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6 On the Cover: The Continuity of Parks
32 The Importance of Play
A painting by Alina Grasmann.
8 Esteemed Reader Jason Stern takes a trip to Walmart.
11 Editor’s Note Brian K. Mahoney writes his Dad a letter.
FOOD & DRINK 12 All in the Family Rossi & Sons Alimentari is a 3,000-square-foot market/eatery in Eastdale Village in Poughkeepsie.
17 Sips & Bites Recent openings include Bird and Bottle Inn, Hapag Kainan, and Tenmile Distillery.
HOME 18 Pastime Vintage Greg Daigle sees beauty in bygone things and lovingly restores what he finds into objets d’arte.
HIGH SOCIETY 29 Licensed to Till The state has licensed 88 hemp farms to grow the first legal adult-use cannabis in New York.
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HEALTH & WELLNESS 37 Sniffing Out a Cure for Smell Loss For those desperate to smell and taste again postCOVID, science-backed therapies may hold the key.
COMMUNITY PAGES 40 Rhinebeck: Taking Flight The overlapping communities as seen through the lens of photographer David McIntyre.
ARTS 50 Music Album reviews of Tinctures in Time and Good Time Music by Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra (reviewed by Michael Eck); Sky Blossom by Alexi Cole (reviewed by Seth Rogovoy); and I Hate Work by Mike Pride (reviewed by Peter Aaron). Plus listening recommendations from Lee Falco, musician and proprietor of the Falcon music venue.
51 Books Jane Kinney Denning reviews Just Like Mother, Anne Heltzel’s adult, modern gothic horror debut. Plus short reviews of Snowstorm in August by Marshall Karp; And You May Find Yourself by Sari Botton; Rethinking the Ground Rules by the Hudson Valley Women’s Writing Group; Please Wait to Be Tasted by Carla Perez-Gallardo, and Wheeler; and Nothin’ But a Good Time by Tom Beaujour and Richard Bienstock.
52 Poetry Poems by Sydna Altschuler Byrne, Peter Coco, Christopher R. Cook, Robin Dellabough, Jennifer Howse, Matt Kalish, Sandy Longley, C. P. Masciola, Bonnie Oppenheimer, J. R. Solonche, William A. Swenson. Edited by Phillip X Levine.
HOROSCOPES 84 Change Your Direction, Change Your Luck What the stars have in store for us this month.
PARTING SHOT 88 In the Name of Love June is Pride month, and events are planned throughout the region to celebrate.
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Alina Grasmann working on Night Face Up, a painting from her Florida Raume series. Bottom left: Gates of Heaven, oil on canvas, 130 x 180 cm, 2021
Alina Grasmann The Continuity of Parks, oil on canvas, 130 x 180 cm, 2021
A realist painter whose large-scale works blur fact and fiction, Alina Grasmann’s narratives are rooted in place, using real locations as a departure point for finding an emotional truth about a place like a novelist or filmmaker. “I always work in series and each of my series refers to a real, existing place,” Grasmann says. “Nevertheless, I never simply depict reality. I think what I’m really trying to do is capture my own feelings I have at a certain place by exaggerating reality, changing, for example, the light or the architecture by adding or taking away objects.” Grasmann works in series, generally producing 10 to 15 paintings on a specific location. The cover image, The Continuity of Parks, is from her Florida Raume series, a depiction of the Sunshine State that seems one step short of the surreal, like the opening of a David Lynch movie before reality heads sideways. “My process is quite time-consuming,” Grasmann says. “Often, I learn about a place by chance in literature or film. This linkage between place and source material naturally makes me create my own picture of the site before I even go there. When I can’t get the place out of my head, I travel there. On location, I realize very quickly whether I want to get involved further 6 CHRONOGRAM 6/22
and possibly dedicate a new series to it. It’s a very intuitive decision. I then take my time and try to be alone with the place, taking photos and comparing my preconceived image of the place with that of the in-person experience.” Back home, Grasmann makes a small selection of images and proceeds using the photos like digital sketches. She works with them until she likes the composition and the content. “As I’m working on the photographs, I also work on the conceptual ideas I want to approach and the questions and feelings that I have about the particular place,” she adds. Painting a complete series of 10 to 15 large-scale works usually takes one to two years. Though she says she has no intention to tell stories in her paintings, she acknowledges their importance in how the paintings develop and the reception of her works. Rather than illustrating existing myths about a place, she aims to create space for associations so new stories emerge. “I want my paintings to be a kind of blank space in which anyone could become the protagonist,” Grasmann says. “My hope is that the viewer finds their own access points into my work and can engage in a conversation with it. I’m happy if my work triggers something in the person who is
looking at it. They could even just have a vague feeling that arises. A feeling can be a story in itself.” Though she lives and works in Germany, Grasmann has a deep love and appreciation for the US, and the Hudson Valley in particular, which she visits about once a year. Her series West of Eden is a reimaging of various spaces in Dia:Beacon, placing peacocks next to Richard Serra’s Torqued Ellipses and a lily pond in in the round concavity of Michael Heizer’s North, East, South, West. She comes here at least once a year for inspiration. “I’ve always been fascinated by the American landscape, culture, and architecture, and except for my current series, all my works so far reference specific places in the United States,” says Grasmann. “My works are mostly set here, where new mythology seems to be created constantly.” For the last three months, Grasmann has been in residence at Fridman Gallery in Beacon. The paintings that she completed in that time will be exhibited in the show “The Grand Buffet,” from June 11 through July 30 at Fridman Gallery. —Mike Cobb
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“Hell is not punishment, it’s training.” —Shunryu Suzuki We moved through the parking lot scattered with oversized pickup trucks and near-derelict cars. The dusk sky was alive with fast-moving clouds. Wind-whipped trees garbed in nubile spring leaves did an energetic dance on the horizon. A flat cube of a building at the end of the parking lot was a cutout from this natural scene. Walmart. A flat tire on Sunday evening in the rural Northeast required a visit to the superstore. The car had no spare so we needed a donut or a patch kit to make a repair and this was the only open place nearby. My teenage son hesitated as we approached, looking down. With the coming of spring, he prefers to walk barefoot everywhere. Soles dark with earth, the density of dirt thins in its progress toward the tops of his feet, giving the impression he is becoming a hybrid dirt-being. We agreed that he would leave if asked on account of being unshod. Entering the store we saw a lone figure, standing still in a yellow vest, her back to the sliding doors. As we drew near the woman became animated as though activated by motion sensors. She gave a warm, toothy smile and guidance to the automotive area at the back of the vast, fluorescent-illuminated space. The department was empty save racks of tires along the walls. I pushed the electronic call button a few times but no one arrived so I ventured forth to find assistance. Halfway across the store at the electronics section, behind shelves of huge televisions, a towheaded teenager offered to help. He didn’t know anything about tires, he said, but wanted something to do. He seemed eager for human contact, and we started the long walk back together. Even with the help of a customer, a tattooed man with the bearing of one who had received military training, we gave up searching for a new tire and opted to repair the flat. Arms laden with a jack, plug kit, and lug wrench we continued on, looking for a compressor, which the boy thought he could use to power construction tools in addition to filling the flat tire. Unable to locate a compressor, we wandered about looking for someone to help. She was stocking boxes of antiseptic wipes when we approached. “Excuse me,” I said, but there was no response. I moved closer and she turned, made a sound like a diving seabird, and waved her arm between us in a gesture of denial. Then she produced a small, spiral bound notebook and thrust it toward me. I wrote “air compressor” in cursive script on the notebook. She looked at the page, made another high-pitched wail, and shook her head violently. My son observed out loud that my handwriting is terrible. I turned over a new page and tried again, this time in block letters. The woman beamed and murmured, directing us back in the direction from which we had come. There was no air compressor so we agreed that we would resort to a bicycle pump to inflate the tire. Back at the front of the store, a dozen customers formed a queue at each of the two open stations. A man with long, stringy hair and crazy eyes became irate with the cashier. I was reflecting to my son about the strange atmosphere of sleepiness in the place, as though there was an agent in the air designed to dull consciousness. My son interrupted my commentary with a gesture toward the cashier. She was crying. Another woman, a customer, spoke to her in soothing tones, and as she completed the transaction and began to walk away, turned back and gave the cashier a hug. Inspired and taking the cue, my son and I both beamed at the cashier with focused attention. All I could think to say was to compliment her earrings. After we paid for the stuff I opened my mouth to make a comforting sound and the words were something like “Know that love is everywhere, always here, and you are loved.” Outside the wind blew, the clouds flew, and the darkening sky was beautiful. We remarked on a shared feeling of relief at departing that place. “We just descended into the pit of hell, and look, now we are in paradise,” I said. We agreed that anyone who was able to perceive and feel the harmony and beauty of nature would not construct such a place as we had just traversed. It would be impossible. People would instead create environments that reflect the inherent consonance of the natural world. We talked about how the full measure of human beings is untapped and unused in a society where men and women are assessed as resources; how everyone deeply wishes to be used in a manner that accesses a fullness of potentiality, and how this wish goes unfulfilled. “It’s so hard to see outside the box,” my son commented. “We don’t even notice the limitations of our ideas and beliefs about ourselves and the world. What we consider to be normal is actually sickness.” It occurred to me that seeing this limitation is itself the beginning of a movement toward a genuine normality.
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Letter to an Absent Father You would have turned 76 this month. It’s hard to believe that you’ve been gone three years now. It feels like decades ago—like a catastrophe that recedes slower in time than everyday events, which just shoots on by. Like how we remember 9/11, the memory of the day vivid but distant, trapped in amber. And it’s like no time at all has passed. I’m still at the funeral home, cracking wise, asking the funeral director if I can push the button at the crematorium. DeLourde just shaking her head, never quite understanding your loud, indecorous, irreverent children. “For the sake of closure,” I say to the funeral director. You would have laughed. Perhaps that’s the way it goes when parents die. Time gets a bit bendy. Or perhaps it’s because your estate is still not settled and I see your name in the subject line—Estate of Kevin J. Mahoney | 2019-2744—every time the lawyer emails me. Sometimes, for a nanosecond, I think it’s you emailing me. You used to forward me public health-related emails—you were a public health official, after all—about the strangest things, apropos of nothing. Non sequitur emails. Like the time you alerted me to the problems Cambodians were experiencing from drinking homemade rice wine contaminated with methanol. From the Xinhua news report you sent me: “Sok Touch, director of communication disease control department of the Health Ministry, said that 49 Cambodians had died and 318 others were hospitalized by drinking homemade rice wine in the country between October 2010 and 31 Jan 2012.” Appended to the story, your cryptic comment: “Absolutely crazy—should not be happening.” “Alcohol is poison. Tasty, tasty poison!” I responded. *** You missed the pandemic. I think you would have liked it. I mean, in as much as anyone can like a pandemic. You would have been fascinated (and no doubt horrified) on a professional level watching the whole thing play out. How we wished you were here to explain what it all meant as it was happening in real time in those scary early days. And your old comrade from the AIDS crisis, Tony Fauci, was the center of attention. I’m sure you have a story or two to tell about national [reader’s choice: hero/villain] Dr. Fauci. But it’s probably for the best that you weren’t around for the pandemic because if you’d had that heart attack in the midst of it we wouldn’t have been able to see you in the hospital and you
might have died alone, rather than with all of us surrounding you. You said that gave you comfort in your final moments. And I don’t know if I told you this or not, but right after you died something hilarious happened. The doctors had turned off all the machines and retreated. We were all standing around stunned and weepy. I’d just drawn my fingertips down over your eyelids, covering your exhausted eyes. It was as quiet as an ICU can get. And then DeLourde’s phone rang. No doubt you knew what her ringtone was, but it was a surprise to the rest of us. I frankly didn’t know that you could choose the finale of the “1812 Overture” for your ringtone. We all agreed the cannons were a fitting send-off. *** Last summer, I had long talks with my therapist about you. Oh yeah, I got a therapist. First time for everything, as you would say. But everybody got a therapist during the pandemic. And a Peloton. Or at least I got a Peloton. You know how I love bicycles, even ones that go nowhere and come with a monthly service fee. I also spoke at length with the therapist about my love/hate relationship with the Peloton. In essence, my yearning for fancy, shiny things colliding with the bit of your class-consciousness that rubbed off on me. You, the man who prided himself on having never owned a new car, despite the fact that a) you could easily have afforded it once you left the nonprofit sector and b) your brother worked for General Motors and could have gotten you a deep discount on a Chevrolet. (I think it’s fair to say that my Peloton-focused therapy sessions can be referenced, now and forever, as the apotheosis of the phrase “firstworld problems.”) *** Talking about you with my therapist and thinking about the complicated parental baggage we carry with us forever, the opening lines of Philip Larkin’s “This Be the Verse” came to mind: They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had. And add some extra, just for you. *** I wonder if I should miss you more, or if I miss you just the right amount. 6/22 CHRONOGRAM 11
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All in the Family ROSSI & SONS ALIMENTARI By Kristin L. Wolfe
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rom old-school corner deli to modern emporium, the Rossi family now has even more to bring to our tables with the Rossi & Sons Alimentari, their new market and eatery in Eastdale Village. The new development, east of Adams Fairacre Farms on Route 44, is just four miles away from their original location, Rossi & Sons Rosticceria on Clover Street in Poughkeepsie. Since opening their deli in 1979, the family has managed to satisfy a continuous line of hungry fans and regulars with their massive sandwiches and other Italian favorites. However, a popular business doesn’t happen overnight. Originally from Parma, Italy—think Parmigiano Reggiano—and from a long line of farmers, Giovanni “Papa John” Rossi knew the ins and outs of good food. From working the family’s land to cooking in the military, Rossi was primed with experience when he arrived in New York in the 1960s. With connections from friends and family who emigrated to New York nearly 30 years before him, he and his wife Angela, from Calabria, settled in Poughkeepsie, which had a sizable Italian population, restaurant scene, and affordable real estate. Today, they have grown into a three-location 12 FOOD & DRINK CHRONOGRAM 6/22
operation, including a cafeteria at Marist College, opened in 2018, and now the 3,000-squarefoot Alimentari. Complete with a commissary kitchen which serves all three locations as well as a catering business, the Eastdale Village spot is modern, spacious, and outfitted for a whole new flock of fans. Sons Fabio, Roberto, and Mauro Rossi—a fourth son, Alex, is a captain in the Marines— have split up the executive duties for each location and are carrying on the tradition of offering the community delicious Italian fare. “I’m so happy for my boys, and I’m happy they want to continue the tradition,” says Papa John. “Family is everything, and they understand what tradition means. They have represented the family well and [will] for many years to come.” Whether you’re Italian or not, a social media influencer or not, or just want a damned good sandwich, the Alimentari has numerous stations with lots of variety. There’s the bakery with pastries, breads, and espresso run by Dustin King, who spent five years at the Wynn in Las Vegas before joining forces with the Rossis in the early phases of planning for the Alimentari. The cases and counters are filled with the family’s incredibly popular focaccia, ciabatta, muffuletta, pignoli
cookies, and light and flaky cornetto (almond, pistachio, or my favorite, hazelnut), to name a few. Then the fresh panini station where Rossi’s offers over 20 options from the Muffuletta (with all the meats) and Brindizi (with artichoke) to the ‘Zo (with bresaola) or the classic Caprese (the homage to the Italian flag, with tomato, mozzarella, and herbs). Next is the Alimentari’s nod to their original location with the Clover Street station where they prepare hot paninis like the Quattro Falso (with eggplant, ricotta, and balsamic), Chicken Parm, or their most popular, the Number Four (with chicken cutlet, prosciutto, herb pesto, fresh mozzarella, roasted peppers, and extra virgin olive oil, on house-made focaccia. (Sandwiches range in price from $13 to $18.) In addition to being much larger than the cramped Clover Street deli, every corner at Eastdale has been curated by the Rossis and Chef Rei Peraza, formerly of Panzur in Tivoli. Along with a self-service kiosk at the front for most of the ordering, Peraza has added a variety of new sandwiches and salads in addition to the popular hot paninis voted area favorites for years. (Rossi’s has won the Chronogrammie for the Sandwich category in 2020 and 2021, and is a strong favorite in 2022.) At a crossroads before the pandemic, Peraza joined the family, whom he’d known for years, on their new adventure. “I knew it would be fun,” Peraza says with a laugh, acknowledging that the fun included years of preparation, trial and error, and pandemic setbacks. One thing visitors will notice: A sandwich is not just a sandwich at Rossi’s. Especially at the Alimentari, where space affords creativity, you get a “curated and layered experience,” Fabio Rossi says. “We want to create some mystery,” he continues. “To taste every layer but wonder what each one is, how much of this, how much of that, or how it was made.” When you pass the kiosks, you’ll hit the antipasto bar, my personal favorite. Undeniably conjuring old Italian delis with rows and rows of salami and sausages hanging from the ceiling and cases filled with rounds of cheeses, freshmade aiolis and sauces, or marinated or roasted vegetables. The platters here recall those created at specialty emporiums like Eataly or Dean & DeLuca. I was happy to let Anthony Murgola, who runs the antipasto bar, put together a custom platter for me and was impressed with the innumerable options available. On my last visit, even the slice of focaccia on the side of my extensive plate was not just a side; it spanned the length of the plate, and was drizzled with a lemon-infused olive oil. It was every bit as flavorful as the rest, including fresh bresaola,
Top: Chef Rei Peraza joined forces with the Rossi family to open Rossi & Sons Alimentari, a 3,000-square-foot market/eatery in Eastdale Village in Poughkeepsie. Fabio Rossi, the store’s general manager, is to the right of Peraza. Photo by Kristin L. Wolfe Bottom: From pantry items like dried mushrooms and canned tomatoes to a wide variety of meats and cheeses, the Alimentari is an Italian food lover’s paradise. Photo by Richard Ness Opposite: Rossi’s 101 Classic, with imported prosciutto, fresh mozzarella, house-made pesto, arugula and extra virgin olive on semolina roll. Photo by Rikki Snyder 6/22 CHRONOGRAM FOOD & DRINK 13
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Giovanni “Papa John” Rossi peeling hazelnuts in his native Parma, Italy, in 2017.
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Tenmile Distillery Teaming up with his son-in-law and fellow whisky enthusiast Joel LeVangia, John Dyson set out to honor his Scottish grandfather by creating the closest possible thing to a Scotch this side of the pond. The pair imported all the equipment from Scotland and even managed to hire a Scottish distiller (a rare feat). Now Tenmile Distillery’s first batch is dutifully aging in oak barrels. And in the meantime, the Wassaic facility, located in a beautifully renovated old dairy barn, has opened to the public for tours and tastings of their other award-winning spirits— Sinpatch Vodka and Listening Rock Gin. Tenmile will host Distillery Day on June 25 with tours, tastings, and local purveyors. Tickets are $75 per person, which includes two drink tickets and sampling of all the attending food booths. 78 Sinpatch Road, Wassaic | Tenmiledistillery.com —Marie Doyon 6/22 CHRONOGRAM FOOD & DRINK 17
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ne morning, while working to reclaim his overrun front garden, Greg Daigle found a dime. “I pulled up a plant and there it was,” he explains. After polishing it off, he realized the coin was minted in 1910—predating his vintage treasure box home by seven years. An artist and craftsman, Daigle has a knack for finding buried treasure. Whether it’s an antique icebox abandoned in a Dumpster (now refurbished and reimagined as a dish cabinet in his dining room) or a cast-off Christmas tree floating down the Hudson River (rescued from the current and transformed into a walking stick), he sees beauty in bygone things and lovingly restores what he finds into objects d’arte. 18 HOME & GARDEN CHRONOGRAM 6/22
Greg Daigle in the backyard of his Cortlandt Manor home. He collected bricks to restore the patio’s interior circle. Bricks arranged in a basket weave pattern comprise the patio’s edges. The home’s brick-and-stone barbecue was built by the original owner at the end of World War II. Besides restoring properties in the area, Daigle spends time wandering in the woods or along the river, searching for natural treasures to incorporate into his own natureinspired artwork. Daigle’s walking stick is one of his own creations made from a burled sycamore branch and finished with a metal end from an antique horse harness. Opposite: Sitting on a third of an acre, Daigle’s one-bedroom, one-bath home is a seamless amalgam of two very different styles and feels more spacious than its 1,000 square feet. The original cabin (to the left) was built in 1917 by a young Manhattan-based optometrist, Dr. Louis DeSantes. When DeSantes and his wife moved to the house full-time in the 1940s, they grafted the brick and stucco Mediterranean addition with a front entrance rotunda. Daigle utilizes the flat, Mediterranean-style roof for a vegetable garden.
