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Beg to be Loved, Beg to be Touched

Beg to be Loved, Beg to be Touched

Every day at 11am

Distortion Society: Art Gallery + Tattoo Studio · Beacon

Torn, patched, and stitched back to life: Holly McCabe's soft sculptures turn salvaged vintage fabrics into a tactile meditation on girlhood, womanhood, and punk DIY care. Showing at Distortion Society, a tattoo shop turned art gallery.

Replica of a Chip: The Weaving Technology of Marilou Schultz

Replica of a Chip: The Weaving Technology of Marilou Schultz

October 28 at 11am +24

Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard · Annandale-On-Hudson

Microprocessors and stock market tickers meet traditional textiles as Navajo weaver and mathematics educator Marilou Schultz presents her first career survey, tracing six decades of experimentation across culture and industry at the Hessel Museum of Art.

Uman: In Between

Uman: In Between

October 28 at 11am +5

Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art · Annandale-On-Hudson

This solo retrospective traces two decades of Uman’s creative practice, highlighting her distinct visual vocabulary of signs, symbols, and tactile textures through over 100 works.

A Thread of Longing: Works From 1976-2026

A Thread of Longing: Works From 1976-2026

October 30 at 1pm +4

BAU Gallery · Beacon

Explore the artistic evolution of Nansi T. Lent in this comprehensive retrospective. The exhibition traces fifty years of creative experimentation, moving from traditional paintings and drawings to contemporary ceramics and experimental mixed media.

Carolyn Schlam, Painter/Mixed Media

Carolyn Schlam, Painter/Mixed Media

November 6 at 5pm

Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center · Poughkeepsie • Free

Three artists, three galleries, one evening of discovery. Wander through Victorian, Reception, and Hancock galleries to catch new work from Carolyn Schlam, Melissa Small Cooper, and Christal Ortiz while sipping complimentary refreshments.

Remnants I: Photography and the Nature of Remembering

Remnants I: Photography and the Nature of Remembering

November 8 at 5pm (Next weekend)

BAU Gallery · Beacon

Family photos dissolved by water, light, and time: Síle Marrinan's first solo show treats photography as the place where memory gets made and unmade. Photographs, video, wallpaper, and sculpture trace her Irish childhood into fragile, evocative fragments.

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Wed, Oct 28 · 1:00 PM

The World of Thomas B. Pope

Beacon Historical Society · Beacon

Wed, Oct 28 · 1:00 AM

Lee Ufan’s paintings and sculptures display

Dia Beacon · Beacon

Wed, Oct 28 · 2:00 PM

Uman: In Between

Fisher Center at Bard · Annandale-On-Hudson

Wed, Oct 28 · 9:30 AM

September/October 2026 Art Exhibitions at the Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center

Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center · Poughkeepsie

Fri, Oct 30 · 4:00 PM

REMNANTS I: Photography and the Nature of Remembering

BAU Gallery · Beacon

Sat, Oct 31 · 2:00 PM

Public Tours

The KuBe Art Center · Beacon

Sat, Oct 31 · 10:30 AM

Play Sets: Louise Bourgeois

Dia Beacon · Beacon

Free

Fri, Nov 6 · 5:00 PM

Victorian Gallery – Daniel Pailes-Friedman, Abstract Art

Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center · Poughkeepsie

Free

Fri, Nov 6 · 5:00 PM

November 6, 2026 Art Opening Receptions

Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center · Poughkeepsie

Free

Fri, Nov 13 · 1:00 PM

Exhibition: Linda Lauro-Lazin “Fire & Ash: What Arises and What Remains?”

