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Tanglewood's 2022 Outdoor Music Series | Summer Arts Preview | Hudson Valley
Tanglewood’s 2022 Outdoor Music Series | Summer Arts Preview | Hudson Valley
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Tanglewood Shed in 2018.
Summer is here and festivals are reemerging, so this month is the time for what is truly one of America’s most cherished outdoor music series. Since 1937, Tanglewood, in Lenox, Massachusetts, has been the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. As always, classical music is the meat of the program, with a varied selection of…
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#repost @seth.becker Seth Becker (New York State, USA, 1987-). First image is Toby Barking at His Shadow, 2020, oil on panel, 12 x 9 in. Second image is Zeke and Molly, 2021, oil on panel, 9 x 12 in. Third image is Lost Dog in a Hedge Maze, 11 x 14 in. Fourth image is Hound With Parting Clouds, 9 x 12 in. Fifth image is Cat in Knight's Costume. Thanks to @pamelasalisburyhudson for the tip.
#cat#chien#dog#perro#gato#katze#chat#hond#hund#American painter#koira#contemporary painting#pintura contemporánea#zeitgenössische malerei#arte perruno#Hudson valley artist#New York artist
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The uniquely American hell of something being a 4 minute drive vs. a 40 minute walk
#me on the train here : I think I understand the Hudson valley painters now#me struggling up the steepest hill imaginable: never mind fuck this shit
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Scott Daniel Ellison: “Every artist is in some way self-taught”.
Scott Daniel Ellison is an American painter based in the Hudson Valley, in New York State.
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Happy Arbor Day! New York’s magnificent trees are the subject of many works in the #MTAarts collection, including Corrine Ulmann’s “Croton-Harmon Station” (2013/2016) at MNR Croton-Harmon station. Composed of laminated glass, glass mosaic, and vinyl, the artwork depicts views of local and emblematic landscapes as they progress through the four seasons. The artwork pays tribute to the Hudson River School painters and their romanticized portrayals of the Hudson Valley landscape.
Photos: Ngoc Minh Ngo
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“New body, new body”, 2024, Oil and graphite on linen
“Our family portrait/ Dancing over the town”, 2024, Oil and graphite on linen
“In Bed” 2024, and “The world was different when Leonard painted Emily”, 2024, Oil and graphite on linen
“I love basketball”, 2024, Oil and graphite on linen
Tanya Merrill’s exhibition, Watching women give birth on the internet and other ways of looking, at 303 Gallery explores the way we look at the world today, while referencing classical imagery from the past. What has changed in the way we see ourselves, our place in society, and our place in time? How much has changed because of self documentation and the internet? All of these questions feel even more prevalent now with technology and environmental issues moving at an accelerated pace.
From the press release-
True to her propensity for a cyclical and narrative installation, the show begins and ends with the creation of life. Each painting represents a diverse point of interest and concern to the artist— sexuality and ideas of fertility, the natural world and the fraught state of the environment, and the broader implications of contemporary technology, sports, and religion on the artist’s experience as a woman today.
The scale of the subjects in each canvas approximate life, creating a one-to-one perspective when standing in front of, say, a tree trunk, a cat perched on a fish tank, or a man admiring himself with a basketball. One work shows a trompe l’oeil stack of papers illustrating a 15th century manuscript: an early representation of a woman’s fertility cycle in relation to the stars. The modes for distributing images have changed, but the need to see them has not—jump ahead 800 years and the show’s namesake painting frames the edge of a computer screen, documenting the recent phenomenon of sharing one’s birthing story and corresponding photographs publicly on the internet.
Humans have always employed tools for looking. The earliest manufactured mirrors were made from volcanic glass in Turkey and date some 8000 years ago, the invention of the telescope advanced our understanding of Earth’s place in the cosmos, a phone now captures our own image with a recent poll finding 92 million selfies are taken every day around the world: the Allegory of Sight and mythology of Narcissus regenerates. In I love basketball, a naked man gazes affectionately at himself in the mirror. Coyly, he holds a basketball in front of his own genitalia; pensive yet playful, he engages the long tradition of masculinity in sports seen throughout art history. Across the gallery, a pregnant woman is doubled in the frame and photographs her changing body. The technology she clutches, perhaps soon to be obsolete, will be inextricably linked to the start of the 21st century.
