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FRONT MATTER

HOME & GARDEN

12 On the Cover: Pete Souza 16 Esteemed Reader 19 Editor’s Note 20 In Memoriam: Pauline Uchmanowicz 21 TMI Project Essay 22 Chronogram Conversations Recap

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FOOD & DRINK 232 Secret Spot: Home/Made Hudson Partners in life and party-planning, Leisah Swenson and Monica Byrne are building a devout following for their pocket-sized brunch hotspot Home/Made Hudson.

Musician-designers Hilary Davis and Jordan Moser build a temple to Mid-Mod sensibilities out of a Mount Beacon A-Frame.

HEALTH & WELLNESS 48 CBD Crazed As CBD products fly off the shelves everywhere from gas stations to wellness boutiques, we peek at the science behind the hype.

OUTDOORS 56 Who’s Hunting Now? As the popularity of hunting declines and the deer population soars, we look at a cross-section of local hunters who are sticking by the sport.

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Amidst a fraught reality of immigrant detention, deportation, and political bullying, several community leaders in the Hudson Valley are fighting back against federal policies targeting immigrants.

80 Un/Natural Selection

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Like dreams dripping with cryptic symbolism, Chris Buzelli’s distorted biomorphic illustrations blend the innocuous and the bizarre in order to scrutinize our assumptions.

60 Nocturnal Magic: New Paltz It’s nighttime in New Paltz. The traffic may have died down, but the restaurants and watering holes are open late, and the town is still churning.

37 Sips & Bites Six foodie adventures for November.

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HOROSCOPES 108 Wisdom Ripe for the Plucking Lorelai Kude scans the skies and plots our horoscopes for November.

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97 In his one-man show “Shiva Arms,” actor/writer Doug Motel pirouettes through 11 roles and a sine graph of grief and hilarity.

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91 Music Album reviews of Tempest in a Teacup by Blueberry; Deepscape by Jay Anderson; Dossier by Patrick Higgins; and Pleased to Meetcha! by The Acquaintances.

92 Poetry Poems by Cary Abrams, Gary Barkman, Richard R. Binkele, Sophie Cohen, Treisha Edwards, Bob Grawi, Juliet Gresh, Gilles Malkine, Kate Minford, Ze’ev Willy Neumann, Samantha Spoto, Sharon Watts, and Lee Clark Zumpe. Edited by Philip X Levine.

99 Teabag-painting, Insta-famous artist Ruby Silvious is renowned for embracing unorthodox found materials in her small-scale work. 100 With a goose for mayor and a wily Rhymester, the whimsical new musical “JAMOT” playfully explores the nature of time. 101 Suzannah Cahalan dives into mental illness in her new book The Great Pretender. 103 A gallery guide for November. 106 Six live music shows to pencil in from Grandmaster Flash to Patty Griffin.

112 Parting Shot Melissa McGill’s Red Regatta project dotted the Venice lagoon with red-sailed boats.

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Barack Obama in Luang Prabang, Laos, 2016. PETE SOUZA

Urban Dictionary defines the term throw shade as “To say a rude or slick comment toward another person with little or no one else catching the insult except who it was directed toward.” But no one who peruses Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents (Little, Brown, and Company), former Chief Official White House Photographer Pete Souza’s latest book, is likely to miss the shade being thrown within its pages. Featuring over 100 images captured during Souza’s tenure with President Obama juxtaposed with recent news headlines and tweets from the office’s current occupant, the book chronicles the differences between the Obama and Trump administrations. The starkness of those differences, as one might imagine, is striking. And although in the book Souza allows the contrasts to speak for themselves—a news item about Trump’s Muslim travel ban sits next to a photo of Obama shaking hands with children at a Baltimore mosque; a headline about Trump revoking Obama-era climate policies appears alongside a shot of Obama in discussion with adventurer Bear Grylls at a melting Alaskan glacier—there’s no doubt that there are great stories behind these pictures. Born and raised in coastal Massachusetts, Souza studied communication at Boston University and Kansas State University and began his media career in the 1970s with Kansas’s Chanute Tribune and Hutchinson News. He next worked for the Chicago Sun-Times before becoming an official photographer for President Ronald Reagan’s administration (19831989; he was also the official photographer at Reagan’s funeral in 2004). Souza’s relationship with Obama began during the future president’s first year as a senator and continued throughout his two White House terms. Shade is his sixth book of Obama photos, and he took time to answer the questions about it below via email. In an evening cosponsored by Oblong Books, Pete Souza will give a visual presentation followed by a Q&A session at the Bardavon in Poughkeepsie on November 3 at 7pm. Tickets are $38 and $60 and include a paperback copy of Shade. (845) 473-2072. Bardavon.org. —Peter Aaron 12 CHRONOGRAM 11/19

Chronogram The concept behind Shade is different than the other books of the mainly candid photos you took during your time with President Obama. How did you come up with the idea for this book, and what made you want to do it? The book is an extension of the posts I began doing on Instagram only days after the [Trump] inauguration in 2017. After shading Trump for a year, I thought a book would be a good record of the reckless behavior by the current president. What drew you toward photography as a medium, and what age were you when you first started taking pictures? I originally went to Boston University with the hopes of becoming a sportswriter. I took my first photography class during my junior year and I knew right away that’s what I wanted to do. But it took me five years before I was any good at it. You entered the photojournalism field in the 1970s, the decade of Watergate. How did coming of age as a photojournalist in the climate of that heady era shape your work when it comes to political subjects? Watergate was long past by the time I started my photojournalism career. And I don’t think it really affected me one way or the other. I never intended to make photographing politicians my career; it just sort of happened. In addition to serving as the Chief Official White House Photographer for President Obama, you also served in that capacity for President Ronald Reagan. Ideologically the two presidents were certainly very different, but as subjects was there anything that they shared? What were the main similarities and differences between them, as far as the way they liked to work with you for pictures? The one similarity between Obama and Reagan is they both had fairly even-keeled dispositions. Which I think is a good trait in a president. Reagan was in his 70s when I started working at the White House (I was in my 20s). I wasn’t the chief photographer, so my access to him wasn’t the same as it was with Obama. With the latter, I had known him for four years before he became president. I was a seasoned photojournalist and a few years older than him. I may not be the best photographer in the world, but I believe I was the best person to be his White House photographer. Of all the images in Shade, which is your favorite? Asking a photographer to choose their favorite picture is like asking a parent to choose their favorite child.

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Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: It’s not every month that one has a birthday, but it is every year that two Chronogram veterans both have a birthday in November. Editor Brian and I have, without fail, turned the same age within a few days of one another every November for the past 22 years that we’ve worked as colleagues in publishing. Wishing one another a happy birthday has become as commonplace as “good morning.” When we began exchanging birthday wishes, we were young. Now, as the saying goes, we are no longer young. We have aged in parallel, though not always together. Brian leaves this column here, but as the ramen master in the Japanese masterwork, Tampopo, said to the glistening piece of pork on the edge of the bowl, “see you soon.” Birthdays are random and contrived. Why should the repetition of a day in a month in a season be a meaningful marker arousing all manner of anxiety, satisfaction, and generalized self-consideration? In any case, they do. So I ask, how do I get in front of the experience and enact a more or less conscious and intentional experience. How do I make the occasion of a birthday something meaningful? A few years ago, I visited the tombs of some Sufi saints in Uzbekistan. The places had palpable atmospheres, pulsing with force. They had this in common, and yet the quality of each was unique. For instance, the atmosphere around the tomb of Khwaja Muhammad Baba Samasi vibrated with an overwhelming impulse of love. It was so strong that I couldn’t tell if I was loving or being loved. Whereas the tomb of Khwaja Muhammad Baha’uddin Naqshband Bukhari emanated a grounded substance of peace that seemed to enshroud the whole complex in an otherworldly stillness. Inasmuch as I was struck by the force of presence around what appeared to be no more or less than beautiful and harmonious architectural monuments built around long-since-interred dead saints’ bodies, I couldn’t ignore the implication that the force of a person’s life might survive their temporal existence and continue to exert an appreciable influence in the material world in linear time. Was the atmosphere the result of so many pilgrims’ prayers and meditations accumulating over hundreds of years? Was the place the tombs were located some kind of geomantic power-spot? Or was I feeling the emanations of the body of the interred saint? Or some combination of these factors? Once dead, a person’s life, from the standpoint of the still-living, is instantaneously taken out of time. It is as though the ending of a life puts a cap on it, and it becomes complete. This is a matter of perception, but what if a life is actually existing perpendicular to linear time within a more encompassing dimensional order? In this sense, a person’s life is a singular geometric unit, a long inner body comprised of all moments aggregated as a simultaneous event. This is what I am considering on the approach of my birthday in the middle of November. Is it possible to be present in an expanded moment, or at least in more of my life at once? I know how to be present in a moment. I inhabit my body through sensation, my heart as awareness in feeling, my mind in thought, and then I bring them together in a balanced and harmonized state. But what about an expanded present moment? Could I also be present 10 years ago and 10 years hence, at my first inhalation at birth and at the last exhalation at death, all at once? And would the force of this larger presence open the possibility of being of service in a larger, even super-temporal context? I’m going to give it a try on my birthday, and I suspect that a presence that can encompass a larger time scale arises from a place that is also a source of compassion and wisdom, which, together with love, are what the world needs. —Jason Stern

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t’s November. Hunting season. Over 10 million hunters will take to the woods and kill about six million deer, though this massive culling will not be nearly enough to manage the population of 30 million whitetail in this country. That verb, manage—how easily it slots into place in the sentence, as if the deer living in the spaces between our houses and cities and highways were a lab experiment gone wrong. As if an Adam-and-Eve pair bolted a fence and begat a rogue species bent on eating all the hostas. That “management” is done by the five percent of our friends and neighbors who head off with gun or bow to kill. As contributing editor Phillip Pantuso found out (“Who’s Hunting Now?” page 56), most of these folks view themselves as conservationists and sustainability advocates, and they approach taking life as—well—a deadly serious matter. For the other 95 percent of us, deer are just a nuisance— destructive browsers in our backyards and potential automotive body work bills on our roads. As one of the 95 percent (though I did go hunting once, see below), I reconsider my encounters with deer. 1. The summer of my sophomore year of high school, I spent a week upstate with some classmates working in the kitchen of a camp for deaf children. The camp was run by the Marist Brothers, who taught us at Archbishop Molloy in Queens. You gotta hand it to the Brothers—in offering select students the “opportunity” to toil in the scullery, they didn’t need to hire a dishwashing crew. And the fresh air was good for our spiritual development, or some such. My friends and I jumped at the offer, of course. Aside from a couple hours around mealtime, we ran amok on the Brothers’ vast property in West Park: playing epic games of nocturnal Ringalario, building campfires by the shore of the Hudson River, racing golf carts down wooded embankments. (We even conned Brother Declan into taking us to the video store in Kingston, where we rented the German art film Has Anybody Seen My Pants? in which a Texas farm boy inherits a hotel in Germany that he soon finds out, after his pants disappear, is a brothel. We told Brother Declan it was an art film anyway.)

As the week progressed, our feral antics pointed toward their logical conclusion: someone getting hurt. Namely me. The final night of camp we decided to split into two squads and wage a water balloon war. The weather was warm and rainy and the collective mood tense. After a few scattered skirmishes, I snuck up on the enemy base by myself and right as I was about to pounce, balloons in hand, I slipped on the shale slope and punctured my kneecap on the rocks below. As I lay there bleeding, I saw something moving along the tree line. This city kid, not familiar with wildlife, thought it must be a dog. But it was a deer—my first deer!—stock still and staring at me. As the balloons rained down amid gleeful yelps, I thought I saw something like empathy in the deer’s sad expression. I wondered if it had seen other injured deer crumpled in a similar manner, but without comrades to whisk them off to the hospital. 2. Four years later. Turtle and I are tripping on acid, taking in some truly spectacular fall foliage along the Ashokan Reservoir in his beat-up Honda, the leaves practically breathing in saturated yellows, reds, and oranges. On a side road off a side road, we pass a deer that’s been hit by a car. Its front legs are broken and it’s pinwheeling a bloody circle on the side of the road. I tell Turtle we need to go back and perform an act of mercy. We turn around. The deer is thrashing less than it was a minute ago. I approach and it does a quick spin its blood circle. I squat down and it looks at me resignedly but very much alive. I go back to the car and ask Turtle for his tire iron. Turtle says he doesn’t have one. Turtle says all of this is a bad idea. Turtle refuses to get out of the car. I root around in the trunk of the car for a bat or a pipe or something but only find Turtle’s dirty laundry. And a Swiss Army knife. My plan is to use the awl, the leather punch, to puncture the deer’s trachea with one swift blow. I take a deep breath, clench the knife in my fist, awl protruding between my index and middle finger, and walk over to the deer. The deer is empty-eyed and dead. Turtle and I spread a trash bag over his back seat and throw the deer in there and drive over to Scott’s house. Scott’s a hunter and knows how to butcher deer for meat.

3. My roommate Corey invites me to go hunting with some friends. Corey’s family owns the side of a mountain in the Catskills. I’m the only one in the hunting party who’s never held a gun before. I’m given a five-minute tutorial and told not to point the gun at anyone, probably not any deer either. But if I do see a deer, I’m to take a deep breath, point, and squeeze the trigger as I exhale. At 7am, each of us heads off in a different direction with our rifle and a six-pack of beer. I sit under a tree for three hours and read Brothers Karamazov as I drink beer. I see no deer. Later, back at the hunting cabin, I’m told you’re not supposed to read a book while hunting. You’re just supposed to sit there and wait. But, I counter, when I’m waiting for the bus I sit and read, and no one seems to mind. Why is this different? 4. There are 4,000 vehicle-deer collisions a day in the US. Driving to Westchester from Kingston last week, I count a total of six dead deer on the side of the road along the thruway, Interstate 84, and the Taconic. Each looks more mangled than the next, reminding me of Lewis Thomas’s words to describe roadkill: “mysterious wreckage.” When I get home, I dig out the essay from, “Dead in the Open,” and find this: “It is simply astounding to see a dead animal on a highway,” Thomas writes. “The outrage is more than just location; it is the impropriety of such visible death, anywhere. You do not expect to see dead animals out in the open. It is the nature of animals to die alone, off somewhere, hidden. It is wrong to see them lying out on the highway; it is wrong to see them anywhere.”

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in memoriam

Pauline Uchmanowicz (1957-2019) Happiness Studies

Singing around a campfire you might miss happiness, squished between envy and sorrow. Or find it

beside you, matter-of-factly, watching a red-tailed hawk catch pigeons and rats,

a retriever fetching sticks racing back and forth

from your shared park bench. But if whistled at, happiness bonds: with you on tiptoe

lifting curtain rods to hang drapes, or flat-backed

positioning drip pans to change

oil, tasks completed then together together to clink steins,

toasting sand dunes and starlight.