BAU Gallery · Beacon

Fri, Nov 13 · 1:00 PM

Exhibition: Elvira Clayton and George Kimmerling “Regarding the Slavery Matter”

BAU Gallery · Beacon

Fri, Nov 13 · 1:00 PM

Exhibition: Nansi T. Lent “At Home in a World We Don't Yet Inhabit”

BAU Gallery · Beacon

Sun, Nov 29 · 10:00 AM

Dia:Beacon Hudson Valley Free Day

Dia Beacon · Beacon

Free

Sun, Nov 29 · 10:00 AM

Hudson Valley Free Day

Dia Beacon · Beacon

Free

Group show

Tivoli Artists Gallery · Tivoli

AR at Weird Specialty

Weird Specialty Studio · Tivoli

Beacon Open Studios 2025

The KuBe Art Center · Beacon

Julia Whitney Barnes: Cyanopaintings and the Botanical World

Tyte Gallery · Millbrook

25th Anniversary Exhibit & Celebration

Betsy Jacaruso Studio & Gallery · Rhinebeck Village

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Black Space-Making from Harlem to the Hudson Valley

Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College · Poughkeepsie

Placing Water

Scenic Hudson's Long Dock Park · Beacon

Landforms

Play Toys & Gifts · Beacon

Beacon Open Studios 2025

Hudson Valley Guitar Fix · Beacon

Plein Air on the Farm

Fishkill Farms · Hopewell Junction

Painting en Plein Air Art Exhibition

Fishkill Farms · Hopewell Junction

Bridge Music 17th Season

Mid-Hudson Bridge · Poughkeepsie

Free

Beacon Open Studios Pop-Up Sculpture Park

The Lotus Garden · Beacon

Jack Whitten Works on Paper Exhibition

Dia Beacon · Beacon

YOU ARE DYNAMIC I LOVE I AM I CAN HAVE IT ALL MY TRUTH

Womenswork.Art · Poughkeepsie

Class of 2026 Thesis Exhibition

Bard College Exhibition Center · Red Hook

Afternoon music performances

Chapel of Sacred Mirrors · Wappingers Falls

This Must Be The Place

Wassaic Project · Wassaic

Nansi T. Lent, A Thread of Longing: Works From 1976–2026

BAU Gallery · Beacon

Riso Paradiso: Utopian Moments of a New Medium in the Global Village

Thompson Library · Arlington

Free

Unearthing the Light

The Church in Staatsburg · Staatsburg

Art Reception

Poughkeepsie Public Library District - Adriance Memorial Library · Poughkeepsie

2026 Visual Art Exhibition

Kaatsbaan Cultural Park · Tivoli

Celestial Art Salons

Chapel of Sacred Mirrors · Wappingers Falls

George Washington's "Daily Sacrifice": A Bibliographic Mystery

Charles P. Stevenson Library · Annandale-On-Hudson

Multi-level Artist workshops

Chapel of Sacred Mirrors · Wappingers Falls

Between Worlds

Oui Oui · Beacon

$$

Full Moon Ceremonies

Chapel of Sacred Mirrors · Wappingers Falls

Urban Cuba – Cuba Urbano

Beacon · Beacon

Open Call Solo Exhibition

BAU Gallery · Beacon

$50

Robert Grosvenor Solo Show

'T' Space Rhinebeck · Rhinebeck

Earthly Delights

Kaatsbaan Cultural Park · Tivoli

Free Entry at Dia for Residents

Dia Beacon · Beacon

Rhinebeck Arts Walk

ALL THAT JAVA · Rhinebeck Village

Exhibition: Linda Lauro-Lazin “Early Works: Arches Series”

BAU Gallery · Beacon

Art at the Bellefield exhibition featuring Polly E. Perkins

Inn at Bellefield / Hyde Park · Hyde Park

FOCUS ON PHOTOGRAPHERS III

Howland Cultural Center · Beacon

Replica of a Chip: The Weaving Technology of Marilou Schultz Exhibition

Fisher Center at Bard · Annandale-On-Hudson

Off the Clock

Elijah Wheat Showroom · Beacon

VERSE Work/Shop presents Talk Shop 8.0

VERSE Work/Shop · Red Hook

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