Hymie Reher titled it his “Sunday List”— the orders for his rolls consisting of dozens of names jotted down on a folded brown paper bag. The scribbled-upon piece of paper (which might have been written by Hymie’s brother or one of his four sisters) evokes the rush of getting out the orders mingled with the pre-dawn fragrance of rolls baking in the oven: some names are followed by numbers, some are crossed out or circled. It’s the kind of detritus your mother would have thrown out, but fortunately, Geoffrey Miller is not your mother.
“I really love words,” said Zoe Bellot. A native Parisian who was drawn to the US while studying American literatures at the Sorbonne, she has made art objects incorporating language since childhood. But not until spending a year in New York City doing researching for a Ph.D. did she decide to drop out of academia and become a full-time artist.
The retrospective of Andres Serrano’s work at The School, the spectacular exhibition space established by Chelsea gallery owner Jack Shainman in Kinderhook, is a rare event, given that the artist’s work is shown far more frequently overseas than in the U.S. “I’m a person non gratis in my own country,” said Serrano, who attracted instant fame in 1987 for Piss Christ, a photograph of a plastic crucifix submerged in urine, which helped spur the culture wars.
Here’s some fast facts on the proposed Pilgrim Pipeline: It would stretch 178 miles from Albany to Linden, New Jersey, and convey up to 400,000 gallons a day of crude oil, the volatile product of fracked natural gas from the Bakken Shield in North Dakota. Forty-one of those miles would go through Ulster County…
Stacked on shelves in a storage room at the Allways Moving & Storage facility on Grand Street is an unusual archives: more than 200 cardboard boxes filled with scores, notebooks, tapes, audio mixers, and other material that belonged to electroacoustic pioneer and sound installation artist Maryanne Amacher, who died in 2009.
