ArtsFest returns on October 19-21 with a full calendar of art events and activities. The weekend-long festival, organized by New Rochelle Council on the Arts, will highlight more than thirty arts venues in the towns of New Rochelle and Pelham.
When the Erie Canal was opened in 1825, it fueled an era of prosperity that was ignited by the brick industry in cities and towns along the Hudson River. This industry is the subject of ArtsWestchester’s current exhibition, Brick by Brick: The Erie Canal & the Building Boom, which remains…
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art has been a staple in the Westchester community for fifteen years. On October 13, it reopens its doors as Hudson Valley MOCA (or Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art) with an expanded mission to bring world-class art to the region through community engagement and education…
With Sleepy Hollow right in its backyard, Historic Hudson Valley and its surrounding community embrace John Irving’s Legend of Sleepy Hollow novel with a series of annual Halloween-related events. New to this year’s lineup is The Unsilent Picture, an immersive theater experience that features an original commissioned black-and-white film that…
This month, several arts groups in Westchester independently explore the art of quilts and nontraditional processes for creating them. The Uncommon Threads exhibition at Westchester Community College Center for the Arts displays more than 50 non-traditional art quilts, which will remain on view through October 5. Exhibiting artists are all…
Film Center Relaunches Series in Memory of Jonathan Demme Jacob Burns Film Center (JBFC) has announced the relaunch and re-imagining of its “Rarely Seen Cinema” series. For twelve years, Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme hosted the series at Jacob Burns Film Center, which ended with Demme’s death in April 2017….
The work of Andy Warhol is often recognized by colorful and repetitive imagery, be it of soup cans or Marilyn Monroe. The complexity of this technique, made popular by Warhol as part of the Pop Art movement, is explored in an exhibition at the Neuberger Museum of Art at Purchase College.
This September, Clay Art Center (CAC) presents the last of four themed exhibitions that examine the complexities of individualism and how we are linked as a community by exploring racial biases, national identity and environmental concerns that are found in a global society.
Through October 7, summer reemerges at the Katonah Museum of Art (KMA) during its Play & Rewind: Ode to Summer on Film exhibition, which features film and video installations that evoke summer ambiences.
Triennial exhibitions make a very big difference for all involved, for at least two reasons. First and foremost, they point to the very place that chooses to invest in such a large-scale event, with passion, energy and resources – a place for all the citizens who have chosen to live there and contribute to it, including the humming contingent of artists deserving of one more stage.
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