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The interior of the original cabin is open to the renovated kitchen and features pine-clad cathedral ceilings and a sleeping loft. The 1940s addition added a dining and bedroom at the east end of the structure. Daigle has filled the space with natural treasures and his wood-carved art. Based on a replica of an 1800s “Punch” carving, Daigle originally created the blue carved statue for a cigar store. When the deal fell through, his mother and brother stepped in and reimagined the character as “Sir Henry,” who is now the mascot for the Cheshire Children’s Museum in Keene, New Hampshire.
Sitting near the apex of a hill outside Cortlandt Manor, Daigle’s restored one-bedroom, one-bath home and surrounding gardens bear testament to his talents. Following the basketweave brick pathways through the verdant landscape edged with waterfall brick trim and rough stone work feels like wandering into a little pocket of the past. A classic wood-sided cabin—built in 1917 by Manhattan-based optometrist Louis DeSantes—sits at the heart of the property. In the 1940s, DeSantes grafted a stucco, Mediterranean-style addition along the south end of the now T-shaped structure, giving the home some decidedly eclectic charm. On a bright spring day, the surrounding woods and gardens are covered with a fuzz of light green and the neighboring hillsides are still clearly visible through the branches. Down a steep hillside, a stream ambles through nearby woods. Above the brick patio, carefully planned and laid out in a detailed circular pattern by Daigle, hawks swoop silently in the clear sky. At patio’s edge, DeSantes’s brick-and-concrete barbecue grill is hand engraved with a record of its completion: the date, August 11, 1945, and the note, “Japan surrenders.” “It gives me the shivers every time I
look at it,” says Daigle. Encircling the brick patio, the towering oaks and the blankets of azaleas seem as if they’re on the verge of erupting into explosions of pink and green. “What a time of celebration that must have been. The war was over and DeSantes was finishing the house and moving to the country full-time,” says Daigle. “This house really is an old soul.” An Eye for Design Like that dime or the discarded Christmas tree, Daigle’s cross-bred cottage could just as easily have been overlooked. “When I first saw the house it was so overgrown I drove past it,” explains Daigle, whose mother was an antique dealer and collector. After the passing of Dr. DeSantes and his wife, the home changed hands between architects before it came on the market again in 2008. A Sarasota native, Daigle worked in the area as a construction manager when he went searching for a home in which he could invest his time and talents. After he found the property’s entrance, he took one walk around and immediately saw that he’d found a gem. “This house was a diamond in the rough, but I only saw the diamond,” he says. He called his broker 6/22 CHRONOGRAM HOME & GARDEN 21
that day, declaring his intention to buy the home “That’s not my usual style,” he explains. However, he’d sensed a kindred spirit in the hand, and eye, that had designed the property. “I’m into fine details and so was the doctor,” says Daigle. “I wanted to bring what he built back to its glory.” While Daigle identifies as a “glorified handyman,” he has developed a keen sense of fine craftsmanship, as well as the rehab and creative skills to match. This is especially true when it comes to working with wood. Learning early on from his uncle Ed Boggis, who was a wellregarded woodcarver, Daigle developed his own creative practice, working mostly with driftwood and fallen logs. “There’s a lot of time walking the river and through the woods involved in this,” he explains. “I always find interesting things. Occasionally something makes it home with me and very occasionally a piece speaks loud enough to make into my own artwork.” Whether that artwork becomes sculpture or something more utilitarian like a coffee table or lamp, is really determined by what he finds. “I let the wood tell me what it wants to be and I go with that,” he explains. “Mother Nature is the ultimate artist—I just have a knack for finding some of her more hidden work and bringing it to light.” 22 HOME & GARDEN CHRONOGRAM 6/22
House Call Daigle approached the home’s restoration with the same reverence he reserves for Mother Nature. From the get-go, he admired how the home’s smart layout made the most of the 1,000 square feet of interior space. Even though the original 1917 family room has a small footprint, its cathedral ceilings, sleeping loft accessed by a ladder, and corner windows gave a sense of spaciousness. Daigle carefully pulled down the pine-paneled walls and ceiling to add six inches of insulation, and then, just as carefully, replaced them. He also leveled and restored the wide-plank wooden boards over the home’s original radiant heat floors installed by the forward-thinking DeSantes. In the corner of the room, Daigle polished up the oversized brick and bluestone fireplace trimmed with a facade of granite and topped with the DeSantes family crest (complete with spectacles). The home’s 1940s Mediterranean addition added extra bedroom space to the layout, as well as a dining room and bath. Daigle replaced the corner metal windows over the bedroom’s distinct circular radiators with Peachtree panes inlaid and wood trim. He filled the space with some of his own work, including a wall clock made from a
Originally two rooms, Daigle transformed the street-facing section of the addition into a guest room and has filled it with his estate sale finds, including an antique grandmother clock in the corner. “I love the quality and history of older furniture,” says Daigle. “Well taken care of pieces can last for generations and have so much character.”
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Daigle’s sleeping porch is his favorite part of the property and where he spends most nights, even in winter. The view to the surrounding natural abundance is constantly inspiring him. “I believe Mother Nature does the best work of all, I just find it and bring it to light,” says Daigle. “It’s the same with the house—respect the original artist's work and improve on it with respect.”
toy box, as well art and antiques. At the opposite end of the addition, a large round room with an exterior door puzzled Daigle at first. “Originally there was an interior wall dividing the space,” says Daigle. “I could see from the floor that there was a door, but there was no closet in either room.” When Daigle updated the home’s electric he realized the answer: It was the center of the DeSantes’s country optometry practice. “The first room was a waiting room and the second was wired as an exam room,” says Daigle. Now he uses the space to display antiques and house the occasional guest. The home’s kitchen and bathroom retained all of the structure’s historic design but only some of its appeal. Open to the family room and part of the original construction, the galley style kitchen needed a 21st-century update. The adjacent bathroom was divided into two spaces: commode in one small room and separate shower in another. “I wanted to modernize the home without changing its aesthetic,” says Daigle. In the kitchen, he added hickory cabinets to match the pine walls of the living room and a suite of stainless steel appliances. He then covered the floor with bluestone tiles to protect against moisture. Daigle combined the two bathroom spaces (closing off the old
shower entrance with a new refrigerator) and added a new shower and wooden vanity with a porcelain sink. Daigle finished off the space with an alternating combination of subway and penny tiles reminiscent of the home’s brickwork exterior. Sleeping Porch Life Daigle’s favorite room of the home didn’t require much revision. Part of the 1917 cabin, the classic, screened-in sleeping porch has vaulted ceilings and offers generous views of the gardens, patio, and woods. Daigle added a bed to the space as well as a cafe table and chairs in a corner. “I sleep out here every night it’s above 20 degrees,” he says. “I hear owls, raccoons, foxes, and all the birds waking up every morning.” The table is the ideal place to eat breakfast and watch wildlife. Like much of the property, the indooroutdoor space feels untouched by modern history. It’s almost as if—after a celebratory glass of champagne—the doctor dozed off on the porch that night at the war’s end and woke up on a recent spring day to find nothing in the immediate vicinity had changed. “This house feels like an escape to a better time,” says Daigle. “I’ve done my best to preserve that feeling. Really, I’m just the home’s conservator, not its owner.” 6/22 CHRONOGRAM HOME & GARDEN 25
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Pack Unfussy Fare When it comes to dining outdoors on a blanket, handheld foods that you can easily balance and only improve with resting time are the name of the game. Savory-sharp hard cheeses like Gouda or Manchego that won’t melt in the sun and pre-sliced hard charcuterie such as Finochietta are great anchors for your snack station. Cheese Louise in Kingston or La Salumina in Hurleyville have you covered with exciting, hardto-find varieties of both. Jazz up the meat and cheeses with in-season whole fruits (less messy than jams), spacesaving seedy or herby crackers, a mini mason jar of olives, and a bag of crunchy almonds or pistachios. For dessert, keep it simple by packing a bar of good dark chocolate like the lightly roasted Dominican Hispaniola Dark 68% from Fruition Chocolate in Shokan. Fun Beverages Are a Must Crisp Basque cider, bubbly Pét Nat, or a dry white wine like minerally Assyrtiko are always great go-to libations for the summer sun. A screw-top bottle will be easier to store and repour in your basket if it’s just you and a friend. Want expert advice on what to bring? Pop into
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t’s around 4 o’clock on a sunny May afternoon, the weather reminiscent of a hot summer’s day. The grass outside is growing so fast you can almost hear it. But the grass inside is just beginning to sprout, rather quietly if not for the humming of industrial-sized fans meant to prevent stagnant air. Sibby Hanson, a 27-year-old botanist and farmer, is grinning after inspecting 1,250
germinating cannabis seeds in a garage on Claverack Creek Farm, just a five-minute drive from Hudson. Hanson’s excited because the seeds, his plant children, are beginning to develop a green stem, about the size of a fingernail. Soon, Hanson will start to plant the sprouts outside, and after five months of sun and water, the tiny stems can grow some 12 feet into a mature cannabis plant.
Moke (pronounced like toke) Mokotoff, Hanson’s 72-year-old boss and owner of the farm enters the garage. He’s an art dealer who specializes in ancient Buddhist textiles with a spiritual reverence for the cannabis plant. “It’s the first medicine,” Mokotoff says in a sort-of raspy low-baritone murmur. Hanson agrees wholeheartedly. “There’s a gravitational pull around cannabis that brings people together,” 6/22 CHRONOGRAM HIGH SOCIETY 29
Tricolla Farms outside of Ithaca is one of the first round of hemp farms in New York licensed to grow cannabis for adult-use.
he responds. Their glances are special, as if they know their work is serving a higher purpose. Mokotoff walks inside the garage. He brushes his hand along his eyebrow acclimating to the indoor light. He looks around, and then pushes a plastic entryway open to take a turn at monitoring the seedlings, purposely confined to a curtained growth space within the garage, as if the small children in the chronic crib need tending. Mokotoff met Hanson when the young botanist applied to work at the farm through a job listing on Indeed. They connected quite instantly, and now Hanson is living on the farm to monitor and oversee the cannabis harvest, among the first farms to grow cannabis for recreational use in the state. They’re waiting for the ideal moment to transfer the seeds into the ground outside. Listening to Farmers and Nature Claverack Creek Farm is one of the 52 New York hemp farms that were approved in April to legally cultivate cannabis. Hemp growers, bogged down by a saturated CBD market where the price for a pound of hemp biomass dropped from $40 to $10, have an opportunity to spearhead New York’s first adult-use marijuana grow this summer, supplying the recreational market, which is slated to launch later this year. “We couldn’t compete in the commodity market of CBD,” says Melany Dobson, co-founder and CEO of Hudson Hemp, a women-owned regenerative plant medicine business operating in Hudson. She has no plans at the moment to continue growing hemp and is looking toward the future. “The transition from the hemp market to the THC market is a very natural progression, it is very progressive and is on the forefront of crafting a sustainable cannabis market.” Her company was also one of the 52 firstround hemp farms to obtain a conditional license to grow adult-use cannabis in the state (36 more cultivator licenses were granted in May, with 30 HIGH SOCIETY CHRONOGRAM 6/22
further applications being approved on a rolling basis). And, while there are many horticultural similarities between hemp and marijuana, there is a lot of uncertainty around how cannabis will perform in New York’s humid continental climate zone. “It’s really important to note that cannabis has not been cultivated outdoors at scale in New York,” says Dobson. “The state is rolling out its recreational cannabis program by listening to farmers and to nature.” “I think that next year farmers will pump out more high-quality flower because there’s a bit of a learning curve that needs to take place,” says Brittany Carbone, co-founder and CEO of Tonic, a line of CBD wellness products, and Tricolla Farms, an event space where their cannabis will be grown in Berkshire, a town 30 minutes south of Ithaca. Numerous Unknowns Nonetheless, unpredictability and learning are tethered to the state’s ongoing roll-out of legal marijuana. It is unknown exactly how much cannabis will be harvested at the end of the growing season, or how much it will sell for, or even to whom it will be sold. What is known, however, is that navigating uncertainty is not a deterrent, but rather an integral component in cultivating a compassionate working relationship between farmers and state government. “The Office of Cannabis Management is proud of the work we’re doing to prioritize New York’s small farmers and set them up as the first adultuse cannabis farmers in the state,” says Aaron Ghitelman, deputy director of communications for the state’s Office of Cannabis Management (OCM). A legal market for adult-use cannabis in the state is uncharted territory for everyone involved. With large corporations vying for a majority share of the cannabis industry in states like California and New Jersey, the Office of Cannabis Management in New York is carefully trying to ensure that small-scale
farmers are guiding the state’s policy. “The OCM knew that in order for us to have any shot at being successful and have inventory to fill the shelves, they were going to have to get farmers legally growing quickly,” says Phil Spinelli, farmer and owner of Nightshade Farms in the Rensselaerville town of Medusa. He was a part of New York’s first cohort of farmers who were officially given the go-ahead to start growing cannabis. The process of getting farmers to grow marijuana legally happened fast. In February, Governor Kathy Hochul signed the Conditional Cannabis Cultivation Bill providing an opportunity for hemp farmers to grow cannabis. Three weeks later, the state started accepting applications for the adult-use cannabis cultivator licenses. In March, 150 applications were submitted from hemp farms across the state. “And then, you know, we had to put plants in the ground by late May, early June in most cases, so it moved fast,” Carbone says. She is also on the board of the New York Cannabis Growers and Processors Association, an industry group that represents farmers, processors, and other cannabis businesses. Carbone does not plan to continue growing hemp out of fear of cross-pollination. She also will not be growing cannabis indoors this year, though she plans to set up a greenhouse for the next growing season. “It’s going to prove difficult to debunk the stigma around outdoor flower in terms of quality right away,” Carbone says. “This isn’t necessarily something I would say the state did the wrong way, it’s just the realities of the timelines that we’ve been working with and, you know, honestly, I’d rather have the opportunity to be able to grow this season than to not have that opportunity.” In many ways, the state sped up the conditional cultivator license process as a way to allow farmers to make a trial run so seeds could be planted at the start of New York’s growing season, to try and ensure enough product would be on dispensary shelves before the end of the year. Spinelli remembers hearing the news that the state was going to allow hemp farmers to grow the initial stock of legal New York cannabis on the radio. “I remember sort of scoffing and being like yeah, right,” he says. “It felt so anti-corporate, like how are the medical marijuana companies going to let this slide?” For Spinelli, acquiring the conditional adultuse cultivator license is a chance to be a part of creating a safe product for consumers in a legal market. “Maybe the spirit of this market is meant for more disadvantaged farms like us, with a husband and wife pulling 16 hour days,” he says. “Maybe it is really not for those stomping their feet and holding their breath about the canopy limits.” With a conditional adult-use cannabis cultivation license, cultivators are restricted to one acre of outdoor flowering canopy or 25,000 square feet in an indoor greenhouse. These farmers can manufacture and distribute cannabis flower products without an adult-use processor or distributor license until June 1, 2023. They can also divide outdoor and greenhouse grows with a maximum canopy of 30,000 square feet if the indoor grow stays under 20,000 square feet. There is still uncertainty where the farmers
Like other hemp farms operating this year with a conditional license, Claverack Creek Farm is restricted to one acre of outdoor grow or 25,000 square feet in an indoor greenhouse.
will be selling their harvest, as they cannot sell directly to consumers. As a part of the state’s Seeding Opportunity Initiative, announced by Governor Hochul earlier this year, legacy equityentrepreneurs, meaning people most uprooted by the disproportionate enforcement of cannabis prohibition, will be the first to make adult-use retail cannabis sales in New York with marijuana grown by New York farmers. A Way of Life Every morning, as the weather finds a consistent warmth, Spinelli checks on his seedlings— hundreds of young sprouts developing from a plant embryo derived from the cannabis seed. He is apprehensive about planting the baby sprouts in the soil prematurely. “We have a unique microclimate here and it can be fairly chilly even after the frost date over Memorial Day weekend.” Spinelli is aiming to plant the sprouts in the ground in early June. He speaks about the process of farming with great admiration and respect. “It’s a way of life. I’m not in this to get rich.” Spinelli, like many hemp farmers, is reluctant to divulge where he obtained his cannabis seeds. It was important for farmers to find seeds that would thrive in the Northeast, but where exactly the seeds had to come from was a gray area, undefined in the law. Depending on how the seeds were acquired, hemp farmers have concerns about interstate transportation, regarding how legal it is for the seed to cross state lines where
cannabis is illegal. New York is approaching this by actively ignoring the fact that hemp farmers have to procure cannabis seeds from out-of-state. They are turning a blind eye to this particular detail, because there is seemingly no way around it. For hemp farmers to obtain cannabis seeds legally would mean they are coming from growers in-state, and that market doesn’t exist yet. Spinelli, and the other farmers I spoke to for this piece stated that they obtained their seeds legally. “What we are doing is crossing that gray area,” says Mokotoff of Claverack Creek Farm. Once it was permissible for his farm to start cultivating cannabis, he reached out to Ethos Genetics in Colorado and Mass Medical Strains in Massachusetts, well known seed distributors, to obtain seeds needed to start the harvest. Mokotoff and Hanson question how the additional 36 cannabis cultivation licenses given to farms at the beginning of May will be able to grow their harvest fast enough. “‘Can we do it in time?’ is the big question, because we’re the first to do it,” says Hanson. He anticipates his outdoor grow will yield roughly 700 pounds of cannabis by the end of the season and that around 25 percent of that will be considered “high-quality” flower. Usually, this is the part of the plant that has access to the most sun. It has a stronger aroma, and potency and also has “bag appeal,” meaning it has a variety of colors and crystal-like features that allure customers.
