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At the Huichica Festival in 2018. Our Summer Arts Preview begins on page 65. Photo by Bryan Lasky

FRONT MATTER

HEALTH & WELLNESS

12 On the Cover 14 Esteemed Reader 17 Editor’s Note 18 Letters to the Editor 18 While You Were Sleeping 21 Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic 22 Q&A with Amy Wu

46 The India Connection

FOOD & DRINK

52 Green Tech Grows in the Region

26 The Big Scoop A mouthwatering look at the Hudson Valley’s growing artisanal ice cream movement.

31 The Drink: Mary’s Lemon Phosphate At Crown, this light, tart cocktail balances earthy green tea with citrus and Japanese gin.

HOME & GARDEN 34 A Victorian Abloom Interior designer Marla Walker refreshes a historical home in Rhinebeck with her distinctive flair and love of wallpaper.

43 Planting Pioneer A celebration of the horticultural legacy of pioneering master gardener Beatrix Farrand.

Three spiritual retreat destinations bring the traditions of India to the Hudson Valley.

OUTDOORS 50 Cave People A beginner’s guide to spelunking.

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summer arts preview 64 Our epic cultural picks for the seaon by Peter Aaron From Uma Thurman in a production of “Ghosts” at Williamstown Theater Festival to Adam Sandler at Bethel Woods, we know what you’re doing this summer.

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COMMUNITY PAGES 54 The Effortless Ideal: Rhinebeck Rhinebeck’s elegant, historic architecture enrobes a diverse array of restaurants and shops, and a vibrant, engaged community.

HOROSCOPES 108 Sergeant Joe Friday vs. Pontius Pilate Lorelai Kude scans the skies and plots our horoscopes for June.

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97 Downtown Manhattan art scene veteran Brice Marden exhibits his “Cold Mountain Studies” at ‘T’ Space.

From a riotously funny first-person novel set in a fictional Dutchess County prison to an apocalyptic survivor story to a canine-friendly kids book, here are seven short book reviews for June reading.

91 Music Album reviews of The Old Guys by Amy Rigby; Hyperchromatica by Kyle Gann; the self-titled Rechorduroys; and Every Day by Yard Sale.

92 Poetry Poems by Daniel Brown, Christian Chism, Christopher R. Cook, Holly Day, Jennifer Fiorile, William Joel, Mike Jurkovic, Ryan Alejandro Kraeher, James Lichtenberg, Quentin Mahoney, Steve Otlowski, Ed Pobuzhansky, Citrus Triplett, and Diane Webster. Edited by Philip X Levine.

99 A solo exhibition of Vivien Collens’ new sculpture contains over 30 works ranging from intimate studies to large-scale constructions. 101 “Memoirs of a Forgotten Man,” performed at Shadowland Stages, is based on a real case study of a Soviet reporter with perfect recall. 103 A gallery guide for June. 107 Six live music shows to pencil in, from Todd Rundgren to Mdou Moctar and Geezer.

112 Parting Shot Michael Scudder, a photographer and veteran of the informaiton technology field, captures the historic testing of a submarine decoy.

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on the cover

Lauren Post at the Noguchi Sculpture Garden in Orange County, CA ASHLEY BARRETT Photograph, 2017

auren Post, who appears on this month’s cover, has been dancing with American Ballet Theater since 2008. She has also performed in Joshua Beamish’s “Surface Properties” in 2015, with Gemma Bond’s “Harvest” in the 2016/2017 season, and in Isabella Boylston’s Ballet Sun Valley festival in 2017 and 2018. In 2016, Post tore her ACL on stage performing in “Sylvia” at The Met, but she was back at work nine months after surgery. With fresh energy and determination, Post created an off-season company called CoLab Dance to employ dancers year-round. The mission of the company, which had its first season last September, is to “utilize this off time to bring dancers and choreographers together, facilitating creative exploration and growth. In addition to new performance opportunities, dancers and choreographers will be given freedom to experiment and develop new works in a supportive atmosphere.” The intimate 160-seat black box theater at Kaatsbaan Culture Park for Dance in Tivoli will host Lauren Post and CoLab on August 31 at 7:30pm. The 153-acre complex houses three state-of-the-art dance studios and a black box theater with the same performance floor size as the Metropolitan Opera stage. The Dancers’ Inn holds 32 guests, and the gatehouse offers more accommodations and a kitchen facility. With a new executive director and a new phase of development, Katsbaan is firmly, yet gracefully, 12 CHRONOGRAM 6/19

charging into the future with Sonja Kostich at the helm. To her new role, Kostich brings 20 years of experience as a professional dancer and five years as a codirector at OtherShore, a dance company she cofounded. Kostich has a savvy business side as well, allowing for a poised, balanced approach to Kaatsbaan’s new era of growth. She was recently a member of the programming team for city center dance programs, and she has acted as Finance Manager at Mark Morris Dance Group and as an analyst in Goldman Sachs’ Finance Division. Kaatsbaan is growing along with the Hudson Valley. As the population of arts and culture supporters expands, Kaatsbaan plans to match it with a new 500-seat theater, additional accommodations at the Dancers’ Inn, and a lodge and dining hall complex. The historic 1895 Stanford White-designed “Music Barn” will be restored and adapted to house a visitors center, shops, and 10,000 square feet of exhibition space showcasing dance photography and visual arts. Aside from the CoLab performance on August 31, this summer’s programming at Kaatsbaan includes Nathan Griswold and Ana Maria Lucaciu’s performance of “Slightly Off Stage” on June 1; LaneCo Arts on June 9; and Ballet Next on June 15 and 16. Kaatsbaan.org. —Brian Turk

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contributors Larry Beinhart, Jason Broome, John Burdick, Mike Campbell, Brian P. J. Cronin, Deborah DeGraffenreid, Melissa Dempsey, Carrie Dykes, Michael Eck, John Garay, Tony Huffman, Lorelai Kude, Lindsay Lennon, Bryan Miller, Phillip Pantuso, Karen Maserjian Shan, Sparrow, Brian Turk

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by Jason Stern

A unity, a pattern, an all-embracing meaning—if it exists—could only be discerned or experienced by a different kind of mind, in a different state of consciousness. It would only be realizable by a mind which had itself become unified. —Rodney Collin, Theory of Celestial Influence Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: This morning I was on the phone doing business and happened to look out the window at a field. All at once, the details came into focus. I could see the sunlight on each blade of green grass. I could see them waving, each in its own way, in the gentle wind. I saw the field and the grass together, and it was as though time stopped. “Hello? Are you there?” asked my colleague on the other end of the line. “Yes,” I replied as my attention came back to the work at hand. “I am here.” And I meant it. The experience gave me a clue to the physics of presence. It has to do with the relationship of the parts and the whole. By some capacity of adaptive engineering we perceive one or the other, rarely both, and rarer still do we experience a third thing—ourselves—in the picture. When attention is allowed to expand to perceive both the parts and the whole, the particular and the general, or, as the maxim expresses, the trees and the forest, a synergy of attention opens a door on a larger bandwidth of consciousness. It is in these moments that one can truly say “I am here.” The first astronauts had experiences illustrating this point. Viewing the Earth as a singular world and perceiving its smallness and fragility in space aroused radical new sensibilities. Astronaut Edgar Mitchell described it as a “spontaneous epiphany experience” and Earth as the “blue jewel-like home planet suspended in the velvety blackness from which we had come. What I saw out the window was all I had ever known, all I have ever loved and hated, longed for, all that I once thought had ever been and ever would be. From that moment on, my life was irrevocably altered.” The experience of cognizing the whole of something, when one is accustomed to perceiving only the parts, seems to open the spigot for meaning and meaningfulness to flow in. There is not only an intellectual but also an emotional cognition. We feel the significance at the same time as we know it. These two together may comprise an authentic definition of conscience. Significant life events can sometimes trigger this larger view even in people that aren’t seeking it. Why do we cry at births, weddings, funerals, graduations? At some level, we see the point in time relative to all that came before and will come after. In this sense, we experience the part and whole not just in space but also in time. We taste the delicate intersection between the temporal and eternal, giving rise to an expanded present moment and the simultaneity of particular moments in time. The perception of a longer view of time can enable us to discern and respond to the difference between the apparently urgent and the truly important. In a word, it arouses real conscience. A global example is the effect of human greed on the life of the biosphere and planet. If we could really feel what we know to be the effects of humanity’s unbridled consumption, and our pathological impulse to convert the actual life and materials of the natural world into an unreal and abstract currency, we would stop. We would just stop. Further, if we could both see and feel that we are, individually, part of the larger body of nature, we would behave differently. Absent this perception, we are enabled to persist in the morbid delusion that we are separate from one another, and separate from the larger body of Great Nature. To cognize that we and all living beings are precious parts of a greater whole would arouse genuine conscience and allow us to leave behind primitive and barbaric demarcations of difference like nationalism, racism, sexism, classism, and money. When we emerge from this dark age of individualist hallucination the world will turn right side up. People in contact with genuine conscience will be powerful, and sick sociopaths will be cared for with compassion. What has real value will be cherished, and the counterfeit will be set aside.

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by Brian K. Mahoney

Beauty and the Bureaucracy “Beauty and the bureaucracy have as much trouble coupling as all the rest of us.” —Lucy Lippard

hen Chronogram pulled up stakes in New Paltz and moved to Kingston in 2004, it was a practical decision: Commercial space was cheaper in Kingston. Wall Street was a sleepy thoroughfare, with more storefronts empty than not and a handful of restaurants and retail businesses catering to professionals clustered around the county courthouse and office building. IBM had moved out of the area in ’95, taking with it the bedrock of good jobs that had served as a central pillar of the city’s economic prosperity for decades. It seemed like every time a new business would open, an existing one would close. I joked that the main leisure activity in Uptown was to watch the tumbleweeds as they rolled down Wall Street and bet on which one would reach the crumbling municipal parking structure first. A group of artists and health care professionals banded together to produce the first O+ Festival in 2010, thinking it would probably be a onetime only be-in. Each business opening, each cultural happening, felt like a community barn-raising. There was no coordinated plan and there was no coordinator. People tried stuff out: some of it felt immortal and true, and some if it fell flat and was forgotten. The city might not endorse your project, but it wouldn’t stand in your way. Fast-forward 15 years. The first floor of our building at 314 Wall Street, vacant for many years, is now home to Outdated Cafe, lauded for its chic intersection of vegetarian cuisine, idiosyncratic design, and community spirit by the New York Times, Vogue, and Japanese travel magazines. Kingston’s first boutique hotel, the Kinsley, is about to open. (There are others in the works.) A former factory is now a tony events space. Historic buildings have been repurposed as bookstore/ bars and cocktail lounges. The Kingston Green Line is about to open, transforming a long-disused railbed into a path of dreams for parents with kids in strollers. Multimillionaires and billionaires are buying up commercial properties in a reallife game of Monopoly. And a $62 million

mixed-use development is now slated to be built where that crumbling parking structure used to be. So much for tumbleweeds. What happened? As northward migration from New York City has increased, the region’s cities and towns have changed substantially. Beacon went from a city with shuttered storefronts on Main Street to one with new construction visible above the tree line from the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge. Hudson’s mayor told me last year that his city was “attempting to manage its success” with regard to rising housing prices, housing shortages caused by the short-term rental market, and further development. Grassroots groups and ad hoc coalitions across the region are grappling with how to deal with rising housing prices, sometimes referred to by the politically loaded term gentrification. In Kingston, one of the biggest changes to the visual landscape in the past decade has been the painting of more than 30 large-scale murals across the city. They’re the work of artists operating under the aegis of the O+ Festival, a three-day art, music, and wellness celebration that takes place Columbus Day weekend. O+ is not just a series of concerts and art installations, but an attempt to empower a community to take control of its well-being. (O+ has also launched festivals like its Kingston flagship in other communities like North Adams, Massachusetts.) O+ brings artists of all stripes together with medical professionals: artists get free medical exams and wellness services; the public gets the art. Murals are year-round artistic legacy of the festival. For nine years, the O+ has worked with artists and property owners to put up murals across the city. The murals vary greatly from one another, in style and content, the output of a range of artists both local and international in renown. Regardless of what you think of them—the murals have their critics—these large-scale paintings have put the city on the map as a place where culture gets done. There’s no other place in the Hudson Valley that looks like Kingston. One entity that O+ has not worked

exceedingly closely with is the City of Kingston itself. As in the Wild West days of its birth, O+ continues to be the go-between connecting artists and property owners, with a rigorous internal vetting process, but no municipal oversight. Perhaps not for long. In late May, Kingston released a draft copy of its Art in Public policy, which would “establish guidelines and protocol for works of art that interact with the public way.” If adopted into law, the proposal would set up a five-member Art in Public Panel—appointed by the mayor—which would review applications, but not on the basis of content (just size, placement, and materials). According to Mayor Steve Noble, the impetus for the public art legislation arose after a mural, defaced by graffiti, was painted over the city in 2017. The mayor claims he did not know it was an O+ mural, nor did he know the location of the rest of the public art in the city. At the same time, the city was setting up, for the first time, an Arts Commission and the hiring of a municipal arts administrator. So why not draft legislation that codified a municipal public art process and offer assistance to artists in the process through its fledgling arts bureaucracy? Some however, see the public art legislation as a solution in search of a problem. Others hint darkly that a cabal of realtors and developers don’t want any more “edgy” art that might interfere with a bull market in real estate. Still others say that O+ itself is part of the gentrification problem, “artwashing” the city and making it ripe for speculation and development. At a recent public hearing on the matter, many in the community expressed their skepticism that any legislation was needed, and whether putting veto power over public art projects in the hands of a mayorappointed committee might stifle creativity. It might. Or it might not. The devil will be in the details of the Art in Public Panel, and whether it seeks to accrue power over time, like most government committees. But one thing seems clear: The Wild West days are over in Kingston. Beauty and bureaucracy will likely have to coexist, however uneasily.

