13 days ago by rah

Yesterday we had our first outside critique, or “crit” in the vernacular of the third-year charetting architecture student, at UnionDocs on a hastily assembled cut of our City Symphony Project. Our outside critics consisted of avant-garde filmmaker Mark Street; Benjamen Walker, the host of a radio s ...

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21 days ago by nelsonleith

Following up on the first installment of images that inspired the world of Ligan, and were used as graphics in the original online draft, here are more (modified) images with their original titles and artists identified. You may notice that this set also has an unidentified painting at the end; my o ...

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28 days ago by Cator Sparks

People always make fun of me for planning things so far in advance. Ill send a save the date two months ahead and an invitation a month ahead. Obviously these people simply aren’t as busy as I am. But Lucy is. We planned this trip in July to visit her parents in Kinderhook. With all her weddings to ...

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31 days ago by admin

I finally got around to buying Oxbow Archive, Joel Sternfeld’s latest monograph published by Steidl just last October. Good thing – it is almost sold out. I grew up in the Pioneer Valley and aside from the painting View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow , ...

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31 days ago by admin

I finally got around to buying Oxbow Archive, Joel Sternfeld’s latest monograph published by Steidl just last October. Good thing – it is almost sold out. I grew up in the Pioneer Valley and aside from the painting View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow , ...

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37 days ago by nelsonleith

Now that I’ve taken down most of The Ligan of the Disomus from the blog, and password-protected the second and third chapters, the paintings that complement(ed) the chapters and sections are inaccessible. Until now! (See below.) Trying to capture the “feel” of the world of Ligan, I scanned through t ...

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44 days ago by Kent E St. John

The Hudson River Valley is unique and it isn’t just its beauty captured by painters such as Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School, an American art movement from the mid-19th century. It is the Dutch fiber that still runs deep in the valleys and creeks, names from early 1600’s still can be ...

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52 days ago by Lauren

Actually, I'd like to dine from Lichtenstein. And Dali. It's a little known fact that both artists designed tableware, totally in-line with their respective aesthetics. Dali's fantastical flatware is a particularly heavenly concoction of silver doré, enamel, pearl, crystal, and sapphire. YUM. Who ne ...

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60 days ago by stevewinston

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SPOT IN THE WORLD? by STEVE WINSTON James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain all considered it one of the most beautiful spots in the world. On the map, it’s only two hours north of Manhattan. But, in reality, it’s a world away. The Kaaterskill Clo ...

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61 days ago by goingcoastal

The course of the Hudson River has defined American history, as two local exhibitions celebrating the quadricentennial of Henry Hudson’s 1609 voyage attest. Both exhibitions are organized into broad categories that speak of the river’s influence in terms of natural and human history, technological i ...

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