The Old High School That Became a 30,000-Square-Foot Art Gallery

From the outside, it still looks very much like the 1929 high school it once was. Walk through the doors and former classrooms and a soaring old gymnasium have been transformed into one of the region’s most ambitious contemporary art spaces.

The current exhibition, Modus Operandi, brings together nearly 20 artists working across painting, sculpture, textiles, photography and video, including El Anatsui, Nick Cave, Faith Ringgold, Rose B. Simpson, Richard Mosse and Meleko Mokgosi.

120 Acres of Art — With Two New Reasons to Go This Weekend

More than 60 large-scale works of sculpture and architecture are scattered across 120 acres of fields, forest and winding paths at Art Omi. There’s no prescribed route — the idea is to wander and let the next piece appear in the landscape.

And this Saturday is particularly good timing. Art Omi’s Fall Architecture Opening debuts two new installations: TAELON7: Limbo Engawa and Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample’s reflective aluminum A Dome With Four Oculi.

Add the first signs of fall starting to show up in the fields and woods, and this is exactly the kind of place where you can lose a couple of hours without really meaning to.

Korea Festival Comes to the Orchard

Twin Star Orchards is kicking off apple-picking season with a one-day celebration of Korean culture, food and community.

Explore a lively market of Korean and Korean-American producers and makers with street food, beverages, ingredients, art and other finds. Chef and restaurateur Esther Choi joins as keynote speaker, live music runs throughout the day and the orchard will be serving Korean-inspired specials alongside its regular wood-fired pizza, burgers and barbecue.

Then remember where you are: wander the orchard and pick your own apples while you’re there.

Rhinebeck Turns Into One Long Front-Porch Concert

For one Saturday, front porches, lawns and outdoor spaces around Rhinebeck become neighborhood stages, with local musicians spread throughout the village.

There’s no main stage and no real reason to rush. Wander Chestnut, Mulberry and Livingston Streets and follow whatever sounds good from the next block. Each performer gets a 50-minute set, so the music keeps moving all day.

This Fire, 30 Years Later

Thirty years after This Fire gave us “Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?” and “I Don’t Want to Wait,” Paula Cole is returning to the album that changed her career.

For the THIS FIRE: 30 tour, Cole is performing the album in its entirety, bringing three decades of life and perspective back to the songs that made her one of the most distinctive voices of the ’90s.

A Conference in a Roller Rink? That’s the Point.

GEL brings designers, farmers, filmmakers, community builders and people thinking seriously about life beyond Big Tech together for a day and a half of ideas meant to leave the conference room.

Friday starts with presentations and lunch before attendees head out for small-group experiences around the region — including Hudson Valley Seed Company, Mohonk, Lite Brite Neon and Good Work Institute. Then everybody comes back to Skate Time for a Friday night skate party. Saturday morning shifts into facilitated community-building before GEL wraps.

The Hudson Valley Goes to the Movies

For nearly three decades, the Woodstock Film Festival has brought filmmakers, actors, writers and audiences together across the Hudson Valley for independent films, documentaries, premieres, panels and conversations.

The festival returns this October with screenings and events spread across Woodstock and surrounding communities, creating the chance to see films — and meet some of the people behind them — before the rest of the world catches up.

There’s also a good reason for locals to start looking now: the festival is offering special discounted ticket options for Hudson Valley residents in Ulster, Dutchess, Columbia, Greene and Orange counties.