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WHILEYOUWERESLEEPING An aquatic mammal may be Russia’s latest spy. In late April, Norwegian fishermen discovered a beluga whale gliding through the water with a GoPro fastened to its neck. The Russians became prime suspects after a label reading “Property of St. Petersburg,” was found attached to the whale’s harness. Martin Niuw, from the Institute of Marine Research, says there is “great reason to believe,” it belongs to the Russian Navy. This wouldn’t be Russia’s first aquatic agent either. During the height of the Cold War, the Soviets reportedly trained a number of sea animals—including beluga whales and dolphins—to detect mines. Despite speculation, Russia denied the existence of marine mammal intelligence programs. Source: Time

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Did President Trump violate the Constitution? After the president leased luxury condos at Trump Towers to seven foreign diplomats without Congress’ consent, legal experts worry just that. Critics say Trump’s actions violate the US emoluments clause, which forbids government officials from accepting gifts or payments without Congress’ permission. This review process is intended to weed out potential conflicts of interests and other Constitutional violations. In a letter to Reuters, Trump Organization attorney Alan Garten argued that Trump received no payment because the hotel is owned by a third-party. The rentals date back to Trump’s first months in office, adding to concerns about his business with foreign nations. The controversy also questions the power of the clause over a president’s personal affairs. Source: Reuters In India, a man elected to chop off his own finger after accidentally voting for the wrong political party. On April 18, during India’s general election, Pawan Kumar became confused by the symbols at the polls and was horrified to discover had made a mistake on his ballot. Left only with an indelible ink mark on his finger, meant to prevent double-voting, Kumar took a knife to his guilty appendage, unable to bear the reminder of his folly. The mutilation occurred on the second day of India’s marathon election, which ran from April 11 to May 19. Source:Guardian

DON’TPRESSREPEAT As Spain pushes paid paternity leave, families are having fewer children, according to economists. Beginning in 2007, the time off for new fathers has steadily expanded to five weeks with another extension on the horizon. As expected, parents returning to work were more involved in childcare and more likely to remain in the workforce. More interesting, however, was the Journal of Public Economics study suggesting that families who were eligible for paid family leave benefits were 7 to 15 percent less likely to have another child than parents who missed the cut off. Researcher Libertard Gonzalez suggests that the policy reinforces the sometimes-harsh realities of caring for a newborn, effectively discouraging repeat fatherhood. Source: Quartz at Work

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Facebook inadvertently celebrated the black jihadist flags, anti-Semitic plaques, and other extremist content in an automatically generated animation for the user that calls himself “Abdel-Rahim Moussa, the Caliphate.” While Facebook boasts its ability to censor such content, a confidential report to the Securities and Exchange Commission revealed that the social media giant often accidentally aids networking between militant extremists. In March, it took the company nearly an hour to take down a video capturing the bloody massacre of 51 people in a New Zealand mosque. By the time they did, the video had already spread across the internet. Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s chief technology officer, is developing artificial intelligence capable of eliminating such hateful posts. Source: Associated Press, New York Times

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With marijuana safely in the Congressional rearview since January 2014, Dever lawmakers garnered national attention by voting to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms. On May 7, the Colorado city hosted the first ever US proposition on the matter, with Oregon and California looking to vote on the same issue in 2020. The measure narrowly passed with 50.6 percent of the votes. Some critics claim that the law causes more problems than it solves while others praise the mind-expanding possibilities of the psychedelic fungus. Source: Denver Post, Washington Post

BIGSISTER 1OOLBS Big Brother is watching, and her name is Alexa. Whether it’s a grocery list, a song request, or a personal conversation, Amazon’s artificial intelligence software hears it all— and records it too. Some critics condemn the privacy invasion citing judges who have subpoenaed the recordings and once case where a family accidentally sent their personal conversation to numerous random phone contacts. No one likes to be snooped on in their own home, and once recordings are stored, they could be subject to theft or misuse. Although Amazon argues that the recordings are used to improve the software, Bloomberg discovered Amazon employees listening to recordings to teach the artificial intelligence. Source: Washington Post

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In May, US officials dished about an advanced missile, nicknamed the “ninja bomb” or the “flying ginsu,” that they’ve been using for some time in hyper-targeted air strikes. Instead of exploding, the bladed missile is capable of rocketing 100 pounds of explosive metal through building and cars with deadly precision. Although the CIA and Pentagon have carried out missions with the meticulous missiles in the past, this weapon is still a well-guarded asset. The weapon is one of many lethal devices used in the war on terror, hoping to keep innocent casualties as low as possible. Source: Wall Street Journal —Compiled by Max Freebern

Let America Be America Again To the Editor: Eleni Brown’s harsh attack on Luis Martinez’s story in the April issue is titled “The Law Is the Law.” Whatever her feelings of outrage that Mr. Martinez failed “to pay his dues,” the fact is that he did pay them in accord with the 2000 U Visa program. He wasn’t trying to get into Disneyland without paying, as she derisively claims. Ms. Brown herself may be in some kind of perverse Disneyland. The U Visa program, as the New York Times reported (5/15/19), “offers undocumented immigrants temporary legal residency and a path to American citizenship if they cooperate with law enforcement officials after being a victim or a witness to violent crimes.” Mr. Martinez did just that after witnessing the death of his younger brother, Jesus, by a street gang in Newburgh in 1999. He became eligible for the visa in 2000 but learned of it only later and applied then. Under the current administration, ICE is picking up everyone it can regardless of pending asylum cases and appeals, in its war on immigrants. Luis is such a victim now. The US has a long history of nativist attacks on immigrants, beginning with the Irish and Germans in mid-19th century; the Chinese, who built the trans-continental railway, in 1882 with the Chinese Exclusion Act; and after 1890 refugees from the Russian Pale, Southern Italy, Greece, and Africa, leading to the Immigration Act of 1924, drastically reducing the quota of immigrants from those countries. Only in 1965 did the Immigration and Naturalization Act lift the quotas and give priority to reuniting families and attracting skilled labor. This history might seem odd, since the only native Americans are indigenous Indians. Those who made the laws were either settlers or immigrants themselves. What this brings to mind is not shrill obeisance to “the law” but rather this stanza from Langston Hughes’ “Let America Be America Again”: O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe. (There’s never been equality for me, Nor freedom in this “homeland of the free.”) Say who are you that mumbles in the dark? And who are you that draws your veil across the stars? I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro bearing slavery’s scars. I am the red man driven from his land, I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seekAnd finding only the same old stupid plan. Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak. I recommend that Ms. Brown contemplate a different view of patriotism and the “problem” of immigration. —Steve Leberstein, Willow

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Celebrate Summer in Uptown Kingston

Uptown Kingston is full of great things to see and do. Spend the day with us. Explore the shops and businesses. Visit our notable historic sites.

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CoWork Space 8 N. Front St. (845) 802-5900 Coworkkingston.com A creative co-work space. Work in good company.

Exit 19 309 Wall St. (845) 514-2485 Exitnineteen.com A unique and ever-changing emporium of home furnishings, art, lighting and gifts.

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Kingston Opera House 275 Fair St. (845) 331-0898 Potterrealtymanagement@gmail.com Commercial storefronts and 2 levels of handicap accessible offices. Leasing property to tenants. Call Potter Realty Management.

Yum Yum Noodle Bar 275 Fair St. (845) 338-1400 Yumyumnoodlebar.com Noodle bar and Asian street food with a twist. Every day 11:30am-10pm. New location: 7496 S. Broadway, Red Hook.

34 John St. (845) 339-0042 Oak42.com A clothing and lifestyle boutique offering fashion, home goods, and accessories.

334 Wall St. (845) 802-5900 Boptotottom.com The corner store that is a cornerstone.

Kovo Rotisserie

41 N. Front St. (845) 331-8600 Facebook.com/stockadeguitars New, used and vintage guitars and amps.

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47 N. Front St. (845) 339-2333 Boitsons.com Modern American bistro food served in an intimate setting. Gorgeous back deck for dining, drinking, and watching the sunset over the Catskills.

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Crown 10 Crown St. (845)-663-9003 10crownstreet.com Lounge featuring bespoke libations, seasonal cocktails, along with local beer and wines. This directory is a paid supplement.

body politic by Larry Beinhart

Poetic Parting This is farewell, sadly, this is goodbye. I’m not leaving town and not soon to die. I’m not taking off for somewhere on high, It’s just the end of the column, oh sigh and sigh.

But let’s give credit where credit’s due, he tries to mislead while being literally true. That’s not easy when it’s put to the test, forcing him to grapple “with the word ‘suggest.’”

Chronogram tells me that they are changing it’s time for new things and for rearranging It’s not that I’m tired or downed by old age. There’s a new editor and she wants a new page.

The Washington Post counts the president’s lies which is like tracking mosquitoes and flies. Wouldn’t the count be much better to do of things he says that are actually true? If he speaks the truth, is it just accidental, is it intended, or random and coincidental?

There’s nothing lascivious, sexy, or lewd that’s caught up to me, to get me me-too’d. There’s no investigation, looking for crimes, or condemning me for very bad rhymes. There’s no hidden scandal, don’t look for a clue. I know it’s boring, but it’s actually true. I had a great run, and I had a great time writing in prose and sometimes in rhyme. I wrote as I wanted and got coins in my purse with only one rule, that it had to be terse. There’s nothing better, and there’s lots that is worse. So I say thank you, in this doggerel verse. I had a great editor, and I ain’t lying so I’ll mention his name, Mahoney, Brian. It was a great time to write commentary, for the Chronogram company called Luminary. Thank you Jason Stern, whom I’ve so rarely seen, for publishing an artful and unique magazine. Nine hundred to a thousand words at the most, trying to be informative and not grandiose. Trying to make the complex, simple, and clear and entertaining enough that you’d want to hear. It’s been an era in which everything changed as we think it gets better, it gets more deranged. The Age of Spin turned into the Age of Lies, and that revolution has been televised. The creeping and crawling propaganda machines are tweeting and twisting all over our screens. Long ago, lying would get you the axe, now everyone’s entitled to “alternative facts.” So much is happening with all of this. Twists, tumbles, and turns, I’ll be sorry to miss. The elites keep failing, day after day. And the Clown King keeps on having his way with his crew of buffoons, scroungers, crooks determined to let us never look at the books. Our senators smirk with full-frontal hypocrisy, will the republic fall to become a kleptocracy? What me, worry? What’s there to fear? With a Supreme Court Justice that really likes beer. He’s in the new style and in the new fashion, he commits perjury with unrestrained passion. He’s not alone, there are many that do it, Mnuchin, Sessions, DeVos, and Scott Pruitt. The Attorney General in his suit of dark blue is out there in front of us doing perjury, too.

