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New Hyde Collection show features urban life
(06/09/11) The Hyde Collection, in Glens Falls, opens its major summer exhibition Friday evening. The art show, titled "New York, New York! The 20th Century", runs through mid-September and features more than 60 paintings, photographs and sculptures that capture life in New York City from 1889 to 2009. It includes works by Edward Hopper, George Bellows, Stuart Davis, Diane Arbus, Berenice Abbott and Rube Goldberg. Hyde Executive Director David Setford told Todd Moe that the new exhibit examines the metropolis and "the human interaction within".

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Four centuries of still life art in Glens Falls
Walt Kuhn's <i>Dancing Pears</i>.
Walt Kuhn's <i>Dancing Pears</i>.
(02/18/11) The Hyde Collection art museum's winter exhibit examines 400 years of still life art. Works on display at the art museum in Glens Falls, through April 21st, include glass from the Ming dynasty of China to paintings by Andy Warhol. Todd Moe talks with Hyde Collection Director David Setford about the show, which includes more than 50 works of art from the collection of the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida, where Setford served as chief curator for ten years.

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