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Kaatsbaan Teases Spring Season Highlights The 153-acre Kaatsbaan Cultural Park in Tivoli will kick off its outdoor spring festival in May. The more than 20 presentations scheduled to hit Kaatsbaan s two outdoor stages include performances by the American Ballet Theatre, the Mark Morris Dance Group, Yannick Lebrun from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; Maria Kowroski, Ask la Cour, and Gonzalo Garcia from the New York City Ballet; pianist Hunter Noack, punk legend Patti Smith; and many more. The multi-disciplinary festival will also feature dance performances, concerts, and panel discussions with poets, authors, and world-renowned culinary artists.
Gospel Music History Series Goes Live
‘Mass incarceration’, a phrase that has gained much purchase in the last two decades, features prominently in the title of ‘Marking Time’ and a book published by Harvard University Press. Both are the culmination of more than ten years of effort by Nicole R. Fleetwood, Professor of American Studies and Art History at Rutgers University. Describing a phenomenon that began in the late 1960s – in which the prisons system ballooned exponentially – the term ‘mass incarceration’ is sometimes poorly interpreted, taken to mean that the problem is only one of scale or degree, not of kind. Today, many are convinced that there are too many prisons and too many people in them; far too few are convinced that there should be no prisons at all.
Genesis Belanger’s Scrumptious Last Supper
At The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, the artist s series of stoneware works offer a feminist critique of domestic life under the unmistakable presence of death
I’ve never wanted to put an artwork in my mouth more than Genesis Belanger’s stoneware devilled eggs. I think she’d accept that as a compliment – or at least feel that I’d fathomed the spirit of her delicate sculptures of victuals. What is it about the hard candy shell of her unglazed porcelain vegetables that suggests a bubble-gum interior? What is it about the splatter of white marbling on pink haunches, peering out from beneath browned skin, that makes you want to befoul the sweet dinner ham? Belanger’s ceramic smorgasbord presents an inoffensive spread, but it solicits the depraved desire latent within a certain manufactured, tame domesticity.
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American poet Amanda Gorman reads a poem during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 20. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool) RIDGEFIELD, CT When the nation s first-ever youth poet laureate read her work, The Hill We Climb, at the presidential inauguration on Jan. 20, poetry had a moment. Amanda Gorman was only the sixth poet in U.S. history to read their verse at a presidential inauguration, and at age 22, the youngest by far. By the end of the day, her two books of poems had rocketed to the top of Amazon s Bestsellers List