More vital than a porn star with really big hooters are 650 ex-fed prosecutors saying the evidence is good for obstruction of justice, if he weren’t the Prez, he would be busted. There’s more than enough to go and indict. It’s a feast, a treat, a prosecutor’s delight. Don’t you want to know why he’s always rootin’ for his special Russian friend, Vladimir Putin? It still makes no sense for so many lies if there aren’t some kind of special Russian ties. Far be it from me to make allegations, but what’s being said in his secret conversations? Trump said trade wars are easily won. Did anyone ask him to name just one? The actual wins came at the point of a gun as when Britain forced China to buy opium. Honduras, Nicaragua, those wars were a hoot for Chiquita Banana and for United Fruit. What’s the game, what’s the new plan— a Wag the Dog moment with Iran? Another John Bolton demented obsession? His mustache causing excessive aggression? Or will they launch a war as a public event to build support for a desperate president? Twenty-three Dems are already in the race, where will they ever find the time and space? There’s Bennet, Biden, Bullock, and Booker vying to get into the pressure cooker. There’s Gravel, Harris, and Hickenlooper competing to be our super-trooper. There’s Sanders, Warren, Ryan, and Yang all joining in with this impressive gang. There’s O’Rourke, Inslee, Moulton, and Castro each of them knowing the right way to go. The media will treat it mostly like a race who’s last, who’s first, who’s stuck in second place. They’ll count who’s raising the most money and call out the gaffes that seem really funny. But some genuine ideas will be in contention, Worthy of thought and some real attention. It may sound hackneyed, cliched, and trite: keep fighting the good fight and trying to do right. I’m sorry to go, but it’s not in a hearse. There’s no reason to complain, whine, moan, or curse. So I say my goodbye with this cheery verse. 6/19 CHRONOGRAM 21

Q&A

with Amy Wu

Director of From Farms to Incubators: Stories of Minority Women Entrepreneurs in AgTech

A still from the film From Farms to Incubators.

hen journalist Amy Wu was assigned to report in Salinas, California—where 80% of the leafy greens we buy in our stores are grown, and agriculture is a nine-billion-dollar industry—she noticed the high percentage of female farmworkers. Salinas is also a prime site for the fast-growing AgTech industry. Wu’s documentary, Farms to Incubators, is an exploration of minority women entrepreneurs working on the forefront between farming and science. To inspire and encourage a new generation, her documentary tells the stories of women whose work deserves more visibility. Wu, currently the communications manager at Farm Hub in West Hurley, will screen Farms to Incubators on June 29 at 1pm at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck, followed by a discussion with women at the forefront of science and farming. —Brian K. Mahoney What was your impetus to make Farms to Incubators? Amy Wu: The impetus was a little bit accidental in terms of the film itself. In early 2016, I was a newspaper reporter and journalist for many, many years, I was given the opportunity to be a reporter, cover the local government and local stories for The Salinas Californian in Salinas, Californi. I had never lived in Salinas before or even been there, but agriculture is a nine-billion dollar industry there and I later learned that 80% of the leafy greens we eat actually are produced there. I was kind of amazed by the scale of agriculture out there, literally just to be driving around and being surrounded, if not swallowed by it. Being based there and living there, I began to observe two things: Most people were white middle-aged men. Later, as I learned more about the ag 22 CHRONOGRAM 6/19

industry, I found out that it’s passed down generation to generation. At that time, Salinas also began to step up its agriculture technology game. There was an incubator that started there with agtech startups and I just started to ask the question: How many of these, just out of curiosity frankly, being a woman myself and an Asian-American, I just asked: How many of these companies are started by women? People kind of gave me this look, the deer in the headlights look. What was the central thrust of the narrative that you uncovered in the agtech space? The thrust of the narrative was really that agriculture is a sector that traditionally has been tough to break into. It’s mostly handed down to men and the boys in the family and not to women, in terms of the leadership at least. The beautiful thing about agtech is really any amazing person with an innovative, entrepreneurial background can break in. The question I often ask these women is: Why did you get into this? You have no history really in agriculture technology. What threw you out here to drive to move from New York to California to pursue this? The common thread that I ended up finding was that women see an opportunity in the agtech sector—it’s growing, and it’s growing because of lots of different reasons, including a severe labor shortage and land and water supply shortage, but also at the same time there’s this pressure to feed the world. The population is going to grow to about 9, 10 billion in 2050 so there’s also this feeling of wanting to do good, almost like they really wanted to contribute something to this world of wellness and health and food and sustainability.

Why are you so passionate about women and agtech? This is a huge, amazing industry. It’s more than just tractors and overalls. I’m profiling these women leaders because I’m hoping that younger people will hear their stories and consider that this is also an opportunity for them. I always feel maybe in sharing these stories there might be some more discussion about opportunities versus like it’s just boring, it’s just ag. Someone in the film mentions that there’s an aging farming population and that 50% of US farmland is going to change hands in the next 10 years. Do you feel like there’s an opening in the immediate future for more women and minorities to get into farming? That’s a really good question. I’m actually pretty hopeful now. When I first started the project, I was not certain about this. When I go to conferences, summits, and gatherings—I don’t see a lot of women frankly. But the latest ag census that came out two months ago is pretty hopeful. It’s actually showing a trend towards there are more female farmers now. There is a rising amount of land ownership amongst women. Is there a connection to the Hudson Valley in your film? I’m based here most of the time now and I’m also passionate about the agriculture sector here; I visit a lot of farms with my job at Farm Hub. There is a big farming ecosystem here. My hope is that there could be some women to talk to and profile out here and my dream would be to take their stories and add them to the book that I’m currently working on based on Farms to Incubators. And eventually, who knows, maybe there’ll be a second film.

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2019

his year, after not only a typically long upstate New York winter but an atypically cold and damp April and May as well, the much-anticipated arrival of summer is sure to feel especially sweet for both regional residents and ecstatic visitors. And what better way to savor that sweetness than to get up, get out, and enjoy a bit of the joyous cascade of seasonal arts events and activities that the warmer months always bring to the Hudson Valley—with the verdant natural beauty of the area as the backdrop? From the days of the Hudson River School painters to those of the rollicking Borscht Belt era (more on that later) and the heady 1969 Woodstock Festival—which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year—and right on up to the plethora of attractions in the thoughtful, custom-curated roundup you’ll find in this very section, the Hudson Valley has long enjoyed a worldwide reputation as a thriving destination of inspiring and fun indoor and outdoor arts-related action. Just for you, as we do every year right here in Chronogram’s Summer Arts Preview pages, we’ve put together our usual bespoke rundown of recommended events and exhibits in the fields of music, art, dance, and theater; new to the SAP compendium for 2019 is a comedy component, which has certainly been long overdue, given the tremendous amount of internationally renowned laugh-making talent that heats up the Hudson Valley each summer. Also, here to add to the enjoyment are some sidebar pieces we’ve cooked up exclusively for this issue, each of which is chock full of quirky kernels of conversation-starting delight. So, then, let’s do this. It’s time for summer fun. And when you take that ride, keep Chronogram by your side, as your guide. Stay safe. And enjoy. —Peter Aaron

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Mountain Jam (June 13-16) Concurrent with the notching of its 15th year, for 2019 the Northeast’s biggest jamcentric jubilee makes the move from Hunter Mountain to its new home at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts—the sacred site of the 1969 Woodstock Festival. In addition to regular headliners Gov’t Mule (whose Warren Haynes is one of Mountain Jam’s organizers) and Michael Franti & Spearhead, the festival’s Sullivan County debut features Willie Nelson & Family, Phil Lesh & Friends, the Avett Brothers, Allison Krauss, Toots & the Maytals, Amy Helm, Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds, and more. Mountainjam.com

Clearwater (June 15-16) This is a big year for the Clearwater Festival, aka the Great Hudson River Revival: Not only is 2019 the 100th anniversary of festival founder and patron saint Pete Seeger, it’s also the 50th anniversary of the sloop Clearwater, which the conservation-themed gathering was originally established to fund. As usual, the roster for the family-friendly fest at Croton Point Park in Croton is formidable: Mavis Staples, Ani DiFranco, Railroad Earth, the Wailers, the Lone Bellow, the Del McCoury Band, Immortal Technique, Chapin McCombs Chapin, the Mammals, David Amram, the Big Takeover, Tom Paxton, DeadGrass, and lots more. ClearwaterFestival.org

Solid Sound (June 28-30) This summer, as it does every other summer, the popular Wilco-sponsored music/ arts festival once again returns to MassMoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts. And this year, as always, along with two headlining sets by Wilco themselves Solid Sound will feature performances by several of the members’ offshoots: Jeff Tweedy & Friends, Cup (with Nels Cline and Yuka C Honda), and the Autumn Defense (with John Stirrat and Pat Sansone). Also appearing: Courtney Barnett, Tortoise (two sets), the Feelies, Jonathan Richman, Cate Le Bon, the Minus 5, John Hodgman’s Comedy Cabaret, Milo, Mdou Moctar, Lonnie Holley, and more. Solidsoundfestival.com

Hudson Valley Brassroots Festival (July 27-28) Making its second go on the musical landscape is this Kingston blowout, which happens at Seed Song Farm. “The mission of the Hudson Valley Brassroots Festival is to celebrate brass music in a rural, accessible, and family-friendly environment,” say the organizers. “Brassroots 2019 will feature music from eight bands whose influences range from the Balkans to Latin America, New Orleans second line to brass punk and activist anthems.” Performing are Brasskill, Black Tie Brass, Drumadics, the Hungry March Band, Zlatne Uste, the Party Band, West Philly Orchestra, Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band, Brass Queens, Fly Brass Band, and Desperate Measures Street Band. Brassrootsfestival.com

Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice (August 2-4) A highly unique and much-loved Hudson Valley music fest, the Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice is back this August in its namesake town to fill the mountain air with the resounding sounds of vocal music in its many forms. The three-day soiree starts with a 10-year gala featuring a decade of opera favorites (August 2) and continues with “Lady Parts: Music of the Abolition Movement” (August 3), “Jesus Christ Superstar” performed by students of the Paul Green Rock Academy (August 4), the Florence Foster Jenkins bioplay “Souvenir” (August 3-4), “Music of the African Diaspora” (August 3-4), excerpts from Scott Joplin’s “Treemonisha” (August 3), and more. Phoeniciavoicefest.org

Huichica Hudson Valley (August 9-10) An offshoot of Sonoma, California’s older Huichica festival is this extremely chill outdoor get-together at Chisolm Farm in Pine Plains, which promises camping, fine wine and other beverages, craft foods, vendors, and even activities to keep the kids out of your hair—all in the midst of live music by some exceptional artists. On the bill for 2019 are legendary Thirteenth Floor Elevators front man Roky Erickson, Destroyer, Purple Mountains, Mail the Horse, Howlin’ Rain, Shana Falana, Helado Negro, Garcia Peoples, the Mammals, Bill McKay, and Driftwood Soldier. The psychedelic visuals of the Mad Alchemy Liquid Light Show will augment the evening performances. Hudson.huichica.com

From top: Basilica SoundScape 2018 Photo by Amanda Koellner Extraordinary Rendition Band at the 2018 Hudson Valley Brassroots Festival Photo by Gregory Ortiz, Pix by Papi SolidSound at MassMoCA in 2017 Photo by Douglas Mason Huichica East 2018 Photo by Bryan Lasky

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SUMMER ARTS PREVIEW

MUSIC

Maverick Concerts

ucked away in the forest of Hurley, just outside of Woodstock, is the rustic wooden Maverick Concert Hall, a National Register of Historic Places site and the home of America’s oldest continuous summer chamber music series. Hand built in 1915 by a small crew led by series founder and writer Hervey White (a cofounder of the nearby Byrdcliffe Arts Colony), the shed-like structure is perhaps most famously known as the venue where composer John Cage’s controversial 4’33” was premiered in 1952. Each summer, the Maverick presents concerts by some of the world’s top classical and contemporary soloists and chamber ensembles; performances by jazz, folk, and ethnic music artists; and, for children, the popular Young Mavericks Festival. This season—Maverick’s 104th—looks to be another stellar run for the magical series. Maverick 2019 opens with two concerts by the locally based choral ensemble Ars Choralis, who will collaborate with a group of chamber musicians to play music by Bach, Mendelssohn, Brahms, VillaLobos, and Pärt (June 22 and 23). Long-time Maverick favorites the Shanghai Quartet return to play works by Beethoven, Dvorak, and contemporary Chinese composer Tan Dun (June 30), while other standout picks include the Catalyst Quartet with pianist David Gortler (July 21), Jupiter Quartet (July 28), Pacifica Quartet (August 25), Trio Solisti (September 1), and Escher String Quartet, whose program includes Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 10 (July 7; Shostakovich will also be the subject of a lecture on July 11). Aficionados of modernism should mark their calendars for the concert by the Maverick Chamber Orchestra conducted by music director Alexander Platt of selected pieces by Glass, Berio, and Schoenberg (August 24). A concert celebrating the centenary of Pete Seeger’s birth features Woodstock folk legend Happy Traum, who will be joined by an all-star cast of players that includes Elizabeth Mitchell, Tony Trischka, Jay Ungar, Molly Mason, Simi Stone, and Adam Traum (July 6). Another special tribute event starring Steve Gorn and Friends honors the life and music of Ravi Shankar (August 10). Jazz offerings this year include recurring fave Bill Charlap with his trio (June 29), Nilson Matta’s Brazilian Jazz Quartet (July 13), the Christian Sands Trio (August 3; Sands will deliver a Young Mavericks concert that afternoon), and Karl Berger’s All-Star Sextet (August 31). The kid-friendly Young Mavericks concerts include those by Elizabeth Mitchell & Family (July 6) and Frederic Chu and David Gonzalez (July 20). Maverickconcerts.org.

Left column from top: The Harlem Quartet, Jasper String Quartet, Nilson Matta, Karl Berger, Elizabeth Mitchell and Family. Right column from top: Christian Sands, The Bill Charlap Trio, Shanghai Quartet, Jupiter Quartet, Happy Traum, Trio Solisti.

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RADIO WOODSTOCK & WARREN HAYNES PRESENT

Elvis Costello plays Bethel Woods July 20.

BETHEL, NY

Bethel Woods Center for the Arts home OF THE ORIGINAL 1969 WOODSTOCK FESTIVAL

10 Big Concerts to Look Forward to in 2019 India.Arie June 2, Troy Savings Bank Music Hall The Grammy-winning, platinum-selling contemporary R&B diva graces the Capital Region on the tour for her new album, Worthy.

Dead & Company June 18, Saratoga Performing Arts Center Founding Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, and Bill Kreutzmann—joined on guitar by John Mayer—keep on truckin’ with another long, strange trip.

Phish July 2-3, Saratoga Performing Arts Center The Burlington-born jam-band juggernaut lands at SPAC for these two epic, phan-pleasing days of outward-bound songs and sonic flights.