It is the consensus among these farmers that the yield from the first round of cannabis cultivation will produce a systemic undersupply. Testing labs have yet to be established. And logistics regarding how the legacy operator mentorship program will be established are not entirely clear. “There’s been a lack of clear guidance on a few key points, from the track and trace system to details on the security standards,” Carbone says. She believes that the New York market will see good cannabis products coming out this year, “but maybe not enough of the good products that we would like to see.” Dobson believes that hemp farmers, at the helm of the state’s rollout of legal cannabis, are a part of a multi-faceted movement. One that is trying to ensure high quality marijuana products are coming from ethical farms with an overarching ethos intent on revising how the state has previously treated legacy cannabis operators. “Weaponizing the plant is something that we’re fighting against every day, because ultimately the War on Drugs is a war on people,” says Dobson. “And we fully acknowledge that and are here to fight the good fight.” Spinelli is excited to work with the OCM and speaks for many hemp farmers when he says, “As a New Yorker, it’s like, wow, look at this, the government can actually function and stay true to the spirit of the plant.” 6/22 CHRONOGRAM HIGH SOCIETY 31
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BLISS TOWERS’ DERELICT PUBLIC PLAYGROUND IN HUDSON By Noah Eckstein
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would put a tic-tac-toe board here, and change the slide color to dark green, or maybe purple,” says Kodi Rutkowski, a fourth grader in Hudson eager to update his community playground. “I would scrape this stuff off too,” he adds, pointing to corroded spray paint peeling from a walkie-talkie system. Kodi wanted to see if the walkie talkies still worked, and asked his five-year-old brother Tyrayne to find the receiving end. Tyrayne, more intrigued by a Spiderman action figure, skipped listlessly around the playground before stumbling to his station. “Can you hear me?” Tyrayne asks. Kodi, holding his right ear close to the speaker, responded, “Yes!” The two run to each other and smile, excited by the new discovery. Their mother, Bernadette Collette, a patient care assistant, watches over them in amusement. “I don’t let my kids go out alone,” she says. “So they keep out of trouble.” For the past five and a half years, Collette has lived with her kids on the ninth floor of Bliss Towers, Columbia County’s only public housing project, located near the riverfront in Hudson. The high-rise building is almost 50 years old and contains asbestos, says Nick Zachos, the interim executive director of Hudson Housing Authority, which oversees Bliss Towers. His team is talking about the inevitability of demolition. Since the early 1990s, this playground has stood in a 900-square-foot woodchipped area of a concrete courtyard that connects Bliss Towers to its low-rise counterpart, Columbia Apartments. From afar, the faded green and flushed rose of a 30-year-old Little Tikes jungle gym evokes cheerful childhood memories. But upon closer inspection, the playground is an example of the deterioration of Hudson’s public housing over decades of neglect. Beer cans rest on the edges of slides. Spray paint covers plastic melted from the putting-out of cigarette butts. Chains of safety bars rust from erosion. Linda McGriff grew up here in the 1990s. Her memories are of a strong community with 32 EDUCATION CHRONOGRAM 6/22
the playground at its center. “That playground was a really important part of my life growing up, because my mom couldn’t afford to take us on trips at all during the summer,” she says. “The only thing I always looked forward to was going to the park with my siblings.” But McGriff, who still lives in Hudson and works as the director of education and child development for the nonprofit Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood, prefers to take her three children to a safer playground in nearby Greenport. That’s because of the dereliction at Bliss Towers. “From what I’ve seen,” she says, “that playground is beyond rundown now.”
Linda McGriff and her sister, Crystal. Bliss Towers is in the background. Courtesy of Linda McGriff
The Importance of Play Play is crucial to childhood development because it helps build resiliency and tolerance, teaches kids to negotiate with their counterparts, and fosters their sense of creativity. According to a clinical report from the Academy of American Pediatrics, children living in poverty experience socioeconomic disparities that impede their ability to play, and, consequently, their ability to develop these social and emotional skills. “One’s immediate proximal neighborhood, or the structures within what is in proximity to someone’s home, really matters,” says Dr. Dustin Duncan, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University. Duncan lives in Hudson and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the city’s newly formed housing trust fund. “The caveat is that we should feel safe in those environments. We need to make sure that those places are adequate, meaning varied equipment, safe equipment, and safe spaces.” Duncan coauthored a study in 2013 finding that Black neighborhoods in Boston were less likely to contain open recreational spaces. His research determined the need for new policies to promote equitable access to recreational open spaces. More recent research about safe and modernized playground accessibility for lowincome families is limited, but in 2020, a research article in American Pediatrics, the journal of the Academic Pediatrician Association, found that the environment where children live, learn, and play is directly related to their health and development. “I think the most pressing issue in Hudson is that there is no room to play,” says Tamar Adler, a writer and mother living in Hudson. “It’s not about whether the playgrounds are up to code, it’s about what we want to provide for our own kids.” But because the Hudson Housing Authority is overseen by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, there is little action the municipal government can take to improve the playground at Bliss Towers, according to Hudson Mayor Kamal Johnson and Common Council President Thomas DePietro. “That particular
Kodi Rutkowski and his brother, Tyrayne Collette, playing at the playground between Columbia Apartments and Bliss Towers in Hudson. Photo by Noah Eckstein
playground is a top issue and it’s absolutely terrible, but because it’s not city property we can’t do anything,” says Mayor Johnson. The City of Hudson has partnered with the HHA in the past: In 2019, the city applied for an energy saving grant from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority to purchase energy-efficient refrigerators for Bliss Towers. The funds from the grant, roughly $10,000 according to Zachos, arrived recently and are being used to replace outdated refrigerators with Energy Star models. But regarding the playground, the city seems unwilling to apply for a grant in partnership with the HHA. Mayor Johnson indicated that the HHA would have to spearhead any conversation regarding a partnership to rebuild the Bliss Towers playground. Instead, nonprofits and community organizations have attempted to pick up the slack. In 2012, Joan Hunt, the director of Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood, submitted a grant to bring a new playground to Bliss Towers to KABOOM!, a national nonprofit that builds community playspaces in under-resourced areas. And last spring, Hunt reached out to Play by
Design, an Ithaca-based playground design company, to see if they were able to construct a new playground for Hudson Terraces, another housing complex in the city. Ultimately, neither proposal gained traction. “It’s been barrier after barrier,” Hunt says, blaming institutional bureaucracy for the inaction. “I think the way playgrounds look in certain neighborhoods can say to kids, ‘You know, we just don’t care about you.’” Unfulfilled Vision In 1972, the Hudson Urban Renewal Agency released a report titled “A Commitment To Progress” detailing the status of the construction of Bliss Towers, its first urban renewal project. The report promised a complete remaking of Hudson’s dilapidated downtown, with new affordable housing complexes, like Bliss Towers and Hudson Terraces, that would “rebuild a sense of community in the neighborhood,” with the purpose of creating “new and expanded park and playground facilities.” A design study from the same year sketched out the open-space needs for the “low and moderate-income families” who were expected
to live in complexes. “Such social characteristics,” the authors write, “call for ample play space, informal outdoor areas for social gathering and sitting areas, with emphasis on the utility of open spaces as well as upon their aesthetic quality.” Fifty years later, that vision remains unfulfilled. The Bliss Towers playground is a symbol of the worst effects of urban renewal. But despite the negligence, dozens of community activists and organizations are contemplating ways to reimagine Hudson’s downtown and help its lower-income communities as the city has become flooded with wealthy people fleeing the confines of city life for a slower and more rural lifestyle. At an HHA meeting in April, Claire Cousin, the authority’s vice chairwoman, suggested a beautification day for the Bliss Towers playground, an event where the community comes together to plant flowers, pick weeds, add fresh mulch, and apply fresh paint. “Until the Department of Housing and Urban Development gets back to us on demolition and a rebuild of Bliss Towers, I think that’s all we can do right now,” she says. Cousin, who also serves as executive director 6/22 CHRONOGRAM EDUCATION 33
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of the Hudson/Catskill Housing Coalition, wants to try to ensure the neighborhood doesn’t deteriorate, even though her four children don’t mind the current state of the Bliss Towers playground. On the one hand, she knows that children are able to tell when playspaces are ignored by the adults who are supposed to take care of them. On the other, she admits that her kids are not picky and will play anywhere. “I think that the investment of people and power into that community is very telling through the playground,” she says. Like Linda McGriff, Cousin remembers the playground in better days. Her aunt lived in Bliss Towers in the 1990s. “Our parents would be outside cooking and grilling, chilling in the summer, and we would be in the playground,” Cousin says. “They could see us, and it felt so free.” Cousin went to school with McGriff. They remember seeing each other’s families growing up. When McGriff was in college, her mother became homeless, forcing the family to temporarily move to Bliss Towers. “Me and my three kids slept on the pullout sofa for a few months,” she says. “The playground, and all playgrounds around the area, were so important because the boys and I were stuffed in that small apartment with all of our cousins and my sister.” “Building up the playground is a necessity,” says Malachi Walker, a councilmember representing Hudson’s fourth ward. “I believe Hudson deserves good playgrounds with outdoor workout units and chess tables and benches.”
“That playground was a really important part of my life growing up. The only thing I always looked forward to was going to the park with my siblings.” —Linda McGriff
Kids Being Kids As a single mother, Bernadette Collette relies on community support from the Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood and free play spaces to ensure her kids have a spirited upbringing. An afternoon with Kodi and Tyrayne demonstrates their love for play. The brothers note ways they would improve the playground, like the addition of a swing set, monkey bars, and a sprinkler. They run around thinking about how fun it would be to run through cool water on a hot summer day. Their mother attributes their positivity to “kids being kids.” “I always stress to myself, because I think of being where they are, as young as they are— they don’t need to know what stress is, and they don’t really need to feel that at this point,” she says. Sometimes, when Collette looks at her kids playing, she wishes she could go back to a time when life was simpler. With inflation hitting a 40-year high this year, she and other residents of Bliss Towers feel overwhelmed by the costs of daily life and underwhelmed by the support coming from city government and the housing authority. “There’s times when I look at myself and ask, ‘Can I just go home now and retire like them?’” Collette says with a laugh. “I want to go back to a world with no bills.” Her daydreaming is interrupted by the kids chasing each other and climbing the slides. 6/22 CHRONOGRAM EDUCATION 35
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FOR THOSE DESPERATE TO SMELL AND TASTE AGAIN POST-COVID, SCIENCE-BACKED THERAPIES MAY HOLD THE KEY. By Wendy Kagan
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n the summer of 2021, Uneeta Palmer was gearing up to bring her three young boys to a humungous birthday celebration in Los Angeles—and then she fell sick. “Right off the bat, I lost my sense of taste,” remembers Palmer, a marketing and communications director from the Dallas area. “I was like, ‘Ooh, this must be COVID.’ But I didn’t freak out. I thought, ‘Man, I’m going to lose some weight because of this.’ I think I was more patient and accepting of the symptoms because I wanted to lose some weight.” Sure enough, she tested positive for COVID and cancelled the trip. After only one or two bad days, she was able to get an antibody infusion that helped her kick most of the symptoms quickly. But her sense of smell and taste did not come back. As the months went by, Palmer did lose a few pounds, but she also began to stress eat. “That was interesting because I thought, ‘This [food] isn’t even good! I can’t even really taste it.’ I was working off my memory of how things ought to taste and smell, and my habits.” Eventually, her taste came back, more muted than before, yet her sense of smell remained blocked. And she started to feel bereft of simple joys, from her morning coffee ritual that had lost its sparkle, to a lack of inspiration in the kitchen. “I realized that I was having some sadness creep in, because my habitual experiences weren’t the same,” she says. “Imagine walking into a coffee shop and not being able to smell the ground espresso and coffee beans. All those things are part of the caffeination of your experience. [Losing my sense of smell] robbed me of that. I’ve found myself daydreaming about being able to smell coffee again.” It’s getting close to a year now for Palmer, and smell loss has affected everything from her mothering (“I have to rely on my friends to tell me if my boys are musty”) to her dating life. “I’m recently divorced, and I don’t want to jump into anything,” she explains. “But I’m like, I can’t take this guy seriously because I don’t know his scent. Even when I hug a male friend—and we’re just talking PG here—I can’t fully experience them.” In a way, she’s lost a part of her inner compass. “I’ve recognized how important [smell] is for connection. It may not be for other people, but it is for me. And my body absolutely knows there’s a missing component here that would normally be a part of my consideration.”
When You Can’t Stop and Smell the Flowers A troubling offshoot of the global pandemic, the prolonged loss of smell (and often its sister sensation, taste) is a sensory handicap that has plagued many people post-COVID—long outlasting the infection itself and baffling physicians and researchers. “As many as 50 percent of people who get COVID can develop chronic smell issues,” says Matthew Kim, MD, an ear, nose, and throat doctor affiliated with
olfactory training, a kind of physical therapy for the nose—that can support and perhaps hasten the body’s natural ability to heal. The reasons for COVID-related smell loss are not well understood, though a few hypotheses have emerged. “[One] theory is that the virus infects and damages the tissue that supports the smell nerve, and, in some cases, can infect and damage the nerve itself,” says Kim. “In rare cases, [the virus] may travel into the brain and affect the downstream tissue that helps us
“I was having some sadness creep in. I’ve found myself daydreaming about being able to smell coffee again.” —Uneeta Palmer
Westchester Medical Center Health Network. “I’ve seen a lot of patients over the past two years with persistent smell loss, altered smell, or other smell dysfunction. For most of them, we’ve come up with a treatment plan that aims to maximize their capacity to recover.” Usually, the ability to smell and taste comes back on its own within a few weeks or months, though improvements are slow and gradual and may take up to two years. Some people may not recover completely. And so far, no medications have been shown to restore either post-COVID anosmia (smell loss) or its related disorder, parosmia (distorted smell, in which normal scents are perceived as foul or noxious odors). Yet there is still reason for hope, with at least one evidence-based treatment—
smell.” These insults would explain the sudden and complete “light switch” loss of smell that occurs for many people just after they contract COVID-19. But in order for smell loss to become chronic, a second mechanism may be at work. “The other injury, if we can call it that, is that because those patients have no smell input to their brain anymore, the brain forgets how to process smells,” says Kim. “Even after the nerve has recovered or is back to functioning again, the brain has to remember or relearn how to process that sensory information.” Complicating the picture, emerging research is shedding new light on the mechanism behind smell loss. In a small study published in May in JAMA Neurology, led by researchers from Johns 6/22 CHRONOGRAM HEALTH & WELLNESS 37
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Hopkins Medicine, evidence suggests that smell loss may be a consequence of inflammation from COVID-19, rather than a direct injury from the virus itself. “The inflammatory reaction that we have to the virus is releasing cytokines, which are inflammatory processes of our own body, which is causing injury to the nerve fibers, the axons, and even some vascular irritation around the nerves,” explains Paul Wright, MD, a neurologist in Poughkeepsie and senior vice president and system chair of the Neurosciences Institute. “So in one sense, our own body plays a significant part of why we lose our sense of smell specifically for this virus.” Olfactory Training to the Rescue While our understanding of COVID smell loss is still evolving, there is consensus about how to treat this stubborn condition. It starts with olfactory training or “smell therapy,” the evidence-based rehab program that aims to retrain the smell nerves. Smell therapy is not new—it’s been around for a while to treat smell dysfunction triggered by other causes (nasal polyps, head trauma, pituitary surgery, and even dementia or Alzheimer’s disease can be attended by smell loss). But in the aftermath of COVID-19, more physicians and therapists have had to step up to help patients who are desperate to smell and taste normally again. “All of a sudden, people can’t smell, so we’re doing smell therapy,” says Wright. “We never learned it in medical school or in [my neurology] specialty training. But it’s worthwhile, because if there’s a disconnect between two electrical circuits, then maybe we can reroute and modify that circuit.” In other words, at the heart of olfactory training is the concept of neuroplasticity—the idea that we can reteach the brain how to interpret smell again. “It’s possible that the cells in our nose are receiving odors, but the brain is just not making sense of them,” explains Hannah Landon, an occupational therapist (OT) at Northern Dutchess Hospital in Rhinebeck. Landon works one-on-one with patients in olfactory training, providing support with both in-person and telehealth sessions. The personalized process starts with a questionnaire about how smell or taste loss is affecting the person’s quality of life. Next comes a scratch-and-sniff test that gauges their ability to smell the four main scent categories: spicy, fruity, floral, and resinous (or earthy, woodsy types of smells). After determining which category is most impaired, Landon walks the patient through olfactory training, which involves smelling essential oils with a short, small inhale through the nose. “The idea is to breathe in a way that doesn’t go beyond the nose and into the lungs,” she explains. The exercise also incorporates mindfulness and mental imagery. “If you’re smelling a rose scent, you’re not just waiting to see if you can smell it— you’re actively trying to remember what the rose petals feel like, what a rose it looks like and how it blooms, and maybe a memory associated, like when you got roses,” says Landon. “All of those things add context to your brain.” Practicing at home for a few minutes daily is key to the process—whether it’s with essential
oils or through activities like cooking or baking. Having a goal helps: Landon had one patient who was a landscaper and just wanted to smell fresh-cut grass and flowers again. “We retested him after two weeks and he had already made significant improvement,” she says. Landon notes that most patients come in thinking they can smell nothing at all and are surprised to find they score as high as 60 percent on the first test. “That suggests there’s an unconscious process going on, and then hopefully, the retraining will help to make the connections a bit stronger, so they are conscious connections.” Getting Creative and Staying Motivated For Ashley Pugliese, an employee assistance professional and mother of two from Fishkill, loss of smell and taste was one of many long COVID symptoms that dogged her for well over a year after she contracted the virus in February 2020. After an ENT scoped her and found
After losing her sense of smell and taste for 14 or 15 months, she’s living (and smelling and tasting) proof that no one should lose hope. In addition to smell training, Kim advises patients to try nasal sprays and rinses (with or without steroids); fish oil supplements have also been shown to support the injured smell nerve. Chronic sinus issues and allergies should be treated so they don’t hamper recovery, and smokers should quit, since cigarettes already compromise smell and taste. And while new therapies are being studied to treat smell loss— such as platelet-rich plasma injections—steer clear of treatments that lack sound science. “Waking up” the nose with noxious chemicals like ammonia or bleach can do much more harm than good. Organizations such as AbScent and Smell and Taste Association of North America (STANA) are helpful resources for educational materials, support groups, and advocacy for those suffering from smell or taste dysfunction.
“If smell and taste work like muscles, you’re [exercising them and] remembering what things smell and taste like.” —Ashley Pugliese that everything looked okay internally, Pugliese started on olfactory training that involved sniffing essential oils and tasting different fruits. “My kids and I would make a game of it: Sniff this, tell me what it is. They’d cut stuff up and feed it to me [blind], and say, tell me what it is,” she recalls. “You could kind of get, by the texture of things, that memory. If smell and taste work like muscles, you’re [exercising them and] remembering what things smell and taste like.” As her olfactory capabilities started coming back, Pugliese experienced parosmia, the distorted sense of smell that’s also common post-COVID. “I would ask my husband all the time, ‘Do you smell smoke? Is something on fire? It smells like burning hair,’” she remembers. While unpleasant, parosmia may in fact signal the return of the olfactory sense. (“It’s actually a good prognostic sign that you’re going to make a significant recovery,” says Kim.) Pugliese worked with a neti pot to clear her nasal passages, continued her smell training, and practiced breathing techniques she learned from Westchester Medical Center’s Post-COVID-19 Recovery Program. “Slowly but surely, everything’s returned, which is great,” she says.
While COVID long-hauler syndrome itself can lead to much more dangerous conditions that impact the heart or lungs, those dealing with smell and taste loss should not feel that their problem is too small to warrant medical attention. “We rely on our senses, whether consciously or subconsciously, to get us through life,” says Wright. “They are there to keep us alive and safe.” To that end, an important aspect of treatment is the safety piece. “We test to make sure that people can identify the odor of smoke, natural gas, and spoiled food,” says Landon. One hack is to label foods in the fridge with the dates they were cooked or opened, being meticulous about tossing items after their use-by dates. And while losing your sensory abilities can bring on the blues, it’s worthwhile to stay positive and open-minded to unexpected gifts. “I’m actually seeing a health benefit to this, because I’m starting to work out more,” says Palmer, almost a year into her smell-loss ordeal. “I’m more appreciative of all my senses, more aware of my habits, and it’s made me want to take care of myself better. There’s a wellness journey that this has taken me on, too.” 6/22 CHRONOGRAM HEALTH & WELLNESS 39
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Above: Dave Trost, vice president of the Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum Board prepping the Black Baron’s Fokker Dr. 1 for take-off. Dave King, who flew as the Black Baron for many years, looks on
TAKING FLIGHT The Overlapping Communities of Rhinebeck Photos by David McIntyre
Opposite (clockwise from top left): Ana Claudia Schultz, cofounder of the Beck Design Gallery and principal at Ana Claudia Design Allison Chawla, therapist and host of the “Talk to Allison” show on Radio Free Rhinecliff Tammam Odeh, Bard graduate student in music (classical guitar, harp) from Damascus, Syria Jean David Michel, founder and co-owner of Megabrain Comics and culture expert on the HGTV show “Cash in the Attic”
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t any given time, there are community-minded volunteers in Rhinebeck doing something wonderful,” says Norm Magnusson, an artist and 12-year Rhinebeck resident. Village Trustee and climate activist Vanessa Bertozzi echoes that sentiment. “You feel that you can connect with people and make a difference here,” she says. Or, as food entrepreneur Maya Kaimal puts it, “Rhinebeck punches above its weight for a village of its size.” This much was in evidence on the afternoon of May 7, when the town was buzzing with activity: There was a vintage car show at the fairgrounds, a Waldorf school was hosting its spring fair, a clean-up was underway at the waterfront, and photographer David McIntyre was shooting portraits of Rhinebeckers for these very pages at the coworking space Co. Thanks to all who came out to represent Rhinebeck.