The North American cecropia moth is seen on its host plant, a white birch tree, one of the few plants a Cecropia larva can eat. A recent report found dramatic rates of decline that may lead to the extinction of 40% of the world’s insect species over the next few decades. And with a single nest of baby birds needing up to 9,000 caterpillars before they are ready to fledge, the looming demise and precarity of our food chain is blatant. Merrill is compelled to paint the species that are still here, a record that they really did live before they died. The ecologist David Wagner says of the insect decline, “… We don’t know if it’s an apocalypse or Armageddon.”
In Our family portrait/ Dancing over the town, three skeletons– two human and one dog– are seen romping joyfully, even in death. The couple, winged and facing eternity together, point to religious imagery from a 17th century wall tomb, while the surrounding landscape references the art movements of Europe which inspired the Hudson River School Painters— an homage to the place this exhibition was made. Merrill’s studio in the Hudson Valley can be seen nestled in the bottom left corner of the canvas.
This exhibition closes 5/18/24.
#Tanya Merrill#303 Gallery#303 Gallery NYC#Art#Art Shows#Chelsea Art Galleries#Chelsea Art Shows#Fertility#Life and Death#New York Art Shows#NYC Art Shows#Painting#Selfies#Technology
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Great Egret In the Desert, 2012 This close up, photographed at J.N. Ding Darling Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island in Florida, is juxtaposed against the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes in Death Valley.
The Art of Birds, Revealed Through an Altered Reality
— By Becky Harlan • Published: June 30, 2015 | Saturday April 27, 2024 | All Images Created By Cheryl Medow
At first glance, these birds wowed me. A few seconds later I started to wonder, Are they real?
Well … Yes. And No.
Grey Crowned Cranes Each crowned crane was photographed on an acacia tree near Richards Camp in Masai Mara, Kenya. Mount Kenya was photographed from a Cessna.
Before attempting to explain what’s going on in these images, the artist, Cheryl Medow, might appreciate you taking a similar approach to experiencing her photography as she does to making it. “I don’t think my pictures through,” she says, “I feel them.”
She described this incident to me: Visitors at one of her gallery shows were asking questions about how she creates her work, and she was answering. But then a guest approached her and said, “No, no, no, don’t say a thing. I just want to enjoy these pictures.” It was then that she realized that she was looking for an emotional reaction, for people to enjoy looking at the work without having all the answers.
So please: Look. Enjoy. Feel.
Roseate Spoonbills Each bird was photographed at St. Augustine’s Farm in Florida. This is where they nest in the spring. The waves were shot in Hanalei Bay, Kauai.
Cattle Egret Portrait ”During mating season the cattle egret colors are like a rainbow,” says Medow. This portrait was photographed in Florida, with the pattern of sand dunes from Death Valley in the background.
White Ibis With Fish This white ibis with his seaweed and fish catch were photographed at J.N. Ding Darling Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island, Florida. The background clouds and surf were shot in Hanalei Bay, Kauai.
But if you’re like me, you still want to know the story behind these images. So here goes.
These are real birds, photographed in the wild. They are also pictured in real landscapes. And both parts of the images are photographed by Medow. But they weren’t captured at the same time and often not in the same place.
Why does she go to the trouble of capturing these stunning birds in the wild and then transposing them somewhere else?
Great Blue Heron With Chicks Balancing on a branch, the great blue heron was photographed at the Venice Rookery in Venice, Florida, along with the chicks in a nest. The background was photographed in Bigfork, Montana.
Greater Flamingo I This flamingo was photographed on Isabela Island in the Galápagos in a brackish saltwater lagoon. The clouds were also photographed in the Galápagos on a different day.
It all started because she was photographing birds with a 600mm lens. And when you shoot birds with a lens that long, the rest of the background becomes blurry—the birds wind up being the only thing in the frame that’s in focus. All context is lost. She wanted to put the birds back into an environment, so she began creating composite images.
At first she was just placing the birds into photos of the landscapes where she’d originally shot them. But then she realized she could take it to another level—she could put the birds anywhere and at any scale.
Saddle-Billed Storks This mother and baby were photographed in the Masai Mara Game Reserve. The landscape was shot by plane in the same area, traveling from Sirikoi Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Laikipia to Richards Camp in Masai Mara.
