Tag Archives: Circa 1986

Humanizing Objects

Humanizing Objects

Think of the smooth sensual shape of a Henry Moore sculpture, the cushiness of a soft Kid Robot designer toy and a cartoonish playfulness and you might want to tickle your way to the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Arts(HVCCA). There you’ll chuckle, and, at the same time, thoughtfully ponder, as I did, the funky […]

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Art, The Commodity

An extraordinary thing happened in the 1980s.  It seemed to come out of the blue.  The East Village gave birth to a rash of galleries in every imaginable nook and cranny…storefronts, apartments, even abandoned buildings.  That period in the annals of art history is explored in a new exhibition “Circa 1986” at the Hudson Valley […]

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