When I think about theater in Westchester, my thoughts go to a small but powerful 150-seat theater in Pleasantville. Arc Stages always reminds me of the little engine that could. I guess that’s because, over the years that I have watched this theater grow, it’s always saying “I think I can, I think I can,” […]
Women’s work is sometimes admired but more often tends to be devalued. This is because it is frequently considered a domestic service. Artist Yohanna Roa wants to change that. In an effort to sort out and applaud the meaning of women’s work, she is installing a work of art in the Janet Langsam Vault Project […]
Why do we love ancestors? They spark our memory. They inspire us. Some give us power; others give us identity. Who are these people who our lives sometimes follow? According to artist Dennis Shelton, who conceived and curated an exhibition on the subject, an ancestor is anyone who influenced your life in a good way. In […]
“Everything is in limbo,” said artist Bruce Odland. He was of course talking about the exhibition “Between Two Worlds,” which he and his partner Soli Pierce are designing and installing at KinoSaito, a former school recently transformed into an arts space. Certainly, at the very least, he is referring to the installation that the pair […]
Artist Rosalie D. Gagne shows her “breathtaking” works at the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, New York now through December 22, 2024. Her work takes installation art into a new dimension, where she uses pulsating inflatables to mirror the ways in which respiratory and circulatory systems function. Her work suggests that there is a synergy […]
Janet Langsam, ArtsWestchester’s CEO Emerita, reflects on the legacy of Joe Delfino, the former mayor of the City of White Plains who recently passed away.
Bruce Odland is a music man. More precisely, he is a sound guy. By this, I mean he is in an astute listener to the sounds of nature – from the Hudson River to the fields of Croton to the voices of wind. His partner Soli Pierce is a forest person. By this I mean, […]
Good friends can be forever, even if you don’t see them very often. Many years have passed, perhaps 30, since sculptor Mark di Suvero and I had seen each other. So I was ecstatic when I recently visited his studio Space Time, for a brunch in Long Island City, Queens. The neighborhood borders Astoria, and both have […]
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