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Historic Saranac Lake Acquires Béla Bartók Artifacts

March 17, 2022 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

The Saranac Laboratory Museum Historic Saranac Lake has announced that the Saranac Laboratory Museum has received an important donation, a collection of personal effects that once belonged to Béla Bartók.

Widely regarded as one of the great composers, Bartók spent the last three summers of his life in Saranac Lake, in the Adirondack Mountains. Historic Saranac Lake maintains the cabin where Bartók stayed the year of his death, in 1945, and shows it to the public by appointment. [Read more…] about Historic Saranac Lake Acquires Béla Bartók Artifacts

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Arts, History Tagged With: Cultural History, Historic Saranac Lake, Material Culture, Musical History, Performing Arts, Saranac Laboratory Museum, Saranac Lake

71st Annual Central Adirondack Art Show Call For Art

March 17, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

“Quiet Time in Maine” by Ann LarsenView, the Center for Arts and Culture in Old Forge, NY, is calling for artists to submit their work for the 71st Annual Central Adirondack Art Show, taking place April 2nd to June 5th. The Show is open to current artists ages 16 and up who are either members of View or reside within 200 miles of Old Forge. [Read more…] about 71st Annual Central Adirondack Art Show Call For Art

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Arts, Events Tagged With: View

New Play Dramatizes Albany Political History

March 17, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

the trueThe New York State Writers Institute will host a discussion on the makings of the play “The True,” its Albany roots, and its explorations of the bounds of love, loyalty, and female power in the historically male-dominated world of Albany machine politics, set for Monday, March 21st. [Read more…] about New Play Dramatizes Albany Political History

Filed Under: Arts, Capital-Saratoga, Events, History Tagged With: NYS Writers Institute

The Beauty of Bricks: Amsterdam, Delft & Manhattan

March 16, 2022 by Jaap Harskamp 1 Comment

Nicasius de Sille’s house in New Utrecht with roof tiles imported from the NetherlandsIn his 1653 poem on “The Character of Holland,” a piece of stereotypical English propaganda that was written in an era of fierce Anglo-Dutch economic rivalry, poet and politician Andrew Marvell ridiculed the Low Countries as being composed of “undigested vomit from the sea.”

The satirist did not mention the fact that out of this appalling spew the Dutch created bricks that were used by architects to build their characteristic cities which, in turn, inspired the flourishing genre of the cityscape in seventeenth century painting. Both bricks and building skills were at the time exported to England and across the Atlantic. [Read more…] about The Beauty of Bricks: Amsterdam, Delft & Manhattan

Filed Under: Arts, History, New York City Tagged With: Architecture, Art History, Dutch History, Haverstraw Brick Museum, Historic Preservation, Industrial History, Manhattan, New Amsterdam, New Netherland, New York City, Rockland County

Westport’s Depot Theatre Announces 2022 Main Stage Season

March 16, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Depot Theatre’s outdoor box officeThe Depot Theatre in Westport, NY will ease into live theatre’s “new normal” with a three-show lineup for the 2022 main stage season, which features a tribute to Sondheim, a riveting drama, and a spookily hilarious musical. [Read more…] about Westport’s Depot Theatre Announces 2022 Main Stage Season

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Arts, Events Tagged With: Depot Theatre

Winter Show Announces Highlights for 2022 Edition

March 13, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

The Winter Show 2022 Rendering at 660 Madison Avenue courtesy of The Winter Show and Owen WalzThe Winter Show has announced preview highlights for its upcoming 2022 edition, including notable booth presentations and special activations at the fair. The 68th edition of the Show takes place April 1st through 10th, at 660 Madison Avenue, New York City, the former flagship location of Barneys New York. [Read more…] about Winter Show Announces Highlights for 2022 Edition

Filed Under: Arts, Events, New York City Tagged With: The Winter Show

Waterford to Waterford: Irish Connections (CANCELLED)

March 9, 2022 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

Saratoga County History Center in Ballston SpaThis event has been cancelled.

The Saratoga County History Center in Ballston Spa, Saratoga County, NY, will host “Waterford to Waterford: Irish Connections,” a virtual program exploring the historical connections and shared cultural aspects of both Waterford, Ireland and Waterford, New York through the lasting legacy of heritage within the greater Capital Region and Saratoga County, set for Saturday, March 12th. [Read more…] about Waterford to Waterford: Irish Connections (CANCELLED)

Filed Under: Arts, Capital-Saratoga, Events, History Tagged With: Saratoga County History Center

Crafting Guitars: An Intro to Luthiering with Roy Watson

March 9, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Crafting Guitars: An Intro to Luthiering with Roy WatsonPlayed at home by both men and women, guitars and fiddles were the instruments of choice for early rural America.

Lightweight and easy to carry, these musical tools were expertly handcrafted by specialized craftsmen known as “luthiers.” [Read more…] about Crafting Guitars: An Intro to Luthiering with Roy Watson

Filed Under: Arts, Capital-Saratoga, Events, History Tagged With: Mabee Farm Historic Site, Schenectady County Historical Society

Re-imagining the Classics: Sembrich’s 2022 Summer Festival

March 9, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

reimagining the classicsThe Sembrich has announced its 2022 Summer Festival “Reimagining the Classics,” featuring transcriptions and arrangements of beloved classics, to rhapsodies and variations on themes of popular composers, will begin in June and run through early September. [Read more…] about Re-imagining the Classics: Sembrich’s 2022 Summer Festival

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Arts, Events Tagged With: Sembrich

Macabre Mania From Charles Allan Gilbert to Andy Warhol

March 8, 2022 by Jaap Harskamp 2 Comments

Cimitero dei Cappuccini, Roma, late 1870sThe ossuary under the church of Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini at Via Veneto in Rome houses the skulls and bones of some 4,000 former Capuchin monks who were interred there between 1631 and 1870. The dead were buried without coffin and later exhumed to make room for newly deceased. Their remains were transformed into “decorative designs.”

In the summer of 1867 Mark Twain visited the Capuchin Convent and recorded his observations of the crypt’s “picturesque horrors” in The Innocents Abroad. What the novelist witnessed were arches built of thigh bones; pyramids constructed of “grinning” skulls; and other structures made of shin and arm bones. Walls were decorated with frescoes showing vines produced of knotted vertebrae; tendrils made of sinews and tendons; and flowers formed of knee-caps and toe-nails. [Read more…] about Macabre Mania From Charles Allan Gilbert to Andy Warhol

Filed Under: Arts, History, New York City Tagged With: Art History, Cemeteries, Cultural History, Halloween, Manhattan, New York City, painting, Performing Arts, Theatre, womens history

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