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Yahoo
10 hours ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Siena poll pits Hochul against Stefanik, Blakeman, Lawler for governor
Jul. 1—Gov. Kathleen C. Hochul leads the pack of likely gubernatorial candidates for next year's election, and Rep. Elise M. Stefanik is slightly outmatched by Hudson Valley Rep. Mike R. Lawler in theoretical contests against the incumbent, according to the latest Siena College Research Institute poll. According to the poll released on Tuesday, Hochul has at least 20 points of advantage over any of the three Republicans who appear most likely to run for their party's nomination for governor; Stefanik, Lawler and Nassau County Executive Bruce A. Blakeman. In the three separate contests, SCRI found that Hochul would lead handily among Democrats and independents, and carry 44% of the vote against both Lawler and Blakeman, who would carry 24% and 19% of the vote respectively. Against Stefanik, more people said they'd vote for Hochul, 47%, to 24% who would go to Stefanik. Stefanik did the best of the three with GOP voters and independents, but more Democrats said they'd vote Hochul over her than in the other contests if the election scheduled for November 2026 were held today. "Recognizing that 16 months in politics is many lifetimes away, a first look at how New York voters feel about potential gubernatorial matchups shows that partisanship wins out. Hochul leads Lawler by 20 points, Stefanik by 23 points and Blakeman by 25 points," Siena College Research Institute Director Don Levy said in a statement alongside the poll results. Levy noted that Hochul isn't pulling great numbers for an incumbent in such a heavily Democratic state, and that between one-fourth and one-third of voters had no choice in each of the three match-ups. Hochul's job approval, favorability and basic reelection numbers aren't all positive either; while 50% approve of the job she's doing, more people dislike her, 47%, than like her, 42%, and only 37% said they'd reelect her versus a non-specific "other candidate." These numbers have stayed roughly the same for the last few months. For Stefanik, favorability numbers are likewise underwater, with 25% of voters reporting that they like her and 32% who dislike her. Lawler is more closely tied, with 22% who like him to 24% who do not and 54% who don't know him or have no opinion. In a Republican primary, Stefanik is most likely to win, but many minds are not made up. The numbers show that voters are favoring Stefanik 35%, to 18% for Lawler and 7% for Blakeman. In a Democratic primary, Hochul far outpaces her one declared opponent, Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado. Delgado pulls 12% to Hochul's 49%, and Rep. Ritchie Torres, who has not declared a campaign for governor, gets 10%. "One year out from a potential primary, two in five Republicans don't know who they'll support among Stefanik, Lawler and Blakeman, but Stefanik maintains an early lead, 17 points ahead of Lawler, who is 11 points ahead of Blakeman," Levy said. "On the Democratic side, Hochul has huge leads of 37 points over Delgado and 39 points over Torres, each of whom remains largely unknown to more than half of Democrats." The poll also asked voters for their positions on a number of bills passed by the state legislature this year. Voters widely approved of the issues SCRI asked about, with at least 70% of Republicans, Democrats and independents each supporting a requirement that state agencies disclose when they use artificial intelligence and requiring state prisons to expand video and audio surveillance in prison common areas. At least 60% of Democrats, Republicans and independents also said they supported a move to create a state utility consumer advocate's office to advocate for consumers before the Public Service Commission when utility companies seek rate increases. A plurality of Republicans and a majority of Democrats and independents said they approved of a bill that allows the state attorney general to sue businesses on behalf of customers in cases of alleged unfair or abusive practices. Perhaps the most controversial single-issue bill considered this year was one to allow medically assisted suicide, termed "medical aid in dying," in New York. The SCRI poll found that 54% of all New Yorkers back the bill as passed. "While it doesn't have the same level of support as several other less controversial bills that passed the legislature at the end of session, voters support what some call medical aid in dying and others call physician assisted suicide, 54-28%. It has better than two-to-one support from Democrats and independents, and Republicans support it 48-39%," Levy said. "It has support from at least 53% of voters from every region of the state, and at least 54% support from young, middle-aged and older voters. Jewish voters, 53-30%, and Catholic voters, 52-30%, support it at virtually equal levels. All those major pieces of legislation await the governor's approval, veto or negotiation on amendments, which must come before the end of the year. This poll was conducted from June 23 to 26, reaching 800 New York voters via phone and an online polling platform. The margin of error is 4.4 percent in either direction.
