NEW PALTZ — The recent work of nine Cuban photographers and video artists including Tania Bruguera, Raul Cordero, Carlos Garaicoa, Luis Gomez, Ernesto Leal, Elsa Mora, Rene Pena, Manuel Pina and Sandra Ramos, will be presented at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz, from Saturday, July…
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New Direction for “Hudson Valley Artists 2003”
NEW PALTZ — New Direction for “Hudson Valley Artists 2003” Dorsky Museum Exhibit Highlights Six Emerging Artists Each summer, the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz mounts an exhibition of work by emerging or mid-career Hudson Valley artists. This year,…
Read moreFamed Murder Case is Backdrop for Play Examining American Violence
NEW PALTZ — New Paltz Summer Repertory Theatre takes an unflinching look at the question of tolerance in America with the production of The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman, which runs in the university’s McKenna Theatre from June 27-July 13, 2003. The story behind this widely hailed play is…
Read moreHumor and Hypocrisy Entwine in SUNY New Paltz Production of “Tartuffe”
NEW PALTZ — “Tartuffe,” the classic French comedy satirizing religion and hypocrisy, was banned when Molière first presented it in 1664. More than 300 years later, the play is as relevant and provocative as ever. For two weekends, April 24-27, and May 1-4, the Department of Theatre Arts at SUNY…
Read morePhotographer Alpern Exploits Line Between Art and Voyeurism
NEW PALTZ — Merry Alpern, a photographer who focuses on intimate, sometimes illicit moments in her explorations of the artist as voyeur, will give a slide lecture at SUNY New Paltz on Wednesday, April 23, at 7:30 p.m. in Lecture Center 102. Alpern’s most noted projects involve photographing her…
Read moreInfluential New York Artist Bolton Brown is Subject of Major Dorsky Exhibition
NEW PALTZ — Bolton Coit Brown printmaker, painter, renowned mountaineer and co-founder of the Byrdcliffe art colony in Woodstock was truly a Renaissance man, but he is perhaps best known as an innovator in the field of lithography. The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz presents a…
Read moreScholar of Modern and Contemporary Art Named Dorsky Museum Curator
NEW PALTZ — A noted scholar of modernism who has enjoyed a long professional association with the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Dr. Karl Willers joins the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at State University of New York at New Paltz as curator of exhibitions. Willers…
Read morePublic Art is Pasternak’s Mission – Experimental Arts Administrator to Speak
NEW PALTZ — NEW PALTZ – Anne Pasternak, who helped create the World Trade Center’s Tribute in Light memorial as part of her ongoing work bringing art into unexpected public spaces, will speak on Wednesday, April 2, in the SUNY New Paltz Lecture Center, Room 102. Pasternak, the executive director…
Read moreHudson Valley Philharmonic Players Perform 20th Century American Music
NEW PALTZ — A series of concerts by musicians from the Hudson Valley Philharmonic culminates with the presentation of three distinctly American selections by composers John Cage, John Holland, and Charles Ives on Tuesday, March 25, at 8 p.m. in the Julien J. Studley Theatre at SUNY New Paltz….
Read moreJeweler Uses Natural Objects for Wearable Art
NEW PALTZ — Maria Phillips, a metalworker who makes wearable sculpture out of silver, plant and animal artifacts, will give a lecture at SUNY New Paltz on Wednesday, March 5, at 7:30 p.m. in Lecture Center 102. Phillips’ talk is sponsored by the Student Art Alliance. Often cited…
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