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Clockwise from top left: Mikayla Martino, lead esthetician at Rain Spa and La Tua Bella with daughter Scarlet Dick Schreiber and Barbara P. Schreiber, owners of the Rhinebeck Department Store Claudia Cooley, “Rhinebeck’s unofficial small business cheerleader” Opposite, clockwise from top left: Matty Rosenberg, station manager and program director of Radio Free Rhinecliff Megan Byrne, Community Manager at Co. Ed Bergstrasser, public affairs consultant Spencer Firestone, Lawrie Bird, Ellie Firestone, Bryan Firestone, and Stormy BirdFirestone. Special thanks to “the social mayor of Rhinebeck,” Lawrie Bird, for helping to bring the community together for the shoot.
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Opposite, clockwise from top left: John Traver (managing partner at Samuel’s Sweet Shop), Charlie Traver, Allyson Traver (logistics coordinator, DSV Road) Maya Mansour-Barillas, Dr. Lilliana Barillas-Arias (Pediatric Rheumatology at Albany Medical Center), Yousef Mansour-Barillas, Dr. Ahmed Mansour, (orthodontist, Sunshine Smiles) Mayte Arguello-Savona (photographer), Sebastian Savona, Stephen Savona (owner of Savona’s Trattoria restaurants), Stefano Savona
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music Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra
Tinctures in Time (Community Music, Vol. 1) Good Time Music (Community Music, Vol. 2) Royal Potato Family royalpotatofamily.com
Fearless is a word that’s bandied about a little too easily, and it’s certainly handed out more often than it needs to be in music reviews. But in the case of Millennial Territory Orchestra slide trumpeter/bandleader/composer Steve Bernstein the epithet actually fits. After all, in today’s fragile market he’s just brushed off the making and releasing of four new albums with a wave of his horn. Those who’ve been lucky enough to catch Bernstein live, say the with Midnight Ramble Band at Levon Helm Studios, or perhaps with a funky smaller combo like Sex Mob at Hudson’s Club Helsinki, know the man is also capable of magic. And let’s add generous to the list of descriptors, because, gosh knows, the man gives freely of his generous talents across the grooves on these two albums—borrowing spirits and sounds of New Orleans, Kansas City, and St. Louis along the way. Good Time Music, the second of the series, joins the peripatetic brass man with singer Catherine Russell for a set of dirty-tailgate charts, sinuous Mississippi guitar, and relentlessly confident, sexy vocals, especially on Allen Toussaint’s swampy, fiddle-inflected “Yes We Can.” Tinctures in Time, the initial blast, is instrumental, both in its musical nature and its intrinsic value. Let’s call this Americana, rather than jazz. New York sneaks in on the Midwest here, like a mad scientist at a barbeque. “Quart of Relativity” is avant-garde, but so right: the brain to the second disc’s soul. —Michael Eck
sound check Lee Falco Each month here we visit with a member of the community to find out what music they’ve been digging.
I’ve been really into Arthur Russell’s work for the past couple years and find myself constantly listening to the compilation Love is Overtaking Me—the recordings are raw, stylistically all over the place, and I love it! Something about Arthur’s sense of melody and delivery just hits me. I dig “Eli,” “I Couldn’t Say It to Your Face,” and “This Time Dad You’re Wrong,” in particular. The music of Doug Sahm, with the Sir Douglas Quintet or the Texas Tornados, has been on heavy rotation at my house. It’s early rock ’n’ roll; Tex-Mex vibes with soul! “Sell a Song,” “Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day,” and “Be Real” are my current faves. It reminds me of NRBQ, who are one of my all-time favorites. Some other tracks I’ve been listening to on repeat are “Bound” by Madison Cunningham, “Rvw” by Felix M-B, “Song They Play” by Chris Cohen, and “Seven” by Blake Mills. If I’m in the mood for jazz, Eddie Harris’s Mean Greens always hits the spot! Lee Falco is the operator of Marlboro music venue the Falcon and recording studio the Building and a drummer with Donald Fagen, the Lemonheads, the Restless Age, and others.
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Alexis Cole
Sky Blossom (Zoho Music)
On Sky Blossom, Alexis Cole leads her group through a dynamic and diverse selection of a dozen tunes by the Gershwins, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Anthony Newley, and others. Cole’s album is subtitled “Songs from My Tour of Duty”—she served her apprenticeship, as well as her country, in the U.S. Army Big Band and the West Point Jazz Knights. The singer, who heads the jazz vocal program at SUNY Purchase, kicks things off with Clifford Brown’s “Joy Spring,” in which her deft lyrical phrases and scat singing demonstrate her command of the bebop idiom. A poignant, ballad rendition of the Beatles’ “Across the Universe” and a version of Billy Joel’s “New York State of Mind” that invests the tune with a previously unknown depth of soul and sass make a listener hear the familiar numbers with new ears. —Seth Rogovoy
Mike Pride I Hate Work (RareNoise Records) Rarenoiserecords.com
Mike Pride’s name appeared in these pages last year via James Keepnews’s keen review of Stove Top by Three Layer Cake, a project that cast the Warwick experimental jazz drummer with legendary punk bassist Mike Watt. On I Hate Work, Pride plays up the punk/jazz connections once again, delivering an entire album devoted to acoustic jazz reinterpretations of songs by the infamous hardcore band MDC, a group he drummed for from 2000 to 2004. With the leader on keyboards as well as kit, Bradley Christopher Jones on bass, and Jamie Saft on piano and Mellotron (!), the trio turns the tunes inside out, taking them from far from their thrash origins and into swinging cocktail-lounge realms. Mainly instrumental, the set also stars black metal guitarist Mick Barr (Krallice) on two tracks; its three vocal numbers feature guests J.G. Thirlwell, Sam Mickens (Dead Science), and MDC’s Dave Dictor himself. Don’t tear your tuxedo in the pit, daddy-o. —Peter Aaron
books Please Wait to Be Tasted Carla Perez-Gallardo, Hannah Black, Wheeler PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS, $35, 2022
The first cookbook from the James Beardnominated team at Lil’ Deb’s Oasis is a rollicking portal to the beloved Hudson eatery’s technicolor LGBTQ+ oasis. Equal parts fun, accessible, and mouth-wateringly sensual, the cookbook imparts the restaurant’s tips and tricks for recreating the playful community-driven spirit of Lil’ Deb’s right in your own kitchen. Nearly 70 recipes for PerezGallardo and Black’s acclaimed (and fancifully named) tropical comfort food classics like charred octopus in the ink of its cousin, ceviche mixto with popcorn, sweet plantains with green cream, and abuela’s flan are punctuated by advice on everything from love to lobster parties, and how to dream up a killer wine poem. Reading through these pages alone is enough to lift your spirits and entice you to hunt down a bunch of plantains.
Snowstorm in August Marshall Karp BLACKSTONE PUBLISHING, $26.09, 2022
Four thousand pounds of uncut cocaine drop onto Central Park from the summer sky, suffocating hundreds of people. This weather anomaly is the work of the most powerful drug lord on the planet, Joaquin Alboroto. Danny Corcoran, a former NYPD captain grieving over the death of his wife, is on the case. Backed by the funding of anonymous billionaires, Corcoran and his team chase Alboroto down. A gritty adventure with gunfights and car chases follows as Woodstock resident Karp uses the same skills he put to work when cowriting with James Patterson.
And You May Find Yourself…Confessions of a Late-Blooming Gen X Weirdo Sari Botton HELIOTROPE BOOKS, $18.50, 2022
In this series of essays, Kingston writer Botton covers the process of finding herself later in life. Botton has always felt like an outsider, from not enjoying pop music in grade school to not understanding office politics in adulthood. Yet instead of embracing those differences, Botton realizes in her adulthood that she has been pretending to be someone else in order to keep authority figures happy for most of her life. She turns to writing to make sense of herself, connecting the weird kid she used to be with the woman attempting to live her truth in the present day.
Rethinking the Ground Rules Hudson Valley Women’s Writing Group MEDIACS BOOKS, $19.95, 2022
In their second anthology, the members of the Hudson Valley Women’s Writing Group offer their perspectives on topics like memory, nature, and COVID-19. In one story, to pass the time teachers make a game out of picturing speakers at a dull superintendent’s meeting naked. A narrator in a poem pictures herself as a refrigerator and God as a hungry teenage boy looking for a snack. All the guns in the world suddenly jam, and only shoot for women. The poetry and prose range from funny to melancholic, reminiscing on the past, musing on the present, and speculating about the future.
Nöthin’ But a Good Time Tom Beaujour and Richard Bienstock MACMILLAN PUBLISHERS, $20.99, 2022
Cowritten by Woodstocker Beaujour, Nöthin’ But a Good Time serves as an encyclopedia of `80s rock. The narrative begins in the `70s and spans until the `80s rock revival today, as well as the rise of grunge in the `90s. Opening with a sevenpage cast of characters, each chapter consists of bits of interviews with bands, managers, costumers, and roadies. Stories include the time Ozzy Osbourne snorted some ants after losing a pushup contest with Nikki Sixx. Besides these wild moments, the book doesn’t shy away from the ugly side, including the sexism prevalent in the music business. —Emma Cariello and Ashleigh Lovelace
Just Like Mother Anne Heltzel
TOR NIGHTFIRE, 2022, $26.99
Anne Heltzel’s adult, modern gothic horror debut (after YA novel Charlie, Presumed Dead), is a captivating and timely story that showcases the dangers of conflating womanhood and motherhood. In the wake of recent Supreme Court events, the backdrop of this book, with its focus on the autonomy of women’s bodies, makes it an especially timely and thought-provoking read. While one might find its atmospheric themes to be reminiscent of other classic reproductive-themed thrillers such as Rosemary’s Baby, The Handmaid’s Tale, and even The Stepford Wives, Heltzel’s visceral and vibrant imagery and dialogue, coupled with a page-turning plot and feminist undertones, make her a fresh and exciting voice in this genre. Maeve, the main protagonist of the story, and her older cousin Andrea (tightly bonded, they have made a pact never to be apart from each other), are born into a radical feminist cult called “The Mother Collective,” a Vermont-based commune that has a fanatical and rigid perspective on both motherhood and the role men play in women’s lives. The book begins with a glimpse into the strange and mysterious childhood of the cousins when, one day while lunch is being served by “Mother with the lazy eye,” they hear a relentless “thud, thud, thud from the room next door and wild grunts like pigs at a trough.” When “Mother with the red hair” emerges from the locked room flushed faced and smelling of musk, the girls request to “go and weed the garden.” This is something they do to appease Mother’s “no idle hands” rule and to talk about and speculate on the source of the disturbing noises they heard. What could it be? “A New Baby?” “A New Puppy?” When Andrea shares that she knows where the Mothers keep the key, Maeve reminds her, “We never disobey” but when “I think of the puppy. Alone in the room. Scared. Making those noises.” The harrowing events that transpire from this point lead to Maeve bravely escaping the cult, at the age of 8. She is adopted by Patty and Tom; good people who refuse to allow her to dwell in the past. Andrea was not so lucky. They are lost to each other until a DNA test reunites them 25 years later in New York. Maeve works as a struggling book editor and Andrea, a wealthy entrepreneur, has just moved from the West Coast. Both have been searching for each other forever; plagued constantly by wondering what each other had become. “It drove me mad, not knowing,” Maeve says. “More so than not having her in my life, maybe. It was the lack of connection to who she was, the absence of noise where I’d once been able to read her thoughts as easily as my own.” Andrea’s reappearance in her life bolsters Maeve’s tenuous grasp of her own personal identity as Andrea is the connection she longs for and needs to help her move forward from her traumatic past. Andrea is the CEO of a NewLife, a company that supplies hyper-realistic baby dolls to women to either assist them in preparing for motherhood or help them grieve a lost child. Andrea has personal experience with grief as she lost her three-month-old daughter, Olivia. The prototype of the doll now bears her name. When Andrea invites Maeve to spend her birthday weekend at the mansion she and her husband, Rob, have purchased in the Catskills, she agrees without hesitation. She wants to spend time with her cousin and repair the bond that was broken when the cult was broken up. However, Maeve’s marital status and her decision not to have children are perplexing and problematic for both Andrea and everyone associated with NewLife and provide the author an opportunity to convey several different perspectives on motherhood as well as society’s expectations around the experience. Filled with frightening, unexpected scenarios and vivid descriptions, this chilling look at modern motherhood through the lens of true horror will linger with you long after reading the last page. —Jane Kinney Denning 6/22 CHRONOGRAM BOOKS 51
poetry
EDITED BY Phillip X Levine In our May 2022 issue, the poem “A Glass of Cold Water” was mistakenly attributed. The actual author is esteemed poet Linda Pastan. —Phillip X Levine
More Than We Ask For, More Than We Need Each night from the treetops, from our murderous roost, we watch you set out a tray of kibble, chicken skin, baby carrots for us quaquaqua for you, tomorrow, we will leave a key, a kite string, a crocus bulb and recall the time you placed a green avocado on the glass table to ripen in the sun— your hair like black silk quaquaqua
Viennese Waltz (1) my Viennese Pastry Cookbook a friend through thick and thin cannot stand upright anymore but leans a bit due to a permanent spinal injury (2) certainly the star linzer tarts live on page seventy four sporting egg yolks, butter hazelnuts apricot preserves a pastry that creates joy in the dullest ordinary day
—Sandy Longley
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a picture of elderly women seated/standing lying/crouching in a place called Theresienstadt
Toad Look, there’s a frog, my daughter said pointing to a toad in the grass. Oh, that’s not a frog. That’s a toad, I said. But it looks like a frog. It just has bumps all over it, she said. That’s right. They’re related. You could say they’re cousins, I said. But toads are ugly. Frogs are much handsomer, she said. True. But when you kiss a toad in a fairy tale, it turns into a handsome prince, I said. Not a handsome frog? she said. No, a handsome prince, I said. Not an ugly prince? she said. No, a handsome prince, I said. That’s stupid. That doesn’t make any sense, she said. Well, it’s a fairy tale, I said. What’s a fairy tale anyway? Is it a story about fairies? she said. Actually, most of them aren’t stories about fairies. I guess they are stories that fairies tell, I said. Stories fairies tell to us? she said. More like stories fairies tell one another, I said. Well, fairytales are stupid. When I grow up I’m going to write a fairy tell that makes sense, she said. You don’t have to wait until you grow up. You can write one now, I said. And so she did. And here it is: Once upon a time, there was an ugly toad with bumps all over who wanted to be a handsome frog who was smooth all over, so he wished upon a star with all his might, and while he slept, the moon came down from the sky and kissed him and, when he woke up, he was a handsome frog who was smooth all over. The End. That’s very good, but did he live happily ever after? You can’t write The End until you say he lived happily ever after, I said. Well, he didn’t live happily ever after, she said. Why not? I said. Because he was still alone. He was happy to be alone when he was a toad, but he wasn’t happy anymore when he became a frog, she said. I see. You were right. That is a fairy tale that makes sense, I said. —J. R. Solonche 52 POETRY CHRONOGRAM 6/22
(3) crumbs what’s left
comparing recipes for pastries sometimes quiet sometimes chuckling mostly serious intent on recapturing moments of joy all that are left —Bonnie Oppenheimer Squirrel The realtor in our tidy village said we think all our children are special and oh, how they were: a small tribe shouting in and out of white Colonials on maple-lined streets, where no one locked doors, where the river was anchor, sinew, vein, a dream we all dreamed until the black-haired girl who wandered through town, thinner and thinner, like a faint negative, finally disappeared. Or until the morning on our aqueduct trail in honeyed spring light when I saw a boy hanging from a beech tree. Today when I nearly stepped on oozing entrails, what remained of a hawk’s matter-of-fact attack, it was unspeakable but I had practiced looking away. —Robin Dellabough
Sleepwalking the Dog I spend the better part of my day developing antibodies years have slipped into bottles of messages traffic jamming already put-upon seas checked pulses pass for People log ons for touch acting out deconstruction of construct with construct itself— hopefully in line for the next shot bills must still be paid— worry tended to and the show go on— strapped and spiked to sheer mountain face season on season— short circuit squander of expectation defaults to psychic iron mask— communication reduced to facts— Spirit home alone news not helpful streets busy with approach/avoidance relief a distant concept Yet, this much too early morning Russell had a good poop just outside of Annie’s old house and each of my breaths feel tested Positive for TOMORROW —Peter Coco
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Hindsight In retrospect, I probably needed eyeglasses years before I got them I was three when I crawled under the living room piano Seeing what looked to me like a turtle—only it wasn’t— my five-year-old brother grabbed me by my underpants and dragged me back away from a coiled and sleeping rattlesnake then hollered to our mother who was on the phone with our father who said call Mrs. Knox who arrived with a forked stick and a hatchet and cornered the snake that had meantime slithered from the living room to the pantry Moments later she offered us the rattle as a souvenir which we refused, me permanently imprinted with a fear of snakes to such an extent that afterwards as we grew older, my fear grew also and my brother carried a big stick everywhere we walked like a scythe threshing the high grasses that bordered the road to scare away anything that lurked But one day, he suddenly ran down a barren hillside and hid in the rotted-out trunk of an old tree solitary in the open field, disappearing inside it and then began yelling Help, Help, a bear, a bear is killing me and I froze in terror I could not move There was no time to run home for help I picked up a thick stick ran blurry eyed down the hill determined to chase away the bear But the closer I got, the more the old tree trunk looked like what it really was
Don’t forget the orbital sander a shell out of which my brother emerged, laughing; Something happened to me that day Call it sudden calm in the eye of a storm or something that felt like courage Though my heart was beating rapidly as we raced home I knew in that moment that when you love someone, your brother, sister, mother, father, friend, anyone, in a moment of need love can conquer fear love can see beyond limitations; Eventually eyeglasses corrected my nearsightedness but in my heart, I had perfect vision —Sydna Altschuler Byrne Heavy You are no longer becoming this is it! Letting go of all that mattered you say, “I didn’t know it would be this hard…” but since these things matter the weight is so much to be lifted think of what matters ascending…like clouds only vapor risen weigh a million pounds imagine that! —C. P. Masciola Incompatible We weren’t compatible, and that’s okay. Not everything comes together As perfectly as peanut butter and jelly. It was, in fact, just very recently (A beautiful, temperate spring morning) That I saw somebody that I used to know Wearing deep maroon and neon green. What the hell was he thinking? —Christopher R. Cook
I don’t care if it has to be your carry-on. We have to be prepared for anything! So bring all of your tools. And your kitchen knives. And your old tackle box full of art supplies. God forbid we got to the top of the mountain and had to build a dining room table or carve a turkey made of marble or lay down our arms and surrender to the gods of productivity. —Matt Kalish Raft Have you not been a refugee On a makeshift raft of wood, In transit from some certain grief Unmended by a well-made eulogy? Or crossed some unfamiliar ocean To reclaim your shattered heartPassage booked for port uncertain Love upended, trust gone broken? Have you not ever dreamed about Escape from certain dangers, Been betrayed by leaden feet Or begged for help from strangers? If you have seen a makeshift raft Floating empty on the sea Then surely you must know by now To give warm welcome to refugees. —Jennifer Howse The Girl in the Silver Boots You wore the clothes you loved most that day, A pink, puffy coat, a matching knit hat and your silver boots. They were so distinct an item of apparel that only an extreme extrovert or a child would have picked them to wear. You were probably around 8 to 10 years old when you last pulled them on and they were probably some small comfort as they were uniquely yours and familiar. Then too, they would have been a reminder of better times and on that day, you slung your backpack and wearing you beloved silver boots, you went, not to school, but to run for your young life, surrounded by your family. I will always remember you because of those boots, shining up from the pavement where you lay dead. Dead, along with your family. Dead, owing to a nameless hand, guided by the mad, brooding dream of a tyrant, who like all tyrants, doesn’t care about the life of a little girl. A little girl with her dreams, her family’s love and her silver boots. —William A. Swenson 6/22 CHRONOGRAM POETRY 53
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TrailBlaze NY celebrates the completion of New York’s Empire State Trail—750 miles of cycling, walking, and hiking trails alongside the state’s most significant waterways. Over five weekends and across nine counties, the Albany Symphony will present FREE outdoor concerts, multimedia art, interactive family fun, great local restaurants, shops and galleries, craft food and beverages, and recreation events to thousands of people along New York’s scenic trails and rivers.