Vogue
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Vogue
Ready for a Sculpture Park Summer? Here Are the Best Outdoor Art Venues to Visit Around the World
If you ever needed proof of the increasing interest in sculpture parks right now consider the fact that Charli XCX chose one of the best sculpture parks in the world, Storm King Art Center—an hour's drive from NYC in the Hudson Valley—over a sweaty nightclub as the site to relaunch her remix album last fall, declaring to her fans, 'We're fine art bitches now!' Sure, displaying sculpture in an outdoor setting has existed ever since Neanderthals would arrange rocks to create ring-like sculptures in caves; but the emergence of outdoor sculpture parks in the 1960s and 1970s was in part a response to finding a setting to display abstract and often monumental work by artists such as Richard Serra and Alexander Calder. By moving to an open-air environment, sculpture was freed from the confines of the traditional white cube gallery setting and a merging of art and nature started to take place. Today, there are over 300 sculpture parks in the US alone which saw an uptick in popularity during the Covid pandemic that has only increased in the years since. The opportunity of viewing art in a natural landscape democratizes the viewing experience as well as challenging us to see it anew. As an ambitious new sculpture park opens in Spain this month, we take a look at some of our favorite sculpture parks around the world. Storm King Art Center (New Windsor, New York, US)
New York Times
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Times
‘Pastoral' Review: Sampling Beethoven at Bard
The experience of attending a performance at Bard SummerScape in the Hudson Valley is not confined to the theater. For someone traveling from New York City, as I did on Saturday, there's an entire preshow of escape into the country: the car or train ride along the blue stripe of the Hudson River, the calming effect of dense green forests. This is partly the subject of 'Pastoral,' the latest work by the choreographer Pam Tanowitz. Partly, because the pastoral in art is not a return to nature but an idealized view of it, a substitute following a separation. This 'Pastoral,' which ran Friday through Sunday afternoon, is very much in conversation with the past. The décor by the painter Sarah Crowner — green floral shapes as clean-edged as Matisse cutouts — invokes swathes of Western art history, as do the group tableaus in Tanowitz's choreography, as if taken from scenes in paintings by Nicolas Poussin. Caroline Shaw's score samples from and playfully remixes Beethoven's Symphony No. 6, the one called 'Pastoral.' These elements — along with Reid Bartelme's gauzy costumes in a sherbet color palette and Davison Scandrett's subtly imaginative and color-sensitive lighting — combine in such fresh and delightfully unpredictable ways that it's distorting to discuss them separately. Nevertheless, let's start with the music. Shaw switches among a live woodwind trio and several recordings of the Beethoven, both recent and more than a century old, wax cylinders with the scratchy sound of the distant past. The recordings fade in and out, sometimes eddying in stuck-record loops that toy with the tension and release of classical musical grammar. The live musicians behave like samplers, too: erasing bits of Beethoven, stretching, slowing, accelerating the tempo. The woodwinds are all reeds, among the most pastoral of instruments, and on the low end of the section. The bassoonist Dana Jessen croaks like a frog and extends duck calls into song. Alongside these mimetic games, Shaw adds real field recordings of frogs and crickets but also of trains and traffic, the urban environment that creates the pastoral perspective. One of Shaw's wittiest touches is to bring out the similarity between a bouncing triplet figure in the Beethoven and a car horn. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
New York Times
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Pam Tanowitz's ‘Pastoral' Weaves Beethoven, Art and City Traffic
What exactly is the pastoral, that tradition from about Virgil to Wendell Berry and beyond that devotes itself to nature? And can it even exist in a honking, smoggy metropolis? The choreographer Pam Tanowitz welcomes questions like these in her latest work, 'Pastoral,' which premieres on Friday at the Fisher Center at Bard College. In her signature blend of classical ballet and free-form modern dance, it is set to a reworking of Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, nicknamed the 'Pastoral,' by the composer Caroline Shaw, with décor by the painter Sarah Crowner that puts nature front and center. All three of these artists live in New York City, and while 'Pastoral' draws from Beethoven in name, it pulls equally from their daily work and lives. It is also, for a dance, uncommonly engaged with the vocabulary of visual art. One late spring morning, with the fog low and cow daisies high in the Hudson Valley, Tanowitz strode into rehearsal with a book under her arm of Nicolas Poussin, the 17th-century French painter of allegorical and historical scenes. 'We have two tableaus in this dance,' Tanowitz said, describing scenes in which her dancers arrange themselves into a particular formation and hold it, facing the audience. 'And this is what I want those moments to feel like,' she said, flipping to Poussin's 'A Dance to the Music of Time.' In that painting, four youthful figures frolic in a hillside clearing. They are mid-hop, the hands joined into a maypole ring, backs to one another, togas billowing in colors not too far from the lavenders and combinations evoking pink lemonade and smoked salmon that are used by Reid Bartelme, the costumer for 'Pastoral.' Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Vogue
25-06-2025
- Business
- Vogue
Inside the Cottagecore World of the Six Bells, Audrey Gelman's New Hudson Valley Inn
Maybe you saw the spread in Architectural Digest, or read the New York Times profile of Gelman herself, who previously founded the women-only workspace the Wing. But if somehow you missed those things, let me give you a brief rundown: in 2020, Gelman stepped down as CEO of the Wing. In 2021, she founded The Six Bells, a Brooklyn-based homewares store that specializes in folksy country goods—things like patchwork quilts, Grandma Moses needlepoint pillows, beeswax candles, and Heather Taylor Home gingham tablecloths. Amid the cottagecore boom of the pandemic—as well as Gelman's general start-up savvy—the store became a thing. So much so that she received a sizable investment from HN Capital Partners, the group behind the Ace Hotel and London's The Ned, to open her first hospitality project alongside Jeremy Selman, HN Capital's experienced investor and operator. Photo: Kate S Jordan She chose the Hudson Valley because it's where she grew up going as a kid and currently owns a home; also, she tells me, the region gets 10 times the tourism of Napa but has far fewer hotels to support it. When a 19th-century Federalist inn on the banks of Rosendale's creek came up for sale, Gelman and her team quickly snapped it up. 'We were looking at properties for probably six months,' she says. 'It was very Goldilocks—one was great, but it didn't have this or it didn't have that. Then we found this. We were like, 'It's small, but it could be this amazing jewel box.'' Gelman rented a U-Haul in Queens and drove down the I-76 to the antique shops of Ohio and West Virginia, packing it to the brim with wooden furniture and oddities like a wrought iron chandelier with farm animals and a pistachio-colored chest. (This feels like a feat when you consider the fact she's 5'1'.) Then, together with Adam Greco of the interior design firm Greco Deco, she got to work.