“I’m an artist first, and photography is a tool that I use to be creative,” she says. “When I picked up the camera and the computer it opened up new possibilities for me. I can make the birds much larger than life. It draws attention to these guys that if you just saw them in the wild with the naked eye you wouldn’t see.”
She draws inspiration from the Hudson River School painters. “They took their sketchpads and went out, as I take my camera and go out, and they got sketches of all these different things. And when they went back to their studios and made their paintings, they combined the different elements that they had seen out in the field. So when the normal person went to the Hudson River and looked for the pictures they couldn’t find some of them. And that’s because they weren’t out there in the real world. Even the painters had manipulated what they had seen and brought it together and combined different elements to make their paintings,” she says. “They’re redoing nature in their mind’s eye, and I guess I’m doing that too.”
Reddish Egret This bird was photographed at Little Estero Lagoon, Fort Myers Beach, Florida. The landscape was also shot in Fort Myers at a different time.
Her subjects come from all over the world. Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana, South Africa, Los Angeles, New Mexico, the Galápagos, Costa Rica, and Brazil are some of the places she’s traveled to photograph birds. She’ll often photograph at a certain place during a certain season to see, for instance, an egret in its mating plumage. “I’ll pick April and May to go to Florida because that’s when they’re in their mating colors,” she says.
Great Egrets, A Starry Night The egrets were photographed in St. Augustine, Florida, and Devereux Lagoon and Slough, Santa Barbara, California. The night sky was photographed in Hanalei Bay, Kauai.
Some might think that because these images involve Photoshop in their final state that the painstaking work of photographing a bird in the wild is somehow less work. But Medow assures me that capturing these creatures in the wild isn’t for the hurried. “When I go out and shoot birds there’s a real Zen, a meditative state. Patience is something that I think is a wonderful asset to have, and I don’t usually use it in my normal life, so when I go out in the field I can almost zone out. I could sit there for hours waiting for birds to come and go,” she says. “They’re wild. They’re really wild. They can fly away. There’s something about that that’s just intriguing to me.”
#Birds 🐦 🦢 🦅#Arts#Photography#Proof#Miscellaneous Birds 🦢 🦅 🦜 🦆#Flamingo 🦩#Roseate Spoonbills | White Ibis#Great Blue Heron#Saddle-Billed Storks | Reddish Egret#Grey Crowned Crane#Great Egret
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Carnival Brasiliero (Austin, Texas)
Carnival of Viereggio (Viereggio, Italy) [thru 2.24]
Carolina Chocolate Festival (Moorehead City, North Carolina) [thru 2.4]
Downtown Gadsen Chili Cook-Off (Gadsen, Alabama)
Florida Renaissance Fair (Deerfield Beach, Florida) [thru 3.24]
Hudson Valley Wingfest (Poughkeepsie, New York)
Kurentovanje Carnival (Ptuj, Slovenia) [thru 2.13]
Melodifestivalen (Malmö, Sweden)
Northwest Briefest (Chicago, Illinois)
South Florida Garlic Festival (Wellington, Florida) [thru 2.4]
Temecula Valley Barrel Tasting (Temecula, California) [thru 2.4]
Yukon Quest (Whitehorse, Yukon)
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Aaron the Illustrious (Syriac Orthodox Church)
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Auscharius (Christian; Saint)
Berlindis of Meerbeke (Christian; Saint)
Blaise (Christian; Saint) [Blessing of Throats]
Blessing of Throats Day (St. Blaise’s Day); Everyday Wicca)
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Celsa and Nona (Christian; Saints)
Claudine Thévenet (Christian; Saint)
