Editor’s letter
Our annual arts issue says it with music as many of our stories consider the soundtrack of our lives and history.
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The “A” word
“Amazon” – as in the river that snakes through South America and the idea of bold women – is having a moment in our area, spotlighting a word and a concept, powerful females, that have been fraught for Western civilization.
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Time of renewal
With his passion for art, architecture and science, Robert Wolterstorff, the new Susan E. Lynch executive director and CEO of Greenwich’s Bruce Museum, would seem the right man to oversee its renovation and expansion.
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On their toes
Port Chester’s Ballet des Amériques celebrates the universality of dance and unity of all the arts, says artistic director/choreographer Carole Alexis.
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Women on the verge
“Six,” a blockbuster talent show of a musical about the resilient wives of Henry VIII, prepares for Broadway.
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The sound of movies
We tend to think of movies as visual. But the Jacob Burns Film Center is teaming with the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts to shine a trending spotlight on movie soundtracks.
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In tune with history
Musician and academic Christopher Brellochs shares the adventures of his “Music of the Gilded Age in the Hudson Valley” sabbatical, when he explored the area’s rich history through the music that might have been played during the period’s glory days.
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Fashion’s bad boy
You won’t find John Galliano’s anti-Semitic scandal in “John Galliano for Dior,” a sumptuous tome by Thames & Hudson that keeps the focus on the fashion.
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Creative spark
Longtime fiber artist Karen Madden is sparked by a new creative direction – working in metal
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Artful living
Eleish van Breems Design, the Westport studio known for promoting an artful Nordic aesthetic, expands its reach with Eleish van Breems Home. This new retail shop just around the corner offers home furnishings, antiques, décor and gifts.
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Celebrating the sea
One of the most highly anticipated art exhibitions to open this fall is “J.M.W. Turner: Watercolors From Tate,” comprising 90 works by the British artist – including paintings that have never been shown on the side of the Atlantic. And Mystic Seaport has got them.
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Hey! stuff ‘Crappens’
Katonah native Ben Mandelker was a comedy writer driving for Uber. Then his podcast with fellow funnyman Ronnie Karam, “Watch What Crappens,” happened.
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Timely matters
At the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, executive director Cybele Maylone takes up the challenge of presenting the best in today’s art.
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A coffee roaster extraordinaire
Bean there, done that – Jeremy Wayne smells the coffee in Port Chester.
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Splendor at water’s edge in Old Greenwich
The love of the sea — and a house by the sea — knows no season, as demonstrated by this exhilarating Old Greenwich home,…
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Art as healing
Meghan Spiro is a Hudson Valley photographer whose “day job” is working as a commercial photographer and designer. But her artistry continues beyond the workday. Spiro uses her own time to explore social issues ranging from conservation to domestic violence.
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Simply nuts
In a nutshell, Noomi organic peanut butter is designed to go beyond the taste buds and help you create your best life.
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Keeping face
Sisley Paris, the luxe French beauty line with American headquarters in White Plains, keeps upping its game with new skin, hair and makeup products.
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Living with art
“Art, in its many forms, brings life to living,” says WAG’s Wares columnist Cami Weinstein, and that is especially true in the home.
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The art of ceramics
Few ceramic artists were more driven than the 19th century’s Hugh C. Robertson.
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