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Sunday, 28th
October 27 - December 2, 2018
What Is A Painting?
What Is A Painting. When photography came to prominence in the late 1800’s, it freed visual artists from making paintings as documentations of what people looked like (often, who was in power), what our environs had become or how far-away places were different than our familiar landscapes.With this new freedom came the opportunity to look at art in a more expansive way, which included thinking about how paint was applied, influences of “primitive” art and the effects of motion pictures in terms of different ways of perceiving, gathering and disseminating visual information.Witnessing the horrific brutality and devastation of two world wars gave rise to increased global anxieties, the formulation of existentialism as a philosophical movement and the combined weight of absurdity and chance. This fostered profound changes in how artists approached their self-portraits and later, exploring abstraction as a means of coming to terms with the new, modern world.In the 1960’s when pop art faded and minimalism took hold, our attentions shifted into object-centered or conceptually oriented three-dimensional works
October 26 - November 4, 2018
A Turn of the Screw
DOCTOROW CENTER FOR THE ARTS, VILLAGE OF HUNTER, NY
Come celebrate Halloween with the Kaaterskill Actors Theater at the Doctorow
October 19 - 28, 2018
The Predator
DOCTOROW CENTER FOR THE ARTS, VILLAGE OF HUNTER, NY
When a young boy accidentally triggers the universe’s most lethal hunters’ return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled scientist can prevent the end of the human race. “Shane Black’s The Predator is a fun, brutal, fighting machine that wastes no time getting down to business — not unlike its title character
October 19 - 28, 2018
The Bookshop
DOCTOROW CENTER FOR THE ARTS, VILLAGE OF HUNTER, NY
England 1959. In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop. “Its subversive undercurrent, embodied in fine performances by Emily Mortimer and Bill Nighy, is what makes it really interesting
October 26 - November 4, 2018
The House with a Clock in Its Walls
DOCTOROW CENTER FOR THE ARTS, VILLAGE OF HUNTER, NY
A young orphan named Lewis Barnavelt aids his magical uncle in locating a clock with the power to bring about the end of the world
October 26 - November 4, 2018
Juliet, Naked (AT THE ORPHEUM, TANNERSVILLE)
ORPHEUM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, VILLAGE OF TANNERSVILLE, NY
The story of Annie (the long-suffering girlfriend of Duncan) and her unlikely transatlantic romance with once revered, now faded, singer-songwriter, Tucker Crowe, who also happens to be the subject of Duncan’s musical obsession