bill-arning.bsky.social
@bill-arning.bsky.social
Gallerist and Founder of Bill Arning Exhibitions in beautiful historic Kinderhook NY, I have been making exhibitions happen since 1984 and see no reason to stop now, Chicken keeper, Opera Obsessive and sober and active in 12 step programs since 2001
Updating my art writer resume but with 45 years of writing ion art and artists even updating the CV exhausted me
November 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Deborah Bright
Sir Lady, 2025
Oil on Canvas
48 x 48 x 1.5 in
November 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
October 29, 2025 at 1:40 AM
October 29, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Skip Art for No Kings come see me tomorrow Sunday
October 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Harrison Tenzer Octopus
October 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I was in my chicken coop, scraping poop off the roosting bars before heading to the train to go to the metropolitan opera tonight and hear the electrifying belle canto arias in La Sonnambula. Am i living in a Willa Cather story substituting the Hudson Valley for the plains of Nebraska ?
October 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
come visit
October 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
First time visiting the Norman Rockwell museum which seems explicitly to celebrate all the civic virtues lost today
October 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
October 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
opening day of seeking complexity
October 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
My knee doctor in measuring whether a new knee would improve my life asked about my physical hobbies. I neglected to say seeing 50 gallery shows gave me immense pleasure on a New York afternoon but was hard on my joints. i ran out of steam after 20 and missed some good ones.
October 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Opening Saturday October 4th, 3-5PM
October 4th-December 21 , 2025
Seeking Complexity
17 Broad Street
Kinderhook, NY 12106
David Becker - Deborah Bright - Jane Fine - Bo Joseph - Brian Kenny- AJ Liberto - Andy Ness - Harrison Tenzer
September 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Sunday one of my gay culture heroes Don Shewey is coming to the Hudson Valley to read from Daddy Lover God, a book I cherish and leaned so much from, 5PM Sunday Sept 7th at 17 Broad Street Kinderhook NY
September 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Standing room only gallery for of Willa Cather’s A Wagner Matinee
September 1, 2025 at 2:14 AM
A lovely weekend to enjoy getting colors stuck in your eye

Michael Lazarus
Chair #24, 2024
Acrylic on panel
22.5 x 20 in
August 30, 2025 at 12:17 PM
August 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Roddy Bottum read from his soon to be published memoir The Royal We
August 25, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Roddy Bottum is an amazing artist from his bands Faith No More, Crickets and Man on Man, his opera Sasquatch: The Opera and now his memoir The Royal We about his early years in San Francisco Bottum is truly a legend and funny too!
August 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Lisa Yuskavage works on paper survey at the wonderful Morgan Library is a joyful revelation
August 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Starting today through September 28 come see Jade Yumang’s Lick Into Shape, 2023
August 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Last day to see the gloriously everyday observations in Eventless
August 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The happy place
August 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Two more weekends to visit Eventless
August 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
“To see someone try to act natural onstage seems so artificial,” he told The Times in 2021. “If you accept it as being something artificial, in the long run, it seems more natural, for me.

So grateful my opera and theater going life included so many pieces by Robert Wilson.
July 31, 2025 at 8:12 PM