Saturday and Sunday, July 30 – 31, over twenty artists in Andes, Margaretville and Roxbury area (AMR, for short) will open their studios to the public, and show their working spaces. During the tour, artists working in all media will talk about their styles and techniques, and the process of making art. Launched in 2012, AMR has been a great success, attracting a large number … Continue reading Featured Destination: AMR Open Studios Tour 2016
The annual Phoenicia Art Tour, formerly known as the Shandaken Art Tour, takes place this weekend Sat and Sun, July 16 – 17. Close to thirty artists participate, opening their studios to the public and making demonstrations. Concurrent art exhibitions take place at the Arts Upstairs Gallery in Phoenicia and the Catskill Interpretive Center (CIC) in Mt. Tremper, among other places. Start your tour at … Continue reading This Weekend: Phoenicia Art Tour
Raining Poetry in Roxbury, a project of Roxbury General and Writers in the Mountains © 2016 artinthecatskills.com Continue reading Raining Poetry in Roxbury
This weekend: Jupiter String Quartet performs at Maverick Concert Hall; A traditional Sidewalk Festival takes place in Roxbury; And, Stagecoach Run Art Festival celebrates its 21st anniversary. Read more at Upstater.com. Happy Independence Day! Continue reading Weekend in the Catskills – 7/01/2016
This weekend: A Feast for Bards: Farm to Table Poetics at The Poetry Barn in West Hurley; Escher String Quartet at Maverick Concert Hall, also in West Hurley; And Gorgeous Color & Dramatic Light in Landscape workshop with Robert Carsten at the Woodstock School of Art. Read more at Upstater.com. Continue reading Weekend in the Catskills – 6/24/2016
Fenimore Art Museum is located in a monumental Neo-Georgian (also known as Neo-Colonial) mansion built in the 1930s on the shores of the Otsego Lake in Cooperstown. It was built on the site of James Fenimore Cooper’s 19th century farmhouse. The town itself was founded by Cooper’s father, Judge William Cooper. Cooper is best known for the Leatherstocking series, which includes novels such as The … Continue reading Featured Destination: Fenimore Art Museum
This weekend: Playing Mozart as Mozart Would Have Played Mozart at the Doctorow Center for the Arts in Hunter; Poetry with Geoffrey O’Brien, editor-in-chief of Library of America, at Cross Contemporary Art Gallery in Saugerties – Ellen Kozak’s oil paintings are currently on view; And a tour of the Woodstock area gardens. Learn more at Upstater.com. Continue reading Weekend in the Catskills – 6/17/2016
This weekend: Livingston Manor is celebrating its 13th Annual Trout Parade; The Center for Photography at Woodstock is hosting The Art of Prepress for Photobooks, a workshop taught by John Mannion; And Upstate Films in Woodstock is screening Life, Animated directed by Academy award-winning director Roger Ross Williams. Read more at Upstater.com. Continue reading Weekend in the Catskills – 6/10/2016
When Adams’ Antiquarian Books opened its doors in Hobart in 2002, who would have thought that this tiny Catskills village would become an international destination in such a short span of time? Featured in prestigious publications like The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Guardian in the UK, and just recently mentioned in a USA Today travel article, Hobart has increasingly become a brand … Continue reading Featured Destination: Hobart, The Book Village of the Catskills
This weekend: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in Bohemian Paris opens at Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown; The Woodstock – New Paltz Memorial Day Arts and Crafts Fair takes place at the Ulster County Fairgrounds; And Grammy award-winning musician Jon Cleary and the Monster Gentlemen perform at the West Kortright Centre in East Meredith. Read more at Upstater.com. Continue reading Memorial Day Weekend in the Catskills – 5/27/2016
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