Day of Remembrance for Oleg the Prophet (Asatru/Slavic Pagan)
Dom Justo Takayama (Christian; Saint) [Japan, Philippines]
Ewok Day (Pastafarian)
Festival of Sulis Minerva (Pagan)
Fiesta de San Blas (Protector of the Harvest; Puerto Rico)
Fukuju no mai (Jimai; Dance of the Seven Gods of Fortune; Japan)
Gaelic Lullaby Day (Celtic Book of Days)
Gertrude Stein (Writerism)
Gillian Ayres (Artology)
Hadelin (Christian; Saint)
Henning Mankell (Writerism)
Hickety Pickety (Muppetism)
ia (Christian; Virgin)
James Michener (Writerism)
Laurence of Canterbury, Srchbishop (Christian; Saint)
Laurence of Spoleto, Bishop (Christian; Saint)
Lesser Eleusinian Mysteries, Day 3 of 3 (Ancient Greece festival honoring Ceres, Demeter, Persephone, and Proserpine)
Magnolia and Fish Jubilee (Shamanism)
Margaret of England (Christian; Saint, Virgin)
Norman Rockwell (Artology)
Our Lady of Suyapa (Honduras)
Pagerwesi (Festival to Sang Hyang Pramesti Guru, god of teachers and creator of the universe; Bali)
Paul Aster (Writerism)
Pokémon Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Richard Yates (Writerism)
Setsubun (Bean-Throwing Festival; Shinto/Japan)
Theocritus (Positivist; Saint)
Werburga (a.k.a. Werburgh; Christian; Saint)
Woodrow Wilson Day
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Fatal Day (Pagan) [3 of 24]
Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]
Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [8 of 57]
Premieres
Air Force (Film; 1943)
Amapola, by Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra (Song; 1941)
Birds of a Feather (Disney Silly Symphonies Cartoon; 1931)
Boys on the Side (Film; 1995)
Canned Feud (WB LT Cartoon; 1951)
Chilly Con Carmen (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1930)
Chronicle (Film; 2012)
Dead Man’s Curve (TV movie; 1978)
Death Be Not Proud, by John Gunther (Memoir; 1949)
Earthling, by David Bowie (Album; 1997)
Earwig and the Witch (Animated Film; 2021)
Fun, Fun, Fun, by The Beach Boys (Song; 1964)
Hanna (TV Series; 2019)
The IT Crowd (UK TV Series; 2006)
Jane Eyre (Film; 1944)
La Dolce Vita (Film; 1960)
Norman Normal (WB Cartoon; 1968)
Rock You Like a Hurricane, by the Scorpions (Song; 1984)
Roman Carnival, by Hector Berlioz (Overture; 1844)
Santa Clarita Diet (TV Series; 2017)
Semiramide, Gioachino Rossini (Opera; 1823)
Shanghai Knights (Film; 2003)
Society Dog (Disney Cartoon; 1939)
The Space Between Us (Film; 2017)
Transformations, by Anne Sexton (Poetry; 1971)
What the Bleep!?: Down the Rabbit Hole (Documentary Film; 2006)
Yield, by Pearl Jam (Album; 1998)
Today’s Name Days
Ansgar, Blasius, Oskar (Austria)
Simeon (Bulgaria)
Blaž, Tripun, Vlaho (Croatia)
Blažej (Czech Republic)
Blasius (Denmark)
Hubert, Hugo, Huko (Estonia)
Hugo, Valo (Finland)
Blaise, Nelson, Oscar (France)
Ansgar, Blasius, Michael, Oskar (Germany)
Asimakis, Asimina, Malamati, Simeon, Stamatia, Stamatis (Greece)
Balázs (Hungary)
Biagio (Italy)
Aīda, Ansgars, Ida, Laida (Latvia)
Blažiejus, Oskaras, Radvilas, Radvilė (Lithuania)
Ansgar, Asgeir (Norway)
Błażej, Hipolit, Hipolita, Laurencjusz, Maksym, Oskar, Stefan, Telimena, Uniemysł, Wawrzyniec (Poland)
Ana, Simeon (Romania)
Blažej (Slovakia)
Blas, Olivia, Óscar (Spain)
Disa, Hjördis (Sweden)
Simon (Ukraine)
Ansgar, Barclay, Baxter, Blaise,, Blase, Blasia, Blaze, Norma, Norman, Norris (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 34 of 2024; 332 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 6 of week 5 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Luis (Rowan) [Day 14 of 28]
Chinese: Month 12 (Yi-Chou), Day 24 ()
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 24 Shevat 5784
Islamic: 23 Rajab 1445
J Cal: 4 Grey; Foursday [4 of 30]
Julian: 21 January 2024
Moon: 42%: Waning Crescent
Positivist: 6 Homer (2nd Month) [Theocritus)
Runic Half Month: Elhaz (Elk) [Day 10 of 15]
Season: Winter (Day 45 of 89)
Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 13 of 28)
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Holidays 2.3
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American Painters Day
Artist Appreciation Day
Battle of San Lorenzo Day (Argentina)
Benelux Treaty Day (EU)
Booty Pic Day
Bowling Green Massacre Day (Kellyanne Conway Fictional Event)
Commemoration of the Batepá Massacre (São Tomé and Príncipe)
Communist Party Foundation Day (Vietnam)
Cow Day (French Republic)
Day of Finnish Architecture and Design (Finland)
Day of the Virgin of Suyapa (Honduras)
Desmond Tutu Day
Doggy Date Night
The Day the Music Died (according to Don McLean)
Elmo’s Day
Endangered Species Act Day
Feed the Birds Day
Four Chaplains Day
Halfway Point of Winter
Heroes' Day (Mozambique)
International Golden Retriever Day
International Lawyers Day
International Straw Free Day
John Lewis Day (Alabama)
Liberation of the Battle of Manila Day
Martyrs' Day (São Tomé and Príncipe)
Meaka Bochea Day (Cambodia)
National Cordova Ice Worm Day
National Doggy Date Night
National Honey Badger Day
National Missing Persons Day
National Patient Recognition Day
National Trevor Day
National Wedding Ring Day
National Women Physicians Day
National Women’s Heart Day
Nuestra Señora de Suyapa (Festival of the Virgin of Suyapa; Honduras)
Number Day
Take a Cruise Day
Veteran’s Day (Thailand)
Veterinary Pharmacists Day
Wedding Ring Day
World Free Love Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
National Carrot Cake Day
National Carrot Day
1st Saturday in February
Barber Day [1st Saturday]
Burning the Hom Strom (Graubünden, Switzerland) [1st Saturday]
Global Chaplains Day [1st Saturday]
Ice Cream For Breakfast Day [1st Saturday]
International Pisco Sour Day [1st Saturday]
Lace Day [1st Saturday]
National Play Outside Day [1st Saturday of Every Month]
Pork Rind Appreciation Day [1st Saturday]
Satyr's Day (Silenus, Greek God of Beer Buddies and Drinking Companions) [1st Saturday of Each Month]
South African National Beer Day (South Africa) [1st Saturday]
Take Your Child to the Library Day [1st Saturday]
Independence & Related Days
Danielland (Declared; 2015) [unrecognized]
Illinois Territory Day (Illinois; 1818)
Keep Watch (Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]
Liberation Movement Day (Angola)
Festivals Beginning February 3, 2024
Arizona Renaissance Festival (Apache Junction, Arizona) [thru 3.31]
Carnival Brasiliero (Austin, Texas)
Carnival of Viereggio (Viereggio, Italy) [thru 2.24]
Carolina Chocolate Festival (Moorehead City, North Carolina) [thru 2.4]
Downtown Gadsen Chili Cook-Off (Gadsen, Alabama)
Florida Renaissance Fair (Deerfield Beach, Florida) [thru 3.24]
Hudson Valley Wingfest (Poughkeepsie, New York)
Kurentovanje Carnival (Ptuj, Slovenia) [thru 2.13]
Melodifestivalen (Malmö, Sweden)
Northwest Briefest (Chicago, Illinois)
South Florida Garlic Festival (Wellington, Florida) [thru 2.4]
Temecula Valley Barrel Tasting (Temecula, California) [thru 2.4]
Yukon Quest (Whitehorse, Yukon)
Feast Days
Aaron the Illustrious (Syriac Orthodox Church)
Ansgar, Archbishop (a.k.a. Anskar; Christian; Saint) [Denmark]
Auscharius (Christian; Saint)
Berlindis of Meerbeke (Christian; Saint)
Blaise (Christian; Saint) [Blessing of Throats]
Blessing of Throats Day (St. Blaise’s Day); Everyday Wicca)
Build a Relationship with Brigid Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Celsa and Nona (Christian; Saints)
Claudine Thévenet (Christian; Saint)
Day of Remembrance for Oleg the Prophet (Asatru/Slavic Pagan)
Dom Justo Takayama (Christian; Saint) [Japan, Philippines]
Ewok Day (Pastafarian)
Festival of Sulis Minerva (Pagan)
Fiesta de San Blas (Protector of the Harvest; Puerto Rico)
Fukuju no mai (Jimai; Dance of the Seven Gods of Fortune; Japan)
Gaelic Lullaby Day (Celtic Book of Days)
Gertrude Stein (Writerism)
Gillian Ayres (Artology)
Hadelin (Christian; Saint)
