska, Bronislava’s<br />

daughter and the person who<br />

continued her legacy until her own<br />

death, set Les Noces in 1980 and he<br />

began his relationship with it.<br />

<strong>The</strong> ballet, based on a peasant<br />

wedding, is twenty four minutes<br />

long and is presented in four scenes,<br />

as defined by Stravinsky: the Blessing<br />

of the Bride, the Blessing of the<br />

Bridegroom, the Departure of the<br />

Bride from the Parental Home, the<br />

Wedding Feast.<br />

<strong>The</strong> tale reveals a primitive wedding<br />

in the sense that it is a predetermined<br />

social ritual upon which<br />

the entire community depends. <strong>The</strong><br />

event is inflexible, insistent and uncaring.<br />

<strong>The</strong> bride and bridegroom,<br />

two very young frightened beings, are<br />

shown no kindness or humanity; they<br />

are symbols of a group rite that has<br />

the iconic formality of the Russian<br />

church.<br />

It is the corps that is at the center<br />

of the dance, the mass of people that,<br />

somehow, represents the essence of<br />

the peasant. In this sense the ballet<br />

is also very 20th century since<br />

Nijinska’s presence in Russia during<br />

the 1917 Revolution left her still excited<br />

about the possibilities inherent<br />

in the proletariat. Additionally the<br />

work is modern because the story is<br />

really told from a feminine point of<br />

Mc G L Y N N<br />

AT T H E S A L M A G U N D I C L U B<br />

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SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 2011<br />

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view. <strong>The</strong> wedding is needed by the<br />

community and does not promise joy<br />

for the terrified bride and bewildered<br />

groom, both of whose parents adhere<br />

unsmilingly to the known script.<br />

Nijinska believed in classical ballet<br />

as a training base for dancers, but<br />

rejected traditional mime, classroom<br />

steps and virtuosity. In Les Noces<br />

the legs can rotate inward, the back<br />

is rounded and the fingers often<br />

curled in or made into fists. <strong>The</strong>re is<br />

a mechanistic, repetitive feeling, so<br />

typical of Futurism, that suggests the<br />

presence of an impersonal fate that is<br />

part of human existence.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re is a process to staging a<br />

Nijinska ballet, especially this one,<br />

that shares the intricacies and possibilities<br />

inherent in a great artistic<br />

work. When recreating the piece<br />

Sayette, who feels that it is a ballet<br />

that contains mystical and frightening<br />

elements and is a combination of<br />

drawing and sculpture, stresses that<br />

fact that Nijinska wished to express<br />

inner feeling s, not objects. He likes<br />

to quote H.G. Wells who called it “a<br />

rendering in sound and vision of the<br />

peasant soul.”<br />

<strong>The</strong> students in the ballet were<br />

at first negative, each feeling like an<br />

unimportant part of a collective. <strong>The</strong>y<br />

noted the absence of the individual in<br />

choreography that contains no real<br />

stars or soloists. Here the group is the<br />

central dancer and carries forth the<br />

action. But as rehearsals progressed,<br />

the creation of that communal group,<br />

with the women wearing pointe<br />

shoes with which they often seemed<br />

to pierce the earth, the almost mechanical<br />

way they braided the bride’s<br />

hair and then cut it off as a symbol<br />

of the virginity that was to be lost,<br />

the angular stoic movements of the<br />

men in canon-like sections and the<br />

increasingly architectonic nature of<br />

the groupings, it became evident that<br />

each dancer’s contribution made the<br />

whole even stronger.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y established a momentum<br />

and unity that, in its totality, is rarely<br />

matched in dance. As Andra Corvino,<br />

the faculty rehearsal director, commented<br />

after one run through, “When<br />

you are truly moving together your<br />

individuality is really evident.” This<br />

was part of Nijinska’s genius.<br />

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Calendar<br />

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Friday, May 6<br />

<strong>Art</strong> in the Garden, Studio Montclair’s small works sale Studio Montclair<br />

Presby Memorial Iris Gardens 474 Upper Mountain Avenue Upper Montclair NJ 973-<br />

744-1818 Opening Reception 6-9pm free (thru May 10) www.studiomontclair.org<br />

ART on the Go East Fishkill Community Library 348 Route 376 Hopewell Junction<br />

NY 845-221-9943 Opening Reception 7-8:30pm free (thru May 31)<br />

http://www.eflibrary.org Dutchess<br />

Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: <strong>The</strong> Cone Sisters of Baltimore<br />

<strong>The</strong> Jewish Museum 1109 Fifth Avenue New York NY 212-423-3200 charge (thru Sept<br />

25) http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/conecollection<br />

Nina Rizzo: 2011 Alexander Rutsch Award and Exhibition Pelham <strong>Art</strong> Center<br />

155 Fifth Ave. Pelham, NY 914-738-2525 Opening Reception 7-8pm free (thru June 25)<br />

Saturday, May 7<br />

Adam Handler: Paintings & Photographs Media Loft 50 Webster Ave., New<br />

Rochelle, NY Closing reception 2-6pm<br />

Against the Edges Longyear Gallery 785 Main Street Margaretville NY 845-<br />

586-3270 Opening Reception 3-6pm free (thru May 30) www.longyeargallery.org<br />

<strong>Art</strong>e Batura Limner Gallery 123 Warren St. Hudson NY 518-828-2343 Opening<br />

Reception 5-7 PM free (thru May 28) www.limnergallery.com<br />

ECCENTRICITY New Century <strong>Art</strong>ists Gallery 530 West 25 Street New York NY 212-<br />

367-7072 Opening Reception 3-6pm (thru May 28)<br />

EDWARD WESTON: Life Work; <strong>Art</strong>ists of the Stieglitz Circle <strong>The</strong> Heckscher<br />

Museum of <strong>Art</strong> 2 Prime Avenue Huntington NY 631-351-3250 charge (thru July 24)<br />

Lunch at the Live Bait Diner: Drawings by Joseph D. Yeomans and<br />

Poems by Lewis Gardner Howland Cultural Center 477 Main St. Beacon NY<br />

845-831-4988 Opening reception 3-5 pm free (thru May 29) howlandculturalcenter.org<br />

Min Myar Retrospective & Bert Winsberg Current Work b. j. spoke gallery<br />

299 Main Street Huntington NY 631-548-5106 Reception: Saturday, 2-5pm (thru May<br />

29) www.bjspokegallery.org Suffork<br />

<strong>The</strong> Avalon Quartet: Steve Reich, Osvaldo Golijov and<br />

Schubert Close Encounters With Music Mahaiwe Performing <strong>Art</strong>s Center 14<br />

Castle Street Great Barrington MA 800-843-0778 6:00PM charge www.cewm.org<br />

<strong>The</strong> Improvised Shakespeare Company <strong>The</strong> Lycian Center 1352 Kings<br />

Highway Sugar Load NY 845-469-2287 8:00 pm charge www.lyciancentre.com Orange<br />

Sunday, May 8<br />

Vista: viewing and observation Socrates Sculpture Park 32-01 Vernon Blvd. at<br />

Broadway Long Island City NY 718-626-1533 Opening Reception 2 - 6pm free (thru<br />

Aug 7) www.socratessculpturepark.org<br />

Monday, May 9<br />

Easton <strong>Art</strong>s Council’s Regional Open Juried Show Easton <strong>Art</strong>s Council<br />

Easton Public Library 691 Morehouse Rd Easton CT 203-374-0705 free (thru May 21)<br />

www.eastonartscouncil.org<br />

Wednesday, May 11<br />

Alison Hoornbeek - Solo Exhibition the National Association of Women<br />

<strong>Art</strong>ists, Inc. the N.A.W.A. Gallery 80 Fifth Avenue - Fourth Floor New York NY 212-<br />

675-1616 Opening Reception 6-8pm free (thru May 26) www.thenawa.org<br />

Friday, May 13<br />

ART ON NO 4 th Annual Spring Opening, Friday, May 13, 5-8 pm . Studio and gallery<br />

tours by 16 artists, refreshments, entertainment by Blue Light Trio. 311 North Street,<br />

Pittsfield, 2 nd floor of the Greylock Building. Paintings, prints, videos, music, theatre,<br />

photography, and more.<br />

Saturday, May 14<br />

8th Annual YoHo <strong>Art</strong>ists Spring 2011 Open Studio YoHo <strong>Art</strong>ists Community<br />

YoHo <strong>Art</strong>ists Building 540-578 Nepperhan Ave. Yonkers NY 914-305-4296 free Come<br />

meet the artists. <strong>The</strong>re will be entertainment. <strong>Art</strong> can be purchased. www.yohoartists.<br />

com<br />

Bus Stop <strong>The</strong> Lycian Centre 1351 Kings Highway Sugar Loaf NY 845-469-2287 8:00<br />

pm charge www.lyciancentre.com Orange<br />

CHARLES GEIGER: Quasi-Botanics a Solo Exhibit Woodstock <strong>Art</strong>ists Association<br />

and Museum WAAM 28 Tinker Street Woodstock NY 845-679-2940 Opening Reception<br />

4-6pm (thru June 5) www.charlesgeiger.com<br />

INSTRUCTORS EXHIBITION Woodstock School of <strong>Art</strong> 2470 Rt 212 Woodstock NY<br />

845-679-2388 Opening Reception 3-5pm (thru July 2) www.woodstockschoolofart.org<br />

INTERNATIONAL CLAY SYMPOSIUM: lectures, reception, potter demonstrations<br />

& firings Tremaine Gallery, Hotchkiss School, 11 Interlaken Rd., Lakeville, CT<br />

(860) 435-3663 (thru May 15)<br />

IRV SUSS: Fine <strong>Art</strong> Photography <strong>The</strong> Hudson, From <strong>The</strong> City <strong>The</strong> Highlands.<br />

Bob’s <strong>Art</strong> and Framing 191 S. Main Street New City NY 845-634-6933 free (thru June<br />

18) irvsuss.com<br />

Karin Lowney-Seed: Recent Works TraillWorks: studio, gallery, lessons 214<br />

Spring Street Newton NJ 973-383-1307 Opening Reception 5 - 8pm free (thru June 25)<br />

www.traillworks.com<br />

Millbrook Book Festival Sponsored by de.MO; Merritt Bookstore, Millbrook<br />

Free Library, Millbrook Tribute Gardens, Millbrook Rotary Foundation, Community<br />

Foundation of Dutchess County, Dutchess County <strong>Art</strong>s Council Village of Millbrook<br />

Millbrook NY 10 am - 5 pm free millbrookbookfestival.org<br />

“People and Animals” <strong>The</strong> Wurtsboro <strong>Art</strong> Alliance <strong>The</strong> Wurtsboro <strong>Art</strong> Alliance<br />

Gallery 73 Sullivan Street Wurtsboro NY 845-985-7663 An opening reception 2pm to<br />

6pm free (thru June 19) www.waagallery.org<br />

PHOTOWORKS ‘11 Barrett <strong>Art</strong> Center, 55 Noxon St., Poughkeepsie (845) 471-2550<br />

Opening Reception 4-6pm (thru Jul 14)<br />

<strong>The</strong> Presence of Water: Photographs by Paul Moore Harrison Council<br />

for the <strong>Art</strong>s Harrison Public Library 2 Bruce Avenue Harrison NY 914-835-0324 Opening<br />

Reception 2-4pm free (thru June 3) www.harrisonpl.org<br />

Under the sea unframed artists gallery 173 Huguenot street new paltz NY Opening<br />

reception 4-7pm free (thru June 18)<br />

Westchester Philharmonic with Orion Weiss, piano Westchester<br />

Philharmonic <strong>The</strong> Performing <strong>Art</strong>s Center at Purchase College 735 Anderson Hill<br />

Road Purchase NY 914-682-3707 8pm charge westchesterphil.org Westchester<br />

Whispers with Horses, new work by Dawn Petrlik MURAL, Robinson-Broadhurst,<br />

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May/ June 2011 ART TIMES page 7<br />