—Pauline Uchmanowicz

or the January 1999 issue of Chronogram, Pauline Uchmanowicz wrote a profile of Dawn Walker, aka the Flower Lady, a noted local floral designer. In the process of reporting the piece, Pauline accompanied Walker on a pre-dawn visit to Manhattan. After six hours running around to various markets in the Flower District, and driving back and forth to New York City, Pauline decided that she would volunteer to assist Walker the day of the wedding: “Around 5:30 pm, somewhere along Rt. 32, I promised Dawn I’d assist her the day of the wedding. When we got to my place, the Flower Lady came in, and, convincing me to take some lisianthus, completed her first design of the weekend, an elegant arrangement in a green porcelain vase.” In the course of the piece, Pauline included quotes from writers and texts as various as Katherine Mansfield, Samuel Delany, Dr. Andrew Weil, and the Dictionary of Occupational Titles. (Did Pauline actually own a copy of the Dictionary of Occupational Titles? Why?) This was the first piece she wrote for the magazine. Pauline’s taut, literate, Joan Didion-meetsgirl-next-door prose was the voice I had been searching for in our fledgling magazine without knowing it. Pauline’s pieces became the ones I directed new writers to reference when asked about our house “style.” Pauline was just getting started. Over the next decade, Pauline was a frequent contributor, writing close to a hundred articles for Chronogram. She wrote about recycling initiatives and puppetry collectives, modern dance and psychiatric history. She cooked with chefs like Corinne Trang. She taught civics lessons in her long pieces on her beloved Rosendale, charming

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portraits of its eccentric inhabitants and municipal foibles. She profiled writers like Nick Flynn, Tobias Wolf, and Gail Godwin. She wrote dozens of book reviews. She hiked up Indian Head mountain (elevation 3,373 feet) with the Adirondack Mountain Club. She planted crops with a 95-year-old Clintondale farmer. She broke bread with the Mid-Hudson Vegetarian Society. I assigned Pauline a piece on dog adoption and she wound up arranging an animalthemed poetry reading to benefit the SPCA. Pauline was so unusually kind, so unremittingly generous, I often wondered if she was trying to right the karmic balance for some dastardly deed in her past. But that was just who Pauline was—she was as empathetic in her writing as she was in person. To be profiled by her was to be seen, grokked, as her grateful subjects often told me after reading her pieces about them. She brought the verbal precision and emotional range of the poet to general interest reporting. In addition to moonlighting for the magazine, Pauline was an English professor at SUNY New Paltz and an accomplished scholar and poet. (As her poem, “Happiness Studies,” reprinted here, attests.) She was also a conduit for a stream of students and recent grads in whom she saw potential. The writers who came to Chronogram via Pauline have contributed hundreds of pieces to the magazine—and continue to do so. She was an ardent champion of promising talent and loved to nurture it. If Pauline read this, should would probably email me: “Brian, what you wrote about me was so touching. Are you writing? Are you writing enough? I’m expecting great things from you.” —Brian K. Mahoney

TMI Project Essay

Nam MyoHo Renge Kyo

by Kesai Riddick

In alignment with TMI Project’s mission to empower people and bring about change through true storytelling, Black Stories Matter seeks to raise awareness around issues of inequality and injustice and inspire people to take action. Black Stories Matter elevates the underrepresented true stories of the Black experience in America—the full spectrum—the triumphs, humor, beauty, and resilience. Kesai Riddick participated in the inaugural Black Stories Matter performance in 2017. This is an edited version of the story he performed. To learn more or to sign up for the TMI Project podcast launching in 2020, visit Tmiproject.org.

rowing up not knowing my dad meant not knowing my masculine self, my blackness, who I am as a person. The only memory I had of my dad was from when I was 18 months and learning to walk. I started late. I grew up in the East Village. My mom took me to Tompkins Square Park and let me walk around the entrance of 8th St. and Avenue A. I remember her telling me, “Go, run to your daddy.” I looked up and saw him there, my father, squatting down with his arms opened wide to catch me. I don’t remember seeing him again. As a kid, my mom did her best to support me and my emotional needs. At seven years old, she enrolled me in therapy with a kind and gentle man named Roy. During my 45-minute sessions, I did whatever I wanted which meant I played video games. Roy asked me how I was feeling and how my day went. I never felt pressured to talk and I wasn’t afraid of being judged or criticized. For the last 15 minutes, Roy would ask me to put the game aside. Then, we’d sit down and have a conversation. He’d set out a cup of Skittles and we’d get into it. I’d tell him about everything that was happening at school and at home. One day I told him how upset I was because my brothers knew who their fathers were but I didn’t. It seemed totally unfair. The more I spoke about not knowing my dad the angrier I became. I was accessing untapped emotions. I began to cry and lash out. Before I knew it, I was throwing things around the room, exploding with rage. Roy allowed me to act out for a while before he told me to stop. After, I sat in my chair, crying, and asked, “Why has my dad left?” Despite my emotional turmoil, I appreciated the relationships I had with other men growing up. I felt fortunate to have an uncle who was like my surrogate father and filled a masculine role in my life. It was through him I first learned about Buddhism. Right away, I was attracted to its teachings of self-reliance and awakening to my true self. When I was 14, I suddenly transformed from a small brown child into a tall black man. My mom, who is white, wanted me to have a black upbringing and grow up “black.” I never bought into that because it wasn’t authentic. I have a white mother, a white uncle, and a white older brother. Even though I never viewed myself as being white, I never viewed myself as being black either. I saw myself as being me, Kesai. I was reintroduced to Buddhism at 19 by a bartender at a concert hall where I worked. I told him I already knew a little about Buddhism from my uncle. “Have you ever heard of Nam MyoHo Renge Kyo?”

he asked. “By chanting Nam MyoHo Renge Kyo,” he explained, “You can realize whatever dreams you have and actualize your absolute happiness.” I never heard of Buddhism expressed that way. I decided to give chanting a try. I chanted for a brief period of time and developed a dedicated practice a few years later. I never prayed to be reunited with my dad. Maybe once or twice it came up, but I never spend a significant amount of time chanting about it. Then something interesting happened in the spring of 2008. I was scrolling through MySpace (as I said, it was 2008) when a message appeared from my estranged brother, Bajun. My mother told me I had another brother, but I never met him. Bajun asked me if I want to meet. I immediately messaged back, “Yes!” Later that month, I met Bajun and our brother Copez. Copez was getting married, and he asked me if I wanted to attend his wedding. He said our father would be there too. In that moment, I understood what the bartender was trying to tell me when he said that Nam MyoHo Renge Kyo would help me realize my dreams. At 28, I was finally going to meet my dad! I didn’t know what to expect when meeting my father again. My mom never talked about him. I had no details about who he was as a person. Subconsciously, I had resolved I would never meet him and therefore didn’t give him much thought. So, when the opportunity to meet him presented itself, I did my best to remain impartial. My sister and I went to the church where my brother was getting married. I tried to keep my expectations in check, but I couldn’t help it, this was it! I was excited. I walked up a flight of stairs and there he was. My father. He sat at a table in a tuxedo, looking dapper and elegant. As soon as I saw him, I spun around and belted out in sheer joy, “My dad! Wow!” I was thrilled. We embraced, sat down and immediately started talking. I thought my dad would be this animated, kinetic individual. Instead, he was reserved and introspective. I have that attribute as well, but I never knew I got it from him. A lot was passed down genetically. We didn’t have much time before the ceremony, but at that moment I felt like a huge, essential missing piece of my life had been filled. ***** Now, my dad and I meet about four times a year for coffee. He’s hesitant and cautious when we’re together as if he’s apologetic and doesn’t want me to have any hard feelings toward him. The first couple of meetings were awkward, but I conveyed my appreciation for just being there with him and let him know I didn’t have expectations. Once he got more comfortable, he shared stories from his childhood and from when he was serving in Vietnam. Reuniting with him is an ongoing process. I’m in therapy again and sometimes think about my sessions with Roy. I’m glad I was given the space as a kid to sort out all of my rage, sadness, and confusion. Roy created a safe place for me to talk about my father and my feelings surrounding the lack of connection. Looking back, I think the outburst I had in Ray’s office when I was eight years old was critical. I had an emotional breakdown that turned into an emotional breakthrough. Expressing those feelings finally helped me be at peace not knowing my dad. It left me with an awareness that continues to help me now, as I’m slowly getting to know him. My happiness isn’t dependent on knowing my father, it’s dependent on knowing me.

When I was 14, I suddenly transformed from a small brown child into a tall black man. My mom, who is white, wanted me to have a black upbringing and grow up “black.” I never bought into that because it wasn’t authentic. I have a white mother, a white uncle, and a white older brother. Even though I never viewed myself as being white, I never viewed myself as being black either. I saw myself as being me, Kesai. 11/19 CHRONOGRAM 21

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Chronogram Conversations Inclusive Community Development at Clarkson University’s Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries Photos by Anna Sirota Any public forum on economic development, community planning, and gentrification in the Hudson Valley is bound to be robust, and October’s Chronogram Conversation was no exception. Held on a brisk Tuesday evening at Clarkson University’s Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries, by 6:30pm the room was full with a mix of citizens and journalists, economists, and social scientists, who mingled over hors d’oeuvres from Bread Alone and local wine. They were in for a substantive, erudite discussion. The five panelists were Kevin O’Connor, CEO of RUPCO; Joe Czajka, senior VP for research, development, and community planning at Pattern for Progress; Sarah Salem, Poughkeepsie Ward 2 councilmember; Robyn Hannigan, provost of Clarkson University; and Jeffrey Anzevino, land use advocacy director for Scenic Hudson. Anzevino distilled the issue in his introductory remarks: “There’s a lot of life in these cities. But we’re failing the people who live here.” The conversation built on our feature on economic development initiatives in the October issue of Chronogram, “Space Race,” published in collaboration with The River, and it was not light on specifics. After noting the irony that many employees working on Beacon’s bustling Main Street probably couldn’t afford to live there, Czajka discussed the need for job creation that keeps pace with change in our growing cities. “Eighty percent of firms in the Hudson Valley employ fewer than 10 people,” Czajka said. “We need to look at incentives for small business to create more sustainable jobs that pay a living wage.” He also noted that workforce development should start earlier, to create better results and ensure all communities benefit. “Diverse communities make for creativity,” he said. One way to create more jobs and boost productivity is by increasing the value add of products already made locally, Hannigan said. She pointed to Iceland as an example. There, businesses have developed ideas to use the meat, oil, skin, bones, and innards of cod to increase export value by 100 percent while the annual catch has fallen by 45 percent. Salem, who described their role as “being a listener,” was focused on how local communities can work together, noting how some municipalities have leveraged their aggregate buying power to move to green energy providers, while keeping costs affordable for consumers. Audience questions broadened the discussion. How can we ensure that people of color are full participants in the development of the Hudson Valley? How do we meet the needs of rural communities? How can we finance affordable housing solutions that don’t require the beneficence of some large-scale developer? The panelists all agreed that there is no “magic bullet” to ensure equitable development; rather, a patchwork of policies, economic development, fair housing requirements, and other initiatives would be required. The work is just getting started. —Phillip Pantuso

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o matter what is being grown, the story of farming in America is plagued by the leitmotif of shrinking profit margins. As hemp becomes the latest cash crop in New York, a group of experienced Ulster County farmers have joined together to change the narrative. Hempire State Growers Hudson Valley is a new co-op of local, organic hemp farmers founded by twin sisters and seventhgeneration farmers Amy and Gail Hepworth. Based out of their Hepworth Farm in Milton, Hempire was born soon after hemp farming was legalized last year in New York. Their mission is to help independent smallscale farmers like themselves seize control of the capital produced by their new hemp crops before it’s gobbled up by big-money corporate agricultural interests. “If we are going to be responsible for growing a multibillion dollar industry why should the money just go right to the investment capital holder?” says Gail Hepworth. “We believe farmers deserve more.” Along with providing a network for material and intellectual support to assist the cultivation of organic hemp, Hepworth says the co-op gives Hudson Valley farmers the opportunity to pool their resources and see larger profits whether they want to sell their crop at harvest or stay invested until it’s sold as processed crude oil or later yet as distilled CBD consumables. “A lot of our farmers are at risk every year of going under,” says Gail Hepworth. “The market doesn’t care and there’s a lack of understanding. There’s an increase in demand on farmers without an increase in profits. If we don’t get together on this now, hemp is going to be no more profitable for farmers than corn or onions.”

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A Risky Plan Amy Hepworth took over operations of the family farm, founded in 1818, after graduating from Cornell. Gail left home and was a successful biomedical engineer for 25 years before returning to the soil 10 years ago. In 2008 Amy Hepworth came up with a risky plan. Despite the recession, she began buying abandoned nearby farmland and leased more still from developers whose housing plans dried up. She convinced her sister to come back to the farm to help. The expansion plan worked, and Hepworth Farm organic produce is now a common sight throughout the lower Hudson Valley. Because of Amy’s agricultural expertise and Gail’s business acumen, when the Hepworths got into hemp they were immediately approached by investors who wanted to give them millions in startup capital to run a large-scale hemp-growing operation. But the deal involved losing autonomy over their farmland and they turned the money down, opting instead to form Hempire State Growers. Over the past year, Amy has convinced members or her local community of farmers to come together and create the cooperative. Some farmers were all in, while others just offered land on their farms for Hempire to manage. Gail says the co-op is offering members market diversification by selling not just raw hemp but different CBD options, and vertical integration, so farmers can “capture profits from seed to sale.” “This is a crop and crops need farmers,” Gail says. “To farm hemp commercially you need experience. That’s the strength of the co-op. We have the experience. Amy knows a lot about this plant and our farmers are learning fast.”

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A HELPING HAND Advocating for Immigrants’ Rights in the Hudson Valley by Michael Frank Photos by David McIntyre

“To fail to resist is to be complicit.” —Father Frank Alagna, cofounder of the Ulster Immigrant Defense Network

ne morning in early December 2016, Father Frank Alagna had a disturbing epiphany. The 74-year-old Episcopal priest had just finished presiding over the Spanish-language mass at Holy Cross/Santa Cruz in Midtown Kingston, the bilingual church where he has been priest-in-charge for the past decade. Nearly three years later, sitting in the rectory behind the cathedral, Alagna’s voice shakes and his eyes well with emotion as he recalls that day. “I’m sorry. It makes me so angry,” he says as he clears his throat and wipes his face with the back of his hand. “I had to tell my congregants, Latino congregants, people who I care so much about, and people I could see were profoundly afraid, of an urgent need.” Alagna explains that he had to warn parents that they must get legal documents giving friends or other family members custody of their children in case they were detained by ICE. “I have never had such a horrible experience in my 48 years as a priest, having to communicate this kind of reality.” Today Alagna is one of several leaders in the Hudson Valley who are fighting back against what they view as unjust federal policies target74 FEATURE CHRONOGRAM 11/19

ing immigrants. He heads what has become the Ulster Immigrant Defense Network, which is a consortium of groups including Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson, the Worker Justice Center, Rural & Migrant Ministry, and others. UIDN runs multiple workshops for attendees from both sides of the river, with specific programs, such as helping undocumented students and their teachers know how to get the most from their education, and broader outreach ranging from understanding rights as workers to how to get access to healthcare. UIDN is hardly alone. Other grassroots organizations, such as the Columbia Sanctuary Movement, have also sprung to life, providing pragmatic help to immigrants mostly based in and around the city of Hudson, such as rides to doctor’s appointments or advice about housing. Meanwhile, existing nonprofits, such as Catholic Charities and the Worker Justice Center, have both grown in their strength and influence across the Hudson Valley. Catholic Charities is bolstering its roster of attorneys providing pro-bono legal advice, while Worker Justice successfully advocated in Albany for legislation such as the Green Light Bill, which lets people without a social security number apply for a driver’s license, register a car, and—crucially for the safety of all drivers, according to a 2018 study by AAA—obtain car insurance. Worker Justice also pushed for passage of the Farmworkers Fair Labor Practices Act, which guarantees a right to work no more than 60 hours per week, and a right to have at least one day off a week.

