During NADA Hudson, we drove around a little and visited some of the open studios, the site of Marina Abramovic’s future performance space and Olana, the 250-acre hilltop estate of Hudson River artist Frederic Edwin Church. Here’s a slide show of sites in and around the town.
Hudson, N.Y., is a city of about 6,700 people on the banks of the Hudson River, two hours north of Manhattan by car or train. It has historic mansions, run-down boarded-up houses and antiques shops. It’s also home to a correctional facility and will soon be the site of Marina Abramović’s Rem Koolhaas–designed performance art academy.
>> Photographs from NADA Hudson
Artists have been settling in the area in recent years, and one of the newest arrivals is Gerard Malanga, the poet and former Andy Warhol collaborator, who moved from Brooklyn. “I used to live at Metropolitan and Graham,” he told us last Friday evening in Hudson. “I was a morning habitué at [Fortunato] Brothers Café in Williamsburg. They treat me like family.” Read More
Friday night, The Observer was in Hudson, N.Y., for a pre-NADA Hudson spoken word performance by poet, photographer and former Andy Warhol collaborator Gerard Malanga and Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo at a converted glue factory called Basilica Hudson. Saturday morning NADA Hudson opened, with 48 galleries each presenting one work by an artist inside Read More
