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Ralph Gardner Jr

Reporter · US

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Aug 18, 2026
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  1. Article · Aug 18, 2026 · Ralph Gardner Jr.

    Commentary: A five-week canoe performance along the Erie Canal (opens the original)

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    As a journalist you learn to work around your interview subjects’ schedules. But this may have been the first time I had to wait for one of them to disembark from her canoe. Z Behl, an artist who divides her time between Claverack, New York and New York City, wasn’t being difficult. The canoe plays a role in the story. Z simply admitted that she finds it challenging to conduct interviews, and even worse to keep the social media beast satisfied, while afloat. Z and fellow paddler Kim Moloney are

  2. Article · Jul 24, 2026 · Ralph Gardner Jr.

    Commentary: Local Hudson River School painters get some respect in Columbia County art show (opens the original)

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    An art history question that’s been bugging me for years, admittedly a selfish, self-centered one, is why the Hudson River School painters — heavy hitters such as Asher Durand, John Frederick Kensett, Sanford Gifford and Thomas Cole, the school’s founder — were fixated on the Catskills to the virtual exclusion of the rest of the Hudson Valley. After all, the river, after which the school is named, doesn’t run through the Catskills. I’ve got nothing against those mountains. They’re perfectly fine

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