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Light in the Darkness Much of this action came as a counterweight to Donald Trump. Though Mariel Fiori, founder of La Voz magazine in 2004, laughs when she says that there were “woke white people when I participated in my first immigration march in 2006.” Fiori, who immigrated from Argentina two decades ago, notes that Latinos had been marginalized long before 2016, and even if it took this administration to wake up more community members in the region, she’s profoundly heartened by what she’s witnessed. For instance, she says, “Jewish people really came out strong. They saw what happened in the Holocaust and persecution of Latinos touches them very deeply.” Alagna agrees, and notes that as a first step, right after Trump was elected, he reached out to Muslim, Jewish, and other Christian sects in Kingston and beyond and got 21 regional clergy to petition the Kingston Common Council and the mayor to help push the town to become a sanctuary city. It was merely symbolic, Alagna admits. Sanctuary for a city is conceptual, and even as New York State’s Supreme Court ruled last year that local police cannot detain ICE suspects and that jails cannot hold someone beyond when they would ordinarily be released, an Albany Times Union report this past spring found it’s routine for police in the Capital Region to inquire about immigration status when pulling over drivers for minor infractions—or for no probable cause whatsoever. Preventing local cops or administrators from helping ICE is beyond the jurisdiction of cities, and can only be enshrined by state legislation, which is currently pending. Which leaves it to private citizens to act, Alagna says. “Jesus says to help the least of our brethren, whatever form they come in.” But what does sanctuary look like? “I had in mind this Hunchback of Notre Dame model, of literal sanctuary in our places of worship,” he says, but once UIDN began, with a hastily convened meeting in February 2017, where Alagna was expecting about 20 volunteers and 120 people showed up at his church, his vision grew. “I realized we could build something far more comprehensive. All that energy,” Alagna says of UIDN’s small army of volunteers, “was the grace. The light to be found in this darkness.”

FATHER FRANK ALAGNA OF HOLY CROSS/SANTA CRUZ EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN KINGSTON IS THE COFOUNDER OF THE ULSTER IMMIGRANT DEFENSE NETWORK

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The Regional Economy and Immigration Forget Alagna’s sentiment. If you live in the Hudson Valley, what does this attack on immigration mean for our tax base, and for the local economy? From 2017 to the fall of 2019, the Trump administration has instituted a broad crackdown on immigrants, documented as well as undocumented, according to Syracuse University’s massive database (TRAC) that quantifies and counts arrests, incarcerations, and deportations. Since Trump took office, new court filings to begin deportation proceedings have spiked: They were up 23 percent to 340,000 last year, and 2019 will easily crest 400,000. At that pace, 2019 enforcement will be 50 percent higher than it was in 2016. Regionally, ICE has heavily targeted people coming in and out of courthouses, or appearing to testify on behalf of defendants on trial, with arrests up 1,700 percent since 2016 through 2018, according to an early 2019 report by the Immigrant Defense Project. This is a policy that a regional ICE official, Thomas Decker, defended recently, saying ICE is targeting felons. However, Syracuse’s TRAC shows that despite Trump’s repeated rhetoric of going after gang members, through June 2019, arrests of immigrants with criminal records is a minuscule 2.8 percent, compared with over 16 percent a decade ago, and 25 percent back in 1999. Locally and nationally, ICE is arresting mostly non-criminals, and, as was detailed in a recent New York Times Magazine piece,

CECILIA CORTINA SEGOVIA IS A HUMAN TRAFFICKING SPECIALIST AT THE WORKER JUSTICE CENTER IN KINGSTON.

ICE is armed with high-tech tools to track people and deceptive tactics to apprehend them. A July 25 piece in the Intercept shines a bright light on these practices. And you can see exactly how ICE works by using New York’s Immigrant Defense Project web tool, which highlights most of ICE’s busts in the region dating back to 2013, as well as how frequently agents lied about their identity, used fake Facebook ID’s, and pretended to be contractors hiring workers. If all the above is simply carrying out the law, the result is straining the regional economy. According to a 2017 Fiscal Policy Institute Study, there are roughly 105,000 undocumented immigrants over the age of 16 in the region, generating $3.4 billion in spending power and $1.5 billion in taxes, according to New American Economy’s estimate of the 18th and 19th Congressional districts. That economic engine is stalling, however, because the Brookings Institution finds that the foreign-born population in the US in 2017-2018 grew by only 203,000, the slowest rate since 2007, while they also find that the nativeborn birthrate is at an 80-year-low. An economy withers without workers, and another study by Brookings found that the nation is on the cusp of having more seniors than children for the first time in 240 years. According to a 2019 report by the Economic Innovation Group (EIC), we live at ground zero for this crisis, with some of the weakest population growth in the nation across the Hudson Valley. EIC suggests nothing short of the exact opposite of Trump’s policies, vouching to bring in vastly more foreign-born workers to rural areas to reverse this slide, because, for the most part, in addition to a zero or negative birthrate, young people are fleeing rural America at an accelerating pace. The Face of Advocacy Meanwhile there are at least 100,000 immigrants in the Hudson Valley already, and some Americans are choosing to help them. But every one of those advocates’ stories is different. “Coming to the United States wasn’t a dream,” recalls Cecilia Cortina Segovia, a human trafficking specialist at the Worker Justice Center in Kingston, “In fact, it was more like a necessity.” When gang violence erupted in Baja

California, where she was working with her Americanborn husband as an outreach manager to establish an urban farming coalition in the city of La Paz, they decided they had to flee north. “One day we were listening to the gunshots outside the house. We heard them every single night. And I was holding my nine-month-old baby. I had to do what was best for him,” says Segovia. Segovia was born in Mexico. But she isn’t the stereotypical penniless migrant displayed on TV. Fiori of La Voz says too often there’s an immediate air of pity, or spite, against LatinX immigrants, and an expectation that every immigrant is poor and uneducated. “We are individuals. We are not a monolith. Some of us came here with PhDs.” Fiori notes that advocates like Segovia, who has a bachelor’s in educational communication and has a history working for nonprofits, is the face of something more nuanced. “Thanks to Mr. Trump, more white people are woke to what’s going on. But what’s important now is agency—the LatinX community is advocating for itself.” For Segovia, that translated to continuing the kind of battle she waged in Mexico, helping to push for social justice. “When I immigrated in 2014, I was amazed— and not in a good way—even as someone with a decent understanding of English, of how hard this process was. I couldn’t imagine someone who doesn’t speak the language navigating the paperwork.” Segovia began volunteering with Worker Justice in 2015, which has offices in Rochester, Kingston, and Hawthorne and fights against wage theft among blue collar workers in fields such as farming and restaurant jobs. Now, as an expert in human trafficking, she says that it’s mostly not cases of prostitution, but something more like slavery. She cited a current case in which a restaurant worker in the lower Hudson Valley was recruited and smuggled to the US, then forced to work long hours with low pay, and to shell out for his lodging. Eventually when he got hurt on the job, his boss threatened to turn him over to immigration. Segovia says while current New York State law helps somewhat, the problem is at the federal level. She cites a 2014 Urban Institute study, which shows that in 71 percent of the cases of human trafficking the victim entered the US on a legal visa. “They come legally,” Segovia 11/19 CHRONOGRAM FEATURE 77

emphasizes. But she says victims often have no network when they arrive—they only know the trafficker and the promise of a making a quick buck for the duration of their visa, and even if they’re in the US legally, they’re highly vulnerable. And, Segovia explains, too often they’re encouraged to overstay their visas, “And the trafficker says, ‘Don’t worry, I’ll take care of it,’ but does nothing.” Now the victims have become undocumented and are further enslaved to the trafficker, afraid to report the crime and expose themselves. In the present environment, these victims are going to stay cowering in the shadows, she says. Victor Cueva, an attorney with Catholic Charities, sees these kinds of cases all too frequently, and he says despite the rhetoric, the Trump administration is making protecting other immigrants, especially women who are victims of domestic violence, far harder. In September, Cueva was working on gaining amnesty for one of his clients, who was the target of sexual assault. But in July the Justice Department overturned existing amnesty law that had protected family members who were targeted as a group, and last year a similar law that protected victims of sexual predation was also overturned. Cueva, 30, works throughout the Hudson Valley. He says that the Trump Administration is constantly trying to make the job of helping immigrants harder. He has one client whose undocumented husband cannot speak on her behalf, for fear of showing up at court, even though he has powerful testimony that could help his client’s case. Cueva notes that even veterans and active-duty military are under assault by Trump’s actions. One lesser-known policy, parole in place, was designed so that veterans and military who’d married immigrants wouldn’t have to worry during deployment about their spouses going through legal immigration paperwork. But Trump is abolishing the program, which luckily Cueva heard about in time to expedite a green card for the spouse of a military client. “This was someone who fought in Iraq. You’d think we’d want to keep this law.”

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A Knock at the Door While Cueva and Segovia work on specific administrative remedies, and Alagna’s day to day seems to focus on concrete needs, such as shelter, frequently advocacy takes the form of triage—like throwing your body at the barricades. Gloria Martinez, 29, and Bryan MacCormack, 30, are co-founders, along with Juan Basilio Sanchez, and his son Juan Simon Sanchez, of the tiny Columbia County Sanctuary Movement. Martinez says the four founded CCSM, “Because there was really nothing like this in our community in Hudson,” and because despite having temporary protected status as the victim of domestic violence and a refugee of the Salvadoran Civil War, Martinez’s mother was repeatedly threatened by immigration officers who said that they would deport her. Such threats were hardly idle; Martinez’s uncle was deported in 2017. Then, on March 5 of this year, ICE agents tried to arrest two undocumented immigrants in MacCormack’s car as he drove them from an appointment at Hudson City Court. But MacCormack, who’d been studying the law as part of know-your-rights training he and other CCSM volunteers have been teaching to migrants, was well aware that the ICE agents didn’t have a judicial warrant signed by a judge. The cell phone video of that day, where MacCormack calmly tells ICE officials that his lawyer is on the way and that they don’t have a right to search the car or to arrest him or his passengers, went viral and was seen over 50 million times worldwide. It galvanized support for CCSM, Martinez says, and while she doesn’t only want the organization to be known for that one bold act of resistance, she notes that it was crucial for spreading the message that everyone has rights and that they have to know what they are.

VICTOR CUEVA IS AN ATTORNEY WITH CATHOLIC CHARITIES.

Green Shoots Even in the face of what Father Alagna sees as gross injustice, there’s hope. UIDN regularly packs workshops with participants from as far south as Rockland and up to Greene County. And he mentions something that echoes Cueva’s perspective, even though Cueva is a recent immigrant and Alagna was born in the US: “We’re always learning,” Alagna says. “We want to help, but we have to have our ears open to know how.” Mariel Fiori of La Voz says to achieve that mission, these groups need to incorporate more people like Cueva. “There’s this catchphrase of ‘diversity and inclusion.’ Diversity is when you get invited to the party. Inclusion is when you decide it’s your party.” Cueva is pleased to be the face of immigrants advocating on their own behalf, but what he sees as just as important is that his other community, of lawyers, understands and wants to help undocumented and documented immigrants. Cueva graduated from a program called the Immigrant Justice Corps (IJC), a national organization that provides legal services to immigrant families. His class was the first to ex-

pand services to the Hudson Valley. “Now we’re rolling out nationwide,” Cueva says. “Something that started here is going to spread across the country, and there’s this fellowship and it’s super competitive, with lawyers from the top law schools that are hand-picked.” Cueva explains that he’s also spearheading a complementary effort to recruit retired attorneys and pro-bono lawyers who don’t know immigration law but want to help. And he has peers doing identical IJC recruiting in Westchester and in Albany. “We’re going to be able to provide immigration representation in places that have never had it, from Sullivan up to Greene counties,” Cueva says. “We want to provide this service because there are so many people who need help and have never known how to even ask for it.” Even so, CCSM’s Gloria Martinez says there’s a constant struggle to pay the bills, and that raising money for advocacy and applying for grants is daunting. Most of the organizations profiled here rely heavily on private and grant funding. Alagna says UIDN’s already spent over $30,000 in 2019 on transportation costs alone. But Alagna, along with everyone interviewed for this story, noted that the backbone of each

one of these organizations isn’t just check writers, but people willing to donate time. “I was sitting with a group of volunteers,” he says, recounting one evening two years ago, early in UIDN’s formation. “I asked everyone why they wanted to help.” He went around the room and some Christians mentioned Jesus’s teachings. Some Jews said it was their turn to give back to non-Jews who put their lives on the line during the Holocaust. “And others who identified with no faith said this is what it means to be a good human being,” Alagna says. “I’m the one whose job it is to say what it means to be holy, and it dawns on me they’re teaching me what holiness means.” Alagna adds that his own conscience tells him that in times of crisis failing to act is to be complicit in the crime. Members of all four advocacy groups say that they see resistance in both large and small ways throughout the region. Alagna smiles and acknowledges the broad upwelling of support. “We’re learning what it means to be a community, we’re learning who our neighbors are, and we’re opening our hearts to what it means, regardless of religion or no religion, to help each other.” 11/19 CHRONOGRAM FEATURE 79