Joan Miró: <strong>The</strong> Constellations<br />

By Ina Cole<br />

In 1939 the Catalan painter Joan<br />

Miró (1893-1983) left Paris for Varengeville-sur-Mer<br />

in Normandy, and<br />

it was here an important new body<br />

of work was formed – a series of<br />

twenty-three gouaches, which became<br />

known as the Constellations. <strong>The</strong>y are<br />

amongst the artist’s most intricately<br />

constructed works, exploring ideas<br />

linked to the transformative processes<br />

located within the natural world – the<br />

regeneration of butterfly hoards, the<br />

migration of birds, the ebb and flow<br />

of tides, and the tracks of constellations<br />

and galaxies. <strong>The</strong> mysteries of<br />

the universe provide a challenge that<br />

has preoccupied artists and scientists<br />

through time, in their search to find<br />

meaning in the ubiquitous presence<br />

of the intangible. <strong>The</strong> Constellations,<br />

which were created during a particularly<br />

harrowing period in world<br />

history – the Second World War – are<br />

optimistic, even joyous, and can be<br />

viewed as an emblem of hope at a<br />

time of intense military and political<br />

turmoil.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Constellations reveal a mastery<br />

of observation in relation to the<br />

artist’s ability to capture the minutiae<br />

of natural phenomena. As the<br />

overriding title suggests, the series<br />

depicts a microcosm of life revolving<br />

in space, with the individual titles of<br />

works particularly evocative – Woman<br />

beside a lake whose surface has been<br />

made iridescent by a passing swan;<br />

<strong>The</strong> nightingale’s song at midnight<br />

and morning rain; People in the night<br />

guided by the phosphorescent tracks of<br />

snails; and <strong>The</strong> passage of the divine<br />

bird. <strong>The</strong> Constellations fuse Miró’s<br />

interests into a coherent whole, while<br />

creating a complex balance of forms<br />

that reflect on the fragile, illusory<br />

nature of existence. On viewing the<br />

work one’s breath is held in anticipation,<br />

for fear that a false move could<br />

bring this imaginary world to collapse.<br />

In 1959 Miró wrote eloquently about<br />

the pictorial order in his works, saying,<br />

“In my paintings there is a kind of<br />

circulatory system. If even one form is<br />

out of place, the circulation stops; the<br />

balance is broken”.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Escape Ladder, a signature<br />

work from this series, was painted<br />

shortly before Miró left for Spain, as<br />

a consequence of the Germans opening<br />

bombardments in the district of<br />

Varengeville-sur-Mer. In this work<br />

blacks are applied to a background<br />

of muted tones, with the primary colours<br />

– predominantly reds and blues<br />

– determined by the black contours<br />

and silhouettes. Biomorphic forms are<br />

introduced, free flowing and buoyant,<br />

simultaneously humanoid, animal,<br />

arthropod and amphibian, emerging<br />

from their location deep within the<br />

imagination. <strong>The</strong>ir faces peer from<br />

the canvas through spherical eyes,<br />

amid the rotating primordial shapes<br />

of the pyramid, sphere and cube. A<br />

ladder, the key element that gives<br />

the work its name, is positioned just<br />

off-centre, and soars to a crescent<br />

moon. <strong>The</strong> ladder provides a structure<br />

to the work, creating the necessary<br />

equilibrium that gives a sense of order<br />

to the levitating forms occupying<br />

the picture space, as well as further<br />

emphasising the feeling of ascension.<br />

On fleeing Varengeville-sur-Mer,<br />

Miró boarded a train carrying a portfolio<br />

containing the first of the Constellations,<br />

including <strong>The</strong> Escape Ladder.<br />

He completed the series in Spain during<br />

the war years, a time when he lived<br />

and worked in virtual isolation. <strong>The</strong><br />

Constellations represent a fantastical<br />

Joan Miró, <strong>The</strong> Escape Ladder (1940), Gouache, watercolour and ink on paper,<br />

Museum of Modern <strong>Art</strong>, New York, © Successió Miró/ADAGP, Paris and DACS,<br />

London 2011<br />

world of imagery, truly unique in the<br />

history of twentieth-century art. Scale<br />

is dissolved and the picture space is<br />

populated with regions that contain<br />

both the wonders and the terrors of the<br />

infinite. <strong>The</strong> series speaks a bewildering<br />

language, yet manages to instinctively<br />

engage the senses on a subliminal<br />

level. <strong>The</strong> forms are strongly<br />

suggestive of reflections in water;<br />

indeed at this time Miró lived on the<br />

outskirts of Palma, Mallorca, where<br />

he spent hours contemplating the<br />

sea. In these works incomprehensible<br />

mutations occupy the same space,<br />

and these organisms unite to create<br />

a seemingly utopian existence in an<br />

unfathomable location, which could<br />

Joan Miró, <strong>The</strong> Ladder of the Escaping Eye (1971), Bronze, Fundació Joan Miró,<br />

Barcelona, © Successió Miró/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2011<br />

equally be planet earth, the ocean<br />

floor, or even the realms of outer space.<br />

In 1945 the Constellations were<br />

smuggled out of Europe by diplomatic<br />

pouch for an exhibition at the Pierre<br />

Matisse Gallery in New York. <strong>The</strong><br />

series was hailed as the first artistic<br />

message to arrive from Europe since<br />

the fall of France. In fact, it was in<br />

America that Miró felt able to fully<br />

secure the success that had previously<br />

eluded him. He became key to<br />

the development of a practise that<br />

was associated with no clear representational<br />

aim, but the direct communication<br />

of the subconscious mind.<br />

This was known as automatism, and<br />

its revival became one of the central<br />

facets of Surrealist art in the United<br />

States, playing a significant role in<br />

the liberation of post-war American<br />

abstraction in the early 1940s. <strong>The</strong><br />

Constellations directly inspired the<br />

emerging American Abstract Expressionist<br />

painters who, at the time, were<br />

seeking to escape from the constraints<br />

of Social Realism and Regionalism.<br />

On a personal level, the Constellations<br />

represented a sense of freedom<br />

for Miró, following the anguished<br />

peintures sauvages of the 1930s, but<br />

for the Americans they offered a new<br />

compositional order, with the concept<br />

of a set of works as a series establishing<br />

a groundbreaking precedent in<br />

art during the 1950s. It was perhaps<br />

the American painter, Robert Motherwell,<br />

who most vividly expressed<br />

his views on the importance of Miró<br />

and his work: “I like everything about<br />

Miró – his clear-eyed face, his modesty,<br />

his ironically-edged reticence as<br />

a person, his constant hard work, his<br />

Mediterranean sensibility, and other<br />

qualities that manifest themselves in<br />

a continually growing body of work<br />

that for me, is the most moving and<br />

beautiful now being made in Europe.<br />

A sensitive balance between nature<br />

and man’s work, almost lost in contemporary<br />

art, saturates Miró’s art, so<br />

that his work, so original that hardly<br />

anyone has any conception of how<br />

original, immediately strikes us to<br />

the depths” (Miró in America, 1982).<br />

In the Constellations Miró viewed<br />

the interdependence of the great and<br />

small as a network that holds the<br />

world in balance, and he had an innate<br />

understanding of the multifaceted<br />

levels of existence spiralling out from<br />

planet earth to infinity. <strong>The</strong> ladder<br />

became a tool linking these disparate<br />

elements, and metaphorically creating<br />

a stairway to the cosmos. <strong>The</strong><br />

concept of a ladder was a theme Miró<br />

returned to later in life through the<br />

medium of sculpture. In a bronze version<br />

of <strong>The</strong> Ladder of the Escaping Eye,<br />

a section of animal bone is placed on<br />

a stone above which a ladder ascends<br />

skywards. In this work the ladder,<br />

rather than solely offering a pictorial<br />

solution, is perhaps a yearning for the<br />

unattainable or a bridge between two<br />

worlds. <strong>The</strong> tip of the ladder is crowned<br />

by a spherical form – the “eye which<br />

escapes” – as confirmed by an inscription<br />

in the drawing for this sculpture.<br />

This all-seeing eye, equally prevalent<br />

in the Constellations, here represents<br />

the concept of untainted vision, where<br />

a disembodied element exists independently<br />

from its organic source, in<br />

an attempt to gravitate towards the<br />

celestial domain of pure poetic sight.<br />

Joan Miró: <strong>The</strong> Ladder of Escape,<br />

Tate Modern, London (14 April<br />

– 11 September 2011); Fundació<br />

Joan Miró, Barcelona (14 October<br />

2011 – 25 March 2012); National<br />

Gallery of <strong>Art</strong>, Washington (6 May<br />

– 12 August 2012)<br />

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Tony Waag: <strong>Art</strong>istic Director American Tap Dance Foundation, Inc.<br />

How Did He Get Here from <strong>The</strong>re<br />

By Francine L. Trevens<br />

You can’t always tell how an interview<br />

will go. <strong>The</strong>y can be stiff and<br />

formal and still yield great information.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y can be silly and giggly and<br />

