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Neil Gaiman @ Bard

Last night, Neil Gaiman read aloud a new short story. It’s a fairy tale, a contemporary fable about power and true love. Its main departure from classical fairy tales is that the person who wakes the sleeping beauty with a … Continue reading

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Dear Mother Nature @ Dorsky Museum

The stigma of the Hudson Valley is that it’s a retirement community, that the art here is made by hobbyists. It’s an idea that has roots in the movement some art history tells us was the first one to come … Continue reading

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Leon Reid IV Poster Boy

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Fuite @ Arté 330

Fuite @ Arté 330 July 13th – August 11th, 2012 330 Main St. Poughkeepsie, NY Project Catalyst

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Clay Rodery: Wisconsin Recall

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Rebecca Strauss

Rebecca Strauss transforms wood and metal into an anemone whose fingers move in unison with the sea-bottom current, or into a company of dancers performing the movement of a wilting flower. Sensors detect viewers’ motion, which triggers the program telling … Continue reading

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Attack on Gramercy Park

Rocks made of plastic sit askew on beds of yellow leaves in Gramercy Park. Keys to houses are hidden inside similar ones on suburban doorsteps. Most people see them through bars; thin vertical black lines with spikes on top of … Continue reading

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Soul Survivor: Pim Fortuyn @ Unitarian Universalist Fellowship

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Ariel Gonzalez

Poughkeepsie is where sky and water intersect bridges and rails. A new setting of dichotomies, it’s the perfect place for Ariel Gonzalez’s modernistic creative process of combining digital photographs with gesso and oil. Color fields disintegrate into luminous foggy landscapes in his … Continue reading

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The Party’s Over

“Hi, I’m a millennial, and I’ve become disillusioned.” “Hi, millennial.” After reading Matt Taibbi’s Griftopia I began considering how supporting the Democratic platform perpetuates greed and excess on Wall Street. Now that we’re approaching an election, and campaign images are … Continue reading

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