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UN/NATURAL SELECTION The off-kilter animal underworld of Chris Buzelli

ooking at Chris Buzelli’s illustrations is like viewing the world through a dream lens. He has turned DJ Khaled into a ringmaster and Kesha into a rainbow angel for Rolling Stone; he dressed a bird in armor for a Planadvisor story on protecting businesses and their clients; and he personified stress as a bifurcated brain for Science News. Recently, he created the largest illustration the New York Times has ever printed, with a constellation timeline for a story about night tennis. Buzelli, who lives in the East Village and weekends in West Saugerties, didn’t always feel like his illustrations were so dreamy. In fact, for a while he felt like he had “lost the balance between the commercial aspect and making a piece of art for myself,” he says, until an ACL injury confined him to his fifth-floor walk-up apartment. “I was stuck up here and I just said I’m not doing that stuff anymore,” Buzelli says, referring to his illustrations at the time, which he described as “people in business suits on cell phones on rocket ships. All of the overused metaphors, or overused imagery.” He used that time to find his way back to his illustrator roots, where his love for art came first. “Instead of just solving the problem for the art director, I started to make it more for myself. In those two or three weeks that I was stuck up here, I think I created five new paintings and it sort of become the basis of my work now. My career sort of happened then.” Growing up in the Chicago suburbs, Buzelli spent weekends watching Bill Alexander’s show “The Magic of Oil Painting” with his grandfather and painting in the elder’s TV repair workshop. Buzelli credits those days spent with his grandfather as his motivator in pursuing art, as well as the encouragement of his mother, who told him he had to re-enroll in a high school art class he had quit because he wasn’t getting along with the teacher. “Without those two things, I highly doubt I’d be doing what I’m doing,” he says. All of Buzelli’s illustrations—from the tennis

player constellations of the New York Times piece to the animal-centric SVA Subway Series, which he says is a favorite—including any revisions, are done on paper with oil paints and later scanned digitally. “I’ve learned not to use certain colors because they take forever to dry—like white, so a lot of my whites are the white of the board. Usually with oil paint you build up. I’m doing the opposite. I’ve learned ways around it.” he says. Animals are a frequent theme in Buzelli’s illustrations, though that wasn’t always the case for his professional work. During his break for his ACL injury, he went back to using animals like he did when he was younger. “It opened up a whole new avenue for me in terms of visual language. My concepts weren’t as strong [but] when I started using animals, the actual action and the verb of the piece became so much more apparent and important,” Buzelli says. You can find Buzelli’s illustrations on book covers, posters for ad campaigns, merchandising, and branding. Editorial, though, of which he has created pieces for Variety and the Washington Post, among others, he considers his bread and butter. “I’ve really come to love editorial illustration because it’s got this basic element where you get this text and you try to come up with a visual solution to communicate. I whip out 30 or 40 thumbnail sketches, getting them down on paper without thinking that they’re bad or good,” he says. “It happens so fast that there’s not a lot of time for others to have input. For me, it’s the most honest sort of form of commercial art.” Though creative jobs can be extremely fulfilling for an artist, they are, at the end of the day, a job. “The trick is to hide a little bit for yourself in it,” Buzelli says. “I think that’s what I was missing those first seven to 10 years. I forgot that this could be art. It’s not just about pleasing the art director and doing a job. In order to have a longer career, you really need to figure out a way to make it for yourself as well.” —Medea Giordano

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arts profile

Food, For Thought Mirna Bamiehâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Palestinian Hosting Society By Peter Aaron

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Photos from The Table, an interactive food installation, part of Everyday Forms of Resistance Assembly, at Ujazdowsku Castle for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland. October 5, 2019.

koub, also known as gundelia, is a spiny, perennial, herbaceous plant native to higher altitudes in the Middle East. To many Westerners it probably wouldn’t look like much; a scrubby, thistle-like weed that grows in rocky terrain and has long, thin, floppy leaves resembling those of a dandelion. To generations of Palestinians, however, akoub is a traditional delicacy, a staple crop with healthful properties whose young stems are said to taste like a combination of asparagus and artichoke when cooked. The mountainous regions of the Palestinian State where akoub mainly grows, however, have been occupied by Israel since the 1967 Six-Day War, making it illegal for Palestinians to forage for the plant (the harvesting of thyme and sage are likewise controlled by Israel). The suppression of a food source, and the cultural implications that go along with that—the erasure of customs and collective memory surrounding an indigenous cuisine—are the focus of the Palestine Hosting Society, a project created by Palestinian artist and cook Mirna Bamieh.

“Seeing our ingredients sold as ‘Israeliproduced’ ingredients is a very hard thing for Palestinians to see,” explains Bamieh via Skype from Warsaw, where she’s in residence for an “installation kitchen” to study and share recipes and information related to Eastern European fermentation techniques. “It reminds us about losing our land and not having power over our own existence.” She created the Palestine Hosting Society in 2017 to preserve and share Palestinian recipes and, by extension, the cultural identity they represent, in the face of the constant, state-imposed displacement that threatens them. For the project, Bamieh stages on-site performance pieces centered around the preparation and serving of meals she’s learned to create via oral tradition. She calls these performances “tables,” and the world premiere of her newest table, titled Menu of Dis/appearance, will be presented locally by Bard College and Murray’s in Tivoli this month. “[The performance] is about the politics of disappearance—disappearance of memory, land, food practices, the body,” she says. “But it’s also

about climate change, because climate change affects all of those things as well.” Born in 1983 in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Bamieh is the oldest of four children. Meals and their preparation were central to her family’s life. “I think for all Arabs, food is close to our hearts,” says the artist. “My mother is Lebanese [her father, a native Palestinian, is a doctor], so she brought us the dishes that she had learned from my grandmother. When I was little, I was in the kitchen with her all the time, there was always experimentation with the different recipes. The kitchen was like a lab, a place of fascination.” There were also indicators early on that art would become a calling. “I was always drawing, and I’d take my drawings to show to my father when he came home from work,” she recalls. “He would ask me, ‘What did you draw today?’ Both my father and my mother were very encouraging for me to express myself with art.” Bamieh’s entry into the art world was through the back door. After earning a BA in psychology at Birzeit University in Ramallah and an MFA in Fine Arts from Bezalel Academy for Arts 11/19 CHRONOGRAM ARTS & CULTURE 87

“As Palestinians, we are made to feel like guests in our own country, we cannot move around freely. With the tables, we are taken out of the passive role. We become the hosts.” —Mirna Bamieh

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and Design in Jerusalem, she worked in arts administration, writing grants and proposals, teaching, and curating at a gallery. Encounters with the politically oriented visual and sculptural “art of resistance” of Palestinian refugee Mustafa al-Hallaj and the “constructed situations” (which utilize human performer-interpreters) of Berlinbased Tino Sehgal, however, left her burning to make the leap to creating art full-time. In 2013, she left her gallery gig to take part in an arts work-study forum in Beirut. “I thought to myself, ‘If I want to be an artist, I have to do this,’” she says. “It was a daring decision, and I knew I would need strength. But, little by little, I kept going, and I’ve never stopped.” The ever-building momentum has produced a diverse portfolio of abstract work that includes video installations, film, mixed media, and curatorial projects like 2015’s Maskan Apartment Project, which invited outside artists to create works for display in the rooms of an apartment in Beit Sahour, Palestine. A breakthrough that reconnected her with her culinary passion came while she was pursuing a diploma in professional cooking as a way of supplementing her income. “The director of the training program said to me, ‘You should do a project that puts art and food together’,” says Bamieh. “I really liked that idea, and it made me start thinking about how I could do that.” Her thoughts led to 2016’s Potato Talks, a public performance piece staged on the street in several countries that featured seated participants peeling a potato as they told a story, one on one, to a seated viewer. Potato Talks, it turned out, would be the progenitor to the ongoing and more involved work of the live-art Palestinian Hosting Society. To prepare for each of the project’s individual presentations, Bamieh ensconces herself for weeks at a time in a chosen Palestinian city or village. There, she meets and lives among the locals and learns about each area’s food culture, much of which is in danger of vanishing due to limited agricultural access and the rise of mass-marketed food. While in residence she researches the recipes that have for generations been at the heart of local life, listening to

and gathering the stories of the elders who teach her how to properly prepare each dish according to age-old methodology—all the while taking into consideration how the dishes and their ingredients are connected to the geographical, historical, and sociopolitical life of the community. The final phase of the process is an intimate, interactive “dinner performance” in which she and her crew of collaborators serve an audience of 50 to 60 guests a sumptuous meal using their acquired knowledge, discussing the backstories behind each dish, and encouraging conversation about the food and the issues it relates to. Although the project by turn also speaks to the relationship between food, identity, and politics on a universal scale, according to Bamieh her initial impetus was the desire to find a way to empower Palestinians by giving them a way to reclaim some of their heritage. “Because of the political situation, as Palestinians we are made to feel like guests in our own country, we cannot move around freely,” she says. “With the tables, we are taken out of the passive role. We become the hosts.” Thus far, Bamieh has presented her themed PHS projects mainly in Palestine itself under such titles as Our Nablusi Table, Our Jerusalem Table, The Wheat Feat, The Edible Wild Plants Table, Trails of Taste-telling, and A Wondering in Flavors: The Old City of Jerusalem, a table, a tour and a map. Part of this month’s Live Arts Bard Biennial “No Wall Remains” festival, which centers on the subject of borders, the threeday local premiere of Menu of Dis/appearance will present dishes from Palestinian cities and villages, as well as others that were preserved in Palestinian refugee camps outside Palestine and encompass the inter-generational food habits and memory of the Palestinian diaspora. “Food is a great way to learn something new about another culture,” says Murray’s chef Rachel Lauginiger, who has been assisting Bamieh in cultivating the perishable locally sourced ingredients needed for the performance (Bamieh, she says, is “bringing along a suitcase full of dried ingredients from Palestine”). “Mirna came over a couple of months ago to meet with me about planning the meals, and we got to know each other pretty well when it turned out we were both on the same train heading into the city one day. Everyone at Murray’s is really excited to be working with her on the event, and I’m personally excited because I really love Middle Eastern food. The red tahini is something I’ve never tried before. I’m really looking forward to that.” From her end, Bamieh is clearly looking forward to her taking her table to Tivoli, too. “For Palestinians, this is a way to put our food back on the table,” she says, her voice crackling with excitement through your arts editor’s PC speakers. “It reminds us all that food belongs to everybody.” Mirna Bamieh’s Palestinian Hosting Society will present Menu of Dis/appearance at Murray’s in Tivoli on November 21-23 at 7:30pm. Tickets are $35. Seating is limited. Fishercenterbard.edu.

books STAFF PICKS

While here at the magazine we all like to think of ourselves in a charmingly bookwormish light, it recently occurred to us that, despite our own voracious appetite for the written word, there may be other local luminaries even betterqualified to hand-select your reading lists. Humility is part of our charm, so this month we decided to step aside and let the local Hudson Valley book-slingers pick their favorite new volumes for your November reading pleasure.

Our Dogs, Ourselves: The Story of a Singular Bond Alexandra Horowitz SCRIBNER, $28

This clever and thoughtful book will charm anyone who loves or appreciates canines. Horowitz, a Taghanic resident, explores a wide range of subjects, such as ownership and overpopulation, sometimes pointing out the inconsistencies in our relationship with dogs. There is plenty of laughter in this book as well. In one chapter, we follow the author’s stealthy record keeping of the oftenabsurd things people say to their dogs while out for a walk. The perfect holiday gift for the dog lover in your life. Recommended by Dianne Ortmann of the Chatham Bookstore.

The Swallows Lisa Lutz BALLANTINE, $27

Part-time Elizaville resident Lisa Lutz has been a reader favorite with her Spellman Files series, as well as standalone novels How to Start a Fire and The Passenger. Her latest literary mystery, The Swallows, is the twisted tale of a boarding school where things are not what they seem. When Alex Witt arrives to teach at Stonebridge Academy she has no idea what she’s in for. A total page-turner! Recommended by Suzanna Hermans of Oblong Books & Music in Millerton and Rhinebeck.

Girl to City: A Memoir Amy Rigby SOUTHERN DOMESTIC, $17

Fake Like Me Barbara Bourland GRAND CENTRAL PUBLISHING, $14.99

We’re big fans of Barbara Bourland’s I’ll Eat When I’m Dead, in which she hilariously skewered the fashion world and Insta-celebrity culture, so we were already on board for Fake Like Me, her brilliant follow-up novel. Its Hudson Valley setting is just icing on this witty and suspenseful cake. The heroine of Fake is a budding young painter painfully desperate to be part of Pine City, the SoHo art world’s “cool kids” table. After years of work, she lands an invitation to their remote upstate retreat. Her persistent self-doubt and Pine City’s dark secrets quickly gel into a deeply thoughtful literary thriller. Recommended by Jesse Post of Postmark Books in Rosendale.

Catskill resident Amy Rigby’s memoir Girl to City is a love letter to New York of the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s in all its difficult, gritty glory, but also to the punk music that flourished there and started her thinking, “Maybe I can do that, too.” Turns out she could and she did. You’ll be in awe of the shows she’s seen and the bands she’s toured with, but she’s honest about the difficulties of the music industry and life in the city—it makes you root for her all the more during her addictively readable adventures. (Full disclosure: Amy works here, but her book is great even if she didn’t.) Recommended by Kelley Drahushuk of Spotty Dog Books & Ale in Hudson.

This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West Christopher Ketcham VIKING, $29

Foxfire Living: Design, Recipes, and Stories from the Magical Inn in the Catskills Eliza Clark, Tim Trojian HARPER DESIGN, $45

It’s rare that one encounters a design book that effectively and evocatively combines a relatable, down-to-earth story; stunning photography; and a practical how-to guide. Eliza Clark and Tim Trojian, owners of The Foxfire Mountain House in Mount Tremper, do just that with Foxfire Living. This book serves as an inspiration to every couple—or individual—hoping to transform their solitary, rat-race lives into ones of meaningful (if still all-consuming) labors of love. The authors share how their dream of renovating and operating a hotel became a reality, and combine beautiful images of their property and food—shot by their daughter, a pro photographer—with helpful insider tips. Any book with a “Learn from Our Mistakes” section has our vote. Clark and Trojian will celebrate the publication of their book with a launch party and signing at Rough Draft on November 22. Recommended by Amanda and Anthony Stromoski of Rough Draft Bar & Books in Kingston.

What our Earth needs most pressingly right now is a new Edward Abbey or Rachel Carson to shed light on the few corners of the globe that currently remain pure and free from mankind’s destructive footprint. For the 500 million acres of public lands in our country, that environmental warrior is respected journalist and Margaretville resident Christopher Ketcham, whose book This Land makes the case for protecting the areas so vital to the ecosystems that depend on them. Ketcham rips the lid off the US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management, whose job it is to protect these areas but instead has caved to the interests of industries intent to plunder resources from lands already stressed from unnecessary grazing and recreational development. Written in a personable style, Ketcham is a brilliant tour guide to the grievously vulnerable wonders of the still wild American West. The Golden Notebook will host Christopher Ketchum for a reading and signing on November 24 at 3pm. Recommended by James Conrad of The Golden Notebook in Woodstock.

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music Blueberry Tempest in a Teacup (The Shaz Records) Blueberrylounge.com You might think of “tea” these days as the cultural phenomenon of collecting as much steaming hot gossip on others as possible. Perhaps that inspired Gwen Snyder Siegal’s thrilling new Blueberry album Tempest in a Teacup, but I’d wager that the truth is something more cerebral, multi-faceted, and personal, like the album itself. While this collection of songs has many tracks that could and should be on many a modern adult alternative podcast, there is zero filler. Few current songwriters can create such convincing and fully realized settings from track to track as the Woodstock-based Blueberry can. Engaging, killer songs like the self-assuranceversus-a-witch-trial pomp of “Burn” or the storybook persistence of the dreamy-ballad-meetsZep-soul of “Keep On” make this far more than background music. Coproduced by Gwen and Kenny Siegal and recorded by Matthew Cullen at Old Soul and Allaire Studios, the album is bursting with theatrical melodic life while still sounding crisp and smooth. “Been Awake” breezes in, reminiscent of the drifting along of the Odelay-era Beck song “Jackass” before settling into something jazzier. The record’s numerous supporting cast members—from Rasputina’s Melora Creagor to Jessie Chandler, Adam Widoff, and many more—make the proceedings a very Alice in Wonderland-tea-party affair, in a gloriously enjoyable manner that never overshadows Gwen as the principle musical force here. —Morgan Y. Evans

Jay Anderson Deepscape

Patrick Higgins Dossier

The Acquaintances Pleased to Meetcha!