fun and leave you with insufficient<br />

information. <strong>The</strong>y can be friendly and<br />

relaxed and yield gold.<br />

Before I even set up an interview<br />

with the accomplished Tony Waag,<br />

who conceived and established the<br />

annual New York Tap City event,<br />

through his American Tap Dance<br />

Foundation, I knew we must have<br />

tons of friends and acquaintances in<br />

common. He is an easy interview with<br />

a personality as open and dazzling as<br />

his eyes, as well as a relaxed speaker.<br />

I took up too much of his time enjoying<br />

our interview, but he was cordial and<br />

pleasant throughout.<br />

An old saying claims the child is<br />

father to the man, so I began there<br />

in our meeting. I wondered how Tony<br />

Waag, growing up in Colorado, came<br />

to dance and how his family felt about<br />

it in the latter decades of the twentieth<br />

century.<br />

Tony, inspired by an uncle, an<br />

amateur sculptor, intended to sculpt.<br />

Tony thought his destiny was to be a<br />

pro at this very hands-on art. While in<br />

High School. Tony, who had appeared<br />

in a few High School musicals, including<br />

a stint as the Mad Hatter in Alice<br />

in Wonderland, found his true métier,<br />

tap dancing. His parents - both<br />

sets - (his mom and dad had divorced<br />

when he was quite young) were all<br />

supportive. He said it was probably<br />

a relief to them that he had not gone<br />

on to be a sculptor: tap dancing had<br />

more promise of supporting him as<br />

well as making him happy.<br />

Tony had studied tap with Diane<br />

Montgomery back home in Colorado,<br />

but it wasn’t until he took a tap dance<br />

workshop with Brenda Bufalino that<br />

he followed his dream. Ms Bufalino<br />

was equally impressed with him<br />

Tony took some famous advice<br />

after High School: “Go West, young<br />

man” - he went to college in Utah,<br />

where they presented 65 productions<br />

a year at the school. He called<br />

it “the Berlin of Salt Lake City.” Not<br />

the kind to sit around waiting for<br />

dreams to materialize; he left college<br />

and went to San Francisco, where<br />

he studied with the likes of tap heroes<br />

such as Eddie Brown and Tony<br />

Wing. (His early dance heroes were<br />

comic dancers, such as Ray Bolger<br />

and Donald O’Connor. That’s still<br />

one of his favorite forms of tap.) He<br />

performed in cabaret, choreographed<br />

a few musicals, waited tables, was a<br />

tour guide at a corporate building;<br />

(where he once got stuck in an elevator<br />

with a group of people and they<br />

all sang songs while awaiting rescue)<br />

and even posed nude for art classes …<br />

everything to survive until his career<br />

ripened.<br />

Rather serendipitously, when he<br />

ultimately made the move to New<br />

York, he ran into Brenda Bufalino his<br />

first day there. He worked with her<br />

American Tap Dance Orchestra as a<br />

dancer. He also fortuitously served<br />

as an administrator. <strong>The</strong>y toured the<br />

USA and around the world. He found<br />

he had an aptitude for administration<br />

and enjoyed it.<br />

Asked if he felt tap dancing itself,<br />

or administration, creativity or promotion<br />

was his favorite, he answered<br />

“all of the above.” His success in all<br />

of the above proves his flexibility and<br />

multi talents have really paid off.<br />

“I had NO idea that tap dance<br />

would take me all around the world<br />

and into the lives of so many incredible<br />

people. I have been influenced by<br />

Shim Sham from one of the popular Tap City performances<br />

- see Tony in the middle (photo by Debi Field)<br />

many of the great masters, and I am<br />

humbled by the cultures and people I<br />

have had the good fortune of getting<br />

to know over the years. I want so<br />

desperately to pass on their love and<br />

support for this amazing art form. I<br />

think young people especially, could<br />

use some of that positive energy right<br />

about now,” Tony declared. He has<br />

spent most of his life “passing it on,”<br />

Years ago, he went to 60 cities in<br />

Europe and Africa for two months as<br />

master of ceremonies of the Hoagie<br />

Carmichael Centennial Celebration.<br />

He found few tap dancing resources<br />

or schools. All that has changed, in<br />

part because of what he has done.<br />

“I feel I pulled the tap dance<br />

community together in New York,<br />

representing trap as it should be. “<br />

Taking that same spirit to countries<br />

Tony Waag - a delight on stage and off - (photo by Lois Greenfield)<br />

around the<br />

world awakened<br />

in those<br />

countries the<br />

love of tap and<br />

the desire to<br />

make it part<br />

of their culture<br />

as well.<br />

I n 1 9 8 6 ,<br />

Tony, Brenda<br />

and the late<br />

Charles “Honi”<br />

Coles, founded<br />

the American<br />

T a p D a n c e<br />

F o u n d a t i o n<br />

(ATDF). Tony<br />

served as <strong>Art</strong>istic<br />

Director<br />

long before<br />

he created,<br />

in 2001, Tap<br />

City - an event<br />

that offers allday<br />

classes on<br />

all levels and<br />

styles taught<br />

by a who’s who<br />

of tap, presents<br />

concerts of tappers from around<br />

the world, screens feature films and<br />

lectures on tap. Tony is usually the<br />

emcee for the shows.<br />

After months on the road, dancing<br />

one night stands throughout the<br />

world, Tony returned to New York to<br />

find there was nothing happening for<br />

tap dancers. He decided to do something<br />

for the art he loved. Turns out,<br />

he did an amazing thing. He founded<br />

Tap City.<br />

He contacted the best tap dancers<br />

to get them on board. Gregory Hines<br />

was one of the first he contacted, and<br />

Gregory instantly said yes. Today,<br />

Greg’s former wife, Pamela Koslow<br />

Hines is still on the board of Tap<br />

City.<br />

Tap City is one program of the<br />

American Tap Dance Foundation,<br />

founded to preserve the art, to<br />

educate people in tap - a dance form<br />

which needs no special body type.<br />

Through this foundation, he brought<br />

tap dancing back into the forefront<br />

of dance here and around the world.<br />

It is international again, Brazil, Germany,<br />

Japan, France China, Russia.<br />

“Even Estonia!” he enthused, “Estonia!”<br />

I admit, I had to check a map to<br />

see where little Estonia was! So, you<br />

name it, they teach tap and perform<br />

tap dancing in all those countries,<br />

“combining it with their own cultures<br />

and music,” Tony noted.<br />

Greg Hines was one of the mutual<br />

acquaintances I had assumed we had.<br />

One I did not expect was Armand Assante<br />

— not a dancer. Actor Assante<br />

had appeared frequently at Stage<br />

West in Springfield when I was a theater<br />

critic there, and we had become<br />

pals. Tony Waag met him on Tony’s<br />

first SAG film, with Meg Ryan and Armand.<br />

He was Armand’s understudy.<br />

Tap City will be alive and well in<br />

New York July 5-10. Earlier this year,<br />

May 16 the American Tap Dance<br />

Foundation is presenting at Symphony<br />

Space ‘RHYTHM IS OUR BUSI-<br />

NESS’ in Support of the Gregory<br />

Hines Youth Scholarship Fund<br />

(which offers financial help to serious<br />

and talented young tappers) with<br />

Guest Host Brian Stokes Mitchell.<br />

<strong>The</strong> evening also celebrates 25<br />

years of tapping, honoring the founding<br />

by Charles “Honi” Coles, Brenda<br />

Bufalino and Tony Waag of the American<br />

Tap Dance Orchestra, created<br />

in 1986, which evolved into Waag’s<br />

American Tap Dance Foundation.<br />

It celebrates 25 years of creating<br />

new venues for tap, presenting original<br />

productions and contemporary<br />

choreography, and unique artists<br />

from the U.S. and around the world,<br />

also educating the next generation<br />

and building new audiences while<br />

preserving and honoring the history<br />

of the uniquely American art form<br />

of TAP!<br />

It took years before Tony’s American<br />

Tap Dance Foundation found a<br />

home in 2009 at 154 Christopher St.<br />

It has about 190 kids and 300 adults<br />

currently enrolled - all levels and ages<br />

studying practicing, and performing<br />

tap-dancing. It offers year round<br />

classes, rehearsal, and space for tappers<br />

to experiment and create.<br />

Tony still dances with great abandon<br />

and glee. He’s earned the right to<br />

kick up his heels.<br />

Some people might be content<br />

to sit back on all those laurels. Not<br />

Tony Waag.<br />

“I have spent 35 years dedicated<br />

to this cause and I am proud to call<br />

myself a tap dancer. Everything is<br />

copasetic at the moment. So watch<br />

out, there’s more to come for sure!”<br />

(Francine L. Trevens’ latest book<br />

is available on e readers. Pixie<br />

Tales is 5 enchanted illustrated<br />

read-to-me stories - a Little Book<br />

about Wee folk for Small fry. You<br />

can also follow Francine on her<br />

blog: stagesandpages-francine.<br />

blogspot.com)<br />

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May/ June 2011 ART TIMES page 10<br />

Culturally Speaking<br />

By Cornelia Seckel<br />

This issue marks the end of 27<br />

years of publishing ART TIMES and<br />

we look forward to beginning our 28 th<br />

year publishing in print every other<br />

month and online each month. Take<br />

a look at our ever evolving and growing<br />

website as there are new essays<br />

and resources uploaded each month.<br />

Become a “fan” of the ART TIMES<br />

Facebook page and keep up on more<br />

frequent news and information and<br />

use that page to announce your<br />

events and news.<br />

In ART TIMES online during<br />

April, I wrote about a number of<br />

things in my Culturally Speaking<br />

column: “Crowns” by Regina Taylor<br />

at the Capitol Repertory <strong>The</strong>atre<br />

in Albany, NY where their current<br />

(World Premiere) show is “Kingdom<br />

of the Shore” by Terence Lamude.<br />

Capital Repertory <strong>The</strong>atre is now in<br />

collaboration with Proctors and it<br />

is their staff handling ticket sales<br />

& PR • the opening reception for<br />

the Carolyn Haeberlin exhibit at<br />

Woodstock School of <strong>Art</strong> (WSA)<br />

and obit for Robert Angeloch,<br />

artist, Woodstock teacher and cofounder<br />

of the WSA • Susan B. Phillips’<br />

show at the Thaddeus Kwiat<br />

Projects in Saugerties (that show is<br />

over but you can still see her work at<br />

Unison Learning Center in New<br />

Paltz and at the Doghouse Gallery<br />

in Saugerties, NY along with some<br />

other members of the 122 year old<br />

National Association of Women<br />

<strong>Art</strong>ists • Dawn Howkinson Siebel<br />

and Michael Fattizzi’s exhibit at<br />

Oriole 9 in Woodstock, NY where<br />

currently hangs work by Mary Anne<br />

Erickson. Online during March and<br />

April was a critique by Raymond J.<br />

Steiner of Eva van Rijn’s exhibition<br />

at Locust Grove in Poughkeepsie,<br />

NY - the former home of Samuel<br />

Morse, inventor and artist- where<br />

currently you can see photographs by<br />

Robert Lipgar.<br />

Additionally I made 2 short videos,<br />

one of the Harriet Tannin Retrospective<br />

at the Woodstock <strong>Art</strong>ists<br />

Association Museum in Woodstock,<br />

NY and the other of <strong>The</strong> International<br />

Women’s Day Celebration<br />

Walk across the Walkway in<br />

<strong>The</strong> newly remodeled Frances Lehman Loeb <strong>Art</strong> Center at<br />

Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY opened with the exhibit<br />

Thomas Rowlandson: Pursuits and Pleasures in Georgian England.<br />

Poughkeepsie. <strong>The</strong> videos are available<br />

on arttimes YouTube channel<br />

and the other pictures and comments<br />

can be found online in the list of previously<br />

printed and uploaded Culturally<br />

Speaking columns or in the archived<br />

issues of ART TIMES. Since Jan/Feb<br />

2009, issues of ART TIMES, in pdf<br />

form, are available on our website<br />

www.arttimesjournal.com<br />

Photographs by<br />

A R L E N E L I E B E R M A N<br />

PORTRAITS OF INDIA<br />

June 2 - July 31, 2011<br />

Opening: Thursday, June 2nd, 6 - 8pm<br />

LAGUARDIA GALLERY OF FINE ARTS<br />

LaGuardia Community College<br />

Atrium of E Building<br />

31-10 Thomson Avenue<br />

Long Island City, New York 11101<br />

Mondays - Saturdays, 8 am - 10 pm<br />

www.ArleneLieberman.com<br />

(L to R) Kerry Henderson, Maria Todaro, Louis Otey at St Gregory’s Episcopal<br />

Church in Woodstock, NY introducing VoiceFest 2011 a four-day festival (Aug. 4-7)<br />

of opera, gospel, baroque, choral, and world music presented in Phoenicia, NY.<br />

Editor Lauren Tamraz wrote to<br />

us about Awosting Alchemy, begun<br />

in 2010 when she was becoming frustrated<br />

with sending her own writing<br />

out and hoping for the best. She was<br />

seeing a lot of experimental, highquality<br />

websites, journals and projects<br />

being developed by young people<br />

and realized she could be more effective<br />

as an editor and producer than a<br />

“mere faceless writer”. She wrote that<br />

the intension is to focus on short-ish<br />

works and stunning art, with preference<br />

going to Hudson Valley locals<br />

and/or talented young writers of the<br />

Internet with quality being the main<br />

deciding factor. <strong>The</strong>y host events,<br />

contests and maintain a blog. Take a<br />

look at awostingalchemy.com.<br />

Stephen A. Fredericks at carrierpigeonmag.com<br />

sent me the first<br />

two issues of a new magazine, Carrier<br />

Pigeon: Illustrated Fiction and Fine<br />

<strong>Art</strong>, that he recently launched with<br />

some other artists, which features<br />

fine art, illustration, and fiction that<br />

showcases writers, artists, illustrators,<br />

and one designer. Carrier Pigeon<br />

springs from the Robert Blackburn<br />

Printmaking Workshop and <strong>The</strong><br />

New York Society of Etchers<br />

(along with other local arts organizations),<br />

with each issue containing at<br />

least one original artwork signed by<br />

the contributing artist.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Mark Gruber Gallery is<br />

celebrating 35 years of bringing<br />

excellent regional artists to the<br />

art-loving community of New Paltz,<br />

NY and the Hudson Valley with artists<br />

including: Hardie Truesdale,<br />

Will Cotton, Charles Fazzino,<br />

Kevin Cook, John Variano, Keith<br />

Gunderson, Jane Bloodgood<br />

Abrams, Marlene Wiedenbaum,<br />

Thomas Locker and trends like the<br />

Cow Shows and Jacques Torres<br />

Chocolates. <strong>The</strong> gallery continues<br />

its efforts to support the New Hudson<br />

River School of painters—bringing<br />

you works in the classical, academic<br />

tradition right through an impressionistic<br />

interpretation. Mark does<br />

museum quality, affordable custom<br />

framing—using quality materials<br />

and 35 years of experience, no one else<br />

can compare. Visit in person or online<br />

markgrubergallery.com.<br />

I always like to see innovative<br />

venues to show art and so when I got<br />

an invitation to the historic Adams<br />

Horse Stable in Saugerties, NY I<br />

headed over. Fritz Haller is a financial<br />

planner who decided that so<br />

many of his clients were artists and<br />

that many people wanted to see this<br />

mid 19 th century example of Gothic<br />

Revival architecture which housed<br />

fine ice racing horses that he would<br />

open his walls for some of his clients<br />

to show their work. Dave Campbell,<br />

a native of Saugerties showed<br />

landscapes and illustrations from his<br />

“Beginners Guide to Fishing” done<br />

F e e l i n g s: A non sequential photographic narrative<br />

and other recent works<br />

May 12 - May 30, 2011<br />

Mariela Dujovne Melamed<br />

<strong>Art</strong>ist’s Reception:<br />

Sunday, May 15 1:00 - 6:00 pm<br />

Gallery Hours:<br />

Thurs. & Sun. 1 - 6 pm • Fri. & Sat. 1 - 9 pm<br />

Memorial Day 1- 4 pm<br />

<strong>Art</strong>ist’s Information:<br />

www.marielamelamedphotography.com<br />

email: mariemel@optonline.net<br />

Piermont Fine <strong>Art</strong>s Gallery<br />

218 Ash St. Piermont, NY • 845-398-1907<br />

www.piermontfinearts.com


in ink, line and wash. I bought one<br />

of Dave’s books and hope to do some<br />

fishing here and not wait till I get to<br />

Florida.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Pen and Brush, an organization<br />

for women in the visual, literary<br />

and performing arts since 1894<br />

is located in <strong>NYC</strong> and has numerous<br />

exhibitions and programs. Coming<br />

up is a Multi-Media exhibit opening<br />

on May 5 th . A while ago I stopped in<br />

to deliver papers and found myself at<br />

an opening for Salon des Refusés.<br />

Members submitted work that had<br />

been rejected over the past year. It<br />

was a fun show and the work very<br />

competent. You just don’t know<br />

what a judge or jury will choose and<br />

although it is hard not to take it personally,<br />

these members had a chance<br />

to have fun and still get their “rejects”<br />

seen. Stop by for a visit to the gallery<br />

they are just off 5 th on 10 th Street and<br />

at penandbrush.org.<br />

It was thrilling to go to a performance<br />

of Martha Graham Dance<br />

Company’s 85 th Anniversary Season.<br />

After a welcome and program<br />

introduction by artistic director Janet<br />

Eilber, the audience—we were<br />

at the Rose <strong>The</strong>ater, Frederick<br />

P. Rose Hall, the Home of Jazz<br />

at Lincoln Center— was treated<br />

to Cave of the Heart and Deaths and<br />

Entrances both Graham Classics and<br />

Chasing, a world premier by choreographer<br />

Bulareyaung Pagarlava<br />

that was commissioned by the Martha<br />

Graham Center and created as<br />

a companion piece to Deaths and<br />

Entrances. <strong>The</strong> Martha Graham<br />

Dance Company was founded by<br />

Martha Graham in 1926 and is the<br />

oldest modern dance company in the<br />

world. It presents the classic Graham<br />

repertory and new choreography in<br />

its home city of New York and on tour<br />

and features an international roster<br />

of today’s most talented dance artists.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Martha Graham School<br />

