Eve’s Empandas – The Art of the Empanada
The Art of the Empanada A light dusting of flour goes onto the work surface before Eve brings out the dough. With a small scoop in hand, Eve begins portioning the filling and shaping each pastry. The kitchen is warm today, which can make the dough difficult to handle....
1053 Gallery: Melissa Murray: “Light Lives as an Animal”
Light Lives as an Animal is a body of night paintings rooted in the forests of the Catskills, where native plants and animals emerge through darkness guided by instinct, memory, and subtle illumination. She paints observation, intuition, and lived experience,...
Leo Koening Gallery : Gloria McLean. – Convergence – July 10th -July 11th 2026
CONVERGENCE: Two Evenings of Dance at Leo Koenig Gallery, Andes, New York by Choreographer and Dancer Gloria McLean. Gloria McLean is an Internationally recognized dancer and choreographer in the modern dance Traditions of Martha Graham, Erick Hawkins, and Doris...
Lali and the Pops – a profile
Lali and the Pops is a multi-genre 5-to-6-piece band based in the Catskills region of New York. They blend swing, pop-rock, and country music, performing a mix of old standards, familiar covers, and original tunes. You can check out updates and clips on their...
Meghan Barter Brings Key West Warmth to Three Catskills Stages
On the final Friday of the Andes Hotel’s Cans & Clams summer series, the flowers throughout the courtyard were in full bloom following a week that alternated between rain showers and sunshine. The weather provided a fitting welcome for Meghan Barter, a...
Isaac Abrams: From Psychedelic Art Pioneer to Saugerties Studio
by Robert Brune Isaac Abrams has spent more than six decades creating a visual world where brilliant color, surreal forms and an unrestrained imagination seem to move freely between the microscopic and the cosmic. During the Saugerties Artists Studio Tour,...
Jenny’s Candy Shop Brings a World of Sweets to Margaretville
Margaretville became a little sweeter Thursday with the opening of Jenny’s Candy Shop, the newest addition to the village’s growing collection of locally owned businesses. Jenny and Soren Rhodes said opening a candy shop had been something they dreamed about for...
AMR: Kenjiro Kitage Ceramic Artist
ARTIST STATEMENT From natural cold earth to gleaming high-fire surfaces, clay is the ancient anatomic medium. It is the medium in which time stands still, ideas are frozen, and yet a civilization is represented for all eternity. By working in clay, I have been...
Ken Hiratsuki: Sculptor
Sculptor Ken Hiratsuka was born in 1959 in Shimodate City, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. He graduated in 1982 from Musashino University of Art in Tokyo. In the same year, Hiratsuka came to New York City, received a fellowship from the Art Students League, and...
Fred Woller – Fleischmanns, NY Artist
SuddenIy, now that I find myself in my eighties, everything I’ve learned in the past, seems to be coming together. Over the years I have finally found a medium with which I feel very comfortable. After my high school art teacher entered a painting of mine into...