Glens Falls, NY – The Hyde Collection is pleased to announce that the best British Theatre and Great Art from around the world are available to experience On Screen @ The Hyde. Beginning October 8, 2022, The Hyde Collection is the exclusive Capital Region area venue for this thrilling film series of great plays and exceptional art. Whether you show up for serious drama, romcoms, sold-out theatre hits, or award-winning
documentaries, we bring you unmissable experiences filmed live from Britain’s most exciting stages or captured from destinations worldwide. You’ll always have the best seat in the house at The Hyde Collection. Whether you’re watching Arthur Miller’s captivating The Crucible, Shakespeare’s romantic comedy of sun, sea, and mistaken identity in Much Ado About Nothing, or touring the legendary city of Venice and its museums, streets, and canals – you’ll be at the heart of the action.

“We are honored to bring National Theatre Live and Great Art on Screen to our members, community, and region,” acknowledged Norman E. Dascher, Jr., The Hyde Collection CEO. “We are excited to offer this new experience in our beautiful state-of-the-art high-definition 144-seat Helen Froehlich Auditorium. Offering exceptional journeys through art and culture is central to our mission as a world-class art museum.”

National Theatre Live is an initiative by the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain to broadcast performances in cinemas around the world. Over 11 million people have now experienced the work of National Theatre Live. Great Art on Screen provides event documentaries and an experience of world-class art, history, and biography documentaries featuring the works of the greatest masters of our time and through a series of
documentaries exclusively for U.S. cinemas, featuring an in-depth look at the most extraordinary and groundbreaking art masters of their time.

The Hyde Collection is also looking forward to offering first-person perspective virtual tours of iconic museums from around the globe, as well as recordings of Broadway theatre productions. Stay tuned for updates on these exciting additions to the program schedule.

Hyde Collection Events Schedule:

Great Art on Screen: Botticelli: Florence and The Medici

Sat., Oct. 8, 2 pm (90 minutes)
$20 non-members / $18 members / $18 seniors & students / $7 children 12 and under

Travel into the heart of the Renaissance in Florence with Botticelli. View trailer here

Great Art on Screen: Botticelli: Florence and The Medici. Photo provided by Katie Alessi, Trifecta Collaborative Marketing Director & Founder.

Great Art on Screen: Botticelli: Florence and The Medici. Photo provided by Katie Alessi, Trifecta Collaborative Marketing Director & Founder.

Great Art on Screen: Botticelli: Florence and The Medici. Photo provided by Katie Alessi, Trifecta Collaborative Marketing Director & Founder.

National Theatre Live: Frankenstein

Sat., Oct. 29, 1:30 pm (140 minutes)
Rated R
$22 non-members / $20 members / $20 seniors & students

Directed by Academy Award®-winner Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire), Frankenstein features Benedict Cumberbatch (Hamlet, BBC’s Sherlock) and Jonny Lee Miller (Elementary, Trainspotting) alternating between the roles of Victor Frankenstein and his creation. Captured live on stage in 2011, this thrilling, sold-out production became an international sensation, experienced by almost one million people in cinemas around the world. View trailer here

National Theatre Live: Frankenstein. Photo provided by Katie Alessi, Trifecta Collaborative Marketing Director & Founder.

National Theatre Live: Frankenstein. Photo provided by Katie Alessi, Trifecta Collaborative Marketing Director & Founder.

Great Art on Screen: Venice: Infinitely Avant-Garde

Sat., Nov. 5, 2 pm (90 minutes)
$20 non-members / $18 members / $18 seniors & students / $7 children 12 and under

A tour of the magical city showcases masterpieces by Tiepolo, Canaletto, Rosalba Carriera and the intellectuals who fell in love with Venice: from Canova to Goethe, Lord Byron to Walter Scott, down to the great Hollywood stars drawn to its yearly Film Festival. View trailer here

Great Art on Screen: Maverick Modigliani

Sat., Nov. 12, 2 pm (90 minutes)
$20 non-members / $18 members / $18 seniors & students / $7 children 12 and under

The remarkable talent of the avant-garde artist Modigliani. View trailer here

Great Art on Screen: Napoleon: In the Name of Art

Sat., Dec. 10, 2 pm (90 minutes)
$20 non-members / $18 members / $18 seniors & students / $7 children 12 and under

