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Sculpting the Future in Ossining

My guest blogger this week is Jonah Jeng, our talented Communications intern who also happens to be a terrific writer with a knack for analyzing art. He just finished his freshman year at the University of Rochester, where he’s double majoring in brain & cognitive science and film & media studies. I gave Jonah an […]

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Catch It Before It Closes

Larchmont Attorney Claire Meadow and her husband Mike have been friends of ArtsWestchester for many years.  They come to our events.  They volunteer at our gala.  They are generous to our organization. Recently, Claire wrote to me raving about our “Fish Tales” exhibit and I talked her into letting me post her words as my […]

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Light Matter

My guest blogger this week is Lynn Honeysett, Director of the Pelham Arts Center Venus is now passing in front of the sun – that once-in-a-century dot of a shadow traversing across our giant ball of life-giving light.  As if responding to a universal prompting, six contemporary artists currently exhibiting at Pelham Art Center’s Light […]

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Rising Dragon

The eyes of the world seem to be on Chongqing, where politics, corruption and art exist side by side. It was the municipality governed until recently by Bo Xilai, a prominent Chinese party official who was high up in the succession chain before his wealth and political ties became a notorious issue in the Chinese […]

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How to Become an Artist

Painting. Drawing.  Building.  Those were the tools Barry Mason practiced as a kid growing up in Snow Hill, Maryland. These were also the genesis of his sprawling shaped canvases which can be seen March 13th  through mid-June, 2012, at The Horizon at Fleetwood, a beautiful contemporary development with numerous amenities.  Mason’s work will be on […]

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Curator’s Choice

I never before saw a gold (actually brass) diaphragm, but there it was enshrined center stage at the Katonah Museum of Art winning first prize in Art to the Point, their juried show of artists’ works from around the region. This conceptual work is by Beacon artist Robert Brush who made it as part of […]

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Westchester Fish Tales

Although 2012 is the year of the dragon in the Chinese calendar, for ArtsWestchester it is the year of the Fish.  There are two reasons for this.  The first is that the Chinese believe that the fish brings in wealth, and we at ArtsWestchester hope they are right. We need an infusion of arts funding […]

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If the Face Had Wheels

The paintings are scary, unreal and grotesque. There are the imaginary people who consume their own bodies or parts thereof such as the “Face Eater.” There is the “Gouged Girl,” in which a girl picnics nonchalantly on the beach. Her face and body are partly singed. You might for a moment react in disgust to […]

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