of Contemporary Dance is the<br />

global center for instruction in the<br />

Martha Graham Technique and has<br />

provided instruction to thousands<br />

of students including such luminaries<br />

as Alvin Ailey, Twyla Tharp,<br />

Paul Taylor, Merce Cunningham,<br />

Rudolf Nureyev & Mikhail<br />

Baryshnikov. Martha Graham<br />

Resources oversees licensing of the<br />

Graham repertory, access to archives<br />

that comprise one of the world’s great<br />

collections of dance history, and arts<br />

education programs that travel with<br />

the Company around the world. See<br />

the current schedule at marthagraham.org.<br />

As a teacher of Dance at<br />

the Eastman School of Music her<br />

experimentations proved to be the<br />

sparks of a new mode of dance that<br />

revolutionized theories of movement<br />

in all of the performing arts. For<br />

Graham, ballet’s concern with flow<br />

and grace left behind more violent<br />

traditional passions. I remember<br />

when she received the Gold Medal of<br />

Honor for Dance at the National<br />

<strong>Art</strong>s Club, <strong>NYC</strong> the year before she<br />

died. In her acceptance she said “it’s<br />

about time that Dance is acknowledged<br />

and not treated like a third rate<br />

art form”. She had a lasting and deep<br />

impact on American art and culture<br />

and her company continues her work<br />

and reaches out to new audiences by<br />

educational and community partnerships.<br />

<strong>The</strong> March Gala Concert at St<br />

Gregory’s Episcopal Church in<br />

Woodstock, NY was an introduction<br />

to VoiceFest 2011, a four-day festival<br />

(August 4-7) of opera, gospel,<br />

baroque, choral, and world music<br />

presented under the stars and in various<br />

town venues in Phoenicia, NY.<br />

<strong>The</strong> centerpiece of the Festival will be<br />

Mozart’s Don Giovanni, conducted<br />

by Metropolitan Opera maestro,<br />

Steven White, featuring Louis<br />

Otey and Kerry Henderson. <strong>The</strong> 3<br />

founders of this fabulous VoiceFest<br />

sang at the church and what an exciting<br />

afternoon it was. Maria Todaro-<br />

Mezza Soprano, Louis Otey- Baritone<br />

and Kerry Henderson- Baritone<br />

were accompanied at the piano<br />

by David Mayfield and Babette<br />

Hierholzer. <strong>The</strong>se performers have<br />

gorgeous voices and treated us to a<br />

program of works by Lilburn, Puccini,<br />

Mitch Leigh, Cole Porter,<br />

Bellini, Mozart, Vivaldi, Wagner,<br />

Rossini and Goldrich. What a program<br />

— delicious. <strong>The</strong> audience was<br />

enchanted as it had been last August<br />

when over 3000 people attended the<br />

festival. This year they have added<br />

an additional day to the festival and<br />

there will be an orchestra. I went<br />

to several of the performances and<br />

made a short video of the program<br />

I attended (see arttimes channel on<br />

YouTube or online at arttimesjournal.com).<br />

Hearing world-class opera<br />

stars singing just 10 feet away was<br />

so very thrilling. Last year I wanted<br />

to attend every performance but just<br />

couldn’t manage the time. Take a look<br />

at the site, order tickets, as they will<br />

be sold out quickly, and send a donation<br />

to support this fabulous festival<br />

Dave Campbell (R) speaking with a visitor to his exhibit<br />

at the historic Adams Horse Stable in Saugerties, NY<br />

Irv Suss<br />

Photography<br />

<strong>The</strong> Hudson<br />

From <strong>The</strong> City to <strong>The</strong> Highlands<br />

May 14, 2011 to June 18, 2011<br />

In the Gallery at<br />

Bob’s <strong>Art</strong><br />

191 S. Main St.<br />

845-634-6933<br />

New City, New York<br />

irvsuss.com<br />

May/ June 2011 ART TIMES page 11<br />

and these outstanding performers<br />

who are adding such joy to the cultural<br />

offerings of our region. www.<br />

phoeniciavoicefest.com<br />

I went to the Powerhouse Party<br />

that introduced the upcoming 2011<br />

season of Vassar & New York<br />

Stage and Film’s Powerhouse<br />

<strong>The</strong>atre, a place for people in theatre<br />

to work without commercial<br />

pressures. <strong>The</strong> season opens June 24<br />

and concludes on July 31. 40 student<br />

apprentices from across the country<br />

will participate in this 27 th season<br />

taking part in the 2 mainstage productions<br />

(Patricia Wettig’s “F2M”<br />

and Rob Handel’s “A Maze”), 3<br />

musical workshops, 2 play workshops<br />

and 10 staged readings over<br />

an intense 8-week summer residency<br />

on the Vassar College campus in<br />

Poughkeepsie, NY. Student writers,<br />

directors, designers, actors all have<br />

a chance to work with professionals<br />

and the professionals get to explore<br />

new ideas and methods in a safe<br />

environment. It’s like summer camp<br />

where one can learn new things and<br />

stretch their abilities. Vassar wanted<br />

to establish a training program for<br />

young actors at the same time New<br />

York Film and Stage was looking<br />

for a nurturing environment for<br />

working actors, filmmakers and writers.<br />

It was and continues to be an excellent<br />

cooperative effort with many<br />

former apprentices having gone on<br />

to major careers and recognition in<br />

film and stage. Edward Cheetham<br />

is the Producing Director of the<br />

Powerhouse Program and Johanna<br />

Pfaelzer is the <strong>Art</strong>istic Director of<br />

New York Stage and Film. More at<br />

www.powerhouse.vassar.edu.<br />

Vassar College also reopened<br />

the Frances Lehman Loeb <strong>Art</strong><br />

Center with the exhibit Thomas<br />

Rowlandson: Pursuits and Pleasures<br />

in Georgian England. Rowlandson<br />

(1757-1827) was an English<br />

satirist, printmaker, and painter<br />

who commented via his watercolors,<br />

prints and drawings on his social<br />

and political worlds—the worlds of<br />

the West End, Covent Garden, and<br />

London politics in the late Georgian<br />

era. His work surely gives us a look<br />

at his world. <strong>The</strong> exhibit will be on<br />

view thru June 12. <strong>The</strong> galleries were<br />

reconfigured so that there are rooms<br />

for their large modern collection<br />

(even still only a small percentage of<br />

the holdings are on view), a gallery<br />

for student curators, a gallery for<br />

small works not usually seen, and<br />

a project gallery for work that the<br />

faculty is requesting to be on view for<br />

research by their students. <strong>The</strong> Prestel<br />

Museum Guide series has just<br />

published the new book <strong>The</strong> Frances<br />

Lehman Loeb <strong>Art</strong> Center, Vassar College:<br />

<strong>The</strong> History and the Collection.<br />

This makes the <strong>Art</strong> Center the first<br />

U.S. art museum and the only U.S.<br />

college or university museum to have<br />

its own Prestel Guide. You can learn<br />

more about the collection and <strong>Art</strong><br />

Center at www.fllac.vassar.edu<br />

See you out and about and don’t<br />

forget to write about your events and<br />

news on ART TIMES Facebook page.<br />

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annual<br />

june 24, 25 & 26<br />

Altamont Fairgrounds<br />

Altamont, NY<br />

10 miles west of Albany<br />

the best in<br />

eclectic folk<br />

since 1981<br />

THE FREIGHT HOPPERS ARROGANT WORMS<br />

THE OUTSIDE TRACK • GUY MENDILOW BAND • LIBANA • FINEST KIND<br />

SCOTT AINSLIE • ELLIS • JEZ LOWE • QUICKSTEP • BABIK • MANYMORE<br />

3 MAIN CONCERTS • 120 DAYTIME SESSIONS • CRAFTS<br />

JAMMING • FAMILY ACTIVITIES • DANCING & SINGING<br />

COMPLETE DETAILS, incl. tickets, camping, concerts, & more, at:<br />

www.oldsongs.org/festival


May/ June 2011 ART TIMES page 12<br />

Calendar<br />

Continued from Page 8<br />

Monday, May 23<br />

57th Annual Exhibit National Society of Painters in Casein & Acrylic<br />

Salmagundi Club 47 Fifth Ave., <strong>NYC</strong> (212) 255-7740 (thru Jun 10)<br />

Thursday, May 26<br />

Featured Works of Susan Steeg & Dorothy Ehret Hines Upstream<br />

Gallery 26 Main Street Dobbs Ferry NY 914-674-8548 free (thru June 19) www.upstreamgallery.com<br />

PREVIEW OF FINE ART AUCTION: Benefit for <strong>Art</strong>s in Education Program<br />

at Woodstock Day School Fletcher Gallery, 40 Mill Hill Rd., Woodstock, NY (845) 679-<br />

4411 (thru May 28) www.fletchergallery.com<br />

sTRUCKtures - New paintings by Allan Gorman Phoenix Gallery 210 Eleventh<br />

Avenue, 9th Floor New York NY 212-226-8711 Opening Reception 6-8pm free<br />

(thru June 18) www.phoenix-gallery.com<br />

Friday, May 27<br />

Contemporary Bromoil: Photographs by Joy Goldkind Galerie BMG<br />

12 Tannery Brook Rd Woodstock NY 845-679-0027 free (thru July 4) www.galeriebmg.<br />

com<br />

PREVIEW OF FINE ART AUCTION: Benefit for <strong>Art</strong>s in Education Program<br />

at Woodstock Day School Fletcher Gallery, 40 Mill Hill Rd., Woodstock, NY (845) 679-<br />

4411 (thru May 28) www.fletchergallery.com<br />

54th Annual Members Exhibit South Bay <strong>Art</strong> Association Phoenix Gallery<br />

139 South Country Road Bellport NY 631-286-3521 free (thru May 30) southbayart@gmail.com<br />

Saturday, May 28<br />

81st WASHINGTON SQUARE OUTDOOR ART EXHIBIT Washington Square<br />

Outdoor <strong>Art</strong> Exhibit, Wash. sq. E. & Univ. Pl. (212) 982-6255 www.wsoae.org <strong>NYC</strong><br />

Eldar Djangirov Trio - Jazz Concert Windham Chamber Music Festival<br />

Windham Civic & Performing <strong>Art</strong>s Center 5379 Main Street Windham NY 518-734-<br />

3868 8-10pm charge www.windhammusic.com<br />

Joy Gross: Recipes for Living Younger … Longer Blue Cashew Kitchen Pharmacy<br />

6243 Montgomery Street Suite 3, Rhinebeck, NY Signing 2-5pm<br />

NAWA 13 members of the National Association of Women <strong>Art</strong>ists <strong>The</strong> Dog<br />

House Gallery 429 Phillips Rd Saugerties, NY (845) 246-0402 Opening Reception<br />

4-7pm thru June 18)<br />

PREVIEW OF FINE ART AUCTION: Benefit for <strong>Art</strong>s in Education Program<br />

at Woodstock Day School Fletcher Gallery, 40 Mill Hill Rd., Woodstock, NY (845) 679-<br />

4411 (thru May 28) www.fletchergallery.com<br />

CALL FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS<br />

23 Depot Square on Garrison’s Landing, Garrison, NY 10524<br />

A JURIED PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW<br />

Jurors: Larry Fink & Stephen Perloff<br />

Open to amateurs, professionals<br />

All photo mediums, Fee $40/5 images<br />

Deadline for entry: June 15, 2011<br />

Exhibition Sept. 10 - Oct. 2, 2011<br />

Best in Show $1000, many more awards<br />

Exhibition Book of accepted artists<br />

See prospectus at garrisonartcenter.org<br />

23 Depot Square, Garrison, NY 10524<br />

garrisonartcenter.org 845.424.3960<br />

Catharine Lorillard Wolfe <strong>Art</strong> Club, Inc.<br />

115 th Annual Open Juried Exhibition for Women <strong>Art</strong>ists<br />

CALL FOR ENTRIES<br />

National <strong>Art</strong>s Club, New York, NY<br />

October 4 - October 28, 2011<br />

Open to Women <strong>Art</strong>ists.<br />

Media: Oil - Watercolor - Pastels - Graphics<br />

Acrylic - Sculpture<br />

Juried by CDs or Slides - Postmarked by June 10, 2011<br />

Over $10,000 in Awards<br />

Entry fee: $30/Members & Associates; $35/Non-members<br />

For Prospectus send #10 SASE to: Okki Wang,<br />

431 Woodbury Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724<br />

a prospectus is available online at www.clwac.org<br />

“Every Great Town Deserves a Great <strong>Art</strong><br />

Supply Store and Frame Shop.”<br />

Save Money<br />

Shop Rhinebeck<br />

& New Paltz<br />

56 East Market St., Rhinebeck<br />

845-876-4922<br />

Berks <strong>Art</strong> Alliance 34th Annual<br />

Open Juried <strong>Art</strong> Exhibition<br />

July 2 – Sept. 4, 2011<br />

Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA<br />

$4000+ total awards • Most media accepted<br />

Hand delivered entries only<br />

Entries accepted on June 17<br />

Jurors – Lisa Tremper Hanover,<br />

Dir. Berman Museum of <strong>Art</strong>,<br />

Nancy Campbell, Dir. Wayne <strong>Art</strong> Center<br />

For prospectus, log on to<br />

www.readingpublicmuseum.org<br />

www.berksartalliance.com<br />

or send #10 SASE to: BAA c/o Gurman, 305<br />

Sunshine Rd., Reading, Pa. 19601<br />

17 Church St., New Paltz<br />

845-255-5533<br />

Sunday, May 29<br />

81st WASHINGTON SQUARE OUTDOOR ART EXHIBIT Washington Square<br />

Outdoor <strong>Art</strong> Exhibit, Wash. sq. E. & Univ. Pl. (212) 982-6255 www.wsoae.org <strong>NYC</strong><br />

FINE ART AUCTION: Benefit for <strong>Art</strong>s in Education Program at Woodstock<br />

Day School Fletcher Gallery, Kleinert/James <strong>Art</strong> Ctr., 34 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY<br />

(845) 679-2079 1pm www.fletchergallery.com<br />

Monday, May 30<br />

81st WASHINGTON SQUARE OUTDOOR ART EXHIBIT Washington Square<br />

Outdoor <strong>Art</strong> Exhibit, Wash. sq. E. & Univ. Pl. (212) 982-6255 www.wsoae.org <strong>NYC</strong><br />

Tuesday, May 31<br />

Wethersfield Academy for the <strong>Art</strong>s Premier Juried Competition<br />