COME JOIN US OUT ON THE TRAIL THIS SUMMER FOR MUSIC, FOOD, FUN AND FIREWORKS! TROY/COHOES June 2 to June 5
Troy Savings Bank Music Hall Cohoes Music Hall
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A trip to Tanglewood is an escape to extraordinary. Enjoy music by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops, world-renowned guest artists, and more, all in the beauty of the Berkshire Hills. Learn more and get your tickets today at tanglewood.org.
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POP + FOLK
Sound of (Black) Music (June 24), part of Black Roots Summer at the Bard Spiegeltent June 24-26. Photo by Maria Baranova
Bethel Woods (Through September 3)
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, at the original 1969 Woodstock Festival site in Bethel, keeps its location's live music tradition alive with another season of topdrawing concert attractions. Tickets are now on sale for Brad Paisley and Tenille Townes (June 4), Dead & Company (July 1), the Doobie Brothers (July 2), Steely Dan (July 3), Josh Groban (July 5), Chicago and Brian Wilson (July 14), Alanis Morisette and Garbage (July 19), the Dave Matthews Band (July 20), Phish (July 22 and 23), Norah Jones and Regina Spektor (July 30), Jimmy Buffett (August 1), Willie Nelson, ZZ Top, and others (August 13), Buddy Guy and Kenny Wayne Shepherd (August 14), Santana and Earth, Wind and Fire (August 21), and more. Bethelwoodscenter.org
Follow the Arrow (June 18)
A new addition the Hudson Valley area’s festival landscape is Follow the Arrow, which happens at Arrowood Farms brewery in Accord and is being presented by local jam maven and keyboard king Marco Benevento. Alongside the host and headliner himself, FTA’s inaugural lineup includes the Slip, Antibalas, Surprise Me Mr. Davis, a DJ set by El Michaels Affair, Mikela Davis and Southern Star, Karina Rykman, Jayla Kai, Ratboy Jr., the Benevento Family Band, 40 Love (featuring Marco Benevento and Alecia Chakour), Scott Metzger, Stuart Bogie, Sam Evian, Cochemea Gastelum, Burnell Pines, and much more. Arrowoodfarms.com
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Over Yondr Festival (June 24–26)
Also newer to the festival scene this year is Over Yondr, which takes place in the Greene County town of Greenville. The camping-ready, indie-oriented, 21-plus fest has !!! (Chk Chk Chk), Topaz Jones, Sheer Mag, Kississippi, Kaleta and the Super Yamba Band, the Bones of J.R. Jones, Black Mountain Symphony, Anna Fox Rochinski, Jadeisdxpe, Andrew Richards, Rhys Tivey, Hanzolo, and Nas Leber. Food trucks, games, jam sessions, yoga, and showers are also available. But be aware—what sets Over Yondr apart is that it’s a phonefree event: During the festival, all attendee phones and smartwatches will be privately secured in special pouches that will remain in the attendees’ possession. Overyondrfestival.com
Bard SummerScape Spiegeltent (June 24–August 6)
Within Bard College’s larger, classical-leaning SummerScape festival, the Spiegeltent hosts the return of its Black Roots Summer series, which this year features “The Sound of (Black) Music” (June 24), Mwenso and the Shakes (June 25), and “Rhythm and BBQ” (June 26). Also appearing: Nona Hendryx and Mama Funk (July 1), the George Gee Swing Orchestra (July 10), Ms. Lisa Fischer with Mr. Louis Cato and the Badass and Beautiful Big Band (July 22-23), the Jazz at Lincoln Center Summer Big Band (July 24), Marth Redbone (July 30), and drag divas Susanne Bartch (July 2) and Justin Vivian Bond (August 5-6). Fishercenter.bard.edu
Radio Woodstock Presents (June 30; July 16)
Okay, maybe not a festival per se, but nonetheless worth a mention here is this pair of Radio Woodstocksponsored concert events featuring two popular summer festival acts, both of whom are set to appear at the MJN Convention Center in Poughkeepsie. Rock/ funk/hip hop/reggae/soul fusion artists Michael Franti and Spearhead (June 30: Arrested Development will open), long a staple name of the late, station-presented Mountain Jam festival, comes through on the tour for their newest album, Follow Your Heart. Named for a song by English musical pranksters the Bonzo Dog Band, the Seattle-based Death Cab for Cutie (July 16; Illuminati Hotties will open) is a group beloved by many for their melodic pop hits. Radiowoodstock.com
Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival (July 14–17)
The Northeast’s largest bluegrass festival rollicks back to the Walsh Farm in Oak Hill with a rich harvest of roots music excellence. For 2022, the 38-year-old gathering brings such new and returning favorites as Jerry Douglas, the Del McCoury Band, Steve Earle and the Dukes, the Sam Bush Band, Bela Fleck, Yonder Mountain String Band, the Steep Canyon Rangers, the SteelDrivers, the Travelin’ McCourys, Peter Rowan and Los TexManiacs, Rhonda Vincent and the Rage, Natalie McMaster and Donnell Leahy, Allison Brown, We Banjo 3, the Gibson Brothers, Nathan and the Zydeco Cha-Chas, Donna the Buffalo, and many more. On-site camping, too. Greyfoxbluegrass.com
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Bethel Woods hosts a variety of toptier performers this summer, from Dave Matthews Band to Steely Dan.
Marco Benevento curates the Follow the Arrow Festival this month at Arrowood Farms brewery in Accord. Photo by Seth Olenick
Kississippi plays the Over Yondr Festival in July.
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Eric Person Group performing at the Jazz Fest in Warwick in 2021.
Kronos Quartet perform in the Spanish Courtyard at Caramoor in Katonah on June 29, 2018. Photo by Gabe Palacio
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CLASSICAL + JAZZ Maverick Concerts (Through September 11) America’s oldest continuously running summer chamber music series has once again returned to the forest just outside of Woodstock. Highlights include Simone Dinnerstein and Tim Fain (July 3), the Escher String Quartet (July 10), the Miro Quartet (July 10), the Borromeo String Quartet (August 21), and the Catalyst Quartet (September 3 and 4). Non-classical fare includes the play “Finding North” (June 17), percussion ensemble Nexus’s 50th anniversary concert with Paul Winter (July 2), jazz by the Christian Sands (August 16) and Bill Charlap trios (September 3), pop by Simi Stone (July 16), folk from Happy Traum and Cindy Cashdollar (July 23), and more. Maverickconcerts.org
TrailBlaze (June 5–July 3) As its director, David Alan Miller, celebrates 30 years on the podium, the Albany Symphony has assembled an appetizing program for its 2022 TrailBlaze series, which will bring free performances by the orchestra in addition to food, family fun, and fireworks to various locations around the Hudson Valley. TrailBlaze will hit the Veg Out festival in downtown Troy (June 5), Hudson Crossing Park in Schuylerville (June 11), Hutton Brickyards in Kingston (June 19), Basilica Hudson in Hudson (June 24), Mohawk Harbor in Schenectady (July 1), Jennings Landing in Albany (July 2), and Riverlink Park in Amsterdam (July 3). See website for individual event schedules. Albanysymphony.com
Caramoor (June 18–August 19) Held at the lavish Rosen Family estate for which it’s named, Caramoor concentrates on classical but adds other styles. For the former, there’s Yo-Yo Ma and the Knights on opening night (June 18), pianists Inon Barnatan (June 26) and Lara Downes (June 30), mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges with pianist Bradley Moore (July 7), the Kronos Quartet (July 8), the Imani Winds Quartet (July 14), and the Brenato Quartet with Joan Upshaw (July 15). Also on offer are global sounds by Los Cafeteras (June 23) and Angelique Kidjo (August 6), jazz by Pedrito Martinez (July 1) and Matthew Whitaker (August 19), new music by Michael Gordon (July 24), and American roots sounds by Rachel and Vilray (July 23) and Shemekia Copeland (July 29). Caramoor.org
Aston Magna at Hudson Hall (June 24–July 22) Although its home is in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, this year the Aston Magna organization is presenting its summer music festival at historic Hudson Hall in nearby Hudson. The event promises five nights of early and Baroque music by a host of the Hudson Valley region’s most masterful musicians. The lineup has “The Devil’s in the Tails” with works by Scarlatti and Stravinsky (June 24), chamber music by Robert and Clara Schumann (July 1), Bach (July 8), Handel (July 15), and “Double Apotheosis” with pieces by Francois Couperin, Arcangelo Corelli and Jean-Fery Rebe (July 22). Hudsonhall.org
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UNMASKING VENICE AMERICAN ARTISTS AND THE CITY OF WATER MAY 28 – SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice (August 5–7) The venerated vocal celebration is back amid the peaks with a soaring weekend of lofty performances at Saint Ursala Place. This season includes New York’s Teatro Grattacielo company with Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” that’s been “updated as a celebration of Spanish sic-kitsch set in [the] ’90s replete with air couches, Channel clothes, lots of jewels, and a bright white stage made of tiles with bulls” (August 5), New York City Opera’s production of Verdi’s tragicomic masterwork “La Traviatta” starring baritone Michael Chioldi (August 6), and “Hollywood in the Hills,” which utilizes a full chorus, orchestra, and soloists to stage opera vignettes from such films as Philadelphia, The Shawshank Redemption, and Pretty Woman. Phoeniciavoicefest.org
Hudson Valley Jazz Festival (August 18–21) Now in its lucky 13th season, the Hudson Valley Jazz Festival is back to span various venues in Ulster and Orange counties and welcomes the Hudson Valley Jazz Ensemble (August 18), Rave Tesar (August 18), the Teri Roiger Trio (August 19), Neil Alexander (August 19), Stanley Jordan (August 20), the Bendy Effect (August 20), the Rick Savage Group (August 20), Billy Ware (August 21), and even more fine acts to be announced at the time of this writing. Check the festival’s website and Facebook page for an up-to-the-minute schedule of performances. Hudsonvalleyjazzfest.org
The Clock Tower, Venice, 1920. Jane Peterson (1876-1965). Oil on board. Collection of David Jay Clark and Patricia King, New York City. Photo by Joshua Nefsky.
Unmasking Venice features paintings, etchings and 3-dimensional objects that explore the two Venetian worlds depicted by American artists during the late 19th, early 20th and 21st centuries. The “picturesque” demonstrates the attraction to Venice felt by American tourists, while the “realistic” depicts the grittier realism of an everyday Venetian’s life. The exhibition includes work by a diverse group of artists including Jane Peterson and Fred Wilson.
This is one in a series of American art exhibitions created through a multi-year, multi-institutional partnership formed by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, as part of the Art Bridges Initiative. Sponsored in part by The Clark Foundation, Fenimore Asset Management, Inc., Nellie and Robert Gipson, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O. Putnam, and the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust.
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Including Bill Barclay’s The Chevalier, Kronos Quartet, Matthew Whitaker, Stephanie Blythe, Rachael & Vilray, Shemekia Copeland, the Jazz Festival, Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens, Marc-André Hamelin, and more! Plan your summer at Caramoor! Before the concert, explore our Sound Art installations, tour the historic Rosen House, or pack a picnic to enjoy with friends in our gardens.
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TANGLEWOOD
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 pop and rock names peppering the calendar. The 2022 Tanglewood summer schedule promises attendees of all ages an exciting assortment of concerts, talks, workshops, and open symphonic rehearsals, with many of them taking place in the center’s historic Koussevitzky Music Shed. This year, Tanglewood takes off with a Beatle in the Berkshires when Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band start the season (June 17), an event that’s immediately followed by an evening with Bonnie Raitt and Lucinda Williams (June 18). The next week brings the Mavericks with Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets (June 26) and the Black Crowes performing their classic 1990 album Shake Your Money Maker in its entirety (June 29). Recurring Tanglewood fave James Taylor’s two shows are already sold out (July 3 and 4), but tickets remain for the Silk Road Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens (July 28), Earth, Wind and Fire (August 9), Brandi Carlisle and the Indigo Girls (August 30), Judy Collins and Richard Thompson (September 3), and the festival’s closing night with Van Morrison (September 4). On the classical side of the spectrum, the BSO’s
Tanglewood season officially opens with a concert conducted by the orchestra’s music director Andris Nelsons that features the BSO debut of baritone Jack Canfield and includes Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2 and Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” (July 8). Nelsons next leads the orchestra, which is joined by soprano Nicole Cabell and pianist Aaron Diehl through works by Samuel Barber, George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, and Carlos Simon (July 9); and, with the Tanglewood Music Center Conducting Fellows, a selection of music by Schubert, Strauss, and Ravel (July 11). Pianist Emanuel Ax presents two “Pathways from Prague” programs of pieces by Janacek and Dvorak at the center’s Seiji Ozawa Hall (July 7 and 9), and the Boston Pops perform live orchestral accompaniment for The Empire Strikes Back (July 15). Native American Poet Laureate Joy Harjo orates (July 30) and conductor Cristian Macelaru debuts with the BSO and cellist Yo-Yo Ma with works by Anna Clyne, Elgar, Debussy, and Enescu (August 14). Tanglewood celebrates composer John Williams’s 90th birthday in an evening of his beloved films scores and music he wrote specifically for the BSO and the Boston Pops (August 20), while further festival highlights include Grammy-winning and vocalist and composer Cecile McLorin Savant singing music from her new album, Ghost Song (August 21). Bso.org/tanglewood —Peter Aaron
Into the Wood TANGLEWOOD June 17–September 4 Bso.org/tanglewood
Tanglewood Shed in 2018 Photo by Fred Collins
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Tina Chilip, Kayla Coleman, Alexandra Templer, and Kendall Cafaro in the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival's 2019 production of "Much Ado About Nothing." Photo by Richard Termine
Naomi Honig in the Powerhouse Training Company 2019 production of "Romeo and Juliet." Photo by Buck Lewis/Vassar & New York Stage and Film
“Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play” at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (July 17)
Presented under the open-air tent at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival’s Garrison location, Anne Washburn’s “Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play” concerns “a not-so-distant future where the grid has failed, society has crumbled, and memories can no longer be stored on hard drives, a group of survivors come together to recreate their vanished world through the life-affirming act of telling stories under the stars.” Also booked: “Romeo & Juliet” (July 15–September 18) and “Where We Belong” (August 14–22). Hvshakespeare.org
Powerhouse Theater Summer Season (June 26–July 30)
Powerhouse Theater, on the campus of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie—the celebrated incubator of Broadway’s Tony-winning “Hamilton,” “Bright Star,” and “The Humans”—has lined up yet another scintillating summer season. Commencing with a reading of “aNNA,” based on Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (June 26), the calendar continues with a reading of “Final Boarding Call” (July 2) and productions of “Luna and the Star Bodies” (July 8–9), “Things to Do When No One Can See You” (July 7, 14, 21, 28), “The Tempest” (July 15–17), “The Trojan Women” (July 22–24), “NYC: 1975” (July 24–25), and “Shakespeare: Unplugged” (July 29–31) and wraps up with the New Works Play Festival (July 30). A residency by the New York Stage and Film company includes “The World is Not Silent” (July 15–17), “Sweet Chariot” (July 22–24), and “Tell Them I’m Still Young” (July 28–30). Vassar.edu/powerhouse 62 THE GUIDE CHRONOGRAM 6/22
“Grounded” at Denizen Theater (June 9–July 10)
New York Stage and Film Workshops at Marist College (July 9–August 7)
Vital theatrical development company New York Stage and Film has expanded its program this year to Poughkeepsie’s Marist College, where it’s set to hold a trio of musical workshops as well as two weekends of open readings. The workshops include “The Return of Young Boy” (July 23–24), “The Potluck” (July 29–30), and “Sun Songs” (August 5–7). Weekend number one of the readings has “My Brother is Better at Love Than Me” (July 9), “Nuestro Planeta: Colombia Project” (July 9), and an untitled work by Josh Radnor (July 9). The second reading weekend features “Modern Gentleman” (August 6), “Demons” (August 6), and “Love All” (August 7). Newyorkstageandfilm.org
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“Public Speaking 101” at Great Barrington Public Theater (June 14–24)
Great Barrington Public Theater company presents productions at the Daniels Art Center of Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. This month in the center’s McConnell Theater is local playwright Mark St. Germain’s (“Eleanor,” “DAD”) new comedy “Public Speaking 101,” which follows “a neurotic amateur actress [who] leads her community theater class of terrified adults to compete in their county’s first annual public speaking competition.” Also playing: “Grief, the Musical…a Comedy” (June 3–12), “The Bard That Beat the Blues” (June 8–26), “The Shot” (June 16–19), “Leave Your Fears Here” starring James Morrison (June 30–July 10), and “Things I Know to Be True” (August 4–14). Greatbarringtonpublictheater.org
Moliere’s “Dom Juan” at Bard SummerScape (June 23–July 16)
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New Paltz’s black box theater at the Water Street Market has a new creative team at the helm. International theater veterans Andy and Kirsty Gaukel launch the 2022 season with George Brandt’s “Grounded,” a tale based on the current workings of the US military. An unexpected pregnancy ends an ace fighter pilot’s career in the sky. Reassigned to operate military drones from a windowless trailer outside Las Vegas, she hunts terrorists by day and returns home each night. As the pressure to track a high-profile target mounts, the boundaries begin to blur between the desert in which she lives and the one she patrols half a world away. Denizen’s staging of the one-man show stars Emmy Award-winning poet, writer, actor, and activist Suzen Baraka. As a black and Korean actress, Baraka says she took the role partly because “ideas around surveillance and being watched are huge in my community so I thought it would be interesting to explore it.” Denizentheatre.com
One of Bard College’s many intriguing SummerScape events during its 19th season is director Ashley Tata’s (“Mad Forest”) adaptation of Moliere’s classic “Dom Juan.” Presented at the Fisher Center’s LUMA Theater, Tata’s version subverts this already subversive comedy by casting female actors in the roles of Dom Juan (Amelia Workman) and, in this case, her sidekick, Sganarelle (Zuzanna Szadowski) and “sets the story in a fantasy world where 17th-century France meets late-1970s America.” Another SummerScape 2022 pick is Richard Strauss’s comic opera “The Silent Woman (Die Schweigsame Frau)” with the American Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leon Botstein (July 22–31). Fishercenter.bard.edu
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at Catskill Mountain Shakespeare (July 16–31) One of the Bard’s best-loved comedies gets an outdoor staging befitting its forested setting with this tented production by the Catskill Mountain Shakespeare troupe at the Emerson Resort and Spa in Phoenicia. Directed by Peter Andersen, the show’s riotous run will be previewed with a special pay-what-you-can performance on July 15 and includes both matinee and evening performances; for new parents, the schedule even includes several “relaxed” matinees with childcare provided. Catskillmountainshakespeare.com
“Invasion!” at the Ancram Opera House (August 5–21)
Built in 1927 as a Grange hall for the Columbia County farm town of Ancram, the Ancram Opera House provides a beatific setting for a performing arts venue. Top among its offerings this summer is Swedish novelist and playwright Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s satirical comedy “Invasion!,” whose main character, Abulkasem, is either “an uncle visiting from Lebanon, a renowned theater director, an asylum-seeking apple picker, [or] the world’s most dangerous terrorist.” Grab your tickets for this uproarious story and find out. Ancramoperahouse.org
“Shelley’s Shadow” at the Bridge Street Theater (September 8–18)
Brad Fraser’s “Shelley Shadow” is the first-ever new play commission for Catskill’s Bridge Street Theater. “Out of work, out of money, and out of ideas, David, a writer in his 60s, gives up his condo and moves into a run-down high-rise apartment building in downtown Toronto,” says the synopsis. “There, his life becomes inexorably entangled in that of his upstairs neighbor Shelley—a gregarious lesbian in her 80s with encroaching Alzheimer’s-related dementia—and her long-time canine companion, Shadow.” This month has the East Coast premiere of Eric Pfeffinger’s “Fourteen Funerals” (June 2–12). Bridgest.org
From the company that developed HAMILTON, HADESTOWN, AMERICAN IDIOT, THE WOLVES and DOUBT See new plays and musicals by Anna Deavere Smith, Josh Radnor, Keenan Scott II & many more. At Vassar's Powerhouse Theater & Marist College. See our full season schedule at www.newyorkstageandfilm.org/summer
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WYETH Black Wash Background, Torso, Nureyev, (Study #14), 1977, Jamie Wyeth. Mixed media, pencil, and wash on paper. Brandywine Museum of Art, purchased with funds given in memory of Dr. Margaret I. Handy, 1980 ©️ 2022 Jamie Wyeth/Artists Rights Society (ARS)
DRAWN FROM LIFE: THREE GENERATIONS OF WYETH FIGURE STUDIES ON VIEW THROUGH SEPTEMBER 5, 2022 Drawn from Life sheds light on N.C., Andrew, and Jamie Wyeth’s studio and academic figure studies, and provides a snapshot of them as young artists mastering the figure. The exhibition features many sketches and studies never-before displayed. Sponsored in part by The Clark Foundation, C.J. Heilig Foundation, Mr. Tom Morgan and Ms. Erna J. Morgan McReynolds, The Tom Morgan and Erna J. McReynolds Charitable Foundation, NYCM Insurance, and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O. Putnam.