(SteepleChase Records) Steeplechase.dk

(Other People Records) Otherpeoplerecords.com

(Independent) Theacquaintances-hv.com

New Paltz bassist Jay Anderson’s new album puts the prolific artist back in the role of bandleader after decades of support playing. Deepscape is a kind of curriclum vitae, convincingly covering the waterfront: Anderson and crew create then punctuate great planes of tense atmosphere in Morton Feldman’s “Rothko Chapel”; swing with easy bravado through Keith Jarrett’s “Southern Smiles”; and skitter and trill gleefully in Branford Marsalis’s “The Mighty Sword.” But there are some delightful outliers: Anderson’s lyricism as a player is highlighted on Billy Joel’s (yep) “And So It Goes,” and the version of the Pee Wee King-Redd Stewart classic “Tennesse Waltz,” performed as a duet by Anderson and harmonium player Frank Kimbrough, is primed and ready for the next Nick Cave-scripted Western. The titular track is a drone-y improv that I could have listened to for another 15 minutes, and “Momentum” is a moody piece with marvelous interplay by Billy Drewe (alto sax) and Kirk Knuffke (cornet). —John Rodat

Hudson avant-garde guitarist and composer Patrick Higgins’s collaborations with his long-time foils in the New York band Zs and the likes of Arto Lindsay and Miho Hatori, not to mention the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and other ensembles that have performed his works, are justly revered. But running through his many fruitful collaborations is the underlying feeling that he truly flourishes as a player when he’s on his own. Untethered from settings that necessitate his allowing fellow musicians their space, the unaccompanied Higgins revels in the opportunity to stretch out and shift the music according only to his own internal twists and whims. If you’ve caught his shamanic solo performances, you’ll have a sense of this. If not, Dossier, a four-movement solo suite of guitar and live custom electronics, will give you one. Dark, sprawling, and apocalyptically atmospheric, it’s packed with pinsand-needles tension that springs a surprise around every corner. Transformative listening. —Peter Aaron

Americlectic. It’s a totally ace marketing term. I’m surprised no one else came up with it before. Hudson Valley trio the Acquaintances own it, both in terms of coinage and employment. The group’s long-in-coming debut disc, Pleased to Meetcha!, bears the epithet out, opening and closing like a lighthearted Grateful Dead tribute before veering into solid NRBQ territory with a clutch of bar-band pop songs. Occasionally things veer a little too close to “da blooz,” with “Venus and the Crescent Moon” copping half-baked Hot Tuna; but the handclap-driven “The Rose Knows” makes up with a harmony-laden, Rockpile-inspired delivery and taut, yet expansive soloing from guitarist Jeff Entin. The penultimate “Notes on the Door” is relaxed and lengthy, with clean six-string tones echoing Jerry Garcia’s jazzier outings—a nice setup for the workingman’s charm of the capstone, “Southern Folk.” Drummer Larry Balestra and bassist Bob Blum complete the combo. —Michael Eck

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poetry

EDITED BY Phillip X Levine

Space Man

with the tree now gone all that is left to collect the rain is the hole —p

He glares into the sun His eyes glimmering with rejection The universe falls around him He falls through the air, Landing on a bed of rocks He forces off the ground, Eyes adjusting to the unknown light. Then he sees the stars He pries his way to the sky And flies. —Ryan Alejandro Kraeher (10 years)

Fieldwalking, 2019 The grass that yesterday hit my shins now tickles my thighs And the sun on my lips how I long to have it closer than my body inside my skin Devour it like an apple fresh off the branch which too holds light and still hums with its energy And the grass screams in greens and yellows and reds that just brush its tips tomorrow will be gone Hold fast today this morning at least just now —Kate Minford

Shoes Eating shoes, we’re okay stuffing throats with leather. Weeks go on, tasting better, we’re comfortable with the stiffness. One foot nailed to ground, we settle in we look around. It’s not so bad living in one room. Hold tight, we can make the four corners a metaphor. Light is dark is light, without windows no one calls Nice or Mean or Night. Chewing forever, we’ve turned our four corners into an approximation. Throwing head back to spit, grounding firm into nail into ground, we can reach Wall One. Brown leather, blood and salted, I think we made something beautiful. I cry looking at the spots. —Juliet Gresh

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In the Road Driving over the Rupert mountain to town, dirt farm road, surrounded by corn fields, cows grazing in the morning light, mist rising off the ponds. Not another car on the road as I careen around curves, car pounding over ruts. Come upon a flock of wild turkeys in the road, perhaps twenty-five, large Toms with their tail feathers spread wide, smaller ones. They seem in no rush to scurry off as my car approaches. I slow down. Stop. Eventually, they scatter, off into the fields, moving hurriedly. I drive on. Yesterday, driving to town to mail a letter, make the 7 A.M. mail pick-up, I wind up behind a manure truck. Caked thick in excrement, a heavy layer of it covering the entire body of the truck, dried to a dark brown over time, the truck weighed down by its load. Its odor drifts back towards me. The driver going about forty, seemingly in no rush to deliver his load to some field, restore the nutrients his crop has taken from the land. I follow at a respectful distance. Eventually, he turns off into a newly cut hayfield. Sunday morning, near Whitehall, I came up behind two horse-drawn buggies carrying Amish. I slowed down, not wanting to spook their horses. The clip-clop of the horses’ hooves on the asphalt the only sound. The solemnity of their world, draws me within. At the crossroads, they turn. The beautiful faces of the bonneted women startle me. —Cary Abrams

First Love

The Pink Shell, Fort Myers

I am reverting to poetry because it’s easy— You don’t have to buy paint, or stretch canvas… You don’t have to tune up, or replace strings… It’s a welcoming warm mantle for an old soul. Like finally returning home, after a long sea voyage… I’m glad to have found it again. It’s easy as π.

she was hungry, once all of us were at that age

—Bob Grawi

now she reminisces in her sleeveless blouses sweating away blistering summers beneath the tiki bar cradling her margarita like an orphaned kitten the slothful sea sweeps her toes at the edge of the world while coquinas wriggle underneath the soles of her feet —Lee Clark Zumpe

This End Up You once told me you’d end up in a cardboard refrigerator box under an overpass. “Oh Neil” I laughed. You loved to make me laugh.

You were caught DUI and no one posted bail. Weeks later you showed up at my door. “I’m sorry.” I let you in. We ate tuna fish sandwiches on the patio. In the end I had to let you go.

You tucked me in poking the comforter snugly around my arrow-straight body. “Let me papoose you.” I giggled. I imagined you doing this with your daughter years ago. Did she giggle too?

You packed up your life. Embedded like tree rings in a trunk, stowed away memories for the ride. “I wish you well” I thought. If not, Doctor Smirnoff is always on call.

I picture you swinging your son up onto tall hemlock shoulders. “You can be my scout.” Did he whoop with glee? A fault line split you right down the middle. Camouflaged.

You slump at the wheel in a Walmart parking lot in Cottonwood, AZ. Three days later a Ford Escape is your coffin, windows rolled up. “Oh Neil” I don’t cry. You deserve a more poetic ending.

I insisted we rescue tadpoles from the plastic-lined pond. “Billions!” I marveled. Catch and release, with creaky knees, iPad camera and bucket, into the wild just down a country road from God’s little acre you created.

In the bed of your pickup, a strawberry moon rises cool breeze from a shooting star scent of desert bloom we don’t have back east. One last tilt of the bottle. Yes that will work.

In the Beer Hall (Nashville, 2014) The old couple couldn’t dance They stepped stiffly Trying to remember What step came next What the order was They missed when they grabbed sometimes They did not smile But stared into the air around them As though concentrating on their memory Of what to do next They did not stop As though if they did, The world would stop turning Dancing is a serious business Something that must get done They had worked out the moves They had agreed on the order Worked out a sequence They must get through They must finish proudly Regardless of the music Or what others were doing They had no grace They had no rhythm They had only the belief It was so essential It was so beautiful They finally disappeared Fading into the background Of the dance —Gilles Malkine

—Sharon Watts My Brother

What I Learn in My Waking State

My brother is a ginger. I don’t know where he got his hair. My brother has a sharp jawline. I can’t remember the color of his eyes. My brother smokes cigarettes. Once I saw him smoke behind the translucent door of a public bathroom. The smoke became a cloud, and behind the cloud there were his eyes, looking at me. I don’t know why I was looking at him. My brother is older. He likes to teach me new things. Sometimes when I don’t behave he hits me. He hurts my face but nowhere else. I hide the marks from my parents beneath my clothing. My brother takes me to school. He walks me to my classroom. My brother looks at me from the door. He watches me take my seat in the third row. My brother remembers that desk. Later when he finds me there, he teaches me to be quiet lying on that desk. I can’t remember what he looks like. Only how he smells. I would look at a photograph to remind myself, but I have none. I do not have a brother.

There are times when we wake in the middle of the night, whisper stories into the dark cavern of our bedroom’s belly, move like magnets across the mattress and make love.

—Sophie Cohen

Once, people lived like this, he says, by the light of the moon, taking sleep in shifts to see what they could not see before. There comes a moment during one of these hours when I know— soon I will return home to find it has been stripped of its homeness: the TV will be pulled from the mount above the mantle; the records will unlearn their melody as they are thrown from their orbit; And then, the soft brown of his eyes— which once looked deep into mine as if to say You are the first constellation I find in the bloom of stars— will be carried away in a blink. —Samantha Spoto

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LIGHTFIELD ARTS “PHOTO + SYNTHESIS” AT HUDSON HALL

In the 19th century, Hudson River School artists saw our region’s beauty as evidence of the Divine and worried about the industrialization and deforestation that had already begun. Lightfield Arts’ exhibition takes an Anthropocene view of the valley through the work of seven artists illuminating our biome from new perspectives, including Sarah Bird and Tim Davis. Trees are the focus; viewed through the lens of contemporary photography, the science of tree ring research, and the art of data visualization. Works by historic Hudson River oil painters such as Asher B. Durand and a video by the Young Photographer’s Workshop are also on view. Through December 21

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Fall, a photograph by Christopher Griffith, part of Lightfield Arts “Photo + Synthesis” exhibition at Hudson Hall.

the guide

November 26 27 28 29 30 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 November 2: John Malkovich at UPAC November 3: “The Magic Garden” at Colony November 7: Deborah Hanlon at Helsinki Hudson November 9-10: “Shiva Arms” at Denizen Theater November 15: Suzanne Cahalan at Murray’s in Tivoli November 14-17: “Just Another Matter of Time” at Bridge Street Theater November 22: JB Smoove at Paramount Hudson Valley November 23-24: Hudson Valley Hullabalo November 24: Hudson Valley Free Day at Dia:Beacon November 29-December 1: Basilica Farm & Flea in Hudson Through December 2: Ruby Silvious at Woodstock Art Exchange

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CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION presents

Homage to Bach The Knights Chamber Orchestra

TONALISM:

PATHWAY FROM THE HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL TO MODERN ART

In this concert, The Knights perform a large range of music inﬂuenced by Bach, from modernist giants such as Stravinsky to American folk/pop icon Paul Simon.

Saturday, November 30, 2019

8:00 pm

Tickets Purchased Ahead: $25; $20 seniors; $7 students At the Door: $30; $25 seniors; $7 students

“These two dozen musicians from Brooklyn ... playfully combine early music with avant-garde, great classics with world music— constantly blowing away audiences because this mix is simply irresistibly refined.” —Hamburger Abendblatt (Germany)

Doctorow Center for the Arts

7971 Main Street, Village of Hunter, NY To purchase tickets, visit www.catskillmtn.org Or call 518-263-2063

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Birge Harrison, Lawrence River Sunset, n.d., oil on canvas, New York State Museum, Historic Woodstock Art Colony: Arthur A. Anderson Collection

AUGUST 28 – DECEMBER 8, 2019 SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART

STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT NEW PALTZ

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theater

Love Goes to Buildings "SHIVA ARMS" AT DENIZEN THEATER November 9 & 10 Denizentheatre.com Enter the world of “Shiva Arms,” where a hilarious and eye-opening group of Los Angelenos ride out a hurricane of human emotions and learn a medley of life lessons in an unsuspecting California apartment building. Doug M=otel brings his one-man show to Denizen Theatre in New Paltz November 9 and 10. When tragedy strikes, the residents of Shiva Arms review memories of their late residential manager, offering a window into their personal lives while leaving the audience both pensive and rolling-on-thefloor laughing. During the second half of the show, the audience witnesses a heartwarming yet chaotic funeral filled with love, passion, and a dead seal rolling downhill toward an unaware 91-year-old. Rosendalian Doug Motel is the writer, creator, and actor who plays the 11 characters of “Shiva Arms,” all of whom are addressing an invisible “Doug Motel” as the plot’s main mode of movement. Motel morphs mind and body for each character, changing his breathing, walking, and mannerisms to suit their idiosyncrasies. B-movie actress Bambi—a woman who lives with two cats and longs to be abducted by aliens—is in no way similar to Ronald—a wise, elderly man in a wheelchair who has died, come back to life, and committed himself to running a movielending library from his apartment as a way to bring people joy. Shiva Arms’ Australian handyman, Ian, heard the meaning of life while going 50 miles per hour on a surfboard. “You have to let the spirit find you, you have to let inspiration find you,” he says, and perhaps this is Motel’s way of bringing his own creative methods to light. Motel woke up one morning and began his daily writing exercise, which is filling three pages to the brim of whatever comes to mind, even if its’ nonsense. But before he knew it, Motel was writing “and I am walking into the theater to watch Doug Motel’s new show and there are three black boxes on the stage…” and soon enough Motel was talking to himself in different character’s voices, recording everything and taking the best material he could find. This natural creative force gave birth to “Shiva Arms” in a way that Ian would approve of. In 1988, Motel suffered the loss of Lynea Kokes, a friend he continues to admire more than anyone in the world. She was murdered on her first day as manager of a Los Angeles residential building. The tragedy serves as the jumping-off point for “Shiva Arms.” “When you have a friend that is murdered, people either use it to affirm a belief that they have about how horrible the world is,” says Motel, “or these use it to bring other people with them to a greater place of expansiveness.” The “Shiva Arms” performances at Denizen are a benefit for the Maya Gold Foundation, which promotes teenage mental health and empowering youth. (Maya Gold was a New Paltz teen who took her own life in 2015.) Doug Motel will perform “Shiva Arms” on November 9 at 8pm and November 10 at 3pm at Denizen Theater in New Paltz. Tickets are $25. VIP admission is $50, which includes meet a greet with board members and an artist’s reception. —Matthew Praman-Linton 11/19 CHRONOGRAM THE GUIDE 97

Rosendale, NY 1 2472 | 845.658.8989 | rosendaletheatre.org JOKER FRIDAY 11/1 – MONDAY 11/4 + Dance Film Sunday: Roman Baca’s Exit 12 THURSDAY 11/7, 7:15pm. $6 matinees at 1pm Moved by War SUN 11/10, $12/$10/$6, 2pm on WEDNESDAY 11/16 + THURSDAY 11/17 FIDDLER: MIRACLE OF MIRACLES Sunday Silents: FW MURNAU’S, TUESDAY 11/12 + WEDNESDAY 11/13, 7:15pm. NOSFERATU: A SYMPHONY OF Dharma Film Series: KUNDUN SUNDAY 11/17, HORROR SUNDAY 11/3, 2pm. Judy

FRIDAY 11/5 – MONDAY 11/18 + THURSDAY 11/21, 7:15pm. $6 matinees at 1pm on WEDNESDAY 11/20 + THURSDAY 11/21

THE POLLINATORS WEDNESDAY 11/6, 7:15pm. Panel discussion follows the film. DOWNTON ABBEY FRIDAY 11/8 – MONDAY 11/11 + THURSDAY 11/14, 7:15pm. $6 matinees at 1pm on WED + THUR

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REQUIEM FOR ASHOKAN, THE STORY TOLD IN LANDSCAPE November 16 – January 4 Opening Reception: Nov. 16, 2-4 pm Artist’s Talk and Reading: Nov. 16, 4 pm Children’s Program “Help Me Tell the Story”: Nov. 23, 2–4 pm Panel “Vanishing Olive” Nov. 30, 2–4 pm

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art

Ink and markers on stained, cracked egg shells by Ruby Silvious.