James Taylor 2019 Season

June 28 & 29 8:30 pm STAGED DIVES

July 3-4, Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts In a longstanding Tanglewood tradition, the sultan of sensitive singersongwriters returns to the glorious open-air Koussevitzky Music Shed for his always-anticipated summer engagement.

John Mayer

July 6 - 8:30 pm SALTY BRINE

An evening with Stew & Heidi

July 19, Times Union Center, Albany Around his being on the road with Dead & Company (see above), the hitmaking singer-songwriter and guitarist has lined up own tour—which includes this hot-ticket night in Albany.

Elvis Costello/Blondie July 20, Bethel Woods Center for the Arts In one of the season’s strongest bills, the site of the original Woodstock Music Festival welcomes two of the leading acts of the new wave era. Welcome to the Jungle

Steve Miller Band/Marty Stuart For tickets and information: www.ancramoperahouse.org

WAMC’s Performing Arts Studio THELINDA.ORG 339 CENTRAL AVE, ALBANY NY 12206

July 28, Hutton Brickyards, Kingston Two summers after the repurposed outdoor waterfront venue’s legendmaking Bob Dylan concert, the former brickyard unites these titans of classic rock and country-roots music.

The Distillers/Death Valley Girls August 16, Upstate Concert Hall, Albany Capped by the gravel-gnashing voice of frontwoman Brody Dalle, the reunited-and-roaring Distillers storm the region with fellow LA punks Death Valley Girls in tow.

Graham Nash September 22, the Bardavon, Poughkeepsie One of the original Woodstock concert’s most famous veterans returns to our area for an intimate evening off songs and stories from throughout his fabled career.

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The Mystical Arts of Tibet October 13, Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston In a sure-to-be-transcendental night at UPAC, Tibet’s colorfully costumed Loseling monks will perform ancient temple music and dance for world healing.

Ex Hex plays Supertone July 6 at Basilica Hudson. Photo by April Greer

Supertone (July 6) In clocking its third year, the Supertone festival, which began at a farm in Columbia County, is taking an urban turn with its 2019 installment. Now set to take place at the magnificent Basilica Hudson, the indie rock/roots offering has a tightly curated lineup in place for its debut at the waterfront venue: Washington, DC, punk trio Ex Hex; Nashville’s gritty Thelma and the Sleaze; New York honky tonker Zepaniah Ohora; Kingston punkers El Front; Hudson rockabillies Chops, Sauerkraut, and Krewson; Vermont country band Wild Leek River; North Carolina roots act Hoot & Holler; Nashville tunesmith Jon Hatchett; Southern troubador Riley Downing; and Brooklyn garage/surf outfit Habibi. Basilicahudson.org

Summer Season June 15 – July 28

Bau at Old Songs Festival in 2015.

Alisa Weilerstein, cello Tribu Baharú

Connect Through Live Music

Old Songs (June 28-30) Held at the Altamont Fairgrounds in Voorheesville, this three-day celebration of acoustic-based music and dance has been going since 1981. With three evening main-stage concerts and 100 daytime performances, Old Songs is beloved for its folksy, laid-back vibe, interactive sessions and workshops, and overall inclusive feeling. This year’s performers include Emma’s Revolution, Bill Staines, Mary Flower, John McCutcheon, Tommy Sands, Archie Fisher, Magpie, Rob van Sante and John Connolly, Lil Rev, Sharon Katz and the Peace Train, Pete’s Posse, Beppe Gambeta, Bon Debarras, Musique a Bouches, Mulebone, Bruce Molsky, and many more. Camping options are available. Festival.oldsongs.org

Classical / Roots / World / Jazz / Family Fun / Katonah, NY

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Find Your Center AT MARIANDALE

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Clockwise from top left: John Cameron Mitchell in “The Origin of Love: The Songs and Stories of Hedwig,” July 27 Photo by Matthew Placek Ausrine Stundyte in “The Miracle of Heliane,” July 26, 28 and August 2, 4 Photo by Schneider Photography Susanne Bartsch presents Spiegeltent Follies, July 20 Photo by Maria Baranova Ron K. Brown / EVIDENCE performs “Grace and Mercy,” July 5-7 Photo by Matt Karas

SUMMERSCAPE

Bard SummerScape The crown jewel of all discipline-spanning Hudson Valley summer arts festivals is, arguably, Bard SummerScape. Founded in 2002, the seven-week series takes place on the campus of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson and is held in tandem with the two-week classical music-oriented Bard Music Festival, which was itself established in 1990. Bard SummerScape 2019, which runs from June 29 through August 18, features performances and presentations in the genres of opera, theater, music, dance, film, and cabaret, as well as lectures and talks on related topics. Concerts, recitals, and screenings are mainly held in the college’s stunning, Frank Gehrydesigned Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, while cabaret and other intimate events occur in the whimsical Spiegeltent, which is erected on campus every year exclusively for the festival. For each season, SummerScape organizers select a single composer to be the festival’s core focus and offer panels and presentations that illustrate links to the literature, painting, theater, philosophy, and politics that would have influenced the featured composer’s life and works. This year’s core composer is the Austrian-born Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957), whose epic, lavish compositions are the stuff of many a classic Hollywood soundtrack. The film series for SummerScape 2019, “Korngold and the Hollywood Score” (July 2-August 18), promises movies scored by Korngold and his contemporaries Bernard Hermann

and Max Steiner, along with films chosen for their Viennese connections. Opera this year includes Michael Gordon’s modern “Acquanetta” (July 11-21), an homage to camp 1940s horror films, and Korngold’s anti-dictatorship-themed “The Miracle of Heliane” (July 26 and 28; August 2 and 4); the latter will be accompanied by the American Symphony Orchestra conducted by Bard’s president, Leon Botstein. Dance is represented by the world premiere of choreographer Ronald K. Brown’s “Grace and Mercy” (July 5-7), which features an original score by Meshell Ndegeocello performed live by Peven Everett and others. The Speigeltent is once again packed to its peak with prime fare. Weekends boast headliners like drag artist Lady Bunny (July 6), funk diva Nona Hendryx (July 19), Dixieland band the Hot Sardines (July 26), “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” creator John Cameron Mitchell (July 27), and cabaret great Mx. Justin Vivian Bond (August 2). The 30th annual Bard Music Festival happens on the consecutive weekends of August 9-11 and 16-18. Titled “Korngold and His World,” this “festival within a festival” surveys the composer’s life and art with concerts of some of his greatest orchestral works and film scores and music by several of his influential contemporaries performed by a host of ensembles that includes Bard’s renowned The Orchestra Now conducted by Leon Botstein or James Bagwell. Preconcert talks about Korngold and the musical selections enrich the experience. Fishercenter.bard.edu/summerscape

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Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival It’s hard to beat the setting of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: beneath the sheltering canopy of an open-air tent overlooking the Hudson River on the grounds of the opulent, historic Boscobel House and Gardens in Garrison. Obviously, the accent here is on the best of the Bard, and this season’s roster does not disappoint: “Much Ado About Nothing” (June 9-August 31), “Cymbeline” (June 11-July 27), and “Julius Caesar” (July 6-August 6). Non-Shakespeare works complimenting the schedule are the Tony Award-winning Broadway hit “Into the Woods” (August 1-September 6) and an adaptation of Rostand’s immortal “Cyrano” (June 27-August 30). Hvshakespeare.org

Powerhouse Theater Famous as the facility at which “Hamilton” was developed, Poughkeepsie’s Powerhouse Theater, on the campus of Vassar University, is the place to catch that next big play or musical—without paying Broadway ticket prices. On the main stage are Harrison David Rivers’s “The Bandaged Place” (June 27July 7) and Beth Henley’s “Lightning (or The Unbuttoning)” (July 18-28), while the schedule of musical workshops has “Annie Salem: An American Tale” (July 5-7), “The Elementary Spacetime Show” (July 12-14), and “Goddess” (July 26-28). Inside Look workshops include “…and the Horse You Rode In On” (June 20-22) and “The Best We Could (A Family Tragedy)” (July 25-27). Powerhouse.vassar.edu

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Above: The Shakespeare and Co. production of “HIR” by Taylor Mack, with John Hadden and Adam Huff Photography by Emma Rothenberg-Ware Opposite from top: The cast of Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival’s 2018 production of “The Heart Of Robin Hood.” Photo by T. Charles Erickson The Powerhouse Theater Training Program’s 2018 production of “Measure for Measure” by William Shakespeare, adapted and directed by Andrew Willis-Woodward Photo by Buck Lewis Below: Founder and host of The Secret City Chris Wells in 2018 Photo by Tim Geaney

THEATER

Williamstown Theater Festival

Shadowland Stages

This summer stock institution was founded in 1954 on the campus of Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and focuses on world premieres and features big-name actors on its stages. This year boasts Uma Thruman in Ibsen’s “Ghosts” (July 31-August 18), Ellen Barkin in “Before the Meeting” (August 7-18), and Jane Kazmarek in “Tell Me I’m Not Crazy” (July 24-August 3). The festival celebrates the 60th anniversary of “A Raisin in the Sun” (June 25-July 27) and premieres “Grand Horizons” (July 17-28), Jonathan Payne’s “A Human Being, of a Sort” (June 26-July 7), and Sylvia Khoury’s “Selling Kabul” (July 10-20). Wtfestival.org

Since 1985, Shadowland Stages (formerly Shadowland Theater) has been offering live productions of classic, contemporary, and new plays within the welcoming walls of a restored, 179-seat 1920s Art Deco vaudeville theater in Ellenville. “Our focus,” say its founders, “remains on producing thought-provoking, socially relevant works with vision that will entertain, educate, and challenge our audience.” Shadowland’s current and upcoming calendar includes “Memoirs of a Forgotten Man” (through June 16), “The Roommate” (June 21-July 14), “Shear Madness” (July 19-August 18), “Over the River and Through the Woods” (August 23-September 8), and the East Coast premiere of the Jeff Danielspenned “Flint” (September 13-29). Shadowlandstages.org

The Secret City Summer Art Revival Ministered by performance artist Chris Wells and based in Woodstock, the Secret City is a nationally touring “church of art” that lets loose its Summer Art Revival each July for a three-day, town-wide celebration highlighting Woodstock’s rich artistic culture. Along with local-hosted house events, there will be a kickoff party with the Secret City Band (July 25), a concert by members of the legendary Penguin Cafe Orchestra (July 26), a picnic (July 27), live band karaoke (July 27), and, finally, a fabulous processional through town to culminate in an ecstatic tent revival (July 28). Performers this year include Amanda Palmer, Jerry Marrotta, Leah Coloff, Viv Corringham, Riley Johndonnell, and others. See website for venues and schedule. Thesecretcity.org

Shakespeare & Company At this Berkshires mainstay much has long been ado about not only its namesake dramatist: The Lenox, Massachusetts, company is also about presenting newer and underserved original works to its dedicated and growing audience. Twenty-Nineteen promises “The Waverly Gallery” (through July 14), “The Children” (July 18-August 18), “Topdog/Underdog” (August 13-September 8), and, for the fall, “Time Stands Still” (September 13-October 13). And, of course, there are this season’s Shakespearean classics: “Twelfth Night” (July 2-August 4), “The Taming of the Shrew” (July 9-August 17), “The Merry Wives of Windsor” (August 8-September 1), and “Coriolanus” (August 21-25). Shakespeare.org

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From Stonewall 1969 to Poughkeepsie 2019

LGBTQ+ PRIDE is Coming to Poughkeepsie! Dutchess County Pride Center is extremely excited to announce that we are planning for our first annual Poughkeepsie Pride Parade and Festival to be held on Sunday, June 9, 2019. The Pride Parade will begin at 1pm on Market Street, marching down Main Street, Poughkeepsie into Waryas Park, where we are holding a family-friendly LGBTQ+ Pride Festival.

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THEATER ANCRAM OPERA HOUSE

Uma Thurman stars in “Ghosts” at the Williamstown Theater Festival July 31-August 18.

Five Celebrities on Stage in the Region This Summer Patti LuPone in “Don’t Monkey Around with Broadway” at the Mahawie Performing Arts Center July 20. Great Barrington, Massachusetts Mahaiwe.org The two-time Tony Award winner explores classic Broadway show tunes and talks about her lifelong love affair with Broadway—and her concern for where the Great White Way is headed. John Cameron Mitchel in “The Origin of Love: Songs and Stories of Hedwig” at the Bard SummerScape Spiegeltent July 27. Annandale-on-Hudson Fishercenter.bard.edu “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” creator John Cameron Mitchell visits the Spiegeltent in this intimate, uproarious personal journey through his experiences across two decades of living with Hedwig. Jane Kazmarek in “Tell Me I’m Not Crazy” at the Williamstown Theater Festival July 24-August 3. Williamstown, Massachusetts Wtfestival.org Golden Globe and Emmy nominee Jane Kazmarek (“Malcolm in the Middle”) stars in Sharon Rothstein’s new, Williamstown Theater Festivalcommissioned comedy about one American family—and one gun. Uma Thurman in “Ghosts” at the Williamstown Theater Festival July 31-August 18. Williamstown, Massachusetts Wtfestival.org Big-screen icon Uma Thurman (Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill) takes an exceedingly rare small-theater role in a production of Henrik Ibsen’s passionate, immortal drama of motherhood, duty, desire, and scandal. Ellen Barkin in “Before the Meeting” at the Williamstown Theater Festival August 7-18. Williamstown, Massachusetts Wtfestival.org Emmy and Tony winner Ellen Barkin (Diner, The Adventure of Buckaroo Banzai) appears in the world premiere of Adam Bock’s (“A Small Fire”) drama that explores the dynamic of one woman’s journey on the road to recovery.