Henning Mankell (Writerism)
Hickety Pickety (Muppetism)
ia (Christian; Virgin)
James Michener (Writerism)
Laurence of Canterbury, Srchbishop (Christian; Saint)
Laurence of Spoleto, Bishop (Christian; Saint)
Lesser Eleusinian Mysteries, Day 3 of 3 (Ancient Greece festival honoring Ceres, Demeter, Persephone, and Proserpine)
Magnolia and Fish Jubilee (Shamanism)
Margaret of England (Christian; Saint, Virgin)
Norman Rockwell (Artology)
Our Lady of Suyapa (Honduras)
Pagerwesi (Festival to Sang Hyang Pramesti Guru, god of teachers and creator of the universe; Bali)
Paul Aster (Writerism)
Pokémon Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Richard Yates (Writerism)
Setsubun (Bean-Throwing Festival; Shinto/Japan)
Theocritus (Positivist; Saint)
Werburga (a.k.a. Werburgh; Christian; Saint)
Woodrow Wilson Day
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Fatal Day (Pagan) [3 of 24]
Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]
Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [8 of 57]
Premieres
Air Force (Film; 1943)
Amapola, by Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra (Song; 1941)
Birds of a Feather (Disney Silly Symphonies Cartoon; 1931)
Boys on the Side (Film; 1995)
Canned Feud (WB LT Cartoon; 1951)
Chilly Con Carmen (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1930)
Chronicle (Film; 2012)
Dead Man’s Curve (TV movie; 1978)
Death Be Not Proud, by John Gunther (Memoir; 1949)
Earthling, by David Bowie (Album; 1997)
Earwig and the Witch (Animated Film; 2021)
Fun, Fun, Fun, by The Beach Boys (Song; 1964)
Hanna (TV Series; 2019)
The IT Crowd (UK TV Series; 2006)
Jane Eyre (Film; 1944)
La Dolce Vita (Film; 1960)
Norman Normal (WB Cartoon; 1968)
Rock You Like a Hurricane, by the Scorpions (Song; 1984)
Roman Carnival, by Hector Berlioz (Overture; 1844)
Santa Clarita Diet (TV Series; 2017)
Semiramide, Gioachino Rossini (Opera; 1823)
Shanghai Knights (Film; 2003)
Society Dog (Disney Cartoon; 1939)
The Space Between Us (Film; 2017)
Transformations, by Anne Sexton (Poetry; 1971)
What the Bleep!?: Down the Rabbit Hole (Documentary Film; 2006)
Yield, by Pearl Jam (Album; 1998)
Today’s Name Days
Ansgar, Blasius, Oskar (Austria)
Simeon (Bulgaria)
Blaž, Tripun, Vlaho (Croatia)
Blažej (Czech Republic)
Blasius (Denmark)
Hubert, Hugo, Huko (Estonia)
Hugo, Valo (Finland)
Blaise, Nelson, Oscar (France)
Ansgar, Blasius, Michael, Oskar (Germany)
Asimakis, Asimina, Malamati, Simeon, Stamatia, Stamatis (Greece)
Balázs (Hungary)
Biagio (Italy)
Aīda, Ansgars, Ida, Laida (Latvia)
Blažiejus, Oskaras, Radvilas, Radvilė (Lithuania)
Ansgar, Asgeir (Norway)
Błażej, Hipolit, Hipolita, Laurencjusz, Maksym, Oskar, Stefan, Telimena, Uniemysł, Wawrzyniec (Poland)
Ana, Simeon (Romania)
Blažej (Slovakia)
Blas, Olivia, Óscar (Spain)
Disa, Hjördis (Sweden)
Simon (Ukraine)
Ansgar, Barclay, Baxter, Blaise,, Blase, Blasia, Blaze, Norma, Norman, Norris (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 34 of 2024; 332 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 6 of week 5 of 2024
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I did my undergrad in art history and the Hudson River Valley School and transcendentalist painters stayed with me the most. The idea that nature is filled with metaphor is an exciting one. I mean, they actually thought that nature was metaphorical, representing fundamental divine ideals from the heavens. So the job of the artist, in their mind, was simply that of an interpreter, or better yet, a curator, choosing scenes to paint that isolated features like rocks and trees in such a way that made it easier to see the true essence of God. Cause, you wanna experience God? Then put down the bible and REALLY stare at some branches and shit. That’ll get you closer to the creator than old stories put through the filter of human writers from early Roman times.