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FEATURING VICTORIA WYETH This summer! See website for details. Photograph by Jim Graham
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SHADOWLAND
Shadowland Stages (formerly Shadowland Theater) in Ellenville is the cultural jewel of southern Ulster County, a beautifully renovated 1920s Art Deco vaudeville/silent-era movie house that has been a buzzing hive of regional live theater for 37 years. Under the leadership of artistic director Brendan Burke, Shadowland produces the occasional repertoire classic, but the signature focus of its main and blackbox studio stages is on new plays and musicals. This season, Shadowland has hit the jackpot by scoring the world premiere of “Safe Home” (July 15-August 7), a new work cowritten by actor Tom Hanks and stage director James Glossman and based on stories by Hanks. The play centers on wealthy inventor Bert Allenberry’s “time-bending odyssey to find his way ‘Safe Home’” and the people and places he encounters along the way. “Shadowland Stages is the ideal venue for ‘Safe Home’—a safe venue for a new play,” says Hanks. “The possibility to come back to the theater, to the fine hands of the ensemble, is fresh, thrilling, and due!” Likewise lighting up Shadowland in 2022 is a bright selection of other new original productions. “Airness” (June 3–19), written by Chelsea Marcantel and directed by Burke, is an award-winning comedy about a girl named Nina who immerses herself in the surreal world of competitive air guitar. Another opus making its world premiere at the theater is Donna Hoke’s thoughtprovoking “The Crossword Play (or Emeranda’s Gift)”
(June 24–July 10), whose main character “guides us through the creation of a brand-new puzzle—this one aimed at rekindling an old flame. Will her words woo him back? Or leave her puzzled about the past?” The season’s sole musical selection is “Almost Heaven” (August 12–September 11), a celebration of the life and songs of singer-songwriter John Denver. Told through “Rocky Mountain High,” “Sunshine on My Shoulders,” “Annie’s Song,” “Leaving on a Jet Plane,” “Calypso,” and other Denver hits, the revue chronicles his impact as both storyteller and activist. The darkly comic “In the Continuum” (September 16–October 2), cowritten by Danai Gurira and Nikkole Salter, sees the return of director Jammie Patton, who oversaw 2021’s successful “The Niceties.” The play addresses the tragic effects of AIDS on African and African American women and features two actresses portraying dozens of roles. Capping the season is “The Lifespan of a Fact” (October 7–23), a comedic effort based on the true story of an essay by writer John D’Agata that “follows Jim Fingal, a fresh-outof-Harvard fact-checker for a sinking once-heralded literary magazine. When his editor charges him with the assignment of checking an article by the prominent resident literary powerhouse, the editor secretly hopes to change the magazine’s fate.” See the center’s website for show times and ticket prices. —Peter Aaron
Tom Hanks in Ellenville SHADOWLAND STAGES June 3–October 23 Shadowlandstages.org
"Safe Home," a play cowritten by Tom Hanks, will be premiered at Shadowland Stages in July.
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TIBETAN ART from the JACK SHEAR COLLECTION Tsherin Sherpa, b. 1968, Untitled (detail), 2014, Gold leaf, acrylic, and ink on cotton, The Shelley and Donald Rubin Private Collection. © Tsherin Sherpa
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Thirteenth Karmapa Düdül Dorj (1733–1797) Surrounded by Lineage Masters (detail), Eastern Tibet, 19th century, Distemper on cloth, The Jack Shear Collection of Tibetan Art
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About 50 miles north of New York City, Pollepel Island sits just off the eastern shore of the Hudson River and catches the eyes of commuters on the Metro-North Line. What is this mysterious little island, and why is it home to the ruins of a castle? The story begins with Francis Bannerman VI. At the end of the Civil War, Bannerman and his father opened a military surplus store that would move around New York until it landed at 501 Broadway in Manhattan. As the Gilded Age wore on, the business grew exponentially, until it offered everything from uniforms to cannons. At the end of the Spanish-American War, Bannerman purchased some captured military goods for resale, including a large quantity of black powder. Bannerman couldn’t store that powder in his New York City store. Enter Pollepel Island. Bannerman purchased it in 1900 and began using some of the gunpowder to blast its hilly surface and make it more hospitable to building. Bannerman looked to his Scottish heritage as inspiration when designing his complex of buildings. The wall of the first arsenal served as an enormous billboard advertising his New York store. Construction on the island continued all the way until Bannerman’s death in 1918. Two years later, the powder house blew, and the resulting explosion was heard as far as 75 miles away. From that point forward, the castle and surrounding buildings began falling into disrepair, until a fire in 1969 acted as the final nail in the coffin. For years the island sat mysterious and abandoned, until the Bannerman Castle Trust was founded in 1994 by Neil Caplan. In 2004, tours of the island began, and the trust continues its restoration of the island to this day, making sure it does not fall into further disrepair and fixing what has been broken. The trust also puts on events each year to fundraise for their cause, teach
both locals and visitors about the island›s history, and provide entertainment. Eighteen years later, the Bannerman Castle Trust is planning another season of arts and cultural programming. On the third Sunday of the month, May through October, the trust will host concerts that include self-guided tours of the island. Scheduled performers include the Costellos, the Wild Irish Roses, and the Storm King Duo. A series of movies will also be screened throughout the summer, like The Princess Bride on July 1 and Young Frankenstein on September 3. Bannerman also hosts a variety of theater events. On July 2, enjoy a five-course meal of farm fresh food presented by the Chef’s Consortium. Dinner will be accompanied by a performance of “Heroes, Monsters and Madmen,” in which Broadway veteran Craig Schulman will revisit such iconic roles as the Phantom of the Opera, Jean Valjean, and Dr. Jekyll. Another farm-to-table dinner will be held on September 3, with music provided by harpist and singer Thistle. These two events will also include an exhibition featuring the paintings and photographs of local artists. Other productions include the play “Scotland Road,” in which a young woman is rescued from a floating iceberg speaking only one word: "Titanic." That production will run from July 21 to 24. There will also be a production of “Dracula” staged by Theatre on the Road September 15 to 18. If you want to learn more of the island’s history, walking tours leave via ferry from the Beacon waterfront every Friday to Sunday from May to October. You can also reserve a kayaking tour with Storm King Adventure Tours, which includes a guided history tour. For tickets to all of these events, visit Bannermancastle.org and, as Caplan puts it, get bitten by the Bannerman bug. —Emma Cariello
Down by the River BANNERMAN ISLAND July 2–September 18 Bannermancastle.org
Bannerman Island hosts a full slate of cultural events this summer, from farm-to-table dinners to film screenings and theater productions. Photo by L. A. Clark
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Cold Spring Dance Company at Magazzino Italian Art (starting June 1)
In conjunction with “Piero Gilardi: Tappeto-Natura,” an exhibition of works by the pioneering Italian artist Piero Gilardi at the Magazzino Italian Art museum in Cold Spring, is this series of performances by Cold Spring Dance Company that pay tribute to Gilardi’s wearable Vestiti-Natura (Nature-Dresses). The historic pieces, two of which are on view in the exhibit, were unveiled in the late 1960s via a run of performances at the famed Piper Club, an experimental art space in the northern Italian city of Turin. The 15-minute performances will take place in the museum’s Gallery 8 at 12pm, 12:30pm, and 1pm on the second Saturday of every month through December. Magazzino.art
Kaatsbaan Summer Festival (June 4–19)
In Tivoli, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park’s summer festival has four segments: “Live Arts Global” (June 4–5), which this year presents the dance performance “JOURNEY”; “Rising Stars” (June 11–12), with dancers from the ABT JKO School, the Juilliard School, and the School of American Ballet with music by the Neave Trio; acclaimed cabaret artist Taylor Mac (June 18); and a Juneteenth celebration (June 19) with music from saxophonist Tyrone Birkett and Emancipation, dance by Robert Rubama and Kar’mel Antonyo Wade Small, and a poetry lineup curated by the multi-award-winning poet “Patricia Smith” and costarring poet laureate of Los Angeles Lynne Thompson and Pulitzer-winning Tyehimba Jess. Kaatsbaan.org
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Hee Seo and Ask la Cour performing After the Rain by Christopher Wheeldon at the Kaatsbaan Spring Festival 2021.
Jacob’s Pillow (June 22–August 28)
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival stretches back to the 1930s, when pioneering choreographer Ted Shawn purchased a former farm in Beckett, Massachusetts, and reopened it as a key modern dance center. This summer’s performances include “Americ(na) to Me” (June 22-26), Ronald K. Brown/Evidence (June 29– July 3), Bodytraffic (June 29–July 3), the Loni Landon Dance Project (July 1-2), “Sw!ng Out” (July 6-10), “A.I.M.” by Kyle Abraham (July 13–17), the Limon Dance Company (July 20–24), Music from the Sole (July 20–24), Black Grace (July 27–31), Taylor Stanley (July 27–31), Michelle N. Gibson with the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra’s NOJO 7 (July 29-30), Alonzo King Lines Ballet (August 3–7), Liz Lerman’s “Wicked Bodies” (August 10–13), and more. Jacobspillow.org
Tom Gold Dance at TurnPark Art Space (June 24)
West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, sculpture park and contemporary art center TurnPark Art Space launched its 2022 season last month, announcing its summer schedule ahead of the opening. High up among the warm-weather happenings is this afternoon date by New York ensemble Tom Gold Dance with a routine that was inspired by the park itself. Founded in 2008 by New York City Ballet soloist Tom Gold, the classical dance troupe embraces bold new movement that both channels and accentuates its members’ classical training. Also on the schedule is an afternoon with local Fern Katz Dance (August 27), the center’s annual summer festival (July 11), musician David Rothenberg’s “What Birds Sing: Music from Nature” (July 16), poetry, sculpture, and more. Turnpark.com
“Bridge Music Dance Project” (June 25; rain date June 28)
“Bridge Music Dance Project” is a free, unique event that brings together three of the Hudson Valley’s leading attractions: the Walkway Over the Hudson bridge park, composer Joseph Bertolozzi’s “Bridge Music,” and the Vanaver Caravan dance troupe. Staged on the Walkway Over the Hudson, which spans the Hudson River between Poughkeepsie and Highland, the project is a program of experimental performances by dancers from the Hudson Valley choreographed to “Bridge Music,” Bertolozzi’s percussion suite that was recorded using the nearby Mid-Hudson Valley Bridge as instrumentation. 7:30pm. Vanavercaravan.org
“Song of Songs” at Bard SummerScape (July 1–3)
A standout of the 2022 Bard SummerScape festival (whose inspirational focus this year is “Rachmaninoff and His World”), “Song of Songs,” is a major new dance-theater work based on the biblical poem of the same title (AKA “The Song of Solomon”) that will make its world premiere at the magnificent Fisher Center on the college’s Annandale-on-Hudson campus. With choreography by the center’s resident choreographer Pam Tanowitz and music by composer David Lang, “Song of Songs” is described as “a collage of sound, song, and movement that reimagines ancient rituals of love and courtship” and “holds the sacred and profane threads of the ‘Song’ in perfect balance.” Fishercenter.bard.edu
Melissa Toogood and Zachary Gonder will perform in "Song of Songs," a world premier at Bard SummerScape. Choreography by Pam Tanowitz and music by David Lang. Photo by Maria Baranova
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The Limón Dance Company performs July 20-24 at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. Photo by Kelly Puleio
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Chock-Full in Chatham PS21 June 3–September 16 Ps21chatham.org
Nitzan Moshe performs in Vertigo Dance Company's "One. One & One" July 28-29 at PS21. Photo by Rune Abro
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Chatham multidisciplinary arts center PS21 (AKA Performance Spaces for the 21st Century) has launched its 2022 summer season schedule, which is happening at its state-of-the-art, open-air pavilion theater and 100 acres of trails and grounds. In keeping with its mission and past programming, PS21’s current, internationally focused summer listings once again contain a revelatory rundown of exceptional-looking events—50 of them—that encompass dance, music, theater, opera, workshops, and content for young people. First up this month is “Re:Incarnation” by Nigerian dance troupe QDance (June 3–4). “All my work becomes meaningful in the context of time,” explains QDance choreographer Qudus Onikeky. “[West African] Yoruba philosophy believes in reincarnation, which means that there is no distance between the space in which the living exist; the space of the ancestors who’ve passed away; and the space of the unborn, who belong to the spiritual world. ‘Re:Incarnation’ is inspired by these three spaces, which coexist simultaneously.” Israel’s Vertigo Dance Company will appear at PS21 as well, with “One. One & One” (July 28–29), while the Mark Morris Dance Group will perform three pieces (August 6) and 2022 resident troupe Jamal Jackson Dance Company will premiere “846” (August 6). For the season’s music, the selections are likewise outward-looking and exciting. Montreal based hip-hip collective Vox Sambou’s repertoire fuses traditional Haitian rhythms with Afrobeat, jazz, reggae, and hip-hop
(June 17). Ukrainian band DakhaBrakha, whose style draws from their homeland’s folk music and culture, will perform live accompaniment to Alexander Dovzhenko’s 1930 silent film masterpiece Earth, about resistance to Soviets collectivization of Ukrainian farms (August 11). Doug Perkins of the So Percussion ensemble will conduct 36 percussionists in an outdoor performance of composer Michael Gordon’s “Field of Vision” (July 25). The theatrical fare this summer includes the world premiere of Sylvia Milo, Nathan Davis, and Joanna Kotze’s “I Am the Utterance of My Name: Divining Mary Magdalene” (July 10), which utilizes theater, experimental music, ritual, and biblical, Gnostic, heretical, medieval, and modern sources to essay the first seven apparitions of the Virgin Mary. French director and visual artist Philippe Quesne’s “Farm Fatale” (September 2–3) follows the sole survivors of an environmental collapse—five scarecrows—in their new roles as dreamers, poets, and planetary activists. South Africa-born playwright Robyn Orlin’s political cabaret work “And so you see…our honorable blue sky and ever enduring sun…can only be consumed slice by slice…” explores Africa’s relationship with the West with scathing humor (September 16). Another residency, this one by the Berkshire Opera Festival, features a new production of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s “Three Decembers” (July 21 and 23). For a complete listing of all PS21 summer 2022 events and ticket information, visit the center’s website. —Peter Aaron
Suzan Frecon an installation June 5 – July 10 Arlene Shechet Couple of July 17 – August 28 Pamphlet Architecture Visions and Experiments in Architecture September 4 – October 16 Open Sundays 11 AM - 5 PM Book a guided tour of our campus including the new Architecture Archive and Research Library and the Installation Trail on our 30-acre nature reserve. www.tspacerhinebeck.org The Summer Synthesis of the Arts Series is generously supported by Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown, Steve Pulimood, Pace Gallery, David Zwirner, Archive Fine Art, Inc. and its affiliates Art Crating, Inc., & ACLA, LLC, Sharon Breslau of Berkshire Hathaway HS Hudson Valley. Thank you to all our donors who help make 'T' Space possible.
RODIN IN THE UNITED STATES: CONFRONTING THE MODERN JUNE 18–SEPTEMBER 18 WILLIAMSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS CLARKART.EDU This exhibition is made possible by Denise Littlefield Sobel and Diane and Andreas Halvorsen. Auguste Rodin, Fallen Caryatid (Douleur) (detail), original model 1882; carved 1882–83. Marble. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Gift of the Estate of Samuel Isham through Julia Isham (Mrs. Henry Osborn Taylor) 17.3134
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MASS MOCA
As usual, contemporary multi-arts center Mass MoCA’s current season is packed to its historic-formermill-building rafters with engaging and exciting events. The North Adams, Massachusetts, performance site and art museum finished last month on a high note with the return of Wilco’s Solid Sound festival and is turning up the summer heat with still more sizzling concerts, complimented by a heady mix of art, performance, and more. The musical coolness continues with a special Juneteenth celebration by Terrance Simien and the Zydeco Experience (June 18) and appearances by rising folk-popper Brooke Annibale (July 2), “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” house band the Roots (July 8), Scottish synth outfit Chvrches (August 5), vocal group Roomful of Teeth and friends (August 17), trumpeter Terence Blanchard featuring the E-Collective and Turtle Island Quartet (August 26), and witty indie icons They Might Be Giants (September 3). “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” creator John Cameron Mitchell and international cabaret star Amber Martin will present an evening of songs and stories accompanied by “Hedwig” band Tits of Clay (July 16). Returning avant-garde organization Bang on a Can will perform a series of weekday gallery concerts (free with museum admission) as the leadup to Bang on a Can’s LOUD Weekend festival (July 28-30). Further out on the festival front is “boutique festival” Here and There (August 13), which has Courtney Barnett, Lucy Dacus,
Men I Trust, Faye Webster, Bartees Strange, the Beths, and Hanna Vu; and the favored FreshGrass Festival (September 23–25) with Gary Clark Jr., Old Crow Medicine Show, Tanya Tucker, Trampled by Turtles, the Del McCoury Band, Yola, Taj Mahal, and much more. Globally oriented live attractions at Mass MoCA in 2022 include the Montreal-based circus troupe Cirque Kalabante (June 26), which “combines breathtaking acrobatics with live music played on the traditional instruments of their native Guinea, including kora, djembe, and various kinds of percussion,” and artist Armando Cortes’s “Aun Los Gallos (Even Roosters Cry)” (June 10–11: July 9–10; September 3–4), an installation performance that explores his Mexican roots. The annual Time of Now festival (June 25) promises pop-ups, performances, talks, and film screenings by artists, musicians, dancers, designers, and thinkers, such as exhibiting artists Lily Cox-Richard and Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Helga Davis, and Treya Lam. Jointly presented by Mass MoCA at the Thomas Cole Historic Site in Catskill is artist Marc Swanson’s exhibition “A Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco” (July 16– November 27), a new series of installations inspired by the artwork and writings of the influential Hudson River School painter Thomas Cole. See the Mass MoCA website for a full, updated calendar of events and exhibits. —Peter Aaron
Globetrotting in North Adams MASS MOCA Through September 25 Massmoca.org
Cirque Kalabante performs at Mass MoCA in North Adams on June 26. Photo by Peter Graham
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Every life is a journey, but some people voyage farther than others. Harvey Fite was born in Pittsburgh in 1903, grew up in Texas, went to law school, dropped out, and switched to Bard College (then known as St. Stephen’s) to study for the ministry. He left that college also, to be an actor with the Jitney Players. “Dyslexia influenced so many of his decisions,” observes Suzanne Bennett, co-curator of “Let the Stone Tell the Story: An Inside Look at Sculptor Harvey Fite’s Studio Work,” opening at two venues in Saugerties on June 3. One day while waiting backstage, a fellow actor handed Fite a piece of wood to whittle. He became addicted to sculpting, and never stopped. Fite is best known for Opus 40, a massive handbuilt sculpture, with ramps, walls, and pedestals, covering 6.5 acres in Saugerties. This was one of the first American “earthworks.” Originally intended as a showcase for Fite’s studio sculpture, the mazelike structure evolved into a work of art on its own. Fite continued making figurative sculptures throughout his life. Gluttony is a vase-like pig with human hands, in travertine. An alabaster cat squints wisely. (There’s something fitting about a translucent cat.) The Bulldancer was inspired by a dance in ancient Crete that foreshadowed the bullfight. Courageous acrobats would seize the horns of a bull, mount him, then do headstands and other daring tricks. Fite’s tribute to this dance is a vertiginous sculpture, the man’s body and bull’s head merged into a swirling S-shape. The influence of dance—especially the work of Martha Graham—appears throughout his work. Fite’s goal was to reduce the human body to its essential form, almost the way driftwood is smoothed by the action of water. He created a pantheon of his own, with some of the frozen dignity of the Egyptian gods. The day before he died, the artist completed his first abstract work: a streamlined tree stump pierced by a winding tunnel, like an entryway into the Next World.