“It was a very innocent experiment,” artist Ruby Silvious recalls. “I had something like 30 followers.” She’s referring to 2015, when she decided to paint one picture a day on a teabag for the entire year. Two thirds of the way through the project, her images went viral on Instagram. The resulting book, 363 Days of Tea: A Visual Journal on Used Teabags (Mascot Books), was a hit. “Reclaimed Canvas,” Silvious’s show at the Woodstock Art Exchange, runs through December 2. Pictures on teabags seem impossible, because one imagines the surfaces being wet. And Silvious’s teabags do start out soggy. After each bag has yielded a cup of tea, she empties it, dries it, and irons it. Actually, unused teabags make poor canvases. “They’re too porous,” Silvious explains. She doesn’t prep any of her surfaces with gesso or any other underlayer. Silvious’s miraculous minimalism flourishes in the digital world, where there’s no sense of scale; a teabag is as large as a skyscraper on an iPhone screen. But in a gallery, one can closely admire her touch with a watercolor brush. (Yes, Silvious poetically chooses watercolors to decorate teabags, adding gouache only for white accents.) Her subject matter ranges widely, from snowbound crocuses blooming in her hometown of Coxsackie to visual puns to her “Museum Goers” series, where silhouetted art lovers gaze at teabag-scale versions of art masterpieces. “I want to try everything!” Silvious exclaims. Once a personal obsession becomes successful, it’s known as a “gimmick.” Before that, it’s merely a lonely and rather shameful ritual. A series of interlocking

obsessions creates these works: the desire to recycle everything in one’s life, the urge to post pictures on Instagram, and the compulsion to drink lots of tea. Besides teabags, Silvious chooses other unorthodox mediums: eggshells, fallen leaves, paper scraps. These studies are documented in her new book, Reclaimed Canvas: Reimagining the Familiar (Mascot Books). With pistachio shells, Silvious abandons her commitment to figurative art. The super-bright patterns she produces—with color markers—make the pistachio hulls look like tropical beetles. One of Sylvious’s intentions is to encourage other artists—particularly those with little money—to use nontraditional art materials. Through the Internet, she receives photos of new teabag paintings. “I do not mind if people copy me; go ahead!” she responds. “I must say, some are even better than me—and I commend them.” This year, Silvious began fashioning women’s dress shoes out of cardboard and paper. Influenced by Art Deco and Grimms’ Fairy Tales, they gleam with girlish sophistication. One of them appeared in Vogue Italia. At first, I didn’t recognize the two life-size kimonos as part of the show. It’s not obvious that each is composed of over 600 teabags pieced together, whose monoprints form a continuous pattern. (The brown stains of tea serve as muted coloration.) Besides, a kimono is huge compared to most of Silvious’s work. But small, persistent pieces eventually grow large; 363 minuscule paintings become a book. Silvious teaches us the fruitfulness of daily practice. “Reclaimed Canvas” runs through December 2 at the Woodstock Art Exchange. —Sparrow

Tea Time "RECLAIMED CANVAS" IN WOODSTOCK Through December 2 Woodstockartexchange.com

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Theater John Malkovich at UPAC

theater

November 2 Hollywood A-lister John Malkovich began his career at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater Company, and he’s no stranger to the stage, winning an Obie for his performances in Sam Shepard’s “True West” (1980) and Lanford Wilson’s “Balm in Gilead” (1984). His new project, “Just Call Me God,” is the story of a dictator giving his final speech in the last hour of his life. Paired with the musical talents of organist Martin Haselböck and the cowriting of author Michael Sturminger, Indie Cinema said that the play “is a must see for people interested in modern theater and for fans of Malkovich.” Bardavon.org

Books Running with Sherman at Oblong Books

November 2 A man and a donkey training and running together, that’s something you’d never expect to see in everyday life. Chris McDougall, however crazy it may seem, did just this to help rehabilitate a rescue donkey, Sherman, who he fostered. At his upcoming reading, McDougall will talk about Running with Sherman, and how an injured donkey taught him strength. Ticket sales will partially benefit the Hudson Valley Donkey Park in Ulster. Oblongbooks.com

Kids Stuff for Grownups “The Magic Garden” at Colony

Lucy Miller (the Lop-Eared Rabbit), Cassidy Maze Bua (Meg), and Martin McKeon (Time) star in Sandra Dutton and Scott Petito's new musical, "JAMOT: Just a Matter of Time."

Film Parasite at Upstate Films

Jam On It "JAMOT: JUST A MATTER OF TIME" November 14-17 Bridgest.org/jamot “JAMOT: Just a Matter of Time,” a new musical by Sandra Dutton and Scott Petito, will have its world premiere at Bridge Street Theatre in Catskill on November 14. Written by Dutton with music by Petito, the whimsical production follows a young girl named Meg as she learns what happens when time disappears. “She’s been told by her grandmother that she’s lost her curiosity, she’s studying too much,” says Dutton. “She’s sitting out in the garden and she finds herself getting a little dizzy and ends up in a maze where she learns that time has been beaten in a boxing match. And it is her job to find him because if she doesn’t, she’ll disappear.” Playwright and director Dutton is a renowned children’s book author who originally wrote “JAMOT” as a play before being convinced to turn it into a musical by a British composer. That first partnership didn’t come to fruition because the music was, well, too British. “This is an American play,” says Dutton. “I’ve always loved Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear and The Phantom Tollbooth and all these other books, but I wanted this to be very American. I didn’t want any kings and queens.” Instead of royalty, characters include various animals—the mayor is a goose—the mischievous Rhymester, and Time itself. And in an effort to give the music and production more of an American flavor, Dutton began collaborating with fellow Catskill resident Petito, a multi-instrumentalist and composer who’s worked with James Taylor, Pete Seeger, Jack DeJohnette, Don Byron, and Dave Brubeck. While the story may have a toe in the world of classic fairytales, Dutton says the inspiration 100 THE GUIDE CHRONOGRAM 11/19

November 3 Who remembers the Chuckle Patch? How about the Story Box? (Sing along: “The stories are here / they’re all in here / from Crafty Fox to Goldilocks / the Story Box, the Story Box.” “The Magic Garden” aired from 1972-84 on WPIX in New York City, and the show’s hosts, Carole and Paula were delightfully musical surrogate parents for a generation of children. Incredibly, Carole and Paula are on tour, celebrating 65 years of friendship. Expect stories, songs, video clips, and special guest appearance by Sherlock, the beloved squirrel puppet. Colonywoodstock.com

came from reading about quantum mechanics and relativity. “It was the strangest thing,” says Dutton, who read authors and physicists Fred Alan Wolff and Heinz Pagels. “What would happen as I was reading, I would hear these strange phrases that were almost silly, funny interpretations of what was on the page. And I just thought, ‘This is very interesting.’” The Rhymester came from a decidedly more earthy inspiration: memories of reading legendary San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen’s correspondence with a remorseful armored truck robber. In addition to Dutton and Petito, “JAMOT” is led by producer Wayne Sheridan and choreographer Rachel Kappel, and features an expansive and talented local cast including Brian Dewan, Lucy Miller, and Leslie Ritter. “Just about all the main characters in my play I read for personally, because I really wanted them to get it,” Dutton says. “And it’s paid off. It’s just been such fun.” “JAMOT” is a play for adults and children alike, but is not recommended for kids under the age of five. The production was made possible through the Decentralization Program, a regrant initiative of the New York State Council on the Arts with support from Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, with funding administered by the Green County Council on the Arts. “JAMOT: Just A Matter of Time” is being staged November 14-17 at Bridge Street Theater in Catskill, Thursday-Saturday at 7:30pm; Sunday at 2:30pm. Tickets are $10 for ages 5-17 and $20 for everyone else. —Crispin Kott

Check for dates and times Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s latest is a more realistic narrative than his last two features, the dystopian class struggle of Snowpiercer (2013) and big-pig flick Okja (2017). Parasite is a satirical thriller with a large helping of dark comedy, exploring how a poor family slowly insinuates themselves in the lives of a rich family. Parasite took home the Palme d’Or at the Cannes earlier this year, the first Korean film to do so. Upstatefilms.org

Medium Deborah Hanlon at Helsinki Hudson

November 7 After the death of her four-year-old brother, then threeyear-old Deborah Hanlon embarked on a lifelong journey of discovery of science and self to find proof that life after death exists. An intuitive medium, Hanlon’s passion for teaching the living how to recalibrate after loss inspired her to open the Center for Being, Knowing, Doing in Newburgh and to teach workshops on meditation/visualization, intuitive development, mediumship, personal development, and energy awareness. Helsinkihudson.com

Cooking Vegan Thanksgiving Cooking Class

November 16 What if we all skipped the turkey this year? The Catskill Animal Sanctuary in Saugerties is hosting a three-hour cooking class with chef Sara Boan, coauthor of Compassionate Cuisine. Dishes on the menu include butternut squash and apple bisque with coconut bacon, savory mushroom and white bean wellington, garlic mashed potatoes with rich vegan gravy, and pumpkin crème brûlée. The class will be followed by a feast and a tour of the grounds, including an introduction to CAS’s friendly turkeys. Casanctuary.org

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Comedy JB Smoove at Paramount Hudson Valley November 22 JB Smoove is best known as Leon from “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” but he’s got a long and hilarious list of comedy credits: “Saturday Night Live” writer, featured player on “Everybody Hates Chris,” and a star turn as Trucky in the blaxploitation satire Pootie Tang with Chris Rock. Returning to his roots in standup comedy after his Comedy Central special “That’s How I Dooz It,” Smoove is now touring cross country and performing to sold-out audiences. Paramounthudsonvalley.com

Arts & Crafts Basilica Farm & Flea November 29-December 1 Flea markets aren’t a new concept, but the handcrafted creations available at the annual Basilica Farm & Flea Holiday Market are definitely a cut above. Join the thousands who pilgrimage to Hudson to see what the makers are making now, from soap to sofas to spirits. Basilicahudson.org

Arts & Crafts HV Hullabaloo at Andy Murphy Midtown Neighborhood Center November 23-24 A carefully curated selection of craftspeople selling their work, Hudson Valley Hullabaloo returns to the Andy Murphy Rec Center in Kingston for its seventh year. The Hullabaloo stands out due to its focus on design and product quality in its vendors, rather than fitting a theme or aesthetic, which creates a diverse marketplace. Shop here for highquality craft direct from local Hudson Valley artisans, such as Bold Version Design Co, Willow Vale Farm, and So Handmade. Hvhullabaloo.com

Art Dia:Beacon Hudson Valley Free Day November 24 Hudson Valley residents can skip the $15 admission charge to view Dia’s massive collection of conceptual art on the last Sunday of the month, yearround. The eligible counties are: Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rensselaer, Rockland, Saratoga, Schenectady, Sullivan, Ulster, Washington, and Westchester). Proof of residence is required. A new exhibition of Barry Le Va’s horizontally dispersed sculptures opens on November 9, but we go for Serra’s monumental steel sculptures and Heizer’s holes in the floor. And maybe some Dan Flavin neon too. Diaart.org

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Call Me Crazy SUSANNAH CAHALAN AT MURRAY'S November 15 Oblongbooks.com Susannah Cahalan turned her mysterious and devastating illness into the best-selling memoir Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness. Six years later, Cahalan’s second book, The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness, is being released by Grand Central Publishing on November 5. Cahalan, called “one of America’s most courageous young journalists” by NPR, has investigated a 50-yearold mystery behind a groundbreaking experiment that changed the course of psychiatry and our understanding of mental illness. Cahalan, who lives part-time in West Hurley, will talk about The Great Pretender in an event presented by Oblong Books and Music at Murray’s in Tivoli on November 15 at 6 pm. Tickets are $10, which can be applied toward the purchase of the book at the event. —David Levine Most people haven’t had a chance to read your book yet, so can you give us a brief synopsis? It is born out of questions I didn’t tackle in my first book. In that book, I was misdiagnosed with a serious mental illness, when I had an autoimmune disease in my brain. It raised all these questions about, what does it mean to have a mental illness? What does that label mean? At one point during the publicity for Brain on Fire, I came across a study published in 1973. [Healthy researchers] went undercover in psychiatric hospitals across the country and all they did was exhibit very limited [fake] symptoms, like “I hear a voice,” and they were all diagnosed with schizophrenia. That study had a huge impact on mental health that we are still feeling today. I connected personally with that study and my own misdiagnosis. I wanted to learn more about this study’s author, David Rosenhan. As I investigated it over the past six years, the story pivoted, and the result is more of a mystery and investigation than I ever foresaw. Is it the mystery of how we define mental illness? Or whether we have a grasp on it at all? Perfectly said. The basic mystery is the author and the legitimacy of the study. Then it also becomes a look at the history of psychiatry, how much has changed since that study, how much have we grasped, and how much have we failed to grasp. While I was on [my first] book tour I did a lot of medical conferences and grand rounds. After one session, one of the doctors came up to me and said, “This sounds a lot like this woman we have here.” She had been in and out of the hospital for two years. I had been misdiagnosed for only one month. I remember thinking, could someone here have the same story that I did? I found out later she had been; she had the same illness I did. This raised questions of how many people are misdiagnosed, what do these terms even mean if they can be so porous.