Founded shortly after the Civil War, the National Grange Order of Patrons of Husbandry—better known as the Grange movement—is a fraternal order that encourages the families and other members of American agricultural areas to come together to promote the economic, educational, and social wellbeing of their communities. In farming regions across the nation, grange halls were built to serve the needs of the residents and act as their community centers. One of these structures, Ancram Grange #955, was built in the Columbia County town of Ancram (about 25 minutes southeast of Hudson) in 1927 and continues to function as the town’s anchor—although perhaps not quite as its original builders envisioned. Rechristened the Ancram Opera House in 1972, for years the site focused mainly on staging light operatic fare. Today, the historic wood building hosts regular local theatrical productions and acting, voice, and yoga lessons, as well as performances by top national and international talent in the fields of theater, cabaret, music, film, and other artforms. The Ancram Opera House’s 2019 summer season begins with “Staged Dives: An Evening with Stew & Heidi” (June 28-29), which brings to the humble hall Stew (Mark Stewart) and Heidi Rodewald, the cocreators of the Tony-, Drama Desk-, and Obieaward-winning Broadway musical “Passing Strange.” For this special show, the duo will perform intimate versions of the songs they wrote for “Passing Strange” and tell the stories behind them. “Welcome to the Jungle” (July 6) stars New York cabaret performer Salty Brine in a show that somehow sets selections from Rudyard Kipling’s beloved The Jungle Book to the songs from Harry Nilsson’s hit album Nilsson Schmilsson. In the Obiewinning, one-man play “The Tricky Part” (July 12-14), its star and creator, Martin Moran, reflects on the true story of the sexual relationship he had with an older male counselor while he was an adolescent and teenager at a Catholic boys’ camp—making for “a riveting, often funny, and always surprising journey throughout the complexities of Catholicism, desire, and human trespass.” One of the house’s most popular ongoing events is its “Real People Real Stories” (July 27) series. Inspired by NPR’s “The Moth” and “The Moth Radio Hour,” the performances present local community members (five per show) sharing authentic personal tales. “The Brothers Size” (August 8-25) is a critically acclaimed drama written by Tarell Alvin McCraney that tells the tough-but-tender tale of two Lousiana bayou brothers. The play combines dialogue, poetry, music, dance, and West African mythology “in a contemporary tale that explores the tenuousness of freedom and the need to belong.” Ancramoperahouse.org

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Wilderstein Outdoor Sculpture Biennial Taking place every other year on the grounds of the Wilderstein Historic Site in Rhinebeck, the home of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s cousin and confidant Margaret “Daisy” Suckley, is this outdoor sculpture exhibit (June 2-October 31). The show features a collection of 25 pieces by a diverse group of regional Hudson Valley artists and is free to the public. Wilderstein is open daily from 9am to 4pm. Wilderstein.org

Wassaic Project

The year-round multi-arts complex at the reclaimed Maxon Mills in the Dutchess County hamlet of Wassaic fires it up annually with its Wassaic Project Summer Festival (August 3). Running from noon til late, the fest showcases emerging artists, bands, dancers, and filmmakers and promises lectures from artists taking part in the center’s summer art exhibition, “Ad Astra Per Aspera” (through September 12). Participating artists were to be announced at the time of this writing, so check the website for details. Wassaicproject.org

Maggazino Italian Art

This recently opened warehouse art center in Cold Spring is chiefly devoted to postwar and contemporary Italian art. Privately funded by Garrison/New York art collectors Giorgio Spanu and Nancy Olnick, the 20,000-square-foot space and among other works houses many of the more than 500 pieces the couple has collected over three decades. On view is a new solo exhibition and sitespecific installation by multimedia artist Renato Leotta (through June 12); ongoing is a group show of artists from the Arte Povera movement. Magazzino.art

Dusklit

Held at Sugar Loaf’s Seligmann Center every year is its Dusklit interactive art festival (July 20), which is presented as part of the Warwick Summer Art Festival. The one-night bazar at the 50-acre former homestead of Surrealist artist Kurt Seligmann brings together artists from the Hudson Valley and New York Metro areas to transform the site’s landscape with visual art, music, dance, acting, poetry, performance art, fire manipulation, and other artistic styles from 5 to 9pm. Dusklit.com

Opus 40 Sculpture Park and Museum

Created by sculptor Harvey Fite over 37 years beginning in 1939, this sprawling, six-and-a-halfacre outdoor stone environmental sculpture in Saugerties makes for an essential summer visit, whether you’re a permanent Hudson Valley resident or just visiting the area. Built by Fite using bluestone he quarried himself nearby, the site, which also includes the Quarryman Museum, is open daily for the season from 10:30am to 5pm and often features performances and other events. Check website for updated listings. Opus40.org

The Clark Art Institute

Head over to Williamstown, Massachusetts, to check out the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, commonly known as, simply, the Clark. Established in 1955, the museum is home to European and American art dating from the 14th to the early 20th century. On offer for summer 2019 are “The Forty Part Motet,” a sound installation by Janet Cardiff (through September 15), “Renoir: The Body, the Senses” (June 8-September 22), and “Ida O’Keefe: Escaping Georgia’s Shadow” (July 4-October 6). Clarkart.edu

From top: Opening Day Parade in Wassaic. Photo by Anja Shutz Ida Ten Eyck O’Keeffe, Creation, oil on canvas Courtesy of Gerald Peters Gallery Reb Ayse, Ali Feser, and Becky Riedman, Dusklist 2017. Photo by Argenis Apolinario

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Brian Tolle’s Eureka at Art Omi Photo by Bryan Zimmerman

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Art Omi

Without doubt, one of Columbia County’s A-list attractions is Art Omi, the contemporary art and sculpture park in Ghent. The free facility’s summer season is already underway and promises workshops and children’s activities, dance (July 20 and August 31), and live experimental music (August 24), in addition to the gloriously monolithic sculptures installed throughout its rambling landscape. Inside its Newmark Gallery are showings by artists David Shrigley (through July 21), Tschabalala Self (July 27-September 29), and others. Artomi.org.

Storm King Art Center

Part of the landscape, literally, since 1960, the 500-acre Storm King Art Center in Mountainville (a hamlet of Cornwall) boasts perhaps the largest collection of contemporary outdoor sculpture in the entire country. Alongside its permanent collection of pieces by Alexander Calder, Richard Serra, David Smith, Isamu Noguchi, Henry Moore, Louise Nevelson, Sol Lewitt, and others, this summer, the center is presenting work by Jean Shin (through November 24) and Mark Dion (through November 11). Storm King also offers special exhibition and highlights tours, yoga, and occasional events. Stormking.org

Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art

Until last year, Peekskill’s Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art (or Hudson Valley MoCA) was known as the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art. But while the name may have changed, the mission—to bring world-class art and ideas to the region— has not. The museum’s current exhibitions are “Greatest Love,” an overview of works by fiber artist Anne Samat (through September 8) and “Death is Irrelevant: Selections from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection, 1975-2018” (through September 8). Hudsonvalleymoca.org

A view of Jean Shin’s Outlooks installation at Storm King Art Center. Photo by Jerry L. Thompson

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Seven Defining Moments in Hudson Valley Art History

ART

1825: Hudson River School Founded

British painter Thomas Cole arrives in the region, falls in love its natural beauty, and creates a series of landscape paintings that inspire other painters to come to the area and do the same, thereby ushering in the Hudson River School, America’s first arts movement. Cole’s Catskill home and studio, now the Thomas Cole National Historic Site, sits directly across the Hudson from his student Frederic Church’s home, now the Olana State Historic Site.

1905: Maverick Art Colony Founded

English-born arts patron Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead and American painter Bolton Brown and writer and social reformer Hervey White had established Byrdcliffe Arts Colony in Woodstock in 1902 when, three years later, White, after falling out with Whitehead, opens his own Maverick colony on the other side of town. In 1915 he began the Maverick chamber music concert series, which since 1916 has been held in the wooden hall he built on the property

1960: Storm King Art Center Founded

On land donated by industrialists Ralph Ogden and Peter Stern, the Storm King Art Center opens as a museum dedicated to Hudson River School painters. By 1961 it changed its focus to modern sculpture and began expanding its footprint. Today, the 500-acre Mountainville museum has one of the world’s largest collections of contemporary outdoor sculpture, with works by Alexander Calder, Richard Serra, Isamu Noguchi, and others.

1976: Opus 40 Creator Harvey Fite Dies

Sadly, seven years after retiring from 40 years of teaching at nearby Bard College and without completing Opus 40, the sprawling sculpture garden in Saugerties he began building in 1939, artist Harvey Fite is killed after accidentally driving his ride-on lawnmower over one of the artwork’s 12-foot ledges. Having named the sculpture for the number of years he expected he’d need to finish it, Fite was a mere three years from its completion when he died. Opus 40 remains a popular local destination today.

2003: Dia:Beacon Opens

In a 160,000-square-foot former Nabisco boxprinting facility, the nonprofit Dia Art Foundation opens Dia:Beacon, one of the biggest indoor modern and contemporary art exhibition spaces in the world. Easily reachable from New York via the Metro North Railway, the museum quickly becomes a popular tourist destination and fuels Beacon’s artistic and economic renaissance.

2010: 0+ Festival Founded

With the mission of bringing “complete physical, mental, and social well-being by connecting artists directly with a coalition of health care providers and health resources, in a shared vision to nurture the individual and the community,” the inaugural 0+ Festival of music and art is held in Kingston. The splashy event takes over Kingston every October, attracting attendees from all parts of the globe while providing free health and wellness clinics to the participating musicians and artists whose sounds and creations light up the town, and has inspired the launch of 0+ festivals in other cities.

2019: The Gallery Scene Flourishes

With its long, rich tradition of art making and the environment that nurtures and inspires it—not to mention its easy accessibility to New York City— the region is in the midst of an artistic explosion. Its thriving network of galleries in population centers like Hudson, Kingston, Beacon, Newburgh, Albany, New Paltz, and Poughkeepsie; those tucked away in smaller towns like Woodstock, Catskill, Saugerties, Phoenicia, and Sugar Loaf; and the proximity of the cutting-edge Mass MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts, all add up to say one thing, loudly: The next moment for the Hudson Valley’s art scene is now

“Basquiat x Warhol” at The School It feels safe to say that no two modern artists are more emblematic of Downtown New York than Jean Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) and Andy Warhol (1928-1987). Warhol was the Originator, the daddy of Downtown cool and the father of pop art; Basquiat was the nextgen upstart, the erstwhile graffiti writer whose jagged, colorful, neoexpressionist images smashed together the late 1970s/early 1980s Lower East Side mashup of rap, punk, and street art. Swirling about in the city’s club scene and edgier art world of the time, it seems natural, in retrospect, that the two maverick masters would find each other—and work together. The series of collaborative paintings the pair made circa 1984-1985 is the core of “Basquiat x Warhol,” an exhibition at the Jack Shainman Gallery’s the School in Kinderhook through September 7. On the surface, the union between the two—always platonic, according to those close around them— was also perplexing to many. By the time they met, Warhol, his ’60s Factory days long behind him, had slipped into becoming part of the Uptown high-art establishment. His street cred was diminished, and many of the rebels he’d first inspired saw him as staid and irrelevant. Basquiat, by contrast, was the disheveled enfant terrible, a street kid of Haitian and Puerto Rican heritage who peddled his postcard-sized paintings on the sidewalk by day and tagged the walls by night. (The story of their friendship, depicted in Julian Schnabel’s 1996 biopic Basquiat—with David Bowie playing Warhol—goes that it began when the audacious

Basquiat spied Warhol in a restaurant and sold the elder artist some of his miniature works.) “It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple,” Warhol’s studio assistant Ronnie Cutrone told Sleek magazine in 2017. “The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel’s new blood. Jean-Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.” That new blood and its reciprocal rebelliousness is all over the works featured in “Basquiat x Warhol”— although at the time much of it was first shown, in 1985, the critical reception was mixed. “[T]he collaboration looks like one of Warhol’s manipulations,” said the New York Times. “Basquiat, meanwhile, comes across as the all too willing accessory.” Whatever the public’s perceptions were, though, in the end the team-up proved short-lived. After a falling out, Warhol died at 59 in 1987 from complications following gall bladder surgery; Basquiat fell to heroin at 27 in 1988. Along with the cream of their collaborations, “Basquiat x Warhol” features iconic and obscure works by both artists. The former grouping includes Warhol’s Last Supper (Camel/57) and several large-scale oil and acrylic paintings by Basquiat; among the show’s lesser-known items are Warhol’s torso paintings and Basquiat’s anatomy prints. Supplementing the exhibition are projections of Warhol films and a screening of the PBS American Masters documentary Basquiat: Rage to Riches. “Basquiat x Warhol” is on view June 1-September 7. Jackshainman.com/school-2-21

Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol, Untitled (Two Dogs), acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas, 1984. © 2019 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat / ADAGP, Paris / ARS, New York 2019.