Host Jeremy Irons brings audiences on a tour for a look at Napoleon’s imperial iconography and architectural style and to reflect on the relationship between power and art. View trailer here

National Theatre Live: The Seagull

Sat., Jan. 21, 1:30 pm (180 minutes) | Rated PG-13
$22 non-members / $20 members / $20 seniors & students

By Anton Chekhov, in a version by Anya Reiss
Directed by Jamie Lloyd

Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) makes her West End debut in this 21st-century retelling of Anton Chekhov’s tale of love and loneliness. A young woman is desperate for fame and a way out. A young man is pining after the woman of his dreams. A successful writer longs for a sense of achievement. An actress wants to fight the changing of the times. In an isolated home in the countryside, dreams lie in tatters, hopes are dashed, and hearts broken. With nowhere left to turn, the only option is to turn on each other. Following his critically acclaimed five-star production of Cyrano de Bergerac, Jamie Lloyd brings Anya Reiss’ adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s classic play to stage. Filmed live in London’s West End with a cast including Tom Rhys Harries (White Lines), Daniel Monks (The Normal Heart), Sophie Wu (Fresh Meat) and Indira Varma (Game of Thrones).

National Theatre Live: Much Ado About Nothing

Sat., Feb. 4, 1:30 pm (180 minutes) | Rated PG-13
$22 non-members / $20 members / $20 seniors & students

By William Shakespeare
Directed by Simon Godwin

Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd) and John Heffernan (Dracula) lead the cast in Shakespeare’s romcom of sun, sea and mistaken identity. The legendary family-run Hotel Messina on the Italian Riveria has been visited by artists, celebrities and royalty. But when the owner’s daughter weds a dashing young soldier, not all guests are in the mood for love. A string of scandalous deceptions soon surround not only the young couple, but also the adamantly single Beatrice and Benedick. Following the award-winning success of National Theatre Live’s Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night and Antony and Cleopatra, director Simon Godwin returns with this irresistible comedy, broadcast live from the National Theatre stage.

National Theatre Live: The Crucible

Sat., Mar. 18, 1:30 pm (180 minutes) | Rated PG-13
$22 non-members / $20 members / $20 seniors & students

By Arthur Miller
Directed by Lyndsey Turner

A witch hunt is beginning in Arthur Miller’s captivating parable of power with Erin Doherty (The Crown) and Brendan Cowell (Yerma). Raised to be seen but not heard, a group of young women in Salem suddenly find their words have an almighty power. As a climate of fear, vendetta and accusation spreads through the community, no one is safe from trial. Lyndsey Turner (Hamlet) directs this contemporary new staging, designed by Tony Award-winner Es Devlin (The Lehman Trilogy). Captured live from the Olivier stage at the National Theatre.

National Theatre Live: Othello

Sat., May 13, 1:30 pm (180 minutes) | Rated PG-13
$22 non-members / $20 members / $20 seniors & students

By William Shakespeare
Directed by Clint Dyer

An extraordinary new production of Shakespeare’s most enduring tragedy, directed by Clint Dyer with a cast that includes Giles Terera (Hamilton), Rosy McEwan (The Alienist) and Paul Hilton (The Inheritance).
She’s a bright, headstrong daughter of a senator; elevated by her status but stifled by its expectations. He’s refugee of slavery; having risen to the top of a white world, he finds love across racial lines has a cost.
Wed in secret, Desdemona and Othello crave a new life together. But as unseen forces conspire against them, they find their future is not theirs to decide. Othello is filmed live on the Lyttleton stage of the National Theatre.

About National Theatre Live:

Since 2009, the UK’s National Theatre has produced an on-going performing arts series, featuring world-class stage plays from its London stages and other venues, captured live in high definition, and offered to cinema audiences around the world at an affordable ticket price. BY Experience (BYE) helped launch the series in cinemas and is the exclusive international distributor of the program. Each National Theatre Live event is captured with cameras preferentially positioned to give the in-cinema capture the best viewpoint to the on-stage action. The result is an unparalleled experience for theater lovers, magnified by the big screen. The events also feature behind-the-scenes interviews with cast and creative teams plus additional bonus content.

