New York City is still the center of the American art universe since the major art dealers and auction houses are based there and the city is the home of the Met, MoMA, the Brooklyn Museum, and dozens of other museums. Brooklyn is thick with artists and, of course, Manhattan’s thick with art-buying millionaires. Art’s everywhere, though, in this vast, creative country. New York State — beyond the five boroughs and suburban Westchester County and Long Island — is, on its own, an art mecca.
My story today starts a periodic series on the arts beyond Gotham and the burbs with Storm King Art Center, the outdoor sculpture park in New Windsor, about 60 miles north of the George Washington Bridge. Before the end of the year, God willing, I’ll hit Utica, Albany, Rochester, and Buffalo for art museums, and Saratoga for Skidmore’s museum and the horse-racing museum. I’ll cover the preservation and interpretation of heritage, too, heading to Kinderhook, where Martin Van Buren lived, as well as the National Comedy Center in Jamestown, which is the Smithsonian of comedy and the home of the Lucy Desi Museum. Grape-stomping, anyone?
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