This week, WTDTW (What To Do This Weekend, our regular Friday post) salutes the Fairfield/Westchester Museum Alliance, which grants visitors to any one of the sites a same-day pass to the other five. Members of any one of the six organizations receive free admission to the others, plus a 10-percent discount in the gift shops.
What's terrifice about the alliance is the way its members complement one another with a mix of shows that range from the historical to the contemporary, the scientific to the artistic.
The Katonah Museum of Art and the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers offer two superb history lessons. "Bold, Cautious, True: Walt Whitman and American Art of the Civil War Era" (at Katonah through Jan. 24) is a moving, haunting tribute to one of 19th-century America's seminal poets and the painters, particularly the members of the Hudson River School, who were such a part of that time. 914-232-9555, www.katonahmuseum.org. "Dutch New York: The Roots of Hudson Valley Culture" (at Hudson River through Jan. 10) brilliantly chronicles the continual shifts in 400 years of Dutch-American relations as well as the rich Dutch legacy in business, home design and painting. 914-963-4550, www.hrm.org
Those same Dutch virtues are celebrated in the provocative "Double Dutch," featuring new installations by 13 artists from the Netherlands at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill through July 26. 914-788-0100, www.hrm.org. Purchase College's Neuberger Museum of Art has the equally thought-provoking "British Subjects: Identity and Self-Fashioning 1967-2009," about race, gender, persona and transcendence in postwar self-portraiture. 914-251-6100, www.neuberger.org
More edginess awaits at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Conn., where you'll find works by Edward Tufte, called "the Da Vinci of data"; women artists who've reclaimed storytelling: and artists interested in the bicycle as metaphor. 203-438-4519, www.aldrichart.org
The other Connecticut alliance member is the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, whose "Alchemy, Magic, Myth or Science?" (through Jan. 3) looks at the art and philosophy of this ancient, oft-misunderstood but still useful discipline. 203-869-0376, www.brucemuseum.org
Like the alliance itself, it's good chemistry.
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