Upstate Diary

Helmut Lang photographed on his property by his friend and longtime collaborator, Juergen Teller. Every corner created with thought and consideration. untitled, 2015–17, by Helmut Lang. We Love Helmut, 2002, by Louise Bourgeois, next to untitled, 2010–1 3 , also by Lang. KO I was struck by your proximity to the ocean. Has the ocean changed since you’ve been here? HL 

I am mesmerized by the endlessness of the ocean, or at least I experience it as endless, and that feeling never gets old.

Furnace Art On Paper Archive 107 Main St. @furnace_artonpaper SALT AND BONE Sept. 20 - Nov 1, ‘26 A solo exhibition by Claudia Kaatziza Cortínez through photographs that explores memory, transformation, and the marks left in built landscapes of the salt-crystallized ruins of Villa Epecuén and the labyrinthine Chacarita Cemetery in Buenos Aires. Craven Contemporary 4 Fulling Ln. Kent Barns. @cravencontemporary July 19 - Sept. 14, ’25. TWO VOICES IN TANDEM.

In those days my family assumed I would become an architect, though later I came to understand what I had really been making was more sculpture than architecture and so, I ended up in New York and the School of Visual Arts in 1979. The next 40 years were spent fabricating sculpture for other artists, doing my own work, which was mostly drawing, and then there was the beach.

The latest addition to the mid-Hudson Valley’s burgeoning contemporary art scene, The Campus, located just outside the town of Hudson, N.Y., is a collaborative project of six cutting-edge New York City galleries: Andrew Kreps, Anton Kern, James Cohan, Bortolami, kaufmann Repetto, and kurimanzutto. The consortium recently purchased the 78,000 square-foot disused Ockawamick School, built in 1951, and vacant since the 1990s.

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What Gilardi is best known for, however, are his Tappeti Natura (Nature Carpets), which he began making way back in 1965. Simple enough to describe, Gilardi’s carpets are positively magical in person. Each rectangular relief depicts a piece of the natural world — stones in a field, a vegetable patch, a dry riverbed, even the surface of the sea. It’s as if he were selectively sectioning the whole world and transporting it for closer inspection.