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Above: New York City Ballet performs Justin Peck’s “Principia”; appearing at SPAC July 16-20 Photo by Erin Baiano Opposite: Elevator Repair Service performs “The Select”; appearing August 10-11 at Lumberyard Photo by Rob Strong Pilobolus at the Five Senses Festival Photo by Brigid Pierce

Five Great Choreographers and Their Hudson Valley Area Connections Twyla Tharp (b. 1941) In 2016, the Emmy and Drama Desk award winner and her company were in residence at Hunter’s Catskill Mountain foundation, where they also performed.

Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) The choreographies of this pioneering mother of modern American dance are enshrined in the archives of the Isadora Duncan International Institute in High Falls.

George Balanchine (1904-1983) A dedicated horse-racing fan, the Russian-born founder of the New York ballet led his company at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center and in 1977 was honored with a local parade.

Ted Shawn (1891-1972) The erstwhile husband of fellow choreographer Ruth St. Denis founded the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival and retreat in Beckett, Massachusetts, in 1931.

Rudolf Nureyev (1938-1993) Rosendale resident Margarite Meyendorf was the teenage lover of the Soviet dance luminary. She chronicles the relationship in her 2016 autobiography DP Displaced Person.

Lumberyard (July 6-September 1) This second summer season at Lumberyard Center for Film and Performing Arts in Catskill offers “Quiet No More: A Choral Celebration of Stonewall” by the New York Gay Men’s Chorus (July 6), “UnderScored” by Ephrat Asherie Dance (July 13), “Manmade Earth” by theatrical troupe 600 Highwaymen (July 20-21), “Treasure” by performance artist (and Taylor Mac costumer) Machine Dazzle (July 27-28), a new work by the ensemble Elevator Repair Service (August 10-11), “Reconstruction: Still Working But the Devil Might Be Inside” by the Team (August 17-18), and “On the Water” performed by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company (August 31-September 1). Lumberyard.org

Jacob’s Pillow (June 19-August 25) The oldest internationally acclaimed dance festival in the US, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival is traceable to the 1930s, when pioneering choreographer Ted Shawn purchased this former farm in Beckett, Massachusetts, and rebuilt it as a center for modern dance. Ticketed performances this summer include Ballet BC (June 19-23), Circa (June 19-23), Compania Irene Rodriguez (June 26-30), Abby Z and the New Utility (June 26-30), Compagnie CNDC-Angiers/Robert Swinston (July 3-7), Dance Theater of Harlem (July 1014), Mark Morris Dance Group (July 17-21), Paul Taylor Dance Company (July 24-28), Martha Graham Dance Company (August 14-17), and more. The Inside/Out series offers free outdoor dance performances. Jacobspillow.org

PS21 (June 29-August 24) Dance reigns at this performing arts center located in an apple orchard in Chatham. The Jamal Jackson Dance Company, Dance Heinbotham, and Parsons Dance are among the acts at its summer season’s Opening Night Revue (June 29). Among the music and theatrical events PS21 promises in the weeks to follow are “Odeon” by Ephrat Asherie Dance (August 2-3), the documentary Black Ballerina (August 6), Philandco Dance Company (August 9-10), Bridgman/Packer Dance (August 16-17), and Parsons Dance (August 2324). The free “Just for Fun” family series features a West African dance and drum performance (July 26), Ephrat Asherie (August 2), Philandco Dance (August 9), and Bridgman/Packer Dance (August 16). Ps21chatham.org

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New York City Ballet at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (July 16-20) Cofounded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine, the New York City Ballet has made its summer home at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center since the 1960s. The company’s 2019 SPAC residency leaps off with a tribute to Balanchine and Tchaikovsky (July 16, 18) and follows with an evening of premieres of works by 21st-century choreographers that includes a new creation by Justin Peck with a score by singersongwriter Sufjan Stevens (July 17). Revisited this year is the comedic ballet “Coppelia,” which debuted at SPAC in 1974 (July 18-20). The NYCB’s SPAC season closes with a gala and performance of Balanchine’s “Apollo” (July 20). Spac.org

Ronald K. Brown/Evidence at Bard SummerScape (July 5-7) For three dates only during Bard College’s annual SummerScape spectacular, this collaboration at the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts’ Sosnoff Theater between the acclaimed choreographer Richard K. Brown and the dance company Evidence will present two arresting works. Making its world premiere is the SummerScape-commissioned “Mercy,” which features music composed by rock and soul great Meshell Ndegeocello, who will accompany the performance live. Up first each night is a newly interpreted version of Brown’s 1999 masterwork “Grace” that encompasses live music by celebrated R&B artist Peven Everett. Fishercenter.bard.edu

Pilobolus Five Senses Festival (July 21-August 4)

The venerated Pilobolus dance company’s name, in case you’ve ever wondered, comes from that of a phototropic fungus that cofounder Jonathan Wolken’s father was studying at the time of the organization’s 1971 inception. For three weekends every summer, the ever-mushrooming company sponsors its Five Senses Festival near its Washington Depot, Connecticut, headquarters. In response to the growing need for sensory and community connection, the fete features world-class performances, interactive art, local food, and activities for all ages and offers attendees the opportunity to engage with artists, speakers, writers, musicians, foodies, performers, scientists, and more. Fivesensesfestival.com 6/19 CHRONOGRAM SUMMER ARTS PREVIEW 81

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Taylor Boyland, Mac Twining, and Tess Montoya in Stephen Petronio Company’s “American Landscapes” Photo by Sarah Silver

Stephen Petronio Company This year marks the centennial of the groundbreaking American dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham (1919-2009), whose work put him at the vanguard of modern dance for more than five decades. On July 12, 13, and 14, as part of a nationwide, six-week celebration of his life, art, and influence, Hudson Hall in Hudson will host New York’s acclaimed Stephen Petronio Company for a series of performances that includes two of Cunningham’s landmark pieces. Born and raised in New Jersey, Petronio began his dance career in 1974 and was initially inspired by Rudolf Nureyev and Cunningham disciple Steve Paxton, with whom he studied contact improvisation. He founded the Stephen Petronio Company in 1984, after several years as the first male dancer of the Trisha Brown Company. Since then, Petronio and his troupe have performed at prestigious venues in more than 40 countries and at New York’s Joyce Theater for a staggering 24 seasons. In 2018, the company opened Crow’s Nest, a 175-acre dance-study retreat in Greene County offering residencies to artists. Like Cunningham, who is known for his frequent collaborations with artists from other disciplines— John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol— Petronio is highly regarded for his work with figures

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from a varied list of other artistic worlds. These include those from the spheres of music (Lou Reed, Nick Cave, Wire, Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood), visual art (Cindy Sherman, Janine Antoni, Anish Kapoor), and fashion design (Patricia Field, Narciso Rodriguez, John Bartlett). One of the three pieces to be performed by Petronio’s ensemble at the Hudson Hall series in July is his own American Landscapes (2019), which features original music composed by filmmaker and musician Jim Jarmusch and Josef Van Wissem with accompanying images by painter and sculptor Robert Longo and lighting by Ken Tabachnick. But, of course, it’s Cunningham’s creations that remain the larger focus of the engagement, which also includes the late choreographer’s Tread and Signals (both 1970). Tread was first performed by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and features music by avant-garde composer Christian Wolff; Signals debuted at the Theatre de France in Paris. Both stagings will include live music by the group Composers Inside Electronics, costumes designed by Cunningham, and lighting by Richard Nelson. Making up the current iteration of the Stephen Petronio Company are accomplished dancers Ryan Pliss, Taylor Boyland, Mac Twining, Bria Bacon, Ernesto Breton, Megan Wright, Jaqlin Medlock, Nicholas Scisione, and Tess Montoya. Hudsonhall.org. 6/19 CHRONOGRAM SUMMER ARTS PREVIEW 83

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The Borscht Belt Say the two words “the Catskills” to many people of a certain age and three other words frequently come to mind: “the Borscht Belt.” Also called the Jewish Alps, the Borscht Belt was the slang term for the Hudson Valley/Catskill Mountain region where from the early 20th century to the 1980s resorts catering to summering, working-class Jewish New Yorkers—who were often denied lodging by antisemitic local hoteliers—flourished. (“Borscht” alludes to the traditional beet soup associated with Eastern European immigrants; “Alps” is a reference to the mountains that have been a popular European vacation spot for centuries.) Once synonymous with relaxation and generous servings of kosher food and libations, the Borscht Belt hotels, bungalow colonies, and summer camps that dotted Ulster, Orange, Sullivan, Greene counties are more enduringly identified today with another attraction: entertainment. As Jews gravitated upstate from the city, they brought along with them the splashy style of theater and performance of the Lower East Side. Plays, magicians, acrobats, dancing, and live music (especially big-band swing in the 1930s, ’40s, and early ’50s) were nightlife staples, but most of the time comedy was king. Legendary laugh-makers like Henny Youngman, Shecky Greene, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hacket, Joan Rivers, Woody Allen, Rodney Dangerfield, Andy Kaufman, Billy Crystal, Jerry Seinfeld, and Jerry Lewis (who as child performed with his vaudevillestar parents in the Catskills, where he also worked as a busboy) honed their acts at such hotspots as the Concord, the Nevele, Grossinger’s Resort, the Granit Hotel, Brown’s Hotel, Kutscher’s Resort and Hotel, and the Friar Tuck Inn. Although inexpensive air travel hastened the demise of the Borscht Belt and most of its now-demolished resorts and big hotels, its spirit and comedic connection lingers on in newer complexes like Sullivan County’s Resorts World Casino, which recently hosted the hilarious Sarah Silverman.

Paula Poundstone (June 15)

The regular panelist of NPR’s “Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me,” longtime guest on the network’s “A Prairie Home Companion,” host of the podcast “Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone,” former host of NPR’s “Live from the Poundstone Institute,” and frequent late-night TV visitor of Stephen Colbert, Jay Leno, David Letterman, and others pops into Peekskill’s Paramount Hudson Valley Theater for an evening of her patented brand of deliciously droll observational humor. Paramounthudsonvalley.com

Adam Sandler (June 23)

A “Saturday Night Live” writer and cast member from 1990 to 1995, Adam Sandler, who here makes a rare area stand-up stop at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in Bethel, is, for many, forever identified with his role as Robbie Hart in 1998’s The Wedding Singer. His other hit films, both comedic and dramatic, include Punch Drunk Love, Mr. Deeds, The Waterboy, Billy Madison, Grown Ups, Spanglish, and The Meyerowitz Stories. Bethelwoodscenter.org

Tig Notaro (July 13)

Following her comedy special, documentary Tig, and roles in “First Ladies” and “Star Trek: Discovery,” the daring diva of dark deadpan drops by Northampton, Massachusetts, for this night at the Calvin Theater. Besides working live and releasing hit comedy album, the Grammy-nominated Notaro, a distant cousin of fellow feminist icon Gloria Steinem, is also a recurring guest on NPR, appearing on “This American Life,” “All Things Considered,” “The Moth,” and “Fresh Air.” Iheg.com

Patton Oswalt (July 25)

Emmy- and Grammy-winning comedian, actor, and writer Patton Oswalt seems to be everywhere: on Netflix with specials like “Annihilation” and “Talking for Clapping” and guest slots on “Lady Dynamite”; on HBO’s “Veep”; on NBC’s “Parks and Recreation”; on Comedy Central’s “Reno 911”; in such films as “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” “The Informant,” “Observe and Report,” and “Zoolander”; the list goes on. And add to that list this live show at the Palace Theater in Albany. Palacealbany.org

Tom Segura (August 8)

Best known for his hit Netflix specials “Disgraceful,” “Mostly Stories,” and “Completely Normal,” actor/ comedian/writer Tom Segura, who hits Albany’s Palace Theater this August, is also the cohost (with his wife, comedian Christina Pazsitsky) of the hit podcast “Your Mom’s House.” When he’s not doing all that, Segura can be seen in the movie Instant Family and as a guest on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” “Conan,” and other TV shows. Palacealbany.org 6/19 CHRONOGRAM SUMMER ARTS PREVIEW 85

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agic shows are not just for kids anymore, although children are certainly welcome to attend the inaugural Phoenicia Magic Festival taking place the last weekend in July at the Phoenicia Playhouse. Built in 1887, the historic building is the home to the Shandaken Theatrical Society and host to summer arts programs for kids and teens as well as community events. Producer Barry Kerr, along with art director and headlining magician Peter Samelson, are thrilled to broaden Phoenicia Playhouse’s programming this summer with a weekend of performances by an eclectic group of six talented sorcerers. Samelson, co-producer of Monday Night Magic, New York City’s longest running off-Broadway magic show, hand-selected the performers. “Alexander Boyce does beautiful classical magic. Harrison Greenbaum is an outstanding and well-known median and magician, who mixes in comedy in a way that both amazes and amuses. Leland Faulkner is a performer of classical magical variety art and a great character as well,” says Salemson, describing some of the upcoming acts. “And Lucy Darling does saucy, smart sorcery and is currently nominated for the Magician of the Year Award.” Master performer and magician Chris Capehart will be headlining the matinee shows. “People will be very surprised at what the show delivers for them. We promise to give a fabulous festival of magic and delight,” Samelson says. “We hope to make this festival ongoing and eventually expand,” Kerr added. The Phoenicia Magic Festival will take place July 26-July 28, with adult evening performances on Friday and Saturday at 8pm and family matinee shows at 1pm on Saturday and Sunday. $15-$35. Phoeniciamagic.com