What does the title, The Great Pretender, mean? I think there are three interpretations. The first is that the illness I had and others like it are called Great Pretender illnesses, because they mimic psychiatric conditions. And then you have David Rosenhan and his other— they called themselves pseudo-patients—who went undercover in psychiatric hospitals. They are kind of great pretenders. And ultimately, as questions are raised about the validity of the study, that term takes on new meanings. What themes do you want readers to take away from the book? What questions do you want answered? A lot of these are impossible questions. I hope that for the layperson it empowers them to feel more comfortable asking hard questions, especially of their doctors. Also, I think I illuminate the limitations of our knowledge, which can be a scary thing. In terms of the field reading it, I hope that they are able to understand their history better. I think to move forward and progress you need to understand the history, and this is an illumination of a history that was not truthfully told. My intention is to raise questions and to add to the conversation, not end the conversation. I don’t have the answers. Were you interested in mental health before your illness? I was always interested in behavior. I went through all these books I got to re-read for The Great Pretender, like I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Go Ask Alice, all these books were interesting to me, as they are to many people. But I don’t think I had an extraordinary interest in this until it actually hit me personally. Moving through this illness that was disabling for many months of my life was a profound experience. It ripped my life into a before and after. Everything about my life now is a direct after effect, an aftershock of the illness. You now live part-time in the Hudson Valley and parttime in Brooklyn. Did you work on the book here? I wrote a great portion of the book upstate, about 75 percent of the book. At Outdated, Village Coffee, Rough Draft—I was definitely using the Kingston coffee shops to get this book done, for sure. What will your presentation at Murray’s include? I haven’t done any [events] for this yet, so it will be an interesting challenge to figure out how to talk about this book. I have a lot of audio and visuals, so I hope to bring them in. But my favorite parts of book events are when the audience asks questions. For me it’s so fun to engage on that level. I hope it’s lively. I am excited to present this book to the community where I wrote so much of it. It feels really special. 11/19 CHRONOGRAM THE GUIDE 101

11 JANE STREET ART CENTER SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 LINDA MARY MONTANO TAKING THE FEAR INTO AND OUT OF AROUND DEATH: A WORKSHOP 1PM - 5PM, 11 JANE ST. ART CENTER GALLERY NORTH ADMISSION BASED ON SLIDING SCALE $34.00 TO $151.00 REGISTER AT WWW.11JANESTREET.COM SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16 ROBERT HITE ”IN THE SHALLOWS” IMAGINED HISTORIES: A CONVERSATION WITH THE ARTIST 7 PM, 11 JANE ST. ART CENTER GALLERY SOUTH FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17 ROBERT HITE ”IN THE SHALLOWS” CLOSING RECEPTION 5PM-8PM, 11 JANE ST. ART CENTER GALLERY SOUTH FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 11 JANE ST. ART CENTER 11 JANE STREET, SAUGERTIES NY 12477 WWW.11JANESTREET.COM

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“SHAPE OF LIGHT” AT THE FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER

“Shape of Light” celebrates contributions by the Vassar College Advisory Council for Photography to the growth of the Art Center’s collection of nearly 4,500 photographs, 125 of which are on view. Given the deluge of photographic imagery engendered by the smartphone, curator Mary-Kay Lombino notes that “there is something to be said for seeing so many carefully selected works in one exhibition.” Chosen are highlights from the beginnings of photography through the present day, including jewels from the likes of Margaret Bourke-White, Gordon Parks, Alfred Stieglitz, Harry Callahan, and Cindy Sherman. Through December 15

Barbara Morgan’s 1940 photograph Martha Graham Letter to the World (Kick), part of the “Shape of Light” exhibition at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College through December 15.

HENRY KLIMOWITZ “METHOD FOR PROCEEDING” AT GARRISON ART CENTER

Not knowing what his finished piece will be is key to Henry Klimowitz’s process of alchemizing cardboard into sculptures—one cut, bend, fold, or hot glue drop at a time. “Like a wasp,” he says, incrementally accruing nested forms. Each emergent work begins with a germinating idea building from a single point to something natural looking but unclassifiable. Leading from one work to another at GAC: from the windows, where cardboard patterns of ovoid, leaf-like shapes filter light to accumulations that could be hanging vines or maybe not to fungi-esque configurations seemingly blossoming from the walls. Through November 10

“EUSTATIA” AT THE GLOBAL ART MUSEUM

Thinking globally and acting locally, a new art venue in Beacon is testing the waters of the Hudson Valley art scene. Five regional artists are featured in the Global Art Museum’s inaugural offering. Emil Alzamora, Joseph Ayers, Matt Kinney, Liao Yibai, and Michael Zelehoski are presenting decidedly 21st-century works filling multiple rooms of Eustatia, a High Victorian-style mansion overlooking the river. Prime examples of contemporary sculpture, video, multimedia, and painting are on display. Through November, by appointment. (845) 309-9247

“SANCTUARY” AT KINGSTON CITY HALL

Works in this exhibition express over 40 artists’ interpretations of sanctuary. Everyone needs sanctuary; especially in these times, and shelter from the storm comes in many forms, depending on the imperatives of those seeking it. Kingston became a sanctuary city in 2017 and its website notes that this exhibition of stylistically varied small works in a wide range of media “hopes to create a space for a nuanced interpretation of sanctuaries, and what they mean to Kingston.” Artist, Isabel Cotarelo, whose piece is a colorful biomorphic abstraction, opines, “Sanctuary becomes real when kindness of mind/heart is present in a boundless energy to provoke change.” Through December 20.

ROBERT HITE AT 11 JANE STREET

Raised in rural Virginia and a teenager there in the turbulent ’60s, Robert Hite builds on memories of dirt roads, abandoned houses, and the people who lived in them. Over the arc of his career, Hite has evolved from being an abstract landscape painter to an artist who has mastered many other media including sculpture and photography. The rural house and what it entails remains at the center of it all. Along the way, Hite moved with his family to Esopus and won a Guggenheim. His most recent works–including examples of his detailed and distinctively crafted sculptures of houses as well as photographs of these evocative dwellings in natural settings—are on view as part of “In the Shallows” at 11 Jane Street in Saugerties. Through November 17

“UP NEXT” AT KLEINERT/JAMES CENTER FOR THE ARTS

The Hudson Valley has been attracting young artists since Thomas Cole moved here at the age of 21. Arlene Shechet, whose own work has often been reviewed in the New York Times, Art Forum, and Hyperallergic, has curated “UP NEXT,” which highlights pieces by 15 emerging talents. You may recognize some of the names: Daniel Giordano, whose quirky multimedia sculpture was recently shown in Mother Gallery’s “Soft Temple” show, and Padma Rajendran, whose work was featured locally in a solo show at WAAM. Schechet imparts that the exhibition “reflects her vision and sense of how these artists speak to each other through their work.” Through December 1

FRANC PALAIA AND BRIAN GILLETTE AT 40 CANNON STREET GALLERY

Two veteran artists are teamed up for “Urban Icons” at one of Poughkeepsie’s newest art spaces; both paying homage to visual urbanity. Palaia, a well-known muralist, photographer, and sculptor, is installing what appear to be substantial chunks of graffiti-laden walls from around the globe. Look for “found imagery that is seemingly chaotic, random, humorous, and political.” Gillette, a refugee from the wilds of advertising, utilizes multimedia skills honed there to create works that blend an “appreciation of a vintage past” and visions of “a radical future.” Fans of art that transgresses the real estate of the world’s metropolises will feel at home. Through December 31

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exhibits ERNEST SHAW AT AARON REZNY STUDIO

Ernest Shaw’s “No-Self” series conveys the mystery of personhood through self-portraits made by layering photography, ink, paint, and sculpture. The resulting facial montages never quite resolve, suggesting double or triple vision, yet attain a balance that evokes a singular presence. The frenetic line that chases after completion of the pictures also energizes. This holds true in Shaw’s “Lifeline” series— also on view at Aaron Rezny Studio in Kingston—in which invigorating mark making brings life to photos of dead flora. Compassion is his unifying theme: “Reverence to the ‘self’ and ‘not self,’ to our hearts, to the leaves.” Through December 30 No-Self, Ernest Shaw, photodrawing, 2019.

GARRISON ART CENTER

23 GARRISON’S LANDING, GARRISON “Method for Proceeding.” Henry Klimowicz. Klimowitz transforms cardboard into exotic and beautiful sculptural forms. Through November 10. “Holiday Pottery Show & Sale.” November 22-Decemebr 1.

TREAMINE GALLERY AT THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL 11 INTERLAKEN ROAD, LAKEVILLE, CT “Flat File: Works on Paper by Cleve Gray.” Through January 12, 2020.

HUDSON BEACH GLASS GALLERY 162 MAIN STREET, BEACON

“Microcosm. Drawing and sculpture exhibit by Tanja Bos.” Through November 3.

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HUDSON HALL

“In the Shallows.” Robert Hite sculptures. Through November 17.

AARON REZNY STUDIO AT 76 PRINCE STREET

“Hudson Valley Nature Photography: Rails, Trails, & Vistas.” The exhibition will feature over 20 works on both metal and paper by Susan Bores. Through November 14.

“Photo + Synthesis: 2019 LightField Arts Exhibitof Visual Art.” New commissions of landscape photography, nineteenth century oil paintings, and a special data visualization piece about tree ring science. Through December 21.

“Ernest Shaw: Photo Drawings.” Through December 30.

BERKSHIRE BOTANICAL GARDEN

ALBERT SHAHINIAN FINE ART GALLERY

“Cynthia Wick: The Shape of Color.” Through December 1.

“Christie Scheele: Atlas Project/Forms of Water.” A major solo installation of paintings, monotypes, and collages that explore this artist’s visual integration of self, art, and the climate crisis. Through December 1.

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11 JANE STREET, SAUGERTIES

76 PRINCE STREET, KINGSTON

22 EAST MARKET STREET SUITE 301, RHINEBECK

11 TOWN CENTER BLVD, HOPEWELL JUNCTION

5 WEST STOCKBRIDGE ROAD, STOCKBRIDGE, MA

327 WARREN STREET, HUDSON

HUDSON RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM 50 RONDOUT LANDING, KINGSTON

“Rescuing the River: 50 Years of Environmental Activism on the Hudson.” Through January 1, 2021.

1601 ROUTE 9D (BEAR MOUNTAIN HIGHWAY), GARRISON BOSCOBEL.ORG.

HUDSON VALLEY MOCA

“Cross-pollination: An Evolution in Foliate Forms.” Through November 3.

1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL “How We Live.” Through July 19, 2020.

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“Statues.” An exhibition of work by Francesca DiMattio. Through January 5, 2020.

3 BEEKMAN STREET, BEACON “Barry Le Va: Horizontally Dispersed Sculptures.” Long-term view.

“Claude Carone: Paintings.” Through December 1.

ARTS MID-HUDSON

DUCK POND GALLERY

JOYCE GOLDSTEIN GALLERY

“Dutchess Handmade Pop-Up Shop.” Locally made glass, jewelry, greeting cards, textiles, ceramics, wood, products, prints, paintings, home, decorating items and more. November 1-December 21.

“My Hearts Desire.” Mixed media by Ginny Ballard. Through November 29.

“Animals As Muse.” Through November 16.

EAST FISHKILL COMMUNITY LIBRARY

THE CORNER OF GRAND & FIRST STREETS, NEWBURGH

“A Little Relief: Linoleum and Woodblock Exhibit.” Works by Gina Palmer. November 1-30.

“Orange County: A Celebration of Its Culture, Land, and People.” Juried show by the Hudson Highlands Photography Club & Workshop. Through November 22.

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97 BROADWAY, KINGSTON “Exactly Different.” Figurative sculpture. November 2-30. Opening reception November 2, 5-8pm.

ATHENS CULTURAL CENTER 24 SECOND STREET, ATHENS

“Homely.” Video, performance, and poetry. Through November 24.

BARRETT ART CENTER

55 NOXON STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE “New Directions 2019: 35th Annual National Juried Contemporary Art Exhibition.” Juror: Akili Tommasino, Associate Curator, Modern & Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Through November 9.

BEACON ARTIST UNION

506 MAIN STREET, BEACON “Collapsed Time.” Recent work by Joel Werring and Pamela Zaremba. Through November 3.

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EMERGE GALLERY

288 MAIN STREET, SAUGERTIES 226-2145. “Petit: A Group Exhibition of Smaller-Sized Art.” November 2-December 1. Works by Gina Palmer. November 1-30.

FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER AT VASSAR COLLEGE 124 RAYMOND AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE

“Shape of Light: Defining Photographs.” Featuring large-scale works. Through December 15.

GARDINER LIBRARY

133 FARMER’S TURNPIKE, GARDINER “Michael Gold: American Flag Photographs.” November 10-December 28. Opening reception November 10, 1pm.

362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON

19 CENTRAL SQUARE, CHATHAM

KAPLAN HALL, MINDY ROSS GALLERY

LIMNER GALLERY

123 WARREN STREET, HUDSON “The Show of Heads.” In this exhibition, 27 contemporary artists. present works based on and inspired by the human head. Through November 9.

LOCAL ARTISAN BAKERY

448 BROADWAY, KINGSTON, NEW YORK “Pop-Up Exhibition.” Featuring: Amanda Light, Kasmira Demyan, Not Just Rainbows (Logan Lapointe), Nicole Saunders, and Rita Bolla. November 2-December 30. Opening reception November 2, 4pm-7pm.

MANITOGA/THE RUSSEL WRIGHT DESIGN CENTER 584 NY-9D, GARRISON

“Michele Oka Doner: Close Your Physical Eye.” Through November 11.

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MARK GRUBER GALLERY

THE STEWART HOUSE

“43rd Annual Holiday Salon Show.” November 16-January 1. Opening reception November 16, 5pm-7pm.

“Without a Sail Without an Oar.” Works by Rosemary Barrett. November 8-30.

MILLBROOK LIBRARY

THOMAS COLE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE

“5 Death Row Portraits.” Paintings by Peter Chaplin. Through November 30.

“Shi Guorui: Ab/Sense-Pre/Sense.” Landscape photographs. Through December 1.

MURROFF KOTLER VISUAL ARTS GALLERY AT SUNY ULSTER

THOMPSON GIROUX GALLERY

NEW PALTZ PLAZA, NEW PALTZ

3 FRIENDLY LANE, MILLBROOK

491 COTTEKILL ROAD, STONE RIDGE

2 NORTH WATER STREET, ATHENS

218 SPRING STREET, CATSKILL

57 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM

“Collective Expeditions Art Exhibition.” Olivia Baldwin, Kyle Cottier, Sarah Potter, Elisa Pritzger and Greg Slick. Through December 13.

“Feinberg Giroux Parker Thielen.” Works by Jean Feinberg, Marie-Claude Giroux, Kingsley Parker, and Beth Thielen. Through November 17.

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TIVOLI ARTISTS GALLERY

“Requiem for Ashokan, The Story Told in Landscape.” Paintings by Kate McLoughlin. November 16-January 4. Opening reception November 16, 2pm-4pm.

“Melissa Katzman Braggins + Ted Braggins: Ink and Paper and Ceramics.” Through November 17.

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“Hudson Valley Plein Air Festival.” Juried exhibition. Through November 25.

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317 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE “From Memory: Paola Bari and Carl Grauer.” November 1-30.

SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART 1 HAWK DRIVE, SUNY NEW PALTZ

“Madness in Vegetables: Hudson Valley Artists 2019.” Through December 8. “Tonalism: Pathway from the Hudson River River School to Modern Art.” Through December 8. “The Ukiyo-e Movement: Gems from the Dorksy Museum Collection of Japanese Woodblock Prints.” Through December 8. “Paper Media: Boetti, Calzolari, Kounelis.” Through December 8.