About Great Art on Screen:
Great Art on Screen is a series of event documentaries exclusively for U.S. cinemas, featuring an in-depth look at the most extraordinary and groundbreaking art masters of their time. Audiences will be able to journey all over the world with the most expert scholars viewing the works of artists such as Modigliani, Botticelli, and many more.

About BY Experience:
BY Experience, a pioneer of global live cinema events presents the most in-demand arts events in cinemas. Since 2009, BY Experience helped launch and continues to distribute National Theatre Live to cinemas and other venues globally (excluding the UK and China) and is now also the U.S. distributor of the Great Art on Screen series. In addition, BY Experience is the Worldwide Distribution Representative of the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning and critically acclaimed Live in HD series.

New Exhibition: Wall Power! Spectacular Quilts from the American Folk Art Museum

The exhibition, Wall Power! Spectacular Quilts from the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) will open on Saturday, October 8, 2022, at The Hyde Collection. This exceptional art will be on display for only twelve weeks – through December 31. As an art form, quilts have deep roots in American life and experience. For over three centuries, artists, primarily women, have created highly individualized expressions in this medium that are both yielding and unforgiving, challenging the maker to test the limits imposed by cutting and piecing bits of fabric. These beautiful works of art are monumental compositions in color, pattern, and geometry.

Artist unidentified, Trip Around the World Quilt, Mennonite, possibly Pennsylvania, 1920s, Cotton, 78 x 79 in., Collection American Folk Art Museum, New York, Gift of Karen and Werner Gundersheimer, 2018.2.3, Photo by Gavin Ashworth.
Photo provided by Katie Alessi, Trifecta Collaborative Marketing Director & Founder.

“We are grateful to the American Folk Art Museum for sharing this outstanding exhibition with The Hyde. We are excited to bring recognition to quilts as a major art form,” said Norm Dascher, CEO of The Hyde Collection. “This quilt show features twenty works and serves as a great source of inspiration for both quilters and quilt enthusiasts alike.”

The very fine selection of quilts on view in this show is from the distinctive collection of the American Folk Art Museum in New York City. They range across time and place from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth century, from Alabama to Pennsylvania. The four sections of the exhibition highlight early twentieth-century quilts from a period of craft revival designs developed by Amish communities, examples by African American makers, and traditional nineteenth-century patterns that formed a foundation for future generations of quiltmakers. The exhibition begins with quilts that reflect the popularity of traditional American handicrafts inspired by the United States Centennial Exhibition of 1876 and the Arts & Crafts Movement. Quilters moved away from the ornate designs of the Victorian era, which featured sumptuous velvets and silks. They embraced the use of cotton fabrics, clean lines, and schematic patterns of Colonial and early nineteenth-century bed covers, as seen in the Lozenge Quilt.

Mary Ann Melling, Peony Quilt, Signed and dated “February 26, 1883”, Abbottstown, Pennsylvania, Cotton, 84 x 74 in., Collection American Folk Art Museum, New York, Gift of Birgit Lorentzen, 2019.27.58. Photo provided by Katie Alessi, Trifecta Collaborative Marketing Director & Founder.

Amish communities—including those in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana—have produced some of the most beloved American quilt patterns adapted to suit their preferences and religious principles. However, despite the Amish belief in modesty and simplicity, bright colors were not forbidden. Bold blues, pinks, and purples—as juxtaposed in the Sunshine and Shadow Quilt—belie common conceptions of the plainness of Amish visual culture. Each of the African American quilts in the exhibition is infused with stunning dynamism, expressing visual and material energy that seemingly will not be contained by strict geometry. Although they may draw on traditional Euro-American or revival patterns, their asymmetry, bold colors, and outsized designs may also be linked to earlier African textile practices. Lucinda Toomer, who created the Le Moyne Star Variation Quilt, and Leola Pettway, who made the Star of Bethlehem with Satellite Stars Quilt, have each described improvisation as vital to their quilting practice.

Artist unidentified, Sunshine and Shadow Quilt, Amish, United States, 1920s, Silks and wools, 83 x 75 ½ in., Collection American Folk Art Museum, New York, Gift of Karen and Werner Gundersheimer, 2018.2.6, Photo by Gavin Ashworth. Photo provided by Katie Alessi, Trifecta Collaborative Marketing Director & Founder.

