NEWSLETTERApr 18, 2024
Saugerties, N.Y. – Opus 40 Sculpture Park in Saugerties, NY, has opened for its 2024 season of visits, events, guided tours, and educational and environmental programs.
Visiting hours are weekends only in April, Friday—Monday in May and Thursday—Monday from Memorial Day through Labor Day. All visits include access to the in-earth bluestone sculpture created over nearly 40 years by artist Harvey Fite
The home + garden brand has moved into the Garden’s gift shop space
Brooklyn, NY – Anthropologie Group’s home and garden brand, Terrain, and Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) announced today the opening of Terrain at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, a new immersive retail experience located within BBG’s storied 52-acre landscape. The partnership is rooted in a shared passion for horticulture and both partners’ authority in their respective domains. It is the first store of its kind for Terrain and a new retail concept for a cultural institution such as BBG. …
Earth Day Celebration and Hike the Highlands
Cornwall, NY – Celebrate Earth Day 2024 with the Hudson Highlands Nature Center on Saturday, April 20! This special day kicks off with “Hike the Highlands” at 9am, followed by the “Earth Day Celebration” from 11am-3pm. This exciting day has something for people of all ages and interests, and will take place at the Nature Center’s Outdoor Discovery Campus location: 120 Muser Drive in Cornwall, off Angola Road. …
Apr 12, 2024
A beautiful 35mm nitrate print of the silent film will be screened on Thursday, May 30
Rochester, N.Y., April 11, 2024—To kick off the eighth annual Nitrate Picture Show, the George Eastman Museum will screen a unique tinted nitrate print of D.W. Griffith’s silent masterpiece Intolerance (1916) on Thursday, May 30 at 6:30 p.m. The Nitrate Picture Show is the first festival in the world entirely dedicated to screening original nitrate prints from the 1910s to the 1950s, from silent cinema to Technicolor spectacles. The full program of film titles being shown this year will be announced at a press conference at 10 a.m. on Thursday, May 30 at the Dryden Theatre.
Stony Brook, NY (April 8, 2024) -- The Long Island Museum (LIM) a Smithsonian affiliate dedicated to American history and art with a Long Island connection is thrilled to announce its upcoming 50th-anniversary celebration of the Art Museum. Celebrating 50 Years of the LIM Art Museum is sponsored by The Ferentinos Enterprises, LLC, and will take place on April 19th at 6:00 PM in the History Museum located in Stony Brook, NY.
Exhibiting artists MIZU, Theresa-Xuan Bui, Antonius-Tín Bui, and dancer Glenna Yu also to perform
Public invited to tours, talks, screenings, and art-making workshops for families
Saratoga Springs, NY (April 2, 2024) — The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College invites the public to its March programs, featuring tours, screenings, family programs, and two special performances How Vowels Endure Winter on April 12 and if our hands could hold the weight of promise on April 17…
Riverhead, NY (April 3, 2024) – Hallockville Museum Farm in Riverhead and Farm Hands educational programs are collaborating to offer a special series of activity-based workshops for children called Spring Saturdays on the Farm. Four hands-on play and crafting sessions based on East End agricultural, natural and cultural history themes will be offered at Hallockville on Saturday mornings April 13, May 11, June 1 and June 22.
Mar 28, 2024
Weekends, April 6–28, 2024, 11am–4:30pm
New York, N.Y. - Join the South Street Seaport Museum this April and learn about New York City’s natural ecosystems! Every weekend from April 6–28, the Seaport Museum is including a free family activity on ecological exploration with Pay What You Wish General Admission. Stop by anytime from 11am–4:30pm to participate in this timely and enjoyable experience. seaportmuseum.org/family-activity-weekends.
Howes Cave, N.Y. - The Iroquois Museum is pleased to announce the opening of the new Nicholas J. Juried Education Room on April 4 the day the Museum opens for its 43rd season. This is the first expansion at the museum building since its opening in 1992. Philanthropist Nick Juried awarded the Iroquois Museum the monies to enclose its rear porch to create this new 560-square-foot space. …
Mar 28, 2024
Saratoga Springs, N.Y. — The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame is partnering with seven Saratoga County farms for exclusive behind-the-scenes tours. The Museum’s farm tour series kicks off Saturday, April 27, at McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds. There will be a total of eight tours — including a special visit to Old Tavern Farm during the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival — with the series concluding in October.
