UPSTATE ART WEEKEND promotes creative spaces in the Hudson Valley and provides a curated road map for those wanting to explore and enjoy art in the region.
“I Haven’t Felt This Optimistic for Quite Some Time’: Galleries Are Fleeing Manhattan for Upstate New York. Is It for Good? The inaugural Upstate Art Weekend is kicking off tomorrow in the Hudson Valley,” by Julie Baumgardner.
RVAC curator Candice Madey in conversation with New Art Dealers Association colleagues about RVAC’s exhibition ”Laura Kaufman: Tension Bridge” at the Al Held Foundation in Boiceville.
Alyson Baker and Candice Madey were invited to curate the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art’s annual summer Hudson Valley artists’ invitational exhibition. The title of the exhibition, Madness in Vegetables, cites the playful title of a poem by Francis Jammes, a French writer born in 1868 who is best known for his turn from the fashionable 19th c. Symbolist movement, instead drawing inspiration from the natural world and a rustic life far from the decadent center of Parisian literary circles.
Hosted by Buro Koray Duman, this salon serves as a charrette for the newly established River Valley Arts Collective (RVAC) and a discussion about how scale impacts the relevance and efficacy of contemporary arts institutions in an age of mega museums, multinational galleries, and the worldwide proliferation of art fairs.
Presenters: Alyson Baker and Candice Madey, River Valley Arts Collective, Hudson Valley, NY Moderator: Koray Duman, Buro Koray Duman