So with that in mind what’s happening in this photo I just took? What are some fundamental truths about life that can be pulled from this scene? All branches are reaching to the right, striving for the light of the open marsh, away from the darkness off the forest. The dead tree in the foreground is the only thing going in the opposite direction, toward darkness. So something about the indifference of death? I don’t know. I think that that fallen tree stands out and has emotional weight. But it’s graceful in death, leaning back as if reclining, which stands in contrast to the living branches which are almost chaotic and maniacal, pushing each other away in an effort to reach the sun. So the branches represent the flawed nature of human society, and the dead tree is the perfection of the divine. But there’s also a narrative at work here too, with the branches in life, and the dead tree in death, some before and after going on.
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Tanglewood's 2022 Outdoor Music Series | Summer Arts Preview | Hudson Valley
Tanglewood’s 2022 Outdoor Music Series | Summer Arts Preview | Hudson Valley
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Tanglewood Shed in 2018.
Summer is here and festivals are reemerging, so this month is the time for what is truly one of America’s most cherished outdoor music series. Since 1937, Tanglewood, in Lenox, Massachusetts, has been the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. As always, classical music is the meat of the program, with a varied selection of…
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Slipping
It was warm, humid inside and out. We were in the kitchen unloading groceries we bought from across the river where it was cheaper. Orange juice, chicken thighs and Irish cheddar in the fridge. Crackers, dried mangoes and medjool dates in the cupboard. Calabrese salami, cut pineapple and pickle chips set aside for the Alex G. concert in Prospect Park.
I was in a cooking phase, in part because I was in the thick of marathon training and hardly went out at night but also because, four months into us moving in together, I realized shared responsibilities had fallen along traditional lines. I pulled out my wallet and cleaned the dishes and grocery shopped. She cooked and tidied up and rearranged and said, What do you think about this?
She was quiet. I read of politicians who spoke quietly as a kind of power play, so aides or adversaries had to lean in uncomfortably close. When Celina got quiet, the world had to stop spinning and listen. The world never stops. We were approaching two years together. Street traffic burped and bellowed as schoolchildren shrieked at the last days of summer. I grabbed her hand, Is everything okay?
Yeah, I’m fine.
You sure?
I think I need to lay down.
Go lay down. I’ll put the rest away.
I went to check on her and found her staring at the ceiling, palms resolute in her lap. She was still in her paint clothes -- a tight black shirt glommed with off-whites and big jeans caked stiff.
You sure you’re okay?
Yeah, I just need a minute, and some affection. Will you come here?
I was swampy from my bike ride home so I took off my shirt before cozying up next to her. Her skin was as smooth and cool as river rock. Summer had barely changed her. I surrounded her like smoke, folded her into me, put my ear to her little mouth. Do you want to talk about it?
She shook her head, nuzzling deeper into the darkness between us.
Ok. We can just do this, and I gave her a little squeeze and rubbed her back. But then a few minutes later she said, I don’t know what to do.
What do you mean?
This thing with Olivia. I don’t know if it’s the right move. And she told me how Olivia had resumed talks of merging her painting business with Rachel, another local painter who’d been at it for 20 years. Celina had only been painting with Olivia for a few months, but she couldn’t resist dreaming something big. She wanted to grow the business into an all-encompassing design firm with outposts in the city and in the Hudson Valley or the Berkshires.
I’m almost 30 and I feel like I’ve been waiting my whole life to do something and I’m tired of waiting, she said. I can’t do it anymore.
A car alarm sounded through the open window. It was close, maybe even right below us.
It was never meant to be a long-term thing. It was just supposed to tide you over while you applied to grad school, but you got sucked into thinking bigger. It wasn’t a misstep. You learned something. Maybe you’ve learned all you can, and now it’s time to move on.
The car alarm sounded again, masking any bitterness that might have laced my words. My latest approach was to accept that life could be this way for some time, that I had to let her figure this out. But it was easier to accept when it wasn’t talked about and I knew accountability was just as important as support in a relationship.
