Arts & Leisure

Brigitte Pasternak spends her professional life in a Grandview-on-Hudson studio attached to her home, pursuing a craft brought to perfection in...

Rebecca Martin approaches community work the way she makes music: intuitively, with a lot of smarts, dedication and hard work.

Yuval H. Marcus has spent much of his life looking at the world through one eye – the one trained on...

Winston Churchill was once said to have remarked that golf is “a game whose aim is to hit a very small...

On Saturday, July 21, Richard Wagner aficionados will settle into their seats at New York City’s Metropolitan Opera House for the...

In the fall of 2005, the board of Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) approached the Bardavon, a historic theater in Poughkeepsie,...

Ulster County has long been a magnet for people who crave creative ferment as much as a connection with nature.

Judy Stadt’s childhood heroes were 1940s darlings, legendary Judy Garland and her smitten sidekick, Mickey Rooney.

“The arts lost 8 percent of America’s philanthropic pie over the last five to seven years,” Dutchess County Arts Council President...

“Anything that keeps me from kayaking is the work of the devil,” Robert MacFarlane says.

Kingston’s waterfront boasts two museums, several galleries and an arts center, specialty shops, restaurants and cafes, and docks that are lined...

George and Nancy Donskoj are among the small core of artists who moved to Kingston’s waterfront Rondout district 20 years ago...

“What do you do with a master’s in art?” Nino Novellino asks.

Roger Busch threw his energy into photography too late to have a shot at joining Margaret Bourke-White as the lone Fairfield...

Two months after the Great Depression began, it is doubtful Alan Gerry’s parents were contemplating their  newborn son would one day...