Hudson River Museum Modernizes the Gilded Age

Hudson River Museum Modernizes the Gilded Age

Through May 13, Hudson River Museum presents more than twenty artists whose works are inspired by aesthetics of the 19th-century Victorian era but also comment on contemporary social issues. The Neo-Victorians: Contemporary Artists Revive Gilded-Age Glamour is largely referential of the Gilded Age, masking reflections of today’s concerns with overt…

ArtsWestchester News in Brief

ArtsWestchester News in Brief

ArtsWestchester Opens Healing Arts Exhibition at Memorial Sloan Kettering ArtsWestchester recently launched On the Horizon, its third exhibition collaboration with Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester (MSK). This exhibition, on view in the Lower Concourse and upper waiting room of the facility, displays familial landscapes by five New York and Connecticut artists….

Six Artists Explore Portraiture in Pelham Art Center Exhibition

Six Artists Explore Portraiture in Pelham Art Center Exhibition

Pelham Art Center explores the art of portraiture in its latest exhibition, Near to You. The group exhibition, on view through March 24, features the portraits of six artists who share their challenging approaches to the genre. Works on view will ask the viewers to contemplate whether portraits reveal the…

Destined for Destruction, Paintings Find Their Way From Garage to Gallery

Destined for Destruction, Paintings Find Their Way From Garage to Gallery

Recluse artist Arthur Pinajian didn’t find much commercial success during his life. Years later, however, he became a highly valued artist when his work was salvaged before its destruction. Better late than never, according to Concordia College’s OSilas Gallery in Bronxville. The Gallery is showcasing the artist’s work in a…

The Clay Art Center Embraces its Community
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The Clay Art Center Embraces its Community

Although the creation of functional pottery vessels began around 10,000 B.C, people began fashioning clay figurines as early as 24,000 B.C.  This makes ceramics perhaps the oldest, most elemental art form: earth, plus water, hardened by fire. Westchester County is home to an established and well-recognized center for the creation…

Irvington Town Hall Theater Celebrates Black History Month

Irvington Town Hall Theater Celebrates Black History Month

Irvington Town Hall Theater will celebrate Black History Month on February 24 with 4th Wall Theatre’s production of for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf. In a one-night-only presentation of the Tony- and Grammy Award-nominated play, twenty poems about love, loss, struggle and empowerment are…

Artist Carla Rae Johnson Imagines the Unlikely Gatherings of Creative Figures

Artist Carla Rae Johnson Imagines the Unlikely Gatherings of Creative Figures

Westchester Community College (WCC)’s Fine Art Gallery in Valhalla presents a series of works by artist Carla Rae Johnson through March 10. The exhibition title, Séance, references a meeting during which participants attempt to communicate with spirits. The exhibition aptly pairs unlikely creative figures from different points in history and…

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