OPENINGS & EVENTS
minimoca518, Corner of Hudson Avenue and Adams streets, Delmar. “Sacred Space.” mohawkhudson.org/art. Local poet, artist and performer D. Colin’s exhibition explore the longing to inhabit a place that feels personally authentic and truly one’s own. minimoca518 is a miniature art gallery sited along the Albany County Helderberg-hudson Rail Trail. Opens Friday; reception 1-3 p.m. April 15. Through April 27.
Private Public Gallery , 530 Columbia St., Hudson. Stephen Maine: George Lawson - Snowman: Recent Paintings” privatepublicgallery.net. Curated by Chris Freeman. Opening reception 2-5 p.m. Saturday. Through April 8.
Winter Arts Fest, Albany Distilling Company Bar & Bottle Shop, Livingston Avenue, Albany. Noon-5 p.m. Saturday.albanycentergallery.org. A fundraiser for the Albany Center Gallery, the event features live art by local artists, music by DJ AYO, food specials, raffles and more.
Albany. "Beauty in the Ordinary” by Cynthis Romano. Oil and acrylic paintings. Through March.
Arkell Museum, 2 Erie Blvd., Canajoharie. “Thrown Together: Salt Glazed Stoneware from New York State and Vermont.” This exhibition celebrates salt glazed stoneware and sheds light on where these utilitarian objects were produced and by whom. Also, “Works on Paper: Homer, Hopper, Wyeth, and More from the Arkell Museum Collection.” Also, “Framing Art: Sargent, Inness, Whistler, and More from the Arkell Museum Collection.” Also, “The Walkway & Memorial Garden.” Ongoing. The Clark Art Institute, 225 South St., Williamstown, Mass. “Promenades on Paper: Eighteenth-century French Drawings from the Bibliothèque nationale de France.” The exhibition includes a selection of 84 studies, architectural plans, albums, sketchbooks, prints, and optical devices that expand our understanding of drawing as a tool of documentation and creation in the age of Enlightenment. Through March 12.
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College. “Parallax: Framing the Cosmos.” skidmore.edu/tang. The exhibition explores what our fascination with outer space reveals. Work includes scientific images, NASA photographs and contemporary art by Lisa Beck, Vija Celmins, Russell Crotty, Jed Lind, Giorgia Lupi, Josiah Mcelheny, Demetrius Oliver, Alice O’malley, Katie Paterson, Dario Robleto, Carrie Schneider and Alisa Sikelianos-carter. Through June 19. Also, “Lauren Kelley: Location Scouting. The artist and curator reshapes and combines meditations on travel with snapshots of everyday life in her drawings, sculpture and stopmotion animation videos. Through Sept. 10. Also, Matter of Faith — Medieval Art from the Hyde Collection. Through April 19. Also, Elevator Music 45: Neil Leonard — Sonance for the Precession. Through March 12. Also, “Christine Sun Kim: Oh Me Oh My.” skidmore.edu/tang. Kim, whose first language is American Sign Language (ASL), has garnered international recognition for work that challenges the notion that sound is solely an auditory experience. The exhibition of the Americanborn, Berlin-based artist’s work Please
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features more than 40 pieces from the past 10 years, spanning Kim’s artistic practice that includes drawing, video, murals and sound installation. Opens Saturday; artist’s talk 4 p.m. March 4. Through July 16.
The Hyde Collection, 161 Warren St., Glens Falls. “The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art: Works on Paper.” hydecollection.org. A traveling exhibition celebrating Africanamerican artists and their contributions to U.S. art and culture. Through April 23.
MASS MOCA, 1040 MASS MOCA Way, North Adams, Mass. Sol Lewitt: A Drawing Retrospective. Ongoing. Also, James Turrell: C.A.V.U. Thirty years in the making, Turrell’s largest free-standing circular Skyspace measures 40 feet in diameter and 40 feet high. Also, Nicholas Whitman, photographs. Also, “Deep Water,” the third of a series of rotating exhibitions drawn from a single private collection of music photography. Through summer. Also, “Defining Moments.” The children’s exhibit explores how memories are formed, recalled and visualized. Through May 29.
New York State Museum, 222 Madison Ave., Albany. “Berenice Abbott: Changing New York.” Through July 2.
Norman Rockwell Museum, 9 Glendale Road, Stockbridge, Mass. Rockwell’s 323 “Saturday Evening Post” Covers. Ongoing. Also, “Eloise and More: The Life and Art of Hilary Knight.” Through March 12.
Saratoga Automobile Museum, Avenue of the Pines, Saratoga Springs. “Bond in Motion.” Featuring 25 official vehicles from the past 60 years of the longest-running film franchise in movie history. The multimedia exhibit also features movie memorabilia, images and video to create a totally unique Bond experience for museum visitors. Through November. University Art Museum , University at Albany, 1400 Washington Ave., Albany. “Near & Far: Six Photography Portfolios from the University at Albany Fine Art Collections.” albany.edu/museum. Photographers Tom Baril, Andreas Feininger, Larry Fink, Mary Ellen Mark, Edward Steichen and Andy Warhol from the University at Albany Fine Art Collections offer nuanced views of social class, power, desire and beauty. Also, “Carrie Mae Weems: Coming Up for Air.” This presentation marks the 20th anniversary of the inception of Weems' feature-length video interwoven with staged scenes reflecting relationships, family and intimacy. Through April 5.