Explore Hudson Valley arts and culture with Bloomberg Connects
With the free Bloomberg Connects app, explore expert-curated content and behind-the-scenes guides to the Hudson Valley’s most exciting cultural institutions. Whether you’re looking for snackable content or deep dives, we’ve got thousands of hours of bespoke audio, video and text content for you to explore.
The app offers a number of features to enhance your in-person visit with trip-planning tools, maps and lookup numbers for quick access to app content. Learn about the institutions in the Hudson Valley you can find on Bloomberg Connects below.
Storm King Art Center
Storm King Art Center is a 500-acre outdoor museum where visitors experience large-scale sculpture and site-specific commissions under open sky. Since 1960, Storm King has been dedicated to stewarding the hills, meadows, and forests of its site and surrounding landscape.
Through the Connects app you can find interactive activities, audio and video commentary by artists and Storm King staff, built-in Google Maps to help guide your journey, and more. Check out the guide here
Magazzino Italian Art
The nonprofit museum and research center is dedicated to advancing scholarship and public appreciation of Italian art in the United States, Magazzino celebrates the range of Italian practices from Arte Povera to the present. The building is a state-of-the-art facility featuring more than 18,000 square feet of exhibition space as well as a drove of endangered Sardinian donkeys!
Magazzino’s design is intentionally minimal, with no printed signage. Curatorial insights are available exclusively on Bloomberg Connects. Several of the artworks across the exhibitions have audio content associated with them that explain the stories behind the work. Check out the guide here
Dia Beacon
Dia Art Foundation consists of nine permanent sites across the United States and Germany, as well as three changing exhibition spaces in New York State. Dia Beacon occupies a former box-printing factory on the banks of the Hudson River and houses the majority of Dia’s collection, which includes works by Richard Serra, Donald Judd, and Louise Bourgeois, among others, well as special exhibitions, new commissions, and public and education programs.
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Dia’s design is intentionally minimal, with no printed signage. Curatorial insights are available exclusively on Bloomberg Connects. You can access all of Dia’s collections and exhibitions onsite and offsite through photo, audio and video features such as artist interviews. Check out the guide here
Art Omi
Situated on 120 acres in the Hudson Valley, Art Omi presents the works of contemporary artists and architects, offering a range of large-scale works in nature and exhibitions in the 1,500-square-foot Newmark Gallery. The Sculpture & Architecture Park currently has more than 60 works by artists and architects on view, with pieces added or exchanged each year. Art Omi welcomes the public to its grounds and events free of charge, and is open daily.
The Connects app features audio tours of the sculpture park as well as content and tours designed specifically for kids. Check out the guide here
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
The Dorsky comprises more than 9,000 square feet of exhibition space distributed over six galleries, and includes a permanent collection of more than 6,000 works of art from around the world spanning 4,000 years. Areas of focus include American art, 19th century American prints, photography and contemporary metals.
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The Connects app features content for each exhibition as well as different “content pathways” – groupings of items in collection by theme – that you can explore. The app also features audio content from curators and written overviews of the work. Check out the guide here
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center is a teaching museum, free and open to the public, supporting Vassar College’s educational mission and its surrounding communities. The permanent collection includes over 22,000 works. Beyond the permanent collection, the Loeb offers a diverse range of rotating seasonal exhibitions, which feature a wide variety of art in every medium from the historical to the contemporary.
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Use their guide to explore their current exhibitions and learn more about the museum and its history. Check out the guide here