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books Riots I Have Known Ryan Chapman Simon & Shuster, $24, 2019 Riots I Have Known is 119 pages of hilarious absurdity set in a fictional Dutchess County prison. The not-sofunny setting may not seem like an ideal foundation to build a story that forces the reader to laugh out loud every other page, but this first novel by Kingston-based author Ryan Chapman is, well, a riotous piece of fiction. Riots is narrated by an unnamed Sri Lankan inmate at Westbrook prison who has holed himself up in the Will and Edith Rosenberg Media Center for Journalistic Excellence in the Penal Arts. The media center, privately funded at an astronomical cost, houses the newest Macs and the most comfortable, ergonomic chairs. Why would a prison have a need for such a facility? Because it is the publisher of the world-renowned and award-winning publication The Holding Pen, which the barricaded unnamed prisoner edits. While typing out a stream-of-consciousness pre-death “official accounting of events as they happened” during a riot, the narrator tells a superlatively inventive tale, making for a delightfully original novelistic approach. The articulate inmate narrates with an academic tone tinged with airs of colonialism from his Sri Lankan roots. He is obviously knowledgeable, and his publication, The Holding Pen, is wildly popular in the story, as proven by the amount of Twitter followers, the remote staff of Oberlin interns, and the praise from the most revered magazines. But the absurdity of the situation makes you wonder if it was even real in the fictitious story. Or was this crazed inmate just penning a tall tale? It is all just that unbelievable. The creation of this character alone and the language he uses shows that Chapman is a compelling storyteller with an unbounded imagination. Westbrook Prison itself is fictitious. The fundraising warden has courted deep-pocket private donors to create a progressive prison environment—progressive enough to start a prison-based publication, widely distribute it, draw millions of visitors to its webpage; and deep-pocketed enough to build a multimillion-dollar media center. The outlandish comedy of the tale helps soften the raw themes that are addressed in the novel. Every prison situation you can think of: unwilling bathroom encounters, willing jail cell encounters, fights, homemade weapons, and the like, are all recounted in vivid detail. But the author’s sublime command of language presents these situations unlike any other prison novel. Riots I Have Known is truly one-of-a-kind: It can be read in one sitting, provides at least 50 laughs out loud, and keeps you in constant awe of the author’s writing abilities. It’s nothing short of outstanding. —Brian Turk

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What has no head or feet and is gray all over? It’s the latest victims in Laird Barron’s new murder mystery, Black Mountain. Former mob-muscle Isaiah Coleridge, now a private investigator in the Hudson Valley, is hired to investigate the gruesome execution of a low-level gangster chronie. One dead body is bad, but when two appear, Coleridge suspects the infamous and chilling hitman-turned-serial killer Morris Oestryk. This follow-up to Barron’s debut crime novel, Blood Standard, is packed with quippy dialogue and kick-ass action that drives the deadly narrative.

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The only life During-the-Event (DE) ever knew was the peaceful existence of his rural home in North Dakota. But when an environmental catastrophe ravages the US, his life changes forever. In a twisted conservation effort, the government attempts to eradicate the weak and undesirable survivors to preserve resources for the social elites. The sheltered population lives in constant a state of drug-induced bliss as genocide survivors scavenge the wasteland. This disaster leaves DE equipped with only his wilderness survival skills and will to endure as he embarks on the wildest adventure of his life. Winner of the 2018 Permafrost Book Prize, this dystopian novel offers a frightening glimpse at the ramifications of climate change and the degradation of morality in survival mode. During-The-Event is also an engaging coming-of-age tale, pitting youthful innocence against the forced maturity imposed by this harsh postapocalyptic landscape.

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When Alexander Stewart Scott stepped on a Canadian steamboat in 1826, he never imagined that his diary would still be read over a century later. Everything Worthy of Observation documents his meticulous notes from the journey, offering a glimpse at early 19th-century New York and lower Canada. History buffs will enjoy Scott’s detailed accounts ranging from the daily trials—enduring the dust kicked up by stagecoaches—to the fantastic—a first glimpse of the roaring waters of Niagara Falls. The narrative is aided by the expert editing of Paul G. Schneider, who decodes unfamiliar vocabulary and adds helpful footnotes. This historical book comes equipped with charts, maps, and sketches to illustrate the earliest iterations of our country.

This children’s book follows two canine companions, Olive and Pekoe, as they share four short walks through their town and forest. Pekoe, with a young and energetic golden retriever, is ever-curious, constantly looking to play. Olive is the elderly companion who shuffles behind the puppy as they set out on adventures. Based on the author Jess Davis and the illustrator Giselle Potter’s actual dogs, the two main characters have an endearing relationship where Olive serves as the wise old mentor and Pekoe is the cheerful company. Together the two chase chipmunks, get caught in a thunderstorm, and meet with other dogs. The tale is accompanied by Potter’s signature whimsical illustrations, which are sure to delight young readers.

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Brooklyn-born poet and novelist Catherine Gigante Brown explores female maturity and friendship in her latest novel, Better Than Sisters. The book follows Desi Ruiz and Cici Piccolo as they overcome the obstacles of growing up and blossoming into young women in New York City. Readers follow along as the two slowly, and sometimes painfully, emerge from their shy cocoons and evolve into beautiful and confident young women. Along the way, Ruiz and Piccolo deal with all the classic coming-of-age challenges such as first love, grief, and, of course, puberty. While their problems threaten to push them apart, they must fight to overcome their differences. Brown’s first-person and comical tone is reminiscent of a youthful tale from your parents, with all the lessons and honesty that come attached.

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music Amy Rigby The Old Guys 2018 Southern Domestic Recordings Amyrigby.com It’s been almost a quarter of a century since Amy Rigby released her debut solo album, Diary of a Mod Housewife. How does that happen? As John Lennon said, “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” Rigby’s latest long player, The Old Guys, echoes Housewife in basic ways. She still draws hard on hooky melodies, ’60s jangle, and Kinksian power chords. And she’s still smart as the day is long. The disc actually starts out with a letter, from Philip Roth to Bob Dylan, on the event of the latter’s Nobel win. And, in the album’s best song, simply titled “Robert Altman,” Rigby asks the director—famous for splitting his stories into fragments, like the cracked pieces of a mirror—if it was “worth the hurt and hassles.” The thrumming genteel “Altman” contains the word “nabob.” Only Amy Rigby does that. “Are We Still There Yet” displays the singer’s crafty wordplay, often reserved for sexual innuendo on previous discs. And “Playing Pittsburgh” is a look back at roots that seems far more bitter than sweet. “I left at 16,” she sneers, “’cause I couldn’t take more / Nobody tried to hold me back / They helped me pack and held the door.” Ouch! Recorded with her husband, Wreckless Eric, Rigby’s voice—a little wiser, a little richer—is set off amidst the guitars. At her best, she recalls Albany legend Lonesome Val, another unsung underdog who cut her teeth in New York but found her true calling upstate. Great stuff. Amyrigby.com. —Michael Eck

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By way of explaining why he has spent much of his career championing the work of little-known composers not named Kyle Gann, composer/critic Kyle Gann wrote, “You can’t be a visible composer in an invisible scene, and no one else was writing well about the scene I came from.” That scene is experimental serious music, microtonal music in particular. In his stunning new two-CD sequence Hyperchromatica, the Bard professor extends the work of the ascendant American outsider composer Conlon Nancarrow, who found his ideal performer in the player piano. Gann composed Hyperchromatica for three computer-tuned Disklavier pianos strung together to become a single 243-key programmable microtonal instrument. “Hyperchromatica I: Andromeda Memories” begins with a chord euphonious enough to belong in a Satie Gymnopédie, but within seconds, departs the world of equal temperament for alien cascades and glissandos that will, if you let them, change everything. Be not afraid. Many pieces here, like “VII: Dark Forces Signify,” are lucid, approachable, and slippery in the most delightful way. —John Burdick

With a lush yet relentless sound, Troy’s Rechorduroys are the ideal soundtrack for a Hudson Valley summer. The six-player outfit features veterans from vital Capital Region combos Pony in the Pancake and Party Boat. Their self-titled debut has a tension between the wispy, melancholic vocals of singer Benjamin Garrett backed by a buoyant mix of surf rock, country undertones, and gently forceful indie rock musical palette. The opening track, “Two Stones,” begins with a twangy slide guitar line layered into a plush bed of reverb and eventually builds into a fuzz-toned march before dissolving into a skeletal resolution. “If It’s True” is a real vocal highlight for Garrett; on this ballad of unrequited love, he conjures up some of the whispery dissolution that made Big Star’s 3rd so compelling. Fans of dream pop, surf, power pop, and roots music will find lots to like here. —Jeremy Schwartz

New Paltz band Yard Sale’s newest release, Every Day, is a collection of nine whiskey-soaked roots and Americana tunes that inspire foot stompin’ and washboard scrapin’, and are tailor-made for either fightin’, cryin’, or drinkin’. Maybe even some combination of all three. The record kicks off with the ribald-but-timeless “It’s a Doggone Shame.” Sweetly sung harmonies sit behind lead vocal deliveries that at times feel like a spit in eye. The band plays a style of music that has been augmented, modified, co-opted, and in varying degrees, either perfected or butchered by several in the post-Dylan-and-the-Band-move-to-Woodstock era. But Yard Sale do the well-traversed genre much justice, and their live show does not disappoint (catch them at the Falcon in Marlboro on June 21). They’re the kind of band that barely needs electricity or amplification to translate to an audience. This writer highly encourages your attendance. —Mike Campbell

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poetry

EDITED BY Phillip X Levine

The Night The night is when trees blow in the Wind And owls swoop overhead. Creatures scurry on the ground, And in the air The night is when mysterious things happen. And in the morning, windows are opened to the bright sun. —Ryan Alejandro Kraeher (10 years)

He said I should listen to him more. I said I would if he talked less. —p

Spring Haiku

Marty’s 81

I Trees’ purple blossoms, Young women in fine clothing: Come, pollinate me.

and I walk out into the frigid day Chris Weisman my guide to the next nowhere, Spring is in the air.

Marty’s 81, has a parched, post-pneumonia cough and the shits from diverticulitis. A blood clot in his leg he can’t afford the apixaban for cos you can’t survive on a pension and social security. Lives w/ his daughter in a shit-lorn town in the Hudson Valley that everyone struggles to avoid lest you’re driving through in a funeral procession because his third wife Peg, a beautiful girl, a very smart girl, took to the booze and the old farm house they’d rehabbed somewhere in shit-lorn, Pennsylvania. 28 years. He counts. 28 years. Played Carnegie Hall as a child and sang doo-wop w/ the mafia boys back in Bensonhurst. Bought his first Vette in ’59. A turquoise baby that stole your breath while Sal The Snake stole your wallet. Shows me pictures on his cell phone. His whole life in his hands. In the hands of strangers. The old stone house he restored w/ Joan, his second wife who had five kids and took on my three. Plays piano for Saint Margaret’s down the road in shit-lorn at the intersection where the light don’t work. The ’62 Corvette. The ’65. People were worth something then he rasps, cold phlegm seizing his pipes. Shows me his cousin Maury’s place up in Saratoga. Raises horses and runs a marina on Manhasset Bay. Maury’s the smart one he swears scraping his lungs. More pictures of grandkids and horses, cars and pianos. His fix-it shop in shit-lorn where he still fixes vintage stereo equipment. I take in a piece here a piece there he says for pocket money. I tell him about my McIntosh w/ the fried left channel. Here’s my email, send me some pictures maybe I can help ya he says. Served in the service but that don’t mean shit. His son’s got his hunter green ’74 Vette until he can get a place of his own. Pictures of his daughter’s daughter who just turned four. Gonna start her on scales when the cough’s all gone. Any day now, he says.

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II Forsythia fade. Dandelions, daffodils Fill the soft green lawns. III Like a slow sunrise Greening trees climb the mountains. An old man on a bench. —Jim Lichtenberg A poem called “Day Off” In a cafe, I’m trying to read about communes in Venezuela, and this just awful dude in Dog the Bounty Hunter shades is cocksplaining libertarianism to his date. My first instinct is sympathy for the girl but she may be even worse— flattering his verbal crescendo, some Yoo-Hoo sophism about how his homophobic grandfather isn’t technically “a bigot,” and their physiological excitement for each other is just crushing my spirit somehow, they can’t wait to finish this “both sides of the issue” foreplay before tumbling awkwardly between dorm room bed sheets while the Netflix hums some docu-banality into the unfilled space. I pretend like I’m mad at them as indicative of some Great Evil but, really am just ashamed of my own voyeurism,

I hold my wife’s Ceramic bowl Crafted with love Filled with onions for soup It overflows slightly. —Daniel Brown

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Boot Fence

Scenes from a coffee shop

The Gift

On metal fence posts stretching barbed wire across undulating hillsides worn cowboy boots hang upside down. Perhaps a reminder that trespassers will be prosecuted, perhaps a ranch’s totem of generations passed finished when all fence posts marking the family’s territory support footwear, the scent to stay out, leave us alone, boots required to enter.

