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Join us tonight at the opening of Designed to Dance: Dance Ink Magazine 1989-1996, an exhibition curated by VRC staff member Debra Klein. Founded by Patsy Tarr in 1989, Dance Ink Magazine was an avant-garde, quarterly  journal dedicated to contemporary dance.  Pairing kinetic type with dynamic photography, art director Abbot Miller accomplished the difficult task […]

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There are two upcoming Sunday Salons at the Thomas Cole House:  On March 6, David Bjelajac, Professor of Art and Human Sciences at George Washington University will speak on Thomas Cole, Freemasonry and the American Hercules. On April 3, Gay Myers & Lance Mayer, independent painting conservators based at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum, will […]

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Since moving to the Hudson River Valley four years ago, I have very much enjoyed working as a volunteer docent at the  home of Thomas Cole, the early 19th century artist who inspired the Hudson River School of landscape painters. I recommend the house tour for those interested in architecture and social history as well […]

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This past weekend, my friend and I were fortunate enough to acquire tickets to experience the Big Bambú, Doug and Mike Starn’s immense installation constructed from Georgian and South Carolinian bamboo poles and nylon twine sited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s rooftop garden. At the start of the tour, I couldn’t help feeling a […]

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