History, Natural History & the Arts
The Schoharie County Historical Society has announced the acquisition of two John Wilkinson original folk art paintings which will be added to the society’s permanent collection.
The pieces each depict the historic Hartmansdorf House, located on the Old Stone Fort Museum Complex grounds in Schoharie, NY, at two important milestones in the historical society’s history. [Read more…] about Old Stone Fort Museum Acquires New Folk Art Paintings
Due to the recent surge of COVID-19 cases in New York City and transmissibility of the Omicron variant, the Board of Managers of East Side House Settlement — the owner and beneficiary of The Winter Show — made the decision to postpone the 2022 edition of The Winter Show, originally scheduled for January 20th through 30th, 2022.
New dates and details for The Winter Show 2022 are expected to be shared in the coming weeks. [Read more…] about The Winter Show Postponed By COVID-19
For an Armistice
Alone in your pup tent with one evasive mosquito
whose presence ramifies with each new fly-by
sounding like Kawasaki cycles winding out
until this bug looms as large as Gertrude Stein
on steroids at the Expatriate Olympics in Paris.
Your choices now are to get out of your sleeping
bag to find your flashlight, track the ‘skeeter down
then swat it dead or lie awake for an all-nighter
longer than our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Albany Poets and the Hudson Valley Writers Guild have announced plans to combine organizations and operate as the Hudson Valley Writers Guild moving forward. [Read more…] about Two Capital Region Literary Orgs Merging Into Hudson Valley Writers Guild
The Brooklyn Museum has announced nearly five hundred new acquisitions that span from the sixth century to today and include Korean objects, Italian Renaissance portraiture, and contemporary works by John Edmonds, Jeffrey Gibson, KAWS, Rick Lowe, Amy Sillman, and Kara Walker, as well as forty significant, rare objects and masterworks that expand the Arts of Korea collection. [Read more…] about Brooklyn Museum Announces Nearly 500 Recent Acquisitions and Gifts
“Doonesbury” cartoonist Garry Trudeau has released his poster design for the 2022 Saranac Lake Winter Carnival, which is slated to take place February 4–13, 2022.
Using the Winter Carnival’s designated theme “Totally 80’s,” Trudeau’s illustration shows the “Doonesbury” characters J.J. sitting in the iconic 1980s Delorean time machine from the film Back to the Future, with the date set to February 4th, 2022, while Mike stands outside overlooking the Adirondack mountains. [Read more…] about Saranac Lake Winter Carnival Set For February 4-13
Barn’s Burned Down
Now I see the moon,
in this burning heap of cinder block and timber,
this cataclysm, this crush,
this dense mass of silent consciousness,
I see you, my beloved, your wide
deep sapphire eyes.
The period we have to appreciate
each other is nearly over.
Humanities New York (HNY) has announced more than $360,000 in ARP Act funding to 43 New York cultural nonprofits affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. [Read more…] about Humanities New York Awards $360,000 in ARP Act Funding
Frances Steloff was the daughter of a Russian immigrant and itinerant rabbi who, in an age of rising anti-Semitism, was one of the early Jewish settlers in Saratoga Springs. The large family lived in dire poverty.
After the death of her mother, Frances was “informally” adopted by a wealthy Boston couple. Having run away from her foster parents, she made her way to New York, worked in a Brooklyn department store selling corsets, before establishing a tiny bookshop in Midtown Manhattan. On her death, after eighty-one years in the business, she was revered as one of America’s most influential booksellers and bibliophiles. Founder of the Gotham Book Mart, she turned her establishment into a center for avant-garde literature. [Read more…] about Saratoga’s ‘Fanny the Flower Girl,’ Gotham Book Mart Founder
We’re told that diamonds are eternal, but it turns out that glitter, which is just as sparkly and way cheaper, could be equally enduring. Parents, teachers and day-care providers know that despite their efforts to wash the stuff down the drain, glitter will inevitably wind up in their breakfast, their eyes, or on the lapels of their business suit worn to a crucial meeting with the boss.
I never would have imagined that glitter could be a pollutant of concern. At my age I need glasses to find a postage stamp – it’s a long shot that I could help pick up glitter. It seems fair to ask whether there aren’t bigger fish to fry. [Read more…] about Microplastics: All That Glitters Isn’t Green