Arts
By Robert Cairns on Tuesday, May. 12, 2015 - 7:31 am
Those attending the SUNY Delhi commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 16 will be greeted by a new addition to the campus – a 12-foot-tall sculpture of the school's bronco mascot logo, rendered in stainless steel.
The idea for the sculpture was crowd-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Apr. 10, 2015 - 10:13 am
Above: The former Methodist Church Hall in West Fulton hosts a day of festivities in West Fulton on Saturday, April 11. Photos courtesy of Panther Creek Arts.
The tiny Schoharie County hamlet of West Fulton doesn't have much in it aside from a few houses... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Tuesday, Apr. 7, 2015 - 11:04 am
Calling all Catskills artists: You’re invited to come play a Surrealist parlor game this spring.
Exquisite Corpse was an early 20th century favorite pastime for the likes of André Breton, Marcel Duchamp, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miro and Man Ray. It’s the visual... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 26, 2015 - 4:20 pm
Along with maple syrup and the first red blush of buds on the mountainsides, spring is bringing a bloom of new publications devoted to covering the culture, arts and lifestyle of the Catskills — through the eyes of flatlanders.
These days, urbanites are... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Mar. 26, 2015 - 1:32 pm
There’s a brand new outlet for creative provocateurs in the Catskills. Launched on Saturday, March 21, the first day of spring, Catskill Made is a “quarterly digital journal of artists and makers in the Catskills.”
Writer and editor Alecia Lynn Eberhardt... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 26, 2015 - 11:21 am
It's spring, sort of. It's freezing and there's still ice on the ground. The only thing you can do at the end of March, after six months of snow, is laugh.
The Open Eye Theater in Margaretville is hosting a comedy night this Saturday that doubles as a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 25, 2015 - 12:08 pm
The Belleayre Music Festival, which has been held at Belleayre Mountain Ski Center in the Ulster County hamlet of Highmount for 23 summers, will not happen in 2015, said Mel Litoff, the festival's executive and artistic director. It will return after a... Read more
By Janel Bladow on Tuesday, Mar. 17, 2015 - 9:59 am
Above: Caricatures of some of the writers who will attend this year's Woodstock Writers Festival, by John Cuneo.
The sixth annual Woodstock Writers Festival looks to be the biggest and best yet.
What started five years ago as a small gathering for people... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 12, 2015 - 3:34 pm
Above: Donna Lewis. Photo by Franco Vogt.
Donna Lewis, the singer who brought us "I Love You Always Forever," a single that was ever-present on the radio in 1996, is coming to Bearsville.
Lewis has a new album, "Brand New Day," that features her... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 6, 2015 - 4:38 pm
Above: "Mt. Utsayantha," taken from the top of the Mt. Utsayantha Fire Tower in Stamford by Christopher Mooney, the third-place winner of last year's 2014 Catskills Outdoor Guide Photo Contest.
The contest is closed! Check out all the entries on Facebook... Read more
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