THE CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA 1946 CAMPUS DRIVE, HYDE PARK

“State of Ate: New York’s History Through 8 Ingredients.” Through December 31.

SHIGEKO KUBOTA AT MOTHER GALLERY Kubota, who was married to Nam June Paik, was one of the key figures in the downtown video art scene of the 1970s. Exhibited at Mother will be works in Kubota’s “Duchampiana” series including her video of Duchamp and John Cage playing Chess. According to curator David A. Ross, there are two meanings to the exhibition title “Restored in Beacon.” First: the goal of the show at Mother Gallery (and that of the Shigeko Kubota Video Art Foundation) is to help re-establish Kubota as a major early innovator of video art. Secondly: the meticulous restoration of her work on view was accomplished by local Beacon artisans Jon Reichert and Kazumi Tanaka. November 2–December 15

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UNISON

“Composed to Decompose.” Through July 31, 2020.

WILLIAMS COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART

15 LAWRENCE HALL DRIVE, WILLIAMSTOWN, MA “Michael Rakoeitz: The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist [Room Z, Northwest Palace of Nimrud].” Through April 19, 2020.

WIRED GALLERY

11 MOHONK ROAD, HIGH FALLS “Reflection.” Featuring works by Scott Michael Ackerman, Michelle Biondolillo-Keessen, Josephine Bloodgood, Damon, Fran Goodwin, Beth Humphrey, Victoria Kari, Sandra Nystrom, Joanne Pagano-Weber, Fran Sutherland, Lynne Tobin, Carl Van Brunt, and Dion Yannatos. November 1-24.

WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM 28 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK

“Material World.” Through November 24. “Kate Collyer: To Last Frontiers.” Through November 24. “Associate Members Small Works.” Through November 24. “An Artistic Legacy: 1 + 1 + 1.” Through December 29.

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MAYA HAWKE November 7. While she’s popular for her acting roles as Robin in the Netflix series “Stranger Things” and Linda Kasabian in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Maya Hawke— the daughter of Ethan Hawke and Woodstock native Uma Thurman—is also a singer-songwriter. Since 2017 she’s been collaborating with Grammy-winning tunesmith Jesse Harris on a forthcoming album, and as a teaser she recently released a debut single featuring the songs “To Love a Boy” and “Stay Open.” To further hone her Feist-like musical style on stage, Hawke heads to Colony this month. Will Graefe opens. (Sammy Rae & the Friends groove November 14; Lula Wiles land November 20.) 7pm. $15, $20. Woodstock. Colonywoodstock.com. Photo by Savannah Lauren

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GRANDMASTER FLASH Photo by Greg Cannon

November 8. Scratching, backspinning, punch phrasing—the bedrock elements of hip-hop turntablism—begin in the mid-1970s with Grandmaster Flash, the founding leader of rap pioneers Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. While perhaps the most illustrative showcase of the Jamaican-born Bronx DJ’s deft, signature cutting technique is 1981’s “The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel,” the group’s better-known follow-up hits “The Message” (1982) and “White Lines” (1983) are indelible landmarks of modern music. For this UPAC engagement, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee will present “Hip-Hop: People, Places & Things,” an audiovisual history of the artform he helped create. 7pm. $20. Kingston. Bardavon.org.

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November 9. As you wind down late October’s Halloween merriment, how about a devilish dose of black metal with an appetizer of hardcore and noise at the Anchor? Connecticut’s Yellow Eyes are making waves in the UK with their brand of dark, prog-flavored sounds, further citing such influences as Estonian choral music and Norweigan folk fiddling in an interview with British metal magazine Kerrang. Flesh Prison is a New York hardcore outfit whose cassette/digital releases sound suitably raw and tough. Local ambient/drone/noise artist Mtt Lczk kicks off this night of mayhem. (Red Beard Wall, Thunderchief, and Shadow Witch reign November 1; Charlotte Jacobs sings November 16.) 9:30pm. $5. Kingston. Theanchorkingston.com.

November 15. A spinoff of guitarist and vocalist Ripley Johnson’s other band, psychedelic warlords Wooden Shjips, the Portland, Oregon-based Moon Duo shares many of the former band’s spacey influences (e.g., Can, Hawkwind, Silver Apples). Ripley and synth player Sanae Yamada are sometimes joined by a drummer; at the time of this writing it’s not clear if they’ll be in trio or true-duo mode when they drone their way into BSP for their first time there. One thing is clear, however: This will be an evening of hypnotic, pulsing waves that will carry attendees to the outer edges of the universe. Open up and say, “Om.” With Garcia Peoples and Jeffrey Alexander. (Adult Mom and Fresh visit November 7; BSP presents Xlyouris White at the Beverly December 6.) 7pm. $20, $25. Kingston. Bspkingston.com.

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November 12. The list of artists who’ve recorded folksinger Patty Griffin’s affecting and literate songs is staggering: Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Solomon Burke, the Dixie Chicks, Shawn Colvin, and Miranda Lambert are a few. But the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter herself, who broke through with 1996’s Living with Ghosts and here headlines Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, is arguably as compelling a performer as any of her songs’ other vessels. Her critically exalted, eponymous 10th album, which appeared last March, was recorded in her current home of Austin, Texas with the assistance of producer and long-time collaborator Craig Ross as well as her sometime partner and tourmate Robert Plant on backing vocals. Rose Cousins opens. 7:30pm. $39.50, $49.50. Troy. Troymusichall.org.

November 16. Interviewing the legendary Chita Rivera last year ahead of the shows she did at Bard College was a high point for your humble arts editor. This month the Broadway icon returns to the region to give two performances within the cozy quarters of Club Helsinki. For each of these solo shows, the Tony Award-winning dynamo will recreate signature moments from her storied career, including numbers from “West Side Story,” “Sweet Charity,” “Chicago,” “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” “Bye, Bye, Birdie,” “The Rink,” and “The Visit.” “Chita Rivera is more than a musical theater star,” writes the Associated Press. “She’s a force of nature.” (Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys alight November 8; Sherry Vine vamps November 17.) 7pm and 9pm. $135. Hudson. Helsinkihudson.com.

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Horoscopes By Lorelai Kude

WISDOM RIPE FOR THE PLUCKING There’s a saying in the Book of Daniel that “the wise will shine like the brightness of heaven,” and that is most true during November, when the wisdom we’ve been accumulating is given the chance not only to shine for ourselves but to be shared with others. This is not the same thing as being a smarty-pants or a know-it-all. This is the hard-earned lifewisdom of those who have loved and lost, those whose hearts have been stretched to the breaking point by giving the last and greatest measure of devotion. This wisdom is neither glib nor superficial and it is in great supply this month during the Sun’s transit through the deep and mysterious realms of Scorpio. This is the month to reach down into the bottomless recesses of the most secret places of your heart and come up with your own, authentic, unmistakably real and impossible-toignore truth. Don’t keep it to yourself. Your personal wisdom, ripe for the plucking, is fruit indeed for those who look to you for emotional and spiritual nourishment. Saturn in Capricorn’s sextile to Neptune in Pisces on November 8 signals confusion around authority and order. From the White House to the kindergarten classroom everybody may be asking: Who’s really in charge here? The Full Moon in Taurus November 12 signals the closing chapter of the denial playbook. The obvious is no longer ignorable. Venus in Sagittarius square Neptune in Pisces November 14 challenges us to differentiate between beautiful fantasies and outright deception. New Moon in Sagittarius November 26 begins a new dreams and adventure cycle. Neptune’s direct station in Pisces on November 27 signals those newborn ideas are ready to move forward. May your wisdom shine like the brightness of heaven, lighting the way for all to see during November!

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ARIES (March 20–April 19) Mars in romantic Libra through November 18 inspires partnership, but when Mars squares Saturn November 5 you’re challenged to imagine a relationship without hierarchal stratification or conventional boundaries. Can you do that without activating your need to win? Be your bravest self-November 8-9: Fight for what is right, fight fair, and, once Mars enters Scorpio November 19, fight to win. The movement of Mars from Venus-ruled Libra to Mars-ruled Scorpio takes you from romance to passion; by the opposition to Uranus November 24 you discover they aren’t necessarily always the same thing. Discernment is November’s great gift to you.

TAURUS (April 19–May 20) Venus in Sagittarius encourages Bacchanalian behavior and you’re the last one to object until Venus in Capricorn arrives November 25 and must pay the bill. If your resources allow bounty to be shared, do so and with joy. Just don’t go into debt buying party supplies, airplane tickets, and time shares! The Full Moon in Taurus November 12 brings to fruition a life chapter now ready to become your future’s fertilizer. Uranus in Taurus opposite Mars in Scorpio November 24 illuminates a unique, original aspect of yourself which asks to be nurtured and grown, not closeted in deference to conventionality. A practicing, professional astrologer for over 30 years, Lorelai Kude can be reached for questions and personal consultations via email (lorelaikude@yahoo.com) and her Kabbalah-flavored website is Astrolojew.com 108 HOROSCOPES CHRONOGRAM 11/19

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GEMINI (May 20–June 21) Mercury Retrograde in Scorpio through November 20 investigates the deepest secrets of the soul. The dearest of dreams is potential reality when Mercury trine Neptune November 25. Can you nurture a dream and keep a secret? The New Moon in Sagittarius November 26 urges you to both speak your mind and keeping your own counsel. Inspire the respect of others by pointedly not engaging in gossip and demonstrating integrity with your word. An exponential leap of faith is both required and empowered now: The strength and experience you’ve amassed speaks for itself, as do those whose trust you’ve earned.

CANCER (June 21–July 22) November 1 (All Saints Day) and 2 being true to yourself triumphs over tired and trite. What’s good for you is good for everyone in your world at the first Quarter Moon in Aquarius November 4. The Full Moon in Taurus November 12 connects you to your own earth-body and enables embodiment of the great Earth Mother. You’ve been to this rodeo before and you’ve learned to trust your inner child: Let that beautiful youth come out and play at the last Quarter Moon in Leo November 19. The New Moon in inspirational Sagittarius November 26 uplifts and emboldens.

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LEO (July 22–August 23) Leo’s all-powerful ruling planet the Sun in Mars-ruled Scorpio through November 22 empowers your quest for mastery of anything you turn your hand to this month. Your skills and competencies are like knives in a master chef’s kitchen and now is the time to sharpen them! Accountability for resources is important on the Taurus Full Moon November 12. Kick any residual bitterness to the curb: Last Quarter Moon in Leo November 19 prepares you to lead with magnanimity whatever family festivities you have planned. The Sun enters Jupiter-ruled Sagittarius November 22, kicking the joviality quotient up a significant notch.

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VIRGO (August 23–September 23) Someone’s playing True Confessions during Mercury Retrograde in Scorpio through November 20: Is that you or your partner? Or both? Secrets may be revealed, and yours may not be the biggest one. This year, “home for the holidays” may have an entirely new significance. Drops of kindness on your tongue is the best medicine; enlarging your heart for the sake of others is the best exercise. Delight and surprise yourself and others with unusual manifestations of your own original ideas, or your choices when it comes to the company you keep when Mercury trines Neptune November 28. Dream big!

LIBRA (September 23–October 23) Whether you’re flirting with a new person or a new business opportunity, Mars in Venus-ruled Libra through November 19 super-energizes relationship energy. Venus, Libra’s ruling planet, in adventurous Sagittarius through November 25 is less than discriminating about who gets invited to the party. Watch impulsive urges when good time-loving Venus in Sagittarius squares dreamy Neptune in boundary-less Pisces November 14, which is a great day to give a trusted Earth-sign friend custody of your wallet. Permission to play the proverbial field granted until Venus in practical Capricorn November 25 steers towards the safe shores of well-considered, sober choices.

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SCORPIO (October 23–November 21) While the Sun in Scorpio through November 22 you’re comfortably in tune with the cosmic flow. However, other people’s indecisiveness feels like a personal impediment to you while ruling planet Mars transits peace-loving Libra through November 19. Mars enters Scorpio November 19, restoring your natural balance, or at least you’re feeling less likely to allow other people’s problems to become overriding factors in your personal decision-making. Rethink attachments to transitive personal possessions on the Taurus Full Moon November 12; if you must let go of some of them at the Mars-Uranus opposition November 24, best to have detached in advance.

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SAGITTARIUS (November 22–December 22) Ruling-planet Jupiter is finishing up his final month in Sagittarius during November and really wants to go out with a bang, not a whimper. Can you stand the noise? Does it sound like a huge, cheering crowd? You deserve the accolades and shine the brightest November 24, when Venus conjuncts Jupiter—right before the New Moon in Sagittarius November 26. All the energy you’ve invested into making that great leap forward during the past year is paying off now. Gather the harvest of your efforts: You’ll be living off this well-earned bounty for some time to come.

CAPRICORN (December 22–January 20) Confusion around boundaries and who’s who in terms of authority and chain of command may muddle things around November 8, with Saturn’s sextile to Neptune in Pisces. The Taurus Full Moon November 12 invites you to ground yourself and embody calm, loving patience. Equilibrium and equanimity are restored by November 25 with Venus’s entry into Capricorn; originality, brilliance, and unique ideas which are also practical, scalable and repeatable reign when Venus in Capricorn trines Uranus in Taurus on November 28. You may be about to manifest your own great idea or a real-world miracle in an entirely non-supernatural way!

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Ruling planet Neptune stations direct November 27 after his rather tedious retrograde since mid-June. Time to clean up vagaries and tidy the remnants of fanciful digressions. Promises made must be counterbalanced by promises kept: The universe has been keeping score even if you’ve lost count. Dreams are ready to move forward, now that they’ve been vetted for sustainability November 5-7. Saturn’s sextile to Neptune November 8 insists on clarifying confusion around shared ideas or who takes credit for what brilliant idea in the workplace. Venus’s square to Neptune November 14 challenges you to exchange the frivolous for the inspirational.

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In the lagoon of Venice there’s a flash of color: groups of sailboats, all flying red sails. The red hues of the sails blend, and when reflected on the blue water, green hues become visible. This is the Red Regatta project of Beacon-based artist Melissa McGill. (Chronogram readers may remember McGill’s 2017 installation around Bannerman Castle, Constellation.) McGill choreographed the four Red Regatta events from May to September 2019 with the Associzaione Vela al Terzo Venezia, the Venetian yacht club. Each regatta was in a separate lagoon, and McGill and her team directed the 52 sailboats with radios. The regattas were comprised of traditional vela al terzo sailboats, each sporting handpainted red sails in shades that McGill developed herself in her studio. Overall, it took two years to complete, with the help of co-organizer Magazzino Italian Art in Cold Spring. McGill has a long personal history with Venice, which has been struggling recently: Predictions say that Venice may be underwater by 2100, and increasing tourism threatens to overwhelm normal Venetian life. “I have seen the city change dramatically over that time, and was inspired to create a vibrant artwork aiming to unite Venetians and visitors to celebrate the cultural and maritime history of the city, and call attention to the forces of climate change and mass tourism that threaten its future,” says McGill. —Claudia Larsen Photo by Jonathan Hoare

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