The Rogovoy Report 2.27.23

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Feb 26, 2023

The Puzzling Gap Between How Old You Are and How Old You Think You Are

(The Atlantic) - Most of us don’t believe ourselves to be shorter or taller than we actually are. We don’t think of ourselves as having smaller ears or longer noses or curlier hair. Most of us also know where our bodies are in space, what physiologists call “proprioception.” Yet we seem to have an awfully rough go of locating ourselves in time. The gulf between how old we are and how old we believe ourselves to be can often be measured in light-years — or at least a goodly number of old-fashioned Earth ones.

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Artist Daniel Giordano draws inspiration from his family history and upbringing in Newburgh for his sculptures. Giordano recently exhibited his work at MASS MoCA (Michelle Falkenstein / ATU)

Hudson Valley Artist Daniel Giordano Gets Solo Show at MASS MoCA

(ATU) NORTH ADAMS, Mass. - Feb. 4 was the opening day for artist Daniel Giordano’s first solo museum show, “Love from Vicki Island,” at MASS MoCA in North Adams. Giordano buzzed around the sunlit galleries, cutting a mischievous figure in a black, fake-fur hat, a brown velvet jumpsuit made by his fashion-designer girlfriend Annie McCurdy, and blue shoes that look like feet, with separate slots for each toe. He stopped beside one of his sculptures. “Pleasure Pipe XIII (Jupiter Optimus Maximus)” (2019–2022) is a mashup of 34 seemingly unrelated materials, including Christmas ornaments, deep-fried batter, a deer jaw, paper plates, and railroad spikes, all wrapped in burnt plastic wrap and protruding from a gnarled wooden pipe, with small branches still attached. “When in doubt, I burn things,” said Giordano with a laugh.

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In 1859, artist Frederic Edwin Church braved 'Iceberg Alley' to get close to his subject matter. A small, winter exhibit at Olana, in Hudson, N.Y., gives insight into his landmark journey (Berkshire Eagle)

10x10 Festival at Barrington Stage Company is the start for new artistic director (WAMC)

Williamstown composer Stephen Dankner’s 21-years-old choral work ‘Isaiah 44: 21-23’ to finally get world premiere in Lenox (B Eagle)

Singer Eva Salina to bring Balkan Romani songs to Sheffield (B Eagle)

Shakespeare & Co’s 46th season is all about human resiliency (B Eagle)

Dave Brubeck’s ‘The Gates of Justice,’ a large-scale 1969 choral work about relations between Black and Jewish Americans, is being performed in Los Angeles, starring his sons (NYT) Also, Dave Brubeck’s ‘Gates of Justice’ is a prayer for healing (WSJ)

NEWS FROM THE BERKSHIRES

Robert Markey and Peter Vacchina carved a dragon from blocks of ice outside the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield as part of the annual 10x10 Upstreet Arts Festival in 2020. (photo Stephanie Zollshan/AP)

'I’d Heard Pittsfield Was Experiencing a Rebirth. So I Went and Saw for Myself.'

(Boston Globe) PITTSFIELD, Mass. - If you walk down North Street and cruise around Pittsfield, you’ll notice that the city has not been scrubbed of all its grittiness. But street art brings balance between Pittsfield’s past and future. The city’s Artscape Paintbox program, which turns unappealing utility boxes into canvases for local artists, is just one way that Pittsfield is digging itself out, painting over the problems of the past, giving the Berkshires another town worth visiting.

NEWS FROM THE HUDSON VALLEY

Designer Sheila Bridges shown in her office in Harlem. (Nick Carter/WaPo)

Hudson Designer Sheila Bridges Decorates Official Vice President’s Residence

(WaPo) WASHINGTON, DC - New York interior designer Sheila Bridges has designed the official vice president’s residence for Kamala D. Harris and Doug Emhoff, a year-long project finished at the end of 2022. “It’s an incredible honor,” says Bridges, 58, who in 2001 designed the Harlem offices of former president Bill Clinton and his staff. “This was an opportunity to celebrate American design and crafts and small artisans,” says Bridges. The goal, she says, was to create a space that felt like a family home, yet allowed the vice president and second gentleman to host events such as Diwali celebrations, military family receptions and Latino small-business owner gatherings.

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In just over two years, four bicyclists have been killed in Kingston. Why is Kingston so unsafe for cyclists? (The River)

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