Wethersfield Academy for the <strong>Art</strong>s Hartford Fine <strong>Art</strong> & Framing 81 Pitkin St. East<br />

Hartford CT 860-763-4565 free (thru Jun 30) www.wethersfieldarts.org<br />

Wednesday, June 1<br />

Viewpoints, SMI’s 14th Annual Exhibit Studio Montclair Co-Sponsored by<br />

Aljira, a Center for Contemporary <strong>Art</strong> 591 Broad Street Newark NJ 973-744-1818 free<br />

(thru June 25) www.studiomontclair.org<br />

Thursday, June 2<br />

Arlene Lieberman Photography: Portraits of India LaGuardia Gallery of<br />

Fine <strong>Art</strong>s LaGuardia Community College 31-10 Thomson Avenue, Atrium of E Building<br />

Long Island City NY Opening 6-8pm free (thru July 31) www.ArleneLieberman.<br />

com<br />

Depth of Field, Alternative Photography Exhibit Studio Montclair Montclair<br />

Public Library 50 South Fullerton Avenue Montclair NJ 973-744-1818 Reception<br />

6-8pm free (thru June 30) www.studiomontclair.org<br />

Janice DeMarino: New Work Longyear Gallery 785 Main Street Margaretville<br />

NY 845-586-3270 Opening Reception 3-6pm free (thru June 26) www.longyeargallery.<br />

org<br />

Friday, June 3<br />

Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune - By Terrence McNally KNOW<br />

<strong>The</strong>atre Binghamton City Stage 74 Carroll Street Binghamton NY 607-724-4341<br />

charge Directed by Brandt Reiter, Starring Dori May Ganisin and Tim Gleason. http://<br />

www.knowtheatre.org<br />

Michele James: Mixed Media Works East Fishkill Community Library 348<br />

Route 376 Hopewell Junction NY 845-221-9943 Opening Reception 7-8:30pm free (thru<br />

Jun 30) http://www.eflibrary.org Dutchess<br />

Saturday, June 4<br />

44th ANNUAL ART IN THE PARK <strong>Art</strong> League of Long Island, Heckscher Museum<br />

Park, 2 Prime Ave Huntington (631) 462-5400 10-5pm www.artleagueli.net<br />

49th ANNUAL WHITE PLAINS OUTDOOR JURIED ARTS FESTIVAL White<br />

Plains Outdoor <strong>Art</strong>s Festival Committee, Tibbits Park, One North Broadway at Main<br />

St., White Plains, NY (914) 993-8271 or (914) 949-7909 10am-5pm (thru June 5) www.<br />

whiteplainsoutdoorartsfestival.com<br />

81st WASHINGTON SQUARE OUTDOOR ART EXHIBIT Washington Square<br />

Outdoor <strong>Art</strong> Exhibit, Wash. sq. E. & Univ. Pl. (212) 982-6255 www.wsoae.org <strong>NYC</strong><br />

CEWM: FIESTA! A Latin Splash of Music and Dance Close Encounters With Music<br />

Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood 297 West Street (Route 183) Lenox MA 800-843-0778<br />

6:00PM charge www.cewm.org<br />

LONGREACH IN BEACON Howland Cultural Center 477 Main St. Beacon NY 845-<br />

831-4988 Opening Reception 3-5pm (June 26)<br />

Lunch at the Live Bait Diner: Drawings by Joseph D. Yeomans and<br />

Poems by Lewis Gardner <strong>Art</strong>s Society of Kingston 97 Broadway Kingston NY<br />

845-338-0331 opening reception 5-8 pm free (thru June 30) askforarts.org<br />

Premier Juried Competition Wethersfield Academy for the <strong>Art</strong>s Hartford<br />

Fine <strong>Art</strong> & Framing 81 Pitkin St. East Hartford CT 860-763-4565 Opening Reception<br />

6-8pm. free (thru Jun 30) www.wethersfieldarts.org<br />

Sunday, June 5<br />

44th ANNUAL ART IN THE PARK <strong>Art</strong> League of Long Island, Heckscher Museum<br />

Park, 2 Prime Ave Huntington (631) 462-5400 10-5pm www.artleagueli.net<br />

49th ANNUAL WHITE PLAINS OUTDOOR JURIED ARTS FESTIVAL White<br />

Plains Outdoor <strong>Art</strong>s Festival Committee, Tibbits Park, One North Broadway at Main<br />

St., White Plains, NY (914) 993-8271 or (914) 949-7909 10am-5pm www.whiteplainsoutdoorartsfestival.com<br />

81st WASHINGTON SQUARE OUTDOOR ART EXHIBIT Washington Square<br />

Outdoor <strong>Art</strong> Exhibit, Wash. sq. E. & Univ. Pl. (212) 982-6255 www.wsoae.org <strong>NYC</strong><br />

Susan Steeg and Dorothy Ehret Hines Upstream Gallery 26 Main Street<br />

Dobbs Ferry NY 914-674-8548 Reception 2 - 5pm free (thru June 19) www.upstreamgallery.com<br />

52 nd Year of it’s Young People’s Scholarship Exhibition <strong>The</strong> Ridgewood <strong>Art</strong><br />

Institute 12 East Glen Ave. Ridgewood NJ 201-652-9615 free Open Reception Awards<br />

Ceremony 2-4pm www.ridgewoodartinstitute.org<br />

Continued on Page 20<br />

CALL for eNTrieS<br />

ALLied ArTiSTS of AmeriCA<br />

98 th Annual open exhibition<br />

November 2 - November 23, 2011<br />

at <strong>The</strong> National <strong>Art</strong>s Club <strong>Galleries</strong>, <strong>NYC</strong><br />

Open to all artists<br />

Oil, Watermedia, Pastel,<br />

Graphics, Sculpture<br />

$24,000 awards in cash & medals<br />

Jpeg entries accepted.<br />

deadline September 12.<br />

For prospectus go to website at:<br />

www.alliedartistsofamerica.org<br />

Rose Yannuzzi<br />

Solo Exhibit Visual Poetry<br />

Watercolors & Fine Photography<br />

June 23 — July 10, 2011<br />

Opening Reception June 26, 2-5pm<br />

www.yannuzziwatercolor.com<br />

Piermont Flywheel Gallery<br />

Piermont Landing, 223 Ash Street<br />

Piermont, NY • (845)-365-6411<br />

Hrs: Th. & Su 1-6pm; Fr.& Sa 1-9pm


Film<br />

Mr. Scott and Me<br />

May/ June 2011 ART TIMES page 13<br />

lasses starting<br />

By HENRY P. RALEIGH<br />

Now Mr. A. O. Scott, the N.Y. <strong>Times</strong><br />

film critic, and I have not always<br />

agreed in our assessment of films.<br />

That does happen now and then and<br />

I certainly don’t hold this against him.<br />

As a matter of fact I was much taken,<br />

I might say, moved, by a piece of his<br />

that appeared in the <strong>Times</strong> January<br />

16 (‘Defy the Elite! Wait, which elite’)<br />

and which I’ve read over many times<br />

since. Here Mr. Scott takes issue with<br />

Mr. Neal Gabler, a cultural historian<br />

and recently the fellow who introduces<br />

the Saturday evening film on PBS. It<br />

seems that Mr. Gabler, in an op-ed<br />

article in <strong>The</strong> Boston Globe, proclaimed<br />

the death of cultural elitism. Among<br />

the decreased, of course, are those<br />

elitist film critics. And this slaughter<br />

is all because of the internet and the<br />

ascendancy of those legions of film<br />

bloggers who enjoy perfect freedom to<br />

give vent to their opinions, informed or<br />

not, and devil take the professionals.<br />

You can see what this will do, and has<br />

done, to Mr. Scott and me.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re is something plaintive in<br />

Mr. Scott’s commentary, a sense<br />

that something has been lost despite<br />

a wistful belief that there remains<br />

always the need for solid, analytic<br />

criticism. He notes, with faint hope,<br />

the revival of the old Siskel and Ebert<br />

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at a young audience who most likely<br />

are devotees and products of blogging<br />

as indeed are the two featured film<br />

critics, both of who had made their<br />

bones on movie sites. Both look as<br />

perfectly grand on the screen as<br />

their FaceBook and publicity shots.<br />

Christy Lemire, film critic for the<br />

Associated Press once came in 93 on<br />

an independent film critics list of 100<br />

of the most beautiful celebrity women.<br />

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky is as cute as a<br />

button and is clearly aware of it. After<br />

all, Siskel and Ebert weren’t that<br />

much to look at, were they<br />

<strong>The</strong> new show runs for 27 minutes<br />

and zips through four current feature<br />

films, each accompanied by unusually<br />

long trailers; a spot titled “Hot and<br />

New” in which each critic picks a<br />

favorite from films available on VOD,<br />

DVD, cable on on-line-- there’s no<br />

escaping technology, you see; and a<br />

special guest contributor, the most<br />

fascinating so far an enthusiastic<br />

young lady explaining why Natalie<br />

Portman as the ballerina in “Black<br />

Swan” was shown spending so much<br />

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So out of 27 minutes<br />

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much in-depth critical<br />

discourse is possible<br />

Well, not much but that<br />

probably doesn’t matter,<br />

it’s fast, pretty to watch<br />

and look, if Mr. Gabler<br />

is right who cares what<br />

a couple of youthful<br />

blogger graduates have<br />

to say, their opinions are<br />

no better or worse than<br />

any other roaming, willynilly,<br />

around cyberspace.<br />

And besides paying<br />

much attention to the<br />

spoken argument may<br />

disappoint. When one of<br />

these critics importantly<br />

claims a director “uses<br />

lots of aesthetics” and<br />

without blinking throw<br />

in a “him and me”<br />

when simple grammar<br />

demands “he and I”<br />

you might question the<br />

literacy level of the speaker. Still,<br />

reviewing the prose of internet film<br />

bloggers you can see that grammatical<br />

niceties are not their strong suit.<br />

Mr. Scott concludes his essay with a<br />

jab at the relentless noise of consumer<br />

advertising which can so handily<br />

overwhelm those annoying elitists. In<br />

response, he reaffirms the real goal of<br />

criticism which is “...work of analyzing<br />

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new and<br />

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essays<br />

and evaluating works of art honestly<br />

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figures he or she is doing exactly the<br />

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Mildred Cohen, Staats Fasoldt, Stacie Flint,<br />

Susan Fowler-Gallagher, Jose Gomez,<br />

Claudia Gorman, Rob Greene, Trina Greene,<br />

Robert Hastings, Carol Loizides, Basha Maryanska,<br />

Sherrill Meyers-Nilson, Ellen O’Shea,<br />

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Save the Date! Sept. 29, 2011<br />

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Saturday, June 4, 2011<br />

Fine art paintings & drawings of Millbrook scenes in oil,<br />

pastel, acrylic and watercolor by 50 professional artists.<br />

Auction Viewing & Reception: 4pm — 5pm<br />

Live Auction: 5:15 pm - 7:15 pm<br />

Hors d’oeuvres, wine and soft drinks will be served.<br />

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May/ June 2011 ART TIMES page 14<br />

Fiction Keep This Object Carefully<br />

By Michael Edwin Q.<br />

Claudette places a bowl of hot<br />

he heard me. I jumped down; that got “He walked over to an easel. I Gospel. He sighed, ‘So, what should<br />

soup down in front of her husband;<br />

his attention.<br />

then understood why he smelled of I do now”<br />

she walks to the only window and<br />

“He stood up and wiped tears from turpentine. On the ground were an “Learn a proper trade; find a<br />

opens the shutters, letting in what<br />

his eyes with his shirtsleeve. It was artist’s palette and brushes. On the good, God-fearing woman…have<br />

little light left of the day into the one<br />

obvious he felt embarrassed…seen easel was a canvas covered in earthy children…plenty of children. Give up<br />

room stone hut.<br />

crying by another man.”<br />

colors and sweeping brushstrokes in on this…art, as you call it….and find<br />

Off to the west, the sun inches its<br />

“What did he look like” asks his shapes I could make little sense of. yourself some happiness.”<br />

way slowly down the horizon, sunset<br />

wife.<br />

“This is the love that brings me no “Happiness…’ he sighed, again.<br />

colors appear; in the east, dark menacing<br />

storm clouds gather.<br />

“Mid-thirties, clearly a foreigner; satisfaction; but still I cannot stop. I ‘<strong>The</strong> sadness will last forever.”<br />

his French was good, but he had a paint everyday with the voracity of a “No, you must not think that,’ I<br />

“It looks like…” she says, turning<br />

to her husband, but stops when<br />

strong accent…perhaps, German….I steam engine. Tell me, what do you said. ‘Please, come home with me and<br />

couldn’t tell. Well-kept, he was not. think’<br />

we can talk about this further. My<br />

seeing his head bowed, giving silent<br />

His clothes were old and dirty. His “I’m a farmer, not an art critic,’ I wife is a good cook. It will probably<br />

thanks. She waits for him to finish.<br />

hair was reddish-brown and in need said.”<br />

only be soup and bread, but you are<br />

“It looks like we might get some rain.”<br />

of cutting as was his beard. But most “I don’t care what an art critic has welcome.’<br />

“That would be a change,” he says,<br />

notable were his eyes. <strong>The</strong>re was a to say; tell me what a farmer sees’, “No,’ he said. ‘I thank you from the<br />

cutting two slices off a loaf of bread;<br />

combination sadness and madness he asked.”<br />

bottom of my heart. But I must finish<br />

he places one next to his wife’s spoon.<br />

in them. I couldn’t tell which more of “I took my time examining the what I have started. Good or bad, I<br />