I was the one who pushed her to give up the studio and take a part time job while she focused on grad school. It wasn’t paying off. I felt partly responsible and pushed her in this direction, and it didn’t seem right to just abandon her now. But maybe I pushed too hard, or not enough.
We should go, she said.
…….
We’d gone our first year with hardly a skirmish. It made me think we were special, if not invincible. We had weathered an abortion, made it sexy and nostalgic, forward-looking. Overnight, I was ready to leave the city, buy a house, join Costco, start a family, coach micro soccer.
Realities sharpened when we were shopping for our first place together in the hottest, priciest rental market in the nation. It nearly did us in. Maybe the city wasn't meant for us. It was demoralizing, but she was saving money and that was important.
……..
I had forgotten about dinner when I sat down at the kitchen table. It was 11pm and the show was over. I brought in all the materials to roll a spliff and kept talking about how I did it. I loved telling her how I did it with grit and discipline and sometimes joy. Most importantly I got it done.
After I left freelancing for a communications job, I didn’t write for months and it was glorious. Instead, I bought new shoes, worked long hours, ate well and picked up the bar tab.
When I resumed writing, I wrote the best story I’ve ever written. That was two years ago and I’ve barely written since then. The workshop was crucial, I said. They held me accountable and with their feedback I hammered the story into top form. Nowhere I’ve submitted has accepted it.
Sitting there, smoking under the oven light, talking about the creative life -- I felt like a character in a Baldwin novel. Would I be a likeable character? A writer derailed by comfort and security. A writer getting lapped by his peer, brimming with resentment for trust fund babies, telling himself he would succeed if he had that kind of financial support or a less demanding job or realized earlier that what he wanted most in life was to be a magazine writer.
The three-minute butternut squash ravioli was ready now. C zhuzhed it with some frozen peas and fennel seeds. She handed me a brick of pecorino and I grated a blizzard over each bowl. We sat down together and I looked at her for the first time that night.
Writing and making art is a concentrated way of seeing, I said. And I think we’re both out of practice. I’ve had so much potential material this year -- us moving in together, my Mom selling the house, my Dad’s stroke and that whole mess, the road trip, even this very night -- but I can’t see the story in any of it. It’s just life.
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Ginger Radio Hour #033
Show Notes February 7, 2023
Listen to archived episode.
Theme: Color, text, past.
Featured: Hudson Valley-based artist Fern Apfel is a still life painter who focuses on remnants of the past, including diary pages, letters, books, and illuminated manuscripts. Our conversation took place at her solo exhibition of paintings in the Main Gallery of the Art Center of the Capital Region in Troy. The show runs through Feb. 25th. Read more about the show.
Playlist:
The Clash “Jimmy Jazz (Remastered)” Album: London Calling (Remastered) 1979
Dirty Projectors “Two Doves” Album: Bitte Orca 2009
Stereolab “Intervals” Album: Electrically Possessed (Switched On Volume 4) 2021
Nina Simone “Do I Move You?” Album: The Essential Nina Simone 1999
Plus tracks from Colours of Air, the new album by Loscil and Lawrence English:
Cyan
Aqua
Yellow
Pink
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View of Cotopaxi
by Frederic Edwin Church American, 1826–1900
Oil on canvas
United States, 1857
Frederic Edwin Church was an American landscape painter famous for his paintings of the Hudson River Valley.
View of Cotopaxi is a painting of an awe-inspiring active stratovolcano in Ecuador, the snowy peak of Mount Cotopaxi surrounded by lush vegetation.
During the time of the painting of View of Cotopaxi (1857), the United States was experiencing incredible population and economic growth, particularly in the North.
The painting View of Cotopaxi by Frederic Edwin Church is a stunning visual depiction of the awe-inspiring Mount Cotopaxi volcano located in Ecuador. The painting is a dramatic oil-on-canvas, measuring 39.5 x 64.5 inches. Church used his signature style of en plain air to accurately capture the beauty of the stratovolcano and its lush surrounding vegetation in the foreground and mesmerizing sky filled with clouds in the background. The colors and brush strokes in the painting create an immersive landscape that’s sure to mesmerize any viewer.
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Great masters of the past - Frederic E. Church
Great masters of the past - Frederic E. Church
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