The Parrish Art Museum announces Kelly Taxter as next Director
Kelly Taxter joined the Jewish Museum in 2013 and was most recently the Barnett and Annalee Newman Curator of Contemporary Art, the Museums first endowed and named contemporary curator position. Photo: Jason Nocito.
WATER MILL, NY
.-The Parrish Art Museum announced that Kelly Taxter will be the next director of the Museum. The announcement was made by Mary E. Frank, President and Co-Chair of the Board of the prominent art museum, located in the Hamptons, on Eastern Long Island, NY. Taxter will assume her new role on March 22, joining a rising class of new, influential female museum leaders around the country.
Thrown Stone plans roving summer show around Ridgefield
Feb. 2, 2021
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Thrown Stone Theater Company co-artistic directors from left to right Jason Peck and Jonathon Winn eating ice cream at Ridgefield s, CT, famous Deborah Ann s Sweet Shoppe.Christopher Setter
In a world where nothing has been typical due to the COID-19 pandemic, Thrown Stone Theatre Company announced that the company will be operating differently for their 2021 season.
“With all that’s happened this past year, we felt a palpable need as citizens and neighbors to come together to write our next chapter,” Thrown Stone s co-artistic director Jason Peck said. “We enlisted the support of our local partners to create a theatrical experience that will be 100% compliant with public health guidelines.”
Thrown Stone Announces its 2021 Season Written by Thrown Stone
ONE UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE
three outdoor locations in Ridgefield, August 26 – September 12, 2021.
Commissioned as
performed in sequence at Keeler Tavern, The Aldrich, and West Lane Inn
as a single “roving production” (where the audience follows the action from location to location).
Three playwrights have been selected to explore the theme of
Press Preview:
Opens:
August 27, 2021 at 7pm
“With all that’s happened this past year, we felt a palpable need as citizens and neighbors to come together to write our next chapter,” said Co-Artistic Director Jason Peck, “so we enlisted the support of our local partners to create a theatrical experience that will be 100% compliant with public health guidelines.”
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January 27, 2021
Join Next City for the first of two virtual conversations in our series, “The Future of Monumentality,” as we examine the past, present, and future of public monuments from the unique intersection of art, design, and urbanism. The speaker series, moderated by New York Times critic Salamishah Tillet, is co-presented in partnership with the High Line.
In 2020 communities around the world protested the institutional racism of police violence toward Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people the same people who have experienced disproportionately devastating health effects and economic hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the most powerful symbols engaged by these protests has been the removal and defacing of monuments, as well as their use as focal points and backdrops for rallies, speeches, performances, and collections of protest signs. And as the disturbing insurrection in Washington, D.C., has shown, white supremacists continue to wield and deface monuments