She sits and joins him.<br />

one or the other was.<br />

canvas, but only to be polite. I knew must finish this painting.’<br />

“So, how did it go” she asks.<br />

“As I approached him, I became what my answer was before I said it. “<strong>The</strong>n he looked into my eyes and<br />

He reaches into his vest-pocket<br />

aware of a strange odor.”<br />

Jumbled strokes of color were all I spoke, ‘One-way or the other, this is<br />

and places three coins on the table;<br />

“Why…did he smell” asks his saw with only a slight resemblance my last painting…I swear.’<br />

she scoops them up and they disappear<br />

into a fold in her apron.<br />

wife.<br />

of the reality.<br />

“I couldn’t think of what to say<br />

“Yes…but, you’ll not guess of “Forgive me, but you asked me to next, so I remained silent. We shook<br />

“So…see anything interesting<br />

what. It took me a moment to recognize<br />

the scent. It was turpentine.” your feelings, but this is not a proper back onto the cart and drove away. I<br />

say what I see. I do not want to hurt hands, and parted friends. I hopped<br />

while you were in town<br />

He moves his head right to left,<br />

“Turpentine…”<br />

painting’, I said. ‘I realize this represents<br />

the wheat field we are looking As I rode over the crest of the hill, I<br />

rode the jig-jag trail through the field.<br />

“No”.<br />

“Yes, and he reeked of it.”<br />

“Think…did someone tell you<br />

“What was his name” she asks. at, but it seems no more than a representation<br />

of what I am seeing. <strong>The</strong>se painting franticly.”<br />

looked back to see him at his easel<br />

anything…a joke, perhaps,” she asks,<br />

“I know I asked his name, but for<br />

clearly desperate to hear news of the<br />

the life of me I can’t remember. It was jagged lines in the center I understand<br />

to be the road that goes though wife. “Could you, please, warm this<br />

Gerard hands his soup bowl to his<br />

world outside her own small one.<br />

some long German sounding name<br />

Again, he shakes his head.<br />

that escapes me. But I do remember the field, but again, it is nothing more up for me”<br />

“This just isn’t fair, Gerard. You<br />

he made a strange comment about than a simple representation of what “Is that all” she asks.<br />

go into town every week to make the<br />

his name.<br />

is…there is so little detail. And what “I’m afraid so,” answers Gerard.<br />

deliveries while I stay here. Can’t you<br />

“He said, ‘<strong>The</strong>y named me for my is this…the sky is as black as coal” She takes his bowl and stands. At<br />

think of anything”<br />

brother who died before me. Do you “That is the oncoming storm’, he that moment, a sharp sound, like the<br />

He gently places his spoon down.<br />

think it’s possible this should have replied.”<br />

crack of a whip, penetrates the air.<br />

“What do you want me to say” He<br />

been his life that I am living, and my “I realize that,’ I said. ‘But there is “Thunder…” asks Gerard.<br />

takes up his spoon, again. “If it’s so<br />

true life’s path denied me’<br />

more to a storm than blackness. And Claudette, bowl in her hand, walks<br />

important to you, why don’t come<br />

“I thought it an odd question, what are these floating in the sky” to the window and looks out. A crowd<br />

with me next time”<br />

but I answered, ‘I don’t think God… “Those are the blackbirds you see of blackbirds are scattering across<br />

“Oh, Gerard, could I”<br />

or fortune…whatever you believe is soaring over the field.”<br />

the sky.<br />

“Of course you can! You are my<br />

running the universe would be so “I see blackbirds, but what you “No,” she says, “It’s late…if I didn’t<br />

wife, are you not I don’t want to see<br />

easily fooled by the mere changing have painted is two stokes of black know better; I’d say it sounded like a<br />

you unhappy!” He smiles into his<br />

of a name.’<br />

paint against a dark background. gunshot.”<br />

soup.<br />

“He nodded as if my answer would Blackbirds are more than two strokes! (Michael Edwin Q. lives in Dallas,<br />

TX).<br />

“You old goat,” she laughs. “You<br />

suffice; then he smiled halfhearted This is not a proper painting!”<br />

were a flirt when I met you, and after<br />

and thanked me for stopping and “He seemingly took what I said as<br />

ef<br />

all these years, you’re still one.” <strong>The</strong>y<br />

showing concern. I told him it was no<br />

both laugh.<br />

trouble at all. I told him, being much<br />

A thoughtful look washes the smile<br />

older than he, perhaps if he unburdened<br />

himself to me, he might find<br />

from his face. “<strong>The</strong>re was something,<br />

though…very queer. It happened on<br />

peace. He shook his head, believing it<br />

my way back.”<br />

impossible, but I pressed him further.<br />

Her interest perked, she stops eating.<br />

“What”<br />

‘Have you no family’ I asked. ‘Yes, I<br />

do’, he said. ‘But I have been nothing<br />

“Well, you know that large dead<br />

but an outsider and a burden to them.<br />

tree in front of the road leading into<br />

My father is long gone; I’m sure, at<br />

the field As I was passing, I looked to<br />

his death, he hated me or at the least<br />

see a young man seated on the roots<br />

thought of me as a grave disappointment.<br />

I do have a brother, whom I<br />

of the tree, his back against the trunk<br />

and his head in his hands, weeping.<br />

love dearly; but I am nothing but a<br />

“Now, you know I never stick my<br />

thorn in his side. I could never repay<br />

nose in the business of others, but I<br />

him for the support he has shown me<br />

felt it would not be Christian of me to<br />

with undying encouragement and<br />

even ask if he needed help.”<br />

financial backing. This blessing only<br />

He dips his bread into his bowl.<br />

weighs me down with guilt.’<br />

“What are you doing” asks Claudette.<br />

“What happed next”<br />

“What of love’ I asked. ‘A good<br />

woman’s love strengthens a man;<br />

“I’d like to get some of this soup in<br />

makes him capable to withstanding<br />

me while it’s still warm, if you don’t<br />

anything and able to triumph over<br />

mind”<br />

any obstacle life may hold for him.’<br />

“Don’t worry; I’ll heat it up for you!<br />

“He shook his head in dismay, ‘I<br />

Now, finish the story!”<br />

am sure you are correct; but in ways<br />

Gerard realizes he will not eat his<br />

of the heart I have found no solace.<br />

meal in peace until he tells the entire<br />

<strong>The</strong> ones I have wanted did not want<br />

story. He places his spoon and bread<br />

me, and those who accepted me found<br />

down and continues.<br />

me lacking, and I them. No, there is<br />

“I stopped the cart and called to<br />

no love I can mention, save for one,<br />

him. He didn’t respond; I don’t think<br />

which is the core of my unhappiness.’


Music<br />

May/ June 2011 ART TIMES page 15<br />

Play Long Gone, Music Lingers On<br />

By FRANK BEHRENS<br />

Often a composer was commissioned<br />

to provide a score of “incidental”<br />

music for a play. And often the<br />

score would become far more popular<br />

than the play itself. For example,<br />

millions have heard Grieg’s music to<br />

Ibsen’s “Peer Gynt” without having<br />

read a single line from the play. <strong>The</strong><br />

ratio might decrease with Mendelssohn’s<br />

incidental music for Shakespeare’s<br />

“A Midsummer Night’s<br />

Dream,” and I dare say that the most<br />

ardent lovers of Bizet’s incidental<br />

music to Daudet’s “L’Arlesienne”<br />

might be entirely unaware that such<br />

a play exists.<br />

Alphonse Daudet was a French<br />

author, best known today for his<br />

“Lettres de mon moulin” (Letters<br />

from my mill), which appeared in<br />

1872. Part of that collection was a<br />

novel titled “L’Arlesienne” (<strong>The</strong> girl<br />

from Arles). It was good enough to<br />

attract the attention of an impresario<br />

who commissioned Daudet to turn<br />

the novel into a play, which was to<br />

contain three acts and five tableaux<br />

with music and chorus.<br />

Salmagundi Club<br />

Center for American <strong>Art</strong> since 1871<br />

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For a composer, they turned to<br />

George Bizet, who was delighted to<br />

work with such an esteemed author<br />

and provided 27 miniatures, many of<br />

which are minor masterpieces of that<br />

genre. <strong>The</strong>re are some recordings of<br />

the complete score (some of which<br />

unwisely add lines of dialogue that seriously<br />

interfere with the music), the<br />

best of which in my opinion is the EMI<br />

CD with Michel Plasson conducting.<br />

As for the play itself, it is distinguished<br />

only by the titular female<br />

never appearing in the course of the<br />

action! In Provence, there are two<br />

brothers, one of whom is a simpleton;<br />

the other is obsessed with a girl from<br />

Arles. <strong>The</strong> latter cannot cope with<br />

learning that she has been “unfaithful”<br />

and leaps from a high window to<br />

end the play. After being shown to 21<br />

nearly empty houses, the play folded.<br />

Happily, Bizet’s music lived on.<br />

It is mostly played in a four-part<br />

suite arranged by Bizet himself and<br />

in a second suite arranged by Bizet’s<br />

pupil Ernest Guiraud (who also reset<br />

the spoken dialogue of “Carmen” to<br />

recitative form, so it could play as a<br />

through-sung work at the Opera).<br />

Quite some time ago, I heard<br />

an opera by Francesco Cilea titled<br />

“L’arlesiana,” which follows Daudet’s<br />

play fairly closely. It is pleasant<br />

enough, but the music will never<br />

eclipse that of Bizet.<br />

Franz Schubert was also asked<br />

to compose the incidental music for<br />

a play that not only was a failure<br />

but all copies of which have been<br />

lost! <strong>The</strong> play by Helmina von Chezy<br />

was called “Rosamunde, Furstin von<br />

Zypern” (Rosamonda, Princess of Cypress).<br />

<strong>The</strong> music too was lost. Lost<br />

that is until two gentlemen named<br />

George Grove and <strong>Art</strong>hur Sullivan<br />

hunted in basements and attics<br />

to restore to the world so much of<br />

Schubert’s music, among which was<br />

his Rosamunde score.<br />

<strong>The</strong> overture has become a familiar<br />

concert favorite, although the<br />

entire incidental music is seldom<br />

played. <strong>The</strong>re are, however, several<br />

recordings of the complete score. How<br />

interesting, though, it would be to<br />

have the play available also, as poor<br />

as it might have been.<br />

This discussion can be extended<br />

to film scores. In the case of “Laura,”<br />

the film is still shown frequently on<br />

television and its haunting theme<br />

song also turns up on CD collections<br />

of music from the cinema. But what<br />

about “<strong>The</strong> Warsaw Concerto” How<br />

many who still recall that melody can<br />

place it in the context of its film and<br />

even name the composer (See below<br />

for answer.)<br />

An interesting specialized collection<br />

can be found on an old Naxos CD,<br />

titled “Warsaw Concerto and other<br />

Piano Concertos from the Movies.”<br />

It includes nine examples of piano<br />

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concertos heard in films either as<br />

background music or played by one<br />

of the characters as part of the plot.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y range from interesting to quite<br />

lovely, and each can exist as absolute<br />

music with no reference to the films<br />

for which they were composed.<br />

Again, I ask my readers if they can<br />

think of further examples of music<br />

that has outlived its play or film.<br />

Oh, as for “Warsaw Concerto,” it<br />

was heard in the 1941 film “Dangerous<br />

Moonlight,” the story of a concert<br />

pianist who does his bit during World<br />

War II. <strong>The</strong> composer is Richard Addinsell.<br />

ef<br />

GENITALS<br />

We attach genitals<br />

To professions and hobbies<br />

Slap color on<br />

Skills and abilities<br />

Retire individuals<br />

Still in their prime<br />

Kill in the name of<br />

Various gods<br />

Judge in the name of<br />

Morality<br />

Hate because of ignorance<br />

Silence<br />

Because<br />

Of<br />

Fear<br />

—Cathy Porter<br />

Omaha, NE<br />

GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING<br />

I watch you tonight,<br />

<strong>The</strong> way a man inside a darkened room<br />

watches the rain,<br />

illuminated by the moon,<br />

splashing upon a deserted street.<br />

He imagines letting that sadness and beauty<br />

slowly soak into his soul,<br />

until, finally,<br />

he can capture its essence on paper.<br />

Your eyes tell me<br />

four centuries has not changed the rain,<br />

nor the man inside the darkened room,<br />

nor the futility of his quest.<br />

Your eyes say<br />

what even Vermeer would not deny:<br />

that for a subject to be worthy,<br />

it must be greater than the artist,<br />

greater than the art produced.<br />

—Barry W. North<br />

Hahnville, LA.


