Vassar College News

The always-busy Beech Tree Grill, near Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, is one of my favorite local spots.

Need a break from all the flying sleighs and tra-la-la-ing cherubs that mark the onslaught of the fast-approaching holiday season - but still need to be humming a good song and entertaining family members? Rent, one of the brightest stars of the musical firmament of recent years, is getting a full-court-press treatment at Vassar College in ...

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art Linda Nochlin Consider the Difference: American Women Artists from Cassatt to Contemporary November 18 , 7 p.m. Smithsonian American Art Musuem Linda Nochlin, the Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts, pioneered the study of women and art ...

Susan Osborne is congratulated by former Mayor Matt Appelbaum after she was named Boulder's new mayor Tuesday.

Nicki Genovese is the new managing director of New York Stage and Film, the org that develops and new work from established and emerging legit and screen creatives.

Frances Lasker Brody, a philanthropist, arts advocate and collector who influenced the development of Los Angeles' cultural life as a founding benefactor of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and later as a guiding patron of the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Gardens in San Marino, has died.

Si Lewen begins his paintings as he sleeps. Images crowd his dreams until one rises above the rest to wake him and beg to be put on canvas.

New Yorker cartoonist, writer, on faculty at Vassar College. Books: Funny Ladies; Sex and Sensibility; Cartoon Marriage.

The Mediation Center of Dutchess County offers a 35-hour training Jan. 16, 17, 23 and 24 at Vassar College.

Disputes involving voting by homeless people and college students may have been addressed by judges Tuesday, but the same issues are bound to come up in the future, Dutchess County elections officials said today.

A discussion will follow. The event is free and open to the public. In Blue Dias , Stevens deals with confrontations of gender, class, religion, and science in 19th century England , given expression by the life, personality, and career of famed fossil collector Mary Anning amidst the changing times when Charles Darwin's theories first came to ...

When Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally sought to create their third Beach House album and Sub Pop debut , they faced great expectations.

The new Brooklyn Community Foundation - the first and only charitable organization of its kind in Brooklyn - is pleased to announce the addition of three new officers to the organization.

Max Kutner, a 2007 graduate of South Side High School who is a junior at Vassar College, was chosen to open for legendary folk singer Pete Seeger atA an Oct.

Hilary Ann Walker, formerly of Lewiston, will appear in "The Crucible" on a Boston stage in November.

Patty Thum was a popular and commercially successful Louisville painter when few women ventured into such independent careers.

By now, Sekou Jackson is used to the questions: Why does he need to leave a work meeting to pray? Don't black Muslims convert to Islam in jail? Why would you even want to be Muslim? "It's kind of a double whammy to be African-American and Muslim," said Jackson, who studies the Navy at the National Academy of Science in Washington.

Photo MIAMI, the acclaimed contemporary international fair of photo-based art, video, and new media, returns this December with an international roster of galleries from Canada, China, Germany, Italy, Spain, Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom and the U.S. Coinciding again with Art Basel Miami Beach , the fair, themed A Year of Magical Thinking , ...

New York City alt-rock band The Bravery, whose ominous third release Stir the Blood drops on Dec.

Simon Starling, film still, "Red Rivers ," 2009. POUGHKEEPSIE, NY.- Simon Starling, a conceptual artist and winner of the Tate Gallery's 2005 Turner Prize for Contemporary Art, will discuss his work in a lecture on Friday, October 30.