I love this store! Great handmade bags, vintage clothes, and really good local art. Plus, fresh…read morefree-range eggs!

From the owner: We are a boutique and gallery selling handmade items, vintage clothing, artworks, creative cards…read moreand gifts, seasonal items, agricultural products esp. eggs and maple syrup, totebags, purses, jewelry, pillows, and etc. We will be open by appointment only during winter, and will resume regular hours in March. Call for an appointment, or for fresh eggs from happy chickens!

My husband and I turned into the parking lot and weren't sure we were in the right place! It turns…read moreout we were and we ended up being pleasantly surprised! We entered the first smaller building which was the store and met Sami. Sami was so friendly and helpful. She escorted us into the gallery which we didn't expect to be so large and full of beautiful abstracts by Donna Manger-Weil. We loved walking around looking at the artwork and going through the folders of artwork. Donna is so talented!

So glad we were able to visit the gallery during our trip! To be honest, I was drawn first by the…read morecomplimentary wine/espresso, but the experience itself exceeded my expectation. We received a warm welcome from Donna's business partner Ken when we arrived on a quiet Sunday morning - he gave us a quick tour of the gallery, showed us the print machine that can reproduce artworks on canvas, and took us to see Donna's art studio. It is not everyday you can be inside an artist's work space to witness all the creativity! As an added bonus, we saw two young deers nippling at the grass outside the studio.. Donna's paintings were very colorful and each piece has an interesting story behind. The gallery was very spacious and you can really take your time to soak in the art work with a glass of wine! Highly recommended for anyone visiting New Paltz.

If you like art and architecture, you will likely enjoy visiting Opus 40. What is it? A large scale…read moreoutdoor, hand-crafted architectural work of art that took a man near 40 years to carve and construct. At first glance, it seems random. But walk slowly, observe how sight lines of the work draw you to the mountains in the distance and how shadows change the perspective. It's truly a masterpiece of outdoor art. Budget at least an hour to visit and wear comfortable shoes. Roads and parking: unpaved entrance and rather rough parking area. So drive your Range Rover and not your Ferrari to Opus 40 (although some of the country roads nearby provide incredible driving opportunities). Price: $12 on site for adults, $11 online with $1 service charge. Misc tips: (1) Buy tickets online. For two people or more, buying online saves at least a dollar and guarantees entrance on busy weekends. (2) Try to visit in mid-October as the leaves change.

Well worth visiting including the on-site museum. I would say think about the historical context as…read moreto when this was being built.

Stopped by on a rainy day of hiking, lovely small gallery with friendly owner. Great assortment of…read morephotography, oils, pastels and ceramics. Found there to be a variation in price as well. Beautiful artwork, recommend checking it out.

Went in to look at the art. Beautiful pastels by Andrea McFarland. Met Owner Mark and he had some…read moregreat candles really reasonable and smelled great! This is a lovely addition to local shops and has been here in New Paltz for over 49 years. I will bring my new artwork here for framing as he is competent and reasonable. Will be back soon!

Came here for my sister's art show opening. She's doing her masters in Curatorial Studies at Bard…read moreCollege and this art museum is affiliated to it. This college is quite prominent, as is the Hessel Museum of Art, and has housed some great art works. It's also given a name to many curators that are now highly regarded. Granted, it's in the 'middle of nowhere' but wow - it's remarkable. From its design, to the space within and layout.