May/ June 2011 ART TIMES page 16<br />

Opportunities<br />

Published Writers: 2011 NY Book Festival<br />

Seeks books published prior to Jan 2004<br />

for award. Info and forms available online.<br />

www.newyorkbookfestival.com<br />

<strong>Art</strong>ists/Craftspeople: A.R.T.S. Gallery,<br />

Croton Falls, NY (914) 276-2209 Seeks<br />

entries for Eye Candy, Small Works exhibit<br />

(12”x12”) May 23- Jun 27. Submit sample<br />

images via email arts6gallery@gmail.com<br />

Deadline May 10.<br />

<strong>Art</strong>ists: Oil, Watermedia, Pastel,<br />

Graphics, Sculpture: Allied <strong>Art</strong>ists of<br />

America. Seeks entries for 98th Annual<br />

National Exhibition Nov 2 - Nov 23. 2011 at<br />

the National <strong>Art</strong>s Club, <strong>NYC</strong>. Jpeg entries<br />

accepted. For prospectus visit website.<br />

www.alliedartistsofamerica.org. Deadline<br />

Sep 12.<br />

<strong>Art</strong>ists: American <strong>Art</strong>ists Professional<br />

League, 47 Fifth Ave, <strong>NYC</strong> 10003. Call<br />

for Entries for the 83rd Grand National<br />

Exhibition, Nov 1 — Nov 11. Judges. Slides<br />

or digital accepted; representational or<br />

traditional realism only; Approx. $15,000<br />

in awards, cash and medals. Send #10<br />

SASE to AAPL or visit website. www.<br />

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Deadline Aug 13<br />

Composers, Librettists, Playwrights:<br />

American Lyric <strong>The</strong>ater American Lyric<br />

<strong>The</strong>ater New York NY Seeks submissions<br />

from Composers, Librettists and Playwrights<br />

for American Lyric <strong>The</strong>ater’s Composer<br />

Librettist Development Program<br />

for the 2011-2012 Composer Librettist<br />

Development Program (CLDP) Program<br />

information and application details may be<br />

found online at www.altnyc.org Deadline<br />

is June 1, 2011.<br />

<strong>Art</strong>ists: <strong>Art</strong> Society of Old Greenwich,<br />

(203) 637-9949. Seeks entries in oil, acrylic,<br />

wc, pastel, drawing/ graphics, color & b/w<br />

photography, other media, for Open Juried<br />

show and Salon des Refusés at <strong>The</strong> Bendheim<br />

Gallery, Greenwich <strong>Art</strong>s Council, 299<br />

Greenwich Ave. Greenwich, CT. George<br />

Nama, NA, juror & judge. www.artsocietyofoldgreenwich.com<br />

Hand deliver to<br />

Bendheim Gallery on Jun 12, 1-2pm<br />

<strong>Art</strong>ists: <strong>Art</strong> Without Walls, Inc., PO Box<br />

341, Sayville, NY (631) 567-9418 or PO Box<br />

2066, NY, NY 10185-2066 Seeks entries<br />

for Annual Major <strong>Art</strong> Exhibition in Public<br />

Space: “People, Places, Animals” Jul 28 in<br />

Central Park; ALSO Seeks artwork of veterans<br />

from all wars for “Museum Without<br />

Walls — <strong>Art</strong> of the Soldier” at Battery park<br />

Jul 15. SASE with resume, CD photos, or<br />

slides to Sharon Lippman, Ex Dir., A.W.W.,<br />

PO Box 341, Sayville, NY 11782 www.<br />

artwithoutwalls.net Deadline Jun 15<br />

<strong>Art</strong>ists: <strong>Art</strong>ist Studio Residency, SOHO20<br />

Gallery Chelsea,547 W 27th St., <strong>NYC</strong> (212)<br />

367-8994 Seeks applicants for free studio<br />

space Info online. soho20@verizon.net<br />

www.soho20gallery.com Deadline Jun 4.<br />

Painters, Sculptures, Photographers,<br />

Graphics Designers: Salmagundi Club,<br />

47 Fifth Ave., <strong>NYC</strong> 10003 (212) 255-7740.<br />

Seeks entries for Annual Open Non-Member<br />

Juried Exhibition, Aug 8-19. Download<br />

prospectus from website or mail with<br />

SASE. info@salmagundi.org www.Salmagundi.org<br />

Postmarked Deadline: June 6.<br />

US <strong>Art</strong>ists: Audubon <strong>Art</strong>ists <strong>Art</strong> Society<br />

Entries of aquamedia, mixed media,<br />

graphics, oils, acrylics, pastels & sculpture<br />

(excluding photography and digital art) for<br />

69th Annual Juried Exhibit, Sept 10-Sep<br />

30, 2011 at the Salmagundi Club, <strong>NYC</strong>.<br />

Over $20,000 in awards. SASE to Raymond<br />

Olivere, 1435 Lexington Ave., #11D, New<br />

York, NY 10128 or go to website for prospectus.<br />

Additional info: Vinnie Nardone: (732)<br />

903-7468 nardoneart@comcast.net. www.<br />

audubonartists.org Deadline Jul 23.<br />

<strong>Art</strong>ists: b.j. spoke gallery, 299 Main St.,<br />

Huntington, NY 11743 (631) 549-5106.<br />

Seeks entries for Paperworks 2011 Competition.<br />

Download prospectus from website.<br />

www.bjspokegallery.com. Deadline May 27<br />

<strong>Art</strong>ists: Berks <strong>Art</strong> Alliance, 1100 Belmont<br />

Ave., Wyomissing, PA Seeks entries for 34th<br />

Annual Open Juried Exhibition Jul 2 - Sep<br />

4 at Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA.<br />

Jurors: Lisa Tremper Hanover, Dir. Berman<br />

Museum of <strong>Art</strong>, Nancy Campbell, Dir.<br />

Wayne <strong>Art</strong> Ctr. Hand delivered entries only.<br />

$4,000 awards. #10 SASE to: BAA c/o Gurman,<br />

305 Sunshine Rd., Reading, PA 19601.<br />

For prospectus log on either website. www.<br />

berksartalliance.com / www.readingpublicmuseum.org<br />

Deadline Jun 17.<br />

Women <strong>Art</strong>ists: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe<br />

<strong>Art</strong> Club, Inc., Seeks entries for the 115th<br />

Annual Open Juried Exhibition at the<br />

National <strong>Art</strong>s Club, Oct 4-28, 2011. Media:<br />

Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Pastel. Graphics,<br />

Sculpture. Over $10000 in awards. Entry<br />

fee $30 Members, $35 non-members. Juried<br />

by CD’s or Slides. SASE: Okki Wang,<br />

431 Woodbury Rd., Cold Spring Harbor,<br />

NY 11724 or download from website. www.<br />

clwac.org. Deadline Jun 10<br />

<strong>Art</strong>ists, All Media: Cooperstown <strong>Art</strong> Association,<br />

22 Main Street, Cooperstown,<br />

NY 13326. 76th National Juried Exhibition<br />

July 15-Aug 19. Jurors: Mary Anna Goetz<br />

and James Cox. All media. Possible $3500 in<br />

prizes. Catalog. Prospectus available online<br />

or send #10 SASE to “National Exhibition”<br />

www.cooperstownart.com Deadline May 15<br />

Craftspeople: Dutchess Community College<br />

Foundation Seeking crafters for 40th<br />

Annual Holiday Craft Fair, Nov. 26 & Nov<br />

27. For more information call Diane Pollard<br />

(845) 431-8403 or visit website. www.sunydutchess.edu/Alumni/foundationevents/<br />

annualCraftFair<br />

<strong>Art</strong>ists: Earlville Opera House <strong>Art</strong> Center<br />

<strong>Galleries</strong>, E Main St. Earlville, NY (315)<br />

691-3550 Seeks entries for 2012-2013<br />

exhibition schedule. Call or visit website<br />

for full info. www.earlvilleoperahouse.com<br />

Deadline May 16.<br />

<strong>Art</strong>ists: Gardiner Assoc of Businesses,<br />

35 Tuthilltown Rd, Gardiner, NY (845)<br />

641-4605 Seeks participants for Plein Air<br />

Painting Event & Auction Saturday Jun 11<br />

(rain or shine). Apps & guidelines available<br />

online or call for info. www.gardinernybusiness.com<br />

<strong>Art</strong>ists, Craftspeople: Pawling Chamber<br />

of Commerce, PO Box 19, Pawling,<br />

NY 12564 (845) 855-0500 Seeks entries<br />

for 19th Annual (Juried) Pawling <strong>Art</strong>s<br />

& Crafts Festival on September 24, 10-<br />

4pm. Send SASE to Chamber of Commerce<br />

or email Verna Carey, Event Chair:<br />

vernacarey@verizon.net (845) 855-5626<br />

Deadline Aug 15; Early bird Jun 15<br />

Photographers: Garrison <strong>Art</strong> Center,<br />

23 Garrison Landing, Garrison, NY (845)<br />

424-3960. Seeks entries for “PHOTOcentric<br />

2011” a juried exhibition Sept 10-Oct 2.<br />

Open to all photographic mediums. Categories<br />

are Landscape, Portrait, Architecture<br />

and Open Jurors: Larry Fink, photographer<br />

and Stephen Perloff, Editor of Photo Review<br />

& Photo Collector. $2,200 plus publication<br />

in Exhibition Book and more. $40 for 5 images,<br />

plus $5 for each additional submission.<br />

Download prospectus from website. info@<br />

garrisonartcenter.org www.garrisonartcenter.org<br />

Deadline Jun 15.<br />

Craftspeople: Guildford <strong>Art</strong> Center, 411<br />

Church St., PO Box 589, Guilford, CT 06437<br />

(203) 453-5947. Seeks entries for Guilford<br />

Craft Exposition July 14-17 Call fro Info or<br />

visit website for details. www.guildfordartcenter.org<br />

<strong>Art</strong>ists: Harrison Council for the <strong>Art</strong>s,<br />

Harrison Pubic Library, Bruce Avenue,<br />

Harrison, NY 10528 (914) 835-0324. Seeks<br />

entries for 2012 Exhibition schedule. Call or<br />

write for complete details. www.harrisonpl.<br />

org Deadline May 20<br />

<strong>Art</strong>ists: Hudson Valley Gallery, PO Box<br />

222, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY 12520 (845)<br />

401-5443 Seeks entries for 2nd Annual “Just<br />

for Squares!” Competition, Sep 17 — Oct 16.<br />

$500 First Prize. Send SASE to gallery or<br />

download prospectus from website. www.<br />

hudsonvalleygallery.com<br />

<strong>Art</strong>ists: Jewish Federation of Ulster<br />

County, 159 Green St., Kingston, NY 12401<br />

845-338-8131 Seeks entries for Fall for <strong>Art</strong><br />

Juried Show & Sale Sep 8, 6-9pm, Wiltwyck<br />

Golf Club, Kingston, NY email for info of<br />

download entry form from website. info@<br />

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<strong>Art</strong>ists, Craftspeople, Photographers:<br />

MC Miller Middle School, 65 Fording Place<br />

Rd., Lake Katrine, NY (845) 382-2960 Seeks<br />

vendors for 23rd Annual Fair Oct 22, 23..<br />

Email for details apps. eluksberg@kingstoncityschools.org<br />

Deadline Jun 1<br />

Young <strong>Art</strong>ists: Nat’l Foundation for Advancement<br />

in the <strong>Art</strong>s (NFAA) Seeks entries<br />

for 2012 Young<strong>Art</strong>s National Program. Visit<br />

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<strong>Art</strong>ists: National Association of Women<br />

<strong>Art</strong>ists, 80 Fifth Ave., Ste. 1405, New York,<br />

NY 10011 (212)675-1616. Seeks membership<br />

of professional women artists who<br />

desire exhibitions throughout the U.S. For<br />

details download from website. www.thenawa.org<br />

Deadline Sep 15; March 15<br />

Plein Air <strong>Art</strong>ists: Northport <strong>Art</strong>s Coalition,<br />

PO Box 508, Northport, NY 11768.<br />

Seeks participants for 5th Annual Plein Air<br />

juried event, June 10-12, 2011. Website for<br />

application and prospectus. www.northportarts.org.<br />

Deadline May 28.<br />

Soft Pastel <strong>Art</strong>ists: Pastel Society of<br />

America. Seeks entries for 39th Annual<br />

Open Juried Exhibition at National <strong>Art</strong>s<br />

Club, Sept 6 - Oct 1. Send SASE (#10) PSA,<br />

15 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY<br />

10003 for prospectus. Info: 212 533 6931 or<br />

download from website. pastelny@juno.com.<br />

www.pastelsocietyofamerica.org. Deadline<br />

for Slides: Jun 3.<br />

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American Painters over 45: Provincetown<br />

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<strong>Art</strong>ists: Smithtown Township <strong>Art</strong>s Council,<br />

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entries for “Imagination” Jul 2- Aug 5.<br />

Prospectus at www.stacarts.org/exhibits<br />

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May 18.<br />

<strong>Art</strong>ists: Smithtown Township <strong>Art</strong>s Council,<br />

660 Rte., 25A, St. James, NY 11780 Seeks<br />

entries for “American Mosaic” Aug 13 - Sep<br />

16. Prospectus at www.stacarts.org/exhibits<br />

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<strong>NYC</strong> Women <strong>Art</strong>ists: SOHO20 Gallery<br />

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8994 Seeks applicant for fellowship membership;<br />

and Seeks entries for 16th Annual<br />

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Jun 4<br />

Jewelers: <strong>The</strong> <strong>Art</strong> Jewelry Forum (AJF)<br />

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Deadline Sep 30.<br />

Watercolor <strong>Art</strong>ists: <strong>The</strong> <strong>Art</strong>s Center/Old<br />

