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Kaira & Friends (2020 Summer Amphitheater Series)
Back by popular demand, join Yonkers’ own Kaira and her power band for some classic Soul and R&B as only they can play it. We invite you to spend your evening overlooking the Hudson and grooving along with the special spirit and talents of Kaira and Friends. Socially-distanced dancing in the aisles may be in
Benjamin Levy: Magic & Mind Reading (2020 Summer Amphitheater Series)
Prepare yourself to be mesmerized! Benjamin Levy is a unique, multi-talented magician, memory expert, and speaker, who is the favorite of CEOs of Fortune 500 companies and who has performed for the likes of President Obama and Muhammad Ali. His programs are memorable, entertaining, audience involving, highly personalized, sophisticated, and filled with humor and charm.
Diverse Concert Artists: Music of the American City (2020 Summer Amphitheater Series)
This quartet of string musicians is committed to changing the face of classical and crossover music through diversity. Diverse Concert Artists have collaborated with major artists including Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, Mark Ronson, Solange, Tony Bennett and Bebe Rexha, and have performed on the stages of Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, Royal Opera
Tango Night (2020 Summer Amphitheater Series)
Latin Grammy Award–winning bassist and composer Pedro Giraudo is among the most compelling tango artists today. After two decades performing with the most important interpreters of tango, Giraudo debuted his own Tango Orchestra at Lincoln Center’s Midsummer Night Swing in 2015 and since then has become an active cultural ambassador of the passionate music of
HRM Google Arts & Culture Exhibitions
The Hudson River Museum is proud to partner with Google Arts & Culture to bring you the following eight online exhibitions. Visit our Google Arts & Culture page to see additional works from our collection.
Author Talk: Gretchen Sorin on Sojourns in the American City
Gretchen Sorin, Ph.D., Director and Distinguished Service Professor, Cooperstown Graduate Program, talks about her recently released book, Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights, and how the automobile fundamentally changed African American life. Her perspective brings into focus the true history beyond the Hollywood movie, The Green Book, showing travel
Conversations Around Constellations: Frances Hynes’ Skyscapes
Tour Frances Hynes: Constellations virtually with the artist Frances Hynes and Marc Taylor, HRM’s Manager of Planetarium and Science Programs. Together, they will take a close look at this collection of charcoal and pastel skyscapes, and then place them in their celestial context with a virtual planetarium show. Hynes will discuss her inspiration for these
LIVE from Tandem Press: The Making of Derrick Adams’ Self-Portrait on Float
Derrick Adams’ monumental acrylic on paper, Floater 80 (Self-Portrait), 2018, is one of the signature works in the HRM’s current exhibition Derrick Adams: Buoyant. Last year, the Museum acquired the 2019 print Self-Portrait on Float, which is based on the painting. To create this artwork, Adams collaborated with master printers Jason Ruhl and Joe Freye
Nybylwyck Hall: A Mega Miniature Virtual Tour
Join us for a virtual tour of Nybylwyck Hall, the extraordinary miniature mansion on display in Glenview, the Hudson River Museum’s historic home. Miniaturist and gallerist Darren Scala from D. Thomas Fine Miniatures will be hosting an online visit to the 24-room dollhouse built by Mark O’Banks. Scala will share images and video of the
Collaging Our Everyday: LIVE Art Workshop with Tijay Mohammed
Create a mixed-media collage about your daily experiences—such as shopping, sports, parties, and other social occasions—while discussing the ways in which institutional racism affects how diverse groups experience these events. While recognizing the existence of historical barriers to full and carefree participation in everyday activities, the artist will encourage us to enter into a celebratory