Brian Mahoney

Kingston

Editorial Director at Chronogram Magazine

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Articles

Kingston’s Art Renaissance Continues: 68 Prince Street Gallery Opens with Francine Tint’s “Symbolic of the Whole”

2 days ago | chronogram.com | Brian Mahoney

[{ "name": "Newsletter Mailchimp Signup - Inline Content", "insertPoint": "3", "component": "20934832", "requiredCountToDisplay": "3", "parentWrapperClass": "" }] Midtown Kingston’s metamorphosis from a corridor of derelict garages storefronts into a humming hive of artistic activity has, of late, reached something of a crescendo.
Catskill Mountain Shakespeare Tours a Musical “Pericles” Across the Region

3 days ago | chronogram.com | Brian Mahoney

Of all Shakespeare’s plays, "Pericles" is the most likely to leave you wondering if someone slipped something into your sarsaparilla. There’s incest, riddles, pirate abductions, and enough shipwrecks to make Odysseus seasick. It spans continents, decades, and emotional registers like a late-night fever dream narrated by a rhyming ghost. Naturally, Catskill Mountain Shakespeare has chosen this play for its 2025 Spring Community Tour—and bless them for it.
Leila Conners Brings Climate Doc Legion 44 to Rhinebeck April 21

6 days ago | chronogram.com | Brian Mahoney

On the eve of Earth Day, Upstate Films in Rhinebeck will host a screening of Legion 44, a globe-spanning, eye-opening climate documentary directed by Chatham-based filmmaker Leila Conners. The screening, set for Monday, April 21 at 6:30pm, will be followed by a conversation with Conners herself, moderated by Sustainable Hudson Valley, with support from the 4 Corners Carbon Coalition. Legion 44 is not your standard climate crisis doc.
Peace, Love, and Def Leppard: Summer 2025 at Bethel Woods

1 week ago | chronogram.com | Brian Mahoney

[{ "name": "Newsletter Mailchimp Signup - Inline Content", "insertPoint": "3", "component": "20934832", "requiredCountToDisplay": "3", "parentWrapperClass": "" }] Let’s get one thing straight: The sacred soil of Bethel Woods, where Richie Havens once freestyled “Freedom” into the humid ether of August 1969, is no stranger to reinvention.
The Spiegeltent Returns to Bard SummerScape with a Fresh Lineup of Provocateurs and Crowd-Pleasers

1 week ago | chronogram.com | Brian Mahoney

[{ "name": "Newsletter Mailchimp Signup - Inline Content", "insertPoint": "3", "component": "20934832", "requiredCountToDisplay": "3", "parentWrapperClass": "" }] Since 2006, Bard’s Spiegeltent has served as the boozy, mirrored funhouse at the center of SummerScape’s more buttoned-up festival fare.
Gabe Henry Is Laughing at Language’s Ludicrous Logic

1 week ago | chronogram.com | Brian Mahoney

[{ "name": "Newsletter Mailchimp Signup - Inline Content", "insertPoint": "3", "component": "20934832", "requiredCountToDisplay": "3", "parentWrapperClass": "" }] If you've ever wept over “Wednesday” or raged against the tyranny of “colonel,” Gabe Henry is your kind of nerd.
Guggenheim Genius Grants Land in the Hudson Valley

1 week ago | chronogram.com | Brian Mahoney

[{ "name": "Newsletter Mailchimp Signup - Inline Content", "insertPoint": "3", "component": "20934832", "requiredCountToDisplay": "3", "parentWrapperClass": "" }] Each spring, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announces its latest class of Fellows—an annual roster of artists, writers, and scholars whose work is deemed vital, visionary, and worth investing in.
Field + Supply Spring MRKT Returns to Hutton Brickyards

2 weeks ago | chronogram.com | Brian Mahoney

Hutton Brickyards, once a soot-stained monument to the industrial revolution, has become the Hudson Valley’s most elegant launching pad for artisanal reinvention. It’s where Field + Supply will once again pitch its well-tailored tent May 30 to June 1 for the fifth annual Spring MRKT—a curated marketplace that’s less country fair, more linen-clad bacchanal for the design-savvy.
Amitava Kumar Brings the Immigrant Imagination to the Reher Center on April 18

2 weeks ago | chronogram.com | Brian Mahoney

[{ "name": "Newsletter Mailchimp Signup - Inline Content", "insertPoint": "3", "component": "20934832", "requiredCountToDisplay": "3", "parentWrapperClass": "" }] When I sat down to speak with Amitava Kumar ahead of his upcoming reading and talk at the Reher Center for Immigrant Culture and History in Kingston on April 18, the Hudson Valley-based novelist, essayist, and perennial border-crosser—of both the geopolitical and literary variety—was fresh from a class on postcolonial literature....
Woodstock’s Maverick Concerts Hits a High Note with 2025 Season

2 weeks ago | chronogram.com | Brian Mahoney

It’s spring in the Catskills, which means the music is about to return to the woods. And not just any music—world-class chamber music, jazz improvisations, toy piano virtuosos, and Appalachian reimaginings—all in the rustic acoustical marvel that is the Maverick Concert Hall in Woodstock. Nestled under the pines on Maverick Road, this hand-hewn, barnlike temple to sound has been hosting concerts since 1916. If the building creaks a little, that’s just Hervey White’s spirit settling into his seat.