Forge, Inc. P.O. Box 1144, Old Forge, NY<br />

13420 (315) 369-6411 Seeks entries for 30th<br />

Adirondacks Nat’l Exhibition of American<br />

Watercolors Aug 13 - Oct 2. download prospectus<br />

or send a #10 SASE Attn: “ANEAW”<br />

artscenteroldforge.org<br />

<strong>Art</strong>ists, Photographers: Tudor City<br />

Greens Annual <strong>Art</strong> Show Seeks work of<br />

artists and photographers for Outdoor <strong>Art</strong><br />

Show on June 16, 17, 18, 2011. For prospectus<br />

send SASE or call Anne Stoddard 5<br />

Tudor City Place, #1-E, New York, NY 10017<br />

(917) 327-4659.<br />

<strong>Art</strong>ists, All Media: Unframed <strong>Art</strong>ists<br />

Gallery, 173 Huguenot St., New Paltz, NY<br />

12561 (845) 255-5482. Seeks entries from<br />

“artivists” (artists + activists) for “Beneath<br />

the Surface” exhibit. Call for info or download<br />

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com. Deadline Jun 5<br />

<strong>Art</strong>ists, All Media: Washington Square<br />

Outdoor <strong>Art</strong> Exhibit, Inc., PO Box 1045<br />

New York, NY 10276 (212) 982-6255. Seeks<br />

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May/ June 2011 ART TIMES page 18<br />

Letters<br />

Continued from Page 2<br />

To the Editor:<br />

Thanks for doing such a nice remembrance<br />

of my dad [“Bruce Currie”:<br />

rjsteiner.wordpress.com]. It’s true<br />

he was one of the last of that “wave”.<br />

Such a remarkable period in American<br />

art history, really. A coming<br />

together of such a remarkable cast of<br />

characters! I realize now how fortunate<br />

I was to be this kid, a fly on the<br />

wall really, at all their parties just<br />

soaking it all up over all those years.<br />

Best wishes,<br />

Jenne Currie<br />

<strong>NYC</strong> & Woodstock, NY<br />

To the Editor:<br />

In response to Francine Trevens’<br />

article on dance, and also her online<br />

essay on information supplied to critics<br />

(and audiences as well), I have the<br />

following thoughts: It occurs to me<br />

that what Ms. Trevens describes is a<br />

cultural phenomenon: we are a society<br />

constantly seeking instant gratification,<br />

pre-digested information on<br />

blogs and websites, laugh tracks on<br />

sitcoms. I’m certain that there is a<br />

discreet group of people who simply<br />

read the NYT Book Review section<br />

instead of reading the books.<br />

What’s even worse, political activists<br />

seldom fact check or perform<br />

due diligence – hence Michelle Bachmann<br />

and Huckabee and Palin spout<br />

treasonous opinions and mis-state<br />

facts. Political polls are the de facto<br />

pulse of the nation, but they are in<br />

constant flux. Post-Bush, you would<br />

think that Americans would smarten<br />

up a bit. But the lazy populace is<br />

probably waiting for someone else to<br />

do it for them!<br />

Sincerely,<br />

Naomi Sanderson<br />

Roslyn, NY<br />

To the Editor:<br />

Wow…there it was on the cover<br />

already [“Rembrandt at <strong>The</strong> Frick”,<br />

Mar/Apr 2011]! I am stunned…what<br />

a lovely and thoughtful review, and<br />

your perspective really adds something<br />

to the discussion… thank you<br />

so much!<br />

Heidi Rosenau, Head of Media<br />

Relations & Marketing<br />

<strong>The</strong> Frick Collection<br />

New York, NY 10021<br />

To the Editor:<br />

<strong>The</strong> March/April issue feature Peeks<br />

and Piques! is by far your finest hour.<br />

<strong>The</strong> most insightful, intelligent and<br />

thoughtfully constructed piece of<br />

literature I have come across in decades.<br />

Keep up the good work.<br />

Seriously, thanks for the kind<br />

words.<br />

We will keep a light burning in the<br />

window<br />

Your Friend and Colleague<br />

John Frazee, Delray Beach, FL<br />

To the Editor:<br />

I have read with great pleasure<br />

your novel <strong>The</strong> Mountain. I particularly<br />

appreciated the history of the<br />

Woodstock School of <strong>Art</strong> and, being<br />

a painter, the insight into painting<br />

given through your characters’<br />

words. Congratulations on such an<br />

interesting book!<br />

I am writing to ask if in your research<br />

you have ever run across the<br />

work of the artist John F. Folinsbee<br />

who studied with John Carlson and<br />

Birge Harrison in Woodstock for several<br />

summers (via the <strong>Art</strong> Students<br />

League). He was my grandfather to<br />

whom I was very devoted, and lived<br />

and worked in New Hope, Pa. after<br />

his years as a student. <strong>The</strong>re was<br />

a show recently at the Woodmere<br />

Museum in Philadelphia of his work,<br />

which was a great success. It included<br />

one of the few landscapes extant that<br />

he did in Woodstock in those early<br />

years. Those works can be found on<br />

the catalogue raisonné website www.<br />

folinsbee.org. <strong>The</strong> director of the<br />

catalogue raisonné and members of<br />

the family often wonder if there are<br />

other works by Folinsbee scattered<br />

about in the Woodstock area, as he<br />

was prolific even back in the early<br />

years He was of course acquainted<br />

with many of the artists you mention<br />

in your book, and I kept wondering if I<br />

might run into his name in the novel!<br />

I would be so interested in hearing<br />

any information you might have uncovered<br />

about Folinsbee during those<br />

years, and if by chance you have ever<br />

seen paintings by him in the Woodstock<br />

area. I would also love to send<br />

you a catalogue of his recent show<br />

should you be interested. Thank you<br />

again,<br />

Joan Hooker<br />

Palisades, NY<br />

(Editor’s Note: Anyone having information<br />

that might help Joan Hooker<br />

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at rjs@arttimesjournal.com).<br />

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<strong>The</strong>atre<br />

By ROBERT W. BETHUNE<br />

Terry Teachout, of the Wall<br />

Street Journal, is an admirable critic,<br />

particularly because he will actually<br />

go out into the benighted jungle lands<br />

west of the Hudson River to discover<br />

what the primitive peoples of that<br />

land are doing in their theaters. He<br />

is also a rather fascinating case-inpoint<br />

about what he will and won’t<br />

go to see.<br />

He is a case-in-point because he<br />

is both personally and professionally<br />

far more interested in theater than<br />

the vast majority of the audience. If<br />

we could chart such things, he’s got<br />

to be at least two or three standard<br />

deviations to the right of mean on<br />

that—in other words, something like<br />

99 th percentile.<br />

He provides an even more interesting<br />

data point because he publishes<br />

an annual description of what<br />

he’s interested in on his blog.<br />

Last but hardly least, he is the<br />

only national-media critic who still<br />

travels.<br />

So what does the uber-audience<br />

want to see<br />

First of all, and very prominently:<br />

“I won’t visit an out-of-town company<br />

that I’ve never seen to review<br />

a play by an author of whom I’ve<br />

May/ June 2011 ART TIMES page 19<br />

What the heck, I’m already here, how bad can it be<br />

never heard. What I look for is an<br />

imaginative mix of revivals of major<br />

plays—including comedies—and<br />

newer works by living playwrights<br />

and songwriters whose work I’ve<br />

admired.”<br />

In other words, first-time playwright<br />

Kiss it goodbye. That creates<br />

an obvious problem for an art form<br />

that will swiftly strangle and die<br />

without fresh work by fresh talent.<br />

I don’t blame him. He has to draw<br />

the line somewhere, as he himself<br />

points out when he states why he<br />

doesn’t do dinner theater or children’s<br />

theater. So does every audience member.<br />

Nobody can see everything, and<br />

nobody wants to have a bad evening<br />

at a bad play. Everyone needs some<br />

form of third-party quality control,<br />

not just on entertainment, but on<br />

everything.<br />

<strong>The</strong> problem, however, is obvious:<br />

without any mechanism in today’s<br />

theater to provide a trusted thirdparty<br />

view of brand new work and<br />

brand new talent, the fresh blood the<br />

theater needs will be very hard to<br />

come by. Nobody trusts blood from an<br />

unknown blood bank. Word of mouth<br />

is extremely difficult, because all theater<br />

is very, very local and brand-new<br />

untried theater is even more so.<br />

In the olden days, when news and<br />

ideas and information generally traveled<br />

at the speed of a walking horse or<br />

a sailing boat, there was an institution<br />

that promoted the dissemination<br />

of new things and new ideas—the<br />

fair. Anyone who thought they had<br />

an attractive new idea, and had a<br />

bit of wherewithal to travel and pay<br />

some fees, could take their act to the<br />

fair each year, and have a decent shot<br />

at getting seen. In today’s theater<br />

world, the only such “fair” I know<br />

Speak Out<br />

of is the Edinburgh Fringe. Anyone<br />

who can solve the logistics can show<br />

up there—not easy, of course, when<br />

transatlantic travel is involved, but<br />

at least people in the UK and Europe<br />

have a reasonable shot.<br />

Maybe we need something like<br />

that Something that would draw<br />

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Wednesday June 8<br />

Pat Adams - Solo Exhibition <strong>The</strong> National Association of Women <strong>Art</strong>ists, Inc.<br />

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57th Annual Exhibit National Society of Painters in Casein & Acrylic<br />

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Saturday, June 11<br />

Judith Weber: Beneath the Surface: An Exploration of Color on Ceramic<br />

Tile Harrison Council for the <strong>Art</strong>s Harrison Public Library 2 Bruce Avenue Harrison<br />

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ICE AGE TO THE DIGITAL AGE: <strong>The</strong> 3D Animation <strong>Art</strong> of Blue Sky Studio<br />

Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Rte 183, Stockbridge, MA Free MA<br />

Joe McGlynn at the Salmagundi Club 47 Fifth Avenue, <strong>NYC</strong> (212) 255-7740 Opening<br />

Reception 2-4pm (thru June 19)<br />

OPENING CELEBRATION for fine art show “Beneath the Surface” Unframed<br />

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Plein Air Painting Event and Auction- ART in Gardiner Gardiner Association<br />

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Sunday, June 12<br />

Member Show II Kent <strong>Art</strong> Association 21 South Main Street Kent CT 860-927-<br />

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Monday, June 13<br />

3 GENERATIONS: WIGGINS, WIGGINS & WIGGINS (thru Jul 1); SCENES<br />

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Thursday, June 16<br />

80th ANNUAL EXHIBITION Hudson Valley <strong>Art</strong> Association Lyme <strong>Art</strong> Association,<br />

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Annual <strong>Art</strong>ist-Craftsmen of New York Exhibition ACNY Members New<br />

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GREENS OUTDOOR ART SHOW Tudor City Place (between East 41st and East<br />

43rd Streets), <strong>NYC</strong> 8am-6pm<br />

OPEN JURIED SHOW <strong>Art</strong> Society of Old Greenwich 299 Greenwich Avenue, Greenwich<br />

CT 203 637-9949 Opening Reception 6-8pm (thru July 16)<br />

SALON des REFUSÉS <strong>Art</strong> Society of Old Greenwich Hospital Office Building Gallery,<br />

49 Lake Avenue, Greenwich (thru July 16)<br />

Friday, June 17<br />

GREENS OUTDOOR ART SHOW Tudor City Place (between East 41st and East<br />

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Saturday, June 18<br />

GREENS OUTDOOR ART SHOW Tudor City Place (between East 41st and East<br />

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Sunday, June 19<br />

Northport <strong>Art</strong>Walk Northport <strong>Art</strong>s Coalition Northport Main Street Northport<br />

NY 631-754-3905 1-5PM free www.northportartwalk.com<br />

Opening of Open Space: El Museo del Barrio’s Biennial Socrates Sculpture<br />

Park 32-01 Vernon Blvd. at Broadway Long Island City NY 718-626-1533 5pm-7pm<br />

free eg@socratessculpturepark.org<br />

Tuesday, June 21<br />

Summer Solstice Celebration Socrates Sculpture Park 32-01 Vernon Blvd.<br />

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Wednesday, June 22<br />

WEEKEND WITH THE MASTERS Salmagundi Club 47 Fifth Avenue, <strong>NYC</strong> (212)<br />

255-7740 (thru June 26) www.salmagundi.org<br />

Thursday, June 23<br />

Rose Yannuzzi Solo Exhibit: Visual Poetry - Watercolors and Photography<br />

Piermont Flywheel Gallery 223 Ash Street Piermont NY 845-365-6411 free (thru July<br />

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Friday, June 24<br />

31st ANNUAL OLD SONGS FESTIVAL: Music with Roots Altamont Fairgrounds,<br />

Altamont, NY (518)765-2815 (thru June 26) www.oldsongs.org/festival<br />

80th ANNUAL EXHIBITION Hudson Valley <strong>Art</strong> Association Lyme <strong>Art</strong> Association,<br />

90 Lyme Street, Old Lyme CT Opening Reception 5-7pm (thru July 30) www.hvaaonline.org<br />

HUDSON VALLEY ARTISTS 2011: Exercises in Unnecessary Beauty Samuel<br />

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Saturday, June 25<br />

31st ANNUAL OLD SONGS FESTIVAL: Music with Roots Altamont Fairgrounds,<br />

Altamont, NY (518)765-2815 (thru June 26) www.oldsongs.org/festival<br />

Sunday, June 26<br />

31st ANNUAL OLD SONGS FESTIVAL: Music with Roots Altamont Fairgrounds,<br />

Altamont, NY (518)765-2815 (thru June 26) www.oldsongs.org/festival<br />

Rose Yannuzzi Solo Exhibit: Visual Poetry - Watercolors and Photography<br />

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