Friday, May 17, 2013

2013 Seligmann Center Events

 

November 8, 2013
JANET HAMILL & LOST CEILINGS
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 8PM
SELIGMANN CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Come enjoy the poetry, music, wine and nibbles
FREE (donations appreciated)
Sponsored by The Orange County Citizens Foundation (www.occf-ny.or/bebpages/Calendar/indes.aspx)
The Seligmann Center for the Arts (www.kurtseligmann.org)
and Poets & Writers (www.pw.org)
 23 White Oak Dr., Sugar Loaf, Ny  10981
(845) 469-9459


June through October, 2013
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.

August 23, 2013        Surreal Cabaret in Sugar Loaf – One Night Only!
The third Surreal Cabaret featured a series of short performances by local artists.  Acts crossed genres, mixing poetry, drama, dance, and music while featuring conceptual play, experimentation, and improvisation.  
As food and drink were barred from the space during the remarkable New York Collection for Stockholm show, audience members were able only to mime sipping absinthe. 
The program opened with a benediction from Surrealist chaplain Lama Swine Toil. Producers of the performances to follow are Dan Adreana, Michael Sean Collins, Anne Hanson, Jennifer Kraus, Chloe Roe, Steve Roe, and William Seaton.  Musical interludes and a longer selection will be provided by John Korchuk’s Artcrime ensemble.

The event is part of an ongoing series of exhibits, readings, lectures, and workshops presented by the Seligmann Center for the Arts.  Kurt Seligmann was a Surrealist artist who lived in Sugar Loaf, and the Center offers a rare Hudson Valley venue for avant-garde painters, writers, and performers.



June 9, 2013      Eighteen Hour Performance of Satie's Vexations  


May 31, 2013























April 26, 2013      The films of Babette Mangolte   

March 22, 2013    The films of Peter Hutton 

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 

March 14, 2013


February 22, 2013  

The films of Jack Smith
 

  




















January 25, 2013 
Picasso and Braque Go To The Movie
Seth Goldman will introduce and discuss.      NYT Comments