Shift. She sits east, he sits west. She smiles first, then waits but lately he finds less to smile about. Shift. Momma settles daughter into her seat, but only just. She wiggles a little too much, leaving Momma unsettled. Shift. The page remains the same for several minutes, then slowly the head tilts back, mouth opens, and air flows to and fro. Shift.

putting an end to his waste of a life, I put down the gun watch the last

—Diane Webster Perseus I am the future, I have, I am far, far away from civilization, I treasure those who wish upon me, I hear rockets whizz by, light years away, I want, I pretend to shoot through space, I feel invincible, I am celestial, I eat, I touch the hearts of millions every night, I worry, I cry when dreams don’t come true, Perseus, Citrus Triplett, continued… I understand, I speak, I dream of being an alpha to a constellation, I try to make wishes come true, I hope to never burn out, I am infinite. —Citrus Triplett Consider A door solid Set plumb in a wall Lock latch and hinge Pregnant potential Lintel to sill It only takes One step

—William J. Joel Neighbor In the morning, cold, white light Blankets all like heavy snow. There’s my neighbor walking by; His tracks fill with drifting glow. “Neighbor!” I call loud and clear. But my neighbor does not hear. He is walking, white-haired, tired Further, further, Higher, higher… —Ed Pobuzhansky Translated from Russian by Yana Kane, edited by Bruce Esrig

tremors wrack his body as he dies. I open my eyes and he’s still alive, he sleeps so quiet he might as well be dead. I count off the minutes until he wakes up sees the gun in my hand and begs me to do it sees how special I am that I love him so much that I would even kill to bring him some peace. —Holly Day A Haiku I looked haikus up. They’re often about nature. Do they have to be? —Christopher Richard Cook

Michelle, I Take Poetry Classes and Think It’s Just Messing Around Because I Don’t Feel I Write Poetry So Well and I Asked The Professor What Is Not A Poem and He Shrugged Saying Everything Is, So, Here Ya Go

If I had prepared, things would have been different, but I can’t say just how.

Stepping out on the snow I feel the wet weeping into the holes in my Converse soles and running fast won’t reverse that, but I can at least get out of the cold, though your heat only works in defrost mode, my feet are steaming, and our cigarette smoke gets thrown up the windshield to join with that curling from the upholstery hanging under the ceiling which you are melting with the hot end of a Zippo and off to campus isn’t where we go but a visit with Will working retail who left school last year but won’t get off ‘til four so we head downtown to see Billy in the Jamaican record store who asks if you party to which you reply with a shrug and shy nod not knowing in our inexperience what he really means at the time and the sky is grey at noon and I say I’d like to hibernate inside a cocoon all winter and you’re now married with chickens a garden knitting a husband and kid and I’m still trying to pry myself uninvited into summer from this chrysalis shell.

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Annabelle Popa at Kingston Pop Museum This millennial illustrator brings her fantastic worlds and strange creatures to Kingston this month. Inspired by nature and folklore, Popaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s illustrations and murals meticulously depict otherworldly creatures that could be straight from the golden age of comic books. June 1-16 Fight, a pen and ink drawing by Annabelle Popa.

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June 24 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 June 1: “Memoirs of a Forgotten Man” at Shadlowland Stages June 2: “The Trip to Bountiful” at PS21

June 7: Asbury Shorts Film Concert at Rosendale Theater June 10: Brice Marden at ‘T’ Space in Rhinebeck June 12: Hudson Valley Cider Week

June 15: Poughkeepsie Open Studios June 19: Rockland-Bergen Music Festival June 21: Jim Lauderdale at the Towne Crier June 23: Rhinebeck Crafts Festival at Dutchess County Fairgrounds June 25: Plastic Crimewave Syndicate at Tubby’s

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Brice Marden's Cold Mountain Studies 1, from the exhibition “Brice Marden: Cold Mountain Studies” at ‘T’ Space in Rhinebeck from June 9 to August 11.

Figurative artists draw inspiration from landscape; abstract artists are inspired by books. In the 1980s, artist Brice Marden discovered the Cold Mountain poems, classic Chinese verses composed by Han Shan, a semi-mythical hermit-poet who lived sometime between the 6th and 9th century AD (if he ever lived at all). Between 1988 and 1991, Marden produced a series of drawings based on these poems. The entire series, “Cold Mountain Studies,” will be on view at ‘T’ Space in Rhinebeck beginning June 9. Since I came to dwell up on Cold Mountain how many ten thousands of years have gone by… Accepting chance and change, I hid away by a spring in a grove; perched there, just watching, I was satisfied wrote Han Shan. The Cold Mountain translation Marden found, by Red Pine, was bilingual; on one side were Chinese characters, on the other side, English. Fascinated by both the poetry and the characters of the original writing, Marden began making drawings by dipping twigs in ink. (Most of the stems came from an ailanthus tree behind his studio on the Bowery.) There is no one-to-one correspondence between the drawings and the poems; each artwork “translates” all the poems at once. Though Marden does not practice Zen meditation, he approached these works with the daring spirit of a Zen calligrapher slashing at rice paper with an

ink-soaked brush. Sometimes in art, limitation can be freeing. Painting with twigs, rather than brushes, allowed unexpected flips and twists in the figures. These drawings have the happy, organic fluency of a collaboration between man and tree. “They’re very musical to me: the rhythm, the repetitions, all the changes,” remarks director/curator Susan Wides, of the 35 drawings. The “Cold Mountain Studies” are classic works of late 20th-century art, available for the first time in the Hudson Valley. Though Marden’s drawings are a series of performances, they also suggest visual imagery; I see mattresses, shirt collars, a bass drum, hats, seagulls, buttocks, arguing heads. Brice Marden was born in Bronxville, New York, in 1938. He received an MFA from the Yale School of Art and Architecture in 1963, then went to work as a guard at the Jewish Museum. In 1966, Marden became the assistant to Robert Rauschenberg. That same year, he had his first solo exhibition. By the mid-’70s Marden’s reputation was well established. The artist has a home in Tivoli. ‘T’ Space is a nonprofit gallery founded in 2010, which includes a 30-acre nature preserve, dotted with art installations. The ‘T’ refers to the shape of the gallery, which was designed by architect Steven Holl. Using windows and skylights, the gallery is lit by natural light. ‘T’ Space is open to the public only on Sundays. —Sparrow

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Sustainability One Fair

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After outgrowing Basilica Hudson, the second annual One Fair sustainability conference will be held in Kingston’s Andy Murphy Midtown Neighborhood Center on June 8. Founded with the intention to inspire conscious connection, the fair boasts an impressive lineup of renewable energy businesses and advocates in areas like solar, passive home design, geothermal, electric vehicles, gardening and permaculture, and waste management. Industry experts will be on hand to educate and engage the community with hopes of catalyzing a larger systemic change. The fair also offers fun activities and art installations to keep the kids entertained while parents geek out over green energy. 10am-6pm. Free. Theonefair.com

Food & Drink Stormville Food Truck and Craft Beer Festival

More than 15 food trucks will land on the tarmac of the Stormville Airport for the Stormville Food Truck and Craft Beer Festival on June 8, offering BBQ and American, Greek, Italian, and Mexican food. The festival will also have an artisan market with arts and crafts and specialty foods as well as a Car Show flaunting over 60 spiffy cars, trucks, and motorcycles. The festival offers plenty of entertainment from bouncy houses and face painting for children to helicopter rides for big kids. Stop by for home brew competitions, food truck face-offs, and a horse show. The familyfriendly event will have a kids’ zone and corn hole tournament plus live music and plenty of outdoor space to lay out a blanket for a food truck picnic. 11am-5pm. $5. Stormvilleairportfleamarket.com

The "Vivien Collens: New Sculpture" exhibition at Holland Tunnel Gallery. Photo by Danielle Van Houten

Music Rockland-Bergen Music Festival

The sixth annual Rockland-Bergen Music Festival returns, bringing a week of music that connects the local community with talented artists and charities like Habitat for Humanity, Meals on Wheels, WhyHunger, and Light of Day. From June 19 to June 23, the German Masonic Park, on the border of Rockland and Bergen counties, will rock out with high-profile country headliners like Steve Earle & The Dukes and John Prine, and a stacked lineup of other acts like the Willie Nile Band, Donna the Buffalo, and Joe Purdy. If you were born in the year of 1969, you will get in for free in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock music festival. $53-$81. Rocklandmusicfestival.com

Food & Drink Cider Week Hudson Valley

From northern Westchester to Albany, over 18 craft cideries will participate in Cider Week Hudson Valley, an initiative launched by Glynwood in 2010 to promote the burgeoning industry. Festivities will kick off on Friday, June 6 with a ’90s Dance Party at Pennings Cidery. Then through June 16, participate in on-farm cider tours, tastings, and events like Doc’s Cider Trivia Night and the Father’s Day Pig Roast Cider Party at Brooklyn Cider House, while you meet cider makers, learn about pairing cider and food, and hone your taste preferences. June 7-16. Ciderweekhv.com/hv

Art Mount Tremper Arts

This contemporary art lab space in the Catskills kicks off its 12th season on June 15 with a series of eight new experimental performances—deeply rooted in collaboration and activism. Over 25 artists working in a variety of disciplines including Stephanie Acosta, Hadar Ahuvia and Tatyana Tenenbaum, Ballez, and Antonio Ramos and the Gang Bangers. On June 15 at 8pm, David Thomson, Julie Tolentino, Mariana Valencia, Takahiro Yamamoto, and Mlondi Zondi perform “Marking the Occasion,” exploring the intersection of text and performance in a collaborative dance-writing event. Mounttremperarts.org

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On Saturday, May 4, the exhibition Vivien Collens: New Sculpture opened at Holland Tunnel Gallery in Newburgh. Paulien Lethen has curated a solo exhibition containing over 30 new works ranging from intimate studies to large-scale constructions. The sculptures are primarily rendered in painted wood and steel or welded and powder-coated aluminum. While the acclaimed artist has had many exhibitions of paintings and works on paper, this event marks the first presentation of her sculptural corpus. Through Collens’ whimsical assemblages, the exhibition explores a number of interrelated concepts. The undergirding themes of this show include childhood, domesticity, innocence, notions of play and a sense of discovery. With titles such as Little Squirt, Doll with Gray Skirt, and Skater, audiences are prompted to consider this assemblage of works through a sepia-tinted lens of nostalgia, memory, and imagination. Each work touches on a deeply personal aspect of Collens’ upbringing. Yet, every artwork is very much accessible because her masterful mining of the past involves excavating and examining elements that many viewers can easily recognize and relate to. As spectators make their way around the gallery, it becomes more evident that Collens has developed a particular visual language of forms that she deploys. This sculptural vernacular is comprised of prong stool elements (what she describes as tripods); spinning tops; ribbed, rectilinear forms; planes tilted at various angles; and pegs or legs. Interestingly, both the forms and colors call to mind dice or game pieces. For instance, Summer Window is made up of four sheets of metal folded on top of themselves. This compressed wall sculpture is emblematic of one of the artist’s signature forms, resembling plastic punch-out elements from a board game or even the breadboard of a computer chip. In Doll with White Skirt and Doll on Soap Box, Collens makes use of

another one of her visual units, namely planes. Both are situated on bases fabricated by the artist, feature tilted or skewed planes, and directly reference toys, wooden blocks, nostalgia, and overall elements of play. Doll on Soap Box is further adorned with a spinning top. Repeatedly encountering these uneasy forms that appear to be buckling or faltering naturally encourages viewers to think about what forces are acting upon these structures to cause such stress and pressure. To my mind, Collens has constructed and arranged a series of works that thoughtfully probe memory, the crushing weight of time, the pressure to mature, and the construction of identity. There is a strong contrast between the heavy, industrial materials Collens utilizes and the whimsical nature of her art. All of her sculptures have a playful liveliness to them—particularly the smaller ones—as if brought to life by some magical, animating force. Visitors might interpret this contrast as the artist’s attempt to reconcile aspects of life that are normally separated: play and work; discovery and routine; emotion and logic. Gymnast’s Fantasy and Surprise Ball perhaps best embody this central theme of the exhibition. The former strongly resembles a pull-toy with ball, and the latter, with its metal ribbons and wires, seems to form a nest of tangled up trinkets and memories. Overall, it is as if Collens has excavated the heap bin of history, recovering and reconstructing the memories and objects of youth. She provides guests with an intriguing encounter between past and present, posing questions about personal evolution and examination of self through the colors, forms, and associations of another time period. “Vivien Collens: New Sculpture” is on display at Holland Tunnel Gallery until June 23. Hollandtunnelgallery.com. —Tony Huffman 6/19 CHRONOGRAM THE GUIDE 99