(Fite died in 1976, when a lawnmower he was riding fell into Opus 40.) Unusually, Fite worked in numerous materials, including bronze, onyx, plaster, black walnut—as if drawn to the unique challenges of each substrate. There’s only one known painting by him, and even that is not absolutely authenticated: a heroic rendering of an African-American guitarist. (It’s unsigned, but the family remembers him painting it, and it hung in the family home for years.) The singer’s shirt is a warm yellow; his arms are muscular, perhaps from a life of physical labor—as if Fite is drawing on the subject’s strength to transform this painting into a song. Also in the show are utilitarian items Fite created: rope chairs, lamps, a table in the shape of a drum, wooden spoons, cheese boards. He combined farm implements into found sculptures he called “swans.” It’s a little mysterious that no drawings of Fite’s remain. Harvey and his wife were known for their large parties, which were often benefits for local causes. “Fite combined a fierce passion for his work with geniality,” Bennett explains. “He made his own moonshine.” And in honor of the exhibition, the Saugerties distillery Catskill Mountain Moonshine Co. will serve a drink in their tap room called the Bull Dancer made with apple brandy—the type of hooch Fite brewed. Due to his extreme dyslexia, his wife would read to him every night; the Inquiring Minds Bookstore will display books Barbara read to Harvey. Fite was a devoted square dancer, so the Lamb Center will present a square dance in his honor on July 9, with a live band, the Mapletones. “Let the Stone Tell the Story: An Inside Look at Sculptor Harvey Fite’s Studio Work” will run June 3– July 10 at Emerge Gallery and the Lamb Center in Saugerties. ShoutOut Saugerties is a cosponsor. Shoutoutsaugerties.org —Sparrow
Dances With Bulls “LET THE STONE TELL THE STORY: AN INSIDE LOOK AT SCULPTOR HARVEY FITE’S STUDIO WORK” AT EMERGE GALLERY AND LAMB CENTER June 3-July 10 Shoutoutsaugerties.org
From left: Plaster portrait of opera singer Marian Anderson, 1955 Harvey Fite in his Saugerties studio
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Coral Hairstreak, Tourmaline, 2020, from "52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone" at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. Photo by Dario Lasagni
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The Glider, Wangechi Mutu, soil, charcoal, paper pulp, wood glue, charcoal, ink, wood, gourd, shell, brass bead, 2022
Wangechi Mutu at Storm King Art Center (Through November 7)
While it’s always a delight to visit the permanent collection of large-scale sculptures by the likes of Alexander Calder, Mark di Suvero, and Louise Nevelson at Storm King, the sculpture park is always adding something new to ponder on its 500 acres in New Windsor. (Still reeling from Sarah Sze’s installation of mirroring wonder Fallen Sky from 2021.) This year, the Kenyan artist Wangechi Mutu installs eight large-scale cast bronze works, which seek to break down hierarchies among living things and assert the relevance of myth, fable, and the history of African art making. Stormking.org
“Couple of” by Arlene Shechet at T Space (July 17–August 28)
Shechet, a Woodstock resident who maintains a studio in Kingston, has shown at blue chip galleries like Pace and Sikkema Jenkins & Co, as well as at museums like the Frick and the Phillips in her 30-year career. “Couple of” will be Shechet’s first show in the Hudson Valley, showcasing sculptures that seem to dodge stasis in their sinuous lines, as if change was imminent. The architectural nature of the wood and ceramic constructions will play interestingly against the Rhinebeck gallery’s distinctive structure, itself a piece of art designed by renowned architect Steven Holl. Tspacerhinebeck.org
“52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone” at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (June 6–January 8)
In 1971, Lucy R. Lippard curated the exhibition “Twenty-Six Contemporary Women Artists” at the Aldrich. The historic show featured emerging women artists (Howardena Pindell and Alice Aycock among them), all of whom had never had a solo show in New York City. Fifty-one years later, “52 Artists” showcases the original artists from the 1971 show alongside a new roster of 26 female identifying or nonbinary emerging artists born after 1980 who live and work in New York City, tracking the evolution of feminist art practices over the past five decades. The younger artists include Emile L. Gossiaux, Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski, Stella Zhong, and Phoebe Berglund. Thealdrich.org
“Secret Project Robot Country Club” at ArtPort Kingston (July 16–September 11)
Located in the Cornell Steamboat Building on the Rondout Creek, ArtPort Kingston is a massive space where a conventional art gallery takes a stab at unconventional interactions with non-art audiences. This approach is on full view this summer with “Secret Project Robot Country Club,” a site-specific art installation and interactive miniature golf course by Rachel Nelson and Erik Zajaceskowski that’s a cheeky play on country club life. The holes will be fully interactive and playable, with trophy paintings and trophy prints available to all golfers. Artportkingston.com
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Above: Swipe, Adam Chau, Chinese porcelain, cobalt derived from iPhone battery, PVD, and silver luster, 2019. Part of the exhibition "The Material, The Thing" at the Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz. Right: A cast of Auguste Rodin's The Thinker, from "Rodin in the United States" at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA. Courtesy of The Baltimore Museum of Art: The Jacob Epstein Collection
“The Material, The Thing” at the Dorsky Museum (June 22–November 6)
For the past 14 years, the Dorsky has mounted an annual exhibition of regional artists that serves as a snapshot of the Hudson Valley’s artistic zeitgeist and a launching pad for emerging talent. This year's artists include familiar names: Daniel Giordano, Laetitia Hussain, Sydney Cash, and Millicent Young among two dozen others. “The Material, The Thing” considers how artists understand and reimagine the material culture we live in and invites them to perform alchemy on everyday items, turning them into art. Or, as Arthur Danto put it, “the transfiguration of the commonplace.” The exhibit is curated by Nicole Hayes, a curator at Art Omi. Newpaltz.edu/museum
“Rodin in the United States” at the Clark Art Institute (June 18–September 18)
Auguste Rodin’s bronze sculptures are widely revered around the world now, but this French artist didn’t always enjoy a burnished reputation here. This potential blockbuster show includes roughly 50 sculptures and 25 drawings (The Thinker among them), and charts the influences on the course of an artist’s reputation by various forces, including collectors, museums, and art historians. The nearly 1,300 works by Rodin held in American museums and private collections today testify to his lasting power. Clarkart.edu
“Black Melancholia” at CCS Bard Galleries (June 25–October 16)
Search images for “melancholy” and “art history” and up pops a page full of white women, nearly all holding their heads in despair. Fast forward to “Black Melancholia,” curated by Nana Adusei-Poku, a show which gives voice to 28 artists of African descent. It ranges from the 19th century to contemporary work, and comprises a wide variety of media. The show aims to transcend the typical imagery of melancholy in art history and refract traditionally racialized content which has often depicted radical emotional states—despair, loss, longing— through a primarily white, female lens. Ccs.Bard.edu/museum
Upstate Art Weekend (July 22–24)
Founded during the first summer of the pandemic by art world veteran Helen Toomer to bring exposure to Hudson Valley art and artists and escape to quarantine-fatigued city dwellers, the first year featured 23 arts venues. In 2021, the number of participating sites numbered over 60. This year’s Upstate Art Weekend has over 145 participants, from museums (Dia:Beacon, Lehman Loeb, Dorsky) to lesser known art destinations (Bradford Graves Sculpture Park), and artists’ open studios (three quick recommendations: Philippe Halaburda, Helen Prior, Julia von Eichel). The smorgasbord art event of the season. Upstateartweekend.org
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Above: An installation view of the Pietro Gilardi exhibition "Gilardi: Tappeto-Natura," at Magazzino Italian Art. Photo by Marco Anelli/Tommaso Sacconi Right: Pull My Daisy, Heidi Johnson, part of the Wassaic Project exhibition "A Tournament of Lies."
“Gilardi: Tappeto-Natura” at Magazzino Italian Art (Through January 9, 2023)
The house that Arte Povera built, Magazzino has brought influential Italian artists of that influential art movement of the 1960s and ‘70s to its modernist museum in Cold Spring since it opened in 2017. This summer, there are the fascinating “nature carpets” (tappet-natura) of Pietro Gilardi, one of the main protagonists of Arte Povera. Carving natural scenes into artificial materials like polyurethane foam and then saturating them with synthetic pigment, Gilardi sought to recreate nature in an uncontaminated form. Some of the pieces, especially a couple depicting sea birds flying low over water, are breathtaking. Magazzino.art
“A Tournament of Lies” at Wassaic Project (Through September 17)
Wassaic Project’s big summer show takes a line from the whimsical doomsaying of R.E.M.’s “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)” as its point of departure. Curated by Eve Biddle, Bowie Zunino, Jeff Barnett-Winsby, and Will Hutnick, “A Tournament of Lies” gathers 46 artists in Wassaic in hopes of harnessing the infinite energy of the life-imitates-art-imitates-life-imitates-art dynamo. Among them, Heidi Johnson’s realist/surrealist paintings of domestic existence with animals (human ones included); Amy Vazquez combines rituals old and new to bridge the everyday and the otherworld; and Stephen Morrison’s canine friends cordially invite you to an all-dog dinner party. Wassaicproject.org —Brian K. Mahoney and Susan Yung 6/22 CHRONOGRAM THE GUIDE 79
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Annual 2001-2002, Alan Coons, Part of the exhibition "Annuals 1998-2022" from June 25-August 28, at Hudson Hall.
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“In the Same World.” Catherine Ramey and Mark LaRiviere. Through June 12. “P.O.I/P.O.V.” Works by Robin Factor. June 18-July 24.
“Harold Granucci: Geometry.” Works on paper by self-taught artist and math genius. June 6-July 11.
“Two to Tango.” The work of 12 artists who happen to be six couples. Through June 12.
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510 WARREN ST GALLERY
510 WARREN STREET, HUDSON “Grey to Green.” Recent paintings by Ian Wilson Clyde. June 3-26.
AL HELD FOUNDATION
26 BEECHFORD DRIVE, BOICEVILLE “Linear Dimensions.” New work by Andrew Lyght. Curated by Sophie Landres and Candice Madey. June 5-July 24.
THE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM 258 MAIN STREET, RIDGEFIELD, CT
“52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone.” The exhibition celebrates the fifty-first anniversary of the historic exhibition “Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists." June 4-January 8.
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71 EAST MARKET STREET #5, RHINEBECK “Marcia Slatkin.” Collages from photography. Through June 5. “Alix Travis: Paintings.” June 5-July 3.
ART OMI
1405 COUNTY ROUTE 22, GHENT “Raven Halfmoon: Ancestors.” Large ceramic sculptures. Through June 12. “Flood.” Installation by Portia Munson. June 25-September 25.
CLINTON CORNERS.
296 MAIN STREET, GREAT BARRINGTON, MA
ARTPORT KINGSTON
BEVIER HOUSE MUSEUM
“Let the Song Play On.” Group show of painting, sculpture, and sound works. June 10-July 10.
“Art Colonies of Ulster County: Elverhoj, Cragsmoor, and Byrdcliffe.” Major exhibition featuring the arts and crafts of three important Ulster County art colonies—Elverhoj, Cragsmoor, and Byrdcliffe. June 4-October 31.
108 E STRAND STREET, KINGSTON
ASSEMBLY
397 BROADWAY, MONTICELLO “Assembly 1: Unstored”. Work by Izumi Kato, Ugo Rondinone, and Shiro Tsujimura. Through April 30, 2023. “Contemporary Sculpture from Mexico”. Review of contemporary Mexican sculpture curated by Dakin Hart. Through April 30, 2023.
BEACON ARTISTS UNION
506 MAIN STREET, BEACON “Shaping Color.” Paintings by Fruma Shrensel. June 11-July 3. “Resin D'Etre.” Aaron Simon Dunn, Melissa Schlobohm, Gary Lee Cordray. June 11-July 3. “When Will I See You Again.” Drawings by Mary McFerran. June 11-July 3.
BERKSHIRE BOTANICAL GARDEN 5 WEST STOCKBRIDGE ROAD, STOCKBRIDGE, MA
“Hunt Country.” Paintings by Hunt Slonem. Through June 5. "Symbiosis." Sculpture show curated by Beth Rudin deWoody. June 11-October 28.
2682 ROUTE 209, KINGSTON
CARRIE CHEN GALLERY 16 RAILROAD STREET, GREAT BARRINGTON, MA.
“Form, Light Color.” Recent works by artists Dai Ban, Liane Nouri, and Susan Lisbin. Through June 26.
CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY
622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON "My Own Backyard." Group exhibit featuring paintings by David Konigsberg, Ragellah Rourke and Frank DePietro; encaustics by Allyson Levy and photography by Jeri Eisenberg. June 4-July 24.
THE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK 474 BROADWAY, KINGSTON
“Wild Place: People of Kingston.” Photographs and interviews with residents of Kingston. Through July 17.
CLARK ART INSTITUTE
225 SOUTH STREET, WILLIAMSTOWN, MA “Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern.” June 18-September 18.
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6571 SPRING BROOK AVE, RHINEBECK “Paintings by Melanie Delgado and Alicia Mikles.” Recent work. June 11-September 30.
CROTON FREE LIBRARY 171 CLEVELAND DRIVE, CROTON-ON-HUDSON
“Life Patterns.” Paintings by Theresa DeSalvio. Through June 29.
CUNNEEN-HACKETT ARTS CENTER
9 & 12 VASSAR STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE “Whisperer of Secrets.” Art inspired by Norse mythology and Scandinavian folklore by Helena Palazzi. Through June 30.
DAVIS ORTON GALLERY
114 WARREN STREET, HUDSON “Flowers Everywhere.” Work by Vaughn Sills and Laurie Peek. Through June 5.
DIA BEACON
3 BEEKMAN STREET, BEACON Richard Serra, Michael Heizer, Mario Merz, others, on long-term view. Ongoing.
EMERGE GALLERY
228 MAIN STREET, SAUGERTIES “Let the Stone Tell the Story: An Inside Look at Opus 40 Sculptor Harvey Fite.” June 3-July 10.
FENIMORE ART MUSEUM 5798 STATE HIGHWAY 80, COOPERSTOWN
"Drawn from Life: Three Generations of Wyeth Figure Studies." Through September 5. "Unmasking Venice: American Artists and the City of Water." Through September 5.
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ART Sculpture from "Big Risks: Creative Discoveries, Sculptures by Peter Strasser" at Garner Arts Center through June 25.
MAGAZZINO ITALIAN ART
2700 ROUTE 9, COLD SPRING “Gilardi: Tappeto-Natura.” Piero Gilardi’s Tappeto-Natura (Nature-Carpets). Curated by Elena Re. Through January 9, 2023.
MANITOGA
584 ROUTE 9D, GARRISON “Formfantasma at Manitoga’s Dragon Rock: Designing Nature.” Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin of the Italian design duo Formafantasma present a selection of works in dialogue with the house, studio and surrounding landscape at Manitoga. In collaboration with Magazzino Italian Art. Through November 14.
MARK GRUBER GALLERY
NEW PALTZ PLAZA, NEW PALTZ “Alternate Visions.” Paintings by Kevin Cook and James Cramer. Through July 9.
MASS MOCA
1040 MASS MOCA WAY, NORTH ADAMS, MA
FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER AT VASSAR COLLEGE 124 RAYMOND AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE
"Beyond the Threshold: Tibetan Contemporary Art." “Through July 31. "Mastery and Merit." Tibetan art from the Jack Shear Collection. Through July 31.
FURNACE—ART ON PAPER ARCHIVE 107 MAIN STREET, FALLS VILLAGE, CT
“Normally Invisible.” New paintings and works on paper by Hermine Ford. Through June 12. “This There.” New paintings and works on paper by Gary Stephan. June 18-July 24.
GARNER ARTS CENTER
55 WEST RAILROAD AVENUE, GARNERVILLE “Big Risks: Creative Discoveries.”Sculpture by Peter Strasser. Through June 25.
GARRISON ART CENTER
23 GARRISON’S LANDING, GARRISON “Carla Rae Johnson and Alfred Schwartz.” Painting and sculpture. Through June 12. “Summer Arts.” Student works in progress. June 27-August 8.
GREEN KILL
229 GREENKILL AVENUE, KINGSTON “Permeable Boundaries.” Alan Falk, Julie Seidman, Joel Silverstein. Through June 25.
GRIT WORKS
115 BROADWAY, NEWBURGH “Brass Tax and the Invisible Complexities Within.” Multimedia work by David Lionheart. Through June 19.
HESSEL MUSEUM OF ART/CCS BARD
25-November 7. “Martine Syms: Grio College.” Recent and never-before-seen video works that interrogate digital media’s influence on our lives and explore representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. June 25-November 7.
HOLLAND TUNNEL GALLERY
46 CHAMBERS STREET, NEWBURGH “Holland Tunnel Celebrates 25 Years.” Works by Alexandra Limpert, Bix Lye, Jacques Roch, Jan Mulder, Larry Webb, Paulien Lethen, and Susan Daboll. Through June 26.
HOWLAND CULTURAL CENTER 477 MAIN STREET, BEACON.
“BeaconArts at the Howland.” Multimedia group exhibition curated by Samantha Palmeri and Karen E. Gersch. June 4-26.
HUDSON BEACH GLASS GALLERY 162 MAIN STREET, BEACON
“Wall Works." Frescoes, photo-sculptures, and mixed media photographs by Franc Palaia. Through June 5.
HUDSON HALL
327 WARREN STREET, HUDSON “Nearly Stationary: Performance and the Still Object.” Twenty years of sculpture, drawings, photographs, and collaborations with contemporary dance by Barbara Kilpatrick. Through June 12.
JOYCE GOLDSTEIN GALLERY
19 CENTRAL SQUARE, CHATHAM “Shaker Inspired.” Francis Cape, Matt Crane, Betsy Friedman, Kathy Greenwood, Bruce Honeycutt, Bill Jacobson, Matt LaFleur, Caitlin MacBride, Robin McKay, Sue Muskat, Chris Pennock, Richard Saja, and Nicholas Sullivan. Through June 18.
KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART 134 JAY STREET, KATONAH
“Let’s Step Inside.” Whimsical site-specific installation by Jeila Gueramian. Through June 26. "Constant Carnival: The Haas Brothers in Context." Constant Carnival: Through June 26.
KLEINERT/JAMES ARTS CENTER 34 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK
“Byrdcliffe Reflections: Artists-in-Residence Exhibition.” Work by Corinne Beardsley, Samantha Bittman, Abby Cheney, Rob Collier, Anya Ferring, Alex Goldberg, Elissa Gore, Fei Li, Taraneh Mosadegh, Andrea Ray, John Reutershan, Chris Riddle, Corinne Robbins, and Maya Strauss. Through June 5. “Passed and Present.” Exhibition and installation by cinema artist Tessa Hughes-Freeland. June 18-July 31.
LAMB HOUSE
41 MARKET STREET, SAUGERTIES “Let the Stone Tell the Story: An Inside Look at Opus 40 Sculptor Harvey Fite.” June 3-July 10.
THE HYDE COLLECTION
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"Jose Guadalupe Posada: The Legendary Printmaker of Mexico." June 11-September 18. “Transformations: The Art of John Van Alstine.” Sculpture by John Van Alstine. June 12-September 18.
“Birds.” Paintings of birds by Steven Strauss. Through July 20.
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JANE ST. ART CENTER
“Black Melancholia.” Featuring artists from the late 19th Century through present day, including Ain Bailey, Sargent Johnson, Augusta Savage, Lorna Simpson, and Charisse Pearlina Weston. June 2-October 16. “Dara Birnbaum: Reaction.” First US retrospective of groundbreaking video artist. June
“Pathways and Waterways: Explorations into Light and Color.” Paintings by Dan Shorenstein. Through August 12.
“Weather.” Multimedia works by Traci Horgen. Through June 19. "Melinda Stickney-Gibson." June 25-July 31.
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20 CHARLES COLMAN BOULEVARD, PAWLING “About Color.” Paintings by Kathleen Gefell and Catriona Herd. June 1-30.
“Marc Swanson: A Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco.” Exhibition curated by Denise Markonish, in conjunction with an exhibition at Thomas Cole Historic Site July 16-November 27. Through January 1, 2023.
MERGE
178 SCHOONMAKER LANE, STONE RIDGE “Fear Not.” Work by Stephen Zaima. Through June 5.
MONTGOMERY ROW SECOND LEVEL 6423 MONTGOMERY STREET, RHINEBECK
“In Love with Light.” Landscape photographs by Eric Miller. Through June 30.
MONUMENT
394 HASBROUCK AVENUE, KINGSTON "A Plain View." Selected works from Jason Lee’s 2018 book of Texas photographs A Plain View. June 3-30.
MOTHER GALLERY
1154 NORTH AVENUE, BEACON “zzzzzzzzzzzzz.” New works by Trudy Benson and Russell Tyler. Through June 19. "We Flew Over the Wild Winds of Wild Fires." Zoë Buckman and Vanessa German. June 22-August 28.
THE NEWBURGH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
290 NORTH STREET, NEWBURGH “Kristallnacht.” Multimedia installation by Dean Goldberg. Through June 10.
OLIVE FREE LIBRARY
4033 ROUTE 28A, WEST SHOKAN “Behind the Scenes.” Work by the Olive Free Library exhibition committee. Janette Kahil, Elaine Ralston, Sandra Scheuer, Linda Schultz, Jan Sosnowitz, and Kathy Yacoe. Through July 9.
REZNY GALLERY
76 PRINCE STREET, KINGSTON “Wild Place: People of Kingston.” Photographs and interviews by Doug Menuez of residents of Kingston. In collaboration with the Center for Photography at Woodstock. Through July 17.
ART Resolutions (Blue Quad), Carol Diehl, 2002, part of the exhibition "Pattern and Time" at the Re Institute through June 25.
SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART 1 HAWK DRIVE, SUNY NEW PALTZ
"Madonna and Child: A Journey from Conservation to Restoration.” Through July 17. "The Dorsky at 20: Reflections at a Milestone (Part II)." Through July 17. “Mary Frank: The Observing Heart.” Retrospective of the six-decade career of the acclaimed artist and activist. Through July 17.
DANIEL ARTS CENTER
84 ALFORD ROAD, GREAT BARRINGTON, MA “Persist.” Works by Parasevi “Toula” Taliadoros, Deirdre McKenna, Merudjina Normil, Arian Kolins, Lindsay Neathawk, Natlia Bystrianyk, and Elizabeth Nelson. June 4-August 6.
SPENCERTOWN ACADEMY ARTS CENTER 790 ROUTE 203, SPENCERTOWN
“Flowers, Fields, Forests: Abstracted.” Botanical-themed works by Timothy Ebneth, Tina Lincer, Sherry Meeks, and Susan Sabino. Through June 19.
STEVEN POSER STUDIO & GALLERY SALT POINT
“Hudson River Landscapes & Abstractions.” Through October 31.
STUDIO 89
790 ROUTE 203, SPENCERTOWN “Ground Work.” Holly Cerna, Ken Fury, Caroline Guzewicz, Xavier Hardison, Chloe Mosbacher. Through June 23-August 14.
SUSAN ELEY FINE ART
433 WARREN STREET, HUDSON “Malia’s Garden.” Recent oil paintings by Allison Green. Through June 19.
‘T’ SPACE
137 ROUND LAKE ROAD, RHINEBECK “Suzan Frecon.” Paintings. June 4-July 10.
THE NEW GALLERY
610 WARREN STREET, HUDSON “Full Circle”. Work by John “Crash” Matos. June 9-July 10.
THE RE INSTITUTE
1395 BOSTON CORNERS ROAD, MILLERTON “Pattern and Time.” Geoffrey Young, Carol Diehl, Moira Kelly, Mark Olshansky, Tara Foley, and Stephen Westfall. Through June 25.
THE WASSAIC PROJECT
37 FURNACE BANK ROAD, WASSAIC “A Tournament of Lies.” Summer group show of 46 artists. Through September 17.
THOMAS COLE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE 218 SPRING STREET, CATSKILL
“Thomas Cole’s Studio: Memory and Inspiration.” Through October 30.
TIME AND SPACE LIMITED
434 COLUMBIA STREET, HUDSON “Spot and Me.” Interspecies paintings by Sally Eckhoff. Through June 13.
TREMAINE ART GALLERY AT THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL
11 INTERLAKEN ROAD, LAKEVILLE, CT “Fragmentary Blue.” Work by Cynthia Alberto, Mandy Cano Villalobos, Rosa Chang, Nancy Cohen, Ann Conrad-Stewart, Joy Curtis, Beth Dary, Grace DeGennaro, Valerie Hammond, Tate Klacsmann, Jordana Munk Martin, Caitlin Parker, Sarah Pettitt, Beau Bree Rhee, Dora Somosi, Alyce Santoro, and Janis Stemmerman. Curated by Joan Baldwin and Terri L. Moore. Through June 17.
UNISON ARTS & LEARNING CENTER 68 MOUNTAIN REST ROAD, NEW PALTZ “Echo.” Recent works on paper by Beth Humphrey. Through July 9.
UNISON ARTS & LEARNING CENTER 9 PARADIES LANE, NEW PALTZ
“Inside Out, Outside In.” Work by Mimi Graminski. Through June 12.
VISITOR CENTER
233 LIBERTY STREET, NEWBURGH
TIVOLI ART GALLERY
“Pricked and Broken.” Paintings and wall sculptures by Julia von Eichel. Through June 11.
“At home in the Hudson Valley.” Group show. June 3-26.
WEST STRAND ART GALLERY
60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI
TURLEY GALLERY
98 GREEN STREET, SUITE 2, HUDSON “Florescence.” Work of 12 contemporary artists. Through June 19.
29 WEST STRAND STREET, KINGSTON “Rhapsody in Nature.” Works by Olga Mercedes Bautista, Fredda Brennan, Marielena Ferrer, Deborah Freedman, Jennifer Hicks. June 2-26.
WHITE PINES AT BYRDCLIFFE
TURN PARK ART SPACE
454 UPPER BYDCLIFFE ROAD, WOODSTOCK
“Proximal Duality.” graphite drawings and ceramic sculptures by Sergei Isupov. Through October 31.
“Shelter.” Outdoor sculpture exhibition organized by Melissa Stickney-Gibson. Artists include Dan Devine, Stuart Farmery, Jan Harrison and Alan Baer, Christina Tenaglia,
2 MOSCOW ROAD, STOCKBRIDGE, MA
Jared Handelsman, Julian Rose, Suzy Sureck, Huy Bui, Mimi Graminski, Alison McNulty, Erika DeVries, Eileen Power, Wendy Klemperer, Emily Puthoff, Michael Asbill, and Ian Laughlin. June 5-October 23.
WILLIAMS COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART 15 LAWRENCE HALL DRIVE, WILLIAMSTOWN, MA
"Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints." Through June 11.
WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM
28 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK. “Every Picture Tells A Story.” Paintings by Natalie Wargin. Through July 4. “Far and Wide: Risk & Experimentation.” Group show juried by Seph Rodney. Through July 4. “What Unites Us: Americana Art From the Permanent Collection.” A collection of images that celebrate America throughout the 20th century, from historical moments like V-J Day to iconic events like the Woodstock Music and Art Fair of 1969, from WAAM’s permanent collection. Through September 11.
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Horoscopes By Lorelai Kude
CHANGE YOUR DIRECTION, CHANGE YOUR LUCK Changes of direction abound during June. Mercury stations direct June 3, reentering Gemini June 13 and reaching his pre-retrograde point June 18. Much that has gone unsaid will have to be either shared or released. Saturn stations retrograde June 4 through late October, rewinding through Aquarius to confirm understandings, shore up loose ends, and secure resources around plans you made late February/early March. Neptune in Pisces stations retrograde on June 28, through early December. The planet of idealization, mystical perception, distortion, and delusion is laying the groundwork for his last stand with retrograde Jupiter later this year. Just in time to remind us that magic can still happen, Venus conjuncts Uranus in Taurus June 11. Beautifully embodied weirdness and intentional expressions of one’s uniqueness can break through the near-universal inertia. The Full Supermoon in Sagittarius June 14 shines the light of unvarnished truth on a world which can barely handle truth with thousands of layers of varnishing. This may be painful for some, the results of which may manifest June 15 when Mars conjuncts Wounded Healer Chiron in Aries. Anger management is top priority. Those who display maturity and wisdom in the face of chaos win the day when the Sun trines Saturn and squares Uranus June 16. Venus in Taurus trines Pluto in Capricorn at the Summer Solstice June 21, a most powerful aspect which (hopefully) may have some positive environmental impact. What if Big Business suddenly understood that saving the planet is in their best interest? “Let’s talk about it” and everything else when Venus enters Gemini June 22. June 28 caps off the month with Neptune’s retrograde, Sun square Jupiter, and the New Moon in Cancer. An auspicious time to begin a new career, a new project, or a new life. Change your direction, change your luck.
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With both Mars and Jupiter in Aries all month long, June is sure to be the most powerfully energetic month of 2022. You’ll feel larger than life and your vitality is maximized, which feels wonderful. Like you, but on planetary steroids! A word to the wise: watch your words at the conjunction of Mars to Wounded Healer Chiron in Aries June 15, which follows the Full Supermoon in Sagittarius June 14. Your words have the power to build up or to ruthlessly destroy, and vulnerable folks are easily crushed by your propensity for thoughtlessly frank communications during this transit.
TAURUS (April 19–May 20)
Venus in her Earth Sign home of Taurus through June 21 makes you pretty comfy, which is just how you like it. Love gets weird and maybe wonderful when Venus conjuncts Uranus June 11. Your tendency to worry about what the neighbors will think kicks in June 18 at the square of Venus to Saturn, but if you catch yourself falling for the discreet charms of the bourgeoisie, the sextile of Venus to Neptune June 19 can pull you out of that dead-end spiral. Magic love power is yours at the Summer Solstice, June 21, when Venus trines Pluto.
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GEMINI (May 20–June 21)
Mercury retrograde stations direct June 3, reentering Gemini by June 13. The trine of Mercury to Pluto June 10 powerfully enhances your persuasive, charismatic communicative skills. The Full Supermoon in your solar opposite Sagittarius June 14 insists you confront the real reasons behind your aversion to commitment. Can you tell yourself the truth? Can you handle the truth? Are you in for a supersized dose of the truth when Mercury sextiles Jupiter June 20? Nobody benefits from acknowledging bottom line reality more than you do right now. Mercury sextiles Chiron June 27, encouraging deep compassion and supporting shared vulnerability.
CANCER (June 21–July 22)
The First Quarter Moon in Virgo June 7 helps clean out the corners of your life as you prepare to expand your horizons. You feel something big coming on but you’re not sure exactly what; the Full Supermoon in Sagittarius June 14 reveals the missing link, especially around the wellbeing of your mind-body connection. Free yourself from denial around health challenges at the Last Quarter Moon in Pisces June 20. The Summer Solstice June 21 has you feeling all the possible potentialities; the New Moon in Cancer June 28 helps you discern which tempting path is the most promising.
LEO (July 22–August 23)
When the Sun is your planetary ruler (and that’s only you, Leo!) it’s hard to hide all that sparkle and shine. Direct your tremendous light at those who deserve compassion when Sun sextiles Chiron June 6 with Moon in Leo. Nothing heals like the warmth you offer. The Sun trines Saturn and squares Uranus June 16. An unusual partnership could become unusually profitable! The Sun enters Cancer June 21 at the Summer Solstice, squaring Jupiter June 28. You’re at risk of experiencing confusion, rare for someone with your legendary self-confidence. Check to ensure your actions align with your values.
VIRGO (August 23–September 23)
This Mercury retrograde period has taught you that whatever you take on which doesn’t harmonize with your spiritual values is too draining to overcome the energy loss. Mercury stations direct June 3 and you prepare your communication strategy to launch June 7 at the First Quarter Moon in Virgo. Mercury trines Pluto June 10, delivering a powerful push towards speaking your truth, even if it’s difficult. Mercury reenters Gemini June 13 and you find the words. Mercury sextiles Jupiter June 20 and Chiron June 27. Learn to listen deeply to your partner and not just hear what they say.
LIBRA (September 23–October 23)
This year’s transit of Venus through Taurus is not as laid back as usual; in fact, it’s buzzing with creative excitement. You produce stunningly original ideas, content, or divine revelations when Venus conjuncts Uranus June 11. You’re taken seriously June 18 when Venus squares Saturn; some may admit they’re envious of your vision when Venus sextiles Neptune June 19. Claim your power and don’t deliver it to others June 21 when Venus trines Pluto at the Summer Solstice. Venus enters Gemini June 22; you’ve got some very viable creations you’ve been nurturing. Time to let them try their wings.
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SCORPIO (October 23–November 21)
You’re powerfully persuasive and charmingly charismatic June 10 when Mercury trines Pluto, and if you’re operating at a high enough level, you’ll use those enchanted words for healing, hope, and succor at the conjunction of Mars to Wounded Healer Chiron June 15. Your ability to focus devoted, loving energy is truly your magic power, no more so than at the trine of Venus to Pluto at the Summer Solstice June 21. Your vitality and life force are mighty weapons indeed! When you use them for good, it’s a win/win for everyone. Upgraded self-awareness comes when Mars sextiles Saturn June 27.
SAGITTARIUS (November 22–December 22)
Your reputation precedes you more than usual right now, working to advance causes near and dear to your heart. You cast the longest shadow this month, especially at the Full Supermoon in Sagittarius June 14. Have you ever felt astounded when someone says your achievements are intimidating? Don’t hide your light just because others can’t handle the glare. You’ve got something big to say June 20 when Mercury sextiles Jupiter. The dynamic tension between sensible security and high reward risk-taking needs resolution June 28, when the Sun squares Jupiter. Be brave but not stupid! Research your options before acting.
CAPRICORN (December 22–January 20)
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It’s said that a person hasn’t truly learned something until they can teach it. This is your lesson beginning June 4 as Saturn stations retrograde through late October. You’re the teacher now, and if you aren’t sure what your subject matter is about, you’ll receive confirmation when the Sun trines Saturn June 16 with Moon in Capricorn. It’s time to present your master class on accumulated patience, long-term wisdom, grinding persistence, and indomitable perseverance. Your authority is recognized in a gracious way June 18 at the square of Venus to Saturn. Mars sextiles Saturn June 27, boosting vitality and confidence.
AQUARIUS (January 20–February 19)
Saturn’s journey through Aquarius takes another segue as the planet of boundaries and borders stations retrograde June 4, through late October. Inspect the social foundation you’ve built for stability. Venus conjuncts Uranus June 11, making even your wildest ideas weirdly appealing. You’re a quirky, mad-scientist-style superstar when the Sun trines Saturn and squares Uranus June 16 during Moon in Aquarius. You’ll have to prove your work June 18 at the square of Venus to Saturn, but if it all adds up, you’ll gain an energetic boost June 27 when Mars sextiles Saturn and shoot off like a rocket.
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You’re still basking in the afterglow of a spectacular Spring when Venus sextiles Neptune June 19 before the Last Quarter Moon in Pisces June 20 and the Summer Solstice June 21. All that inspiration is like money in the bank, at least in the bank of Real Good Karma. Now hunker down and get those pesky details together! The fearful folks are threatened by your optimism because they don’t see what you see. Now is a great time to find new and creative ways to express your core spiritual beliefs when Neptune stations retrograde June 28 through early December.
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In the Name of Love June is Pride Month
It’s been 18 years since New Paltz Mayor Jason West brought the national media to the region to witness his solemnization of the vows of 25 same-sex couples, 11 years since the passage of the New York Marriage Equality Act, and seven since marriage became nationally protected by Obergefell v. Hodges. But with conservatives on the Supreme Court training their sights on Roe v. Wade with arguments that threaten the whole concept of equal protection and hundreds of antiLGBTQ+ bills on legislative agendas across the nation, it’s clear that advocates for equality can’t afford to sit back and rest. All the more reason for a fierce and joyous Pride Month. “As queer activists, we’re practiced and gifted at thinking beyond boxes and binaries; we’re well equipped to bring harmony and love to chaotic situations, says Osun Zotique, executive director of OutHudson. “I think the whole world could use a little of that right now.” Our part of the world is blessed with more than a little. Paused along with most every sort of communal fun for the last couple of years, the many chapters of Hudson Valley Pride are roaring back to joyous life. OutHudson kicks off five full days of 13th Annual Pride celebrations on Wednesday, June 1, with three events: a dedicated can launch at an Nine Pin Cidery in Albany, 88 PARTING SHOT CHRONOGRAM 6/22
family crafts at the Hudson Library, a wine-sip evening to benefit Planned Parenthood at Sprig & Social in Hudson. The Rainbow Flag will be raised at City Hall on Friday, followed by an opening for an exhibition of work by Hudson Valley queer artists at the Athens Cultural Center, and a dance party at Space 428 of the Hudson Eye. At Saturday’s parade, Zotique and Hudson Mayor Kamal Johnson will share Grand Marshal duties. Parades and festivities are happening in municipalities up and down the river, including Beacon, Highland, Peekskill, New Paltz, Poughkeepsie, Newburgh, Callicoon, Brewster, and South Salem. On June 15, the TMI Project is dropping Season 4 of the “TMI Project Podcast: Pride Stories.” A nuanced look into the joys, sorrows, triumphs, and transformations of very intergenerational and intersectional LGBTQIA+ storytellers. Expect to cry your eyes out and laugh your head off. Listen with a friend. “There has been a vast improvement in the social and political climate, but we still live in a world where gender and sexual preference can be discriminated against in too many situations,” says Zotique. “We need Pride more than ever. The opposite of pride is shame, right? And shame is just a truly negative frequency and one that we need to disrupt whenever possible.” —Anne Pyburn Craig
The City of Hudson's Pride Parade is one of the marquee events of Pride month in the Hudson Valley. It takes place this year on June 4. Photo by JD Urban
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