Film Series Friday, May 31 7:30

Spring 2013 UPCOMING

Two New Videos about the Seligmann Center        25 seconds!            a bit longer!

Hey!  see you at the movies on Friday Night??!!

April 26   7 pm    Last Friday Films :  The films of Babette Mangolte
June 9      Performance of Satie's Vexations 
June 15    Re-Presentation of  the notorious NY Collection in Stockholm

In the early 1970s, the New York-based group Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), looked to put together a collection of some of the most important American art of the 1960s, with the aim of donating it to a public museum. They chose 30 works in a variety of media and selected the Moderna Museet in Stockholm as the recipient because of its strong history of support for American contemporary art. To help raise the funds necessary for these acquisitions, E.A.T. solicited each of the artists slated for the collection for a print as part of a portfolio, which was sold in an edition of 300. This exhibition includes the complete portfolio, which features works by the following artists: Lee Bontecou, Robert Breer, John Chamberlain, Walter de Maria, Jim Dine, Mark di Suvero, Öyvind Fahlström, Dan Flavin, Red Grooms, Hans Haacke, Alex Hay, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Morris, Louise Nevelson, Kenneth Noland, Claes Oldenburg, Nam June Paik, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, James Rosenquist, George Segal, Richard Serra, Keith Sonnier, Richard Stankiewicz, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol and Robert Whitman.

Try Out Surrealism!

Exquisite Corpse: At Play with Surrealist Games, presented by Janet Hamill

Have fun breaking through conventional thought and behavior to a deeper truth by using the provocative parlor games of the original Surrealist poets and artists. First invented and played by Breton, Magritte and Ernst, these games produce hilarity, mystery, profundity and enrich the imagination.  

This series of generative workshops is excellent for poets, artists, or anyone interested in spontaneity and the exploration of the subconscious. Learn about the Surrealists’ primary beliefs in objective chance and the certainty of hazard with language games, chain games, visual & text collage from a grab bag of tools intended to re-invent the world. Each meeting will begin with a brief discussion by Janet before the games begin. (Good for all ages, including young adults.)

Meets once a week on Thursdays from 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM. Workshop series runs from April 4 – May 9. Charge for each workshop is $25.00 per person.

Register at 845 469 9459

Robert Whitman Benefit Performance 3.14.13

Film Program, March 22, 7:30 pm

The films of Peter Hutton 
with an introduction and discussion with the filmmaker. 

Friday, March 22, 7:30 pm
Seligmann Center for the Arts, Sugar Loaf, NY
suggested donation $5



Peter Hutton (born 1944 in Detroit, Michigan) is an experimental filmmaker, known primarily for his silent cinematic portraits of cities and landscapes around the world. He has also worked as a professional cinematographer, most notably for his former student Ken Burns. Hutton studied painting, sculpture and film at the San Francisco Art Institute. He has taught filmmaking at CalArts, Hampshire College, Harvard University, SUNY Purchase, and Bard College, where he has served as the director of the Film and Electronic Arts Program since 1989. Hutton's films are distributed by Canyon Cinema in San Francisco. In May 2008 the Museum of Modern Art in New ork held a full retrospective of Hutton's films

Film Program, February 22

January Film Series: Picasso and Braque...

Robert Whitman has selected Picasso and Braque Go To The Movies for this month's film.
Seth Goldman will introduce and discuss.
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7 pm   Friday, January 25  Seligmann Center for the Arts 
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