The exhibition closes with a selection of traditional patterns dating from the mid to late 1800s that illustrate the foundational quilting techniques of piecing and appliqué and formed a foundation for future generations of quiltmakers. Piecing celebrates the straight line, often joining together many small squares and triangles to create larger abstract patterns. With appliqué, quilters cut out a variety of forms and sew
them onto a larger background. Undertaken individually or within a group of women, many quilts take years to finish. Though the names of many of these quilters are unknown today, their dedication and creativity infuse these quilts with the emotional weight of passing the time.

Artist unidentified, Tree of Life Quilt, United States, c. 1880, Cotton, 80 x 80 in., Collection American Folk Art Museum, New York, Gift of Birgit Lorentzen, 2019.27.48
Photo provided by Katie Alessi, Trifecta Collaborative Marketing Director & Founder.

The American Folk Art Museum is renowned for its in-depth holdings of whitework textiles, double wedding ring, and appliqué quilts made over three centuries. In 2018, the museum received a gift of 21 quilts from Karen and Werner Gundersheimer that introduced new patterns into the museum’s collection, including Jacob’s Ladder Variation, Alphabet, Baskets, and Spider Web. This exhibition has been organized by the American Folk Art Museum, New York. The 2022 Season of Exhibitions at The Hyde Collection is sponsored in honor of Louis P. Brown. Special thank you to exhibitions sponsors Ellen-Deane Cummins and Domenique & Dmitriy Yermolayev

Exhibit: Works by Jan Conners:

Also on view at The Hyde Collection, as an added exhibition feature, are Works by Jan Conners, a solo exhibition that features a selection of embroidery pieces from this local Saratoga fiber artist. Jan Conners grew up surrounded by creative women. Her mother and aunts quilted, knit, and embroidered, so it was easy to follow in their footsteps and start stitching. After mastering cross-stitch, she taught herself crewel embroidery and studied 17th-century raised embroidery, called stumpwork. These forms of embroidery allowed her creative freedom and satisfied her artistic side. Jan has been embroidering for over 40 years and still enjoys the process of taking a scrap of fabric and a pile of threads and creating something beautiful. Works of Jan Conners is sponsored by Jane Wait.

Close-up of a pillow: Jan Conners (American b. 1956), Shepherd and Shepherdess Reproduction, crewel wool on cotton twill ground, reproduced from a needlework sold by Stephen and Carol Huber, pillow completed in 2020. Photo provided by Katie Alessi, Trifecta Collaborative Marketing Director & Founder.

Jan Conners (American b. 1956), Reproduction Coombe Casket, silk floss on silk satin ground, embellished with seed pearls, glass beads, peridot beads, mica and metallic braid, adapted from a seventeenth century casket in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, completed in 2021. Photo provided by Katie Alessi, Trifecta Collaborative Marketing Director & Founder.

Jan Conners (American b. 1956), Owl & Friends, 2021 (in process), silk floss on silk satin with pearls, glass beads and leather. Photo provided by Katie Alessi, Trifecta Collaborative Marketing Director & Founder.

Hyde Events Supporting the Exhibitions:

Embroidery with Jan Conners: Elizabethan Scroll Pinwheels (2-day workshop)
October 15 & 22, 1 – 4 pm
$55 members / $60 nonmembers

Inspired by the designs gracing jackets and coifs of the 17th-century, participants will learn two different methods for padding fruit and flower motifs as well as embroidery techniques featured on Elizabethan
embroideries. This class is designed for advanced beginners to intermediates in embroidery. The stitches used in this project include couching, french knots, interlaced reverse chain stitch, long and short stitch,
padded satin stitch, reverse chain stitch, seed stitch, split stitch, straight stitch, and stem stitch. This 2-day workshop allows for participants to practice at home on their own and return the second day to ask questions and finish the project.

Quilting for Beginners with Sue Bishop (adult program)
October 28, 1 – 4 pm
$25 members / $30 nonmember

Participants will learn the basics of quilting through the creation of their own pillow top, using traditional materials and patterns. This class will focus on pattern design and hand-piecing. All materials will be
provided.

