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Join Us If you’re itching for a day trip to escape the New York fall frenzy, there’s no shortage of art to explore just outside the city. The autumn leaves make for a scenic drive to the Newark Art Museum, where Bony Ramirez takes an incisive deep-dive into the colonial history of orchids, or the Princeton University Art Museum’s exhibition of 20 works by the trailblazing eco-feminist artist Helène Aylon. A trip through the Hudson Valley offers vistas of the same natural landscape that inspired the mid-19th-century Hudson River School movement, which continues to influence the local brimming community of nonprofit art spaces, historic houses, and contemporary galleries.

Inaugural Exhibition and NXTHVN x The Campus The Campus , 341 NY-217, Hudson, New York Through Oct. 27 It’s your teenage art dream. Six galleries take over an abandoned high school in upstate New York, bringing contemporary art to the classroom — and the gym, and the s.