Author Archives: Abby Luby

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Love’s Labor’s — “Not So Lost”

 by Abby Luby

At the beginning of “Love’s Labour’s Lost”  actors of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival dramatically approach the audience from the magnificent open space at Boscobel, overlooking the Hudson River. As they make their way to the performance area, the characters, … Continue reading →

Airplane Landscape, Don Alter

DON ALTER: VISUAL THINKER OF THE 21ST CENTURY

 by Abby Luby

Don Alter was very much at home in the well lit Hudson Beach gallery in Beacon. The 81 year old artist was surrounded by his latest body of work — a stopping point of sorts to mark more than six decades of painting. … Continue reading →

The Jazz Knights

West Point’s Jazz Knights

 by Abby Luby

From the opening chords of Alone Together – a cut from the West Point Band’s Jazz Knights’ album At First Light – I knew they had me. This highly acclaimed jazz band is about to celebrate its 40-​​​​year anniversary, and for decades jazz aficionados have appreciated … Continue reading →

This blue-sided rockfish appeared at first to be nibbling at the tentacles of the jellyfish, seemingly ignoring its powerful sting. However, careful inspection of the photographs indicates it is more likely that the fish was actually stealing food from the jellyfish, in the form of bits of organic matter adherent to the jellyfish's tentacles. This may represent the first ever photographic documentation of this behavior. Cyanea capillata and Sebastes mystinus.; Hunt Rock, Queen Charlotte Strait, British Columbia

Seeing Hidden Worlds: David Hall and “Beneath Cold Seas”

 by Abby Luby

A sculpted, steely grey fish, fins flanged and mouth agape, lusts after the tendrils of a gelatinous burst of orange, … Continue reading →