OPENINGS & EVENTS
Art Associates Gallery, 21 Railroad Ave., Albany. "Upstate Artists Guild Member Show." 518-459-1307. Showing works in a wide variety of mediums from members and supporters of the Upstate Artists Guild. Opens Saturday with reception from 5-9 p.m. Artist reception also 5-9 p.m. Dec. 3. Through Dec. 31. All Covid guidelines will be followed. Regular gallery hours: noon-6 p.m. Monday-friday. Saturdays and Sundays by appointment only. The Clark Art Institute, 25 South St., Williamstown, Mass. “Competing Currents: 20th-century Japanese Prints.” clarkart.edu. Includes more than thirty-five works and considers two specific movements that had a significant influence on twentiethcentury printmaking in Japan. Opens Friday. Through Jan. 30.
MUSEUMS
Albany Institute of History & Art, 125 Washington Ave., Albany. “Romancing the Rails: Train Travel in the 1920s and 1930s.” albanyinstitute.org. Objects and library materials from the Albany Institute’s railroad collections, including rare photographs, posters, locomotive models and objects designed for New York Central’s 20thcentury limited railroad. Through February. Also, “Nineteenth-century American Sculpture: Erastus Dow Palmer and His Protégés Launt Thompson, Charles Calverley and Richard Park.” Ongoing. Also, “The Hudson River School: Landscape Paintings from the Albany Institute Collection.” Ongoing. Also, Fashionable Frocks of the 1920s. Through Jan. 2.
American Italian Heritage Museum, 1227 Central Ave, Albany. “Dante 700.” An exhibit marking the 700th anniversary of the death of the Italian poet, prose writer, literary theorist, philosopher and political thinker. Also, “American Italian Heritage Museum 25th Birthday.” Photos and documents celebrating the museum’s milestone. Through November.
The Clark Art Institute, 25 South St., Williamstown, Mass. Anne Thompson: Trail Signs. clarkart.edu. The artist will use the existing infrastructure of trail kiosks on and around the museum campus for a rotating installation of her abstract posters featuring bold, blackand-white symbols. Through Dec. 31. The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College. Ellsworth Kelly: Postcards. skidmore.edu/tang. The first survey of collaged postcards created by Ellsworth
Kelly (1923—2015), one of the most important American artists of the 20th century. Through Nov. 28. Also, “Opener 33: Sarah Cain — Enter the Center.” The Los Angeles—based artist explores and expands upon traditional ideas of painting. Through Jan. 2. Also, “Look After Each Other: Intimacy and Community.” The online, studentcurated exhibition features work by artists, activists and documentarians who show the human side of life with HIV/AIDS beyond a medical diagnosis, revealing moments of intimacy, care and friendship. Also, “Un-representation.” As a response to centuries-old racialized injustices, the exhibition seeks to provide a space of healing for Black communities and features works by Sanford Biggers, Lisa Corinne Davis and Jack Whitten. Also, Lauren Kelley: Location Scouting. Kelley, an artist and curator, will reshape the Tang’s mezzanine by combining meditations on travel with snapshots of everyday life in her drawings, sculpture and stopmotion animation videos.
The Hyde Collection, 161 Warren St., Glens Falls. Georgia O’keeffe: Pattern
of Leaves. hydecollection.org. On loan from The Phillips Collection, the exhibit celebrates O’keeffe’s long and intimate association with Lake George and the Adirondacks. The painting is on view in Hoopes Gallery.
The JRM Artists’ Space at The National Bottle Museum, 76 Milton Ave., Ballston Spa. The 2021 Adirondacks Show: “Camp.” Twelve artists have come together to share their “camp” experience. Through Nov. 13. MASS MOCA, 1040 MASS MOCA Way, North Adams, Mass. “Glenn Kaino: In The Light of a Shadow.” The exhibition, featuring a series of immersive installations, reflects on the legacies of two “Bloody Sundays” in order to explore the global interdependence of social justice. Also, “Close to You.” A group exhibition that gathers the work of artists who probe the capacity of the visual arts to conjure feelings of closeness — both to others and to ourselves. Features the work of Laura Aguilar, Chloë Bass, Maren Hassinger, Eamon Ore-giron, Clifford Prince King and Kang Seung Lee. Through January. Also, James Turrell:
C.A.V.U. massmoca.org. Thirty years in the making, Turrell’s largest freestanding circular Skyspace — titled C.A.V.U. — measures 40 feet in diameter and 40 feet high. Also, Shaun Leonardo: You Walk... An interactive installation by the Brooklyn-based multi-disciplinary artist featuring a series of visual and textual prompts — drawing from themes present in exhibitions on view throughout the museum — to invite us to consider how we process and embody space, ideas, and connectivity. Also, Taryn Simon: “The Pipes.” Large-scale outdoor sculpture. Also, “Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen?” Pendleton transforms the Marron Atrium into a dynamic arena exploring Blackness, abstraction, and the avantgarde. In his monumental floor-toceiling installation, Pendleton has created a spatial collage of text, image, and sound—a total work of art for the 21st century.
New York State Museum, 222 Madison Ave., Albany. Thomas Hart Benton. nysm.nysed.gov/exhibitions/ online. In 1956, Thomas Hart Benton was commissioned by Robert Moses, chairman of the New York Power Authority, to create two murals for the powerhouse building of the state’s first hydropower facility in Massena. They feature Jacques Cartier’s explorations of the St. Lawrence River and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Alternately titled “The Seneca Discover the French and Jacques Cartier Discovers the Indians,” the murals depict the 16th-century encounters from two points of view. Through December.
Norman Rockwell Museum ,9 Glendale Road, Stockbridge, Mass. “Freedom’s Legacy.” https://www.nrm.org. A series of four 1943 oil paintings each representing the four freedoms - Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear.
University Art Museum, University at Albany, 1400 Washington Ave., Albany. Well/being: An Exhibition on Healing and Repair. https://www.albany.edu/museum. Artwork that addresses the complexities of daily life during this pandemic era. Also, I’ll Be Your Mirror. The exhibition explores mediated representations of self in the newly launched Collections Study Gallery. Features artwork by Andreas Feininger, Katria Foster, Rachel Foullon, Jenny Kemp, Mary Ellen Mark, Dave Mckenzie, Edward Steichen and Andy Warhol. Through Dec. 11.