A lovely museum in a bucolic setting. Hessel makes a great stop on a day trip from the city, easy…read moreto combine with visits to DIA Beacon or the Storm King sculpture park if you've got a car. If not--then you can't do them all in one day, but be advised that the Hessel runs complimentary shuttles from Manhattan when they have openings. Beer, wine, soft drinks and pretzels at the opening are complimentary as well. All in all, a great place. But couldn't give it five stars because I'm not into the new shows. One is Haim Steinbach, an artist who never really got my juices running. His work is about shelving, display, minimalist art, the museum retail, etc.--a kind of third-wave pop/appropriation art (if you just read that and you were like "so what?" you feel me). What makes this show interesting--perhaps more so than others of his that I've seen--is what he did with the Hessel's permanent collection. A cool thing about the Hessel is that it's endowed with a small collection of important works of contemporary art but rather than put them up in the standard museum display they let invited artists and curators incorporate them in their shows, using unconventional and experimental display methods, the likes of which you would never see in your run-of-the-mill museum. Steinbach put up this construction-site scaffolding in the big gallery and arranged works above and below it, so you could glimpse the pieces (both museum works, Steinbach's own stuff, design objects, knickknacks etc.) in horizontal and vertical layers, that made you think about the status of each thing as an object or artwork. The other exhibition was Helen Marten, a young British artist. It was a smart pairing with Steinbach, though I like her work even less. It's also about objects and display, and coming up with quirky convoluted relations between things. Everything is about weight, balance, and borders, and everything is solid and in tension. There are papery woodcuts that look flimsy but hold up to the weight of loaded key rings hanging off of them, for instance. The paintings have stuff attached to the bottom of the frames, so they don't end with the canvas. It's about surfaces and repetition, too--there are cans of olive oil positioned on the floor around the galleries, and the olives and vines from the logo are repeated on the wall--yet nowhere in the show do you find the mess of the oil itself. This is also true in her videos. Digital media can be slippery, glitchy, pixelly, liquid--but when Helen Marten gets her hands on it she makes everything robust and shiny and glossy, crafting digits into beautiful perfect objects, just as hard and solid as the commodities she appropriates in her sculptures. Yawn. Great museum though!

This place is amazing they have lots of nice clothes shirt hats and hoodies available when we went…read morethe place was very quiet and peaceful there's a couch and a changing room I think it is very safe here and I recommend it!

We visited this gallery today and it was a very pleasant experience. The owner is a really…read morefriendly & very kindhearted person and we had a wonderful conversation with him. His gallery sells the work of several artisans, and also - as we discovered - artwork done by him and by his wife (I was admiring several large drawings in one of the rooms and discovered he was the artist).

The owner, John, is absolutely charming- lots of his artworks and other creations are for sale…read more Really good drawings with a 60s fantasy illustration aesthetic- detailed, trippy crosshatched linework in a similar vein to R. Crumb, full of wizards and warriors and adventurers. Lots of fun, out-of-this-world art in various media by members of his family too. Also lots of art with a biker vibe- apparently the store hosts a bike rally each year! We stopped in on our way out of town and wound up talking with John for nearly an hour about his life and art and writing while he showed us around. I wish we could have stayed even longer. Anyone who appreciates an active imagination and a sense of humor will be thrilled to step through the deceptively humble-looking doors into this delightful little wonderland.

It moved to 80 smith avenue in Kingston ny 12401 ( midtown corner grand street !!!) - amazing art /…read moreevents / outdoor cinema / dance / performance / mostly outdoor

Accoutrement-ed, bombastic, cultured, grandiose, irresistible, terrific, phenomenal, zany!…read more Art at SUNY New Paltz's Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art has it all: stencils, charcoal, paintings, sculptures, installations, book arts, poems, videography, experimentations, letterforms, framed portraits, welding, street art, colored landscapes, New York black & white photography and almost every other possible creation (not yet invented?) that is creative! Hours vary and can be short during the weekends. Sometimes there are tours. Other times it is open and free (though donations are appreciated for all those starving artists, working hard to take life and from it create lovely culture). Superb setting in the middle of SUNY at New Paltz! Multiple areas and rooms among green fields. Great place for a date. Rebel review: 5 stars

From the owner: Changing exhibitions Family days…read moreFocusing on American art, with an emphasis on the Hudson Valley and Catskill Mountain region, 19th century American prints, photography and contemporary metals. The museum also has a strong World Collection

While in the Catskills with my girlfriend for holiday we wanted to check out some local shops and…read morefound this small strip of stores where we stumbled upon this small Artisan Guild shop. At first I thought it was just an "antique" shop but it was really a singularly owned shop where the owner sells all kinds of locally made products from soaps, clothing and household goods/accessories. The items were labeled with the contact info of the local vendors that made the products which I thought was really neat. I like supporting local vendors and if you like that concept as well then you just may find some of the items in this shop appealing to you. Really cute shop that I'd encourage even a quick peek even if you don't buy anything.