Upstate Art Weekend Programming
at The KuBe Art Center
July 17 – July 20, 2025
Ethan Cohen Gallery at the KuBe Art Center
20 Kent Street, Beacon, NY
Special Hours:
Thursday, July 17 | 12 PM - 6 PM
Friday, July 18 | 12 PM - 8 PM
Saturday, July 19 | 12 PM - 8 PM (Extended hours at St. Rita's Music Room)
Sunday, July 20 | 12 PM - 5 PM
Events
Friday
6 pm - 7 pm
Distinguished Artist Lecture Series: Mickalene Thomas + Derrick Adams
Join us in our Auditorium for a conversation with celebrated artists Mickalene Thomas and Derrick Adams in conversation about their upcoming curatorial collaboration at the KuBe.
Suggested donation $10
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Saturday
6 pm - 7 pm
Distinguished Artist Lecture Series: Algernon Miller
Afrofuturism and Beyond: A Conversation with Algernon Miller in our Auditorium.
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7 pm - 8:30 pm
Party on the balcony! Enjoy a spectacular view of Mount Beacon and immerse yourself in Art. Drinks. Eats.
Dick Griffin Quartet
ST. RITA’S MUSIC ROOM
Legendary trombonist Dick Griffin will perform Sun Ra Ascending, an electrifying tribute to the cosmic jazz icon.
Tickets $45 ($25 for Students & Seniors)
Ethan Cohen Gallery at the KuBe Art Center presents HALF THE SKY, an exhibition featuring 11 groundbreaking Chinese women artists curated by art historian and photographer Joan Lebold Cohen and gallerist Ethan Cohen.
Ethan Cohen Gallery at the KuBe Art Center presents:
Afrofuturism featuring Algernon Miller, Tyrone Mitchell, Nanette Carter, Renée Cox, Ernest Frazier
Irrational Experiments in Physics solo exhibition by Emil Alzamora
Sex Education Group Show
African Art Group Show
GRAFFITI ROOM 3rd Floor
Ethan Cohen Gallery at the KuBe Art Center presents:
An exhibition featuring Ray Arcadio and a group show of global contemporary artists.
ART LIBRARY 1st Floor
The Art Library is powered by the Cohen Art Foundation, a non-profit created to honor the work of Joan Lebold Cohen, Jerome A. Cohen, and Ethan Cohen that supports global contemporary art, cross-cultural exchange, and the preservation of artistic legacy. The foundation hosts exhibitions, educational programs, and the new Art Library provides a space for reflection, research, and connection through art.
UPSTATE ART WEEKEND HOURS:
Thursday, July 17 | 12 PM - 6 PM
Friday, July 18 | 12 PM - 8 PM
Saturday, July 19 | 12 PM - 8 PM (Extended hours at St. Rita's Music Room)
Sunday, July 20 | 12 PM - 5 PM
About The KuBe Art Center
Established in 2011, The KuBe (Kunsthalle Beacon) is a 127,000-square-foot art center located in Beacon New York at the site of a former high school. The KuBe Art Center includes the Joan Lebold Cohen and Jerome A. Cohen Center for Visual Arts, The Chongmao and Zheng Ruyu Theater, hosts distinguished artist lectures, concerts, films, theater, and dance projects. Additionally, The Kube provides 48 artists' studios and commercial office spaces which have hosted a variety of community-based businesses ranging from puppeteers to political campaign headquarters. In 2023 the KuBe Art Center received The Arts Mid-Hudson Arts Organization Executive Arts Award. We wish to extend an invitation to you to discover our emerging incubator and enjoy exhibitions of internationally acclaimed artists and our galleries.
ABOUT ETHAN COHEN GALLERY
From the very beginning, Ethan Cohen Gallery has represented a pioneering blend of both emerging and internationally renowned artists. Many of the emerging artists have now become household names. Mr. Cohen has steered the gallery to occupy a distinct place in contemporary art as a center of innovation across disciplines and countries. Today Ethan Cohen Gallery has three gallery locations, two in Chelsea in the heart of New York City and the other in Beacon, New York.
Ethan Cohen first founded his gallery in 1987 as Art Waves/Ethan Cohen in SoHo, New York. A groundbreaker in the field of contemporary Chinese art, Ethan Cohen was the first gallerist to present the Chinese Avant-Garde of the 1980s to the United States. Ethan Cohen Gallery today represents a diverse global mix of contemporary and post-war contemporary art, specializing in contemporary Asian art and contemporary African art.
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