About the Instructor: Sue Bishop is a former Hyde Collection assistant curator and skilled fiber artist. She has been quilting for over forty years and has exhibited in regional and national textile exhibitions. She lives in Queensbury, NY.

Beginning Quilting with Sue Bishop (youth program)
November 11, 1 – 4 pm
$25 members / $30 nonmember

Participants will learn the basics of quilting through the creation of their own pillow top, using traditional materials and patterns. This class will focus on pattern design and hand-piecing. All materials will be provided.

Paint and Tea with Patrice: Quilt Squares
December 2, 2:30 – 4:30 pm
$30 members / $35 nonmembers

Join artist Patrice Jarvis-Weber as we explore the bold patterns in the exhibition Wall Power! Spectacular Quilts from the American Folk Art Museum. In this class, participants will receive step-by-step instructions in acrylic painting. All participants will walk away with an individual painting and a desire to continue to explore painting with acrylics! This class is designed for all ages. All materials including complimentary tea will be provided.

About the artist: Patrice Jarvis-Weber has been a part of Arts in the Adirondacks and teaches painting regionally at World Awareness Children’s Museum, Wiawaka, and the Adirondack Experience. Her passion is to educate through art and instill an appreciation of the arts.

Quilt Documentation Project
December 3, 10 am – 12:30 pm

Free for Hyde members / Free with Museum admission for non-members

Members of the public are invited to bring their quilts from any time period, machine-quilted, hand-quilted, or tied, to a quilt documentation day at The Hyde.

Quilt historian Hallie Bond will examine, measure, photograph, and collect background data on each piece. The information will help inform the Northern New York Quilt Project, an ongoing effort to document the lives and work of Northern New York women through their quilts. The NNYQP has already produced a major exhibit in Canton, and Bond is presently working on a book on the subject. The data gathered in Glens Falls will join records of more than 600 quilts and comforters already gathered and eventually will be entered in the Quilt Index.

Lecture: Warmth, Remembrance, and Art: 200 Years of North Country Quilts and Comforters
December 3, 2 – 3:30 pm
Free for Hyde members / Free with Museum admission for non-members

Hallie Bond was curator at the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake for nearly thirty years where her specialties were the world-renowned boat collection and women’s history and textiles. For 12 years
she was a Speakers in the Humanities for the New York Council on the Humanities (now Humanities New York). She has written three books, Boats and Boating in the Adirondacks, A Paradise for Boys and Girls: Children’s Camps in the Adirondacks, and The Adirondack Cookbook, has written articles for both popular and scholarly journals, and is editor of the American Quilt Study Group’s quarterly Blanket Statements. She is currently Town Historian for the Town of Long Lake in the Adirondacks. Hallie has a B.A. in History from the University of Colorado, an M.A. in Medieval Studies from the University of York (England) and an M.A. in American History & Certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Delaware, which she earned as a Hagley Fellow.

Artful Afternoons
Oct 13, Nov. 10, & Dec 8
Free (Free Second Thursday)

This afternoon drop-in program is designed for guardians and children ages 5 and up to examine artwork and create an individual piece in the art studio.

About The Hyde Collection:
The Hyde is one of the Northeast’s exceptional small art museums with distinguished European and American art collections. Comparable to that of a major metropolitan museum, the core collection, acquired by Museum founders Louis and Charlotte Hyde, includes works by such artists as Sandro Botticelli, El Greco, Rembrandt, Peter Paul Rubens, Edgar Degas, Georges Seurat, Pablo Picasso, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and American artists Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, and James McNeill Whistler. The Museum’s Modern and Contemporary art collection features works by artists including Josef Albers, Dorothy Dehner, Sam Gilliam, Adolph Gottlieb, Grace Hartigan, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol LeWitt, George McNeil, Robert Motherwell, Ben Nicholson, Robert Rauschenberg, and Bridget Riley. Today, The Hyde offers significant national and international exhibitions and a packed schedule of events that help visitors experience art in new ways. Visit Hydecollection.org

Photo at top: National Theatre Live presentation of Frankenstein, starring Benedict Cumberbatch (Hamlet, BBC’s Sherlock) and Jonny Lee Miller (Elementary, Trainspotting) alternating between the roles of Victor Frankenstein and his creation. Photo provided by Katie Alessi, Trifecta Collaborative Marketing Director & Founder.