“Chronostasia: Select Acquisitions 2020-2025”
Through February 1 at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center in Poughkeepsie
Comprised of over 60 artworks acquired by the center’s collection, this exhibition at the Vassar College campus museum focuses on a theme of “temporality through return, inheritance, motion, and seriality…[and] broaden the museum’s holdings across media, histories, and geographies.”
“On Everest”
October 11-November 9 at Front Room Gallery in Hudson
This series of stunning portraits and landscapes was created by photographer Sasha Bezzubov between 2016 and 2024 during his multiple treks through the Everest region of Nepal. Also documented are the lives of the porters who carry supplies across the beautiful but dangerous land.
“Ghosts, Mother’s Milk, and Other Stories”
October 11-November 23 at Hudson Hall in Hudson
Corinne May Botz’s photographs probe the uncanny in everyday spaces—haunted houses, miniature crime scenes, medical simulations, lactation rooms—where domesticity and power collide. Spanning two decades, this survey reveals her sustained focus on gender, the body, and hidden narratives, transforming interiors into charged sites of memory, mystery, and unsettling resonance.
“Present Tense: Past Participle”
October 18-November 16 at 68 Prince Street Gallery in Kingston
Douglas Navarra layers time itself, drawing on antique papers and shaping clay vessels that converse with history’s stains and creases. His marks transform memory into present gesture, where fragile pages and enduring pots whisper tradition while breathing renewed possibility—objects alive with echoes of the past and immediacy of now.
“It’s Just a Matter of Time”
Ongoing on billboards across the region
Motorists across the Hudson Valley have noticed cryptic new billboards reading, “It’s just a matter of time.” The stark text-on-black design is part of an installation by late Cuban-American conceptual artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957-1996), whose pared-down provocations invite us to meditate on mortality and meaning while waiting for the next red light. Originally created during the AIDS crisis, the piece has reappeared regionally in multiple locations this fall.
“Susan Carr: To Bring You My Love”
Through November 16 at LABspace in Hillsdale
This seventh solo exhibition by Carr at the Eastern Columbia County artist-run gallery presents a new crop of her highly colorful oil-on-canvas folk-art-evoking creations. On October 5 at 2pm, the artist herself will visit the facility for a public conversation with poet and critic John Yau.
“Faraday Cage”
Through late November at 1049 Samsonville Road in Kerhonkson
This immersive multimedia installation by Brooklyn street artist RAE BK opened in August at an isolated house in one of Ulster County’s most rural sectors. A surreal reflection of modern consumerism and isolationism, it’s set to disappear with next month’s demolition of the structure.
“Jean Shin: Bodies of Knowledge”
Through December 6 at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art in New Paltz
Made from the landfill-bound materials of contemporary consumption—outdated cellphones, now-incompatible device cables and battery chargers, fast-fashion textiles—Shin’s sculptures function as “carrier[s] of worldviews and that which estranges us from our own ecology.”
“Exploring Calvin and Hobbes”
Through December 31 at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown
Culled from original pieces housed at Ohio State University, this display features over 3,000 drawings, panels, and other items related to cartoonist Bill Watterson’s beloved 1980s/’90s comic strip about a philosophizing six-year-old boy and his semi-imaginary toy tiger friend.
“Kinship and Community”
Through January 11 at CPW in Kingston
Culled from the Texas African American Photography Archive, this collection of rare, poignant images puts the lens on the work of Black community photographers working in urban neighborhoods in Dallas and Houston and small towns in East Texas from 1942 to 1984.
“Picnic”
Through January 17 at the International Museum of Dinnerware Design in Kingston
An evocative feast for the eyes, “Picnic” at IMoDD gathers new and historic tableware under one theme—meals in bloom, spread on cloths in parks, streamsides, beaches. From ceramics, sculpture, glass, paper, fiber, and found objects, artists riff on atmosphere, ritual, nostalgia—transforming simple dishes into poetic, portable celebrations.
“Shadow Visionaries: French Artists Against the Current, 1840–1870”
December 20-March 8 at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts
“Shadow Visionaries” examines artists who pushed back against academic norms and popular taste—rejecting convention through subject, style, or politics. Rich with drawings, prints and paintings, it traces tensions between tradition and innovation, spotlighting the hidden margins that shaped modernity in the work of Charles Meryon, Rodolphe Bresdin, and a roster of early French photographers.
“Jazz Age Illustration”
Through April 6 at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Works by Aaron Douglas, John Held Jr., and Frank E. Schoonover are among renowned artists anthologized in this show organized by the Delaware Art Museum. The exhibit includes more than 120 paintings and drawings originally published in periodicals and books circa 1919-1942.
This article appears in October 2025.
